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The Birch Tree Inn, in Wilsill

Plan to convert prominent Yorkshire Dales pub into holiday cottage refused

The British Steel rolling mill at Lackenby, Teesside.

Everything you need to know as steelmaking returns to Teesside

Residents protesting outside the Hessle Halifax Branch. Councillor Simon Pickering is on the far right.

Halifax slammed for closure of East Riding town's last remaining branch

Foreshore Rd, Scarborough - Proposed site for 'water sports hub'.

‘Water sports hub’ with showers and lockers proposed for Scarborough beachfront

Doncaster Sheffield Airport

Doncaster Sheffield Airport: Plans to submit business case unanimously approved

Jacob Young MP, Chris Musgrave, Tees Valley Mayor Ben Houchen, Mr Huiming Li Ceo of Jingye Group, Martin Corney, Allan Bell, Matt Stockwell, Mr Xijun Cao Chairman and CEO of British Steel.

New steel furnace not on Teesworks land despite claims

Green Party candidate for Tees Valley Mayor, Sally Bunce

Green Party announce candidate to challenge Ben Houchen in Tees Valley election

Stock image: Leeds City Council is responsible for more than 1,500 children who have been taken into care

Council sent children in care to stay in tents for ‘therapeutic breaks’

Knowle House site in Sheffield

Early Victorian building could be destroyed and replaced with new flats

Hesper Farm

Dairy farmers want to convert sheds into business units after loss of EU subsidy

Coun Pete Kilbane speaking at the event

'Brexit benefit' to help businesses in York, says council's deputy leader

The James Cook University Hospital, part of the South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Norovirus: Hospital closes three wards after outbreak of winter vomiting bug

Aerial view artist's impression of the York Central development.

Developers win contract to develop 2,500 new homes in historic city centre

Doncaster Sheffield Airport.

Mayor ‘hopeful’ after council requests funding for airport rescue plan

Plans to turn Leeds high school to into 82 homes enters consultation phase

Redcar town centre

Council leader warns Government of "growth of opposition" to Hydrogen pilot

Barnsley Council is facing an estimated £21m budget overspend next year to keep essential services running – but the council leader has reassured taxpayers that a balanced budget will be delivered. Picture Scott Merrylees

Barnsley Council facing £21m budget overspend next year

Former prime minister Boris Johnson giving evidence at the UK Covid-19 Inquiry.

Boris Johnson apologises to families of Covid victims

Picture James Hardisty.

Passengers back plan to bring West Yorkshire buses under public control

The Henry Jenkins Inn, Kirkby Malzeard

Relief after conversion plan at historic Yorkshire Dales village pub is rejected

Spark:York

Council dismisses 'rumour' Spark:York is paying below market rent
The City of York Council’s finance executive has dismissed “rumours” that Spark:York is not paying market value rent.

Neighbours Hazel Rowley and Alan Wright have campaigned to stop the closure of the Halifax bank branch in Normanton, Wakefield.

Neighbours campaign to save Yorkshire town’s last bank branch

A developer has lost his appeal after being refused permission to turn the former Avondale Fisheries, in Wakefield, into a house share for 14 people. Residents began a campaign to stop the scheme in August 2022.

Plan to turn Yorkshire chippy into house share for 14 people turned down

A CGI image of the proposed building

Yorkshire village high street to be recreated in miniature at role play centre

Luke Pollard, Labour’s Shadow Armed Forces Minister, said: “The Conservatives are failing in their duty to our service personnel."

One in five North Yorkshire service personnel live in lowest-rated accommodation

A plan for the huge new Maltkiln scheme in North Yorkshire

Council threatens to use compulsory purchase orders to save 4,000-home scheme

The derelict former Crimea Tavern pub, on Savile Road, Castleford.

Council plans to spend £1.2m to buy then demolish derelict former pub

Sheffield Clean Air Zone - charges for the first eight months totalled almost £3.3m

Sheffield buses fitted with faulty technology that is 'failing' to cut pollution

Security guards stand outside the BBC headquarters at New Broadcasting House in London, England.

Editors call on BBC to halt aggressive expansion into local news

The site in Sutton-in-Craven

Plan to build six homes on 'wasteland' in North Yorkshire village approved

Barclays bank, Scarborough.

