Dossier
North Yorkshire
Coverage of North Yorkshire in the Nexus archive.
- Water-related deaths in UK heatwave hit 15 after girl dies in North Yorkshire
A 13-year-old girl died after being pulled from the River Wharfe in North Yorkshire, and an 11-year-old boy remains missing from the River Don as water-related deaths in the UK heatwave reached 15. The heatwave is ending, and the girl was pronounced dead at the hospital.
- Use of toxic Pfas in consumer goods must be urgently restricted, MPs say
UK MPs from the House of Commons environmental audit committee visited Bentham, a North Yorkshire town with the highest PFAS contamination levels in the UK. They called for urgent restrictions on toxic PFAS, known as 'forever chemicals', due to their persistence in the environment and use in consumer goods.