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.
A report by the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) has said that the project is a "significant development threat" to the survival of Green Belt land.
It said: "117 hectares of Green Belt around York will be lost as a result of York University gaining approval for its plans in May 2007."
The group added that: "Our investigation into the Government’s record into safeguarding the Green Belt reveals that there has been a significant loss of Green Belt since 1997 and more is under threat from development.
"Since 1997 over 1,100 hectares of Green Belt have been lost each year and at least 45,240 homes have been built on Green Belt land."
Work on the Hes East project, which received government backing last year, has already begun in the form of the main access road to the site. 600 bedrooms are due to be completed by October 2009.
Other projects criticised in the report include the extension of the Newcastle Falcons Training Ground in Tyne and Wear and planned extensions at Bath University.
CPRE also took the opportunity to praise the Government for its plans to create new National Park lands, and for refusing a number of environmentally damaging proposals.
YES! IVE GOT THE FIRST COMMENT! I BEAT MITCH TO IT!
Hope we're not going to see a new rash of "FIRST" comments on The Yorker now...
Anyway, does this include the fact that a certain percentage of the new development has to be retained as green space, and that there's going to be a huge lake? It's not as if the whole green belt is going to be tarmac'd over and turned into a housing estate as with some other developments.
Indeed there is a lot of information compiled by those who state the benefits to the environment, despite the loss of green belt land.
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