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Protestors mounted the roof of Rishi Sunak's North Yorkshire home back in August. He now wants to erect a fence around it,.

Rishi Sunak in bid to erect fence around North Yorkshire home after Greenpeace stunt

Rishi Sunak finally confirmed the axing the high-speed link from Birmingham to Manchester after weeks of speculation during a Tory party conference speech at lunchtime

REVEALED: The North East projects earmarked for funding after HS2 scrapped

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The traditional start of Reeth Show

Rishi Sunak column: It was a privilege to join the Reeth Show parade

Residents from across North Yorkshire took part in the Reeth Show in Swaledale this Bank Holiday Monday (August 28) as horses, produce, and even stuntmen were on show at the event Credit: SARAH CALDECOTT

Pictures as Rishi Sunak visits Reeth Show as residents enjoy fun-filled day

Police at Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's house in North Yorkshire after Greenpeace activists climbed onto it's roof and covered it in black fabric in protest at his backing for expansion of North Sea oil and gas drilling

Letters: Visible policing is non-existent – yet our council tax goes up

Richmond, North Yorkshire, has had a difficult week, with four businesses closing Picture: SARAH CALDECOTT

Letters: A very dark week for Richmond’s businesses

Police in Kirby Sigston this morning dealing with the Greenpeace protest at Rishi Sunak's home

Climate protestors climb up Rishi Sunak's North Yorkshire home in anti-oil stunt

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Proposals to close most railway station ticket offices are causing concern

Letters: Why a serious rethink is needed on station ticket office closure plans

Empire Cinemas at Catterick Image: GOOGLE MAPS

Letters: Cinema closure a huge blow to garrison town

Northallerton Railway Station, where the ticket office is among those earmarked for closure

Letters: Concern at cuts to railway station staffing hours

Within a short time, large areas of Eaglescliffe and Yarm will lose their bus services

Letters: Residents deserve better than these bus cutbacks

Leyburn Post Office, which is housed in the Co-op, was closed due to staffing issues, causing problems for customers

Letters: To be denied banking services 'makes mockery of levelling up'

A report found 39 per cent of older people with a bank account are not managing their money online and could be at high risk of financial exclusion.

Letters: Why banks must accelerate roll-out of shared hubs to help older people

Calls have been made to reverse bus route cutbacks by Arriva

Letters: 'Axing last bus of day a huge blow to night-time economy'

Traffic at Scotch Corner roundabout Picture: GOOGLE

Letters: Scotch Corner motorists suffer 'almost daily chaos and enormous frustration'

Work underway on the Scotch Corner Designer Village

Letters: Green spaces everywhere vanishing under concrete at appalling speed

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak swapped from running the country to running 10k on Sunday (May 28) morning as he was spotted at the Northallerton 10k in his Richmond constituency.

Rishi Sunak swaps running the country for running 10k as he's spotted at race

Richard Darbishire, who uses local milk to make Swaledale Cheese, with his sons Johnny and Archie at the No 10 Farm to Fork Summit

Rishi Sunak column: Ensuring British farming is at the heart of British trade

Michael Gove confirms Teesworks investigation after 'serious allegations'

The Post Office can be used to access some banking services

Letters: 'Post offices doing a wonderful job linking us with banks'

King Charles and Queen Camilla on the Buckingham Palace balcony after the coronation service

Letters: Why the monarchy can't be judged on just a value-for-money basis

Letters: 'Cash represents our freedom - let’s make sure we keep using it'

Letters: 'Cash represents our freedom - let’s make sure we keep using it'

Rishi Sunak with the Wombles of Hambleton at Romanby Park, Northallerton

Rishi Sunak joins litter-picking heroes for fifth anniversary celebration

Traffic at Scotch Corner roundabout

Letters: Scotch Corner planning decision 'a complete cop-out'

Hoardings concealing the work that is being done on the corner of Skinnergate and Blackwellgate

Letters: 'Sad to see the decline in Darlington town centre'

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A Dalesbus service at Keld in Swaledale

Letters: Could pooling ideas be way forward for public transport in national parks?

