This is the Coast

Two Yorkshire Coast towns have been named among the most popular destinations in the United Kingdom for a festive staycation this year.

Elite cyclists will tackle a gruelling route along the East Yorkshire coast and through the Wolds as Stage 3 of the Tour of Britain takes place on Friday.

Preparations are under way to manage the potential economic fallout for coastal businesses if a proposed overnight visitor levy is introduced in North Yorkshire.

North Yorkshire Council is expected to approve a £2.43 million contract with Ripon-based Econ Engineering to lease a fleet of 13 new winter maintenance vehicles.

The oldest Pullman dining carriage on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway is welcoming passengers once again following a ten-year restoration project.

An orphaned seal pup recovering at Scarborough SEA LIFE Centre is receiving daily eye baths using chilled tea donated by Yorkshire Tea.

The relocation of council staff to a new office building on the outskirts of Scarborough will cost taxpayers £3 million, sparking concerns over the future of the town's historic civic headquarters.

Former gas wells and deep salt layers will provide cleaner, cheaper geothermal heating to communities in Kirby Misperton and Pickering.

Fourteen boreholes will be drilled across Scarborough from next week as part of a multimillion-pound wastewater infrastructure project.

North Yorkshire Council has officially approved the part-retrospective conversion of a former Territorial Army Reserve Centre in Newby into a multi-use business park.

Automatic national resilience measures must be activated whenever critical military infrastructure faces threats like wildfires, the Member of Parliament for Scarborough and Whitby has warned following a visit to RAF Fylingdales.

A drug dealer who boasted about living like a "rock star" has been sentenced to 34 months in prison for supplying Class A drugs in Scarborough.

A non-profit legal group has threatened to sue HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) for allegedly allowing Israeli settlement trade to enter the UK tariff-free.

Suspects charged with serious knife and firearm offences are being released on bail amid Britain's prison overcrowding crisis, the country's most senior police officer has warned.

A man with end-stage kidney failure was kept off dialysis for nine months after being given a genetically modified organ from a pig.

A former Premier League referee has sparked a backlash after revealing he used to entertain himself by "joking about" and playing "games" while officiating matches.

Donald Trump failed to commit to helping the UK in a potential Falkland Islands conflict - saying it was "not there to help me" in the Iran war.

An invasive mosquito species known to transmit diseases such as the dengue and Zika viruses has been found to be breeding in the UK for the first time.

Germany is investigating a suspected arson attack outside a defence firm in Munich, days after two sabotage attempts on the country's power grid.

FIFA has accused European football's governing body of launching a "smear campaign" against Gianni Infantino in a challenge to legal action over the aborted attempt to sell part of the World Cup to private investors.

Suspects charged with serious knife and firearm offences are being released on bail amid Britain's prison overcrowding crisis, the country's most senior police officer has warned.

A non-profit legal group has threatened to sue HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) for allegedly allowing Israeli settlement trade to enter the UK tariff-free.

A former Premier League referee has sparked a backlash after revealing he used to entertain himself by "joking about" and playing "games" while officiating matches.

A schoolboy who stabbed a teacher in the head has been sentenced to four-and-a-half years in youth detention.

The UK is in a "deeply uncomfortable" fiscal position ahead of next month's budget, experts have warned, after government borrowing costs soared to a near 30-year high amid growing pressure on global bond yields.

More than 70,000 pints of Guinness worth around £115,000 have been stolen from an industrial estate.

Four people accused of murdering a newborn baby girl who was repeatedly stabbed will go on trial next year.

A former college lecturer caused the deaths of a husband and wife in a head-on crash while drink-driving following a Christmas party.

Donald Trump failed to commit to helping the UK in a potential Falkland Islands conflict - saying it was "not there to help me" in the Iran war.

About 80 people are confirmed to have died after a migrant boat got into difficulty off the coast of Gran Canaria, Spain's Maritime Rescue organisation has said.

Germany is investigating a suspected arson attack outside a defence firm in Munich, days after two sabotage attempts on the country's power grid.

FIFA has accused European football's governing body of launching a "smear campaign" against Gianni Infantino in a challenge to legal action over the aborted attempt to sell part of the World Cup to private investors.

The creative team behind a suicide prevention play has said the show is about "a cause bigger than any one of us", after an actor quit the show over the casting of Dame Maureen Lipman and their differing political views.

Gary Glitter has pleaded not guilty to eight allegations of sexual abuse against a young girl dating back to the 1970s and 1980s.

Sky News has announced a new format for its flagship Sunday morning current affairs programme, with a rotating line-up of high-profile guest presenters taking the helm.

Dolly Parton has been laid to rest following a private family funeral.

Summer 2026 has been declared the hottest since records began in 1884, according to provisional statistics.

The UK is in a "deeply uncomfortable" fiscal position ahead of next month's budget, experts have warned, after government borrowing costs soared to a near 30-year high amid growing pressure on global bond yields.

Suspects charged with serious knife and firearm offences are being released on bail amid Britain's prison overcrowding crisis, the country's most senior police officer has warned.

Several schools will close early on Friday "to ensure pupils' safety" as the first funeral for one of five young men killed in the A66 wrong-way crash is set to take place.