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3 October 2005: Autumn School's Out on its way
Monday 03 October 2005
City of York Council's year-round leisure programme for children and young people aged 5 ‰Û" 18 years, ‰Û÷Schools Out3 October 2005: Better for York: What's your habit?
Monday 03 October 2005
Residents, visitors and commuters could be asked for their travel habits next week in a citywide survey of people's travOctober 3, 2005: York Libraries champion national Bookstart scheme
Monday 03 October 2005
City of York Council's library service is hosting a party on October 12 to raise awareness of the Bookstart scheme. <P>October 3, 2005: New garden waste collections get under way
Monday 03 October 2005
City of York Council is reminding local residents that changes to the way rubbish is collected from 60,000 homes acrossOctober 3, 2005: Events planned to mark Walk To School Week
Monday 03 October 2005
A modern-day wandering minstrel will be helping York schools to mark this year's Walk To School Week, which started toda5 OCtober 2005: Award winning writer helps York celebrate national poetry day
Wednesday 05 October 2005
Award winning writer, spoken word performer and visual artist, Joolz Denby, will be helping women at Askham Grange priso5 October 2005: 80 tonnes of garden waste diverted from landfill on the first day of garden waste collections
Wednesday 05 October 2005
City of York Council has revealed that approximately 80 tonnes of garden waste was prevented from going to landfill site6 October 2005: Drawing York together
Thursday 06 October 2005
City of York Council's Arts Action team is coordinating a programme of community arts as part of the national initiative7 October 2005: Electric blanket testing
Friday 07 October 2005
City of York Council is warning residents to take up its offer of free electric blanket testing sessions once again thisOctober 10, 2005: Database of activities for children under five years to be compiled
Monday 10 October 2005
City of York Council's Children's Information Service is keen to hear from voluntary or commercial groups, and individua10 October 2005: Council listens to parents and governors over school merger
Monday 10 October 2005
City of York Councillors will discuss proposals to merge two York Schools later this month.<P>
Parents and governors atFamily learning week: Express yourself!
Monday 10 October 2005
Express yourself! That's the message from a new taster session being run at Central Library next week.<P>
As part of thOctober 10, 2005: Waste team to speak to residents across the city about new garden waste collections
Monday 10 October 2005
Members of City of York Council's waste strategy team are attending ward committee and residents' association meetings a10 OCtober 2005: York to get first ever car club
Monday 10 October 2005
City of York Council is backing plans to create the first ever car club in York.<P>
The innovative scheme would enable11 October 2005: Live Arts Week
Tuesday 11 October 2005
York school pupils will be taking part in a week long festival of arts events
from the 17-21 October.<P>
All the even12 October 2005: Recycling boost in first week of new waste scheme
Wednesday 12 October 2005
York residents have helped divert over 430 tonnes of household waste from landfill over the last week as part of the cou12 October 2005: £22m funding boost for York Schools
Wednesday 12 October 2005
York's schools will benefit from a massive £22m investment thanks to extra funding announced by the Department for Educ13 October 2005: Summer Success
Thursday 13 October 2005
City of York Council's leisure chiefs are celebrating after running the most successful ever School's Out programme.<P>14 October 2005: Tight timescales for planning comments
Friday 14 October 2005
City of York Council is apologising to local residents after an administrative error reduced the time they have to give14 OCtober 2005: Free benefits advice available
Friday 14 October 2005
City of York Council's Benefits' Advisors will be giving free advice to local residents to ensure they're getting all th14 October 2005: Temporary closure of Gillygate for essential works
Friday 14 October 2005
Gillygate will be temporarily closed for two weeks from 31 October for essential maintenance works to repair the road suOctober 17, 2005: City of York Council stages education conference as part of innovative pilot scheme
Monday 17 October 2005
City of York Council is one of just six local education authorities selected by the Department for Education and SkillsBenefits advice gets results
Tuesday 18 October 2005
Benefits advisers are getting out and about in York to raise awareness of benefits and help people if they are missing oOctober 18, 2005: New recycling service available to York residents
