Plans to make voters show photo ID in May’s elections have been described as “taxpayer funded disenfranchisement” by York’s largest political party.

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• A DAREDEVIL York businessman is all set to take on an extraordinary never-before-attempted challenge.

  Jim Mee is the founder of Rat Race, based in York, the UK’s leading provider of global adventure challenges, offering people the chance to tick off once-in-a-lifetime experiences in some of the world’s most remote and exhilarating locations.

• A busy road in York city centre has partially closed as work gets underway to repair a “void”.

  St Leonard’s Place is closed to traffic heading into the city centre from the direction of Bootham Bar.

• A husband allegedly fired arrows at his wife at close range and repeatedly stabbed her as he tried to kill her in their York home, a jury has heard.

  Angus MacDonald, prosecuting, claimed Stephen Carr told his wife Lorna Carr “You are dying tonight” and when she replied “Am I?” he replied “It’s too late, babe, it’s too late".

• A TEAM of about 18 people helped rescue a woman who broke her leg after she fell while out walking her dog in North Yorkshire.

  It took about 18 people - including police, firefighters, ambulance crews and mountain rescue volunteers - to rescue Zoe Allen after she injured herself while out walking her dog in Norton near Malton on Tuesday night (May 27).

• ANTISEMITIC graffiti has been daubed on signs in a York village.

  North Yorkshire Police say it happened between 1pm on May 16 and 6pm the next day on the public footpath between Great Helmsley and Warthill.

• Queen Street has reopened as work to transform the area outside York railway station’s entrance takes a step forward.

  City of York Council said the latest Station Gateway work has “gone well” and the road reopened ahead of schedule last night (Monday, May 26).

• A TOP York school where the parents of boarders can pay more than £16,000 a term has received a one star for food hygiene, meaning ‘major improvement necessary’.

  Bootham School was founded in 1823 and has 655 pupils on its roll aged from three to 18.

• "It was a very scary situation, but I’m just happy he was there."

  Those are the words of Tanya Aston, 43, who on April 16 was dining in Hickory's Smokehouse in York when she suddenly found herself choking and unable to breathe.