North Yorkshire Police mobile safety camera routes 5 to 11 June 2013

Below are enforcement locations for North Yorkshire Police’s mobile safety (speed) cameras for week commencing Wednesday 5 June 2013.

The mobile safety cameras will be in operation at the following sites at various times during the dates stated. Cameras will not be in use all day, every day. The locations were accurate when this news release was produced.

Due to operating constraints, our mobile safety camera locations may change without prior warning.
•A1237 Monks Cross York

•Malton Road York

•Millfield lane Poppleton York

•Murton Way Murton York

•Strensall Road Huntington York

•Tadcaster Road Dringhouses York

•Temple Lane Copmanthorpe York

•The village Stockton-on-the-Forest York

•Towthorpe Road Haxby

•Woodhouse Farm, Escrick Road

•York Road Haxby York
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Shamed York Labour Councillors finally publish all expenses claims

Residents can now download details of the amounts claimed by Councillors for attending conferences and meetings.

£500 conference fee

The conference fees themselves cost hundreds of pounds in the latest month for which figures are available. April click here to view.

The figures have been published following claims that some Labour Councillors were laundering their expense payments by charging them to Departmental accounts.

We called in January for a more open approach and that call has now been heeded.

Some expenses are entirely legitimate and are an inevitable consequence of a Councillors role.

However, at a time when the Deputy Leader of the Council has said that public services can’t stand any more cuts, one wonders how she justifies spending £495 in fees for attending a conference in Manchester?

Epetition on 20 mph speed limit tops 200. Protect the Green Belt petition gets 338 backers.

The electronic petition on the Council’s web site, which opposes plans to introduce a city wide 20 mph speed limit, has so far attracted 222 supporters.

20 mph

Those wishing to add their names have another 6 days to do so. Click here for access

The petition reads

We the undersigned petition the council to cancel the proposed extension of the 20 MPH speed limit to Woodthorpe, Acomb, Foxwood and surrounding area. At a cost of £600,000 for something that even the police do not want and admit is unenforceable is a total waste of council taxpayer’s money.

Evidence from across Europe where similar schemes have been introduced suggest that reducing the speed limit to 20 MPH has minimal effect on accident rates. It would be better and cheaper to enforce the current 30 MPH limit.

This ePetition runs from 29/04/2013 to 10/06/2013. 222 people have signed this ePetition.

NB. Residents have until 21st June to formally object to the introduction of the new speed limit in west York. Residents can do so by Emailing highway.regulation@york.gov.uk

Meanwhile a petition opposing plans to build on the green belt has attracted 338 supporters
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Police investigate Rougier Street assault

York police are appealing for information after a woman was assaulted in the city.

It occurred at about 1.15am on Sunday 2 June 2013, at a taxi rank on Rougier Street.

The victim, a 34-year-old local woman, was stood waiting for a taxi with another woman, when two men and a woman pushed in front of them. She challenged the group, when one of the men spat at her and then hit her in the face, causing minor injuries which did not need treatment.
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