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• LABOUR candidate Keir Mather has been elected MP for Selby.

  The candidate who held the seat for Selby and Ainsty, until boundary commission reviews last year, was returned with 22,788 votes, or 46.3 per cent of the votes successfully cast.

• Luke Charters, the new MP for York Outer, celebrated his victory by declaring an end to the ‘sticking plaster solutions of the populist right’

  - In his victory speech - and pledging his support to his constituents.

• AMONGST the hubbub of the General Election, another vote was unfolding at Knavesmire

  – One set decide the make-up of City of York Council. The Hull Road by-election was triggered by the resignation of former Labour councillor Sophie Kelly, who stepped down stating that the role requires ‘deserves 100 per cent commitment’.

• Labour has won both York parliamentary seats and held onto control of the city council on a historic night that has seen the party nationally sweep to power with a huge majority.

  York Central’s Rachael Maskell increased her 2019 majority of 13,545 to more than 19,000.

• THE flatmate of an alleged killer has told a jury he feared for his own life immediately after his friend was stabbed to death.

  Giving evidence, Harry Marshall said he and another man were so scared they left the scene where Luke Miller had been stabbed before paramedics arrived.

• Gold jewellery has been taken from a home in York.

  On Wednesday, June 5, and Thursday, June 6, several items of the jewellery were taken from a property in Green Dykes Lane.

• YORK and the country go to the polls today – with all the evidence suggesting that the Conservatives will be swept from power after 14 years and that, by tomorrow

  By tomorrow Sir Keir Starmer will be the country’s new Labour Prime Minister.

• A TOP North Yorkshire chef is through to the semi-finals of a prestigious culinary competition.

  Tom Heywood, co-owner of Pignut, in Helmsley, is in the running to be crowned National Chef of the Year.