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Senior councillors have called for members’ allowances to increase automatically to avoid the issue becoming a “political football”. An independent panel currently meets annually to make recommendations on how much North Yorkshire Council members receive […]

Building new towns and villages in North Yorkshire is the only way the county will hit its new housing targets, senior councillors say. The comments were made as members of North Yorkshire Council’s executive committee […]

Firefighters from Thirsk and Coulby Newham were called to a two-vehicle collision on Haggitt Hill Lane, East Rounton, at around 10.07am today. The alarm was raised via one of the vehicle’s in-car SOS systems. On […]

A former soldier stationed in North Yorkshire has been jailed for 24 years after admitting 83 cyber-enabled child sexual abuse and exploitation offences across the UK. Austen Tobias Fleming, 28, of Stirling Road, Kilsyth, North […]

Efforts to reduce light pollution across North Yorkshire are gathering pace, with three more communities officially recognised as Dark Skies Friendly. The villages of Husthwaite in the Howardian Hills, and Lastingham and Sleightholme Dale in […]

Northallerton is set to benefit from cleaner streets after a grant was secured to tackle chewing gum. North Yorkshire Council has received £27,500 from the Government’s national Chewing Gum Task Force to clean gum off […]

A North Yorkshire visitor attraction has been granted a licence to play music and serve alcohol despite concerns the venue could become a “mini-Glastonbury Festival”. Councillors have given permission for Monk Park Farm, near Thirsk, […]

Bedale High School has officially opened its new Sporting Wall of Achievement, a tribute celebrating decades of student success in sport. The wall is dedicated to the memory of Rebecca Robinson, a former pupil who […]