MOTORISTS will be targeted by a series of roadside checks in York for the rest of this month. Roadside checks on vehicles are being carried out on the city's roads throughout the rest of March in a bit to make sure drivers and operators are complying
It amazes me how much packaging supermarkets and producers use for their food products. All of this hits the dustbin almost immediately furthering the problems with the planet’s environment. On my first trip to the new Morrisons in York city centre,
A reminder of how it looked last year. http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q226/George_079/PIC_0627-1.jpg Today was sunny so we decided, as we passed the Holmestead, to have a quick walk round. I didn’t have my camera so I will do my best with a verbal
CAR dealers in York and Selby are predicting increased sales over the next six months, after figures revealed the opposite was expected to happen nationally. Sainsbury's Finance's Car Buying Index shows that, in Britain, almost one million fewer people
A HOUSING association is boosting the growing campaign against plastic bags by giving away hundreds of environmentally-friendly hessian bags. York Housing Association bought 1,000 of the bags, initially intending to provide them just to tenants. But
THE 90th anniversary of the founding of the Royal Air Force will be marked in York with a flypast over the Minster. The service was formed on April 1, 1918, by amalgamating the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service after the use of air power
A MOTORIST who injured a van driver after crashing head on into him while attempting a dangerous overtaking manoeuvre has been spared jail. Judge Jacqueline Davies said it was a miracle no one was seriously injured when Christopher Murray caused the
CYCLING in York has been given a £14,500 boost, after council chiefs won a slice of Government funding. City of York Council's road safety team is one of only 16 local authorities to have been successful in its bid for a share of £2 million from the
RESIDENTS are being invited to experience first hand the variety of treasures which have been unearthed on the edge of the new development at the University of York. Ancient agriculture, prehistoric roundhouses and the remains of a Roman masonry building
PATIENTS are being conned by the Government into sacrificing leisure rather than work time to go and see a doctor. That is York GP Dr Brian McGregor's views on controversial plans to extend surgery opening hours. His warning comes after GPs across the
THE real Cassini space probe is currently circling the planet Saturn. However, stargazers will be able to cast their eyes on the next best thing, after a model of the probe was erected along a local cycle path. The 8ft long, 200kg model - a third the
