William Langley’s van crashed into decathlete Brad McStravick – who took part in two Olympic Games in the 1980s – as he road his bike in North Yorkshire.

Just hours earlier Mr McStravick had been told he had overcome cancer after years of chemotherapy, radiotherapy and other treatment, a family statement said.

He was to have travelled to his niece’s wedding the next day.

Kathryn Walters, prosecuting, said the collision happened on a straight road and Langley would have had 16 seconds to see the cyclist but didn’t react.

The B6165 looking in the direction of Burnt Yates (Image: Google Street View)

Mr McStravick was cycling uphill on the B6165 towards Burnt Yates near Harrogate just after 6pm on August 20, 2024 on a route he knew well and had cycled many times.

Langley was behind him in a Ford Transit van and told police he didn’t see Mc McStravick until “he heard a big bang and saw a cyclist come up and over the bonnet,” she said.

A jogger behind the two heard the bang and saw Mr McStravick in the ditch and Langley stop the van and get out.

Mr McStravick was taken to Leeds General Infirmary and died of multiple injuries, ten minutes after his partner of 47 years arrived at his bedside, said Ms Walters.

A forensic collision investigator said the van was unroadworthy, but none of its defects contributed to the collision.

Langley’s solicitor Martin Townend said: “The sun was in his eyes. He just didn’t see the cyclist. The low sun in his eyes is the reason why he didn’t see the cyclist.”

Deputy district judge Nicholas Hayles told Langley the sun in his eyes meant he should have slowed down or stopped.

“You need to see where you are going and clearly Mr McStravick was there to be seen. Maybe it was difficult to see him, but you were driving a van with a responsibility to see where you were going,” he said.

Langley, 38, who lives on a road above Pateley Bridge, pleaded guilty to causing death by careless driving. He was given a 26-week prison sentence suspended for two years, fined £500 and ordered to pay a £154 statutory surcharge and £85 prosecution costs.  He was banned from driving for two years.

As he left court, he said his advice to any driver with the sun in their eyes was to: “Slow down and stop.” He said he had sent a letter of apology to Mr McStravick’s family to the court and had nothing more to say.

Mr Townend said Langley had himself been a cyclist but had given up because of the collision.

“He has thought about it everyday since it happened,” he said.

He had neurodivergent issues and was being treated by his GP for depression and anxiety.

He had no previous convictions and the collision had been the result of a momentary lapse.  There was no suggestion he had been speeding or on his mobile phone at the time of the collision.

Mr McStravick was 68 when he died.  As a decathlete, he was part of the Great Britain team at the 1980 and 1984 Olympic Games, and the Scottish team at the 1982 and 1986 Commonwealth Games. After retiring from competition he coached young athletes, including York Olympian and 400m runner Richard Buck.

The supermarket has made the change in response to customer demand

Tesco has introduced a significant change to its own-brand range in response to customer demand. The supermarket giant says that 80% of its shoppers are eager to eat more healthily and reduce their consumption of ultra-processed foods.

The retailer has now confirmed it has “banned or restricted” the use of 114 ingredients across its Tesco Own Brand range – an increase of 49 on last year – including artificial colours, aspartame and monosodium glutamate. Tesco states it has set out specific requirements for its own-brand suppliers regarding the use of additives, permitting them only where necessary for food safety, shelf life or quality, and in the smallest quantities required.

Alice Ritchie, Head of Healthy and Sustainable Diets, said: “Making healthy, sustainably produced food affordable and accessible for every household is a priority for Tesco. We’re working hard to reformulate our products to make them healthier and more nutritious and we provide clear guidance to our Own Brand suppliers on the use of additives. As part of this, we have restricted the use of 114 additives in our Own Brand products”.

Tesco says it has spent the past eight years working to reformulate its products “without compromising on taste or quality”. This has involved examining a broad range of nutrients and ingredients vital to maintaining a healthy diet, with efforts to reduce calories, saturated fat, salt and sugar.

