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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 […]

Two men have been sentenced for their roles in a serious assault which claimed the life of 32-year-old Alan Barefoot from South Kilvington, near Thirsk. 22-year-old Benjamin Calvert, of Kings Gardens, Sowerby, was sentenced to […]

Hundreds of thousands of people across North Yorkshire are being given the chance to help to shape the region’s economic future. A consultation is being launched today to give residents, community groups and businesses as […]

A controversial plan to site a giant free range egg farm, including two 172m-long sheds, on open countryside has been recommended for refusal, after planners concluded it would have “a significant harmful impact” on the […]

A council which will disappear as part of local government reorganisation in North Yorkshire has agreed to press on with a move to honour four of its serving members before the authority is abolished. A […]