A group of York students has won the opportunity to have their very own I-phone application developed after winning The App Challenge final, held at the Ron Cooke Hub on Wednesday, January 18.
YUSU Welfare officer Bob Hughes has warned students to be vigilant after a student loans phishing scam has been revealed.
Her Majesty the Queen will be visiting York on Maundy Thursday, 5th April, as part of the 800th anniversary of York’s Charter for the traditional “Royal Maundy” ceremony.
A flood caused by a heating system “failure” forced the university IT services to shut down many essential systems on Sunday night, causing problems for many students on the eve of their exams and assignment due-dates.
On the 26th April 1996 Steven Sellars, now 41, attempted to rape a University of York student. Eleven years later, he has pleaded guilty to the crime at York Crown Court.
The victim, then 19, stated in a press conference: "I want this man caught and I don't want him to be out there to do it again to somebody else."
Sellars was finally arrested after attempting to return a craft knife his son had accidently brought home from school. Head teacher David Ellis explained that calling the police was entirely appropriate given that Sellars had approached the staff with a knife.
Sellars was released following the incident. However police had taken his DNA, which matched the one preserved from the attack eleven years before. Two weeks later, he was arrested for attempted rape.
After hearing his guilty plea, Recorder of York Judge Stephen Ashurst said: "It may well have come as a very considerable relief for a number of people to hear you enter your guilty plea to this charge today."
Sellars had two previous rape convictions, one in South Yorkshire from 1989 and one in Leeds from 1993.
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