York

Chris Wilson has two rules for buying vintage planes. They must be fast. And they must be flashy. It’s something of an irony then that the restoration business he began 10 years ago is neither. The work can be painstakingly slow, locating authentic spare parts even slower and the hangars of Jet Art Aviation, tucked away a few miles from Selby, often resemble the scrap yard next door. Still, it’s an improvement on their original site on top of a hill overlooking Bradford which was something of a wind tunnel.

At his forge near Pickering, a blacksmith has spent weeks working out how to make various Viking kitchen items. Three hundred miles away in the west of Scotland, a pewter jewellery specialist is putting the finishing touches to a replica of an elaborate 10th century padlock. And in the Rochdale offices of Dale Air, the team have recently been perfecting the authentic smell of a Viking forest.

Peter Lines hailed beating defending UK champion Neil Robertson as the biggest result of his 25-year career and revealed he nearly quit snooker last summer.

A Yorkshire city which was swamped in last December’s floods is witnessing a renaissance in tourism after hotel owners saw one of the strongest starts to the autumn season in recent years.

A York golf course has been named one of the top 10 in Britain by amateur players.

A supermarket manager is hoping to spend 50 hours locked inside a glass box to raise awareness of autism and the work a charity does helping children cope with the condition.

ONE OF the region’s most affluent and sought-after cities has among the highest suicide rates in the country, shocking new figures show.

DISC JOCKEY and presenter Chris Evans received an honorary degree at York Minster today from the Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu.

By Paul Jeeves

York Barbican

Two years ago, KT Tunstall took the decision to leave behind her music career when she moved to a newly adopted home of Venice Beach in Los Angeles. Thankfully she had a change of heart.

Tributes have been paid to the man who called himself the “Minster Window-Cleaner” and who helped save its iconic Rose Window after the terrible fire of 1984.

YORK City extended their win-less away run to a 33rd game at Eastleigh but gave suggestions that their form on the road could soon change.

In the index to Emma J Wells’s latest book, in which she revisits various ancient routes first trod by medieval pilgrims, some of the country’s most famous religious buildings unsurprisingly get a mention. Canterbury Cathedral is there, along with Winchester and Walsingham. However, sandwiched between the various places of worship, saints’ names and abbeys, there is one less obvious inclusion. There in the index, part way down the third column, is George Clooney.

More police will be patrolling the streets of a York suburb over the next two days in an operation to improve burglary prevention.

Two years ago, KT Tunstall took the decision to leave behind her music career when she moved to a newly adopted home of Venice Beach in Los Angeles. Thankfully she had a change of heart.

EARLYBIRD travellers will be able to get from Yorkshire to London before dawn, after Virgin announced the earliest ever east coast mainline service as part of a raft of timetable changes.

FROM TRAVELLING at 10 times the speed of a bullet to get into the Earth’s orbit to vacuuming the inside of the International Space Station, Major Tim Peake’s extraordinary adventure has captured the imagination of the nation.

A DISABLED teacher who was sacked for gross misconduct after showing the 18-certificate film Halloween to 16-year-old students has won at least £180,000 compensation from York Council.

A man armed with what is believed to have been a handgun robbed a post office in a Yorkshire village yesterday.

Ahead of this month’s Yorkshire dates with his Rhythm and Blues Orchestra, Jools Holland spoke to Duncan Seaman.