The retailer states it is working in close partnership with branded suppliers to guarantee it is providing healthy and HFSS-compliant branded products. Its range also aims to support dietary shifts towards healthier, lower-fat, salt and sugar diets in line with the Eatwell Guide, reports the Mirror.

The supermarket confirmed its commitment to greater transparency surrounding UPFs, as shoppers are keen to see simpler, more recognisable ingredients listed on packaging. Rather than simply removing ingredients, its product development teams are focused on boosting positive nutrients by incorporating vegetables, fruit and increased fibre, while maintaining flavour throughout.

It added: “As we navigate our role in the conversation around UPFs, our commitment to food safety and quality remains paramount. We will continue our work to make health as simple and accessible as possible – making it easy to shop quality whole foods (including fruit and veg, whole grains, beans and pulses) at prices customers can afford.”

Tesco is far from the only major retailer addressing the issue of UPFs. Last year, M&S launched its “only” range using minimal ingredients, which it says has been welcomed by customers.

These use short, recognisable lists of real-food ingredients without industrial additives, emulsifiers, or preservatives. It also displays the ingredients with weights on the front of the packaging so shoppers can see at a glance what they are buying.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani shook hands with former Mayor Rudy Giuliani as families, mourners and politicians gathered at the site of the September 11 attacks, 25 years after the devastation.

Mamdani, who was 9 years old and in his fourth grade classroom on the Upper West Side when the World Trade Center was hit, has faced an avalanche of anti-Muslim rhetoric and pleas from right-wing critics, including Giuliani, to avoid this week’s 9/11 ceremonies.

They could be seen briefly chatting and shaking hands before they each parted ways at the solemn ceremony in lower Manhattan.

The city’s first Muslim mayor has steered this week’s commemorative events to ensure focus remains on the families, victims, first responders and the city’s recovery, and his office released thousands of never-before-seen documents that appeared to reveal that Giuliani’s administration and subsequent mayors knew the dangers of the toxic aftermath despite assuring the public of lower Manhattan’s safety.

Giuliani, once seen as “America’s mayor” in the wake of the attacks, has spent the last several years in courtrooms across the country battling criminal indictments, bankruptcy and a defamation lawsuit surrounding the 2020 presidential election as he became consumed by baseless conspiracy theories.

The 82-year-old former mayor joined pleas from right-wing figures calling on Mamdani to avoid Friday’s memorial. Giuliani has said his presence “offends” him and claimed Mamdani is “disturbing the people who are the most important people at that celebration.”

“He stands in direct support of the movement that killed their children,” Giuliani said. “You’d have to be a fool to resist that.”

Twenty-five years ago, a commercial airliner hijacked by al-Qaeda terrorists struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan, the first of four attacks on September 11, 2001 that killed nearly 3,000 people and set in motion a series of profoundly world-changing events.

Mourning Americans are gathering across the country and at the site of the attacks for a familiar annual ritual: reading the names of the people who were killed at the World Trade Center, at the Pentagon, and in a field in Pennsylvania.

A ceremony at the site of the Twin Towers began with a tolling bell and a moment of silence at 8:46 a.m., the moment the first plane, American Airlines Flight 11, hit the 96th floor of the skyscraper.

More moments of silence will follow to recognize the moment a second plane struck the building when the towers collapsed, when the Pentagon was hit, and when United Airlines Flight 93 crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after passengers fought back against the plane’s hijackers.

All living former presidents will attend the Manhattan ceremony, along with Vice President JD Vance.

President Donald Trump, however, will not attend, purportedly because he is not allowed to deliver remarks. The president will attend a ceremony at the Pentagon.

But for the first time, the ceremony at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum will hold a seventh moment of silence to honor people who died from illnesses related to the attacks.

This week, more than 170,000 pages of newly released records, never before shown to the public, revealed that New York City officials knew of potential dangers from exposure to Ground Zero toxins despite repeated assurances to the public that the air was safe to breathe.

