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A64 reopens after crash near Tadcaster

1:19pm Tuesday 9th February 2010

THE A64 has re-opened after a car crashed into the central reservation.

H&M to open big new fashion store at Monks Cross, York

H&M is soon to open in the            former Blacks premises at Monks Cross shopping park, Huntington

10:30am Tuesday 9th February 2010

FASHION giant H&M is to open a massive new store in York, The Press can reveal.

Drug experts’ concern over mephedrone

Prof Les Iversen

8:34am Tuesday 9th February 2010

TWO of the UK’S top drug experts have driven home the dangers of a legal high which The Press is fighting to ban from our streets.

Cold snap predicted to continue into next month

A worker at City of York Council’s salt and grit store at the EcoDepot Centre, off James Street

8:40am Tuesday 9th February 2010

COUNCIL chiefs were hoping for another salt delivery to York today after weathermen predicted the cold weather will continue into next month.

Paul Gascoigne released after North Yorkshire takeaway arrest

8:21am Tuesday 9th February 2010

FORMER England football star Paul Gascoigne has been released on police bail after he was questioned on suspicion of being drunk in charge of a vehicle in North Yorkshire.

NICE refusing to make £2-a-day heart drug available on the NHS

Martin Harman with the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence draft guidance which proposes to deny access to a new heart drug

8:29am Tuesday 9th February 2010

IT is his last hope of having a normal heartbeat – but the rationing watchdog NICE is refusing to make the new £2-a-day drug available on the NHS.

Future of Ainsleys bakers remains unclear

8:30am Tuesday 9th February 2010

BUYERS have been found for most outlets of Yorkshire-based bakery business Ainsleys.

Aerobics instructor looking for York Race for Life recruits

Rachel Speight with her band of runners who are training for The Race For Life

8:15am Tuesday 9th February 2010

AN AEROBICS instructor is looking for recruits to join her at this year’s York Race for Life with the aim of raising £10,000 for Cancer Research UK.

Recession shockwaves hit York charity store

Jayne Edwards, area manager of Scope

8:02am Tuesday 9th February 2010

THE recession may officially be over, but a York charity is still feeling its shockwaves as it battles plummeting levels of donations.

Relief for businesses as Sutton Bridge is reopened

Cars are again allowed to drive across the bridge over the River Derwent between Elvington and Sutton-on-Derwent

8:05am Tuesday 9th February 2010

RELIEVED shop owners and residents in Elvington have welcomed the reopening of Sutton Bridge, which has been closed since early in January.

MP John Grogan urges voters to support pub campaign

8:08am Tuesday 9th February 2010

DRAUGHT beer should be given the same duty relief enjoyed by small breweries in order to break the supermarket stranglehold on alcohol sales, says Selby MP John Grogan.

Ian Wynne faces life in prison for Farmfoods robbery

Ian Gary Wynne

8:11am Tuesday 9th February 2010

AN armed robber who held up a Selby shop worker could spend the rest of his life behind bars, a judge has warned.

Science Trail to launched at York Festival of Science and Technology

7:51am Tuesday 9th February 2010

BUDDING detectives will be invited to discover the science behind York’s heritage when a new Secret Science Trail is launched next month.

Language is no barrier for fire service volunteers

7:53am Tuesday 9th February 2010

MEMBERS of the Polish, Brazilian and Portuguese communities in the East Riding have been praised by emergency services for giving their free time to the public sector.

Government booklet urges residents to “challenge the yobs”

7:56am Tuesday 9th February 2010

YORK residents are being urged by a Government Minister to “challenge the yobs” and help to cut down on antisocial behaviour.

York signs up to national energy-saving campaign

7:57am Tuesday 9th February 2010

HUNDREDS of street lights are set to be replaced and council staff asked to switch off computers and turn down the heating to ensure York meets its carbon footprint-cutting targets.

£4.3m earmarked for fire service shake-up in York

7:59am Tuesday 9th February 2010

MORE than £4.3 million has been earmarked for shaking up York’s network of fire stations over the next five years.

Judge’s tribute to fatal fire barrister Gerald Lumley

8:20am Tuesday 9th February 2010

THE Recorder of York has paid tribute to a former judge before a full courtroom at York Crown Court.

Margaret Spaven, of Dunnington, dies aged 83

Margaret Spaven

1:19pm Monday 8th February 2010

A KEEN gardener and musician from North Yorkshire who lived in a range of exotic locations across the world has died aged 83.

Police hunt arsonists after cars torched in York

11:57am Monday 8th February 2010

ARSONISTS are being hunted by police after flames destroyed two cars in late-night York attacks.







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