'Electronic bird deterrent' approved for Scarborough town centre

42 Esplanade, Scarborough.

Bid to create large guest house refused over ‘electronic monitoring’ plan
A former care home in Scarborough cannot be converted into a 19-bed guest house over its plan for ‘remote supervision’, the council has ruled.

The £11.5bn upgrade is due to be completed by 2033

Passengers promised faster journeys as £3.9bn is announced for rail upgrade

Teesside International Airport

Publicly-owned airport reports lower losses than expected

Hambleton Grove Industrial Estate unit where the bar will be

Brewing firm could open new bar on industrial estate as part of expansion plans

Liberal Democrat Minster and Woodmansey ward's Coun Pete Astell (right) with his son Coun Tom Astell.

Tributes to 'champions of their communities' as councillors die on the same day

Campaigners, residents, and GP surgeries have renewed calls for for a 20mph speed limit in Whitby to protect residents and tourism.
Picture James Hardisty.

20mph speed limit in Whitby will 'protect town's future'

Copmanthorpe level crossing

Network Rail withdraws plans for footbridge over level crossing

Rachel Reeves, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer (Photo by Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)

Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves blames Government for councils going bankrupt

Keane Duncan

Tory mayoral candidate for North Yorkshire makes bus franchising pledge

Councils at 'breaking point' Government told, as dozens in bankruptcy risk

There was uproar after the signage, for a new business called The Red Shop, was installed without permission. One Councillor said it was “not a good look” for the building, and Historic England demanded answers, calling it “one of Bradford’s most important and much-loved buildings.”

Signage from Grade I listed building to be removed after uproar

Ice-cream and cotton candy flavoured vapes sold on B&M sweet aisle

Ice cream flavoured vapes being sold on sweet aisle in Yorkshire store

Conservative Howdenshire ward's Coun Victoria Aitken speaking at East Riding of Yorkshire Council's full council

Disabled children have to go home to use the toilet due to school works backlog

Flaxman Avenue care home

Care home’s inconsistent leadership did not always support high-quality care

Dead crabs washed up on the beach at Redcar.

Crab deaths: MP calls for regular testing to avoid 'ecological catastrophe'

Picture by Bruce Rollinson

Train passengers told to expect severe disruption when drivers go on strike

Rishi Sunak's Network North plans are full of old plans which were shelved by the Government, MPs have been told. Photo credit: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

Network North full of rail projects that have 'not been developed'

Tees Transporter Bridge, often referred to as the Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge, in Middlesbrough.

Cross-party support to re-open iconic Tees transporter bridge

Harrogate District Hospital

Yorkshire hospital says strikes ‘significantly impacting’ cancer treatment

Former Health Minister Matt Hancock arrives to give evidence for the second time at the covid inquiry on November 30, 2023 in London, England. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Watch live: Matt Hancock giving evidence to Covid inquiry

Doncaster Sheffield Airport was closed down in 2022.

Doncaster Sheffield Airport: 'Significant sum' needed for rescue plan

Police breaking up a 'wide awake' demonstration by Just Stop Oil protesters outside the Prime Minister's Rishi Sunak's London home calling for a halt on fossil fuel exploration in the UK. Photo credit: Just Stop Oil/PA Wire

Sixteen arrested after Just Stop Oil protest outside Rishi Sunak’s London home

The Ice Arena in Hull

'New chapter' for Yorkshire docks as plans get green light

Rooms in the Eston property belonging to Mark Neary. Picture/credit: PH Estate Agents

'Rogue landlord' fined £15,000 after flats placed tenants at risk of death

The assisted living facility on Barnsley Road in Darfield

Apology after elderly residents left without heating for two days

Castle Gateway project CGI

Calls for 'much more detailed look' at finances of York's Castle Gateway scheme

York Central artist's impression

Concerns over percentage of affordable homes on huge brownfield site in York

Former Wilko chair Lisa Wilkinson appearing before the Business and Trade Select Committee in the House of Commons, London answering questions on the subject of the collapse of Wilko. Picture date: Tuesday November 28, 2023.

Watch moment Wilko boss tells MP she has 'let down' staff and shoppers

South Kirkby Colliery near Wakefield in the 1970s. It closed in 1988 and the site has been redeveloped

Council considering scheme to use water in collieries to generate energy

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