A craft ale house’s plans to convert the upper floors of York’s vacant Little Bettys Café into a bar have been approved.

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• A MULTI-AGENCY operation has been undertaken targeted at “ensuring the safety and compliance” of taxi services in York.

  North Yorkshire Police said the force’s neighbourhood policing team, British Transport Police and City of York Council licensing officers were out in force yesterday (February 18).

• Local NHS leaders have raised concerns about patients being ‘left without treatment’ after some medical practices stopped issuing prescriptions for midwifery services.

  The Ayton and Snainton Medical Practice near Scarborough has said it will cease prescribing medications for the midwifery service with “immediate effect”.

• A temporary medical centre that opened in York during the Covid pandemic is set stay for two more years - and even be extended.

  Nimbuscare - an 11 GP practice co-operative - has applied to City of York Council seeking permission to maintain its Community Care Centre in Tadcaster Road for two more years.

• The extent of self-harming, bullying and worrying about the future among young people in York has been laid bare in a strategy which aims to support them.

  Young people surveyed for York Council’s Youth Strategy said they felt as though they did not belong in the city and services such as transport did not cater to them.

• Police hunt for York suspect after Cornlands Road stabbing

  A suspect of a stabbing in York is "believed to be still in the city".

• An empty pub in Fulford is set to be converted into a Starbucks after a decision to block a planning application was overturned on appeal.

  Plans have been lodged to put signs bearing the US coffee chain’s name and branding on the Bay Horse, in Main Street, following the appeal decision in August.

• A highly-rated restaurant in York has announced its shock closure.

  Signs have been placed in the window of the Rio Brazilian Steakhouse, Bridge Street, just 17 months after opening.

• A HOMELESS drug addict who smashed his way into a York antique shop and stole jewellery worth almost £30,000 has been locked up for more than two years.

  Sentencing prolific thief Alistair Cooper at Bradford Crown Court Mr Recorder Andrew Dallas said the damage caused to small businesses by someone targeting commercial premises equalled the emotional impact of a house break-in.