Year: 2024

North Yorkshire Council has achieved Swim England’s Water Wellbeing accreditation after improvements were made to swimming provision at four of its leisure centres. The facilities and pools at Northallerton, Bedale, Thirsk and Sowerby and Stokesley […]

A controversial battery energy storage site (BESS) proposed for the Vale of York would not have a significant impact on the landscape and would not be a risk to health, it has been claimed. New […]

Plans have been drawn up for a pet crematorium on a North Yorkshire business park. Roseberry Pet Crematorium would operate in a unit on the Terry Dicken Industrial Estate in Stokesley. A planning application for […]

A motorist wanted by police was stopped while transporting two reindeer. The driver was stopped by police on the A1(M) in the Hambleton area as part of pre-Christmas roundup of wanted people yesterday. The motorist, who […]

Yorkshire Air Ambulance (YAA) has announced the arrival of its third, brand-new, H145 D3 helicopter, G-YAIR. Following a medical fit-out at Airbus Helicopters in Oxford, G-YAIR made its maiden flight into Yorkshire today. Charity bosses […]

Two red Honda quad bikes were stolen from Ingleby Greenhow, near Great Ayton, overnight between Wednesday and Thursday this week. The registration numbers for the quads are YW23 BVF and NT08 FCF. A North Yorkshire […]

Council chiefs have accused the Government of ‘cherry picking’ urban authorities for extra funding and leaving rural authorities in a perilous financial position by cutting their grants. Leaders at North Yorkshire Council have warned of […]

North Yorkshire councillors have given the go-ahead for the redevelopment of Bagby Airfield which has been at the centre of a long-running planning row. Permission has been granted to upgrade the facilities at the airfield […]

Police have issued a CCTV image of a man they want to speak to following a theft in Barkers Department Store on the High Street in Northallerton. It happened at 12pm on December 2 and […]

Rishi Sunak has expressed his gratitude for the work of postmen and women as they cope with the busiest time of the year for the postal service. Mr Sunak visited the Royal Mail’s Northallerton delivery […]