A MAN has died and a woman is in a critical condition in hospital following a crash in York.

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• ONE of York’s most anticipated restaurants is getting closer to opening in York city centre.

  Giggling Squid, a popular Thai chain, is starting to take shape with decorators inside the building on Sunday (July 13).

• Holiday let operators in York want to work with communities and not against them, a local manager of the properties has said following calls for tougher regulations.

  Germaine Mason, who helps manage York properties for rental company Pass The Keys, said the industry recognised people had concerns about holiday lets and backed proposals to register them.

• A MAN has been jailed for more than five years for sexual activity with a teenage girl and refusing to provide a log-in information for his mobile phone.

  Marcus Lee Noble, 26, of Thornton Road in Fulford in York was sentenced at York Crown Court on Friday (July 11).

• A MAN with a knife has been arrested in a York supermarket car park.

  North Yorkshire Police say they received a report that a man was holding a knife in a car park at Aldi in Fulford Road at about 2.20pm on Sunday (July 13).

• One of Britain’s largest unions has slammed Yorkshire Water’s “outrageous” county-wide hosepipe ban - set to begin today.

  Deanne Ferguson, the GMB union’s organiser for Yorkshire, said people in the region are “being punished while profits flow and pollution pours out”.

• The innovative Spark York wants to stay in Piccadilly for five more years and host live music events.

  A planning application to extend its stay, which is due to end on September 30, says the extension is needed “because relocation to York Central is not deliverable.”

• Two men have been charged with rape after members of the public “came across a distressed woman” in York city centre, police said.

  The men from York, aged 20 and 24, are due to appear at York Magistrates’ Court this morning (Friday, July 11).

• Tributes have been paid to a devoted father with a "truly extraordinary soul" who was killed in a crash near York.

  Adam Anderson, 41, was fatally injured in the crash on the A59 near the A1(M) junction, west of York, on Wednesday (July 9) morning.