Although York continues to escape the worst of the snowfall the met office has issued a warning about a band of heavy snow passing to the west near Leeds.
North Yorkshire weather cameras 0830 hours 21st Jan 2013
North Yorkshire weather cameras indicate that many roads are passable with care although conditions in the Harrogate area are deteriorating.
A Council committee has been looking at the availability of child care including “baby sitting” in the City.
A lot of help and information is available on the web
The Family Information Service (FIS) confirmed that the support available to families to find and access childcare had developed considerably over the last seven years.
A meeting on 29th January will hear Labour’s plans to hive off the Yorkcraft facility on Tadcaster Road.
It seems likely that it will become (another) “social enterprise” organisation in 2015.
The details of the plan are being kept confidential in line with the current Councils fixation with secrecy.
However it seems clear that the core Yorkcraft organisation will be retained with a hybrid system of specialist services such as gardening being developed.
Most roads are clear with public transport running as normal in the City.
The York City football match will go ahead.
North Yorkshire weather cameras indicate that most roads are passable with care.
North Yorks weather cameras 1000 19th Jan 2013
The weather forecast suggests that York may get more snow showers on Sunday with Monday seeing the heaviest falls.
After that clear weather is forecast although temperatures will remain around freezing point.
The Lady Mayoress and the Sheriff’s Lady have chosen the two winning entries in the competition with York College fashion students to design dresses for the Lord Mayor’s Ball
The Lady Mayoress, Karen Hyman, and the Sheriff’s Lady, Jenny Firth, have chosen the two winning entries in the competition with York College fashion students to design dresses for the Lord Mayor’s Ball.
Launched last November, the competition asked for designs based around the idea of ‘The wonderful city of York’ and today the Lady Mayoress visited York College to announce the winners.
The winning students are:
Jacey Lamerton – chosen by the Lady Mayoress
Stephanie Pack – chosen by the Sheriff’s Lady
• Renewed appeal to trace wanted York man Detectives hunting a man wanted for a violent assault at a pub in York have renewed their appeal for the public to help locate him. Officers would like to speak to Ryan MacLeod, aged 21, of Tuke Avenue, York, after a 32-year-old local man was attacked at the Castle Howard Ox, on Townend Street, on Saturday 10 November 2012.
• Miniature animals stolen in farm raid Police are investigating after some rare miniature animals were stolen from a farm near Green Hammerton. Sometime between 8pm on Wednesday 16 January and 9am on Thursday 17 January 2013, a grey female Zebu cow was stolen from Thorpe Hill Farm, Thorpe Underwood, along with its month-old brown and white calf.
The pictures refresh every 10 minutes or so.
At present, the York Council does not allow public access to its cameras
This is the difference in income tax that people are paying in the current tax year versus what they paid under the last year of Labour government. When let’s not forget they had had 13 years to align the tax rates in any way they wished with a large majority in parliament.
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We can see that someone earning £10,000 is paying almost 30% less tax now whilst those earning the highest amounts (£500,000+) are paying well over 20% more. Oh, and that line above seems to me to be the dictionary definition of “progressive”. It goes up progressively.
Worth remembering this next time Labour are banging on about how unfair the coalition is being to the poorest people.
The report reveals that there has been a 13.4% increase in complaints from the previous year.
The Council report says that “complaints typically fluctuate up and down from year to year and this is typical of social care complaints received across Yorkshire and Humberside”.
During the year 2 amounts of financial recompense were made following consideration of complaints. These totalled £4181.10
• One amount of £1,733.27 to reimburse the customer for professional fees they had incurred in challenging a council decision.
• One amount of £2,447.83 to pay for care home fees following a financial assessment.
Nearly 100 compliments about service quality were also received during the same period