Month: May 2020

Hambleton primary school pupils dug deep into North Yorkshire’s archives to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day. Children from St Peter’s School, Brafferton, joined with the North Yorkshire county record office for the project, […]

A council grant has helped build bridges and repair a footpath damaged by tree roots. The path which is the main footpath across the village of Snape, near Bedale, was so uneven that it had […]

Sowerby’s £5m sports village has won regional recognition. The Hambleton District Council project has been awarded the ‘land and rural’ prize in the inaugural North East RICS Social Impact awards. Judges said it had been […]

Fears that a legal challenge over disabled children’s access to school transport could lead to the service being withdrawn for about 900 pupils or taxpayers left with an annual £1.6 million bill appear to have […]

The High Sheriff of North Yorkshire has appointed a fire and rescue cadet to assist him in his official duties. A ceremony to appoint Samuel Baxter, from Northallerton Fire Cadets, as the High Sheriff of […]

Drainage investigation work to help design a scheme to prevent flooding in Aiskew will start next week. North Yorkshire County Council’s highways department is undertaking the works on Bedale Road (former A684) and Jubilee Road. […]

Mystery surrounds an inquiry by publicly-funded bodies into the circumstances surrounding two schoolboys plotting a Columbine-style massacre. The findings of a Learning Lessons Review by the North Yorkshire Safeguarding Children Board to examine incidents at […]

Residents in a Hambleton care home have shared their heartfelt memories of the war to mark 75 years since VE Day. For many who lived through the Second World War, this is the first VE […]

Parents have voiced frustration over vast differences in levels of support being provided by different schools during lockdown. While the Department for Education has stated schools should consider the approaches that best suit the needs […]