Posts by yorkshire reporter

New government scheme will see energy prices for non-domestic energy customers such as businesses, charities and public sector organisations cut – protecting them from rising energy costs Government work with suppliers will reduce wholesale energy costs – and the significant rises in bills that businesses have seen This support is…

Trains operated by Northern were the target of almost 70 dangerous attacks in the last 12 months. Since August last year, its services across the North of England were struck by 42 bricks, stones and rocks thrown from bridges and railway embankments. Its carriages also collided with 27 ‘substantial items’…

The owners of second homes are set to have to pay a premium on their properties in North Yorkshire amid ambitious plans to tackle the affordable housing crisis which is blighting communities across the county. A landmark decision today (Tuesday, September 20) by senior councillors at North Yorkshire County Council…

Tens of thousands of homes and businesses have benefited from an ambitious roll-out of superfast broadband connections which has involved one of the most challenging projects nationally to install the technology in deeply rural communities in North Yorkshire. The multi-million pound scheme to dramatically enhance broadband speeds in the county…