Garage burglary Sitwell Grove, Acomb, overnight last night between 2230hrs and 0700hrs. Grey cycle and alcohol stolen. Info to 101 please.
— NYP York West (@snayorkwest) December 9, 2013
1, 13 and 13A York bus services diverted at Haxby end of route
Monday 09 December 2013 – Friday 20 December 2013
Area: Eastfield Road Haxby diversion 0800 and 1800 daily
Cause: Road Works
Responsibility: –
Duration: 2 weeks
Due to road works and the closure of Eastfield Road services 1, 13,13A will be diverted between 0800 until 1800 daily.
Service 1 to Wgginton: After New Earswick roundabout buses will then continue along York Road omitting Eastfield Avenue, Oak Tree Lane, and Holly Tree Lane.
Service 1 to Chapelfields:
Normal route from Wigginton to York Road buses will continue along York Road (not serving Holly Tree Lane, Oak Tree Lane, and Eastfield Avenue) to New Earswick then normal route.
All diversionary stops will be observed.
Services 13/13A to West Nooks.
After New Earswick roundabout, buses will continue along York Road left into Holly Tree Lane, left Oak Tree Lane, Right Eastfield Avenue, Wheatfield Lane as normal route to West Nooks.
Service 13/13A to Copmanthorpe/ Acomb
Normal route to Wheatfield Lane, Eastfield Avenue, then left in to Oak Tree Lane right into Holly Tree Lane, right York Road, then as normal route to Copmanthorpe/Acomb.
All diversionary stops will be observed.
£1million scheme to connect York small businesses with super fast broadband
A broadband connection voucher scheme is being launched in York early next year to provide Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs up to 250 employees) better quality, high speed broadband.
Funded through Government’s ‘Super Connected Cities’ programme and City of York Council, the vouchers will provide assistance of up to £3,000 per business for SMEs seeking faster and better broadband (of at least 30 Mbits) to support them in growing their business.
The York voucher scheme is just one element in York’s strategy to become the best connected digital city of its size in the UK. The city launched the world’s first city tour application which uses ‘hologram tourist guides’ for visitors and proposals are well advanced to provide wi-fi in the city centre during the first half of 2014.
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NHS health on line at Acomb Explore Library tomorrow (Tuesday)
York libraries help residents to find NHS information online
Acomb Explore Library
City of York Council is running a series of NHS Health Online Sessions at libraries in Acomb, Tang Hall and Clifton throughout December.
The sessions are ideal for those new to using computers and aim to help York residents become more computer literate in an increasingly online world.
Free sessions take place in small groups as follows:
· Monday 9 December, Tang Hall Library, 5.30pm and 6.30pm
· Tuesday 10 December, Acomb Explore, 2pm and 3pm
· Monday 16 December, Clifton Library, 10am and 11am
York Council tackles issue reporting problems
The York Council has moved to address problems that residents were having reporting issues using the “My Council” mobile phone “app”.
The “app” allows users to report any issues that they find on the streets of the City. Copies of the report, a photo and locations map are then emailed to the complainant.
It has a longer list of issues that can be reported than the Council proprietary system (Love Clean Streets) The Council seems to have abandoned the “Love Where You Live York” web site although it is still advertised on their own site
It transpires that many of the “My Council” reports were going astray as a result of incompatible interface systems.
Easy to report footpath damage using “my Council”
Now the Council says that the problem has been fixed.
We’d like to see systems like “My Council” fully integrated into the Councils working practices and for any responses to residents to include a confirmation that a problem has been addressed successfully.
Meanwhile Liberal Democrat Councillor Ian Cuthbertson has tabled a question on the issue for Thursdays Council meeting
“How many complaints, forwarded to the York Council Contact centre over the last 6 months via web based reporting tools (such as “My Council”, “report that hole”, “report that pothole” etc), have been successfully recorded and actioned and how many reports have been discarded because of data translation problems?”