A LANDMARK meeting has taken place in York for the city's first anti-racism taskforce.

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• THE PRIME Minister and the Mayor of York and North Yorkshire say three trade deals struck by the Labour government in recent weeks will boost the regional economy.

  Manufacturing, which employs 9 per cent of those in York and North Yorkshire, will particularly benefit, they say.

• Most mornings Philippa Ward’s 13-year-old son, Thomas, has a seizure after waking up.

  “That determines how his day will be,” she says.

• A WOMAN has been seriously injured in a crash in York.

  As The Press reported at the time, the crash happened on Thursday morning (May 22) in Skeldergate, at the junction with Micklegate, when a woman pedestrian was struck by a silver Toyota Corolla car as she was crossing the road.

• There is standstill traffic in York after a "void" has taken a key road down to one lane.

  Yesterday (May 21), The Press reported on the "void" - which opened in St Leonard's Place, by the Theatre Royal - and is being worked on by staff from City of York Council.

• A drinker who throttled a police sergeant until he was gasping for breath has been jailed.

  The sergeant and his colleagues had been called to deal with Carl Harding after he caused a disturbance and tried to jump over a counter at a pizza takeaway, said Rachael Landin, prosecuting.

• IT looks like the scene from a Hollywood film – or a news report from wildfires in far flung corners of the world.

  Fireman in bare arms and T-shirts are standing in a landscape of scorched earth and shrubs burned out to leave stark, apocalyptic silhouettes.

• A CAR has overturned after a crash near a roundabout in York.

  North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service say they were called to a crash at 6.26am on Thursday (May 22) after reports of an accident between Moor Lane and the Rufforth roundabout, in Acomb.

• Council leaders visit Portakabin HQ to champion local skills and apprenticeships

  The Deputy Leader of City of York Council, alongside senior council officers, recently visited the Portakabin head office in York to hear about the spaces they provide across public and private sectors