A LEADING council officer who has overseen £197m of cuts to services over the last eight years has warned the Government that local authorities will not be able to properly provide for vulnerable people unless they receive extra funding. North Yorkshire
THE introduction of a strategy and policies to manage thousands of volunteers helping to maintain council services should not “frighten away” potential recruits, a meeting has heard. North Yorkshire County Council’s executive was told while the
THE owner of a thriving caravan park has said he may be forced to close if a council’s application to develop farmland into an industrial estate is approved. Paul Craggs of Pembroke Caravan Park in Leeming Bar, North Yorkshire, said “people don’
CLEVELAND Fire Brigade are launching a recruitment campaign for retained firefighters. Interested candidates are being encouraged to drop-in to one of the brigade's drill nights where they can talk to our current retained firefighters and find out
LANDLORDS are being urged to sign up for a scheme to help young people escape homelessness and fill empty properties around Darlington. End Youth Homelessness (EYH), which an organisation involving a number of charities including Cenrepoint, has
AN avid fell walker, who took up painting when a rare condition left him paralysed, is staging his first art exhibition. Kenneth Longstaff began painting with his fingers but now uses brushes taped to his hands after he was struck down in 2012 with
