Month: November 2020

Yorkshire Water is urging people to only flush the 3Ps – pee, poo and toilet paper – down their toilet, after a mass of wet wipes was removed from a Grewelthorpe sewer. The removal of […]

Two more Hambleton residents have died after testing positive for Covid-19. Figures released this week by the Office for National Statistics show 77 people from the district have died with coronavirus later being mentioned on […]

Hambleton councillors have refused to support a bid for an east/west unitary model to government as a proposed way to reorganise local government in North Yorkshire. All councils in North Yorkshire were invited to submit […]

North Yorkshire County Council has reached an agreement with Public Health England to run its own test and trace system from Thursday. The authority has followed several others in moving away from the national system […]

The Secretary of State for Local Government will decide between two contrasting proposals to create unitary authorities in North Yorkshire and York it has been agreed, despite claims a plan to create a mega council […]

Cases of coronavirus in North Yorkshire care homes have quadrupled in the month before the new national lockdown, it has been revealed. Richard Webb, the county’s corporate director of health and adult services, told a […]

A £2.5M scheme to designed improve the heart of Northallerton and enhance its heritage has been pushed forward amid claims it represents “a vote of confidence” in high streets. Hambleton District Council’s cabinet has recommended the […]

Hambleton’s conservative council leader has launched a withering attack on the Government’s plans to create unitary authorities in York and North Yorkshire, saying it is unwanted, unnecessary and badly timed. A meeting of Hambleton District […]

A Hambleton charity which provides opportunities for children and young people to learn and grow has teamed up with parents to secure nearly £1,500 of donations by staging a Covid-secure Halloween event. While trick or treating […]