TWO men have denied raping the same woman in York city centre.

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• AN annual event dating back to the Middle Ages saw the Sheriff of York lead a pub crawl around some of York’s finest ale houses at the weekend.

  Some 50 people took part in the Assize of Ale event, most of them dressed in medieval attire.

• York Hospital has made “significant improvements” and “addressed the recommendations” of a damning report which found that patients were at risk of harm, the trust that runs it said.

  The York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was providing an update on the situation at the hospital

• A year after streets in York city centre were dug up to install anti-terrorism bollards, The Press spoke to traders affected by the work to determine if the disruption was as bad as they first feared.

  Mannetti’s is a café in the centre of York. It opened in Lendal in 2019. And four years later, after navigating the pandemic and rising energy costs, it started to turn a profit.

• An “absolute pest” of a drinker carried out a catalogue of crime over several months in York and Scarborough, a court heard.

  Homeless Andrew Morris, 46, broke into a city centre bar to find a place to sleep and raided shops to get alcohol or items to sell to raise money for alcohol, his solicitor Graham Parkins said.

• York Food and Drink Festival - a 10 day foodie extravaganza - begins today (Friday, September 20).

  As well as traders selling their finest products, there will be competitions, workshops, demonstrations, music, trails and tours – plus much more.

• Plans for a new Lidl and drive-through restaurant at Monks Cross Shopping Park in York are set to go before councillors for a decision.

  The plans would see the former TK Maxx store at Monks Cross Drive demolished and a new Lidl and drive-thru at the north west of the site built.

• A YOUTH has been injured in a police incident in York.

  North Yorkshire Police say officers from York city neighbourhood policing team gave first aid to a teenager with serious leg injuries yesterday afternoon (September 19).

• York and North Yorkshire’s mayor has said he is ‘determined’ to get a half-hourly train between Scarborough and York.

  Mayor David Skaith has said he is “putting a lot of work” into getting a half-hourly train service from York to Scarborough.