• Renewed appeal to trace wanted York man Detectives hunting a man wanted for a violent assault at a pub in York have renewed their appeal for the public to help locate him. Officers would like to speak to Ryan MacLeod, aged 21, of Tuke Avenue, York, after a 32-year-old local man was attacked at the Castle Howard Ox, on Townend Street, on Saturday 10 November 2012.

• Miniature animals stolen in farm raid Police are investigating after some rare miniature animals were stolen from a farm near Green Hammerton. Sometime between 8pm on Wednesday 16 January and 9am on Thursday 17 January 2013, a grey female Zebu cow was stolen from Thorpe Hill Farm, Thorpe Underwood, along with its month-old brown and white calf.

If you are venturing out in North Yorkshire it may be worth taking a look at the weather cameras that there are around the county

The pictures refresh every 10 minutes or so.

At present, the York Council does not allow public access to its cameras

The Council has formally published a report on the type and outcome of the complaints that it received in the year ending in March 2012. The report was recently considered at one of the Council’s ”behind closed doors” private meetings.

The report reveals that there has been a 13.4% increase in complaints from the previous year.

The Council report says that “complaints typically fluctuate up and down from year to year and this is typical of social care complaints received across Yorkshire and Humberside”.

During the year 2 amounts of financial recompense were made following consideration of complaints. These totalled £4181.10
• One amount of £1,733.27 to reimburse the customer for professional fees they had incurred in challenging a council decision.
• One amount of £2,447.83 to pay for care home fees following a financial assessment.

Nearly 100 compliments about service quality were also received during the same period