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A general view of a school safety zone sign. PIC: Mike Egerton/PA Wire

Protest against North Yorkshire Council’s schools transport policy - YP Letters
Gerald Hodgson, Richmond and Northallerton Liberal Democrats, Spennithorne, Leyburn.

New Woodhouse councillor Willis Marshall, pictured here at the Sheffield City Council by-election count in Sheffield Town Hall on November 29, 2024. Picture: Julia Armstrong, LDRS

Willis Marshall: Sheffield’s youngest councillor suspended after complaint

Health Secretary Wes Streeting outside BBC Broadcasting House in London, after appearing on the BBC One current affairs programme, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg. Picture: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

No all-party social care meeting for weeks, Lib Dems say

North Yorkshire Police wants people to join the force as a Special Constable.

Just 1% of North Yorkshire Police dedicated to tackling rural crime

A GP at their desk. PIC: Anthony Devlin/PA Wire

North Yorkshire has biggest increase in two-week GP appointment waits

Coun Mike Ross (left) and Ed Davey (right) call for 'polluters to pay' in North Sea. On banks of Humber Estuary. Credit Donna Clifford.

Ed Davey praises Yorkshire people and organisations after North Sea collision

Campaigners take part in a rally for the social care day of action at Parliament Square, Westminster. PIC: Lucy North/PA Wire

Councils forced to 'hike parking charges and fees to fund social care'

Mike Ross

Hull council leader demands government intervention over year-long A63 delay

Hull and East Yorkshire mayoral candidate Coun Mike Ross, left, and Lib Dem leader Ed Davey, centre. Credit: Lib Dems

Lib Dems 'confident' of winning first mayor in Hull and East Yorkshire

Rachel Reeves was shown a clip from an angry Yorkshire farmer on the BBC. Credit: Jeff Overs/BBC/PA Wire

Thousands of farms in Yorkshire could be hit by Labour's 'tractor tax'

Harrogate and Knaresborough MP Tom Gordon, says he will be opposing the Reserved Matters application submitted recently to North Yorkshire Council by Harrogate Spring Water. (Picture contributed)

A&E waits of 12-hours at this NHS trust have almost trebled in a year

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper delivers a speech during the Labour Party Conference. PIC: Peter Byrne/PA Wire

Has privatising prisons backfired on us taxpayers? - Yorkshire Post Letters

Barnsley Council are looking to implement a hardship fund following cuts to winter fuel payments.

Barnsley Council to set up hardship fund for pensioners after fuel payment cuts

Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey holding a Q&A during the party's autumn conference in Brighton. Credit: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

Nearly 460K children across region have not seen an NHS dentist in a year

Patients waiting up to seven months for skin cancer treatment

Students at Woodkirk Academy in Wakefield celebrated their grades after being impacted by the RAAC concrete crisis and despite being denied a grad up-lift.

Students impacted by RAAC crisis get no grade up-lift

A taped off section inside a school which has been affected with sub standard reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (Raac). Credit: Jacob King/PA Wire

Call for higher grades for students at schools affected by Raac concrete

Harrogate and Knaresboroogh MP Tom Gordon said the pay-off to the boss of Yorkshire Water, which is part of a more than £1 million pay packet, sends out the wrong signals. (Picture contributed)

Yorkshire Water permit breaches double in two years, FoI finds

The stretch of the River Ouse which includes Yorkshire Water's pumping station, the University of York Boat Club and Fulford Ings (right, north to south).

Yorkshire Water fine should be just the start - The Yorkshire Post says

Cllr Safiya Saeed gives a passionate speech about her experience as a councillor to raise awareness about abuse members receive.

Sheffield’s deputy mayor tells of threat to burn down her house

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner during a visit to a housing development. PIC: Joe Giddens/PA Wire

Labour's housing targets are realistic - Bartek Staniszewski
Just looking at the numbers, it may seem that Labour’s housing plans are the least ambitious of the three major parties. The Tories promised to average 320,000 new homes a year – almost 100,000 more than they managed in 2020, the Conservatives’ most successful year in terms of house building numbers since they came into power in 2014.
Bartek Staniszewski

abour leader and incoming Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and wife Victoria enter 10 Downing Street

Watch: Keir Starmer makes first speech as Prime Minister outside No 10

General Election 2024’s 7 best campaign moments and gaffes.

General Election 2024 7 best campaign moments and gaffes

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak walks back in to 10 Downing Street, London, after calling a General Election for July 4. PIC: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

Next PM needs to better understand farming communities - Sarah Todd

Roundhay Parochial Hall, Fitzroy Drive, Roundhay, Leeds, one of the many Polling Station open for the Local Elections.

