THE community of Kirkbymoorside has rallied round a family whose home was destroyed in a major blaze as calls are made for more town firefighters. Over £2,000 has been raised in just two days to ...

Or was it 1974? By Laurie Gwen Shapiro One morning in the mid-1970s, a solemn announcement came over the intercom at Friends Seminary: “Noted person John Lennon is now in the meetinghouse.

Louise Wass shared the property on Castlegate in Kirkbymoorside with her daughter Ruby Williams, 31, and both had been out of the house when it was gutted on 16 January. The cause of the blaze is ...

The Cambridge Five consisted of Harold ‘Kim’ Philby, Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, Anthony Blunt and John Cairncross, who together made up the most infamous spy ring of the 20th century.

Tonight will have large areas of cloud. There will be a chance of the odd spot of light rain or drizzle lingering around. Patchy mist and fog could also develop in places. Tuesday Tomorrow will ...

Firefighters from Kirkbymoorside, Malton, Thirsk and Scarborough were called to the incident in Castlegate at 2.59pm today (Thursday). An aerial ladder platform is also in use. More in this as ...

John Cairncross – known as a member of the famous Cambridge Five spy ring – confessed to having been a spy for the Soviet Union from 1936 to 1951 in an interview conducted in 1964 in the US by MI5 ...

The Cambridge Spy Ring, which included Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, and John Cairncross alongside Philby and Blunt, operated with impunity for decades, causing untold harm. Their betrayals inspired ...

The files confirm that Philby recruited Donald Maclean in 1934, and how Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt and the fifth spy, John Cairncross, agreed to work for Russian intelligence soon afterwards.