Year: 2022

A plan to create a private dog walking field across an area of good quality farmland which is surrounded by hundreds of free footpaths has been approved, despite residents branding the scheme “ludicrous”. Hambleton District […]

Officials have launched an investigation into the site of an unauthorised aggregate bagging depot which has been established off a narrow country lane. A meeting of Hambleton District Council’s planning committee heard officers drop a […]

Bosses at Hambleton District Council say they shares residents’ frustration that the new North Northallerton link road and bridge has not yet been opened — despite the route appearing to be complete. The district council […]

Planners are powerless to respond to residents’ road safety concerns outside a “cramped” housing estate where developers have described a sloping roadside grass verge as a “public open space”, a meeting has heard. Hambleton District […]

A review of proposed sweeping changes to local government in North Yorkshire and York has concluded having an elected mayor and a combined authority “will promote local democracy”. The claim in a report to a […]

Rowena Wallace is preparing to tackle the Great North Run for the very first time after she was inspired by her own mother’s fight against breast cancer. The mother-of-two, from Northallerton, is raising money for […]

Hambleton District Council has started work on the construction of a two-changing room pavilion at Sowerby Sports Village near Thirsk.  The pavilion is part of a £1.3m investment that includes the construction of a full […]

A recently retired Army major from Thirsk has been shortlisted for a prestigious award. Sip Powers is a finalist in the inspiration category of the 2022 Soldiering On Awards. The award honours a person who […]

A large field fire near Stokesley was started deliberately, says North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service (NYFRS). A fire crew from Stokesley was called to the incident at 5pm yesterday near Hilton Road, Seamer. After […]