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

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• 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.

If you are venturing out in North Yorkshire it may be worth taking a look at the weather cameras that there are around the county

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.

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The Council has formally published a report on the type and outcome of the complaints that it received in the year ending in March 2012. The report was recently considered at one of the Council’s ”behind closed doors” private meetings.

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

EFIT of York robbery suspect released – Detectives investigating a robbery in York have released an EFIT image of a man they would like to trace. Officers are hunting two men after a 19-year-old woman was robbed on Layerthorpe in the early hours of Tuesday 15 January 2013.

Although the Council web site is erratic at the moment you should be able to see a map of salt bin locations by clicking here.

Dringhouses and Woodthorpe bin locations
• ALNESS DRIVE OPPOSITE 53 DRINGHOUSES & WOODTHORPE
• ANNAN CLOSE ADJ 9 DRINGHOUSES & WOODTHORPE
• ASHBOURNE WAY JCN RYECROFT AVENUE O/S 66
• DEVERON WAY O/S NO 12 DRINGHOUSES & WOODTHORPE
• DON AVENUE O/S 34 DRINGHOUSES & WOODTHORPE
• DON AVENUE J/W SWALE AVENUE DRINGHOUSES & WOODTHORPE
• EDEN CLOSE JCN MOOR LANE DRINGHOUSES & WOODTHORPE
• GANTON PLACE NEAR LAMP COLUMN 2
• HERDSMAN ROAD IN CAR PARK DRINGHOUSES & WOODTHORPE
• HILLCREST GARDENS NEAR J/W HOB MOOR TERRACE
• LINDALE OPP 15 SIDE OF GARAGES DRINGHOUSES & WOODTHORPE
• LEESIDE O/S NO 7
• LOWICK OPP 7 DRINGHOUSES & WOODTHORPE
• MIDDLETHORPE GROVE JCN THE SPINNEY DRINGHOUSES & WOODTHORPE
• MIDDLETHORPE GROVE O/S NO 32 DRINGHOUSES & WOODTHORPE
• MOOR LANE JCN MOORCROFT DRINGHOUSES & WOODTHORPE
• MOORLEA AVENUE O/S 14 DRINGHOUSES & WOODTHORPE
• NAIRN CLOSE NEAR VENT COLUMN DRINGHOUSES & WOODTHORPE
• NEVIS WAY NEAR 14 DRINGHOUSES & WOODTHORPE
• NORTH LANE JCN ORCHARD WAY DRINGHOUSES & WOODTHORPE
• NORTH LANE ON CORNER
• ORCHARD WAY JCN ORCHARD CLOSE DRINGHOUSES & WOODTHORPE
• ORRIN CLOSE O/S 29 DRINGHOUSES & WOODTHORPE
• ROYAL CHASE OPP NO 6 DRINGHOUSES & WOODTHORPE
• SILVERDALE NEAR LAMP COLUMN 1 DRINGHOUSES & WOODTHORPE
• SLINGSBY GROVE JCN TADCASTER RD DRINGHOUSES & WOODTHORPE
• SOUTHFIELD CRESCENT ON BEND DRINGHOUSES & WOODTHORPE
• SPEY BANK JCN ANNAN CLOSE DRINGHOUSES & WOODTHORPE
• ST HELENS ROAD NEAR SCHOOL ENTRANCE DRINGHOUSES & WOODTHORPE
• ST JAMES PLACE NEAR 10
• SUMMERFIELD ROAD NEAR 33 DRINGHOUSES & WOODTHORPE
• SUMMERFIELD ROAD AT ENTRANCE TO PRIMARY SCHOOL
• TADCASTER ROAD JCN PULLEYN DRIVE O/S 284
• WAINS GROVE O/S SHOPS DRINGHOUSES & WOODTHORPE
• WAINS ROAD ADJACENT TO NO 24 LOVEL HOUSE
• WEST THORPE NEAR 5 DRINGHOUSES & WOODTHORPE
• WORDSWORTH CRESCENT PATH ACROSS GREEN OPP LITTER BIN DRINGHOUSES & WOODTHORPE
• THE HORSESHOE O/S 40 DRINGHOUSES & WOODTHORPE

It has become clear (below) what will happen to the junk that has built up in many salt bins over the last year, now that the Council is desperately trying to re-fill many of them.

Rubbish removed from York salt bin

Police hunt York robbery suspects
York police are appealing for information following a robbery in the city.It occurred at around 2.30am on Tuesday 15 January 2013, on Layerthorpe, when a 19-year-old woman was walking past the car park at the rear of the old ATS buildings.

Bus driver arrested on suspicion of drink driving
A bus driver from York has been charged with drink driving after being arrested yesterday afternoon. The 45-year-old man failed a roadside breath test after officers pulled over the single-decker bus he was driving on Field Lane in the Badger Hill area of York at around 12.50pm.

North Yorkshire Police has become the first UK force to publish an iBook to help keep their communities safe from criminals.

The innovative iBook, which is called Securing Your Home, features 60 pages of crime prevention advice and can be downloaded from the iTunes store or the North Yorkshire Police website.

The interactive tool contains hundreds of tips on how to protect your home, including chapters on bogus callers, burglary prevention, property marking, vehicle security and rural crime.