The third York Walls Festival takes place this weekend to celebrate the City’s Medieval Walls. The Festival Team are delighted that coronavirus has not meant the cancellation of the event and have produced a variety of online content to accompany the open days at Red Tower and Fishergate Postern Tower.

Key workers in York are being thanked for their extraordinary work during the coronavirus emergency with a week-long Key Workers Celebration which starts on Yorkshire Day, 1 August.

VisitEngland have today (28th July) announced the finalists who will go forward to compete for the tourism industry’s prestigious national Awards for Excellence – including York’s very own Grays Court Hotel.

LNER Community Stadium to host eight women's fixtures

Four double-headers of RLWC2021 action

Australia vs New Zealand the standout fixture

Artists are continuing to have a hard time as lockdown rules mean so many of their events and exhibition spaces have been cancelled due to Coronavirus. This is why Stillingfleet Lodge Gardens have worked hard to be able to re-open the exhibition space in the tea room and to extend the August sculptures in the garden this summer.

York Minster will reopen for public worship on Saturday (4 July) and for sightseeing visits on Saturday 11 July.
 
The first public service to be held at the cathedral since it closed on 16 March will be Evening Prayer at 5.30pm on Saturday, followed by services of Morning Prayer (10am), Holy Communion (11am) and Evening Prayer (4pm) on Sunday (5 July).

Castle Howard gears up to reopen Skelf Island, the ingenious tree-top adventure playground on Saturday 4th July, following the latest government guidance.

The much anticipated reopening of Skelf Island, with it’s rope bridges, slides, nets and climbing equipment comes with new ‘Skelf and Safety’ measures in place to ensure that all visitors have space to play whilst adhering to social distancing guidelines.

Visit England, in partnership with the national tourist organisations of Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, has today announced a new UK-wide industry standard and consumer mark for the tourism and hospitality sector.

Mad Alice of the award winning Bloody Tour of York has released a special four part documentary series available on YouTube called The Bloody Tour of the York Walls.