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The number of Covid-19 patients in local hospitals has more than doubled in the last week, but health chiefs say that the levels remain down on those seen earlier in the year. Forty seven people […]

Three Middlesbrough men have been jailed for more than ten years for stealing high-value mountain bikes after they were caught when their getaway vehicle was stopped using a stinger at Sutton Bank. David Anthony Cave, […]

Almost 200 children per week are talking advantage of a new breakfast club set up at a North Yorkshire school with the support of Broadacres and Greggs Foundation. Broadacres has provided the funding for the […]

Hambleton District Council has pushed forward a plan to spend £156,000 a year employing an officer to work three days a week to oversee its finances, blaming the cost on the government’s decision to reorganise […]

Police investigating the theft of cosmetics worth around £300 from Boots in Thirsk have released CCTV of a woman they need to speak to. The incident occurred at about 11.05am on Wednesday, June 16 when […]

A section of Dalton Lane in Thirsk is due to be resurfaced later this month. North Yorkshire County Council’s contractor will carry out and fund the work, which involves resurfacing a section of road they […]

North Yorkshire County Council, which was confronted with a wall of opposition over a proposal to mothball its much-loved outdoor education centres, has signalled its determination to secure a viable commercial future for the sites. North […]

More big names have been added to Northallerton’s first music festival this summer. The North Yorkshire Music Festival takes place at Canada Fields Caravan Park from August 13 to 15. Judge Jules, Danny Rampling, Toploader […]

The owner of Queen Ethelburga’s School, near York, has been sent to prison for three years and three months for non-recent sexual abuse of a boy and a girl. Brian Richard Martin, aged 71, of […]

A pilot on-demand bus service has been launched in Bedale. Run by North Yorkshire County Council, the YorBus pilot is under way in the Bedale, Ripon and Masham area.  County Councillor Don Mackenzie, executive member […]