A MAN has died following a fatal crash with a bridge on a section of a major road in North Yorkshire.

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• City of York Council has confirmed the date green bin collection ends for those who don’t pay for a new scheme.

  The charge will be introduced on August 5 and anyone not signing up will not have specific garden waste kerbside pickups from the council from this date.

• PUPILS turned out in their finery at a York school prom to celebrate the end of term.

  The students from York High School (YHS) in Acomb celebrated the end of their GCSE exams with a prom held at Fairfield Manor in Shipton Road.

• The Labour leader of York Council has said she is under no illusions that funding taps will be immediately turned on as her party takes charge in Westminster.

  City of York Council leader Cllr Claire Douglas told the Local Democracy Reporting Service the authority would have to join the queue with other public services following Labour’s victory.

• A new shop in York has opened its doors after the company completed a move across the city centre.

  As previously reported by The Press, menswear brand Lambretta Clothing was set to move from its longstanding site on the corner of High Ousegate and Spurriergate.

• 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.