OPPOSITION councillors in York are challenging the city’s ruling Labour administration to rethink controversial council budget savings of £14.3 million proposed for the next financial year beginning in April.

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• 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.

• North Yorkshire’s mayor has called for work to begin on a new rail station in Haxby following Government confirmation that the project will go ahead.

  Labour Mayor David Skaith said the £24 million scheme would help cut congestion while York Outer MP Luke Charters said the announcement meant the project was no longer in limbo.

• The NHS trust in charge of York Hospital paid out more than £4 million in negligence claims over five years, new figures show.

  A York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust spokesperson told The Press that any risks identified by such claims are incorporated into its patient safety processes to prevent them from happening again.

• THOUSANDS of racegoers are being invited to ditch their jackets and don their shorts as temperatures look set to soar this week.

  York Racecourse has relaxed its dress code for the John Smith’s Cup on Friday and Saturday, when the Met Office is predicting afternoon temperatures of 30C and 31C.

• A CRASH has blocked a main road linking York to North Yorkshire.

  North Yorkshire Police said officers are at the scene of a crash involving a car and a motorcycle, at junction 47 of the A1(M) and A59 - Allerton Park - on the bridge over the motorway.