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Rishi Sunak applauds school’s commitment to writing

An outstanding school’s efforts to further drive up the writing skills of its pupils have been praised by Rishi Sunak MP. It is a Year of Writing at Hutton Rudby Primary School and the Richmond MP saw the efforts being made by pupils and staff to develop creative writing skills during his recent vi

Rishi Sunak welcomes free digital skills training in Richmond

THIRTY Richmond area business people enjoyed a free day’s training in digital marketing thanks to Google and Rishi Sunak MP. The global internet giant brought its Digital Garage Market Towns Tour to Richmond with the support of the area’s MP offering local businesses the chance to improve their onl

D&S column: protecting a vital part of our rural economy

MANY of you could be forgiven for thinking that there’s precious little else going on in Westminster at the moment other than Brexit.  I am not suggesting the issues surrounding our withdrawal from the EU are not the most complex faced by any Government in recent times but

Rishi Sunak welcomes youngsters' love of cricket

Rishi Sunak has welcomed the growing popularity of cricket among young people in Bedale. As part of an English Cricket Board (ECB) initiative, Bedale Cricket Club have extended itsrange of junior groups with the All Stars which  are designed for children aged 5 to 8 years.

Rishi Sunak hears latest on Askrigg affordable housing plans

Rishi Sunak caught up with plans for affordable housing in Askrigg while doing a bit of shopping. The Richmond MP called in at the Askrigg Foundation premises in the Yorkshire Dales village’s Market Place which has been turned into a Pop Up Craft Shop pending the start of work on converting the bui

Rishi Sunak opens new funeral services enterprise

A NEW firm of funeral directors has opened in Northallerton pledging to bring down the cost of saying farewell to a loved one. Robinson and Parfitt has opened its doors in Crosby Road and is run by two former employees at the Friarage Hospital. Partners Amanda Robinson and Ilona Parfitt establishe

D&S column: encouraging more visitors to the Dales out of season

WHEN the weather’s this good you have to wonder why so many of us jet off to the Med and elsewhere for our summer holidays. With cloudless skies and the thermometer consistently up in the seventies as it has been over the last month, there’s no better place to be than North Yorkshire and its two na

D&S column: with a hill farmer on the roof of England

IF you take the road out of Hawes towards Ingleton on the western-most edge of the Richmond constituency you enter a little-known side valley called Widdale. Just a couple of miles from the Cumbria border and the Pennine watershed, it is 1,400 ft above sea level - pretty much on the roof of En