Editing Selby (section)

===Since 2000===
Selby is expanding. New houses and shops are being built on the outskirts as far as the bypass, which has resulted in the loss of some trade from the town centre. Meanwhile, the riverfront is being revamped with modern housing and fashionable flats.<ref>
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====Rail crash====
{{Main|Great Heck rail crash}}
The 2001 [[Great Heck rail crash]] is also often referred to as the Selby rail crash. It happened a few miles south of Selby, at the village of [[Great Heck]] near the [[M62 motorway]], and Selby was the closest major town to the accident site. On 28 February 2001 a vehicle crashed off the M62 down an embankment onto a railway track, where it was struck by a passenger train heading to London. The accident was then compounded by a second collision involving an oncoming goods train.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Wainwright |first1=Martin |title=The carnage at Great Heck |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/feb/28/selby.railtravel5 |access-date=1 July 2019 |work=The Guardian |date=28 February 2001}}</ref>

====Hobson murders====
Selby and its surrounding area came to national prominence once again through another tragedy on 18 July 2004, this time through four exceptionally violent murders carried out by former [[refuse collector]] [[Mark Hobson (spree killer)|Mark Hobson]]. Hobson, 34 at the time, killed his girlfriend, Claire Sanderson, 27, and her sister Diane at a flat in the nearby village of [[Camblesforth]]. He subsequently murdered an elderly couple, James and Joan Britton, at their home in the village of [[Strensall]], near [[York]]. Hobson was later sentenced to life imprisonment, with the trial judge recommending that he should never be released; the [[High Court of Justice|High Court]] later agreed with this recommendation.<ref>{{cite news|title=Killer Hobson loses tariff appeal|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/north_yorkshire/4484502.stm|access-date=31 January 2016|work=BBC News|date=30 November 2005}}</ref>