Year: 2024

Labour candidate David Skaith has won the race to become York and North Yorkshire’s first mayor. He beat Conservative candidate Keane Duncan into second place. The Labour candidate received 66,761 votes compared to the Tory’s […]

Political activists, including one of the Prime Minister’s aides, are trying to get a steer on the outcome of the first York and North Yorkshire Mayoral election as the counting of votes gets underway. In […]

A safe containing valuables was stolen in a burglary in Brompton Jewellery, cash, a purse and a watch were taken in the raid. The break-in took place in Orchard Grove between Sunday, April 21 and […]

A hospital trust CEO has angered an MP after liking a message on social media comparing Government plans to send some asylum seekers to Rwanda to the incarceration of Jews in Auschwitz. Sir Simon Clarke […]

A landowner who transformed a 60-acre farm into a riding arena and livery centre business has said he was unaware he needed planning consent. In an unusual planning application to North Yorkshire Council, Gary Vasey […]

Wensleydale Railway has received an industrial diesel locomotive on permanent loan from Hope Cement Works in Derbyshire. Owned by Breedon Group, Hope Cement Works opened in 1929 and is the largest cement manufacturing operation in […]

Liberal Democrats are calling on the Conservative-led North Yorkshire Council to place a moratorium on school closures until the first county-wide Local Plan development blueprint is adopted in 2028. Members of the 14-councillor political group have […]

Openreach is urging people living and working in some small rural communities in Hambleton and Richmondshire to get behind a bid to bring ultrafast, ultra-reliable full fibre broadband to more than 1,500 local homes and […]

Community leaders in a designated National Landscape area renowned for its tranquillity have welcomed an agreement between a controversy-hit animal feeds firm and a council’s planning department to restrict the hours its HGVs can operate. […]