Detective work by students has shed fresh light on the mystery behind a religious relic - and how it came to be kept at a historic York site.

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• A driver who waited at green traffic lights before going through them at red while police watched has been jailed.

  Carl Prior, 41, led officers on a half-hour high speed chase through North Yorkshire, hitting 90mph in one village, York Crown Court heard.

• POLICE have been out in force in York.

  Specially trained officers have been out talking to members of the public at the Christmas market in Parliament Street as well as St Helen’s Square and Duncombe Place close to York Minster

• AN armchair made by an astonishing war commando hero, who was recently immortalised in a film, is set to go under the hammer in York.

  Twenty-one year old Graham Hayes talked his way into a job with Robert Thompson at the famous Mouseman workshop at Kilburn in North Yorkshire, in the mid-1930s.

• Storm Darragh is set to bring heavy rain and wind to York.

  Met Office forecasters expect rain between 3pm and 6pm in the city today (Thursday, December 3) before the storm arrives tomorrow afternoon.

• A POPULAR York curry house has been judged among the best in England.

  Bombay Spice in Goodramgate has won the Outstanding Restaurant of the Year in the English Curry Awards 2023.

• FORMER pupils at a York school which was demolished in 1996 have made a generous donation to a planned new community boxing club.

  St George's Old Boys Association held its annual reunion at York NHS Social Club in White Cross Road and donated £200 to Charlie Malarkey's New Earswick Boxing (KO) for Kindness club project.

• FIREFIGHTERS have been battling a flat fire in York.

  North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service say they were called out at 5.49pm on Tuesday night (December 3) after reports of a fire close to Fishergate Bar.

• More households in York applied for homelessness support last year, new figures show.

  It comes as a report is due to be published today (Wednesday, December 4) outlining City of York Council’s strategy to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping in the city.