Year: 2021

A Bedale veteran has welcomed plans by Help for Heroes to increase its support for Afghanistan interpreters. Since 2016, the charity has supported wounded, injured and sick embedded civilians who served under UK command in […]

The leader of North Yorkshire County Council has backed the government’s manifesto-breaking move to raise National Insurance to tackle NHS Covid backlogs and reform the social care system. Conservative councillor Carl Les said the plan, […]

Elderly and vulnerable people in North Yorkshire who are left without a television signal in three weeks’ time are to be offered free help to improve their situation, it has emerged. Details of the scheme […]

Television signals should be restored in a little over three weeks to 90 per cent of residents across the North hit by the Bilsdale transmitter fire, the boss of the firm which owns the mast […]

Residents in two rural parishes which have seen no new housing built for about three decades, leaving young people unable to remain in the area, are set to hold a referendum over a plan to […]

Around 500 care workers in North Yorkshire could be forced out of their jobs when compulsory vaccines come into force in November as the sector continues to struggle with severe staffing shortages. From November 11, it […]

North Yorkshire County Council has raised a “red flag” over its finances for the coming year, despite announced a £2.8 million underspend for the first three months. The authority has issued the warning despite having […]

Residents across swathes of North Yorkshire could be facing a minimum of two more months without a television signal due to the construction time in erecting a replacement mast and because of the need to follow international […]

Sutton Bank on the A170 between Helmsley and Thirsk is to close for two weeks for maintenance work.   North Yorkshire County Council’s highways team will carry out the work which includes the inspection and […]