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Dylan Connell @dylanconnell_

Journalist at @yorkpress @gazetteherald - All views my own. dylan.connell@newsquest.co.uk

Joined April 2016
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May 30
Shed Seven singer 'marries' York couple – then the wedding party walks the City Walls ift.tt/Sabcwsm

Shed Seven singer 'marries' York couple – then the wedding party walks the City Walls

Newlyweds Jessica Steel and Stuart Allan from York celebrated their wedding in true style – with help from Shed Seven frontman Rick Witter.

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Apr 1
Last orders called at once ‘rocking’ York club after more than 100 years ift.tt/ETcO0Ce

Last orders called at once ‘rocking’ York club after more than 100 years

After more than 100 years, the York Burton Lane Club in Bootham Crescent has called last orders for the final time.

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Mar 12
‘Everyone idolised him' - friends fundraise for family of York man, 35, after death ift.tt/BhP9wcs

‘Everyone idolised him' - friends fundraise for family of York man, 35, after death

Friends have launched a fundraiser to support the family of a York man who died from illness aged 35 – and are calling on the community to help.

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Feb 28
Service to remember 10 killed and dozens injured in one of UK’s worst rail disasters ift.tt/mqEikbe

Service to remember 10 killed and dozens injured in one of UK’s worst rail disasters

Ten people who died in the Great Heck rail disaster, one of the UK’s worst rail accidents, will be remembered at a service at Selby Abbey.

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Jan 16
‘Heaven has gained a true angel’ – Cain North dies aged 24 after cancer battle ift.tt/WYf02Tn

‘Heaven has gained a true angel’ – Cain North dies aged 24 after cancer battle

Cain North from York has died three years after being diagnosed with a brain tumour.

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Jan 14
‘It’s like all the anxiety has just left me,’ says woman as domestic abuser jailed ift.tt/2T50XoE

‘It’s like all the anxiety has just left me,’ says woman as domestic abuser jailed

Helen Duncanson has said she feels "safe" after her abuser Michael Boyes was jailed for three and a half years.

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Dylan Connell retweeted
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11 Dec 2025
‘People have died in the hands of the trust’: York MPs welcome inquiry into TEWV ift.tt/b9NWmJA

‘People have died in the hands of the trust’: York MPs welcome inquiry into TEWV

York’s MP have said the announcement of a public inquiry into the Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust (TEWV) has been a “long time…

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11 Dec 2025
Public inquiry into troubled TEWV NHS trust CONFIRMED after years of campaigning ift.tt/MZiBAsj

Public inquiry into troubled TEWV NHS trust CONFIRMED after years of campaigning

Years of failings at the Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys (TEWV) NHS trust will finally be put under the microscope after the Health Secretary answered…

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4 Dec 2025
A York mother diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumour is fundraising for treatment which she hopes will extend her life yorkpress.co.uk/news/2567063…

York mum diagnosed with brain tumour fundraising for treatment to extend life

Emma Ward, a mother of two from York, has been diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumour and is fundraising for treatment which she hopes will…

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2 Dec 2025
‘He will be missed by many’: Purpleman, beloved York street performer, dies ift.tt/QNCWHfT

‘He will be missed by many’: Purpleman, beloved York street performer, dies

Purpleman, the beloved York street performer, has died aged 65.

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Dylan Connell retweeted
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21 Nov 2025
More than 100 wheelchair users refused on board First York buses in nine months ift.tt/LvS1fo3

More than 100 wheelchair users refused on board First York buses in nine months

More than 100 wheelchair users were refused entry onto buses run by First York over a nine-month period, new data has revealed.

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27 Sep 2025
‘Things have to change’: calls for inquiry into TEWV NHS trust welcomed ift.tt/CS1wWVd

‘Things have to change’: calls for inquiry into TEWV NHS trust welcomed

The York mother of a woman with a serious mental illness has welcomed calls for a public inquiry into the Tees Esk Wear Valleys NHS Trust (TEWV) –…

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25 Sep 2025
Parents of adults with serious mental illnesses in York being ‘left without support’ ift.tt/OaEGcxb

Parents of adults with serious mental illnesses in York being ‘left without support’

Parents of adults with serious mental illnesses in York are being “left without support” due to long waits for care, the boss of a health…

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The Press is backing calls for a public inquiry to be held into the Tees Esk Wear Valleys NHS Trust (TEWV). Today we reveal that more than 300 mental health patients were waiting a year to be seen by the trust after being referred by their GP 👇 yorkpress.co.uk/news/2548891…

Hundreds of mental health patients waited a year to be seen by NHS trust serving York

More than 300 mental health patients were waiting a year to be seen by the Tees Esk Wear Valleys NHS Trust after being referred by their GP, The…

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And here Press editor @NB_Hd_of_News says "keeping patients waiting for months and sometimes for years is simply not on", adding: "Something has gone badly wrong." yorkpress.co.uk/news/2548914…

Press backs calls for public inquiry into TEWV mental health trust

The Press is backing calls for a public inquiry to be held into the Tees Esk Wear Valleys NHS Trust (TEWV).

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12 Aug 2025
Disabled campaigner takes on M&S over ‘discrimination’ at York store – and wins yorkpress.co.uk/news/2538175…

Disabled campaigner takes on M&S over ‘discrimination’ at York store – and wins

Disabled campaigner Flick Williams from York has taken on Marks and Spencer after alleging she was discriminated against at a city store – and won.

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28 Jul 2025
Tougher restrictions on holiday lets needed amid York housing shortage - council boss ift.tt/WdyjcRz

Tougher restrictions on holiday lets needed amid York housing shortage - council boss

York council's housing boss has called for tougher restrictions on short-term holiday lets amid a housing shortage in the city.

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23 Jul 2025
Closing health watchdog could lead to accountability being ‘diluted’, bosses warn ift.tt/wX5cmNa

Closing health watchdog could lead to accountability being ‘diluted’, bosses warn

Bringing the Healthwatch Network’s role within the remit of local authorities risks accountability being “diluted”, an open letter to the…

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20 Jul 2025
Nestlé boss lifts lid on £8m investment to keep York site running for decades ift.tt/wZQ2GRc

Nestlé boss lifts lid on £8m investment to keep York site running for decades

Nestlé has revealed how a multi-million-pound investment will keep its operations in Haxby Road, York, running for decades to come.

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