York, England News

Donald and Joan Thorpe were married on July 24, 1954, at St Luke's Church in her native Grimethorpe near Barnsley, and set up life together in Yearsley Grove, York, where they still live.

FEW architectural styles divide opinion like Brutalism, the term coined by Swedish architect Hans Asplund to describe post war buildings where function often wins over form.

A new report Wednesday identified eight agencies, including the Department of Health, collecting or updating their data systems to gather those demographics.

A combative Michael Bloomberg told CNN on Wednesday the United States erred in banning airline flights to Israel after a Hamas rocket landed near its main airport earlier this week.

Longtime critics of the New York Police Department are seizing on the death of Eric Garner while in police custody to call for an end to proactive policing.

William Rapfogel, the former chief of New York's Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty, was sentenced to 3 1/3 to 10 years in prison for his role in a kickback scheme.

Tom Ince, Robert Snodgrass and Jake Livermore all featured, with the former coming close to opening his account, as the League Two side tested their Premier League opponents Sone Aluko and Yannick Sagbo gave Hull City a 2-0 win over York City as the Premier League side continued their warm up for the new season.

York in 1914: The tram terminus outside the vicarage on Haxby Road, at around the time of the start of the First World War The Yorkshire Herald, the city's main morning newspaper, had covered the murder of the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28 in some detail.

The poster on the ground quotes Garner; video of the arrest shows him telling police officers he couldn't breathe, shortly before he lost consciousness.

Vladimir Putin has no soul, US Vice President Joe Biden concluded after meeting with the Russian leader at the Kremlin in 2011, according to an article in the New Yorker.

The unhappy crowd: New York City continues to draw new residents. But apparently, people aren't moving here because it makes them happy.

Richard Watkins attends a vigil for Eric Garner near where he died after he was taken into police custody in Staten Island last Thursday on July 22, 2014 in New York City.

Under the plans the total number of city councillors will remain the same - 47 - but over 21 wards instead of the current 22, with each councillor representing an average of 3,500 people.

Mayor Bill de Blasio yesterday played a smart political card while on his Italian vacation - reaching out to the pope.

A New York City developer plans to create a so-called "poor door" entrance for affordable housing residents in a luxury condo - an arrangement that critics slammed as fundamentally at odds with Jewish ethics.

"I can't breathe! I can't breathe!" gasped Eric Garner, 43, an asthmatic father of six, as NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo held him in a death grip.

All New York City police officers are expected to undergo retraining in the wake of a man's death on a city sidewalk shortly after he was placed in a chokehold by officers, Bill Bratton, the police commissioner, said on Tuesday.

New Yorkers of the urban variety were greeted this morning by white flags flying from atop the Brooklyn Bridge.

The price at the pump had fallen from $3.69 a gallon the previous week to $3.62 last week.

Nevison, of Moore Avenue in Osbaldwick , admitted a string of offences including falsely imprisoning the older woman on Sunday, March 30. Police launched a major manhunt for Scott Nevison within hours of him forcing his way into the pensioner's home in the Layerthorpe area when her daughter was with her.