Agency Incalls York Articles
- 27th March 2008
- York City Council put Masts on Schools
- Many councils in the region are getting paid rent by mobile phone companies for sites to put up phone masts.
York City Council is one of the authorities that have placed the mobile phone masts on the sites of schools. There are two at Huntington Schoo...
- 27th March 2008
- Motorists urged to use Public Transport
- The City of York is urging its residents to leave their cars at home and use public transport.
This is part of a new congestion-busting initiative that also includes bus lanes that have been added to the city centre. The campaign Live Life In The Bu...
- 27th March 2008
- Civil Servants go on Strike
- York and North Yorkshire were disrupted as hundreds of civil servants striked on what was of one of the biggest weeks of industrial action to hit in years.
Thousands of benefit claimants including single parents and pensioners were affected by the 48-h...
- 18th March 2008
- Curfew Overhauls for York City, North York and West York
- A proposal has been unveiled to introduce a joint curfew in three municipalities. The proposed curfew is to keep children and teenagers off the street during school hours and late a night.
The three municipalities, York City, West York and North Yo...
- 18th March 2008
- York City Council in Safety Breach
- York City Council have had to admit liability for a safety breach, which led to the death of one of its employees’.
York Council faces paying up to £20,000 in costs and an unlimited fine after a man died mowing the grass for the council.
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- 18th March 2008
- Illegal Dumping in York City
- For the past two years people have been illegally dumping rubbish in the back alley of an 82-year-old woman’s home in York City.
The alley on Keller Avenue is often littered with broken glass, dead televisions and couches. People are also dumpin...
- 18th March 2008
- Nightclub Plans for Empty Steam Plant Scrapped
- A former steam plant on York City’s North Pershing Avenue will remain empty as plans for a nightclub fell through after two years.
The current lessees brought about the controversial plans and had planned to open a nightclub in the empty steam pl...
- 22nd January 2008
- University of York Cracks Down on Cheaters
- The University of York has announced tighter controls to clamp down on the number of students cheating in essays.
The university believes that some students are paying other people to write essays on their behalf. UKEssays.com, a website that speciali...
- 22nd January 2008
- York Council Says No To Eco-Town
- York council plans to formally oppose plans to build a new eco-town on green belt land just outside the city. At a council meeting scheduled for next week, City of York councillors will be asked to support a motion that criticises the Clifton Gate scheme....
- 22nd January 2008
- York Education Bosses Plot to Boost School Dinner Uptake
- Education bosses in York are meeting on Friday to discuss ways to boost the uptake of school meals in the city. Currently, less than a third of schoolchildren in York are eating school dinners and the city has a school meal take-up rate of just 32.5...
- 21st January 2008
- New Life for York’s Historic Cinema
- Cinema buffs in York will be pleased to know that an independent cinema chain has bought the city’s historic picture house. The purchase of the cinema paves the way for the cinema to undergo a major refurbishment programme, which is expected to get ...
- 21st January 2008
- A Look at York’s City Walls
- York’s historic city walls were originally built in Roman times as defences and substantial sections of them still remain today.
Over the last 1900 years, parts of the walls have been rebuilt and added to, which means that York now has more miles...
