Max Reeves of Helmsley Group, with Coney Street in the background EMPTY shops in York city centre are being bought by local investors - and that is good news for the high street, according to business leaders. Max Reeves, development director at York-based property company Helmsley Group, says the recovery from the pandemic will give the city an opportunity to evolve. The company - which has been involved with redeveloping the Old Fire Station and recently announced plans for the city s first eco hotel in North Street - is also supporting City of York Council s campaign to remain unchanged as a local authority under local government reorganisation proposals.
Bill Heppell SOME time late on the evening of Thursday, September 7, 1944, holed up in an old monastery in the mountains of northern Greece, deep in German-occupied territory, a young British army officer wrote a brief entry in his diary. He and a group of Greek partisans had spent the previous night and the early part of that day perched on a hillside above the Jannina to Metsovo road, an eight-hour walk from the monastery, planning an ambush. At 6.30am, a convoy of 17 German trucks approached. “I blew down a few telegraph posts and tried to get andartes [the Greek partisans] to go on road to loot and destroy trucks; no success,” the young officer wrote.
I AM still alive! - that s the message Richard Skilbeck wants to share with the people of York. Richard, also known as Dick to friends, contacted The Press to ask us to let former school friends and sports mates know he was very much still alive - and living in the North East. The unusual request came after a death notice appeared for his namesake in The Press - and people started giving their condolences to his brother Stephen, who still lives in York. Richard, now aged 79, said: Stephen was out and about and two or three times he bumped into people who said: I was sorry to hear about Richard .