Over the two decades that followed, thousands of first responders and other New Yorkers developed lung disease, neurological illnesses and cancers linked to expansive recovery efforts and their lives in the shadow of the attack, as clouds of chemicals, cement dust, asbestos and other toxic debris lingered in the air and in buildings.

According to the World Trade Center Health Program, more than 9,000 people have died from 9/11-related illnesses, including 600 firefighters — exceeding the nearly 3,000 people killed in the attacks themselves and the more than 300 firefighters who died in the rescue efforts.

In Shanksville, mourners will read the names of the passengers and crew members of Flight 93, on which passengers fought back against four hijackers and forced the plane away from Washington, D.C., averting what was expected to be another devastating attack on the nation’s capital.

Elliot Anderson opted to sign for Manchester City over Manchester United this summer and then lit the blue touch paper ahead of the first derby of the season.

Not content with making his preference for a move to the Etihad over Old Trafford clear this summer, Elliot Anderson opted to stir the pot on arrival at Manchester City and ensure the reception he receives on the first derby day of the season will be more than a little spicy.

Anderson was United’s top target for a midfield vacancy this summer and he was admired on his last visit to Old Trafford, when he shone for Nottingham Forest towards the end of last season. But his £116million fee proved too steep in a summer when United had to rebuild their midfield and the England international wanted to move to City anyway.

Keen to win over new friends at the Etihad, he used an interview on the club’s official website to take a potshot at United, which is always a sure-fire winner amongst City supporters and staff. He called his new club the “kings of Manchester,” a remark which didn’t go unnoticed at United.

Anderson was pointing out that City had held the whip hand in this fixture “for as long as I’ve known”, which isn’t exactly inaccurate but will also fan the flames ahead of Sunday’s Old Trafford showdown.

It was a remark that United head coach Michael Carrick was never going to agree with. Carrick won his first game in charge against Pep Guardiola’s City in January, but he is aware the tide has turned since his playing days, when he won 17 of his 31 derbies, losing just three.

“I’m definitely not using that phrase at all, no,” said Carrick, when Anderson’s jibe was put to him, but he did go on to deliver a more balanced appraisal of how United are trying to claw their way back up towards clubs like their cross-town rivals.

“I understand it, and I think going into the Champions League game and talking about the expectation there, I think it’s a really good thing that it’s shifted in a way, and all of a sudden there are different things asked of us now to maybe what was a few months ago, and we’re in the Champions League.

“That in itself shows the steps we’ve made, and we need to be in the later stages of that, and then the expectations around that. We know that, and we’re humble enough and realistic enough to know where we’ve come from in recent history, and we need to, and we want to be better, and we want to be challenging more. So that’s where we’re at.

“It doesn’t mean that we can’t and we won’t. It means we still hope, we believe, and we expect that we can be and we should be, but I understand the bigger picture.”

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A Singaporean chief executive has failed in his bid to recover thousands of dollars that he spent on luxury gifts for his ex-girlfriend during their relationship.

Chander Agarwal sued his ex-girlfriend Felicia Lee to recover $370,000 he spent on luxury gifts from brands such as Hermes, Dior and Prada to first class flight tickets.

Mr Agarwal, who is the chief executive of listed logistics company TCI Express, met Ms Lee during a flight in 2019. Ms Lee is a former flight attendant and later worked as an insurance agent and medical sales officer, the court was told.

The pair were in a relationship from September 2022 to December 2023. The couple parted ways after Mr Agarwal suspected Ms Lee of infidelity.

Mr Agarwal filed the lawsuit in March 2024, arguing that the gifts were loans that had to be repaid.

The Singapore High Court this week dismissed the case, saying that most of the sums were gifts that Mr Agarwal had “willingly” given to Ms Lee and couldn’t be considered loans.

Mr Agarwal said he paid S$206,000 ($162,491) on credit card bills, S$129,000 ($101,754) on foreign trips, S$20,000 ($15,775) on her annual life insurance premium, a university programme and S$17,000 ($13,409)on a feng shui master to “spiritually harmonise” Ms Lee’s flat, the court heard.

