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2 weeks ago | 
bbc.co.uk | Olivia Richwald
Image caption, Tom Fletcher, with his mother Libby Cass, is supported by Acorn Community CareA disability charity says living wage and National Insurance increases mean it will be forced to empty its reserves of cash to continue caring. Acorn Community Care in Norton, North Yorkshire, helps 30 adults with learning disabilities and predicts that it needs to use more than £50,000 of savings to continue running this financial year.
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2 weeks ago | 
bbc.com | Olivia Richwald
Charity's future fear as cost surge eats savingsOlivia RichwaldBBCTom Fletcher, with his mother Libby Cass, is supported by Acorn Community CareA disability charity says living wage and National Insurance increases mean it will be forced to empty its reserves of cash to continue caring. Acorn Community Care in Norton, North Yorkshire, helps 30 adults with learning disabilities and predicts that it needs to use more than £50,000 of savings to continue running this financial year.
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3 weeks ago | 
bbc.com | Olivia Richwald
Smart gnome Norbot takes centre stage at creameryOlivia RichwaldBBC/Olivia RichwaldThe smart gnome has been knitted into a 5ft figure by the Hawes YarnbombersWallace & Gromit have been joined by their smart gnome companion, thanks to fundraising knitting experts in North Yorkshire. A 5ft (1.5m) woolly recreation of Norbot, who featured in animated adventure Vengeance Most Fowl, has taken pride of place alongside the claymation characters at the Wensleydale Creamery visitor centre.
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1 month ago | 
msn.com | Sarah Spina-Matthews |Olivia Richwald
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1 month ago | 
bbc.com | Sarah Spina-Matthews |Olivia Richwald
Police operation targets 'predators' on nights outSarah Spina-Matthews & Olivia RichwaldNorth Yorkshire PoliceThe specialist officers are trained to recognise "predatory behaviours"A police operation targeting "predatory behaviour" in a seaside town at night has led to a reduction in crime, officers and publicans have said.
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1 month ago | 
bbc.com | Sarah Spina-Matthews |Olivia Richwald
Bus named after city's surviving D-Day veteranSarah Spina-Matthews & Olivia RichwaldOlivia Richwald/BBCD-Day veteran Ken Cooke was surprised with the honour in YorkYork's last surviving D-Day veteran has been honoured with a bus named after him in his home city. On 6 June 1944, Ken Cooke was an 18-year-old Army conscript who went from working in a sweet factory to taking part in the Normandy landings.
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2 months ago | 
msn.com | Olivia Richwald |Julia Bryson
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2 months ago | 
bbc.com | Olivia Richwald |Julia Bryson
Service marks 81st anniversary of bomber crashOlivia Richwald and Julia BrysonReporting fromEndcliffe Park, SheffieldBBCPeople gathered at the memorial in Endcliffe Park for the memorial serviceA memorial service has been held to commemorate the 81st anniversary of a plane crash in which 10 US airmen lost their lives. The plane, known as Mi Amigo, crashed in Endcliffe Park in Sheffield on 22 February 1944 while returning from a bombing raid.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
yahoo.com | Olivia Richwald |Beth Parsons |David Spereall
Kind-hearted members of the public who have offered to donate their kidneys to a sick 12-year-old boy have been praised for their generosity. Leeds City Council said around 700 people had responded to an appeal it put out last week to help a child in its care, who is in desperate need of a transplant. Jack - not his real name - was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease when he was just 10 months old and has spent much of his childhood in hospital.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
ca.news.yahoo.com | Emily Johnson |Olivia Richwald
More than 60,000 people live in the Dewsbury area, with the town left with no council-run leisure centre [Olivia Richwald/BBC]The closure of a West Yorkshire town's only council-run leisure centre will "detrimentally affect" thousands of people of all ages in the area, campaigners said. Dewsbury Sports Centre closed in 2023 after the discovery of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) in its pool building, with Kirklees Council deciding a full refurbishment would cost up to £10m.
