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A council is seeking funding for equipment to remove chewing gum from high street pavements. North Yorkshire Council is applying for £27,500 from Keep Britain Tidy (KBT) for the machinery. The money is given to […]

A protest has taken place at a North Yorkshire farm at the centre of an animal cruelty investigation after undercover footage showed cows being beaten and kicked by workers. Several dozen animal rights campaigners gathered […]

The Mayor of York and North Yorkshire has welcomed £9.7m in funding to protect communities from flooding. David Skaith said projects across the region would benefit from the government money. The schemes in York and […]

Two men have been arrested on suspicion of attempting to steal from a lorry parked up in North Yorkshire. Police received a call at about 3.40am today reporting suspicious activity in the Leeming Bar area. […]

Northern Gas Networks (NGN), the gas distributor for the North of England, is to carry out work in Thirsk to replace the ageing metal pipework with more durable plastic pipes. The company says the work […]

Yorkshire Water says it is investing £3m in its Rainton wastewater treatment works near Thirsk to improve water quality in the River Swale and its tributaries. The project, delivered by BarhaleEnpure, aims to reduce the […]

A derelict caravan was destroyed in a fire started deliberately yesterday. Fire crews from Thirsk and Ripon were called to the blaze at Asenby, near Thirsk, at about 7.30pm on Wednesday. Both crews worked to […]

A North Yorkshire housing association has received more than £1.8m from the government to improve the energy efficiency of hundreds of homes. Broadacres will use the money, which it will match fund, for retrofit work […]

York and North Yorkshire’s mayor has said local bus services are not good enough amid talks with operators over their future. David Skaith said he was trying to make early improvements to buses including extending […]

Police are appealing for witnesses and dashcam footage after a car failed to stop following a collision on the A1(M). It happened between Boroughbridge (Junction 48) and Dishforth (Junction 49) on the northbound carriageway between […]