Senior Judge Lee Seiu Kin said Mr Agarwal “displayed a consistent pattern of showering [Lee] with lavish gifts” even before they were involved in a romantic relationship and assured her that he did not expect repayment.

Ms Lee argued that the gifts were given to her “out of love and affection” and not as loans.

Mr Agarwal produced a handwritten agreement with both of their signature to support his claim, which Ms Lee denied signing.

The judge said Mr Agarwal’s case lacked documentary evidence as he could not produce any proof that Ms Lee had acknowledged receipt of the loans she allegedly requested.

“It is incredible that for a relationship that lasted for more than a year with so many WhatsApp messages exchanged between them, the claimant could not point to any written evidence to support his case,” the judge said.

“The evidence before me clearly shows that the claimant, smitten by the defendant, had showered her with expensive gifts during their relationship,” the judge added.

“Unfortunately, when their relationship ended on a sour note, [Mr Agarwal] became embittered and was determined to extract a price from her.”

The judge also noted that Mr Agarwal was “clearly a man of ample means who has expensive tastes”, in contrast to Ms Lee.

“It is also inherently incredible that the defendant, with her relatively modest salary, would repeatedly borrow such significant sums to spend on luxury items,” the judge added.

In the judgement, the judge quoted the famous The Mourning Bride: “Heav’n has no rage, like love to hatred turn’d, nor hell a fury, like a woman scorn’d.”

He said: “This case shows that such emotion is not the sole province of one gender.”

In 2023, another Singaporean man had filed two lawsuits to recover S$3m ($2.3m) from a woman who rejected his romantic advances, BBC reported.

National Rail has provided advice on people travelling on CrossCountry, Greater Anglia and Great Northern trains.

Advice for CrossCountry customers:

Tickets will be accepted on:

• The two CrossCountry services operating before and after your cancelled service
• Thameslink services between Peterborough and Hitchin connecting in to Great Northern services between Hitchin and Cambridge
• EMR services between Ely and Peterborough
• Greater Anglia services between Ely and Stansted Airport

Advice for Greater Anglia customers:

• Trains are unable to run between Thetford and Cambridge North;
• Trains between Ipswich and Peterborough have been suspended.

For people travelling between Bury St Edmunds, Cambridge and Peterborough, they are told to travel to Cambridge, change on a Thameslink train to Stevenage and then board a train at Stevenage to Peterborough.

Advice for Great Northern customers:

All lines are blocked between Cambridge and Kings Lynn. National Rail “strongly advises” delayed journeys between these stations until late.

Tickets will be accepted on the following services:

• Thameslink and Great Northern services between London stations, Cambridge, and Ely
• Greater Anglia services between London Liverpool Street, Cambridge, and Ely
• London Underground services between London Terminals

Liverpool forward Cody Gakpo is a doubt to face Fulham on Saturday but Andoni Iraola expects Bradley Barcola to be available to make his full Premier League debut following his late substitution against Atletico Madrid in midweek.

Gakpo was close to leaving Liverpool in the summer but the 27-year-old has started the season in excellent form, assisting all three of Alexander Isak’s goals in the Premier League, including both in the 2-1 win at Ipswich last Friday.

The Netherlands international was ruled out of Wednesday’s Champions League win over Atletico due to “adductor issues”, however, after feeling discomfort on both sides following the win at Portman Road last week.

It meant Barcola made his first start for Liverpool since his big-money move from Paris Saint-Germain and the winger impressed with a bright showing before he was removed late in the match due to cramp.

Liverpool will assess both players following training on Friday and Iraola said: “Barcola was just cramps. We have to evaluate how he is today, but there is no injury. I think he should be available if everything goes normal.

“Cody we will see. We will try today and see if he is ready for tomorrow or if we need to wait until the next one.”

Iraola remains unbeaten in his first four games at Liverpool and the Reds arrive into Saturday afternoon’s meeting with Fulham after back-to-back wins over Ipswich and Atletico, but the Basque also believes there is still lots of improvement.

