Month: March 2020

Staff from Hambleton’s leisure centres are helping collect waste and recycling during the coronavirus crisis. Hambleton District Council says its waste and street scene team are working hard to try to maintain all kerbside collections […]

North Yorkshire County Council has launched an urgent recruitment campaign to hire carers and helpers during the coronavirus crisis. The authority is urging people to join its workforce to meet the “unprecedented logistical and humanitarian […]

The niece of a Bedale man who has died of the coronavirus says he died alone and without being able to say goodbye. The woman said her uncle, who was called David, was vulnerable as […]

Fears have been raised that a wave of second home owners who have moved from coronavirus hotspot cities to their boltholes “to ride out the outbreak” at countryside beauty spots have put themselves and others […]

Fire crews were called to a shed on fire in Northallerton last night. A petrol lawnmower was destroyed in the blaze in Crosby Road. Two appliances from Northallerton were called to the incident involving a […]

North Yorkshire Police supported by the North York Moors National Park Authority have issued a clear message ahead of the weekend, stay away from our beauty spots, stay home and save lives. Officers are calling […]

North Yorkshire is calling on local businesses to come forward with offers of help to get food and essential goods to the isolated. While many are already actively helping, the county council says it has […]

North Yorkshire Police say they are still seeing people drive to remote locations to “take their daily exercise, walk their dogs or have drive around to clear their head’. In a hard hitting statement, the force […]

Thousands of people have signed up to new COVID19 community groups formed to help the vulnerable and those self-isolating get the help they need. Officials say the groups provide a vital link between the local […]

Police have launched spot checks on motorists and pedestrians to tackle a minority of people who are ignoring stark government warnings to avoid non-essential journeys. North Yorkshire Police will launch the unprecedented action on key […]