A CITY councillor today hailed the "impressive" progress of the council's benefit service. City of York Council came in for criticism in a damning Benefit Fraud Inspectorate (BFI) report last December, which said the Guildhall's housing and council tax
A WOMAN took her own life in York, exactly a year after being diagnosed with breast cancer, an inquest heard. Christine Byard started suffering from depression after undergoing chemotherapy but was determined to recover from her mental illness and was
AN ASTUTE York businesswoman who recently celebrated her company's 145th year of trading has died. Edith May Clancey, ne Birch, was a partner in L Clancey & Sons scrap metal merchants, along with her three sons, Robert, Richard and Jim. She married
HOPES are growing that a missing York post box could be replaced after a local shopkeeper volunteered to put a new one on his land. Earlier this year, Royal Mail chiefs angered locals - including York MP Hugh Bayley - when they removed the post box from
POLICE said today they want to trace a blue car, seen in the area of an incident in which five intruders forced their way into a York home and assaulted three foreign nationals. The attack, reported in later editions of last night's Evening Press, happened
THE Knights will be aiming for another huge crowd when they host Hunslet a week tomorrow. The club will stage a Schools Family Fun Day for that match with a host of attractions taking place that afternoon. Full details of the attractions will be in this
BOSSES at City of York Council's Food and Safety Unit say it has been helping York become a healthy city. The unit has been working with resources management colleagues and the main provider of school meals in the city - North Yorkshire County Caterers
NEATLY cropped verges in North Yorkshire have grown into dandelion-infested jungles - because contractors' mowers aren't big enough to cope. The county council appointed the contractors after being handed the responsibility for grass-cutting in Ryedale
HEALTH chiefs in North Yorkshire are urging parents to make sure their children receive both doses of the MMR (Measles, Mumps and Rubella) jab. Between January and March, 331 cases of mumps were reported in the county, compared with 347 cases in the whole
CRIME in York and North Yorkshire is down - but violent offences have soared, according to police statistics out today. North Yorkshire Police say total recorded crime in the county fell by 13.5 per cent from 71,393 to 61,783, in the past 12 months, with
A TEN-YEAR-OLD boy was airlifted to hospital after a road crash in North Yorkshire, which left four other people injured and caused massive traffic delays. The rush-hour accident happened on the A169 between Malton and Pickering, when a Vauxhall Corsa
TALKING sculptures will be the star new attraction when a maize maze returns to York this summer. Large wooden figures will read out clues to visitors, as they try to find their way around the giant corn field on the city's outskirts. This year will be