Royal Mail has come in for criticism over delayed deliveries

Letters: How can cost of postage rise when Royal Mail can't deliver?

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Groceries packed by volunteers ready to be distributed to those in need Picture: STUART BOULTON.

Letters: Council right to be concerned at drop in volunteer numbers

Letters: Chancellor must use Budget to help older people needing care

Letters: Chancellor must use Budget to help older people needing care

Rishi Sunak opening the new diagnostics centre at the Friarage Hospital

Rishi Sunak column: ‘The Friarage now operates as a model rural hospital’

Customer service in banks has been questioned

LETTERS 'No wonder banks are closing when staff aren't allowed to perform basic services'

Exercising our democratic rights to support proportional representation

Letters: Support for proportional representation was swept aside

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Rishi Sunak meets villagers in the Countryman’s Inn community pub in Hunton, near Bedale

Rishi Sunak column: Helping communities to save pubs and local facilities

Boots pharmacy on Chapel Street, Thirsk has provided a wonderful service

Letters: Soon-to-be-closed Boots pharmacy has 'given a service second to none'

Plans for the state-of-the-art facility, which will more than double the number of planned operations the hospital carries out each year, were given the green light on Wednesday (February 8).

Rishi Sunak welcomes approval of £33.5m surgical hub at hospital as start date set

The central and southern henges of Thornborough Henges have been gifted to the nation.

Future of 'Stonehenge of the North' secured after being gifted to the nation

A bird's eye view of Reeth from Fremington Edge, by Tim Dunn, of Stokesley

Letters: Lost business due to prolonged closure of Richmond to Reeth road

Many generous people donate to foodbanks by filling up in-store shopping trolleys

Letters: Celebrating community spirit which sees food donations pour in

An aerial competer-generated image of the planned Catterick 52 development

Letters: Environmental destruction to make way for £100m industrial hub

Letters: Why are we letting children go hungry?

Letters: Why are we letting children go hungry?

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Rishi Sunak outlines government plans to tackle NHS crisis.

Rishi Sunak reveals how he plans to tackle NHS crisis in major speech

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Diggers on the site of the Scotch Corner Designer Village

Letters: Public inquiry needed over developments at Scotch Corner

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak serves Christmas dinner to troops with Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas (centre) at the Tapa military base, in Tapa, Estonia Picture: Henry Nicholls/PA

Rishi Sunak column: Busy run-in to the Christmas holiday

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Scorton Lakes is now popular with nature lovers

Letters: Anger understandable at planned 'Disneyfication' of Scorton Lakes

Rishi Sunak meets North York Moors National Park apprentices and volunteers at Lord Stones with Park chief executive Tom Hind

Rishi Sunak column: Favourite spots to unwind after a busy week in Westminster

Bus stop file image Picture: PEXELS

Letters: Bus service that offers a lack of logic

Could the reserves of district councils in North Yorkshire be used to lower council tax when the new unitary authority comes into being next year?

Letters: 'District council reserves should be used to cut council tax rates'

Traffic backed up on Northallerton High Street due to roadworks on Quaker Lane

Letters: 'Whole Northallerton traffic chaos was completely unnecessary'

Green activists project fuel poverty images on to Rishi Sunak’s house

Green activists project fuel poverty images on to Rishi Sunak’s North Yorkshire house

Alverton Court, Northallerton, headquarters of North Yorkshire Police

Why don't Northallerton police HQ staff cycle to work to avoid parking woe nearby?

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaks during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons

Letters: Rishi Sunak and world leaders must get climate change action back on track at COP27

The hotel in Northallerton Picture: NORTHERN ECHO

Worry over plans to move asylum seekers into hotel in Rishi Sunak's Northallerton constituency

Dead sea life on Teesside beaches Picture: STUART BOULTON

Letters: Following the science on sealife deaths off North East coast

Rishi Sunak said a moratorium on fracking would be reinstated during his first PMQs (Cuadrilla/PA)

Rishi Sunak reintroduces fracking ban in England, overturning Liz Truss decision

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