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Councils launch legal bid over incinerator cash

Artist's impression of the Allerton incinerator

4:14pm Tuesday 21st May 2013

COUNCIL chiefs in York and North Yorkshire are set to launch a legal challenge against the Government's decision to pull £65 million of funding for a controversial waste incinerator between York and Harrogate.

Dean of Ripon dies, aged 59

6:54pm Tuesday 21st May 2013

TRIBUTES have been paid to the Dean of Ripon after he died today just hours after being admitted to hospital.

Campaigners accuse council of sounding "death knell" for rail route

5:58pm Tuesday 21st May 2013

CAMPAIGNERS who want to reopen a rail line between York and Beverley have criticised council bosses for dealing a “devastating” blow to their hopes.

Police concerned for missing Harrogate teenager

Police concerned for missing Harrogate teenager

5:25pm Tuesday 21st May 2013

POLICE have expressed their concern after a 16-year-old from Harrogate went missing earlier this week.

York Minster ready to unveil new visitor attraction

York Minster ready to unveil new visitor attraction

1:57pm Tuesday 21st May 2013

FINAL preparations are under way for the opening of York Minster's new visitor attraction - the latest stage of a £20 million five-year restoration scheme - on Saturday.

York super-slimmer celebrates new lease of life

Jeanette after her weight loss.

2:00pm Tuesday 21st May 2013

A SUPER-SLIMMER from York says she is enjoying a new lease of life after shedding more than seven stone in only 18 months.

Norwegian choirs set to perform in York

2:41pm Tuesday 21st May 2013

YORK will welcome six Norwegian choirs this weekend as a free choral event gets under way.

Plans for flats in listed York building approved

11:25am Tuesday 21st May 2013

PLANS to turn a listed building in the centre of York into flats have been approved after proposals to set up a drug treatment centre at the site were dropped.

Police seek dog owner after York street attack

11:22am Tuesday 21st May 2013

A CAT had to be put down and its owner treated for bite wounds to her foot after both were attacked by a Staffordshire bull terrier in a York street.

£1m restaurant boost for York

An artist’s impression of how the new Banyan York bar and restaurant will look at the site of the 161-year-old chapel in Little Stonegate

8:00am Tuesday 21st May 2013

A NEW £1 million restaurant in York is to create 50 new jobs for the city.

Top writers, speakers and thinkers to descend on York for Festival of Ideas

Historian Michael Wood

7:30am Tuesday 21st May 2013

THIS year's York Festival of Ideas, which kicks off on June 13, will be tackling the North-South divide head on.

Young actor’s role in film on Nazis

George Colclough, left, takes a break from filming with one of the other actors

7:30am Tuesday 21st May 2013

A PUPIL from Tadcaster Grammar School has been picked to appear in a television documentary on Nazi-occupied Europe, after impressing producers with his historical knowledge.

‘Staycation’ is the aim for York residents

7:20am Tuesday 21st May 2013

NEARLY three-quarters of York residents have said they will take a summer holiday in the UK this year.

Rates relief plea for small businesses

7:20am Tuesday 21st May 2013

GOVERNMENT ministers have been urged to give small businesses the same support on rates as charity shops receive.

James Brabbs jailed for life for Easingwold van driver murder

Killer James Brabbs, who was today jailed for for a minimum of 29 years for the murder of van driver Mohammed Saleem Khan

5:56pm Monday 20th May 2013

A KILLER was this afternoon jailed for life for what his own barrister described as the "atrocious" murder of a van driver.

Free market stall offer to test new business ideas

4:01pm Monday 20th May 2013

CITY of York Council is offering first-time entrepreneurs the chance to test their business ideas on Newgate Market.

Easingwold murder suspect admits guilt in shock plea change

12:44pm Monday 20th May 2013

A MAN who denied murdering a van driver in North Yorkshire made a dramatic change of plea today.

Fire at North Yorkshire industrial estate

10:23am Monday 20th May 2013

FIREFIGHTERS have been tackling a blaze at a North Yorkshire industrial estate throughout the night.

Internet sexual predator is jailed

Mark Lindsay

9:32am Monday 20th May 2013

A BUSINESSMAN who sexually exploited a 13-year-old girl he met online has been jailed for four and a half years.

Poor hygiene at York dentist surgery

The Clock House Dental Surgery in Heworth

9:29am Monday 20th May 2013

PATIENTS at a York dental practice were put at risk by poor hygiene standards, a watchdog concluded after an unannounced inspection.

Row as council chairs dumped in waste skip

A skip at the James Street council recycling depot

9:20am Monday 20th May 2013

THIS skip – piled high with office chairs – has sparked claims that cash-strapped City of York Council is wasting taxpayers’ money.

Thousands flock to Malton Food Lovers Festival

Barbara Haywood and her daughter and gingerbread maker Liz Druce, of the Gingerbread House, at the Malton Food Lovers Festival

9:07am Monday 20th May 2013

ORGANISERS promised the biggest and best Malton Food Lovers Festival yet – and the thousands of visitors who flocked to the town over the weekend were not disappointed.

