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Councils launch legal bid over incinerator cash

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.

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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

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.

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York super-slimmer celebrates new lease of life

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.

£1m restaurant boost for York

8:00am Tuesday 21st May 2013

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

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

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.

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Young actor’s role in film on Nazis

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.

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James Brabbs jailed for life for Easingwold van driver murder

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.

Internet sexual predator is jailed

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

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

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.

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Thousands flock to 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.

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Street performers chosen for York’s Buskival Festival

9:01am Monday 20th May 2013

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

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Canadian airmen’s sacrifices remembered at memorial service

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.

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Cashpoint melts after pavement blaze 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.

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Selby surgery raider asks to be sent to prison

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

8:10am Monday 20th May 2013

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

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Fossil Collective top Tockwith Festival bill

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.

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Wildlife artists celebrates return of barn owl to The Wolds

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.

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

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.

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Norton fire flats landlord jailed for 12 months

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

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.

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Teenager's bungee jump to raise money for transplant unit

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.

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Teacher in court on child sex charges

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

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

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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