A public consultation has been launched on plans to build defences in flood-hit Tadcaster.

A £500,000 project to refurbish the gateway to the North Yorkshire town is due to start in December.

Experts hope students at York St John University will pick up "vital life skills".

The father of a teenage boy who drowned calls for mandatory swimming lessons in secondary schools.

Jail sentences are handed out at court for organised crime group who moved large amounts of cocaine.

The A64 will be shut between the A1(M) at Bramham and the A162 near Tadcaster over the weekend.

Tadcaster Albion faces large repair bills most years due to flood damage at their riverside ground.

The sessions are being funded through an Arts Council England project to boost access to the arts.