Street performers chosen for York’s Buskival Festival

Giant Robot Rock pulls along Rob Roy Collins in preparation for York’s Buskival Festival this weekend

9:01am Monday 20th May 2013

SIX professional street performers have been chosen to entertain crowds at York’s Buskival event next weekend.

Canadian airmen’s sacrifices remembered at memorial service

Sutton-on-Forest Primary School pupil Adam Walker places a wreath on the memorial during the memorial service at Sutton on Forest

8:57am Monday 20th May 2013

MEMBERS of the Royal Canadian Air Force travelled to a village near York for an annual service dedicated to hundreds of airmen from a local air base who died in the Second World War.

Cashpoint melts after pavement blaze in Driffield

Cashpoint melts after flames shoot 8ft into air from pavement in Driffield

8:40am Monday 20th May 2013

EYEWITNESSES say they feared an explosion and thought a bank might be set alight after flames erupted from a pavement in an East Yorkshire town.

Selby surgery raider asks to be sent to prison

Charles Junior Lansiquot

8:28am Monday 20th May 2013

A BURGLAR who left a trail of blood in a Selby doctor’s surgery after raiding the premises was behind bars within hours.

Artistic grandmother nominated for adult learner’s award

Rosemary Dorins with her artwork

8:10am Monday 20th May 2013

AN artistic grandmother from York has been nominated for an adult learner’s award.

Drug addict was look out in raid on minister’s flat

7:58am Monday 20th May 2013

A DRUG addict and his accomplice burgled a Christian minister’s flat while the occupant was attending a study group next door, York Crown Court heard.

Fossil Collective top Tockwith Festival bill

Visitors soak up the atmosphere at Tockwith Festival

7:56am Monday 20th May 2013

AN American chart-topping band and a rising young singer from the village provided two highlights of the Tockwith Festival.

Wildlife artists celebrates return of barn owl to The Wolds

Wildlife artist Robert E Fuller with a painting of a barn owl, his favourite bird

7:50am Monday 20th May 2013

WHEN the Yorkshire Wolds were swept by snowstorms in the bitter winter of 2010, the owl population plummeted – to the dismay of local wildlife artist Robert E Fuller.

North Yorkshire baby is first patient to make use of new children’s air ambulance

One day old Theo Mikova is transported by medical staff to the national Children’s Air Ambulance ahead of his flight to Hull and so become the first infant to fly in the new children’s medical transfer

7:42am Monday 20th May 2013

A TINY baby who needed life-saving surgery became the first infant to fly in a new children’s air ambulance as it got off the ground in North Yorkshire.

York Conservatives re-elect leader

7:45am Monday 20th May 2013

CITY of York Council’s Conservative group has re-elected Rural West York councillor Ian Gillies as its leader for the next year.

Norton fire flats landlord jailed for 12 months

Alan Foster

10:00am Saturday 18th May 2013

The owner of flats where two young jockeys died in an arson attack has been jailed for a year, after a judge said he showed “complete disregard” for residents’ safety.

Work starts on new Monks Cross shops project

A new view of how the John Lewis Store will look

9:40am Saturday 18th May 2013

WORK on a £90 million shopping development on the edge of York is under way after newts caused a hold-up – and the project is set to open by next Easter.

Shake up of York’s care facilities behind schedule

9:39am Saturday 18th May 2013

A SHAKE-UP of York’s elderly people’s homes is running behind schedule, as opposition parties claim the project is in “crisis” and city leaders dodge questions about its future.

Poetry professor seeks beauty among rubbish

9:29am Saturday 18th May 2013

SOME poets find inspiration from nature, others from myths and legends. But one has now chosen a very different setting in which to seek his muse – a North Yorkshire rubbish depot.

Teenager's bungee jump to raise money for transplant unit

Megan Guest prepares for her bungee jump

9:18am Saturday 18th May 2013

A BRAVE youngster will climb 210 steps and jump off a bridge 160 feet high tomorrow to celebrate her 14th birthday and raise money for the transplant unit at Leeds General Infirmary.

Teacher in court on child sex charges

Richard Oldham

9:08am Saturday 18th May 2013

A YORK teacher has appeared before the city’s crown court charged with a series of sex offences against children in the city.

North Yorkshire Police could face questions over officers' Jimmy Savile links

Jimmy Savile

9:05am Saturday 18th May 2013

NORTH Yorkshire Police will be asked to consider whether there are any questions over officer conduct in connection with revelations about Jimmy Savile.

Campaign to honour VC hero on memorial

The Rev Marcus Ramshaw, a resident of Wilberfoss who wants VC winner Harry Blanshard Wood to be recognised on the village war memorial

8:50am Saturday 18th May 2013

A CAMPAIGN to remember a First World War hero who won the Victoria Cross has been launched after it emerged he has been left off a village war memorial.



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