New show homes and a sales centre have opened in Ripon to promote a new 390-home development in the city.

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• Yorkshire Water has admitted two offences related to sewage being pumped for days into a watercourse on the outskirts of York.

  James Puzey, for the Environment Agency, which brought the case, told York Magistrates' Court the company visited its pumping station 10 times in six months and “each time” saw that its stand-by pump wasn’t working.

• A NEW shop and café is set to open in York that will delight lovers of Japanese culture.

  Anime Gallery and Totoro Coffee, a joint venture, is set to open in the former Cooperative Bank building in Feasegate - hopefully before Christmas 2024.

• High rent prices in York mean people “can’t afford” to start families in the city, an estate agent said.

  It comes as provisional figures from the Office for National Statistics show the average private rent in York reached £1,104 per month in the year to October

• Dozens of children in care have been placed more than 20 miles away from home in York, new figures show.

  City of York Council’s boss for children and education said the authority remains “relentlessly ambitious for all young people to be placed with or very close to their family”.

• A worldwide coffee brand is set to open its first site in York city centre.

  Black Sheep Coffee, which was founded in 2013, now has more than 70 branches worldwide - stretching as far as the United States of America and the Philippines.

• A MUCH-LOVED York restaurant has opened the doors on its new location.

  Popular Italian restaurant Marzano has now officially opened its doors to diners having moved into the former Loch Fyne building in Walmgate.

• The “final piece” of an ambitious plan to develop York’s Coney Street has been given the go ahead.

  Bosses at the York-based Helmsley Group have spoken of their delight as the “once-in-a-lifetime” masterplan to open the area up to the riverside takes a step forward

• WORK is underway on a new restaurant in the heart of York.

  The upstairs of the former 1331 bar in Grape Lane, close to York Minster is currently being turned into a first floor restaurant called Pig and Potato specialising in homemade sausages and mash.