POLICE have issued an update after a man was arrested following the discovery of a body on a campsite in North Yorkshire.

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• Parking charge hikes of more than 500 per cent at York’s Bishopthorpe Road could lead to job losses, traders based there have claimed.

  Business owners told a City of York Council meeting on Thursday, May 13 the hikes had already driven customers away since they came into force last month.

• POLICE and firefighters have been called to a two car crash on a major road in North Yorkshire.

  The county’s fire and rescue service say they were called at 9.08pm on Wednesday (May 14) after reports of a crash on the A64 near Whitwell-on-the-Hill between York and Malton.

• Richard Moorcroft had no idea what to expect when his then nine-year-old daughter, Sophia, was diagnosed with an aggressive brain tumour.

  The news felt like “being punched in the stomach”, says Richard, from Strensall. Sophia, now 12,

• A new partnership between two York organisations will help provide vital mental health support to fathers of children diagnosed with a brain tumour.

  OSCAR’s Paediatric Brain Tumour Charity has joined forces with Menfulness to support men in the York area.

• Suspected Second World War bomb found in Flaxton detonated

  RESIDENTS of a village outside York were evacuated from their homes yesterday by police (May 13), following the discovery of a suspected Second World War bomb.

• Thousands of civil servants are set to be moved out of London under new Government plans - and York will be one of the cities they will relocate to.

  Under plans announced on Wednesday, the Government will cut the number of civil servants working in London by 12,000 and shift jobs to a series of new regional “campuses” across the country.

• A MAJOR historic site which lies under a car park in York has been given a special protection after years of community campaigns.

  Jewbury in York which is the site of a medieval Jewish cemetery holding 5,000 bodies, has been granted protected status as a Scheduled Monument by the Government, following advice from Historic England.

• A 23-year-old football fan has woken from his coma after suffering life-threatening injuries when he fell from a tree while watching Leeds United’s celebration parade.

  Ed O’Brien spent six days in the coma at Leeds General Infirmary (LGI) after falling in Millennium Square, Leeds, during his team’s open-top bus Premier League promotion parade on Monday, May 5.