Year: 2020

North Yorkshire County Council is recruiting hundreds of care workers and buying up care home beds in an emergency move to free up hospital space for critically ill coronavirus patients. Almost 400 new care workers […]

NHS chiefs in the region have urged anyone with urgent non-COVID conditions to seek help immediately despite the ongoing pandemic. South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is reminding people that the NHS is still here […]

A scheme developed to make a positive difference to the safety of the local community through the teaching of fire service skills to young people is the latest beneficiary of a fund administered by a […]

North Yorkshire Police and the RSPCA are appealing for information after a buzzard was found injured near Shipton Grange close to Shipton-by-Beningbrough. The buzzard, a male, was found by a local farmer who called the RSPCA and the charity’s […]

Hambleton District Council is set to become among the region’s first to relaunch the democratic process following emergency coronavirus measures were introduced. Hambleton District Council, 86 per cent of the members of which are Conservative, […]

A housing association has written to residents outlining its reasons for resubmitting an application to build a 59-home extra care scheme for elderly and vulnerable people in Bedale. People living in the vicinity of the […]

Work on a major improvement scheme in Northallerton has been halted due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Zetland Street work – which was expected to be completed next month – was brought to a stop […]

North Yorkshire County Council is making changes to the way its social care teams operate to better support local residents during the Covid-19 crisis. Officials say that while most of its services will be unchanged […]

Plans have been unveiled to build a further 85 homes on the edge of a village, just months after residents lost a three-year battle over a scheme to build a larger housing estate on neighbouring […]