Month: October 2023

A drunk driver who failed to stop for police officers, leading them on a pursuit along winding, wet country roads has been banned from driving for 14 months. Jonathan Michael Peter Harrison, 42, of Risplith […]

The headquarters of North Yorkshire Police and the county’s fire service was evacuated today after a box believed to contain grenades was handed in at reception. The items were found during a house clearance, the […]

Concerns are growing for a missing Tollerton man who has not been seen since the early hours of Monday. Luke Willetts, 33, left his home on foot at around 4.30am and was last seen heading […]

Firefighters were called to help after a spillage of orange and mango juice on the road today. The incident happened at about 10am in Leases Road, Leeming Bar. A fire crew from Northallerton attended a […]

Police say a missing 15-year-old girl from Bedale has been found. North Yorkshire Police appealed for information on her whereabouts this morning. The force said she had been found safe and well.

Firefighters were called out to a suspected fire this morning which turned out to be an oxygen cylinder which had vented. The incident on the Dalton Airfield industrial estate was reported at about 4.40am. A […]

Wensleydale Railway has announced the appointment of its first female train driver. Long-term volunteer Sue Threadgold has recently passed her driver training and is now qualified to drive the railway’s class 142 and class 143 […]

A proposal to keep an unauthorised farm diversification scheme, which has been operating on farmland for more than four years without planning permission, has generated a mixed response. While Sandra Holtby’s application to North Yorkshire […]

A proposal to launch a long-term storage facility by placing 76 storage containers on a greenfield site overlooking housing has met with opposition from residents of a housing estate which was also vigorously opposed by […]