RESIDENTS in a York suburb have hit out at council chiefs after a car crash demolished a wall and damaged houses for the second time in a year.

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• More than half of the assaults, public order offences and other violent crimes recorded in York city centre in 2023-4 were thought to involve alcohol, according to police data.

  North Yorkshire Police figures show around two thirds of the 1,005 violent crimes recorded in York city centre in the year up to March 2024 were at night.

• York councillors have approved the local authority’s Budget for this financial year including a 4.99 per cent increase in council tax.

  The ruling Labour group’s Budget was approved on Thursday, February 27 as the council says it faces an up to £10 million-a-year black hole in its finances.

• A York hair salon has been damaged during an attempted burglary.

  North Yorkshire Police is appealing for information about an attempted burglary of the Grosvenor Salon in Grosvenor Terrace.

• AN independent cafe and tearoom in York has closed its doors after the lease has been seized.

  York's Hairy Fig in Fossgate is closed after the landlords, the Company of Merchant Adventurers took enforcement action.

• Temporary traffic lights at one of York's busiest junctions are causing 'awful' queues - and are set to be in place until late March.

  Northern Gas Works is carrying out "essential" works at the A19's junction with Water Lane, by Clifton Green, until March 24.

• THE body of a murdered woman has been found in a lay by in North Yorkshire.

  On Tuesday (February 25), officers located buried human remains by the A19 in Thirsk, North Yorkshire, after receiving new information, Greater Manchester Police said.

• A MAN has died in a crash in East Yorkshire.

  Humberside Police say there were called at about 4.40pm on Wednesday (February 26) to the M62 eastbound between junctions 37 and 38.

• A man who was found dead near a major York road has been named.

  Adam Charles Robertson Kent, 59, was found dead in the Tadcaster Road area on the morning of Thursday, January 30, Alison Norton, assistant coroner for York and North Yorkshire, said.