North Yorkshire Police have announced where their mobile speed cameras will be between 26 October – 1 November 2011
North Yorkshire Police will be carrying out mobile safety camera enforcement on the following roads between Wednesday 26 October and Tuesday 1 November 2011.

A1237 Monks Cross, York

York Road, Haxby, York

New Lane, Huntington, York

A64 eastbound carriageway Bowbridge Farm Tadcaster

A64 westbound carriageway, Bowbridge Farm, Tadcaster

Broadway, Fulford, York

Murton Way, Murton, York

Fordlands Road, Fulford, York

Northfield Farm, Cobcroft Lane, Cridling Stubbs

A19 Selby Road, Whitley

Millfield Lane, Chappel Haddlesley

Westcroft Lane, Hambleton

Northallerton Road, Brompton,

Station Road, Thirsk,

B6271, Great Langton,

A61, Carlton Road, Carlton Miniott

A6108, North Stainley

Silver Street, Barton

Leeming Lane, Catterick Village

A6108, Darlington Road, Richmond

A66, Gilling West

A684, Aysgarth

A6108, Middleham

Gatherley Road, Brompton

B1427 Queen Margarets Road, Scarborough

B1249 at Staxton Wold near Staxton, Scarborough

A64 Seamer by-pass, Scarborough

A165 Reighton by-pass between Sands Road and Hunmanby Road

B1249 Foxholes to county boundary

A64 Seamer by-pass Scarborough

B1249 Staxton Wold, Staxton, Scarborough

B1249 Foxholes to county boundary

A1039 Filey Road at Flixton

A165 Reighton by-pass

A64 Seamer Road, Scarborough

The mobile safety cameras will be in operation at the above sites at various times during the dates stated. Cameras will not be in use on the above routes all day, every day.
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The investigation, revealed on this web site a couple of days ago, apparently revolves around the above letter which confirms a donation – in kind – of £4724 from UNISON to the York Labour Party..
Labour candidates at the election apparently declared on their expenses returns having received only a total of £2385 leaving £2338 unaccounted for.
It appears that Labour candidates in the following wards chose not to issue the manifesto to electors:
Haxby, Heworth, Heslington, Heworth Without, Huntington & Strensall.
Electors are given some reassurance that donations of this sort will be transparent.
The instructions to Councillors says:
“The Standards Board for England does not draw a distinction between direct financial assistance (payments of money directly to a Councillor for election or other expenses) and indirect assistance (such as payment for election posters or leaflets). You should register any person or organisation who has made a financial contribution (whether direct or indirect) to your election campaign or who assists you with the costs of carrying out your duties”.
The register of interests declared by Councillors can be viewed on the Councils web site.
Councillors are also required at the beginning of each meeting to indicate whether they have interests of this sort to declare. These are recorded in the minutes of the meetings (and again can be seen on the Councils web site).
More to follow on this as it becomes available.

The Council could borrow an extra £13 million, 29 elderly residents could be forced to move twice in the next 3 years as their homes are pulled down while a start on building work on the Lowfields “care village” seems likely to delayed until 2013, as Labour struggle to deal with an increasing overspend on care services.
The ambitious plan to replace the City’s elderly person’s homes with 3 new “super homes” has run into trouble following a lengthy consultation exercise. Only 935 responses were received from York residents. Most (rightly) supported the modernisation plan, but many claimed that they wanted the homes to be paid for, and run by, the Council. No details of the implications for such a model for other parts of the care budget were explained to those surveyed. Ironically, as a result, the debt adverse, Labour Council could see £13 million added to its borrowing burden.
The proposed timetable would involve the closure of the Fordlands and Oliver House elderly person’s homes in April 2012. Windsor House would close in January 2014.
The replacement Lowfields care village is expected to have the capacity to provide for 90 residents in the two new homes proposed for that site while the new Fordlands and Haxby Hall homes would have 55 each (including respite).
It now seems that the Lowfields village will go ahead but not for over 12 months with an opening in January 2014 a possibility. As well as the two homes, the site would accommodate a “social hub” and independent living bungalows. The consultation feedback also suggested that the bungalows and apartments should offer a mixture of tenure; for sale, shared ownership or to rent. Officials have claimed that it would be possible to have a combination of apartments and bungalows totalling 50 or more on the Lowfield site along with the addition of affordable housing.
It is possible that the cost of building the “social hub” could be covered by selling some of the apartments and bungalows
The new arrangements could save around £3 million a year. The money is desperately needed to cater for the steep increase in the numbers of elderly people requiring Council support.
The Council is currently forecasting an overspend this year of £1.3 million on Adult Social Services and a further £0.7 million on Children’s Services. The number of children in the Councils care (most are in foster homes) had increased to 250 by last month (100 up on 2007 levels). Each is costing taxpayers around £20,000 a year in care costs.