A 'MYSTERIOUS' light has been pictured in the midnight sky over York - leaving residents "bewildered".

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• Four new homes have been unveiled in the grounds of a former officers’ mess and lodgings in York – with a starting price of £1.5 million.

  The four and five-bedroom detached properties have been built in the grounds of the Grade II-listed Ousefield House, opposite the Imphal Barracks in Fulford Road.

• A York MP has urged the government to "look at those with broader shoulders" after leading a rebellion against the controversial welfare reform bill.

  Yesterday, July 1, Keir Starmer's Labour Party debated and voted on the welfare reform bill - which originally looked to cut £4.8 billion by 2030.

• York Hospital has improved since a damning report found patients had been “put at risk of harm” – but there is “more work to do to make sure people are safer”, a watchdog has said.

  The hospital, managed by the York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust,

• EMERGENCY crews have been called in after reports of a man in a York river.

  North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service say they were called at 1.44am on Wednesday (July 2) to Ouse Bridge in the city centre.

• Labour Mayor of York and North Yorkshire David Skaith has spoken out against controversial government welfare reforms.

  Plans to save £4.8 billion by 2030 were tabled by the government's secretary of state for work and pensions.

• Students in and around York have been getting dressed up to the nines for their end-of-year school proms.

  For many, it marks the end of months of revision and a busy exam period and is a chance to celebrate with friends and teachers.  

• A man has said he was “in shock” and “shaking” as he helped rescue a woman from the River Ouse in York.

  Samuel Efejuku told The Press he saw the woman, who he described as being distressed, enter the river while he was sitting next to Ouse Bridge in the early hours of Sunday (June 29).

• A NEWLY-installed fixed speed camera has been knocked down - just over an hour after it was activated.

  Police investigating after the lamppost hosting the camera on the A64 at Sherburn near Malton was damaged at around 2.20am today (Tuesday).