EastEnders and Goodness Gracious Me actor Nina Wadia will be bringing some star quality to York Theatre Royal's pantomime this Christmas.

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• York City Football Club has announced a major new partnership with a national York-based company.

  Housebuilder Persimmon, which was founded in the city, has taken over sponsorship of the south stand at the LNER Community Stadium.

• Proposals to abolish separate parking permits for tenants in York houses of multiple occupation (HMOs) could save them more than £90, but some would pay more.

  The proposals, which are set to go out to a consultation, would see HMO permits costing £202.50 scrapped and the properties brought into the standard residential parking system (ResPark).

• THE new owners of a well-known York toy shop have shared their plans to turn their business into a ‘shop for the city’.

  Jo, 38, and Sarah Patton, 37, along with their five children, have taken on a fresh challenge by becoming the new owners of Totally Awesome Toy Shop in Colliergate.

• York Christmas Market 2024 is open for business.

  As The Press previously reported, the market - formerly St Nicholas Fair - has brought more than 75 'alpine chalets' to Parliament Street and St Sampson's Square.

• Part of a main road in a York suburb is set to be closed for the next two weeks.

  The bottom section of Carr Lane, between Rosedale Avenue and Front Street, is set to be closed during the day on weekdays for the next fortnight while maintenance work takes place.

• A York MP has said she will vote against the assisted dying bill because "there is nothing safe” about it.

  Rachael Maskell, MP for York Central, said the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill is a “fundamental misunderstanding of its impact on medicine”.

• “He was our Attenborough.”

  That’s how David Edward Ryder has been remembered by the team campaigning to save Holgate’s Severus Hill – a group he worked alongside before his death at the age of 85.

• Plans for a major development of student housing on the site of a city centre supermarket have been revised following public consultation.

  Argo Real Estate Ltd and student accommodation developer and operator Fusion Group are now seeking further feedback on detailed proposals concerning the Sainsbury’s site at Foss Bank.