Plans to close a North Yorkshire village school have been greeted with dismay by the local community. Parents and staff have been informed of a proposal to shut Kirkby Fleetham Church of England Primary School, [...]

North Yorkshire Council chiefs say they are considering legal action against the Government over a reduction in funding they have branded ‘Rayner’s rural robbery’. Deputy leader Gareth Dadd said an “ideological political attack” by Labour [...]

An anaesthetist nurse on a shopping trip stabbed the owner of a Northallerton vinyl record shop with a syringe needle loaded with a lung-stopping drug in a bid to kill him, a court heard. The [...]