Due to maintenance work at Heslington East, service 4 will not be able to serve the main car park. Buses will turn at roundabout at Heslington East and wait at Heslington Hall.
York Wheel back?
York Wheel
Council officials are recommending that planning permission be given to installing a 53 metre diameter observation wheel in front of the Royal York Hotel. It would be in place on a temporary basis until January 2013.
The Wheel was removed from its previous home at the Railway Museum because the operators claimed that low footfall – particularly during the winter months – made it uneconomic.
Plans to put the Wheel in locations at St Georges Field and then, later, to the rear of the Art Gallery came to nothing 12 months ago.
The site at the Royal York is sure to be controversial with fears from some Westgate flat residents that they will be “overlooked”.
However it is the impact on York’s historic walls and streetscape that will cause most concern.
Labours missing thousands
There has been some comment in the media over the last few days about York Labour Council candidates financial links to Labour.
Reproduced below are the amounts admitted by their candidates for election manifesto costs when they submitted their Council election expenses returns in May.
The UNISON invoice for a “donation in kind” (printing the Labour election manifesto) is also reproduced.
The question remaining to be answered is what happened to the rest of the donation if it wasn’t used by their candidates?
We’ll publish next week details of the “declarations of interest” made by Labour Councillors in June.
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Unison invoice for Labour manifesto printing work