A FAMILY whose son was left fighting for his life after a collision with a 74-year-old driver who was over the drug drive limit are calling for tougher sentences after he was fined just £120. George Pennick was more than four times over the drug-drive
A NEW director is set to take on managing North Yorkshire’s 5,350 miles of road and oversee the county's disposal of more than 300,000 tonnes of waste annually. This summer Karl Battersby will take over from David Bowe as the corporate director
TAXPAYERS have been left with a £500,000 bill for the upkeep of the empty former North Yorkshire Police headquarters, it has emerged. A Freedom of Information Act request by campaigners against commissioner Julia Mulligan’s decision to sell Newby
A POLICE and fire commissioner has dismissed claims that she painted a far rosier picture of the state of a fire service than government inspectors found it to be in. The North Yorkshire and York Police, Fire and Crime Panel heard commissioner Julia
IT seems astonishing but the C word has been used within two weeks of the whole event seemingly being over. The ten great and good souls who make up Bedale Town Council raised the spectre of Christmas 2020 in January with the best of intentions, to
WORK is nearing completion on new premises for a fire ravaged gin producer. Masons Yorkshire Gin’s new distillery, bottling, labelling and warehousing plant is due to open next month - less than a year after the business suffered a major fire.
By Kerry Chaloner, Financial Planning Consultant, Armstrong Watson Northallerton IT’S fair to say that value is very much subjective as individuals will find value in different things. The Collins Dictionary defines Value as: “The value of
SECURING free and frictionless trade with the EU and safeguarding British food standards will be crucial for the UK dairy sector to grow, prosper and deliver quality products the public expects. Stuart Roberts, NFU vice-president, delivered his
A TEESDALE comedy promoter is celebrating ten years with a new season of shows in Barnard Castle. Funny Way To Be Comedy's new schedule at The Witham runs until June, and comprises six evenings of comedy, featuring several household names. Gary
THE Darlington & Stockton Times has joined forces with North Yorkshire County Council to launch a new kindness movement for 2020, highlighting the many good deeds that take place across the county every day. Salt of the Earth aims to celebrate
SIX-YEAR-OLD Amirah Stones is a busy girl. She’s bright and chatty and full of zest and plays football five times a week. So it’s even more remarkable that when she is not training with her local team Brompton juniors and further afield with the
PARENTS of children who attend a village nursery are desperately pleading to a council to take action over an accident black spot close to where children are dropped off. High Bank Day Nursery, near Stapleton, Darlington, has an Ofsted rating of
A PUB landlord is ready to call last orders after decades of pulling pints in a town centre. Frank Bowman, who runs Frankies, in Darlington with his daughter Susannah Cosgrove and her husband Shaun Cosgrove, will be retiring at the end of the month
REDCAR and Cleveland Council is holding a Winter Walking Festival programme of walks around the borough over the weekend from Friday, January 31 to Monday, February 3. The Walking Festival is an event that includes walks for everyone from beginners
MEET the Captains day at Masham bade farewell to the previous year’s Captain and Lady Captain and welcomed the present year’s Captain and Lady Captain. However, there was one last, very pleasurable, task to perform before the Captains finally departed
Guisborough Town 3, Sunderland Ryhope CW 0; (Northern League – Division One) Last Wednesday saw an excellent second half performance from Guisborough Town – spearheaded by two-goal super-sub Luke Nixon – which saw the Priorymen reclaim a top ten
THE January meeting of Darlington Inner Wheel saw a cheque presentation by president Lynne Waterfall-Brown to Martin Stand from the Listening Post. The charity puts volunteers into schools throughout Darlington to listen to children who may be suffering
AFTER appealing for used stamps in the D&S Times,readers have given an overwhelming response. For more than 20 years Sue Thompson, of Harmby near Leyburn, has been collecting used stamps for the Royal National Institute of Blind ( RNIB).
Wetherby D.M/C. Filtrate Trophy Trial, Fellbeck, Sunday. IT was business as usual for JST Gas Gas teamster Richard Sadler on Sunday at Fellbeck despite an eleventh hour change of venue, and the absence of a caterer as an Arctic breeze cooled down
A PORTION of the UK's post-Brexit Shared Prosperity Fund should be allocated to the 'less developed' Tees Valley and Durham areas, an industrial alliance has said. In a report calling on the government to commit to 'left behind places’ when finalising
A KIND-hearted student has raised more than £800 for Dementia UK by having her head shaved. Eve Walker, a Year 13 student at Richmond Sixth Form College, was motivated to do her hair-raising challenge after completing her work experience at Nightingale
A PAIR of siblings have been crowned Teesdale’s latest Young Heroes after being recognised for giving up their Christmas Day to help bring cheer to the elderly. Joshua and Seren Greenwell and their parents have been volunteering at Christmas Day
NEARLY £2.5m has been ploughed by the People's Postcode Lottery into the Yorkshire Dales in the past decade helping to plant hundreds of thousands of trees, protect the environment and promote education and training. The Yorkshire Dales Millennium
BEDALE and Aiskew Runners (BAR) club members have been welcoming in the New Year with some hilly challenges. Paul Ellis, BAR chairman, headed to Great Ayton for Captain Cook’s Fell race, an 8km event heading out from Great Ayton up, round Ayton
THE Christmas period wasn’t a quiet one for the athletes of Richmond and Zetland Harriers with the Yorkshire cross country championships, trail marathons, half marathons, 5kms, five-milers and even a few 10kms for good luck. The local and world
