Month: February 2023

North Yorkshire County Council leader Carl Les has refused to rule out future staff redundancies after the new North Yorkshire Council is created on April 1. In just over a month, the county’s seven district […]

An “innovative”  bus service which has been heralded as the potential solution to the dearth of public transport in rural areas of England’s largest county is costing taxpayers about £4 per passenger journey more to […]

A council which is set to scrapped next month has received approval to spend £1 million of contributions from developers on a range of community schemes, despite its successor local authority being uncertain about future […]

The public body charged with looking after England’s historic environment has called for proposals to overhaul a “concealed” Georgian church linked with the rise of non-conformist movement to be reconsidered. Plans submitted to Hambleton District Council by […]

Police say a man missing from Seamer near Stokesley has been found. An appeal was issued after the man was last seen in the Darlington area on Friday. Police say he ahs been found safe.

Three people were injured in a crash on the A168 at Thornton-le-Street at the weekend. The three-vehicle collision occurred at around 10.10am on Saturday. The crash involved a Ford Transit van and a VW Campervan. […]

The leaders of opposition political groups on an incoming unitary authority have raised red flags over a plan to fill the void left by the abolition of seven district and borough councils by launching 30 unelected and […]

Four men have been jailed after a drug manufacturing lab was discovered in a village near Thirsk. Police responded to concerns about suspicious activity at a property in Husthwaite in the early hours of 28 […]

Kirkby Fleetham CE Primary School has made it through to the final of the national Smiley Charity Film Awards with a song about their play tree. With fewer than 20 pupils, the school is one […]