Robert Goodwill

Former MP Sir Robert Goodwill.

Ex MP responds to criticism after getting paid job to chair bathing water group
Former Conservative MP Sir Robert Goodwill has responded to criticism over his appointment as chairman of the Yorkshire Bathing Water Partnership – insisting he...

Sir Robert Goodwill has been appointed to chair the Yorkshire Water Bathing Water Partnership.

Improving coastal bathing waters - Sir Robert Goodwill

Farmers and their tractors protest in Whitehall, London, over the changes to inheritance tax (IHT) rules. PIC: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire

Farming needs to start speaking out - Sarah Todd

These are all the Yorkshire MPs who will be standing down at July's election

Gina Rinehart's company has invested in the Woodsmith Project and is due to receive a cut of royalties from it (Photo by Scott Barbour/Getty Images)

Why Australia's richest person is affected by delay to massive Yorkshire mine

Hundreds of people have been working on the Woodsmith Project. Picture: Ian Forsyth

Job fears for 2,000 employed on massive Yorkshire mine as scheme delayed

Anglo American is to 'slow the development' of a major new mine in Yorkshire

Anglo American to delay opening of £7bn Whitby fertiliser mine scheme

The Barratt Homes team welcomed Sir Robert Goodwill MP to Abbey View in Whitby

Sir Robert Goodwill MP learns about modern building methods with Barratt Homes i...

Retail sales dropped 4% in April versus the previous year, dampened by a spell of wet weather and an early Easter bank holiday.Photo, Jonathan Brady/PA Wire

Rainy spring delivers blow to the high street as retail sales fall

Alpamare in Scarborough.

Calls for reinstatement of Coastliner bus service to Alpamare water park

Farmers take part in a tractor "go-slow" in, central London, to raise awareness of the difficulties for the British farming industry which are putting food security at risk. PIC: Jordan Pettitt/PA Wire

Balance needed to ensure food security - Sir Robert Goodwill

Whitby Lifeboat Station, Whitby, East Yorkshire.

Battleground Yorkshire: How 'Whitby Woman' could deny Labour a majority

Tony Randerson

Eastfield: Plans for £1.5m park could be ‘biggest thing since town built’

Residents on the Yorkshire coast have made their feelings clear on the dentistry services in their communities.

‘I drove 100 miles for a filling’: Residents on lack of access to dentists

Scarborough Harbour and South Bay in the foreground, with North Bay in the distance Picture: Simon Hulme

Scarborough's Alpamare water park should reopen in time for summer 2024

Sir Robert Goodwill

Calls to give authorities more powers to investigate livestock worrying

Bridlington's South Bay

Yorkshire Water to cut sewage discharges into sea at Yorkshire resort

Sir Robert Goodwill MP with Rishi Sunak.

Watch: MP proclaims his constituency as the best - because it's in Yorkshire

Alpamare has gone into administration. PIC: Richard Ponter

Alpamare was more than just a tourist facility - Yorkshire Post Letters

Former Scarborough Council leader Steve Siddons raised concerns about the loan to Benchmark Leisure when it was approved a decade ago

Call for investigation into developer's huge council loan to build waterpark

Alpamare has only been open since 2016

Alpamare, Scarborough owner enters administration seven years after it opened
The owner of Scarborough’s Alpamare water park has gone into administration amid calls for a “full investigation” into the use of public funds.
Anttoni James Numminen and Stuart Minting

Sir Robert Goodwill, raised the ongoing issues around coastal marine pollution in Scarborough and highlighted the creation of a new “taskforce” to “look at the problem”.

Yorkshire MP raises Scarborough South Bay’s bathing water problems in parliament

Pictured Scarborough's South Bay where people are advised against swimming

McCain's 'sophisticated' facility to treat effluent from Scarborough factory

Yorkshire Water is facing questions about its finances.

Yorkshire Water's finances to remain ‘under the spotlight’

Roberto Weeden-Sanz and Sir Robert Goodwill.

Conservative councillor in London selected to stand for election in Yorkshire

DEFRA Sec. of State Therese Coffey meets Show Director Charles Mills.

The Great Yorkshire Show sets stage for political debate and announcements

NFU President Minette Batters and Philip Bolson, York & N Yorks Chamber of Commerce Hospitlity Chair. Press Conference. L-R, Philip Bolson, Minette Batters, Rachel Hallos and Tom Richardson.

Food production should be central to school education, says NFU president

Gate Steward, Brian Cooksey, aged 68, dusting off Yorkshire Agricultural Society signage on one of the show gates ahead first day
Picture By Yorkshire Post Photographer, James Hardisty.

The Great Yorkshire Show 2023: Getting ready for the greatest show on turf

North Yorkshire Council is right to call on Environment Secretary Thérèse Coffey to convene a public inquiry. PIC: DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS/AFP via Getty Images

Public inquiry and compensation needed for fishers - The YP says

Caedmon College, Whitby. Wednesday 14 February. Picture: Ceri Oakes w180703d

Row over amalgamation of Whitby's two secondary schools deepens

Scarborough South Bay

‘Poor’ water quality of Scarborough’s South Bay raised at full council meeting

North Yorkshire Council ‘can’t confirm’ whether or not trail hunting takes place on council-owned land

'Can’t confirm’ whether or not trail hunting takes place on council-owned land
North Yorkshire Council has said that it “can’t confirm” whether or not trail hunting takes place on its land but is “not aware” of formalised hunting taking place on its properties.
Anttoni James Numminen

The cross-party group of MPs pointed to evidence which suggests a higher rate of suicide among agricultural and veterinary workers compared to the broader population.

