Bus & train services in the Harrogate area will, as usual, be amended over the Christmas and New Year holiday period. Monday 22nd December: Flyer buses & Harrogate Bus Company will operate a Saturday timetable. Connexions bus and trains will operate a weekday timetable. Tuesday 23rd December: Flyer buses & Harrogate Bus Company will operate a Saturday timetable. Connexions bus and trains will operate a weekday timetable. Christmas Eve Wednesday 24th December: Flyer buses & Harrogate Bus Company will operate a Saturday timetable with early finishes. Connexions bus and trains will operate a weekday timetable with trains having some minor other alterations and finishing earlier then normal. The last services to Harrogate leave: Leeds
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Nigel Farage hosted a press conference on 10 November 2025, launching Reform UK’s plans around small business. Many of the questions were directed to him on the question of the BBC, the editing of a speech made by Donald Trump on 6 January 2021, the day of the Capitol riot. Nigel Farage claimed that what the BBC did was election interference and that they have been institutionally biased for decades. The comments come from the publication by the Telegraph Newspaper of leaked internal memos, the BBC Director General Tim Davie and BBC News CEO Deborah Harness stepping down.   Echoing what
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Following the Government’s £5.2 million announcement for winter homelessness support in Yorkshire & Humber, Liberal Democrat MP Tom Gordon has called on ministers to do much more to deliver real, long-term solutions to end homelessness – not just short-term fixes. With record numbers of households now living in temporary accommodation across England, including nearly 170,000 children, this latest Government announcement falls far short of addressing the scale of the housing crisis which many councils are struggling to manage against a backdrop of budget cuts and spiralling costs of supporting families in need of temporary accommodation. Official figures show that local
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A North Yorkshire midwife who works at Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust is lacing up her trainers and running for a slightly unusual cause this autumn – the welfare of ex-commercial hens. Rachel Clark, who lives in the village of Scruton near Northallerton, will run the Royal Parks Half Marathon in London this October 12 in support of the British Hen Welfare Trust (BHWT), a national charity that rehomes thousands of hens every year from egg farms into loving back gardens. Rachel first adopted hens five years ago after moving to a home with some outdoor space. Since then,
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Belzona, local manufacturer of polymeric repair and protection systems has installed 762 solar panels across the roofs of both of its buildings on Claro Road, Harrogate. The panel cover a total of 1486m² should generate over 300,000 kWh of electricity per year. To provide perspective, Ofgem estimates that the average UK home uses 2,700 kWh of electricity annually, so this is enough to power 111 UK homes for a year. Helen Parris, QSHE Manager & Head of Belzona’s Environmental Committee said: We have been working for many years to reduce our environmental impact, and whilst we still have a way
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