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  • School funding 'rejection' triggers incredulity

    A COUNCIL leader has spoken of her exasperation amid claims education bosses turned down the chance of hundreds of thousands of pounds of school funding from housing developers. Members of Richmondshire District Council’s planning committee joined

  • Almost 600 unfinished homes blamed on 'slow rate of build'

    PARK authority bosses have blamed a lack of new and affordable housing on a "slow rate of building" after it was revealed 600 homes had not been built despite the approval of planning permission. Members of the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority

  • 15 per cent in poverty

    ESTIMATES reveal up to 92,000 people, around 15 per cent of the population, are living in poverty in what is regarded as one of the most affluent county's in the North according to a new report. North Yorkshire's Director of Public Health Dr Lincoln

  • Fresh delay for Local Plan amid traffic fears

    A CONTROVERSIAL masterplan to shape developments across a borough until 2036 has been hit by a further delay as concerns over access to a proposed 4,500-home garden village that has been granted government funding continue. Darlington Borough Council