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

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• BREAKING: Power cut hits York – hundreds in dark by unplanned outage

  A power cut left hundreds of people in the dark in York.

• NEW affordable houses planned for a York village look set to get the go-ahead - despite fears the development will be out of character and lead to the loss of trees.

  A City of York Council planning committee has been recommended by council officers to approve an application from Joseph Rowntree Housing Trust (JRHT)

• A well-known York business has branded month-long roadworks on its street as "devastating".

  Bradley’s Jewellers in Low Petergate has hit out over the recent closure of Low Petergate – a typically high-footfall street surrounding York Minster

• Three people were taken to hospital after a crash on a major road in East Yorkshire.

  Humberside Police said three vehicles were involved in the crash on the A1079 near Market Weighton at about 2pm on Sunday, February 2.

• York’s decades-long wait for a plan setting out local development could be over if councillors back it next week.

  The draft Local Plan, which allocates sites for house building, economic development and provides the basis for deciding planning applications, is set to go before councillors on Thursday, February 27.

• 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.