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Gale-force winds, horizontal, driving rain and low cloud – Fleet Moss was a pretty uncomfortable place to be on a recent Friday morning. Fleet Moss is on the...

VILLAGE halls are tremendous community assets – in many of our smaller settlements they are often the only place where everyone can come together. We have some...

LIKE me I am sure many of you will be sceptical about some of the surveys that are published, seemingly daily, about frankly rather odd subjects. But one that...

Mental health care in this country has for too long been a Cinderella service. Despite the development of modern treatment therapies and facilities, Governments...

I am always impressed and immensely gratified by the generosity of spirit I find in our North Yorkshire communities. So many people are prepared to do their bit...

On one of my regular busy constituency Fridays a while ago I met a group of parents at the Dales School in Morton-on-Swale, near Northallerton. As many of you...

I hope you, your families and friends had great Christmas and New Year celebrations. For my first column of 2019 I am returning to a subject dear to my heart –...

AS you plan your Christmas table this year, I hope you will try to ensure that as much of your festive fare is locally-produced and sourced as possible. We are...

In my role as Local Government Minister, I recently launched a £1m Pocket Parks programme designed to help create new green spaces or refurbish existing ones...