The Stray Ferret is an online news service for the Harrogate district. We are a team of experienced journalists who will be covering news, investigating the use of public money and holding our elected representatives at all levels to account.  

We were due to launch at the beginning of April but have decided to start publishing earlier in the event the coronavirus emergency deepens and we have cases locally. Our aim will be to provide the public with information and aim to answer questions you might have about protecting yourselves and your family.   

You can read about who were on the About Us section of the website.  We have more journalists coming to work for us in the coming weeks and our website is not fully complete so bear with us as we expand to cover more stories in the coming month.  

The Stray Ferret … fearless, factual and fair..