Detectives in York are appealing for residents to be vigilant after a number of recent burglaries.
Homes have been targeted in Copmanthorpe, Poppleton and Haxby in recent months and officers are reminding people of the importance of reporting suspicious behaviour in their area.
The new archive is part of the Heritage Lottery Fund-supported Gateway to History project to preserve and open up the city’s internationally-important archives to people across the city and indeed the world.
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The works at York Explore will include the construction of a new state-of-the-art conservation store for the archives and a sensitive refurbishment of the existing first floor to create new spaces for people to discover the city’s extensively-recorded history.
Essential work on the roof and floor will also be carried out to on the Grade II listed library building at the same time as installing a new energy-efficient heating system, repairing the roof, refreshing the layout of the ground floor and the very successful café.
The Gateway to History project received a £1.5m HLF grant in December 2012.
British Sugar is inviting residents to discuss proposals for the development of the former site today 28Nov/Sat 30Nov http://t.co/niwkPjwTaf
— City of York Council (@CityofYork) November 28, 2013
Although the Council has cut back on the number of amenity skips it provides, several residents associations continue to run programmes aimed at making it easier for tenants to get rid of unwanted items.
The skips are only in place for a few minutes and residents must ensure that they put any rubbish into the skips and do not leave it on the path or highway.
1 Dringfield Close 08:30 09:30
2 Pottery Lane 10:30 11:30
3 Lindsey Ave 12:30 13:30
5 Fossway 10:30 11:30
6 Burnsall Drive 12:30 13:30
8 Ganton Place 10:30 11:30
9 St Palinus Church 12:30 13:30
Dial & Ride is York’s flexible bus service for residents who have difficulty in getting around.
The bus can drop off at St Sampson’s Centre, Sainsbury’s Foss bank, Morrison’s, Waitrose or Home Sense
It provides a door-to-door service, taking people from their home to the city centre or major supermarkets. The buses are equipped for people who have difficulty walking and for those who use wheelchairs.
Passengers need to book in advance by telephoning 01904 551441. Office opening times are weekdays from 8am until 12 noon but a message can be left outside of these times.
Full fare
Concessionary pass holders
Blind person’s pass holders travel free.
Timetable – A full timetable can be found here:
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The building has been empty since the home was closed in April 2012.
The prime site is expected to bring in substantial offers from residential developers. The Council has budgeted to receive £450,000 from the sale of the site.
In reality the sale is likely to produce a much higher figure.
Any new homes provided there would reduce the pressure to build on greenfield land and would provide the Council with a useful capital receipt. It would help to offset the huge increase in debts accumulated by the present Labour administration.
The Council had been dithering over proposals to lease Oliver House to voluntary groups which are currently located in Holgate Villas. The Council spent £15,000 on a feasibility study for the conversion of the building. It revealed that the costs of converting the building could be as much as £1 million.
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Local residents – led by Liberal Democrats – had expressed increasing concerns about the buildings future
Many pointed out that the voluntary groups involved did not need a prime site location and that it would make more sense for the Council to ensure that they had alternative rented accommodation available.
There is still a lot of unoccupied office space in the City.
It was hoped that suitable buildings might be identified in sub-urban locations which were in need of regeneration. Acomb, for example, has never recovered from the Councils decision to close its office in the Front Street area.
However, it now seems that the Council is restricting its office search to the city centre. Two possible locations are being evaluated
The office building is likely to include other uses and will be dubbed a “Health and Social Care Hub”. The Council is looking to replace it in 2 or 3 years time with a purpose designed facility. The NHS will make a financial contribution to this new “one stop shop” style centre.
The costs of the commercial office lease are expected to be covered by the rents paid by the tenants.
Emlyn Thomas
Detectives in York hunting a man wanted for recall to prison are appealing for the public’s help as they warn him to turn himself in.
Emlyn Thomas, 32, is wanted as he has breached his release licence by failing to live at a specified address.
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North Yorkshire Police’s Chief Constable Dave Jones is hosting a live webchat between 5pm and 6pm on Thursday 28 November 2013.
Residents are invited to take part in the question and answer session, giving local people an opportunity to raise the crime and antisocial behaviour issues that matter most to communities across North Yorkshire and the City of York.
Ofcom has awarded licences to run local TV services in York and Middlesbrough on digital terrestrial TV (DTT).
The awards follow legislation enabling Ofcom to issue local TV licences.
The channels will be broadcast on DTT by the local multiplex, a discrete amount of spectrum reserved for local TV broadcasting on DTT.
York did have a Local TV station for a couple of years at the beginning of the last decade.
However there were reception and content problems and it didn’t last for long.
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York schools are being challenged to strive for excellence as part of a new initiative launched this autumn.
York Challenge aims to empower the city’s schools to achieve excellence in four key areas: leadership, curriculum, teaching and ‘narrowing the gap’ to accelerate the progress of under achieving children. Focusing on partnership working, schools will work in geographical groups – school improvement clusters – with the emphasis on ensuring that all schools become good and outstanding through working on improvement priorities as a cluster.
Hands up who loves Shark in the Dark by Nick Sharratt! Come by on Thursday 10.30 for storytime and join in the fun! pic.twitter.com/Ecwa0YCF7T
— Acomb Explore (@acombexplore) November 26, 2013