Ryedale | Archive | 2002 | February
Chairman of Ryedale District Council Coun Robert Wainwright more...
CHRISTMAS time, with its emphasis on children and also on peace and goodwill, especially in the Holy Land, coincides with the latest Amnesty report on the conflict in Israel and occupied Palestine. more...
AS readers will know I have for some months been attempting to raise the profile of Malton's historic Palace Cinema. more...
BEING a novice at the political game, I would like to try to comment on the letter from Pamela Anderson (Gazette & Herald, January 3). She admits Coun Knaggs made a mistake, but after reading Mr Knaggs' own letter, printed a few weeks ago, it appears he doesn't seem to. In his letter he was jokey and flippant about what is a seemingly serious breach of conduct. more...
JAMES Stephenson in his pro-bloodsports column of December 6, said that hunting should soon resume in North Yorkshire if DEFRA sticks to its promises? What Mr Stephenson forgot to mention was that if anyone from this Government stick to their promises, fox-hunting would by now have joined badger digging, dog fighting and other hunting as an illegal countryside tradition. more...
YOUR front page article and photograph (Put Ryedale on the Map, Jan 17) was interesting, but it highlighted the fact that a lot of people don't seem to know what does and does not constitute a postal address. An accurate geographical description of where one lives or works is useful for visitors trying to find your house, but a postal address is essentially an indication of which postal sorting offices your mail has to go through to reach you with minimum delay, any other geographical indications such as "N Yorks" or "Ryedale" being not so much wrong as quite irrelevant. more...
IT was fun to read TB Woodward's letter in the Gazette & Herald today (January 24). His creative use of "facts" and well reasoned argument must have the hunters and farmers of Ryedale in despair. However, there are a few "facts" that he seems to have missed. more...
DALBY Forest is known as the Great Yorkshire Forest, and rightly so. The emphasis is on recreation providing a children's playground, walking routes, cycle routes, forest exhibition and shop, light refreshments, floor games, barbecue facilities, picnic areas, a lake and lots of wildlife. more...
ONE very attractive and interesting development in recent years is the way in which residents of our village are prepared to open their gardens to the public, usually to raise funds for charity. more...
It seems a long time since the first government announcement that foot and mouth was under control and, ever since that date, no one who lives in the countryside has believed any of the pronouncements about the disease which have come out of either Whitehall or County Hall. more...
OF continuing interest is the story behind the scenes depicted on the familiar blue and white willow pattern pottery. more...
STILL limited by foot and mouth disease, this week's walk visits the outskirts of Scarborough. It starts by taking to the disused Scarborough to Whitby railway track between the village of Scalby and the outskirts of the town. more...
Many of our meadows and fields are rich with deep carpets of colourful wild flowers, more so than in many recent years. There may be several reasons for this - allowing certain fields to remain in an uncultivated state, or perhaps a more selective use and control of pesticides and weed killers or possibly the absence of grazing livestock. more...
Watching badgers, and giving other people the opportunity to see these nocturnal creatures in their natural habitat, is something that Chris Peacock enjoys immensely. more...
Tomorrow is the feast of St Bartholomew and in rural Yorkshire, it was known for two things - first, ancient weather lore said that the season's dew arrives on this date and second, it was the occasion for feasts and fairs, one of the survivors being Witton Feast in Wensleydale with its curious Burning of Old Bartle. more...
HERE begins a tale harking back to 1948 and a bright summer's day in the Esk Valley. more...
IF there is one plant which epitomises the calm atmosphere of cottage gardens along with a peaceful life in a quiet rural retreat, then it is surely the lavender. more...
A NEW charity shop has recently opened in Thornton-le-Dale in Pickering Road on a site previously occupied by a small Christian bookshop. more...
On Wednesday of last week - the day following the carnage in America - I was at the farm machinery sale at the Livestock Centre at Murton near York. more...
THE biggest pumpkin ever recorded in the show was on display at Slingsby village horticultural show on Saturday. more...
IT is difficult to believe that the humble and lowly frog could be an object of religious veneration but this was the situation in the very early days of Ancient Egypt. more...
THE recording of natural history has been part of our literary culture for many a moon, from the early observations of Gilbert White down to the spiritual renderings of Richard Jefferies and ever popular drawings and notes of Edith Holden, the Edwardian lady. more...
One of the fascinating aspects of folk tales and legends is that many of them have origins in real events. more...
WOOD craftsmen and manufacturers of the latest state-of-the-art equipment for the timber industry attracted large crowds at the Yorkshire Woodfair held at Thirsk Racecourse on Saturday. more...
A BRIEF visit to the Lake District reminded me of the country's most famous huntsman, John Peel. He will be forever remembered in the familiar song: more...
