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Live facial recognition technology will scan public areas across North Yorkshire in the coming months to identify wanted criminals and protect vulnerable people.

Maximum hackney carriage fares across North Yorkshire will increase by five percent from August to help drivers cope with rising fuel costs.

Plans for a new 60-bed care hub in Eastfield have been submitted for approval to help alleviate shortfalls in North Yorkshire’s care capacity and speed up hospital discharges.

Nine new affordable homes are being built in Skipsea to help rehouse East Yorkshire residents who are losing their properties to the rapidly eroding coastline.

A new £600,000 learning facility has opened on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway to preserve traditional skills and provide a dedicated space for career development.

Publicans on the North Yorkshire coast have cautiously welcomed a 20 per cent cut to business rates but are urging the government to implement a drastically needed reduction in VAT to help the hospitality sector survive.

Detectives have issued a stark warning about the dangers of online blackmail after receiving more than a thousand reports of sextortion so far this year.

A proposal to reverse controversial changes to North Yorkshire's home-to-school transport policy has been rejected by councillors, meaning the nearest-school-only rule will remain in place pending a review.

Health food retailer Grape Tree has been granted permission to open a new store at a Grade II-listed site in Whitby, with confirmation that the town's famous polar bear statue will be retained.

More than £30,000 has been awarded to fund the extension of a bus route serving the new NHS Community Diagnostic Centre in Eastfield, Scarborough.

North Yorkshire Council is introducing a new Community Transfer Policy to make it easier for town and parish councils, including those in Whitby and Filey, to take over the running of local assets and services.

A new mobile practice net has been purchased for a Scarborough cricket pitch following a one thousand pound donation from a national housebuilder.

A security guard seriously injured during the Manchester synagogue attack last year says "life changed forever that day" and has revealed how he struggles with the aftermath.

Domestic abuse incidents during the 2026 FIFA World Cup were at their highest recorded level compared with similar tournaments, the UK Football Policing Unit has said.

A man has been jailed for 12 years after more than 2,000 litres of gamma butyrolactone (GBL), a date rape drug, were found in a storage container rented by him, police have said.

A Police Scotland officer who took his own life earlier this year is suspected to have been a violent rapist who carried out a spate of attacks.

A man has appeared in court charged with the murder of a woman in Edinburgh.

Drought has been declared in two areas of Wales and part of England, following record dry conditions, heatwaves, wildfires and dwindling rivers.

Around 20,000 people were evacuated from towns and holiday resorts in southwestern France as a wildfire raged near the popular tourist coastal town of Lege Cap-Ferret. 

A teenage girl and a woman in her 40s have died after getting into difficulty in the water off the Essex coast, police said.

A security guard seriously injured during the Manchester synagogue attack last year says "life changed forever that day" and has revealed how he struggles with the aftermath.

A man has been jailed for 12 years after more than 2,000 litres of gamma butyrolactone (GBL), a date rape drug, were found in a storage container rented by him, police have said.

Domestic abuse incidents during the 2026 FIFA World Cup were at their highest recorded level compared with similar tournaments, the UK Football Policing Unit has said.

Andy Burnham has made a third policy announcement to help bring down costs - after dropping hints there would be more to come.

Parched gardens and parks are set for a spot of relief in the coming days with rain moving into some drought-threatened areas.

A drug smuggling gang was caught trying to retrieve £40m of cocaine from the sea after the entire haul was nearly lost when their GPS trackers failed.

Drought has been declared in two areas of Wales and part of England, following record dry conditions, heatwaves, wildfires and dwindling rivers.

A man has appeared in court charged with the murder of a woman in Edinburgh.

Around 20,000 people were evacuated from towns and holiday resorts in southwestern France as a wildfire raged near the popular tourist coastal town of Lege Cap-Ferret. 

The US and Saudi Arabia have reached a nuclear cooperation deal.

The bodies of the remaining 13 workers trapped inside a collapsed hydropower tunnel in India have been found - as the death toll rises to 25.

More than 1,000 people have died in the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), health officials said.

Donald Trump must turn over financial records sought by the BBC as part of his $10bn (£7.5bn) defamation case against the broadcaster, a US judge has ruled.

Rebel Wilson has been cleared of defaming another actress on social media.

US singer D4vd, who is accused of murdering and dismembering a teenage girl, told police he did not know she was a minor, a court has heard.

Millie Bobby Brown has paid tribute to her former co-star Kaylee Hottle who has died in a car crash aged 18.

The media regulator has opened an investigation into the Channel 4 dating show Married At First Sight (MAFS) UK following a "fairness and privacy" complaint.

US singer D4vd, who is accused of murdering and dismembering a teenage girl, told police he did not know she was a minor, a court has heard.

OpenAI has revealed some of its models went rogue and hacked into another artificial intelligence company in an "unprecedented cyber incident".

The US and Saudi Arabia have reached a nuclear cooperation deal.