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Police Concerned for Missing Pickering Woman

Police Concerned for Missing Pickering Woman

11:22am Friday 10th July 2009

Police officers in North Yorkshire are becoming increasingly concerned for the welfare of a woman who is missing from her home in Pickering.

Hundreds object to proposed location of new big wheel in York

Artist's impression of how the big wheel could look in York’s St George’s Field car park

10:30am Friday 10th July 2009

YORK’S big wheel may have turned for the last time, after police, environmental officials and hundreds of residents objected to the latest proposal.

Transport minister to face York rail HQ meeting

10:20am Friday 10th July 2009

TOP-LEVEL talks are to be sought in a bid to secure the long-term future of railway jobs in York.

Information plea following Sherburn-in-Elmet crash

10:02am Friday 10th July 2009

POLICE are hoping dog-walkers and motorists may be able to provide vital clues about what caused a crash on a North Yorkshire country lane which left a woman dead.

Coroner blasts carers’ firm over death of grandfather

10:10am Friday 10th July 2009

A POLISH care worker left a grandfather lying on the floor wedged between a television and a wall believing him to be drunk – before discovering eight hours later that he was dead.

‘Most residents will have caught swine flu before Christmas’

9:56am Friday 10th July 2009

AS MANY as 100 people in York may now have contracted swine flu, a leading city doctor estimated today.

Drunk ‘idiot’ sparks alert over Claudia Lawrence body claim

9:59am Friday 10th July 2009

A DRINKER spent a night in a cell after he made a drunken phone call to tell police he had found the body of Claudia Lawrence, Selby magistrates heard.

Experts in plea over River Ouse porpoise sightings

9:39am Friday 10th July 2009

Anglers, boaters and walkers are being urged to keep their eyes peeled for porpoises in the coming months on the River Ouse and the Humber.

York woman picks up uninvited hitch-hiker... a snake

The snake slithers along Miss Dixon Yeung’s car

9:52am Friday 10th July 2009

IT SHOULD have been a routine trip to the supermarket, but it turned into a tale of terror for a York woman who found her car had picked up a very unwanted passenger.

York Station ticket barriers plan set to be approved

9:28am Friday 10th July 2009

PLANS for ticket barriers at York Station look set to be approved, despite hundreds of objections and the imminent collapse of National Express East Coast (NXEC).

Community urged to report suspicions of domestic abuse

9:36am Friday 10th July 2009

NEIGHBOURS, friends and family should act if they suspect someone is the victim of domestic abuse, a woman who suffered years of violence at the hands of her husband has said.

Funds to save Selby’s architectural heritage

Finkle Street in Selby

9:20am Friday 10th July 2009

TENS of thousands of pounds is to be made available to businesses to help protect the architectural heritage of Selby for future generations.

Selby's new top police officer pledges to make town safe

Inspector Chris Witty

8:46am Friday 10th July 2009

SELBY’S new top cop has vowed to make the town even safer and come down hard on criminals, particularly those involved in violence.

Judge warns yob Aaron Dwayne Barlow of bleak future

Aaron Dwayne Barlow

8:35am Friday 10th July 2009

A JAILED thug is to spend even more time behind bars after attacking a teenager in a York street and stealing his iPod.

Refurbished learning centre at Scarcroft Primary School is opened

Panto star Berwick Kaler opening the newly refurbished learning centre at Scarcroft Primary School, York

8:21am Friday 10th July 2009

YORK panto legend Berwick Kaler stepped onto a new stage when he cut the ribbon at the opening of a £200,000 school development.

Tributes paid to those who helped to save York Minster from fire 25 years ago

Peter Wright, senior officer of Red Watch, outside York Minster for the 25th anniversary of the Minster fire

8:00am Friday 10th July 2009

Updated: HUNDREDS of people gathered in York Minster as the city marked the 25th anniversary of its most infamous fire.

York pupils in Youth Parliament success

Joe Feeney, 17, who attends All Saints’ School

8:17am Friday 10th July 2009

SEVEN young would-be politicians took to the hustings as candidates for the UK Youth Parliament.

Tucano flypast marks RAF Linton-on-Ouse pilot training school's 90th anniversary

The Tucano squadron flies over York Minster

7:43am Friday 10th July 2009

ALL eyes were on the sky over York Minster as the world’s oldest independent military flying school celebrated its 90th anniversary.


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