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A local authority aiming to create the UK’s first carbon negative county has had the scale of its climate change ambitions called into question and accused of only “paying lip service” to environmental improvements. Leading […]

Police have issued a CCTV image of a man they would like to speak to following a theft in Bedale. It happened at the Co-op at about 12pm on Wednesday, April 13 and involved an […]

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 […]