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Residents fight housing development

People in the East Yorkshire village of Market Weighton say they'll fight plans for a housing development and a medical centre.

Proposals have been put forward to build the centre and 49 homes near a cul-de-sac on Northgate Vale.

But people who live there are concerned about the impact of traffic. They say their cul-de-sac would, in effect, become an access road and they claim up to two hundred cars an hour would use it. They say the road was never designed for heavy traffic.

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Day at the Oldest Races

englands oldest horse race
Pointing the way to Kiplingcotes, the oldest derby on the English racing calendar.

Now it's a day for racehorse fans as not only are the Cheltenham charms on offer... Today is also the day of the oldest flat race in the English sporting calendar. The Kiplingcotes Derby will be held in Market Weighton in the Yorkshire Wolds later. It's almost 500 years since it first began.

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