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Hambleton District Council’s four leisure centres have been rated excellent by the national quality assessment scheme, Quest – the first time all four have achieved this status together. During a two day assessment and a […]

Trading standards officers in North Yorkshire are warning residents of the dangers of dealing with doorstep callers selling fish, following a recent spate of incidents across the county. Despite recent investigations and successful prosecutions by […]

Police are appealing for witnesses and information about a theft that occurred in Marks and Spencer in Northallerton. It involved two men and two women who entered the store with empty trollies and filled them […]

A man who died in a crash near Bedale has been named. Petru Leizeriuc, 48, from Snape, near Bedale, died when the black Seat Ibiza he was driving  left a the road and hit a […]

Work has started on a £15.1m investment providing high-speed broadband to public sector sites in North Yorkshire. The first premises to benefit from the installation of the fibre optic broadband infrastructure are in Easingwold and […]

The award-winning Romanby WI Scarecrow Festival returns this weekend. Eighty five scarecrows have been entered into the trail, with the local WI creating their own entry on the theme of the Calendar Girls. Local families, […]

Two men have been jailed for robbing a Chinese restaurant in Great Ayton. At about 7.55pm on Monday, November 12 2018, two men entered the restaurant on the High Street. Both were wearing Hallowe’en-type masks […]

Work on a £2.5m sport project has begun at a Hambleton secondary academy. Outwood Academy Easingwold, based on York Road, received funding from Hambleton District Council and local football team, Easingwold Town AFC, for the […]

Two new maps are pointing visitors to Easingwold in the right direction of local businesses. Created in partnership with Easingwold Tourist Information Centre, they highlight independent retailers and service businesses in the market town. And […]

A memorial to honour members of the police and fire services has been unveiled at North Yorkshire Police’s headquarters at Alverton Court in Northallerton. An obelisk in memory of all fallen officers, staff and volunteers […]