Year: 2024

Firefighters were called to extinguish a deliberate field fire in Fairfield Road, Stokesley, yesterday. A crew from Stokesley attended at about 6.50pm. Firefighters extinguished the small fire using a bucket of water. In a separate […]

Police are appealing for information about criminal damage at St Mary’s Church in Thirsk. It happened between Friday, May 24 and Sunday, May 26 when numerous windows of the church were broken. The windows are […]

The politically polarised leadership of a new combined authority for York and North Yorkshire have voiced harmony at the first meeting with an elected mayor at the helm. Conservative leaders of North Yorkshire Council and […]

A dog started a fire when it jumped onto a cooker hob today. Fire crews from Northallerton and Thirsk were called to reports of a fire at a house in Thirsk at about 1.15pm today. […]

SOUTH Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is celebrating the success of its first nursing degree apprenticeship programme with Northumbria University. Fifteen apprentices from The James Cook University Hospital have qualified as registered nurses with a […]

A North Yorkshire police officer who drove at 154mph weeks after featuring in an anti-speeding video has been sacked. PC Adam Smith admitted there was no policing purpose for driving at the speeds on the […]

The number of home schooled children in North Yorkshire has hit a record number, climbing at the fastest rate since the pandemic, new figures have revealed. Some 1,093 children were recorded as being electively home educated […]

A cocaine dealer has been jailed for 18 months after police in Northallerton caught him by chance. Thomas Horrigan, 21, who is from the town, was a passenger in a tipper van which was stopped […]

North Yorkshire Council, which has seen a “markedly higher” than the national average rise in demand for plans for children and young people aged up to 25 who need more than special educational needs support, […]