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• An £18.5 million shortfall in the funding needed to complete improvements to the front of York Station has been caused by delays, inflation, contracts and design changes, councillors have heard.

  City of York Council’s City Development Director Garry Taylor told councillors changes making the scheme comply with accessibility standards cost £2 million to £3 million while construction inflation was running at 35 per cent.

• A drink and drug driver has been banned from the roads after crashing his BMW into a parked car in a residential York street.

  Timothy Jason Starkie was over the legal alcohol limit and “well over” the prescribed limit for cocaine and cannabis when the crash happened in Tang Hall Lane on Sunday, January 5, North Yorkshire Police said.

• 'OFFENSIVE symbols' have been scratched onto vehicles overnight in a vandalism spree in a York suburb.

  North Yorkshire Police said several parked vehicles were damaged in the Clifton area overnight from Saturday, June 7 into the following morning.

• Plans for the major expansion of a town north of York have been recommended for approval - despite nearly 350 letters objecting to the scheme.

  A 2023 application for outline planning permission to City of York Council from Barratt and David Wilson Homes

• A national expansion of free school meals has been welcomed in York

  - with local politicians praising the move as a step in the right direction for tackling child poverty and supporting struggling families.

• We go through the keyhole inside Purey Cust House beside York Minster on sale for nearly £6m...

  YORK'S most expensive private house has gone on sale with a price tag of £6 million.

• One of two alleged murderers told a friend “we might have just killed a guy”, a jury has heard.

  The friend claimed Jobie Tyers, 31, threw his shoes individually out of a car as it was driving through Tang Hall and said he was getting rid of evidence.

• One of York’s major employers is looking to make up to 66 staff redundant in the city and at a sister site in Scotland.

  Nestle has begun consulting with staff and unions in York and Girvan concerning the possible redundancies between the sites.