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  • Nursery and care home planned next to open fields

    A PLAN to develop a three-storey 69-bedroom care home and a 100-place children’s nursery has been unveiled for a site beside open fields. Country Court Care, which runs more than 30 care homes nationwide, has applied to Hambleton District Council

  • Covid-19 drove widow to take her own life

    AN 84-year-old retired businesswoman who lived alone struggled so much when the lockdown was imposed after the Covid -19 pandemic took hold she took her own life an inquest has heard. Widow Margaret Caffell, struggled with loneliness and when restrictions

  • Inquest: School groundsman feared for his job

    A GROUNDSMAN at the leading catholic public school Ampleforth College who feared for his job during lockdown took his own life, an inquest heard. Andrew Cornforth, 50, who had a history of anxiety was concerned bad publicity about the school and

  • Call for views over new houses in national park

    A DEBATE over the future of England’s second largest national park is set to be brought into sharp relief as its custodians have asked for views whether it should allow no new housing, 500 properties or 1,200 homes to be built on the protected landscapes