This is the Coast

The Scarborough Streets Festival is set to come to a thrilling conclusion on Sunday with a vibrant community parade featuring handmade placards and noisemakers.

Senior North Yorkshire Councillors have debated the fairness of paying musicians to perform at Scarborough's Peasholm Park bandstand while other performers across the county go unpaid.

Whitby RUFC are leaving the Durham & Northumberland League after nearly 40 years.

All our local cricket sides were in action on Saturday with mixed results.

North Yorkshire Council has rejected a proposal to build two houses in the village of Snainton due to concerns over the impact on the local conservation area and the risk of setting a harmful precedent for future developments.

Around 75 local veterans and unpaid carers in Scarborough and the surrounding areas will receive tailored support thanks to a £50,000 grant awarded to Carers Plus Yorkshire.

North Yorkshire councillors have highlighted strong opposition from local businesses regarding a proposed tourism tax favoured by Mayor David Skaith.

Visitors to the North York Moors and surrounding countryside are being urged to exercise extreme caution after authorities declared an official extreme risk of wildfires.

Scarborough and Ryedale Mountain Rescue Team has issued vital safety advice for walkers after volunteers were called out twice in one week to assist people suffering in the heat.

Seven aspiring young actors from Scarborough, Bridlington, Eastfield, and Malton have been selected to perform in a professional production of Calendar Girls the Musical this summer.

Scarborough Hospital is set to undergo an £8.7 million green energy transformation, featuring a new heat pump system and over 1,000 solar panels, to significantly reduce its carbon footprint.

Two swimmers in Hornsea have been checked over by a casualty care team after getting into difficulty between the groynes near the rescue launch beach.

A search is under way for an 11-year-old boy who went missing after being seen entering a river in South Yorkshire.

Israeli forces have captured a strategically important fortress from the Crusades, marking the country's deepest incursion into Lebanon in more than a quarter of a century.

The Metropolitan Police have taken over an investigation into the murder of a man whose body was found in a van in Leicester on Wednesday.

A former chief executive of Marks and Spencer has been appointed by the government to get more than one million young people not in education, employment or training (NEETs) into work.

Heavy rain is threatening to delay the search for two people missing in a flooded cave in Laos.  

An injection that eradicated entire tumours in patients with otherwise treatment-resistant cancers in a trial has been praised for its "striking" benefits.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) chief has visited the province hardest hit by the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), urging residents to seek treatment and practice safe burials.

The Metropolitan Police have taken over an investigation into the murder of a man whose body was found in a van in Leicester on Wednesday.

A search is under way for an 11-year-old boy who went missing after being seen entering a river in South Yorkshire.

An injection that eradicated entire tumours in patients with otherwise treatment-resistant cancers in a trial has been praised for its "striking" benefits.

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A former chief executive of Marks and Spencer has been appointed by the government to get more than one million young people not in education, employment or training (NEETs) into work.

The UK is set to welcome fresher conditions on Sunday as a record-breaking heatwave gives way to cooler temperatures and sporadic rain.

A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a woman in her 80s was found dead, police said.

Israeli forces have captured a strategically important fortress from the Crusades, marking the country's deepest incursion into Lebanon in more than a quarter of a century.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) chief has visited the province hardest hit by the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), urging residents to seek treatment and practice safe burials.

Heavy rain is threatening to delay the search for two people missing in a flooded cave in Laos.  

A Kanye West concert in Italy has been cancelled over public order and security concerns.

Donald Trump is considering cancelling a series of concerts after a number of artists pulled out - and holding a political-style rally instead.

The Oscar-winning editor of the original Star Wars films, Marcia Lucas, has died aged 80.

President Donald Trump has lashed out after a judge ordered the removal of his name from the Kennedy Center.

Four people trapped for 10 days in a flooded cave in Laos have been safely evacuated by rescuers.

Students received "misleading" advice from the government about loans to pay for their university education, the chair of a top parliamentary committee has told Sky News.

Allies of Andy Burnham will form a new "council" of cross-party figures to discuss working together to stop a Reform UK government.

Thousands of people in Kent have been warned that disruption to their tap water supply is likely to continue over the weekend.