FROM our front bay window I could see, high above the town, an array of barrage balloons. more...
AT this time of year, many of the trees in our countryside, parks and gardens are adorned in the finest of their autumn colours. more...
STEVE Linsley remembers the Malton Hirings fair of 1933 as if it were yesterday. more...
NORTH Yorkshire leaders this week urged the Government to get on with opening up the countryside. more...
A YOUNG Ryedale farmer has returned from America after a once in a lifetime trip to work in the States. more...
THE popular custom of displaying Christmas trees in our homes, offices, shops and streets is a curious mixture of modern living combined with ancient pagan practices. more...
PRINCE Charles this week at The Craven Heifer at Stainforth, North Yorkshire, launched a new report called `The Pub is the Hub'. Why?, well... more...
WHILE many of us are aware of the true reason for celebrating Christmas, the origins of the name of Boxing Day remain something of a puzzle. more...
HUNTS in North Yorkshire were out for the traditional New Year's Day meet on the day the county was finally declared free of foot and mouth disease. more...
A MOORLAND terrace cottage in a remote spot on the North Yorkshire Moors has become the nerve centre for a marathon plan to aid one of the world's poorest people - rural residents in northern Ghana. more...
ONE of my earliest memories of the farm is the arrival every year of the new-born animals, which came with springtime. more...
THE present day green push to conserve fuel is nothing new to those who remember wartime economies particularly in the bus and passenger transport field. more...
STROLLING into Manor Vale Lane from Kirkbymoorside's Dale End is to encounter a mix of history: a pleasant cluster of houses old and new, an ancient pinfold, and Kirkbymoorside Band's modern premises. more...
AT various places around our moors, there appears the name Hagg (with two gs) or Hag (with one g). more...
THE eminent architect who skilfully restored a distinguished Georgian townhouse to its former splendour is being celebrated in a new exhibition. more...
THIS Sunday, July 15, will see the biggest ever engine day at Ryedale Folk Museum, Hutton-le-Hole. more...
THE Quayside Hot Stompers with Delia Glaister will kick off the 14th annual Pickering Jazz Festival this Sunday with a jazz service at the Methodist Church in Pickering. more...
Newby Hall, near Ripon, will be a fun-filled place to be this Sunday, July 29, for its third annual Cystic Fibrosis Trust Family Funday that last year attracted around 5,000 visitors for a great day of family entertainment. more...
IT'S full steam ahead this weekend at the Pickering Traction Engine Rally which runs from today until Sunday (August 2-5). more...
THIS year's Great Yorkshire Air Show at Elvington, near York, is set to be an epic event for all the family. more...
CAN you imagine being present amidst the booming canons and gun-fire of the American civil war? more...
IT IS well known that Whitby with its clutter of roofs and cobbled streets was the inspiration for that Victorian gothic novel par excellence - Dracula. more...
HAVE you heard of Tor, Sprot and Grim? They are not names that spring easily to mind. more...
HAVE you heard of Tor, Sprot and Grim? They are not names that spring easily to mind. more...
ONE by one, little bands of WWII veterans are closing their meetings and hanging up their standards. more...
MMM - can't you just smell it? Starting tomorrow, Friday, September 14, York celebrates ten days of feasting, drinking, demonstrations, personalities, shopping, fun and, let's face it, in some cases, sheer greed. It's impossible to ignore the giant bean feast with something for everyone. more...
NOW is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer.... Famous lines by Shakespeare for Richard III - the most maligned figure in English history. Or is he? more...
THE North York Moors Railway has had so many accolades poured on it, that it must be blushing down to its pistons. more...
YOU can't miss the Scarborough Sea Life and Marine Sanctuary. It sticks out incongruously, a bunch of white pyramid structures highlighted at the end of the promenade against the soft folds of Scarborough's North Bay cliffs. more...
AMATEUR supersleuths are being invited to get into the Halloween spirit when York Castle Museum stages an evening of murder, mystery and mayhem later this month. more...
AS autumn takes a stronger grip on the natural world, the leaves are turning brilliant hues of red and gold, before fluttering and whirling to the ground. more...
IT'S that time of year again. The whooshes and whizz-bangs, the showers of green, red and gold from the screamers and rockets in the winter sky. more...
AT the going down of the sun and in the morning.... more...
YORKSHIRE wildlife artist Robert Fuller holds his Christmas exhibition in a newly-converted barn gallery starting this weekend. more...
CHRISTMAS bursts into life in Malton next weekend. more...
RIGHT on cue, snooker at its best comes to York next week as a glittering array of top international names from the sport arive in the city. more...
WHEN forking over a vegetable bed, or putting in new plants with a trowel, do you ever stop and wonder what exactly are those pieces of pottery you keep digging up? more...
