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A well-regarded scheme designed to help children and their families make positive changes to their diet looks set to be axed following swingeing government cuts. North Yorkshire County Council’s leading members will consider decommissioning the […]

North Yorkshire County Council says it is offering help to schools after a catering company which supplied schools dinners stopped trading. Parents at schools supplied by P&A Food Management Services Limited, which is based in […]

More than a hundred people attended last week’s public consultation event for the district’s proposed new crematorium on land near Skipton on Swale. “The feedback was very positive,” said leader of Hambleton District Council, Councillor […]

A 220-metre long bank designed to stop flooding in a hamlet which has seen residents lives repeatedly threatened when nearby river banks burst looks set to be approved by planners, despite having been built without […]

A blackmailer has been jailed for four years after pleading guilty to demanding £10,000 from a man in Thirsk. Thomas James McDowell, 26, contacted the victim on 13 December 2018 using an unknown number and […]

A catering company which supplied school dinners and catering services to businesses has stopped trading, putting more than 400 jobs at risk. Parents at schools supplied by P&A Food Management Services Limited, which is based in […]

Rural residents who saw bus services to their villages cut to a single outbound service a day have submitted plans for a demand responsive “from-anywhere-to-anywhere” service to an authority seeking to investigate alternatives to traditional […]

Police are appealing for information after a dog was seen chasing and attacking sheep. The incident happened between 7am and 8am in Little Crakehall, near Bedale. Police say the Alsatian dog was witnessed and chased off […]

Traffic police investigating a collision in which a mother and young child were hurt are appealing for a tractor driver to come forward. It happened yesterday at around 7.25pm. A Volvo C30 and a tractor […]

Police are appealing for information following a burglary in Northallerton. The incident occurred at a property on the new Persimmons Homes estate on Darlington Road. It is believed it took place sometime between 4pm on […]