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Whitby emergency services attend three incidents on bank holiday Monday

Yorkshire poet Ian McMillan, left, and artists Paul Digby have an exhibition at the Old Parcels Office

Two new exhibitions head to Scarborough's Old Parcels Office gallery

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Ryan Ashworth, Owner of Westway Boxing Club.

Lovell supports Scarborough boxing club with PPE donation for essential gym reva...

The inshore lifeboat crew launch to rescue a casualty in the water. Image: RNLI/Neil Williamson

Whitby inshore lifeboat launched after dog rescue attempt

Breaking 'Sick of the lies': Michelle Mone breaks silence on covid PPE scandal

Matt Cameron and Sarah Drakes picking up litter on Bridlington beach. Credit: Richard Walker/PA Wire

8kg of litter collected from Bridlington beach by Nestlé

Cutting hospital waiting times is the top priority for York and Scarborough NHS Foundation Trust, its new chair Alan Downey, inset, has said.

Scarborough Hospital waiting lists could take five years to recover after Covid

Meadowfield Lodge, on Meadowfield Road, was judged by the inspectors as ‘good’ overall and received ‘good’ ratings over safety, effectiveness, care, responsiveness and the question of being well-led.

Meadowfield Lodge care home rated ‘good’ following inspection by CQC inspectors

Anna Harvatt (right) from Arco hands over the first boxes containing Covid-19 PPE to Tessa Wray from the Smile Foundation. Picture: Sean Spencer/Hull News and Pictures Ltd

Arco donates £50,000 worth of PPE to Hull and East Yorkshire (HEY) Smile Foundat...
Arco has donated over £50,000 worth of personal protective equipment (PPE) supplies to the HEY Smile Foundation – a leading local charity working with organisations in the health and community support sectors.
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Boris Johnson’s former aide Dominic Cummings has published a WhatsApp exchange in which the Prime Minister appeared to describe Health Secretary Matt Hancock’s performance as “totally f***ing hopeless” (Photo: Shutterstock)

Johnson called Hancock 'totally f***ing useless' in WhatsApp messages, Cummings ...

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Government did not have ‘detailed contingency plans’ in place for pandemic

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Porsche Macan EV pictured testing on public roads

Care home residents in England will be allowed two regular indoor visitors from mid-April, the Government has announced (Photo: Shutterstock)

Care home residents in England allowed two indoor visitors from 12 April

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More than one million face masks issued to NHS workers may fail to meet safety standards, the Government has warned (Photo: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

NHS told to stop using over a million masks issued to workers that ‘may not meet...

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Matt Hancock acted unlawfully over pandemic procurement contracts - what happens...

A multitude of healthcare bodies in the UK are asking the Government for better personal protection against Covid-19 (Photo: Shutterstock)

UK health workers want the government to update 'inadequate' Covid PPE guidance

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A Covid vaccine has been offered to all care home residents in England - what ha...

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More than 850 health and social care workers have died of Covid in England and W...

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Scarborough borough infection rate begins to rise as residents warned not to be ...

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£122m worth of Covid PPE bought for the NHS has never been used

1st and 2nd class stamps are going up in price - here's how much you'll have to ...

Experts warn that the nation is in for a big freeze – as gas engineers expect to...

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Special festive train coming to Scarborough

NHS doctors and nurses will get a pay rise next year - how much will staff get?

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Please give a Helping Hand to Saint Catherine's; as we near the year-end it stil...

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Care homes will be given free PPE until March under new coronavirus plans

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Does wearing glasses or goggles protect you from coronavirus?

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The care home which sacked an employee over claims of lack of PPE has admitted i...

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String of businesses around Whitby area hit by coronavirus

Team members from Scarborough Hospital’s surgical day case unit.

Unit hailed breakthrough for day surgery in Scarborough

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Ayanda Capital supplied 50 million faulty face masks to the UK - this is what th...

Duraweld managing director Mark Yeung at the second factory site

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Duraweld MD Mark Yeung at the second factory site

Delight as Eastfield-based manufacturing company Duraweld win government contrac...
When Stu Carter got a call from him wife one Friday afternoon, he thought it was to catch up on what time she was leaving work. Before the end of the day, as operations manager for Eastfield-based manufacturing company Duraweld, he would be offering to turn over their workforce and production capacity to making d PPE - personal protective clothing - to protect NHS staff against Covid-19.
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When driving lessons and tests can restart and why you'll have to rebook your te...

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This is the new Kitemark logo to check if your face mask is effective and breath...

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Scientists say a second wave of coronavirus over winter could be 'worse than fir...

Secretary of State Matt Hancock told a TV interview that he thought visits to residents in care and nursing homes could resume in a matter of days.

Scarborough care group boss welcomes move to allow relatives visit care and nurs...

Employers are changing the way they find the best candidates during the pandemic (Photo: Shutterstock)

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Things are likely to be different on your next trip away (Photo: Shutterstock)

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Scarborough care home boss says Boris Johnson comments are a 'slap in the face'

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