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A special public meeting is to be held to discuss the findings of a report into the pollution of Scarborough’s bathing water.

Alison Hume, the Member of Parliament for Scarborough and Whitby, is urgently pressing the Government for definitive clarity on its plans to outlaw all forms of fracking.

A £50,000 community project fund to support local initiatives has been launched by Scarborough Town Council.

Scarborough’s recently reopened Golden Ball public house is set to undergo a set of external repairs and renovations.

Humberside Police have launched a new initiative designed to support people who may experience difficulties communicating during contact with the police

Older Scarborough residents have praised the ‘life-changing’ benefits of having access to free digital training and support services.

A driver responsible for the death of a man in a collision on the A171 in North Yorkshire has been sentenced.

A music teacher has been jailed for engaging in sexual activity with a child almost a decade ago.

A 20-year-old man from Leeds is behind bars after Scarborough police dismantled his one-man-band county line cocaine enterprise.

Bridlington RNLI has welcomed a local student, who is enrolled on her Duke of Edinburgh award with her school, as part of a new pilot scheme for the charity that saves lives at sea.

Whitby Town Council has apologised to residents about a ‘lack of Christmas spirit’ due to the delayed installation of festive illuminations.

Saint Catherine’s Hospice in Scarborough has launched a Christmas appeal, aiming to raise a substantial £40,000 during a focused week-long fundraising drive which will see donations doubled through a match funding scheme.

Images and video of Jeffrey Epstein's private Caribbean island have been released by politicians in the US.

A Ukrainian farmer-turned-soldier in the Donbas has a message for Donald Trump as the US president attempts to broker a peace deal between Kyiv and Moscow.

A 3.3-magnitude earthquake has struck Lancashire - with dozens of people saying it shook their homes or woke them up.

Hundreds of UK online safety workers at TikTok have already signed agreements to leave the company, whistleblowers have told Sky News, despite the firm stressing to MPs that the cuts were "still proposals only".

King Charles has said the UK and Germany are ready to "bolster Europe" against the threat of further Russian aggression.

Four mayoral elections due to take place in May 2026 are set to be postponed by two years, Sky News understands.

A doctor who pleaded guilty to illegally supplying ketamine to Matthew Perry in the weeks before the star's death has been jailed for two-and-a-half years.

As an opening gambit at PMQs, Kemi Badenoch attacked Labour's knight, the prime minister, over his Treasury queen, Rachel Reeves.

A 3.3-magnitude earthquake has struck Lancashire - with dozens of people saying it shook their homes or woke them up.

Hundreds of UK online safety workers at TikTok have already signed agreements to leave the company, whistleblowers have told Sky News, despite the firm stressing to MPs that the cuts were "still proposals only".

Four mayoral elections due to take place in May 2026 are set to be postponed by two years, Sky News understands.

A nursery worker has pleaded guilty to 26 sexual offences against children following one of the Metropolitan Police's most harrowing and complex child sexual abuse investigations.

The family of teenager Harry Dunn, killed by a former US spy, said a damning report into the UK government's handling of their case was "incredibly painful" to read. 

An engineer who took aerospace giant Leonardo UK to an employment tribunal for having to share women's toilets with transgender colleagues has lost a discrimination claim.

As an opening gambit at PMQs, Kemi Badenoch attacked Labour's knight, the prime minister, over his Treasury queen, Rachel Reeves.

The UK government is being urged to take even stronger action to tackle the ongoing crisis of families unable to afford baby formula milk. 

Reform UK's deputy leader Richard Tice has told Sky News that talks of an electoral pact with the Tories "are not happening at any level".

Mysterious tentacles washed up on a beach in Scotland belong to a rare deep-sea creature called the seven-arm octopus, a scientist has told Sky News.

A Ukrainian farmer-turned-soldier in the Donbas has a message for Donald Trump as the US president attempts to broker a peace deal between Kyiv and Moscow.

This community in Sri Lanka's Kandy District is a mass of mud and loss.

The Americans were given the full VIP treatment on their visit to Moscow. 

Donald Trump's World Cup supremo has told Sky News the US president "never rules anything out" to ensure next year's tournament is staged safely.

Vladimir Putin has been accused of "wasting the world's time" after rejecting the latest iteration of Donald Trump's peace plan for Ukraine.

Israel is preparing to open the Rafah crossing "in the coming days" to let Gaza residents cross into Egypt – as it claimed that partial remains handed over this week do not match the hostages taken in 2023.

Australian teenagers under 16 are set to face a world-first social media ban from 10 December.

The deep-sea hunt for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, which vanished more than 11 years ago, will resume this month, Malaysia's transport ministry has said.

FIFA has backed away from using dynamic pricing for all 2026 World Cup tickets amid concerns about the cost of attending the tournament in North America.

Imran Khan is suffering from isolation after weeks of being denied access to relatives, his family have said.

A doctor who pleaded guilty to illegally supplying ketamine to Matthew Perry in the weeks before the star's death has been jailed for two-and-a-half years.

Sabrina Carpenter has hit out at an "evil and disgusting" White House video of migrants being detained that uses one of her songs.

TV presenter Holly Willoughby has been fined in court after she admitted driving without due care and attention when her car collided with a moped, injuring the rider.

It's a debate that's torn families apart for years - with selection boxes thrown in rage, and stony silences around the dinner table.

Dame Joanna Lumley has warned of a "crisis hidden in plain sight", with 1.5 million older people set to spend Christmas alone.

England will face Wales, Tonga and Zimbabwe in the pool stages of the Rugby World Cup in 2027.

Former Salford Red Devils chief executive Chris Irwin has insisted the club will "never die" despite succumbing to a winding-up order at a specialist companies court on Wednesday.

Oleksandr Usyk will be permitted to make a voluntary defence of his WBC heavyweight world championship and that could be against Deontay Wilder.

When Oscar Piastri's Dutch Grand Prix victory in late August left Max Verstappen 104 points off the Drivers' Championship lead, just about everyone in the Formula 1 paddock - including the Dutchman himself - assumed his hopes of winning a fifth successive title were over.

Salford Red Devils have been wound up following their HMRC hearing, bringing an end to the club's 152-year history in its current form.

The Bank of England has warned of heightened risks to the UK's financial system but cut the amount of money that banks need to hold in reserve in case of shock.

Hundreds of UK online safety workers at TikTok have already signed agreements to leave the company, whistleblowers have told Sky News, despite the firm stressing to MPs that the cuts were "still proposals only".

Four mayoral elections due to take place in May 2026 are set to be postponed by two years, Sky News understands.

This community in Sri Lanka's Kandy District is a mass of mud and loss.

Images and video of Jeffrey Epstein's private Caribbean island have been released by politicians in the US.

A nursery worker has pleaded guilty to 26 sexual offences against children following one of the Metropolitan Police's most harrowing and complex child sexual abuse investigations.

Hundreds of UK online safety workers at TikTok have already signed agreements to leave the company, whistleblowers have told Sky News, despite the firm stressing to MPs that the cuts were "still proposals only".

Apple's head of artificial intelligence and machine learning has stepped down from the company. 

Australian teenagers under 16 are set to face a world-first social media ban from 10 December.

Children as young as three are "being fed content and algorithms designed to hook adults" on social media, a former education minister has warned.