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  • Campaign against new visitors' centre passes major hurdle

    The campaign to stop a controversial new visitor centre for Clifford Tower's has passed a major hurdle. Crowdfunding has raised the £7,800 needed for the initial stage of a potential judicial review into the decision by City of York Council to

  • Networking event date

    THE next Selby Enterprise Cafe event will take place on Monday, January 30. The networking event will include presentations by massage therapist Chloe Hart, Claire Davies on staying on track in life and business, and James Cokeham on how to work

  • Pothole repairs needed

    YORK needs money to repair potholes, not just new ways of monitoring them, opposition councillors have said.Yesterday a pilot scheme was announced which will see cameras to fitted to the front of bin lorries to spot problems on the road surface before

  • REVIEW: FORD ECOSPORT TITANIUM S

    THE Ford EcoSport is essentially a Fiesta-sized chassis with taller ride height, old-school off-roader styling and a serious emphasis on practicality. It was initially designed for South American markets, but as part of Ford's efforts to sell the

  • No need for a Vue change in Community Stadium project

    IT'S unlikely to provide the same level of entertainment as a Hollywood blockbuster, but York City supporters will be watching keenly, nevertheless, as Vue Cinemas’ objection to the community stadium project is considered in London on Wednesday.The

  • Road works next month

    ROADWORKS will begin next month at the junction of the A661 Wetherby Road and Masham Close in Harrogate, with the extension of a traffic island.The work will take place from 7pm to midnight from Monday, February 13, is expected to take a week.Because

  • Shaun Rooney one booking away from two-match suspension

    SHAUN Rooney has moved one caution away from incurring a two-match ban for York City.The 20-year-old defender received his ninth yellow card of the campaign during last weekend’s 2-2 draw at Dover.Rooney did, however, pick up the two Player of the Month

  • RACING TIPS: Success should be sweet at Warwick

    SEGO SUCCESS can make amends for his early departure in last year's Betfred Classic Chase by landing today's main event at Warwick.Alan King's charge was sent off the 7-1 favourite for the three-mile-five-furlong feature but he tripped up

  • Full recycling arrives in Kexby at long last (letter)

    WHEN recycling in York was rolled out over a period of years it stopped short of Kexby and parts of Dunnington. For years residents in these areas have not been able to have glass or garden waste collected for recycling as they were on a rural

  • Crackdown needed on hospital smokers (letter)

    THIS week I visited York Hospital as an outpatient. As I arrived at the main entrance, I saw three separate members of the public smoking cigarettes close by, in defiance of the smoking ban which exists in the hospital and its grounds. Other

  • Let's raise York's cultural profile (letter)

    WE know that York is one of Europe’s glories with fine museums and galleries, not least the redeveloped York Art Gallery. Yet we must keep pushing forward as other cities raise their profile. London’s museums and galleries have expanded nationwide

  • Estate agents in letting board agreement

    LETTING boards could be disappearing from many York streets, after city councillors persuaded some of the biggest agencies to stop using them. Four of York’s leading letting agencies have signed up to an agreement not to use “To Let” boards outside

  • All options open on Yorkshire mayor talks

    YORK’S leaders are remaining tight-lipped about the city’s future in possible devolution deals for Yorkshire and the north. Yesterday a leading Labour figure set out his support for a Yorkshire mayor, and weight seemed to be building behind a plan

  • Drew’s chocolate reading challenge

    AN enterprising young pupil at a Ryedale school has helped raise funds to buy books for a reading challenge. Drew Brown, who attends Settrington Primary School, organised a chocolate bingo and raised £186.50 towards the School Book Award 2017,

  • One of York's biggest restaurants closes for refurbishment

    THE Pizza Express restaurant in River House in Museum Street, York, will be closed from Monday morning for refurbishment. It will reopen at 11.30am on February 2 and the company says the work will create an addition 15 jobs and the design will

  • 2 arrested in raid on York curry house

    A RESTAURANT in York could be fined up to £40,000 after two men were arrested there this week. Immigration Enforcement officers from the Home Office searched the Mumbai Lounge in Fossgate and a nearby flat, as part of an investigation into illegal