At a recent summit meeting health officials were told that there are serious concerns that the temporary reduction in opening hours at a paediatric unit at Northallerton’s Friarage Hospital will become permanent.
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Become healthier with Fit 4 Life

If you are looking to become fitter and healthier in 2015, then the ‘Fit 4 Life’ programme may just be what you are looking for.
Harrogate Borough Council has launched a new lifestyles service for anyone living in the district who wants to improve their health by getting fitter, losing weight or making other healthy lifestyle choices. Read more
Harrogate Borough Council launch ‘FixMyStreet’ service

Harrogate Borough Council is encouraging the district’s residents to use its new FixMyStreet service – a one-stop shop for reporting common street problems that the council needs to address. Read more
Masham Movie Festival!

Masham Town Hall is a handsome, 101-year-old building, literally and socially at the heart of the busy and historic market town. Since 2012 we have been showing “Movies in Masham”, with enthusiastic audiences supporting films new and classic, Yorkshire and ‘foreign’, children’s films, silent films… anything that’s been thrown at them, all on state-of-the-art digital projection equipment provided by Cine North*. Read more
School banner campaign targets irresponsible drivers

The Harrogate District Road Safety Group has launched an awareness campaign reminding drivers of the dangers of illegal and irresponsible parking outside schools. Read more
The Clothes We Wore – Exhibition in Harrogate

Did your fashionable youth see you wearing the psychedelic prints of the swinging sixties or perhaps the power dressing shoulder pads of the 1980s? Read more
County council backs new primary school for Thirsk

North Yorkshire County Council has agreed in principle to the building of a new primary school in Thirsk to meet the demand for additional places from the Sowerby Gateway housing development. Read more