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A retired Army major from Thirsk has been honoured with a lifetime achievement award at the 2022 Soldiering On Awards. The awards also recognised the achievements of Thirsk businessman Lee Harris-Hamer, from the White Horse […]

Residents of the Howardian Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) have claimed the ancestral owners of a 12th century stately home are “trying to extract a quart from a pretty pint pot” by building […]

A proposal for a large-scale expansion of one of North Yorkshire’s leading industrial estates, which could lead to the creation of 100 jobs, has been put on hold after locals complained they had not been […]

A decision over a proposed “industrial-scale” chicken production facility on farmland has been postponed amid concerns residents of several villages could be overwhelmed by HGVs transporting live birds. Hambleton District councillors have called for further […]

Residents from several villages battling a proposal to create a £6m chicken farm near the East Coast Mainline have been told transporting 300,000 birds and their manure by road from the site raises “no highways concerns”. Hambleton District […]

Richmond MP Rishi Sunak is to be the UK’s next prime minister after rival Penny Mordaunt pulled out. Ms Mordaunt’s decision to concede paves the way for Rishi Sunak to become the next prime minister. […]

Police are appealing for witnesses after a quadbike was stolen from a farm in Ellerbeck near Northallerton. It happened at around 22:15pm on Thursday when three men entered a farmyard and pushed the green Polaris […]

Richmond MP Rishi Sunak is the favourite to become the UK’s next prime minister after Boris Johnson announced he was not standing. The former chancellor could be handed the job as soon as this afternoon […]

A 54-year-old man who repeatedly sexually assaulted a teenage girl has been spared jail. John Andrew Tew, from Thornton Watlass, appeared for sentence at York Crown Court on Friday, October 21, after pleading guilty to […]