A NORTH Yorkshire MP has moved to reassure residents over plans to site asylum seeker accommodation in their village.

There are reports asylum seekers will be housed in a centre in a village near York.

YORK'S climate change strategy has been slammed as lacking in vision and ambition by campaigners as a draft was discussed in public for the first time.

POLICE have launched a CCTV appeal after a serious assault outside a pub in a North Yorkshire town.

Waste and recycling bosses have been urged to consider introducing European-style collection systems, such as creating central points where residents deposit their waste, as part of a radical overhaul.

SELBY and Ainsty Tory MP Nigel Adams is giving Boris Johnson his support as the Prime Minister braces to receive further fines for breaches of coronavirus laws.

Here's a selection of the items you'll find in the middle aisles of Aldi and Lidl from Thursday, April 14.

CONCERNS are mounting that a serious lack of staff to run North Yorkshire’s key service industries will put the brakes on the county’s post-pandemic recovery.

The popular ferry that links picturesque Nun Monkton to National Trust property Beningbrough Hall opens again this week on Good Friday for the summer season.

TWO guns have been stolen in a raid on All Kinds of Everything on Duck Hill in Ripon.

The driver of an electric Mini was arrested for the second time in a week in Harrogate after testing positive for cocaine.

The UK’s independent medicines regulator is the first in the world to approve the Valneva product, MHRA said in a statement.

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Madeleine was three years old when she went missing on May 3 2007 while on holiday in Portugal.

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Efforts by Persimmon Homes to stop contaminated water leaking into a local river in Abergavenny were "inadequate", a judge said.

RESURFACING work on one of York’s most historic streets is to be delayed by nine months.

SOMEONE had to be cut free by firefighters after a crash in Low Street in  Sherburn in Elmet near Tadcaster.

Workers at sweet makers Valeo in Low Poppleton in York, who make Fox’s Glacier Mints, Poppets and Mint Humbugs, are poised to strike again

PANTO lovers queued outside York’s Grand Opera House from the early hours this morning to buy tickets for next Christmas’s show - and meet Dame Berwick Kaler and other stars.

A woman was bitten by a 'Staffy' type dog in Foxwood, York.

YORK'S weekly recorded Covid-19 case rate has dropped by nine - but more cases continue to be recorded in the area.

German Doner Kebab are offering kebabs for £1 at new York City Centre, Piccadilly branch.

SIX people from the York area have been ordered to pay up to £1,542 each after they didn’t respond to summons for motoring offences.

Dr Hugh Larkin, a popular cardiologist and consultant in acute medicine, who worked at Harrogate District Hospital for 39 years before retiring, has died.

York and surrounding North Yorkshire areas with cases of deadly dog disease Alabama Rot.

A TEENAGER has been arrested by police officers after crashing a 'mini-moto' style motorcycle into a car in a North Yorkshire town.

A DEDICATED dog walking area at the Sports Village in Sowerby, near Thirsk, is now under development and set to open later in the year.

A FESTIVAL celebrating the beauty of the night sky is estimated to have helped generate more than £200,000 of income for businesses.

A POPULAR village pub, once owned by actor Neil Morrisey, is in the running to be crowned National Pub & Bar of the Year.

THE troubled scheme to repave and resurface footways on York's Stonegate has been halted ahead of Easter - and will not now resume until early next year.

A BRIDGE on a main road near York has again been struck by a vehicle - and may have to close temporarily.

TEN more deaths related to Covid-19 have been recorded at hospitals in the York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

A stalker who chased a man up the stairs of his own house and tried to smash down a door with an axe has been given an extended jail sentence totalling 12 years.

THE Joseph Rowntree Theatre is to joins the York Cat Trail with the unveiling of a statue today.

AN ADVENTURE park in York is promising a "fantastic day" out for all the family during the school holidays with it’s Easter holiday event programme.

A COLLEGE in North Yorkshire has raised more than £300 for Cancer Research UK through different Easter-themed fundraising activities.

A ZERO waste shop has launched a new recycling scheme to recycle waste that isn’t collected by the council - raising money for a pre-school in the process.

The UKHSA said that it is investigating a “number” of possible causes behind the spike in cases.

The NHS in North Yorkshire and York say patients who become unwell over the Easter weekend can save time if they choose the right health services.

Ukraine is still being bombed by the Russians with hospitals, schools, homes and railway stations destroyed and adults and children killed.

THE team from a care home in York have sung the praises of a GP practice, calling their local surgery a "lifeline" during the pandemic.

YORK MP Rachel Maskell has suggested the government should impose a tax on people's wealth, such as assets including shares, pensions and homes.

CLIMATE change activists from York have converged on the nation's capital to take part in protests.

YET another proposal for student flats has been submitted to City of York planners.

In the early hours of Wednesday 29 April 1942 York experienced its worst night of the war when, unopposed for much of the attack, German planes dropped bombs throughout the city.

A YORK-BASED foundation has completed a tree planting project to create its very own forest - on land donated by a former boss.

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A CHARITY shop in York is appealing to the local community to get involved and volunteer at the site, as it celebrates its first birthday.