At least 10 houses in Yorkshire and Humber were among the dozens destroyed or seriously damaged across England in fires during Tuesday's record-breaking heatwave, it has emerged.
Railway crossing TO all those people who think a bridge over the Low Gates level crossing in Northallerton is the answer to congestion when the gates are down, may I suggest that they take a Covid-compliant look at what is being built to take North Moor Road over the same railway line. If they do, they will realise that a bridge is a complete non-starter and that the answer can only be to move the line to the North of the town, as was suggested a few years ago in your newspaper. Given the increase in traffic that the new Northallerton estate is likely to generate and the potential increase in rail traffic when Teesside becomes a Freeport it really is time that that the various government agencies got together and came up with a coherent plan to resolve the chaos created by Low Gates crossing, a chaos that can only get worse.