Year: 2020

The number of assaults against police officers and police staff in North Yorkshire has risen by almost 60 per cent during the lockdown period. It includes officers being punched in the head, bitten, spat and […]

A new eye unit which will treat up to 14,000 patients a year at the Friarage Hospital has been opened by Rishi Sunak.  The Richmond (Yorks) MP shared the honour of cutting the ribbon to […]

Police are investigating the circumstances of a taxi driver’s death. Detectives are appealing for information after his taxi was found abandoned near Oswaldkirk near Helmsley on Saturday night. 37-year-old James (Jimmy) Mallinson from Ampleforth died […]

North Yorkshire’s crime commissioner has defended the handling of the sale of the former police headquarters to a children’s holidays firm after it emerged more than £750,000 of the £2.5m agreed price has been spent […]

Sutton Bank on the A170 between Helmsley and Thirsk will close for eight days next month for maintenance work. The work will include the inspection and maintenance of the rock face to ensure the route […]

The Pizza Express restaurant in Northallerton is one of 73 branches across earmarked for closure. The company’s Darlington outlet will also shut. The chain has 454 UK outlets. Around 1,100 jobs are due to go […]

Rishi Sunak has visited a Hambleton camping and caravan park which is benefitting from the boom in staycations.  The Richmond MP heard how Cote Ghyll Holiday Park, near Osmotherley, has experienced its busiest July and […]

North Yorkshire is not currently at risk of being put into a local lockdown, the county’s director of public health has said. Dr Lincoln Sargeant said that despite an increase in the number of Covid-19 […]

A claim up to 3,000 jobs could go in Northallerton was “misleading and irresponsible’, says Hambleton District Council’s leader. Cllr Mark Robson has spoken out after prominent Conservative members of the Tory-led council, who are […]