Year: 2019

Plans to transform facilities at a small airfield which has been beset by controversy for more than a decade have been recommended for approval. Hambleton District Council’s planning team has recommended a proposal to bulldoze […]

More than three quarters of a £839,500 fund established to offset the impact of a huge energy from waste incinerator plant has been released to an array of community projects. A meeting of North Yorkshire […]

Fire crews were called to a chimney fire in East Cowton yesterday. The fire was reported at 5.09pm. A crew from Northallerton extinguished a the blaze using using chimney rods, a chimney nozzle and hose, […]

Young people wanting to buy homes in the countryside have to make their voices heard, says Rishi Sunak MP. The debate about building the homes needed to sustain rural communities was being dominated by those […]

Concerns are mounting for mental health provision across a wide area after NHS bosses confirmed plans for a new hospital and another for extra in-patient beds had both been ditched. A joint health scrutiny committee […]

A managing director is wanted to run the back office functions for North Yorkshire Police and North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service. The successful applicant will receive between £105,000 and £115,000 to oversee the collaboration […]

North Yorkshire Police have issued an appeal after a man made inappropriate comments to two schoolgirls. The incident happened South Parade, Northallerton, at about 8.30am on Thursday. The man pulled up beside two school and […]

Council taxpayers across Hambleton are being warned to be on the alert for bogus phone calls and text messages. The calls and text messages purport to be from gov.uk and inform them that they are […]

A new parish will be formed in rural Hambleton in April as two becomes one. The two parishes of Brafferton and Helperby near Easingwold will become Brafferton and Helperby Parish – and also create a […]