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An Easingwold secondary school is celebrating after it was awarded a nationally recognised award for its work on inclusion. Outwood Academy Easingwold was awarded the Inclusion Quality Mark Award by IQM. The award provides UK […]

Police searches are continuing to find an 81-year-old man missing from Aldwark. Brian Warriss was last seen at his home in Aldwark, north of York, at about 4.45pm on Sunday 1 March. Officers are particularly […]

Pickhill Church of England Primary School, near Thirsk, has been awarded the Green Flag accolade for its work to care for the environment, becoming one of just 17 schools in the county to receive the […]

North Yorkshire County Councils looks set to press ahead with its multi-million pound extra care scheme plans for Bedale, despite seeing a scheme rejected by planners. Leading members will next week consider a proposal to […]

A Northallerton man who credits a housing association’s mental health support team with preventing him from taking his own life is now raising awareness of the need to reach out for help. Last year, Ryan […]

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 […]