Iraola’s side have scored two goals in all four of their games so far and he said: “The team has goals in it. In all of the games we have been dangerous and created chances, we have scored two [in the last two] and could have scored more. Now it’s about being more efficient.

“So not conceding the two goals against Newcastle, not conceding the two goals against Forest. It’s also when the goals come because I don’t think we’re starting games too well. We [started well against] Ipswich and the games look more comfortable when you start like this.

“I would like to score the fist goal to make things easier, but we have to have the right mentality. We didn’t start badly against Atletico but I think the start of games is one of the parts where I think we can be a bit better. I want us to impose ourselves from the beginning.”

A woman has described the moment her ‘guardian angel’ carried her to safety as she escaped the World Trade Center in the 9/11 attacks.

LuAnn O’Rourke-Boyd, now 58, has never worked out the identity of the man who swept her into his arms on that terrible day, but credits him with saving her life.

The mum-of-three was working on the 30th floor of the North Tower when the first plane struck on September 11, 2001.

‘I was 33 on September 11, 2001, and I thought I was going to die,’ LuAnn, who had got engaged to her now-husband Steve just a month before.

She had arrived at work early and was sitting at her desk, going through her emails, when American Airlines Flight 11 struck the building.

‘I was thrown from my chair and released a scream by the sheer surprise and force of the moment,’ she said. ‘The building swayed left and right like a pendulum. I literally thought it was going to snap in half.

‘When the building stopped swaying, it started to shudder like an earthquake for several seconds, and then it finally came to a stop.

‘The only thought that went through my mind was, ‘I can’t believe I’m going to die like this. I can’t believe my life is going to end today. I have not accomplished everything I wanted to.’

LuAnn had initially been reluctant to move to the World Trade Center because she disliked subways, crowds, and heights.

However, the position with Empire BlueCross BlueShield came with a promotion and an office overlooking the Statue of Liberty and Hudson River.

‘I was starting a new chapter of my life,’ she said. ‘I felt like Melanie Griffith from Working Girl. I got my man, I got a great job with a really cool office, and I was living my dream.’

After the impact, LuAnn scrambled into the cubicle area, where a few colleagues who had arrived early were gathering.

She briefly returned to her office to collect her handbag and saw sheets of paper filling the air outside.

‘It was snowing paper,’ she said. ‘Hundreds and thousands of pieces of paper were coming down like snow.’

When LuAnn returned to the cubicle area seconds later, everyone had disappeared.

She entered the smoke-filled hallway and believed she was the last person on the floor until another employee emerged through the smoke.

They reached the stairwell, but the door was locked, forcing them to bang on it until somebody let them inside.

‘There were no emergency announcements,’ LuAnn said. ‘All of those fire drills and announcements, and there was nothing that day.’

LuAnn’s father, John Thomas ‘Jack’ O’Rourke, had been a New York City firefighter, and his warnings immediately ran through her mind.

‘My father’s words rang through my ears: ‘Never work higher than the 13th floor because the ladders don’t reach that high,’’ she said. ‘I remember thinking, ‘Note to self, listen to Dad next time.’ I also remember him always telling me, ‘Get out and get away.’’

Smoke filled the stairwell and burned LuAnn’s eyes, while water began flowing beneath the evacuees’ feet. She removed her high heels and continued down the stairs barefoot. Despite hundreds of people trying to escape, the crowd did not panic.

‘We moved methodically and slowly,’ she said.

It took LuAnn around 40 minutes to descend the 30 floors. At the bottom, firefighters and security guards ordered everyone to run. LuAnn stopped to put her heels back on after realising she was running across shattered glass.

As she bent down, she saw that the courtyard between the towers was on fire and ‘looked like Armageddon’. Suddenly, a large man swept LuAnn into his arms and began running with her. Still in shock, she started hitting him with one of her shoes.

