This is the Coast

Beaches along the Yorkshire coast are celebrating after receiving a total of 13 prestigious awards from environmental charity Keep Britain Tidy in their annual Blue Flag and Seaside Awards programme for 2025.

Part of the A64 will be closed overnight on Thursday and Friday.

The newly formed Scarborough Town Council held its first meeting last night following the elections of councillors earlier this month.

Police say a missing man from Sleights has now been found.

The Thornton Le Dale Ukuleles are set to perform at a fundraising event hosted by Scarborough Rotary Club tonight to raise funds for Westway Open Arms.

A team of residents, businesses and stakeholders who will help shape Scarborough’s future over the next decade are welcoming applications for the role of board chair.

The bathing water season has officially started (Thursday 15 May 2025), marking the beginning of rigorous testing of water quality from the Environment Agency at bathing sites.

North Yorkshire Police say the 70 year old local man had been in a critical condition in hospital since the incident last Thursday evening.

Whitby Town have completed the signing of winger James Harrison

A new hi-tech street cleaning machine should be in use in Scarborough by July as part of improvements to the town centre which is also to get a new landmark large scale mural.

Whitby is set to host its first-ever chocolate festival in November to raise funds for the town's defibrillator project.

A major programme to help people in York and North Yorkshire with health conditions return to work has begun.

A spokesperson for Hamas has confirmed the militant group is in direct talks with the United States over peace in Gaza, adding that it believes Donald Trump can help broker a deal.

A brother and sister have been jailed for the murder of a drug dealer in a "ferocious" knife attack.

Through long, winding roads, we weave through a wonderland. A place of intense beauty, with wide valleys, rushing rivers and terraced hills. The roads are brimming with hand-painted trucks, slowed only by the occasional herd of goats stopping traffic.

A Mexican social media influencer was shot dead during a TikTok livestream, authorities said.

A "despicable" rapist has been brought to justice and jailed for 10 years in part thanks to a woman's testimony from beyond the grave.

Police investigating after two kittens were tortured and killed in west London have published CCTV pictures of a pair of teenagers they want to speak to.

Police have said they are doing "everything we possibly can" to find the mother of three babies abandoned in London over a seven-year period – amid fears a fourth child may be found.

The watchdog representing victims is "genuinely struggling to understand" government changes to prisoner recall release policy, expressing concern for "victim and wider public safety."

The UK economy showed strong growth in the first three months of the year, according to official figures.

A partnership of the country's leading social care and end of life organisations has told Sky News of their deep frustration at being excluded from important discussions around the assisted dying debate - describing the proposed change to the law as "unworkable, unaffordable and naive".

The number of appointments for patients waiting for NHS treatments in England increased by nearly 19,000, to 7.42 million in March up from 7.4 million in February.

The jury trying a man accused of murdering a couple before taking some of their remains in suitcases to the Clifton Suspension Bridge in Bristol has been discharged.

A brother and sister have been jailed for the murder of a drug dealer in a "ferocious" knife attack.

A "despicable" rapist has been brought to justice and jailed for 10 years in part thanks to a woman's testimony from beyond the grave.

Police have said they are doing "everything we possibly can" to find the mother of three babies abandoned in London over a seven-year period – amid fears a fourth child may be found.

A 25-year-old man has been charged with multiple offences after police found the remains of 37 dogs at an address in Essex.

A spokesperson for Hamas has confirmed the militant group is in direct talks with the United States over peace in Gaza, adding that it believes Donald Trump can help broker a deal.

A top Iranian official has said the country is prepared to make a number of concessions related to its nuclear programme, in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions.

Through long, winding roads, we weave through a wonderland. A place of intense beauty, with wide valleys, rushing rivers and terraced hills. The roads are brimming with hand-painted trucks, slowed only by the occasional herd of goats stopping traffic.

The co-founder of Ben & Jerry's has been arrested after disrupting a Senate hearing with a pro-Gaza protest.

Gary Lineker has "apologised unreservedly" for a social media re-post featuring a rat, saying he would "never knowingly share anything antisemitic".

The Menendez brothers, who were sentenced to life for killing their parents in their Beverly Hills mansion in 1989, are now eligible to be released from prison for the first time after being resentenced.

Kim Kardashian has told a court she feared she would be raped and killed during an armed robbery in her Paris hotel room in 2016.

In October 2016, Kim Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint - with jewellery worth millions of dollars stolen during the audacious heist in Paris.

A spokesperson for Hamas has confirmed the militant group is in direct talks with the United States over peace in Gaza, adding that it believes Donald Trump can help broker a deal.

Canadians "weren't impressed" by the decision of the UK government to offer Donald Trump an unprecedented second state visit to the UK, the country's prime minister has told Sky News.

Experts are warning about the dangerous impacts of heatwaves on pregnant women and newborn babies in the UK, as new research finds they are sweltering through twice as many dangerously hot days.

One of Kemi Badenoch's top team has admitted there were flaws in the plan to return illegal migrants after Brexit, Sky News can reveal.