6+ hour, 16+ min ago  (406+ words) North Yorkshire Police will use live facial recognition technology in York to catch criminals and protect vulnerable people. The force announced it will be rolling out the facial recognition technology in "carefully selected, intelligence'led locations" in York and North Yorkshire....

5+ day, 22+ hour ago  (753+ words) This round-up of claims has been compiled by Full Fact, the UK's largest fact-checking charity working to find, expose and counter the harms of bad information. Is the Government delivering on its immigration returns pledge? In its 2024 election manifesto, Labour…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (369+ words) The government is to stop housing asylum seekers in a North Yorkshire hotel. The Home Office has written to North Yorkshire Council to advise that it is terminating the contract for asylum accommodation with Allerton Court Hotel, in Northallerton. The…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago  (522+ words) Thousands of parents could be missing out on Child Benefit payments from HMRC - and many only realise after it may be too late. That's the warning from money saving expert Martin Lewis after a listener to his podcast asked this…...

2+ mon, 6+ day ago  (418+ words) A judicial review of the ban on Palestine Action can go ahead, a judge at Scotland's highest civil court has ruled. Lord Young issued his decision following a hearing at the Court of Session earlier this month into whether to…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (620+ words) A major supplier of small boats and engines believed to be used in thousands of Channel crossings to the UK has been jailed for 11 years and fined 400,000 euro (more than "346,000). Turkish national Adem Savas, 45, was sentenced at a Belgian court…...

3+ mon, 1+ day ago  (306+ words) Hundreds of of fake toys were seized in a North East town in the days leading up to Christmas, it has been revealed." More than 400 potentially unsafe items were confiscated by Middlesbrough Council's trading standards officers from three temporary stalls…...

3+ mon, 4+ day ago  (874+ words) Reform UK has said the Conservatives "cannot be trusted, after the decision to grant Alaa Abd El-Fattah citizenship. The activist, who was recently released after years of detention in Egypt, previously wrote tweets which appeared to show him calling for…...