Month: March 2019

Council officers are recommending controversial plans to convert Newby Wiske Hall into a children’s residential centre are approved. A special meeting to determine the future of building will be held next week. Members of Hambleton […]

Community groups across Hambleton are to benefit from a £125,000 cash pot. Forty one organisations will receive grants from the district council’s 2019 ‘Making a Difference’ fund. Members of the authority’s cabinet today yesterday approved […]

People will have the chance to question senior Friarage and health trust doctors about changes to emergency services at the North Yorkshire hospital. Rishi Sunak, MP for Richmond, has organised an urgent public meeting to […]

Hambleton District Council has admitted it is facing a tough task in bidding for a share of a £675m government fund for high streets. The council’s cabinet heard while the authority had initially hoped to […]

The decision of an outspoken police, fire and crime commissioner to not stand for re-election has received a mixed reaction. North Yorkshire Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner Julia Mulligan announced through a press release that […]

Work to close gaps in the central barrier on the A19 will start later this month following calls for action from the family of a woman killed in an accident. The central barrier will be […]

Police in Northallerton have issued an urgent appeal after a man wearing a boiler suit and crash helmet entered Bradley’s jewellers in Barker’s Arcade (Market Row) at around 10am this morning and stole a large […]

Julia Mulligan has announced she will not stand for re-election as North Yorkshire’s Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner in May 2020. In recent months Ms Mulligan had faced bullying allegations from former staff and been criticised […]

A furniture trail originally set up in the 1990s has been recreated. The Thirsk trail now takes in seven specialist woodworking businesses in and around the market town; Treske, Beaver, Coxwold, Graham Duncalf, Carthouse, Old […]