It sounds like the plot of a Beatrix Potter story - and visitors to Fairfax House in York this festive season can see for themselves the mischief and intrigue. Some 400 whiskered needlefelted mice ...

On this day in 2024, the York Press reported that two of York's historic houses, the Bar Convent and Fairfax House, had jointly launched an exhibition celebrating their 'illegal' Catholic heritage.