Your Parish Council Urgently needs your help Can you spare approx. 8-10 hours per month? Do you want to help your community? Do you have experience in an admin role or are keen to learn? Seamer Parish Council urgently needs
Local burglaries shocking increase
Great Ayton and Stokesley in Hambleton has seen the highest rise in burglaries. In 2020-21 there were just seven break-ins, compared to 37 last year – a 428.6% increase. Read more about this on https://www.examinerlive.co.uk/news/local-news/10-yorkshire-neighbourhoods-your-home-24631252?IYA-reg=d213a697-f2e8-424e-88d4-e9dd88d6f125 Article courtesy of the Examiner
Urgent search for Stokesley library volunteers
STOKESLEY Library will close this year unless more volunteers come forward to help run it, a group has warned.
The centre is one of 21 in North Yorkshire that is due to be handed over to the community in spring this year, after the county council announced it could no longer afford to operate them due to budget cuts.
Congratulations to Walter Pattison on his MBE
Walter Pattison, of Seamer, near Stokesley, was given an MBE for services to disabled people in the North-east of England.
Couple driving from Seamer to Italy to help refugees
David and Christine Campy are driving from Seamer, near Stokesley, to Milan to help distribute donations from local people.
Their trip was inspired after reading emails from former Stokesley Circuit Methodist Minister, the Rev Daniel Pratt Morris-Chapman, who relocated to Milan in August after spending a year working in North Yorkshire.
Part of his remit is to work with refugees in the area who are waiting to be repatriated to other areas of the European Union or back to their original country.
Christmas gifts for refugees
Would you like to help a refugee in Milan? We are hoping to take Shoe boxes of Christmas gifts for adults to Rev Daniel & Grace for distributions via the Methodist Church in Milan.
WHEELS 2 WORK SCHEME
The Wheels2Work scheme (which covers Richmondshire, Hambleton, Harrogate and Craven), now has a fleet of 50cc mopeds available to be loaned to individuals wishing to progress in life but disadvantaged by a lack of available transport between their home and place of work, training or further education.
The scheme, which is a charity and non-profit making, provides a wonderful opportunity for young people who live in areas with limited public transport to fulfil their potential.
Police plant seeds of security advice at Stokesley allotments
Story courtesy of North Yorkshire Police website Police in Stokesley have joined forces with the local community to nip crime and antisocial behaviour at the town’s allotments in the bud. Following several reports from Stokesley allotment holders of issues in
EU Referendum: Hambleton votes to LEAVE the EU
Hambleton results: Leave 53.7% = 29,502 VOTES Remain 46.3% = 25,480 VOTES Turnout: 78.4%
Stokesley bus company hit by diesel thieves
Generation Travel, based in Stokesley Business Park, was targeted by thieves who stole thousands of litres of fuel last October and November. Two 20-year-old men from Eston admitted stealing diesel and a third man, aged 24, admitted handling stolen