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National financial and firefighting assistance will be delivered to help tackle the blaze on Langdale Moor, where a major incident has been declared. Emergency services are set to receive national support to help tackle the […]

North Yorkshire Council’s commercial arm made a pre-tax profit of £3.2m last year — despite losses of the same value made by its housing division. The Brierley Group delivered around £300,000 more in profit in […]

Firefighters from four stations were called to a woodland fire near Kilburn on Tuesday evening. Crews from Ripon, Bedale, Stokesley and Northallerton attended the incident at 7.53pm. On arrival they found a deep-seated fire within […]

North Yorkshire Council is meeting national targets for dealing with planning applications despite not having enough planning officers, councillors have been told. Members of North Yorkshire Council’s executive committee heard this week that the department […]

North Yorkshire Council is looking to cut tooth decay in children by funding a programme to oversee a supervised teeth-brushing programme for the under fives. The authority wants to commission a provider to run a […]

Council chiefs have rejected requests from North Yorkshire residents to make roads in their communities a high priority for winter gritting. North Yorkshire Council declined 20 out of 21 applications for amendments to its winter […]

Fire crews were called to a car fire on the A1 this morning. The incident happened at 7.44am today on the southbound carriageway between Catterick and junction 51 at Leeming. Fire crews from Bedale, Darlington […]

North Yorkshire Police are appealing for information – and CCTV footage – after a series of burglaries in Northallerton. The offences took place in the Romanby area during the early hours of Wednesday, 6 August […]