Persistent work by the Foxwood Residents Association has resulted in a muddy verge being hard surfaced on Foxwood Lane. It shouldn’t have taken so long but it demonstrates that persistence does pay off in the end.
Hopefully now the unstable style access to Acomb Moor will be repaired by the Council. It has been an issue for over 2 years.
The style access to the Public Right of Way across Acomb Moor has become unstable.
Beaconsfield Street back lane weed now 6 foot tall. No treatment this year by Council
Severus Street
School Street
Milner Street back lane
Hedge on Foxwood Lane obstructing public footpath
Sevral snickets are overgorwn with weeds
Some good news with the weeds which disfigured the offices on the Front Street link road having been cleared of weeds.
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Following an investigation by City of York Council, the owners of a popular York pub have pleaded guilty at York Magistrates Court today [25 September] and fined a total £44,622.54 including costs, for failing to address serious health and safety breaches.On 13 July 2017, a driver who was making a delivery to The Last Drop Inn on Colliergate – owned by York Brewery Co Ltd – had a serious accident when he fell five feet down an open trap door into a below ground cellar.
He sustained serious knee injuries including a dislocated right knee, torn medial collateral ligament, torn posterior cruciate ligament, cuts and bruises to his left arm and cuts and bruises to his ribcage, requiring intensive physiotherapy and surgery.
As a result of his injuries, he was unable to work for three months, unable to drive for six weeks and is still experiencing ongoing shooting pains and discomfort.
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York Explore Library :
Thu 27 Sep :
6.45pm – 7.45pm :
£3 (or £2 with a York Card)
Finding the Words is a regular poetry evening every month at York Explore Library. Each evening brings together three poets and we aim to include both published writers and those working towards a collection. We’ll have a bar available and readings last around an hour. The evening is also a chance to share and chat, so please feel free to bring any news or information about poetry local, regional or national.
Nick Allen’s poetry has appeared in various magazines and anthologies – most recently, the Interpreter’s House, the Poetry Salzburg Review, Verse Matters and Un/Forced: a collection of writing from Rhubarb. His first pamphlet, the necessary line, was published by Half Moon Books of Otley, in October. He helps to organise the open mic evening, Rhubarb at the Triangle in Shipley, the last Wednesday of each month. He is a sub-editor with the on-line poetry magazine Algebra of Owls. He derives most of his sustenance from malt whisky and good espressos.
Katharine Goda writes poetry as a way of recording and reflecting on moments which would otherwise go unnoticed. Her work has appeared on the YorkMix poetry blog and been chosen for two Forward Poetry anthologies. She enjoys participating in Poetry Society stanza groups and workshops, volunteering with participatory arts organisations and running poetry writing sessions.
Pauline Kirk was born in Birmingham, and now lives in York. She has had ten collections of poetry and six novels published, three under her own name, and four as PJ Quinn. Her most recent collection, Time Traveller, was published by Graft Poetry. She is Editor of Fighting Cock Press, and a member of the editorial group of Dream Catcher.
This event will take place in the Marriott Room and cost £3 or £2 with a York Card
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Rowntree Park Reading Cafe :
Thu 27 Sep :
4.00pm – 5.30pm :
£6
A future England, and Jake and his dog Jet are trying to reach Scotland. But nobody leaves England now, and there’s a border, and guards with guns, and the government has eyes everywhere.
Come and hear about Jake, Jet and the Outwalkers. And come and discuss what you think might happen in the future. And in case that all sounds too stressful, come and drink tea, and eat cake, because everything feels better with tea and cake.
Author’s Biography:
Fiona Shaw was born in London and studied at the University of York and the University of Sussex, completing her academic studies in York with a PhD on the American poet, Elizabeth Bishop.
She is the author of a memoir and five novels. She has been a Royal Literary Fund writing fellow, and has run a reading-round book group (also for the RLF). She is also a senior lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Northumbria.
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Acomb Explore Library :
Thu 27 Sep :
2.00pm – 4.00pm :
Free
Grief, bereavement and loss are extremely hard to talk about…but they shouldn’t be!
Come together with professional artists and storytellers, to, share memories and find creative ways of expressing what has happened and who you are, through the arts.
This workshop is run by Next Door But One. All we ask is for you to bring an object that has a story attached to it (a photo, a song, a piece of jewellery, anything) and we will all make poems, art and music from it.
This is a free workshop, but please book.
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Fairfax House :
Thu 27 Sep :
7.00pm – 8.30pm :
£14.00 (Members: £12.00, Students: £8.00)
By 1745, the son of the deposed James II & VII, Prince James Francis Edward Stuart, the Old Pretender, had been living in exile for over 55 years, firstly in France – ‘the support and shelter of unfortunate princes’ – and then Rome. This lecture will discuss the background and progress of the most famous attempt to restore the senior and Catholic branch of the Stuart Dynasty by the Old Pretender’s son Charles Edward Stuart – Bonnie Prince Charlie – during the turbulent years of 1745-6.
Dr Jacqueline Riding is an Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London and alumna of the University of York (PhD). She is the author of the award-winning Jacobites: A New History of the ’45 Rebellion (Bloomsbury 2016), trustee of the Jacobite Studies Trust and senior editor of Jacobite Studies (Manchester University Press).
Jaqueline Riding: http://www.jacquelineriding.com/
Twitter @jaqriding
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