Neurodiverse election candidates fear discrimination

Britain's Labour Party politician and Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Wes Streeting speaks to a television crew outside the BBC in London, June 16, 2024, in the build-up to the UK general election on July 4. (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP)

Alarming lack of urgency in Labour's plan for social care: Mike Padgham

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage on the Reform UK campaign bus in Barnsley. PIC: Danny Lawson/PA Wire

Are there any voices left in Westminster to speak up for farming? - Sarah Todd

(Photo: BEN STANSALL/AFP via Getty Images)

How UK parties are approaching National Insurance ahead of election

Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey falls into lake.

Watch: Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey falls into lake

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer (centre) with shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper and David Skaith the Labour North Yorkshire Mayor. PIC: Danny Lawson/PA Wire

Labour North Yorkshire victory remarkable given lack of campaigning - YP Letters

A dog walker in East Park, Hull

Child safety v disabled access row as cars set to be allowed back into park

Ed Davey testing the River Nidd for pollution in Knaresborough.

Ed Davey: One Nation Tories see us as their new home
“Why aren’t the Liberal Democrats doing better?” is the question on many people’s lips following the steep decline of their former coalition partners, the Conservatives.
Mason Boycott-Owen

Free school meal

Free school meal trial extended with further £100k to be spent

Liberal Democrats were absent from the audit and governance committee

Liberal Democrats boycott meeting over "unusual feud"

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York sees England's worst increases in month-long GP waits, figures suggest

England’s Tommy Freeman (right) is tackled by Ireland’s Jamison Gibson-Park during the Guinness Six Nations match at Twickenham Stadium, London. PIC: David Davies/PA Wire.

Politicians could help sports fans save money - John Grogan

Barnsley Council said it has been the worst cut authority in the country, except for Liverpool

The Yorkshire council facing the ‘worst cuts in country bar Liverpool’

Dore Moor Garden Centre design

Plans for retirement homes replacing Dore Moor Garden Centre in Sheffield

Gwen Swinburn

Liberal Democrats criticise decision to woman from council meetings

Harrogate Lib Dem leader Pat Marsh.

Pat Marsh resigns as councillor following comments regarded antisemitic

Debbie Mitchell, chief finance officer at the City of York Council

Finance officer warned against using one-off funds ahead of budget

Michael Pavlovic, housing executive at the City of York Council

Liberal Democrats say council's housing executive should have resigned

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Council "confident" it can reach agreement to cut library services

Michael Pavlovic. Image credit: City of York Council

Labour council accused of backtracking on 100% affordable housing pledge

Shadow Treasury minister James Murray, who said: “The Government’s approach to the loan charge has become a nightmare for ordinary people across the country who are the victims of mis-selling and who are facing financial ruin. The torment and devastating reality is the clearest possible proof that the Government needs to think again. Those facing the loan charge ordeal cannot bear to hear yet again that the Morse Review is the final word on this matter." (Photo by PA)

Torment continues for loan charge victims: Greg Wright

York Explore Library and Archive

'Only fair' libraries face cuts according to senior York councillor

York city centre

York Council budget: Parking charges, council tax and bin collection cost

Free school meals

Tory leader accuses Lib Dems of scoring 'cheap points' over free school meals

An NHS sign on a fence at a Hospital. PIC: PA

Virtual wards are not the silver bullet for NHS woes

The Cole Brothers building in Sheffield city centre

When will the former Cole Brothers building re-open in Sheffield city centre?

Western Library, in Boulevard, Hull. Picture is from Google Street View

Boilers broken at two of Hull’s winter warm spaces sparking row

Sheffield Town Hall

Questions about ‘failed’ Fargate Container project unanswered in fiery debate

York city centre. (Pic credit: James Hardisty)

Council reverses ban on blue badges in pedestrianised areas of York city centre

Nigel Farage speaks with protesters outside Downing Street in central London, on the first day of the expansion of the ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) to include the whole of London. Picture: Victoria Jones/PA Wire

I'd rather have a political party led by Farage or Boris: Sarah Todd

The A660, which runs northwards out of Leeds city centre.

Controversial scheme to introduce cycle lanes along one of Leeds’ busiest routes

Sheffield city centre, Town Hall and Christmas markets looked like Christmas card scenes in the snow brought by Storm Arwen. Sheffield Council said it is well prepared to tackle such conditions.

Council denies free parking at Christmas despite pleas from businesses

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer and shadow education secretary Bridget Phillipson, during a visit to a school in Dagenham. PIC: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire

What alternative is Sir Keir Starmer actually offering? - David Behrens

39% of children can't see a dentist - and it's worse for adults

Matt Walker, Knaresborough West.

Yorkshire councillor ‘disgusted’ at council’s job ad with £82,000 salary

By election winner and Labour Party candidate Keir Mather speaks at Selby Leisure Centre, North Yorkshire after the results were given for the Selby and Ainsty by-election, called following the resignation of incumbent MP Nigel Adams. PIC: Danny Lawson/PA Wire

The real winner of the Selby and Ainsty byelection was voter apathy - Andy Brown

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