Maxine Gordon

5 days ago | yorkpress.co.uk | Maxine Gordon

NEWS that Swedish home furnishings giant Ikea is to open a shop in York marks the end of a 20-year rollercoaster ride for fans of the global retailer. Ikea shoppers first had their hopes raised back in 2005 when the Scandinavian retailer revealed it was talking with city council chiefs about the possibility of establishing a store in York as part of its expansion plans.

5 days ago | yo1radio.co.uk | Maxine Gordon

twin sisters from Tang Hall who shot to fame in the early 1980s following a sensational court case in York. The twins were prosecuted at York Magistrates' Court for breach of the peace for harassing a local truck driver, Ken Iveson. It was the first time their strange lives came to the attention of the wider public – and their story was reported in newspapers across the world: journalists from Brazil, Sweden and Minnesota covered the case. The twins were bizarre mirror images of each other.

6 days ago | thetelegraphandargus.co.uk | Maxine Gordon

4 1/1 Hollywood stars are playing York's world-famous Chaplin twins in a new film, Bucking Fastard, reports MAXINE GORDON YORK'S world-famous reclusive Chaplin twins are the inspiration for a new Hollywood film. Tinsel-town A-listers Rooney Mara and her sister Kate are starring in a film based on the lives on Freda and Greta Chaplin, twin sisters from Tang Hall who shot to fame in the early 1980s following a sensational court case in York.

6 days ago | yorkpress.co.uk | Maxine Gordon

4 1/1 Hollywood stars are playing York's world-famous Chaplin twins in a new film, Bucking Fastard, reports MAXINE GORDON YORK'S world-famous reclusive Chaplin twins are the inspiration for a new Hollywood film. Tinsel-town A-listers Rooney Mara and her sister Kate are starring in a film based on the lives on Freda and Greta Chaplin, twin sisters from Tang Hall who shot to fame in the early 1980s following a sensational court case in York.

1 week ago | yorkpress.co.uk | Maxine Gordon

7 1/1 Today we bring you 7 amazing photos of rare tansy beetles during mating season in York IT'S rare to see one of York's elusive tansy beetles - rarer still to catch them mating. But these photos - taken this week at two separate locations in the city - capture this very act. The tansy beetle is a visual treat to the eye on account of its iridescent green-and-bronze body, the beetles are known locally as the 'Jewel of York'.