'VILLAGERS are understandably concerned' after a police incident where a body was found in a York village.

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• YORKSHIRE Water has said that reservoir levels have 'dropped to their lowest ever' level due to the 'extremely dry' year.

  The company, whose boss chief executive Nicola Shaw is under fire over payments of £1.3 million she received from the firm's parent company, said that since hosepipe restrictions were implemented on July 11, domestic water usage has decreased by ten per cent.

• THE goalkeeper who helped York City to defy the mighty Liverpool of the 1980s in their Anfield fortress has written his first book.

  Crossing The White Line, A Life Sentence by former City goalkeeper Andy Leaning is a memoir of a professional football dream that became reality.

• A MOTHER and daughter have banded together to create a new café offering an ‘artisan take on classic British food with a bit of a European injection’ just outside York city centre.

  Mae Café, which is set to open on Saturday (August 16) in Holgate Road, is a new café run by mother and daughter team Laura Mae, 25, and Joanne Bowes, 64, and named after Joanne’s own mother Mae.

• A disabled campaigner from York has taken on Marks and Spencer after alleging she was discriminated against at a city store – and won.

  Flick Williams, a visually impaired wheelchair user, described the case as a “David and Goliath fight” which showed “disabled people don’t have to just sit back and accept discrimination”.

• A POPULAR takeaway on York’s most famous street was broken into this morning – but it is business as usual as the owner vows to stay open.

  The door to Shambles Kitchen was damaged as the culprit or culprits forced their way into the sandwich business in a brazen attempt to steal cash.

• A NEW 4,000-home development set to be built between York and Harrogate, has moved closer to fruition.

  The development plan document (DPD) for a new settlement at Maltkiln has received approval from a planning inspector.

• THE body of a man has been found in a playpark in a York village and a woman is in hospital with head injuries following a police incident.

  North Yorkshire Police say at about 5.50pm on Monday (August 11) they were called by a concerned member of the public to reports of an assault at a property in Naburn.

• EMERGENCY crews have been called in after a crash in a remote part of North Yorkshire.

  North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service say they were called at 9.06pm on Sunday (August 10)