News and Events in the Harrogate Area
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Charlie O’Neill, 27, from Northallerton, is wanted for recall to prison after breaching the terms of his prison release licence having being released partway through a sentence for drug dealing. Extensive enquiries have been carried out to find Mr O’Neill who also has links to Thirsk, Darlington, Leeming Bar and Hornby. Officers have warned that anyone harbouring him, could also be committing a…
Students at Harrogate College have been collecting their GCSE English and maths results as they embark on their next steps. Among those are adults returning to education and young people re-taking English and maths alongside their course. Neil Thompson studied GCSE English while working as a Healthcare Assistant at Harrogate Hospital. Originally from South Africa, the 55 year old discovered that…
Harrogate Town AFC have signed Middlesbrough midfielder Brayden Johnson on a season-long loan. The 20-year-old caught the eye of current club Boro after a breakout season with Eastbourne Borough with the midfielder making 30+ apps for The National South side during the 24/25 campaign. After signing for the Championship side in January 2025, Johnson would gain more first team experience out on loan…
York College adult learner Mao Chen has secured a job with West Yorkshire Police at the age of 52 after gaining exceptional GCSE grades today. Mao secured a 9 in Maths and a 7 in English Language and will now become a Uniformed Police Officer, before pursuing a detective pathway in two years’ time. His academic and vocational success comes just nine years after moving to the UK from China, so that…
City of York Council education leaders have congratulated students across the city as they receive their GCSE and Key Stage 4 results today (Thursday 20 August). Cllr Bob Webb, Executive Member for Children, Young People and Education, said: Congratulations to all the young people receiving their GCSE and Key Stage 4 results today. Reaching this point reflects years of hard work, commitment and…
Thousands of pupils across North Yorkshire have collected a strong set of GCSE results as some of the county’s schools have witnessed record levels of success. GCSE and equivalent exam results were released this morning (Thursday, August 20), which will allow pupils to decide on their future in sixth-form, college or training. Students and staff at Bedale High School have marked a third…
A home does not need a major renovation to feel more considered, comfortable or distinctive. Often, the details that receive the least attention can have the greatest effect on how a room looks and functions. From better lighting and carefully chosen finishes to updated doors, flooring and wall treatments, relatively modest improvements can change the character of an interior. This approach is…
There aren’t many live events where strangers become friends before the first song has finished. Fewer still where the dancefloor is full by mid-afternoon, generations mingle without a second thought and everyone is home in time for the evening. Yet that’s exactly what has happened with Day Fever. What began as a simple idea between friends has become one of Britain’s most unexpected live…
The Harrogate Homeless Project has welcomed a substantial funding package aimed at tackling homelessness and rough sleeping across the Harrogate district, backing up national commitments made by Prime Minister Andy Burnham. The total funding package amounts to approximately £547,000 distributed over the next three years. Delivered as part of the extended Ending Homelessness in Communities Fund…
Breast cancer patients at Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust (HDFT) are set to receive faster diagnoses and quicker treatment decisions following the introduction of pioneering new artificial intelligence technology. HDFT has become the first NHS Trust in the country to introduce an AI-enabled HER2 tissue scanning system for clinical use, marking a major milestone in local cancer…
A Harrogate gymnast is preparing to attend a GB Development Squad camp next week, after progressing from preschool classes at Harrogate Gymnastics to competing at national level. Andi-Mae Bendelow, aged 13, has been selected for the GB Development Squad in Women’s Artistic Gymnastics following an outstanding competition season and will attend a five-day camp next week, from 24 to 28 August. Her…
The village of Minskip, near Boroughbridge, is set to burst into a blaze of colour on the weekend of 5 and 6 September 2026 as its highly anticipated annual Scarecrow Competition returns with a vibrant new theme: The Circus. The popular community event, which has built an exceptional reputation over the last six years, will see almost the entire village transform the main street with creative…
Disabled bus pass time restrictions scrapped after almost two-year long campaign by Tom Gordon MP The Liberal Democrat MP for Harrogate and Knaresborough had been due to force a second Commons vote on the change this September The new Burnham Government adopts campaign policy of Tom Gordon just weeks before the MP for Harrogate and Knaresborough was due to force a second Commons vote on it – a…
BAFTA-winning production company The Garden is hunting for ordinary people to put their survival skills to the ultimate test in a potential second series of Channel 4’s major new show, Apocalypse. What would you do if civilisation as we know it came to an end? If you were stripped of light, power, running water, and heat in a ruined urban environment, how would you cope? The Garden—the acclaimed…
