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Hundreds of sites where tens of thousands of new homes could be built over the next two decades have been put forward by landowners in North Yorkshire.

North Yorkshire Council says that the Scarborough Lights festival attracted over 150,000 visitors during November and December 2024.

North Yorkshire Council is hoping to sell a former office building in Scarborough for more than £1m.

Scarborough and Whitby schools will be among the first to receive the government's new free breakfast club funding.

North Yorkshire Police are seeking public assistance with investigations into three separate incidents that occurred on Saturday, February 22, 2025, in Scarborough, Whitby and Filey.

Ukranians living up and down the Yorkshire Coast will mark three years since the start of the war in their country.

School Readers, a charity focused on boosting children's literacy, is growing its presence on the Yorkshire Coast and requires more volunteers.

Up-and-coming athletes on the North Yorkshire Coast are being given the chance to take their sporting careers to the next level with Everyone Active's Sporting Champions scheme.

A project that aims to being a Scandinavian-style Sauna to Scarborough is being revived after suffering planning setbacks.

Scarborough's Saint Catherine’s Hospice has launched a new "Volunteer to Career" programme in partnership with a national charity, Helpforce.

East Riding Council has received a planning application for the change of use of the former The Windsor pub in Bridlington.

A Remembrance Service will be held at Scarborough Salvation Army to mark three years since the start of the war in Ukraine.

Insults hurled by Donald Trump at Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy are "ghastly to hear" and "complete untruths", former British prime minister Boris Johnson has said.

A teenager who admitted killing his mother and two younger siblings was plotting a school shooting, it can now be reported.

Pope Francis's health has shown a "slight improvement" but he remains in a critical condition, the Vatican has said.

Grammy-award winning singer Roberta Flack has died at the age of 88, her publicist has announced.

A Scottish businessman who disappeared in Kenya eight days ago has been found dead.

The chief executive of the Countess of Chester Hospital was worried about a "wrongful conviction" after Lucy Letby was arrested, a public inquiry has heard.

Clint Hill, the Secret Service agent who leapt onto John F Kennedy's limousine after he was shot, has died aged 93.

Celebrating its best-ever result, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has made extraordinary gains in the last few years. 

A teenager who admitted killing his mother and two younger siblings was plotting a school shooting, it can now be reported.

A Scottish businessman who disappeared in Kenya eight days ago has been found dead.

The chief executive of the Countess of Chester Hospital was worried about a "wrongful conviction" after Lucy Letby was arrested, a public inquiry has heard.

Sir Keir Starmer will this week go to Washington to try to help broker a just peace deal for Ukraine with a capricious president who in just a week has unwound a consensus that was born from the ashes of the Second World War and had endured for 70 years.

Sledgehammer-wielding thieves who smashed their way into Blenheim Palace managed to steal a £2.8m gold toilet in just five minutes, a court has heard.

The jailing of Mike Amesbury for 10 weeks for assault means Sir Keir Starmer potentially faces his first by-election test since becoming prime minister.

A three-year-old girl who died in a crash involving a tram and a van in Manchester has been named.

Police are searching for a man they want to talk to in connection with a murder in east London.

Rocks and a scooter have been thrown at trains from a bridge above a 120mph railway line, an operator has said.

Insults hurled by Donald Trump at Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy are "ghastly to hear" and "complete untruths", former British prime minister Boris Johnson has said.

The US joined Russia to vote against a UN resolution on the Ukraine war - and abstained from voting on one it drafted after amendments proposed by European countries were added.

Pope Francis's health has shown a "slight improvement" but he remains in a critical condition, the Vatican has said.

In a strictly military sense, the war in Ukraine is not going so badly for Kyiv. 

Friedrich Merz, who is set to become the new German chancellor, has vowed to "create unity" in Europe as it adjusts to the new Trump administration and Russia's war on Ukraine.

China's military has started live-fire exercises in the Gulf of Tonkin - after Vietnam published a map defining what it considers its territory in the body of water between the two countries.

In her desperate search for answers over her son Valentin's death, Elena even turned to Vladimir Putin.

An American Airlines flight travelling from New York to New Delhi was diverted midair due to a "bomb threat".

Former Arsenal and Real Madrid footballer Mesut Ozil has transitioned into politics after joining Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan's party.

A former surgeon who is alleged to have raped and sexually abused 299 victims - most of them children who were his patients - told the opening of his trial in France he had committed "despicable acts".

A Scottish businessman who disappeared in Kenya eight days ago has been found dead.

Grammy-award winning singer Roberta Flack has died at the age of 88, her publicist has announced.

Mariah Carey is set to perform an exclusive concert at a royal estate.

The winners of this year's Screen Actors Guild Awards (SAG) have been revealed - a major predictor of the Oscars, with just a week to go.

Louis Theroux will be honoured with the prestigious National Film and Television School (NFTS) fellowship next month.

Actor and comedian Chris O'Dowd has described moving back to London from the US, finding people in the city are "down" after a decade of cutbacks.

Everton should have kept a last-minute penalty for Matthijs de Ligt's shirt pull on Ashley Young during the 2-2 draw with Manchester United, according to former Premier League referee Dermot Gallagher.

Sky Sports' Paul Merson says Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca needs his team to beat both Southampton and Leicester to save his job after a recent underwhelming run.

Mercedes have revealed their 2025 F1 car ahead of pre-season testing in Bahrain as they begin a new chapter without Lewis Hamilton.

Virat Kohli became the fastest player to 14,000 ODI runs as he hit 100 not out to guide India to a six-wicket victory over Pakistan in the Champions Trophy at the Dubai International Stadium.

Insults hurled by Donald Trump at Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy are "ghastly to hear" and "complete untruths", former British prime minister Boris Johnson has said.

Cliff Nicholls runs two trampoline parks and indoor play centres: one in Tamworth in the West Midlands, the other in Bolton, Greater Manchester. He's already feeling the pressure from the government's latest budget measures and has been forced to abandon further investment plans.

The US joined Russia to vote against a UN resolution on the Ukraine war - and abstained from voting on one it drafted after amendments proposed by European countries were added.

Pope Francis's health has shown a "slight improvement" but he remains in a critical condition, the Vatican has said.

MP Mike Amesbury, who has been jailed for 10 weeks after punching a man in the street, will still get his £91,000 salary in prison.

Grammy-award winning singer Roberta Flack has died at the age of 88, her publicist has announced.

Personalised cancer treatment, matched to a patient via a simple blood test, is being hailed as "life-saving", following an initial study.

Hackers have stolen $1.5bn (£1.19bn) worth of digital money in what could be the biggest-ever cryptocurrency theft.

Apple will no longer offer customers in the UK its most advanced, end-to-end security encryption feature for cloud data storage - following a row with the government.

Apple's decision to withdraw its most secure cloud storage service from the UK is just the latest turning point in a battle that has been rumbling on between US tech companies and successive British governments for some time.