‘I yelled, ‘What are you doing? Put me down’. He said, ‘You can’t stay here. Things are falling from the sky.’ What he really meant was people were jumping from the building.’

LuAnn still does not know who rescued her.

‘I have no idea to this day who that man was,’ she said. ‘He was tall and handsome and maybe worked in construction.’

LuAnn recently read about Secret Service special agent Tom Armas, who reportedly ran into the North Tower to help people after finishing a workout nearby. However, she cannot confirm whether he was the stranger who carried her.

‘Honestly, there were others who performed such courageous acts of heroism that day,’ LuAnn said. ‘I now refer to that man as ‘my guardian angel’.’

After he put her down, LuAnn headed for the west side of Manhattan. An older colleague, Iris Rodham, grabbed LuAnn’s arm and did not let go for the next hour.

‘For years, I couldn’t remember her last name, but I recently found it in an article that was published about my story back then,’ LuAnn said. ‘I still can’t find her, even knowing her last name. It’s possible she has passed away.’

Despite widespread disruption to mobile phone service, LuAnn’s phone had rung while she was still in the stairwell. Her sister Eileen had connected Steve to the call.

‘I could hear the panic in my sister Eileen’s voice,’ LuAnn said. ‘Steve was insisting on coming down to get me. I said, ‘No, stay put. You’ll never find me. I’m coming to you.’’

Steve worked in Midtown Manhattan, so reaching his office became LuAnn’s mission. She and Iris walked north as fire engines raced towards the World Trade Center.

‘Sirens to this day still haunt me,’ she said. At Chelsea Piers, first-aid stations had already been established, but they stood empty.
‘The victims weren’t coming,’ she said.

LuAnn and the other evacuees had been in the stairwell when the second plane struck the South Tower, so they did not yet realise America was under attack.
‘I looked at the towers and said to Iris, ‘I don’t think I can go back to work there tomorrow,’ as if that was even an option,’ she said.

Shortly afterwards, LuAnn watched the South Tower collapse.
‘To watch this tower fall and crumble into a massive dust cloud was truly devastating,’ she said. ‘It was like watching a movie in slow motion. This could not be happening. I was just there 30 minutes ago working.’

LuAnn and Iris walked approximately three miles through Manhattan before reaching Steve’s office. Although she escaped without serious physical injuries, the psychological effects continued long afterwards.
‘My sleep was tortured with nightmares of being in collapsing buildings,’ she said. ‘Sirens bring me right back. They still do.’

LuAnn also felt that survivors like her were overlooked in the aftermath.
‘I really felt invisible as a survivor and not taken care of by our company’ she said.

‘Today’s generation thinks we were off work for months and received therapy and compensation, but we received none of that.

‘We were put back to work as quickly as possible in offices throughout the tri-state area. I have not received one penny in compensation for what I went through or any counselling.’

LuAnn walked away from her corporate career shortly after the attacks, started a family, and ran her own small business. She and Steve went on to have three children, including their daughter, McKayla Faith Boyd, 23, whom they adopted from China.

McKayla, a champion Irish dancer, is now a first-year medical student at Penn State. Their son Ryan Patrick Boyd, 22, hopes to become a firefighter like his grandfather, while their youngest son, Thomas Edward Boyd, 18, is studying mechanical engineering at college.

LuAnn, who lives in Westchester County, New York, later discovered another unusual connection between her family and the World Trade Center.

‘The first World Trade Center bombing took place on February 26, 1993, and my daughter’s birthday is exactly 10 years later, on February 26, 2003,’ she said. ‘It’s just an odd coincidence.’

She tries to live her live to the full.

‘I’m a mum to three amazing young adults,’ she said. ‘I do what I love for a living, bringing Irish dance and culture to our community. I’m also a make-up artist for Irish dancers at competitions, and I recently became a certified pickleball instructor.’

Around 13 months after the attacks, police contacted LuAnn to tell her that her World Trade Center security badge had been recovered from the rubble. A hole had been punched through the forehead of her photograph.
There is a hole going through my forehead, which is a very grim reminder of how that day could have ended for me,’ she said. ‘I’m just so grateful to be here.’

