Exhibition depicts the human form

An Egyptian 
ushabti figure on show.

Visitors to Scarborough Art Gallery will see a new display in its reception area looking at representations of the human form over the centuries.

From Wednesday (22 May), small figures chosen by visitor services assistant Dan Whinney will be on display as part of the Cabinet of Curiosities series.

Visitor attraction benefits on the cards

The Castle Museum: one of the attractions
offering free admission to card holders.

Getting a fright at York Dungeon and coming face-to-face with Vikings at the Jorvik Centre for less are among the benefits of a York Card.

Work to start on one of the north's biggest luxury hotels

Artist's impression of the luxury hotel.

Developers are about to start work on the £100m country resort at Flaxby, near Knaresborough, 

Top award nomination for Monkbar

York's Best Western Monkbar Hotel has been nominated in a national competition for its green credentials.

Top team ... with a gold award already under its belt, the Monkbar Hotel green team now has its sights on another national major title.

For peat's sake — restoration project reaches conservation milestone

Around 100 square miles of the region's precious peatlands have been restored in a multi-million pound project to preserve vital habitats and help cut global warming.

More than 60 per cent of the restoration work has taken place in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, home to more blanket bog – the habitat in which peat formed – than any other national park in England.

Major route gets a spring clean

Tyre-ing ... a council worker examines some of the rubbish collected after Hambleton District Council's spring clean along the A19 between Thirsk and York. In just four hours, they collected more than 200 black sacks of rubbish as well as televisions, a bed, a  pram, 13 tyres, a car bumper, lead roofing felt, two traffic signs, two cones, two exhaust pipe systems and four barriers.