Tuesday 18 October 2005
York residents can now make use of a brand new recycling service that could prevent thousands of flourescent lighting tu18 October 2005:Foss Bank Basin Repairs
Tuesday 18 October 2005
As part of a rolling programme of riverbank safety works, City of York Council, will be repairing the bank of the River20 October 2005: Fly-tipping landlord fined
Thursday 20 October 2005
City of York Council has successfully prosecuted a Harrogate landlord for fly-tipping in York.<P>
Mark Forrest pleadedOctober 20, 2005: York businesses urged to encourage safer driving
Thursday 20 October 2005
York businesses will be targeted over the coming weeks as part of City of York Council's new road safety initiative. <POctober 20, 2005: Check your waste collection dates with new on-line calendar
Thursday 20 October 2005
City of York Council has created a new on-line facility that allows local residents to check their waste collection dateOctober 21, 2005: Restoration of railway arches in York's city walls continues
Friday 21 October 2005
City of York Council has begun the second phase of the restoration of the railway arches in the the city's walls.<P>
Th24 October 2005: Council to bid a fond farewell to its Deputy Chief Executive
Monday 24 October 2005
City of York Council has announced that its Deputy Chief Executive will be moving on to pastures new, having been appoin24 October 2005: Signing up to health and safety
Monday 24 October 2005
City of York Council is putting the health and safety first by creating a formal partnership with the Health and Safety24 October 2005: PHOTO OPPORTUNITIES: Young people help transform Acomb Front Street
Monday 24 October 2005
City of York Council's Community Arts team, Arts Action York, has teamed up with young people from Acomb to transform thOctober 24, 2005: Homes in The Groves benefit from £960,000 face-lift
Monday 24 October 2005
City of York Council has invested more than £960,000 in a major face-lift for hundreds of homes in The Groves area of th25 October 2005: Yorkcraft work placements needed
Tuesday 25 October 2005
Disabled people in York are currently looking for work placement opportunities. Work placements support vocational learn25 OCtober 2005: 400th anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot
Tuesday 25 October 2005
York will stage a range of events next month to mark the 400th anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot, in which one of the ci27 October 2005: York woman convicted of benefit fraud
Thursday 27 October 2005
A York woman was sentenced to three years' Conditional Discharge and ordered to pay £400 in prosecution costs for benef27 Octiber 2005: Discounted printedd music sale
Thursday 27 October 2005
Discounted printed music sale<P>
Music buffs will be able to pick up discounted printed music at York Central Library n27 October 2005: Garden waste composting rate tops 1,000 tonnes in just three weeks!
Thursday 27 October 2005
In just three weeks, York residents have pushed the total amount of garden waste diverted from landfill sites up to more27 October 2005: Gillygate closure reminder
Thursday 27 October 2005
City of York Council is reminding motorists that Gillygate will be closed for essential carriageway resurfacing for the27 October 2005: Observing the night sky
Thursday 27 October 2005
Amateur stargazers will have the opportunity to learn more about the night sky over the coming months with a series of28 October 2005: Mobile Library off the road
Friday 28 October 2005
City of York Council is reminding residents that its popular mobile library will be off the road next week (Monday 31 Oc28 October 2005: Be safe on Bonfire Night
Friday 28 October 2005
City of York Council is reminding local residents to keep themselves and their pets safe on Bonfire Night.<P>
By follow28 October 2005: Council gears up for winter
Friday 28 October 2005
City of York Council is gearing up for winter with the production of its annual snow and ice leaflet.<P>
The document,28 October 2005: Council joins forces for National Consumer Week
Friday 28 October 2005
City of York Council is joining forces with partner organisations across the city to mark National Consumer Week (31 Oct31 October 2005 Benefits take-up campaign
Monday 31 October 2005
A new campaign to encourage carers to take up welfare benefits and other support is being launched in York.
City of YorOctober 31, 2005: York residents divert 180,000 plastic bottles from landfill sites
Monday 31 October 2005
In the last month alone York residents have prevented 180,000 plastic bottles from ending up in landfill sites by making