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Good signs for town’s tourism

9:05am Saturday 4th February 2012

TRANSPORT bosses have allowed brown tourist signs directing people to a North Yorkshire town to be kept at the side of the A1.

Raiders target building site

8:29am Friday 3rd February 2012

More than £1,000-worth of tools, including a cement mixer, were stolen from a building site in Harrogate.

North Yorkshire cathedral chosen to host Queen's Jubilee service

12:58pm Wednesday 1st February 2012

A NORTH Yorkshire cathedral has been chosen to host a service for the region to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.

Lotto prize claimed

9:13am Tuesday 31st January 2012

AN outstanding £177,461 lottery prize has been claimed by someone from the Harrogate area.

Pub arson drama in Harrogate

9:19am Monday 30th January 2012

FIREFIGHTERS were called to a suspected arson attack in the bar area of a pub in Otley Road, Harrogate, early yesterday.

MoD confirms 'sonic boom' which shook Harrogate was fighter jet

5:16pm Friday 27th January 2012

A LOUD bang which shook Harrogate was caused by a fighter jet breaking the sound barrier, the MoD has confirmed.

‘Loud bang’ caused by low-flying plane

9:33am Friday 27th January 2012

A LOUD bang heard in the Harrogate area yesterday is thought to have been caused by a low-flying aircraft.

Fresh plea over theft of ATM

8:32am Friday 27th January 2012

POLICE have made a fresh appeal for witnesses after a cash machine was stolen.

Faster internet for 39,000 homes

10:58am Thursday 26th January 2012

Nearly 39,000 more homes and businesses in North and East Yorkshire now have access to faster broadband, BT has announced.

Harrogate opera festival

9:08am Thursday 26th January 2012

Harrogate will play host to a new international festival of opera.

Pensioner dies after being hit by car in Ripon

9:14am Tuesday 24th January 2012

AN elderly pedestrian hit by a car while on a shopping trip in Ripon has died in hospital.

Knaresborough in Britain in Bloom finals

9:00am Saturday 21st January 2012

A NORTH Yorkshire town has been selected from more than 1,000 entries to take part in this year’s Britain in Bloom UK finals.

Historic school in ex-pupils appeal

8:48am Saturday 21st January 2012

A 450-YEAR-OLD school in North Yorkshire has launched a search for former pupils.

Sponsored sleepover at Ripon Cathedral

8:04am Friday 20th January 2012

CHORISTERS from Ripon Cathedral will spend a night sleeping in the church next month, to help raise money for an overseas trip.