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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. […]

Opposition groups are calling on North Yorkshire Council to reconsider a move to increase the basic home-to-school transport charge for post-16 students to nearly £800 a year, saying access to education is supposed to be […]

An innovative partnership between councils allowing for economies of scale looks set to take a fresh direction with the establishment of a new company for the provision of audit, counter fraud and information governance services. North […]

A horse was rescued from a ditch by firefighters last night. A crew from Stokesley was called out to the incident near the A172 at 11.10pm. They worked with a vet to free Rosey the […]

A local education authority which has repeatedly been accused of failing to protect small rural schools from closure has advised the 11th closure of a primary in five years would help ensure “children are provided […]