Year: 2025

Police are investigating an incident that occurred at around 8.25am on Wednesday between Belgrave Terrace and Mowbray Place in Sowerby. It was reported that an altercation took place between two men, during which threats were […]

An MP has told Parliament that changes to school transport rules in North Yorkshire had thrown families into disarray. Tom Gordon, Liberal Democrat MP for Harrogate and Knaresborough, spoke this week in the House of […]

The latest North Yorkshire community to fight plans for hundreds of new homes say the county’s villages are at risk of becoming “dormitory estates”. The Protect Kirby Hill group has been formed in opposition to […]

A 60-year-old drug dealer who was caught with 5kg of ketamine and over half a kilo of cocaine as he said he was making his way back from the races has been jailed for five […]

Campaigners wanting the A64 upgraded to a dual-carriageway will find out next year if the scheme will be added to the government’s list of priority work. But in an update to North Yorkshire Council, road […]

Two men have been arrested after a double vehicle interception on the A1(M). At 9.20pm last night, officers from our Roads Policing Group and Operational Support Unit deployed to locate a suspected-stolen Ford Transit van […]

Police are urging residents to stay vigilant after reports of a person trying vehicle door handles in Crakehall and Hackforth during the early hours of Sunday, October 12. The incidents were reported at around 4.17am […]

Local Reform party members protested to council officials after England flags were taken down in a North Yorkshire town. Members of the Thirsk and Malton branch of the party spotted North Yorkshire Council workers removing […]

​Villagers and holiday lodge owners are worried that a visitor attraction wants to become a “mini-Glastonbury Festival” in the countryside made famous by author James Herriot. More than 80 people have submitted objections to Monk […]