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• Daytime Closures Begin On Major Route Into Whitby For Annual Maintenance

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• Plans Lodged to Halt Embankment Failure Putting Whitby Road at Risk

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• 150 New Pickering Homes Could Make River Sewage Pollution ‘Inevitable’

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