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University’s huge lake bid approved

8:20am Friday 25th July 2008

A SCHEME to landscape the University of York’s massive new campus has been approved by city planners.

City photo returned

The photograph of one of York City’s greatest days

7:50am Friday 25th July 2008

YORK City FC were today thankful a thief’s conscience had “got the better of them” after a prized memento was mysteriously returned to the club.

Traffic plan sorted for city racedays

 Punters enjoy last month’s meeting at York Racecourse

7:40am Friday 25th July 2008

IT is hoped traffic management schemes will keep jams and congestion at bay during tonight and tomorrow’s race meetings.

Time to salute the Land Girls

Former Land Army Girl, Edith Johnson, 91, in her garden in Hessay

7:20pm Thursday 24th July 2008

WHILE British men were fighting and dying on foreign soil during the Second World War, tens of thousands of young women took to the land to keep the nation fed and the economy alive.

A-bombs exhibit opens at museum

Ian Reed, director of the Yorkshire Air Museum, in its new Atomic Bomb & Humanity  exhibition

6:10pm Thursday 24th July 2008

A NEW exhibition devoted to the atom bomb attacks Hiroshima and Nagasaki has opened near York – but a special guest who witnessed both infernos was unable to attend.

Police hail crackdown on yobs

Police community support officers Chris Turner and Pete Fewster of the Safer Neighbourhood Policing Team on patrol in Geldof Road, Huntington

5:20pm Thursday 24th July 2008

A POLICE crackdown on bad behaviour which included sending parents letters asking them to monitor their children has helped improve the quality of life for residents.

NHS ‘must do better’

4:30pm Thursday 24th July 2008

HEALTH bosses in York and North Yorkshire have been criticised over their service for patients with acute mental illness.

Decision delayed in Selby church site fight

Coun Doreen Davies wants the church site to be used as a community  centre for youngsters

3:40pm Thursday 24th July 2008

SELBY councillors have postponed a planning decision that could see one of the town’s few remaining churches pulled down.

Call for Micklegate clean-up

2:50pm Thursday 24th July 2008

GRAFFITI, litter and other rubbish will all be targeted in a planned summer clean of one of York’s main gateways to the city.

Treasure hunter finds Roman ring

The silver roman ring

2:00pm Thursday 24th July 2008

A ROMAN ring that was discovered in a field near York has been classified as an item of treasure, an inquest heard.

Question mark over food shops

Rev Canon Glyn Webster unveils the plaque at the opening of the new Co-op Funeral Home in Haxby with managers Nicky Turnbull and Philip Taylor

1:47pm Thursday 24th July 2008

A CO-OP food store has undergone a £250,000 revamp – but a question mark is hanging over other food stores in the region following a major grocery deal.

Morrell family slates council HQ plan

John Bowes Morrell

1:10pm Thursday 24th July 2008

RELATIVES of York conservationist John Bowes Morrell strongly criticised the council’s headquarters plans just days before it was withdrawn.

Eco-towns legal alert welcomed

11:38am Thursday 24th July 2008

WARNINGS that plans by the Government to force eco-towns on communities could be illegal have been welcomed by a Selby councillor.

Deal will unlock city centre teardrop site

York Central “teardrop” site

11:00am Thursday 24th July 2008

THE York Central scheme has been in the pipeline for many years – but if all goes to plan, matters should now move forward much more quickly.

Bus station hope for teardrop site

Andrew Scott, director of the National Railway Museum

11:00am Thursday 24th July 2008

YORK should finally get a long-awaited bus station after developers across Europe were invited today to invest more than a billion pounds in the city’s biggest ever development.

No charges after ‘fight’ death probe

FLASHBACK: A police officer  outside Lord David Wharton’s York home in March last year

10:40am Thursday 24th July 2008

HIS death from head injuries, a day after being assaulted on a night out, sparked a tense police stand-off outside his home – and then a major investigation by detectives.

Action plan for ‘reprieved’ park

Sonia Crisp

10:24am Thursday 24th July 2008

ANOTHER victory has been claimed for a west York park, which looks set to enjoy a makeover.

Amnesia fear for missing woman

Dion Smith looks for her missing sister Lisette Dugmore, on Clifton Backies

9:30am Thursday 24th July 2008

IS missing York woman Lisette Dugmore suffering from amnesia?


UK News

Handyman fined for smoking in van

A decorator has been fined for smoking in his van

Updated 7:35am Friday 25th July 2008

A painter and decorator who received a £30 fine for smoking in his own van has warned that British civil liberties are "going up in smoke".


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