Government urged to tackle farmer suicide

TransPennine Express

TransPennine Express sorry after residents brand depot noise ‘unbearable’

Sea life die off at Saltburn, Cleveland. (Credit: Paul Thompson)

Councillor backs calls for public inquiry into 'marine disaster' off coast

The York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has said that it will reintroduce staff parking charges from June 12 after they were suspended during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Scarborough and York hospitals to reintroduce staff charges from June

Kevin Hollinrake, the business minister and local MP, is understood to be considering a tilt at the job once nominations open later this year as expected.

Government minister front runner to be North Yorkshire Mayor

‘It’s a shocker’ – Fishermen stage demonstration in Whitby to raise awareness of shellfish deaths on Yorkshire and North East coast

Fishermen stage demonstration in Whitby to raise awareness of shellfish deaths

TOPSHOT - Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak reacts during a visit with Microsoft founder Bill Gates at Imperial College University, in central London, on February 15, 2023. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS / POOL / AFP) (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Sunak criticised for not attending farming conference

Fishing crews staged a protest in May last year demanding a new investigation into the mass deaths of crabs and lobsters in the area. They believed a 'dead zone' in North East inshore waters is killing marine life and "decimating" their livelihoods. Picture: Owen Humphreys/PA Wire

New studies into crab deaths should be carried out as a "matter of urgency"

Adrian Blackmore is director of the Campaign for Shooting at the Countryside Alliance.

Why burning is an important part of moorland management - Adrian Blackmore

A letter sent to parents of Eskdale School pupils on Wednesday revealed governors are proposing to close the site and instead send students to Caedmon College

Whitby secondary school pupils told it could close after summer holidays

Controlled burns on grouse moors being carried out in the winter and subject to stringent regulation.

Burning complaints are "deliberate campaign of mis-information" says Moors group

The importance of soil health to growing food, promoting biodiversity and reducing carbon emissions will be investigated during a parliamentary inquiry launched this month.

Parliament launches inquiry into soil health

There is no excuse for pumping sewage into the sea during dry spells, an MP has said

'No excuse’ for sewage discharge into waterways in dry weather says Yorkshire MP

Data shows just 43 per cent of Key Stage 2 children in Scarborough and Whitby (pictured) achieved expected levels in reading, writing and maths, compared with 55.3 per cent across North Yorkshire and 58.7 per cent nationally.

Yorkshire coast schools see attainment standards drop since pandemic

Hundreds of parlour pots (lobster/crab pot) used for commercial fishing stacked along the harbour at Whitby, East Yorkshire.

Concerns over dumping more dredgings from the river Tees in the North Sea

Crab and Lobster pots stacked high on the quayside of Whitby harbour

Scarborough MP calls for dedicated fund for fishermen hit by mass die off

The dead crustaceans began washing up on beaches in Yorkshire and the North East 12 months ago, and local fishermen claim their livelihoods are at risk because catches have been decimated.

Claims about what killed thousands of crabs will be 'cross examined' by MPs

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The Queen: Yorkshire MPs pay tribute in Westminster Hall vigil

Scarborough's West Pier

Plans for boat hoist in Scarborough would be 'great benefit for Yorkshire coast'

The sewage pipe at Scarborough's North Bay

Sewage spilled into Yorkshire's waterways for 1.5m hours over last six years

Scarborough Council will decide on plans to regenerate the town's North Bay.

Scarborough Council set to approve North Bay masterplan

Sir Robert Goodwill, the new chairman of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, raised the issue in the House of Commons and said it “still has not gone away”.

Government told crab and lobster deaths in Yorkshire have 'not gone away'

Earlier this week, residents of Whitby, voted overwhelmingly in favour of having a ban on any new build properties being allowed to be sold for use as holiday and second homes, amid fears there are not enough pupils to keep schools open or workers to keep businesses going, with one local saying she had never seen as many begging notices for staff in shop windows.

Schools and businesses at risk as holiday homes crisis pushes away local people

The town of Whitby held a rare parish poll on Monday night which saw 93 per cent of those taking part agree to that any new build properties should be restricted to “full time local occupation”.

Government needs to do more on Whitby holiday lets crisis, admits local MP

Parliamentary portrait of Sir Robert Goodwill

Farmer MP Sir Robert Goodwill on the benefits of MPs with outside experience

Whitby harbour picture by James Hardisty.

Whitby's opportunity now hasn’t existed for 50 years - Yorkshire Post Letters

MP Robert Goodwill said he accepts the Prime Minister’s apology, after the Partygate scandal, and he thinks the country should “draw a line under it and move on”.

Tory MP said he stands by Boris Johnson after he asked voters for ‘alternatives’

Holiday homes in Whitby are a bone of contention.

Real Yorkshire people pushed out by halloumi-eating househunters - Sarah Todd

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