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The High Sheriff of North Yorkshire made a virtual visit to a Hambleton village primary school which is supporting the children of key workers. This would normally be a busy time for the recently appointed […]

A community fund set up to support local projects is helping a group of North Yorkshire volunteers making scrubs for NHS staff in Yorkshire during the Covid-19 crisis. Residents on Broadacres Housing Association’s Community Development […]

The Nightingale Hospital at Harrogate has not yet taken in any patients. A spokesperson for NHS England said there was still capacity at existing hospitals in the area to treat coronavirus patients. But that the […]

A temporary Covid-19 testing station will operate in Northallerton over the next two days. As part of the national roll out of the key worker testing for COVID–19, a military run drive-through mobile testing unit […]

North Yorkshire Police has been told by highways officials that it has committed an offence by blocking a popular footpath as residents accused the force of compounding their misery during Coronavirus lockdown. Residents of Newby […]

Hambleton residents are being reminded that all bin collections will be earlier than normal due this year’s May Day bank holiday on Friday, May 8. Collections due on Monday 4 May will be two days […]

Waste centres across North Yorkshire will stay shut despite a government go-ahead for them to reopen. North Yorkshire County Council has confirmed its 21 recycling sites will remain closed until further notice – as other councils […]

A man suffered a minor burn after fire spread from weeds to a house yesterday. Two crew from Northalelrton and one from Bedale were called to the incident at Morton-on-Swale at 1.09pm. North Yorkshire Fire […]

Bomb disposal experts have searched the caravan of a convicted stalker weeks after two bodies were found in the pervert’s former Hambleton garden. Kenneth Ward, 72, was jailed for five years for harassing his neighbour […]

A supply teacher has been jailed for eight-and-a-half years for sexually assaulting six girls at a North Yorkshire school. Jonathan Philip Clayton, aged 27, from Stockton-on-Tees, was found guilty on all 13 sexual touching charges […]