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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 […]

Rishi Sunak has praised a junior football club which has tripled the number of young people playing the game. The MP said Bedale Junior Football Club had set an example in growing its membership, having […]

Police are appealing for information after a man was assaulted by three attackers in Brompton. The incident happened between 10pm and 11pm on the night of Monday, May 2 in Orchard Grove. Three men called […]

The firm responsible for providing television and radio signals to swathes of the North has revealed its plan to fully restore services with a new 314-metre mast remains on track to be completed by the […]

A landscape gardener who admitted to problem gambling has been sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment suspended for 18 months after pleading guilty to five counts of fraud. Keith Albert Wilson, of Maple Gardens, Sowerby, Thirsk, […]

Councillors serving on a local authority which has repeatedly been accused of putting expanding firms’ interests above those of its residents and the environment have been told being “business-friendly” does not mean having to approve […]

The leader of North Yorkshire County Council’s ruling Conservative group  says the deal to hand central government powers to local authorities serving the county and York will need to be “negotiated with vigour”. Councillor Carl […]