LIBERAL Democrat councillors in York have set out their stall for the local elections on May 4.

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• WORK is set to restart on a new school building in York.

  Hempland Primary School and Tang Hall Primary School, both in the east of York and are part of the Pathfinder Multi Academy Trust (MAT), have seen a delay to planned projects under the School Rebuilding Scheme.

• A NORTH Yorkshire teenager has become the youngest person to run length of the UK.

  Marcus Skeet, who lives in Norton, ran 837 miles from Land's End to John O'Groats for charity Mind. The 17-year-old, who completed his challenge yesterday (Thursday) has so far raised £111,000.

• AN inspirational teenager from York is set to walk a marathon distance around the city for a cause very close to his heart.

  Nathaniel Greenhouse, 13, who won the Sibling of the Year award at the national Sense Awards back in 2019, is walking a marathon - 26.2 miles - around the Millennium Way and a circuit of the city walls on Saturday (May 31).

• A York husband accused of trying to kill his wife claimed he fired three times close to her with a bow and arrow to scare her.

  Stephen Richard Carr denied that he had aimed the arrows at her and that he had wanted to harm her.

• A business is moving out of York city centre due to an increase in parking prices, its managing director has said.

  Damian Marsden, managing director of Appealing Properties, told The Press the letting agents will move from its Clifford Street office after six years to a new premises in Middlethorpe, on the outskirts of York.

• A wife has told a jury that the man accused of trying to kill her was a “very good husband up to that night”.

  Lorna Carr alleged that her safety was always Stephen Carr’s priority.

• TWO men have been found dead at adjoining properties in a North Yorkshire town.

  The county’s police force say emergency services are currently working at two properties in Gatesgarth Close in Scarborough following the unexplained deaths of two men in separate homes.

• Campaigners claim a cemetery in York is ‘falling to bits’ – but site bosses say they face an unprecedented drop in income to maintain the grounds.

  Fulford Cemetery in Fordlands Road is having fewer areas of grass cut - and less frequently - this year, in a bid to reduce costs within its 30-acre grounds.