The public are being asked to help to shape the next stage of a strategy to promote arts, heritage and culture across North Yorkshire. Culture, such as museums, heritage and the creative arts, enriches lives, increases health and wellbeing, supports skills and employment development, and can be the catalyst for regeneration. North Yorkshire Council is working with community organisations, partners, visitors, participants, and colleagues to create the strategy, the next phase of which is a public survey that has now been launched. The introduction of the York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority earlier this year is bringing new opportunities for
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The Knaresborough Branch of the Royal British Legion has been rocked to the core on receipt of a letter from the assistant Chief Constable of North Yorkshire Police informing the Branch that North Yorkshire Police will no longer provide the Traffic Management function for Knaresborough’s Remembrance Day Parade on Remembrance Sundays as the force needs to make sure Police resources remain focused on tackling crime and anti-social behaviour. This immediately puts this year’s Remembrance Day Parade’s at risk of being cancelled and future ones not happening too. Speaking for the Knaresborough Branch of the Royal British Legion, vice-chair Dave Houlgate Harrogate Informer …