Richmondshire spreads don't drink and drive message
Friday 21 December 2007THE Richmondshire Community Safety Partnership is playing its part in the 95 Alive Road Safety Partnership campaign to highlight the dangers associated with drink driving, particularly at this time of year.
Beer mats promote abuse help lines
Friday 21 December 2007THOUSANDS of beer mats are being delivered to pubs across the Hambleton district of the Yorkshire Dales in a campaign to keep the problem of domestic abuse in the spotlight.
Big welcome for new rural transport policy
Thursday 20 December 2007NEW Government policy on private rural transport has received an unusually warm welcome for rural businesses in Yorkshire. It is a "critical breakthrough" according to the Country Land and Business Association, usually one of the Government's harshest critics.
Superhero flies in to boost alcohol awareness campaign
Thursday 20 December 2007YOUNG people in Richmondshire are being urged to "know their limits" when it comes to alcohol this Christmas.
New CCTV for dales town
Wednesday 19 December 2007THREE new crime cutting cameras have gone 'live' in one Yorkshire Dales town.
Cautious welcome for wind farm planning
Wednesday 19 December 2007THE Government's decision to allow local planners a say in the siting of new wind farms has received a cautious welcome from the Campaign to Protect Rural England.
47 drink-drive arrests - but North Yorkshire is below national average
Tuesday 18 December 2007TWO weeks into North Yorkshire's Christmas drink-drive campaign and already 47 drink-driving arrests have been made, as North Yorkshire Police continues its zero-tolerance roads policing operation, 'Helical Two'.
Racing trainer boosts charity funds
Tuesday 18 December 2007ANN Duffield, one of the country's most successful women in the racing world has helped Ribble Valley & White Rose Ladies to raised £2150 for research into children's cancer.
Out and about with the young archaeologists
Monday 17 December 2007YOUNG time detectives have been seeing how the professionals do it on a trip out from their base at the Dales Countryside Museum in Hawes.
Blue tongue disease nears North Yorks
Monday 17 December 2007NORTH Yorkshire farmers face an anxious wait over the Christmas period following the confirmation of a case of the fatal animal disease blue tongue on a farm near Middlesbrough. But the heavy frosts of the past week are a comfort.
