Train strikes suspended - but too late to save York services.
A SERIES of planned strikes by railway workers in a long-running dispute over jobs, pay and conditions has been suspended.
The operators affected included many operating throughout York and North Yorkshire.
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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
Difficult decisions will have to be taken on York’s Station Gateway and Outer Ring Road projects amid spiralling costs, senior councillors have said.
An £18 million funding gap has opened in the refurbishment project outside York Station’s entrance, along with one of more than £110 million for dualling the Outer Ring Road.
A PLAN to build 600 flats at a prime site in York has taken a step forward.
Dudleys Consulting Engineers will be overseeing all ground engineering works at the former Heworth Gas Works to prepare the site for residential development.
ADAM Hinshelwood was understandably disappointed as York City crashed out of the play-offs in a dejecting fashion to Oldham Athletic.
Despite finishing higher than Oldham in the normal season by 23 points, the play-offs proved to be a brutal ask of York as they failed to deliver in a 3-0 hammering at the LNER Community Stadium, in a match where City failed to test the opposition goalkeeper even once.
FIREFIGHTERS with ten fire engines and a water bowser fought throughout the night to contain a large fire at a York nature reserve.
North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service say that at its height they had ten fire engines, a water bowser and an all terrain vehicle at the Strensall Common blaze which started at about 3.30pm at the site on the outskirts of the city on Tuesday (May 20).
MORE than £3,200 has been raised by families from York, North and East Yorkshire for the city's special educational needs primary school following a major event.
Hob Moor Oaks Academy in Green Lane in Acomb in the west of the city provides specialist education for youngsters aged between two and 11.
FRUSTRATION is growing over heavy traffic near a York tip as traders renew calls for action.
Fresh calls are being made for council bosses to take steps to ease congestion near Hazel Court Household Waste Recycling Centre which local traders say is damaging business.
A York mum who had her hands and feet amputated after developing a severe infection and being in a month-long coma has spoken about embracing her new life.
Mandy Neal, 61, was rushed into York Hospital, put in an induced coma and placed on a ventilator at the end of 2023. She was diagnosed with pneumonia but also an infection - Strep A. The induced coma lasted the majority of January 2024.
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