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• 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

• 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.