Year: 2019

Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s nation-wide push to recruit 20,000 new police officers has officially launched, but senior North Yorkshire Police say it “could be years” before the front-line impacts are seen in the region. North Yorkshire […]

Hambleton District’s Council’s Civic Centre headquarters is turning rainbow colours every night to mark the final month’s countdown to the world cycle championships. Northallerton is to host the start of one the most prestigious races […]

North Yorkshire County Council says it welcomes additional funding from the Government announced today by the Chancellor Sajid Javid in his one year spending plans. The council says the Chancellor has addressed the two greatest funding pressures […]

Police are appealing for information after diesel was stolen from lorries in Northallerton. Fuel was taken from a number of HGVs parked in  Standard Way Industrial Estate. The incident happened between 11pm last night at […]

Proposals to build a Hambleton-based crematorium have been supported by councillors. Member of the district council’s cabinet gave the go ahead for the idea and agreed that £250,000 be included in the capital programme to […]

A former Thirsk hospital is be converted into Hambleton’s first permanent hospice. Hambleton District Council is to gift the Lambert Hospital to Herriot Hospice Homecare to create a facility offering a range of end of […]

A legal challenge which was designed to increase disabled children’s access to school transport could lead to the service being withdrawn for a mass of pupils or taxpayers left with an annual £1.6 bill. In […]

Northallerton School and Sixth Form College has been handed almost £9m to move site as a new management structure is announced at the school. The school has received the money from the Department for Education […]

Sutton Bank will close for a week from next Monday for annual maintenance work. During the closure the rock face beside the A170 will be inspected to ensure the route remains structurally safe. Osgodby Lane, […]

Police are appealing for witnesses to a serious collision on the A172 early this morning. At 12.15am oa white Nissan Navara pick-up truck and a JCB tractor, which was towing a trailer, collided on the […]