Month: February 2024

Police have urged missing woman Annie Dryden to get in touch a month after her last confirmed sighting. Annie, 20, from Middlesbrough, was last seen when she got off a train at Battersby in North […]

Councillors have been recommended to refuse plans for a new housing development in Finghall amid concerns about flooding. Plans have been submitted for 12 houses on fields off Blewhouse Lane. The scheme would include eight […]

Partners across North Yorkshire are working together to cut harm caused by drugs and alcohol in their ongoing efforts to ensure many more people live longer and healthier lives. A draft all-age North Yorkshire Substance […]

The North York Moors National Park Authority is increasing its financial incentive for farmers and landowners to create large woodland areas. It means that anyone with a planting area greater than 10 hectares can claim […]

A conman went on a solo £700 bender at two Wensleydale pubs and left without paying a penny, a court heard this week. In the space of two days, Phillip Moss sank 16 pints, 15 […]

Labour and Conservative leaders of two contrasting areas have pledged to put their political differences and separate challenges aside to work harmoniously at the launch of the country’s first city-rural combined authority. There was standing […]

North Yorkshire and York residents look set to be charged millions of pounds extra for the area’s police service from April, leaving average council taxpayers more than £100 worse off than their counterparts in other […]

Residents of a Hambleton village fighting a proposed housing development on the grounds it would overwhelm local services and infrastructure have been told their objections have come years too late. Ahead of a meeting on […]