Marketplace website Onbuy.com compiled a list that found York has received nearly 170,000 searches in the past month.

The future of Liberty Steel has been thrown into turmoil after Greensill Capital, a group that lends money to businesses so they can pay their suppliers, filed for administration last week.

The Bradford-based firm said an ongoing review has made it clear that the business needs to address the issue of rising customer complaint volumes.

“I had one of those lightbulb moments,” he says. “I was staring at our RNLI tea towel, one of the famous ones with a map of all the lifeboat stations, and it just dawned on me whether anyone had been to all these stations to make a photographic journal, a modern snapshot of the RNLI family.”

“It was alright, was that,” the indomitable and still irascible 91-year-old tells when reminded about the landmark. “I think I had a big bet. Never ever drank so much Champagne in my life.”

John Lewis Partnership confirmed the closure of eight of its stores on Wednesday, including its Sheffield firm which was first established in 1847 as Cole Brothers. John Lewis York is also set to close.

Five industrial buildings providing a total 180,000 sq ft at Moor Park 25 in Mirfield, West Yorkshire, will be built by the third quarter of this year.

High Street stores up and down the country were already facing plenty of challenges before the pandemic hit – but the impact of Covid and lockdown measures has seen online purchases rocket and thousands of physical shops decide to call it a day.

The café on Stonegate in the centre of York will not re-open after the branch has been deemed to be no longer financially viable.

Mini has confirmed that it will become an all-electric brand by the early 2030s after announcing that its final combustion-engined car will be launched in 2025.