Posts by yorkshire reporter

The North Yorkshire Moors Railway (NYMR) has announced its Summer Family tickets for £88 (two adults and two children), with individual adult tickets for £43 each and children aged between 4 & 15 travelling for just £1.  Tickets for the hugely popular award-winning attraction are now on sale and are…

Ultra-fast broadband technology has been introduced in one of the remotest parts of the Yorkshire Dales in the latest phase of a multi-million pound scheme to help tackle the digital divide across North Yorkshire.  The pioneering project has been launched in Coverdale, which lies in the heart of the Yorkshire…

An innovative new project is providing real-time information about air quality in Harrogate and Selby. The Wi-Fi enabled sensors measure a range of pollutants and send data to a central website which collates information for analysis. Councillor Tim Grogan, Selby District Council’s Executive member for Health and Culture, said: “This…

Countryside communities at the epicentre of a housing crisis will be put at the forefront of planning policies to shape strategies for new homes, the chairman of a rural taskforce has pledged. The affordable homes crisis in North Yorkshire is particularly accentuated in the county’s rural areas, with the most…

Renewable energy company Drax has signed an agreement with British Steel to explore opportunities for its steel to be used to build the world’s largest multi-billion-pound carbon capture project at its power station in the UK. The signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) brings together two major British industries…