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  • North Yorkshire Police get extra £31k to fight crime

    NORTH Yorkshire Police is to receive a cash boost of more than £30,000 as a reward for its hard work in seizing assets from criminals, the Home Office has announced. The force will get £31,890.12 of the £28.6 million worth of criminal assets confiscated

  • Crackdown on drivers who don’t wear seatbelt

    A POLICE operation in Ryedale found that drivers were still risking their lives and failing to use a seatbelt. Officers found the message that seatbelts save lives is still being ignored, 25 years after the use of seatbelts became compulsory by law.

  • Rare bird spotted in North Yorkshire garden

    Hundreds of bird lovers have flocked to North Yorkshire to see a rare visitor to the UK after it was spotted on a garden bird feeder. A two-barred crossbill has taken up residence in the garden of Patricia and Robert Urquhart close to the village of

  • Pikes on travels again

    PICKERING Town are back on their travels in the FA Vase. The Pikes’ reward for beating fellow Northern Counties East League premier division rivals Brodsworth Welfare is a third round excursion to Marske United. The tie will be the 10th successive away-day

  • Best-yet hopes for village lights

    THE Christmas lights at Thornton-le-Dale will be the biggest show yet. The village’s team of volunteers raised money to buy 20 new set-pieces of illuminations after the future of the lights was under threat earlier this year. The switch-on will be at