Councillor Gareth Dadd has announced he will not seek re-election as deputy leader of North Yorkshire Council next week and will step down as a councillor at next year’s local elections.
North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service has recorded a 16 per cent rise in the number of road traffic collisions it attended during the last financial year, though the majority did not require rescue operations.
Local councillors are strongly opposing plans to convert the Duchess pub in Scarborough into residential flats, citing a loss of community amenity despite claims from the former licensee that the business was no longer commercially viable.