Month: March 2026

Fire crews were called to a kitchen fire at a commercial property in Northallerton yesterday. Appliances from North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service stations in Northallerton and Thirsk were mobilised to the incident on Crosby […]

Stolen motorbikes have been returned to their rightful owners following a joint police operation targeting cross-border crime. Officers from the North Yorkshire Police Stokesley Neighbourhood Policing Team worked alongside the force’s Rural Taskforce and colleagues […]

Residents across Hambleton and Richmondshire are being encouraged to help shape local policing by joining a new independent advisory group. North Yorkshire Police is seeking members for its Independent Advisory Groups (IAGs), which aim to […]

Some of Yorkshire’s most cherished landscapes are celebrating a landmark moment after the Coast to Coast has officially been designated a National Trail, more than half a century after it was first imagined by renowned […]

Illegal tobacco products have been seized during a joint enforcement operation in Northallerton and Thirsk. Officers from North Yorkshire Police worked alongside Trading Standards to carry out targeted visits aimed at removing illicit goods from […]

North Yorkshire Council has defended its planning department after it was found to have one of the worst records in the country for making decisions deemed unreasonable by the Planning Inspectorate. Since 2019, inspectors ruled […]

A motorist was stopped by police just minutes after leaving court despite being handed an immediate driving ban. Kalamehan Puvanathayatharan, 43, of Middlesbrough, appeared at Harrogate Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, March 24, where he was […]

A teenage boy has been arrested after a police pursuit involving a 4×4 ended in a field near Stokesley. At around 9.05pm on Monday, an officer on patrol near The Green, Stokesley spotted a silver […]

Firefighters were called to reports of smoke and sparks coming from a garden fence in Northallerton on Monday evening. A crew from Northallerton attended The Crescent, Northallerton at 9.17pm. On arrival, crews discovered the remains […]

The chairman of North Yorkshire Council says the county is “standing side by side” with the Jewish community following an apparent anti-Semitic incident in London. Four ambulances belonging to a Jewish charity were destroyed in an […]