A rise in fly-tipping in York to almost 3,000 incidents in a year has sparked a row over the council’s handling of the issue.

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• The UK’s chief medical officer has told a York event the case needs to be made for the health benefits of active travel despite it not being politically easy.

  Chris Whitty told the Active City York conference that the smallest changes to help people walk, wheel and cycle could transform people’s health for the better.

• A York mum and dog-lover has launched a new business allowing your pooch to be part of a wedding celebration.

  Jemma Graham has created Paws ‘N’ Promises, which she believes is the only one of its kind in the York area.

• A DRIVER who seriously injured three people when he crashed head-on into another vehicle at 80mph in a souped-up Volkswagen Polo has been jailed.

  Adam Davis, then 22, disregarded warnings from his passenger to slow down, had barely slept and had cannabis in his body when he raced round a blind bend on the wrong side of the road,

• FOUR people have been seriously injured in a crash in North Yorkshire.

  The county’s police say it happened at about 3.12pm on Thursday, June 19 in Ripon Road in Killinghall near Harrogate and involved a white Audi TT and a Fiat van.

• Police have released footage of a husband armed with a bow and arrow stalking his wife in their York home.

  Stephen Carr, 57, is now serving a 20-year extended prison sentence for the attempted murder of Lorna Carr in Southfields, Strensall. 

• A STRIKE planned at a York school has been suspended following 'positive talks' with its academy trust.

  St George’s RC School in Fishergate say that following 'very constructive and positive discussions' with the newly appointed board of trustees at the Middlesbrough academy chain to which the school now belongs

• A MAJOR road in York is set to be rerouted for good from next week.

  The replacement section of Leeman Road, running from Salisbury Road to Marble Arch is set to open at 6am on Tuesday, July 8, in time for the morning rush hour.

• 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.