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Police are appealing for information and sightings of wanted man Dean Pajor, from Sowerby, near Thirsk. The 45-year-old is alleged to have made threats to harm another man. A North Yorkshire Police spokesperson said: “We […]

Plans to close a North Yorkshire village school have been greeted with dismay by the local community. Parents and staff have been informed of a proposal to shut Kirkby Fleetham Church of England Primary School, […]

North Yorkshire Council chiefs say they are considering legal action against the Government over a reduction in funding they have branded ‘Rayner’s rural robbery’. Deputy leader Gareth Dadd said an “ideological political attack” by Labour […]

An anaesthetist nurse on a shopping trip stabbed the owner of a Northallerton vinyl record shop with a syringe needle loaded with a lung-stopping drug in a bid to kill him, a court heard. The […]

Richmond and Northallerton MP Rishi Sunak is to take on senior roles at two of the world’s most distinguished public policy institutions. The former Prime Minister will join the Blavatnik School of Government at Oxford […]

Police have issued an image of a person they want to speak to following an incident in Thirsk. In the early hours of Sunday, December 8, at around 4am, the window of a property on […]

Herriot Hospice Homecare is urging anyone who missed out on a place in the Great North Run to take one of their charity places. The event takes place on Sunday, September 7. It’s dubbed to […]

North Yorkshire councillors will be urged to rethink controversial home-to-school transport changes when they meet next week. Members of North Yorkshire Council’s Richmond area committee will debate a petition calling on the authority to reverse […]

Council chiefs have been urged to work on a coordinated strategy for controversial battery energy storage systems (BESS) as three more plants are proposed for North Yorkshire. Preliminary details have been submitted to North Yorkshire […]