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Leeds Hospitals Awarded NMC Nurse Testing Centre Status

Health, Healthcare
A contract to test the skills and knowledge of nurses trained overseas and those returning to practice after a significant time away has been awarded to Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust – and it will be the only test centre in the country based in an NHS trust. The Objective…

Understanding Winter’s Feast And Famine

Features, The World Of Birds
−−− BY LINDA JENKINSON −−− It’s been a very strange autumn so far, probably the warmest on record here in the north of England and, understandably, this has been affecting our birdwatching experience.  The normal seasonal spectacle of wildfowl and waders fleeing the frozen northlands has been reduced to a…

Bloodaxe Book Challenge Launches For York’s Young Readers

Local News
Can you read better than a Viking?  Almost certainly – as the Viking were fans of oral storytelling hundreds of years before the first printing press was invented – but young readers in York are asked to take inspiration for the Norse love of sagas in this year’s Bloodaxe Book…

Weather Stations Sited To Inform Travellers Ahead Of Winter Weather

Local News
Road users across North Yorkshire will be able to benefit from additional travel information transmitted from ten new weather stations erected in advance of this coming winter. These new stations, installed by North Yorkshire Highways, now mean that the county has the most up-to-date, extensive range of weather stations in…

Yorkshire True Grit Ready To Keep The Traffic Flowing This Winter

Local News
People who live and work in North Yorkshire can be reassured that the county’s highways team is geared up as usual to keep the county moving during winter weather. North Yorkshire County Council spends between £6m and £10m each winter on gritting, depending on the severity of the weather. Last…
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