Year: 2025

The palliative care team at the Friarage Hospital is testing DR.VR, a virtual reality (VR) headset that could help patients reduce pain, breathlessness and anxiety and provide much-needed relaxation or new experiences. The team, which […]

Rishi Sunak is backing a community group’s plan to buy and re-open its village pub. The group hopes to revive The Horseshoe Inn at West Rounton, near Northallerton, which has been closed since 2023. The […]

North Yorkshire Council is planning to double the number of communities served by its mobile library service. The library van currently makes 21 stops every month but council bosses hope to increase the number of […]

The York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority has been accused of wasting money after it spent almost £32,000 on a rebranding exercise including a new logo. The authority and Major David Skaith have also been […]

A young angler has been selected to fish for England for a fourth time. Jack Blakey, 14, who lives near Northallerton and attends Richmond School, is a member of the England Youth Fly Fishing Team. […]

A former North Yorkshire village pub is set to be turned into a house. Plans have been submitted to convert the Shorthorn Inn, in Appleton Wiske, near Northallerton, into a five-bedroom home. The pub closed […]

Police investigating an attempted knife-point robbery in Stokesley are appealing for a key witness to come forward. The incident happened at around 3.25pm on Monday when the 15-year-old victim was walking on Station Road. He […]

An active travel strategy is set to be drawn up in North Yorkshire to make walking, cycling, and other sustainable transport options a priority across the county. North Yorkshire Council has agreed to look at […]

Police have issued CCTV images of two people they want to speak to following a shop theft at Tesco in Northallerton. It happened on 11 February at the story on East Road. Email Ben.Hepworth@northyorkshire .police.uk if you […]

North Yorkshire Council has been urged to conduct more research before introducing new rules to increase the number of wheelchair-accessible taxis. The authority is proposing to only allow new taxi registrations for wheelchair-accessible vehicles (WAV), […]