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Residents of a Domesday Book village beside a proposed centre for 1,500 asylum seekers have told Home Office officials they are being treated as “collateral damage”. Several civil servants and managers from security firm Serco […]

Bedale district councillor Carl Les is set to be the first leader of the new North Yorkshire Council. The councillor, who was selected to represent the Catterick Village and Brompton-on-Swale ward on the county council […]

A Conservative-led council has overwhelmingly passed a vote of no confidence in the Home Office’s “cack-handed” handling of plans to transform a former RAF base into a centre for 1,500 male asylum seekers. The first […]

Firefighters were called out after a vehicle hit a deer on the A19 yesterday. The incident happened on the southbound carriageway on the stretch from Kilvington to Thirsk. A crew from Thirsk responded to reports […]

Local hospice care charity Herriot Hospice Homecare is hosting an event next week as part of its vision to transform a former Thirsk hospital into a hospice and community hub. The Herriot Hospice@The Lambert project […]

A Conservative-led council has voiced its fury after the Home Office announced it had moved forward plans to open a centre for asylum seekers at a former RAF training base. A meeting of Hambleton District […]

Opposition parties have pledged to offer a greater challenge to North Yorkshire’s ruling Conservative administration ahead of the authority’s first full meeting this week. With some 43 seats between them, newly-appointed leaders of the Independent, Liberal […]

The seven district and borough councils in North Yorkshire are to have their biggest powers stripped away next week, some 11 months before being dissolved and a unitary council being formed. In a move by […]