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• A riverside path in York has closed due to "structural damage".

  City of York Council has announced the closure of the path from Ouse Bridge to North Street gardens.

• TRIBUTES are being paid to war veteran Joseph Thomas who has died aged 99 and will have a memorial funeral service at York Minster tomorrow (Wednesday, January 22).

  Joseph – known as Joe to friends and family – was involved in the liberation of France, for which he received the Légion d’honneur military honour from the French Government.

• Council chiefs have been urged to work on a coordinated strategy for controversial battery energy storage systems (BESS) as three more plants are proposed for North Yorkshire.

  Preliminary details have been submitted to North Yorkshire Council for a BESS plant at Shipton-by-Beningbrough, north of York, another at nearby Wigginton and a third at Scruton, near Northallerton.

• The completion of a major housing scheme in York looks set to be at least five years away.

  And it will be even longer before related ‘public realm’ is also finished.

• A stalker drove a grandmother to consider suicide and move home, a court heard.

  The woman told police Anthony John Fowler, 55, had “shattered” her trust in people by the way he behaved towards her and that she now lives in an area away from the family she loves.

• AN INVESTIGATION into human remains found at a Hull funeral directors has moved on to the next stage in the process.

  Humberside Police say a ten-month investigation into Legacy Funeral Directors has resulted in them putting their case to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) to consider a prosecution.

• Business leaders in York have hit out at the council's decision to raise parking charges.

  Leaders of York BID, Hospitality Association York and York High Street Forum have come together after City of York Council

• TRAFFIC is already queuing at a busy York junction as a lane closure started this morning (January 20).

  As The Press reported at the time, last week City of York Council warned residents and commuters of a lane closure at the Queen Street and Blossom Street junction.