Haxby Town Council has reaffirmed its belief it would prefer a future railway station serving the town to be built near York’s Outer Ring Road.

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• The first Great Yorkshire Wine and Fizz Festival was the toast of wine lovers on Sunday.

  Some 200 people gathered at the Yorkshire Heart Vineyard, at Nun Monkton, just west of York.

• THE upper floors of a building in a busy city centre street can be converted into six flats, says City of York Council.

  And the scheme is part of wider plans to boost city centre home ownership through residential conversions, developers say.

• A dog walker was left badly shaken after being attacked in a York park.

  North Yorkshire Police says the hooded attacker struck as the victim was walking his dog in Hull Road Park, Alcuin Avenue, between 10.15pm and 10.45pm on Wednesday, August 14.

• A cyclist was taken to hospital with serious head injuries after a man and woman attacked him in York city centre.

  North Yorkshire Police said the assault happened in Lead Mill Lane, off Piccadilly, at around 6.40pm on Saturday, August 24.

• One of North Yorkshire’s top festivals is set to return to the coast - and X marks the spot.

  Whitby Pirate Festival is set to return to North Yorkshire’s shores from August 30 to September 1 this year.

• IMAGINE taking on the responsibility of designing the sculpture of an inch-long emblematic symbol of York.

  Then making and installing seventeen of these ‘jewels of York’ in different poses all around the city.

• A nearly extinct animal has been spotted making a park in York its new home.

  The water vole, a 'red list' species with a 90 per cent decline in numbers over the last 30 years, has moved into Hull Road Park.

• Police have issued an urgent appeal over a missing man who was last seen in a North Yorkshire village - and may now be in York.

  North Yorkshire Police said they are searching for 31-year-old Mark Bell, from Cumbria.