LuAnn has returned to the World Trade Center site three times. Her first attempt was just days after the attacks with her colleague Lucille.
‘We tried to get to Ground Zero, but we couldn’t get close,’ she said. ‘We were just so traumatised and felt helpless. We wandered around the city looking at all the missing people flyers. We cried and prayed with strangers.’

LuAnn, Lucille, and Steve returned after Osama bin Laden was killed in May 2011, but could not reach Ground Zero because the president was visiting.

Her third visit came during the Covid pandemic when her daughter, who had won the US National Irish Dancing Championships, took part in a photoshoot for Irish Dancing Magazine. The September issue marked the 20th anniversary of the attacks.

‘I was able to briefly get closer to the memorial and reflecting pools,’ LuAnn said. ‘Ironically, the photo that was selected of my daughter was taken at Little Island, and you can see the Freedom Tower in the background. It was pure coincidence.’

LuAnn says she has now been invited to attend the Ground Zero anniversary memorial for the first time and is due to appear on NBC’s streaming coverage with Tom Llamas on September 11, 2026. She first recorded her story for TikTok in September 2024 after several earlier attempts ended in tears.

‘For many years after 9/11, I couldn’t talk about it,’ she said. ‘We never discussed it with our children, but I wanted them to know what happened, that I was there, and what America went through that day.’

LuAnn’s unrehearsed video received three million views and developed into a series about her experience.

‘I told people I was recording it for my children, and if they wanted to listen, that was fine – they could go chop some vegetables or something,’ she said. It was really off the cuff.’

LuAnn now hopes her story will help younger generations understand the human impact of September 11.

‘I just really hope that people remember what we went through,’ she said.
‘The patriotism in America after 9/11 was unsurmountable, and now we are so divided. The accounts of 9/11 are not being taught in school as a part of history, and that makes me terribly sad.’

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The closure will affect a section of the A1237 Outer Ring Road at the approach to the Haxby Road roundabout, including part of Haxby Road itself.

City of York Council said overnight works will begin at 8pm on Monday, September 21, and are scheduled to finish by 6am on Saturday, September 26, weather permitting.

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Each morning the road will re-open at 6am unless there are exceptional circumstances, a council spokesperson confirmed.

Cllr Kate Ravilious, executive member for transport at City of York Council, said: “Haxby roundabout is the latest in a long list of works that have been completed this year, from pothole repair on residential side streets to resurfacing of major roads.

“We do know that these projects can be disruptive so in many cases, like this one, we are working overnight, reopening the road each morning, to reduce the impact on local residents and businesses.”

A full closure will be in place each night between 8pm and 6am, covering both directions of the A1237 between the Wigginton Road and Strensall Road roundabouts.

Alternative routes will be signposted, with the main diversion using Malton Road, Heworth Green, Lord Mayor’s Walk, Gillygate, Bootham/A19, and the A1237.

A spokesperson for City of York Council said: “Due to the capacity the A1237 holds for large vehicles, the council must offer a diversion able to cope with the size and weight that the road usually carries.”

The off-road cycle route between Wigginton Road and Haxby Road will remain open during the works.

A separate cycle diversion will connect the off-road route to Haxby Road, Hawthorn Terrace, Link Road, Huntington Road, and Strensall Road.

Letters have been distributed to residents and businesses, and diversion details have been shared with delivery networks and businesses at Clifton Moor, the council said.

The council reminded all drivers to follow the traffic management rules in place for the safety of workers and the public.

Emergency services will have access through the closure at all times.

On-site staff will be available to advise residents and businesses about access restrictions.

Cyclists and pedestrians will still be able to use the underpass.

Bus services will not be affected, and waste and recycling collections will continue as normal.

Street parking in the working area will be suspended during the closures.

Specific access needs can be discussed with site traffic management operatives, who will work to accommodate residents and businesses where possible.