Acomb Explore Library wants to hear train stories

The National Railway Museum would like to hear your stories about travelling by train and working in railway stations.

If you have a story to tell, come along to Acomb Explore on Friday 15 June between 10am and 12pm. You can talk to a member of staff from the National Railway Museum about your memories.

For more information about this project, including more about why the stories are being collected, see nrm.org.uk/stationstories.

North Yorkshire Police Launch New Crime Tracking Data

For the first time people in North Yorkshire and the City of York will be able to track online what happened after a crime was committed in their neighbourhood, with the introduction of new data published on the government’s crime mapping website today. Click http://www.police.uk/

In the next stage of development of the groundbreaking website Police.uk, residents will not only be able to access street level crime data but also see what action the local police have taken as a result.

The site will also start to show whether offenders went to court, increasing transparency in the criminal justice system.

The additions to the site come after the public showed a huge appetite for more information on every aspect of crime in their area, with more than 47 million visits on Police.uk since it launched in January 2011.

Police.uk has already undergone a series of innovative updates, providing the public with more criminal justice information than ever before. This includes mapping crimes at points of interest including supermarkets and nightclubs, introducing new crime categories such as shoplifting and increasing accuracy by placing crimes to within eight postcodes instead of 12. (more…)

York drugs warning

North Yorkshire Police is issuing a warning and offering advice following the seizure of potentially lethal drugs in York.

Officers have recently seized a quantity of a Class A drug called 4-Methylamphetamine. This is the first time that this drug has been found in the force and has previously been linked to deaths across the United Kingdom and Europe.

The drug was found in paste form which is visually similar to amphetamine, of which it may also have the same taste and smell. It can be white, off white or yellow in appearance.

A man from York has been arrested in connection with this drug seizure and is currently on bail while police enquiries continue. (more…)