Exclusive: SECRET emails have revealed months of wrangling and apparent confusion between senior council figures over York’s controversial Lendal Bridge trial.

Most in industry ‘undergound’ but escort agencies boast ‘lots of new students’.

Exclusive: HUNDREDS of young people – including dozens of children – have been admitted to York Hospital for serious alcohol related incidents, the Press can reveal. Over the last year, 33 children and a total of 152 young people under 24, were admitted to hospital wards in the city with problems linked to drinking.

The University has spent thousands on luxuries including artwork for Heslington Hall and gardening for the Vice-Chancellor’s House.

The University is facing a fine of up to £536,000 from HEFCE after accepting too many students.

The University has spent nearly half a million pounds on controversial gagging orders, known in legal terms as agreements containing confidentiality clauses.

UNIVERSITIES risk “letting loose on society” young professionals who are technically qualified but “barely know their stuff”, experts claimed as it emerged that entry requirements are being slashed. More than a week after A-level results were published, the scramble to fill undergraduate places on courses as varied as engineering, law and English literature is leading to “bargain basement” offers in clearing.

Millions of pounds from the University is reaching companies perceived as unethical, including some accused of child labour and human rights abuses.

Assaults, muggings, ambulances and broken fire regulations. Just how safe is the city at night?

A drug investigation carried out by Nouse has shown that numerous sites across both the Heslington West and East campuses have tested positive for cocaine. The University has rejected the results.

Recent figures obtained by Nouse have revealed the University is set to miss its long term carbon emissions target. It has since admitted this to be a “challenging target”.

Figures have revealed the gap between UK BME and UK White offers has widened and offers to state school applicants have decreased.

Membership of the Russell group is costing York eight times as much in fees than it did to be part of the 1994 Group.

Dinner for donations: iTunes purchases and luxury hotels charged to credit cards.

ARGYLL and Bute Council has paid out nearly £270,000 to suspended staff since April 2011, according to figures obtained by The Oban Times.

It has emerged that the University has spent over £35,000 on providing staff with iPads and iPhones.