Yorkshire Coast News
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Timings And Road Closures Confirmed For Scarborough Armed Forces DayOrganisers have released the full timetable and detailed extensive seafront road closures ahead of Saturday's Armed Forces Day event in Scarborough.
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Yorkshire Water Explores Rainwater Gardens And Aero-Fac Facility For ScarboroughYorkshire Water is consulting on plans to upgrade Scarborough's wastewater infrastructure, including the potential introduction of innovative rainwater gardens and a low-carbon Aero-Fac treatment facility.
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Scarborough And Whitby MP Vows To Close Fracking LoopholeScarborough and Whitby MP Alison Hume says she is prepared to lay an amendment to the Energy Independence Bill to ensure a full legal ban on all forms of fracking, including the proppant squeeze method.
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Police Appeal Following Criminal Damage To Display Boards At Hornsea ViaductHumberside Police are appealing for information and CCTV footage after new historical display boards at the Hornsea Viaduct were defaced with paint and scratched with a sharp implement.
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Whitby Town FC Community Trust Makes First Investment to Support Students' Cambodia ExpeditionThe newly established Whitby Town FC Community Trust has donated £750 to help twenty-three Whitby School students take part in a four-week sustainable development expedition to Cambodia.
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Yorkshire Water Urges Customers To Use Water Wisely During HeatwaveYorkshire Water is asking people to conserve water as temperatures soar above 30 degrees, driving regional demand up by 150 million litres a day.
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Councillors Back Pickering Housing Plan Despite ConcernsNorth Yorkshire councillors have provisionally approved a 150-home development in Pickering, despite local objections and infrastructure concerns.
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North Yorkshire Conservatives Cancel Leadership Contest After Rivals Reach AgreementA leadership contest for the North Yorkshire Council has been cancelled after senior Conservative councillors Carl Les and Keane Duncan agreed on a unified path forward ahead of the 2027 local elections.
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Scarborough Alexander Dennis Bus Factory Workers to Strike Over PayAround 400 workers at the Alexander Dennis bus manufacturing plant in Scarborough are set to strike for a week after rejecting a four per cent pay offer.
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Call For Rapid Bathing Water Testing On Yorkshire Coast As Pilot Schemes LaunchA Scarborough councillor is urging regulators to embrace rapid water testing technology as local volunteers and Yorkshire Water begin trialling new near real-time monitoring systems.
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Scarborough And Whitby MP Hopes Mission Coastal Pilot Will Boost Local Schools in Both TownsScarborough and Whitby MP Alison Hume has welcomed the town's selection for the government's pioneering Mission Coastal pilot, expressing hope it will tackle entrenched disadvantage and address the crisis in Special Educational Needs provision.
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Scarborough Teenager Turns Life Around Through Free Holiday ProgrammeA fourteen-year-old from Scarborough who was expelled from school has transformed his life and won an international martial arts medal after joining a free holiday activity scheme.
Top Stories
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Train driver who died in crash that injured 100 'passed red signal moments before collision'A train driver who died in a crash near Bedford had passed a red signal moments before the collision, investigators say.
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Six jailed over murder of innocent mother gunned down on flat doorstepSix people have been jailed after an innocent woman was shot dead at point-blank range on the doorstep of a flat.
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Fan of TV serial killer Dexter 'dismembered and burnt bodies of two men in woods'A double murder trial has heard how police found more than 1,900 burnt bone fragments and a shallow grave containing a torso, legs and feet in remote woods in Cornwall.
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Murder arrest after man's body found following summer solstice event at prehistoric stone circleThe body of a man killed "in the most brutal way" was found at a Bronze Age stone circle in the Peak District.
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Labour MPs fear backlash over expected Burnham coronationLabour MPs are under pressure from their local members who want a leadership contest rather than a coronation of Andy Burnham as prime minister.
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British grid operator cancels plea for more power as temperatures soarThe body which oversees Britain's energy network has walked back a call for more power generation.
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France reports first Ebola case after doctor returning from DR Congo tests positiveFrance has reported its first case of Ebola during the latest outbreak after a doctor returning from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) tested positive.
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Ukraine destroys key rail bridge as fresh attacks aim to 'isolate Crimea'Ukraine said its forces destroyed a key railway bridge in Crimea, as it seeks to isolate the Russian-occupied peninsula.
National News
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Train driver who died in crash that injured 100 'passed red signal moments before collision'A train driver who died in a crash near Bedford had passed a red signal moments before the collision, investigators say.
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Six jailed over murder of innocent mother gunned down on flat doorstepSix people have been jailed after an innocent woman was shot dead at point-blank range on the doorstep of a flat.
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British grid operator cancels plea for more power as temperatures soarThe body which oversees Britain's energy network has walked back a call for more power generation.
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Fan of TV serial killer Dexter 'dismembered and burnt bodies of two men in woods'A double murder trial has heard how police found more than 1,900 burnt bone fragments and a shallow grave containing a torso, legs and feet in remote woods in Cornwall.
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Labour MPs fear backlash over expected Burnham coronationLabour MPs are under pressure from their local members who want a leadership contest rather than a coronation of Andy Burnham as prime minister.
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Murder arrest after man's body found following summer solstice event at prehistoric stone circleThe body of a man killed "in the most brutal way" was found at a Bronze Age stone circle in the Peak District.
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Police name man stabbed to death in LondonA man stabbed to death in London at the weekend has been named as Kamahl Cameron-Williams.
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New defence secretary Dan Jarvis signals he's pushing for extra money for armed forcesDan Jarvis, the new defence secretary, signalled he is pushing for extra money for the armed forces and aims to publish a defence investment plan but not "at any cost".
World News
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Ukraine destroys key rail bridge as fresh attacks aim to 'isolate Crimea'Ukraine said its forces destroyed a key railway bridge in Crimea, as it seeks to isolate the Russian-occupied peninsula.
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Like him or loathe him, Tucker Carlson is a window into Trump's worldI first saw the scale of Tucker Carlson's political power and influence up close at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee in 2024.
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France reports first Ebola case after doctor returning from DR Congo tests positiveFrance has reported its first case of Ebola during the latest outbreak after a doctor returning from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) tested positive.
Entertainment News
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Former River City actor Iain Robertson found guilty of rapeFormer River City actor Iain Robertson has been found guilty of rape following a trial at the High Court in Glasgow.
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Note sent to media outlets claims Nancy Guthrie died after 'kidnap'A note sent to the media following the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie claimed she had died, according to reports.
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Artwork blaming Churchill for mass starvation taken down from National Portrait GalleryA video art installation has been taken down from the National Portrait Gallery after a row over its claim about the role of Sir Winston Churchill in the 1943 Bengal famine.
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Clive Davis, legendary music mogul behind Whitney Houston and Bruce Springsteen, dies aged 94Legendary music mogul Clive Davis, who launched the careers of Whitney Houston and Bruce Springsteen, has died at the age of 94.
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Ukraine destroys key rail bridge as fresh attacks aim to 'isolate Crimea'Ukraine said its forces destroyed a key railway bridge in Crimea, as it seeks to isolate the Russian-occupied peninsula.
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Billionaire to invest in ocean protection as UK and US scale back fundingMichael Bloomberg has pledged $260m (£196m) to conserve the world's oceans, as major funders including the US and UK scale back science and conservation budgets.
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Train driver who died in crash that injured 100 'passed red signal moments before collision'A train driver who died in a crash near Bedford had passed a red signal moments before the collision, investigators say.
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Note sent to media outlets claims Nancy Guthrie died after 'kidnap'A note sent to the media following the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie claimed she had died, according to reports.





