Richard Flinton

An environmental expert has been recruited to analyse seaweed along the North Yorkshire coast in a bid to pinpoint the source of pollution which is affecting bathing water quality in Scarborough’s South Bay.

Councillors elected to serve North Yorkshire’s communities on the county’s forthcoming unitary authority will have “a real decision to take for the first time in a generation” over how projected savings of up to £67m should be spent, it has been claimed.

As the nation looks back and reflects on 12 months of the coronavirus pandemic, tributes have been paid to all those who have helped in North Yorkshire’s effort to tackle the virus.