Yorkshire Coast News from Tuesday, September 1st, 2026

Police are appealing for witnesses after a man in his fifties was drugged, sexually assaulted, and robbed of his belongings in a Scarborough bus shelter.

A popular Scarborough hotel has lost a planning appeal after painting the lower exterior of its Grade II* listed building dark blue without prior permission.

People living and working in Scarborough are being urged to join a neighbourhood board overseeing a £19.5 million investment programme over the next decade.

The York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has apologised for previously underreporting the number of times its staff wrongfully accessed patient medical records.

Whitby's iconic whale bone arch has been dismantled after decades of coastal weather damage, making way for an ethical bronze replica set to be installed early next year.

North Yorkshire Council has admitted it does not know how many of its nearly 100,000 library fines issued last year have been paid, nor how many users are banned, due to a loss of data during an IT system change.

A three-year-old boy from Scarborough has helped launch a national fundraising campaign to provide specialist mobility equipment for thirty children across the UK.

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.

Emergency call-outs for outdoor fires in North Yorkshire have jumped significantly across the county this summer, prompting gratitude from the Deputy Mayor and a reminder for the public to stay vigilant.