Road safety campaigners say they are shocked after data revealed the Harrogate district has the highest number of fatal accidents in the county. Data released by North Yorkshire Council, showed 16...
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Campaigners shocked as Harrogate district has highest number of fatal accidents in county
Road safety campaigners say they are shocked after data revealed the Harrogate district has the highest number of fatal accidents in the county. Data released by North Yorkshire Council, showed 16 of 89 fatal collisions in North Yorkshire happened in the Harrogate...
Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves visits Knaresborough banking hub
Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves visited Knaresborough banking hub on Friday. Ms Reeves joined shadow Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds and shadow Economic Secretary Tulip Siddiq at Kirkgate. Reeves hailed the hub, which opened on November 17, as an...
Harrogate braced for second leisure services shake-up in three years
Just three years since its last overhaul, Harrogate’s leisure services look set for another restructure. With the formation of Brimhams Active, a council-owned company, Harrogate Borough Council officials promised a new dawn for facilities in the district. This came...
Tory mayoral candidate pledges North Yorkshire bus franchising assessment
The Conservative Party candidate to be the first Mayor of York and North Yorkshire is prepared to use franchising to improve local bus services. Bus franchising, which is used in London, Manchester and in numerous cities across Europe, means that bus operators are...
Council silent on claims it ignored safety warnings on collapsed Knaresborough wall
North Yorkshire Council has failed to respond to claims it ignored warnings about the state of a wall that collapsed in Knaresborough. The stone wall on Briggate fell onto the highway on September 14 this year. Fortunately, nobody was injured on what is one of the...
Council quashes hopes of west Harrogate bypass
North Yorkshire Council has no plans to build a western bypass in Harrogate, with one councillor saying the move would “reopen old wounds”. Business group Independent Harrogate published a document this month called A Vision for Harrogate that set out an alternative...
Council spends £850 on photographer for Ripon hornblower
North Yorkshire Council spent £850 on a photographer who captured images of the Ripon hornblower on the River Thames. The council revealed the sum following a Freedom of Information request by the Stray Ferret. Allison Clark, the city’s first female hornblower,...
Local politicians give views on Harrogate Spring Water expansion plans
The Liberal Democrat candidate aiming to be Harrogate and Knaresborough's next MP has said he opposes the latest expansion plans by Harrogate Spring Water. However, the current Conservative MP Andrew Jones has not given an explicit indication of whether he supports or...
Council plans to bring North Yorkshire leisure services in-house
North Yorkshire Council looks set to bring the entirety of its leisure services in-house. The move would consolidate its operators, including Brimhams Active, into an in-house service over the next four years. North Yorkshire Council’s transition overview and scrutiny...
Councillors push ahead with scaled-back £11.2m Harrogate Station Gateway
Senior Conservative councillors have agreed to drastically scale-back Harrogate’s £11.2m Station Gateway in an effort to rescue the troubled scheme. This morning North Yorkshire Council’s executive said it will remove the part-pedestrianisation of James Street from...
North Yorks Council must pay £17,000 to care home patient over language used
A local authority has been obliged to pay about £17,000 of taxpayers’ money to a residential care home patient after it was found to have failed to use the correct language when explaining her charges. North Yorkshire Council has also been recommended to pay the...
Woodland Trust backs Ripon campaign to save veteran beech tree
Campaigners fighting to save a veteran beech and 10 other mature trees from being felled on a public open green space in Ripon have received support from the Woodland Trust — the UK's largest woodland conservation charity. Between 12 noon and 1pm today, more than 60...
