Ralph Blackburn

The huge increase in home to school transport usage must be tackled by the Government as it pushes council finances to the brink, the public spending watchdog has found.

North Yorkshire care leaders have said a fresh report from the regulator is a “clear and urgent warning” about the fragility of the health and social care system.

The controversial “proppant squeezing” method of gas extraction that an energy company wants to test in North Yorkshire should be part of the fracking ban, a Labour MP will say today.

Yorkshire’s mayors have urged the Government not to forget about the east side of the Pennines ahead of the expected announcement on Northern Powerhouse Rail.

Yorkshire Water has once again been given a red rating by the Environment Agency for serious pollution incidents over the last year.

The chief executive of England’s hospital regulator has stepped down following the announcement of an independent inquiry into maternity care at the Leeds NHS trust he led for a decade.

Governments from both parties have “lost the focus” that farming should be about food production, Victorian Atkins has said, as she pledged to win back the trust of farmers and the agricultural community.

Mayor Tracy Brabin has joined Sir Keir Starmer on his trip to India, where she says she will be “banging the drum for West Yorkshire”.

The British steel industry is facing an “existential crisis” after the European Union announced it would hit the UK with 50 per cent tariffs, unions have said.

Ed Miliband has vowed to permanently ban fracking, as campaigners warned that dozens of Yorkshire constituencies could be affected if Reform UK lifted the moratorium.