DAME Judi Dench has thrown her support behind a campaign to reverse the ban on Blue Badge holders from York city centre's footstreets.

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• A POPULAR York curry house has been judged among the best in England.

  Bombay Spice in Goodramgate has won the Outstanding Restaurant of the Year in the English Curry Awards 2023.

• FORMER pupils at a York school which was demolished in 1996 have made a generous donation to a planned new community boxing club.

  St George's Old Boys Association held its annual reunion at York NHS Social Club in White Cross Road and donated £200 to Charlie Malarkey's New Earswick Boxing (KO) for Kindness club project.

• FIREFIGHTERS have been battling a flat fire in York.

  North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service say they were called out at 5.49pm on Tuesday night (December 3) after reports of a fire close to Fishergate Bar.

• More households in York applied for homelessness support last year, new figures show.

  It comes as a report is due to be published today (Wednesday, December 4) outlining City of York Council’s strategy to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping in the city.

• Christmas and New Year bin collection changes for York - how it will affect you

  THERE will be no recycling collections for four weeks in parts of York under changes to bin collections over the festive period.

• Familiar face turns on Christmas lights in North Yorkshire village

  THE county's first elected mayor switched on the Christmas lights in a North Yorkshire Yorkshire village at the weekend.

• New beginning’ for building that housed troubled York care home

  A York building that once housed a troubled care home is in the hands of new owners who have hailed a “new beginning” for the site.

• Top York chef appeals to pie thieves after raid in North Yorkshire

  A TOP York chef has appealed to thieves who stole his van with 2,500 pies inside to “do the right thing”.