A LONG-running inquiry into introducing a blanket 20mph limit across all settlements in North Yorkshire has concluded it would be “unrealistic in such a diverse and vast area”, but found more action is needed to improve safety outside schools. North
RESIDENTS battling plans that would see hundreds of lorries transporting millions of tonnes of pulverised power station ash past their homes have voiced exasperation that a council based nearly 60 miles away is set to decide whether to approve the
A NORTH-East theatre has been given £1m to help keep its doors open amid the coronavirus crisis. The grant for Darlington's Hippodrome means it will be able to offset losses from cancelled productions – including this year's pantomime – retain staff
AN 80 year old women's institute centre which is used by the whole community has been given a facelift and new heating system. Romanby Women’s Institute, near Northallerton, has been used to provide activities and companionship for women alongside
A COMMEMORATIVE stone to the late John Blackie has been installed without ceremony on the site of the war memorial in Hawes, next to the Dale Head garage which he saved from closure. The sandstone memorial inscribed to the “community leader and
HARD-FOUGHT, close games were the order of the day across the Wensleydale Creamery League and cup fixtures on Saturday with no team winning by more than one goal. Colburn made it into the quarter final of the Medals Shield – a competition they have
ONE of Darlington's best-loved butchers and pie-makers has had to temporarily close its town centre shop due to staff testing positive for Covid. A notice on the windows of the Taylor's butchers shop on Skinnergate says it is has closed due to
A £4.5M plan by a local authority to improve a cemetery should be abandoned and efforts focused on creating a new cemetery elsewhere, it has been claimed. Councillor Nigel Boddy said while Darlington Borough Council’s West Cemetery scheme to replace
