AN intrepid York traveller has used his own experiences driving the length of Africa as the basis for his first thriller.

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• A York MP has joined a group of backbenchers in calling on the government to make "hard choices" over cuts to the benefits system.

  York Outer MP Luke Charters was one of 36 signatories to the "Get Britain Working Group"

• A £1.7m project to improve a stretch of path by York’s River Ouse to help reduce closures related to flooding has taken a step forward.

  A decision on Tuesday, March 11 means designs will be drawn up for the project, which includes raising the path between Jubilee Terrace and Scarborough Bridge, before works begin.

• FILMING involving a former Emmerdale star is underway on a new short film this week at venues across York and North Yorkshire.

  Scarlet - a film noir about a detective who falls in love with a killer

• AN alleged murderer has told a jury he is “ashamed” and “broken” because he caused the two stab wounds that killed a champion York bare knuckle fighter.

  Ian James Franklin, 33, alleged that he acted in self defence and in the defence of his wife and family immediately outside his front door when he hit Greg Marshall with a kitchen knife.

• WHAT’S the score? A question heard at matches across the country, but not at York’s newest non-competitive football club.

  Meet Gals FC, the fast-growing women’s club rebelling against keeping score. Established shortly after England’s success at Euro 2022,

• Harland Miller was 16 when he first stepped inside York Art Gallery.

  He was on his lunch break from a job around the corner having just left school. Never – in his wildest dreams – did he think his artwork would one day be exhibited at the gallery.

• A SINGLE mum from York, who was told she had just two years to live after being given an incurable cancer diagnosis, is defying the odds seven years on.

  Julie Blackburn, 53, who lives in Bishopthorpe, was first diagnosed with breast cancer ten years ago in February 2015, after finding a lump while in the shower.

• A MAN has been arrested following a raid at a flat in a York suburb.

  North Yorkshire Police say that with assistance from the UK Border Force a 24-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday morning (March 12) in Clifton in the city.