Yorkshire Coast News
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Will Young to Play Scarborough Spa
Multi-award-winning British pop star and actor Will Young is heading to the Spa Theatre for an intimate evening of music, stories and laughter.
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Pickering Hosts International Rescue Event
Firefighters from around the world are descending on Pickering today.
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East Riding Council Embraces Artificial Intelligence
East Riding Council has adopted a new policy on the use of Artificial Intelligence.
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Whitby Seafoods Buys Scampi Trawler
Whitby Seafoods is celebrating the purchase of Portavogie based fishing boat The Golden Ray.
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Plan to Turn Vacant Scarborough Shops in to Flats Rejected
Councillors have refused proposals to convert vacant shop units into residential flats at a major housing development.
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Two Drivers Seriously Injured in A170 Collision
Police are appealing for witnesses to the serious collision which took place this morning.
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Cinder Track Widening Plan Deferred
Plans to expand and resurface a part of the Cinder Track have been delayed after Scarborough and Whitby councillors raised ‘serious concerns’ about accessibility.
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More Details on New Scarborough Streets Festival
A free three-day festival will be staged in Scarborough next month as part of efforts to bring a more diverse range of visitors to the North Yorkshire coast during the main tourism season.
Top Stories
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Iran grounds flights across country after reports of explosions
Iran has grounded commercial flights across parts of the country after reports of explosions.
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Israel threatened to retaliate - and it appears to have been a carefully chosen response
Israel threatened a retaliation, and it came before dawn on Friday morning.
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Rishi Sunak to demand end to 'sick note culture' and shift focus to 'what people can do'
Rishi Sunak is to call for an end to the "sick note culture" in a major speech on welfare reform - as he warns against "over-medicalising the everyday challenges and worries of life".
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Nicola Sturgeon's husband Peter Murrell charged in connection with embezzlement of funds from SNP
Nicola Sturgeon's husband Peter Murrell has been charged by police after he was arrested amid an investigation into the SNP's funding and finances.
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EU proposing post-Brexit joint youth work and study scheme with UK
Young people could be able to move more easily between the UK and Europe and stay longer to work, study and train under proposed plans by the European Union
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Donald Trump labels hush money trial a 'mess' after jury selected
Donald Trump described the hush money case against him as a "mess" after the jury who will decide his fate has been selected.
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Sydney Sweeney responds to 'sad and shameful' producer who said she 'can't act' and 'isn't pretty'
Sydney Sweeney has hit back at a Hollywood producer who said she "can't act" and is "not pretty", calling her comments "sad" and "shameful".
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Polish man arrested over alleged Russia plot to assassinate Zelenskyy
A Polish man has been arrested and charged with plans to help Russia's military intelligence carry out an alleged plot to assassinate Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, say prosecutors.
National News
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Nicola Sturgeon's husband Peter Murrell charged in connection with embezzlement of funds from SNP
Nicola Sturgeon's husband Peter Murrell has been charged by police after he was arrested amid an investigation into the SNP's funding and finances.
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Andrew Malkinson criticises apology from Criminal Cases Review Commission after he was wrongly jailed for 17 years
A man wrongly jailed for 17 years for a rape he did not commit has said it is "too little too late" after receiving an apology from the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC).
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Dozens arrested and thousands contacted after scammer site taken offline
Dozens of people around the world have been arrested after police disrupted a UK-founded website scamming victims on an industrial scale.
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Rishi Sunak to demand end to 'sick note culture' and shift focus to 'what people can do'
Rishi Sunak is to call for an end to the "sick note culture" in a major speech on welfare reform - as he warns against "over-medicalising the everyday challenges and worries of life".
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Scottish government ditches flagship climate change target as it accepts it is 'out of reach'
The Scottish government has ditched its flagship target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 75% by 2030 after accepting that it is now "out of reach".
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Govt's funded childcare rollout branded 'really ambitious game' - as '85,000 new places needed'
About 85,000 places need to be created for the expansion of funded childcare by September 2025, the government has estimated - but campaigners warned the scheme is a "really ambitious game".
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Masked gunman who shot at car on busy London street in 'gang dispute' convicted
A masked gunman who shot at a car on a busy north London street in a "gang dispute" has been convicted.
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Harry Styles' stalker jailed after sending him 8,000 cards in less than a month
A woman who stalked Harry Styles has been jailed and banned from seeing him perform.
World News
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Iran grounds flights across country after reports of explosions
Iran has grounded commercial flights across parts of the country after reports of explosions.
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Israel threatened to retaliate - and it appears to have been a carefully chosen response
Israel threatened a retaliation, and it came before dawn on Friday morning.
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Deaths of 48 people in 1981 fire at Dublin's Stardust nightclub were unlawful killing, jury rules
The deaths of 48 people in the worst fire in the history of Ireland have been ruled by a jury as unlawful killing.
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Bodies fused together in death: How Stardust was seared into Irish consciousness
It was a night of giddy teenage romance that suddenly turned into Ireland's worst ever fire disaster. The Stardust inferno killed 48 young people, injured hundreds more and led to a decades-long search for answers and justice.
Entertainment News
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Kanye West: Los Angeles police investigating whether rapper was involved in alleged battery
Police in Los Angeles have said they are investigating whether Kanye West was involved in an alleged battery.
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Harry Styles' stalker jailed after sending him 8,000 cards in less than a month
A woman who stalked Harry Styles has been jailed and banned from seeing him perform.
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Sydney Sweeney responds to 'sad and shameful' producer who said she 'can't act' and 'isn't pretty'
Sydney Sweeney has hit back at a Hollywood producer who said she "can't act" and is "not pretty", calling her comments "sad" and "shameful".
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Allman Brothers Band guitarist Dickey Betts dies
The Allman Brothers Band guitarist and singer Dickey Betts has died aged 80, his family announced.
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Nicola Sturgeon's husband Peter Murrell charged in connection with embezzlement of funds from SNP
Nicola Sturgeon's husband Peter Murrell has been charged by police after he was arrested amid an investigation into the SNP's funding and finances.
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Mark Menzies: Sir Keir Starmer says police 'should be involved' in allegations suspended Tory MP misused campaign funds
Sir Keir Starmer said police should be involved in the case of suspended Tory MP Mark Menzies, who faces allegations he misused campaign funds.
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Deaths of 48 people in 1981 fire at Dublin's Stardust nightclub were unlawful killing, jury rules
The deaths of 48 people in the worst fire in the history of Ireland have been ruled by a jury as unlawful killing.
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Dozens arrested and thousands contacted after scammer site taken offline
Dozens of people around the world have been arrested after police disrupted a UK-founded website scamming victims on an industrial scale.