IT must be one of the miracles of modern times that, with the levels of sophistication of today's youngsters, the magic of Father Christmas is as strong as ever. more...
WITH Christmas almost here, there's only one place many people will be thinking of visiting - a local church to mark the true reason that makes Christmas so special. more...
THE owners of the Royal Hotel in Scarborough, one of the best known in the north of England, have crowned a multi-million refurbishment scheme by investing £25,000 in a spectacular floodlighting project. more...
MARGARET Clitherow was canonised almost 400 years after her death. Born in 1556 she was married at the age of 15 to John Clitherow, a York butcher, whose shop was in the Shambles. more...
THE birth of baby camels will soon mark the start of spring and a fresh new season at Flamingo Land. more...
A lot of people think of the Lion Inn at Blakey Ridge as a place popular with ramblers and a popular tourist attraction in the summer. more...
THEY say that if Vikings walked through the streets of modern York, they would recognise many of the street patterns, if not the buildings - which is just as well, since there are going to be a lot of Vikings visiting the city this Saturday, February 9 for a week of festivities. more...
WITH reference to the article about Safeway in the February 8 issue of the Gazette & Herald, I am totally astonished to read that Tracy Hostler considers the prospect of Safeway "concentrating on groceries is bizarre". more...
I JUST cannot believe the report by your Hilary Sanders that Coun Mike Knaggs suggests that farmers should be paid to allow their land to be used as "flood plains". more...
I READ with interest `Station talks to improve Malton'. I am pleased that officials have recognised the importance of a station and the village/town it is in. I do hope some good will come of this meeting between the rail authority, local transport, countryside agency. more...
Following is a copy of a letter sent by the writer to Ryedale deputy chief executive John Patten, more...
SINCE your article `Safeway threatens to pull out of Pickering' (Gazette & Herald, February 8), several letters have appeared, including one from P T Coombes (Gazette & Herald, March 8) which is a typical example. more...
I WAS sorry that the Environment Agency has finally decided to allocate funds, up to two years hence, towards the considerable cost of attempting to constrain the extent of any future overfull Derwent River by the construction of up to five feet high riverside barriers including embankments, piling and walls. more...
THE recent Ryeview contribution by Paul Andrews should be reprinted in every newspaper in this country, and possibly in Europe also. more...
I READ a short news item on Ceefax today in which the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, together with the British Ornithological Trust, published a suggestion from "new research" that modern farming methods, for example `...frequent grass cutting for use as silage...' may be responsible for the decline of the skylark and the yellowhammer songbirds. It went on to say that `organic farming' procedures `... could also be harmful ...' more...
THOSE who think that the UK should leave the European Union will no doubt in any case vote for Mr Feaster's UKIP party whose principal (and unique) policy it is. But he is wrong to say (Letters April 5) that we are prevented from using vaccination in the fight against foot and mouth disease by EU rules. more...
TO the left of The Beck Isle Museum there is a footpath known to Pickering people as Wells Walk, running parallel to the Newbridge Road on the opposite side of the beck and the railway. more...
Hovingham is not only a village with a lot of history but you can't help feeling that history is still being made there. more...
TEDDIES were falling from the skies of Barugh on Saturday at an annual fun day to raise money for the Macmillan Nurse appeal. more...
A FAMILY lavender business is seeking planning permission to extend its operation. more...
Best to go to Runswick on a bright blue day by way of the high road to Ralph's Cross, for it is from there comes that sudden uplift at the first sight of the sea. more...
Residents of the village of Bulmer near Malton have stepped in to take over a job normally done by sheep. more...
What kind of people would turn their backs on a drowning vicar? A town of thieves, perhaps? more...
THE SUN shone on a busy day of countryside fun at the Pickering Farming and Countryside Show. more...
Imagine inquiring about the progress of your boots, only to be told by the cobbler they were "on the road. more...
The congregations of five moorland villages are pooling their resources to fund the restoration of Lastingham parish room near Kirkbymoorside. more...
A group of ducks earned Newton-upon-Rawcliffe, near Pickering, its five minutes of fame. Reporter JAMES KILNER found that though the village's feathered residents are still causing a bit of a flap, there are plenty of other things besides ducks that make this small community special. more...
At a fleeting glance, the little Ryedale village of Foxholes is just like any other rural community in the English countryside. more...
SO close, yet so far away. That is certainly the first impression of the relationship between the communities of Ampleforth village and the neighbouring abbey and college. more...
DURING the summer holidays there was much to entertain the school children. more...
THE village store in Bulmer is at the centre of a new internet trading scheme. more...
ALL Saints' Church has dominated the village skyline at Hovingham for almost a thousand years; its tower was probably built in the reign of King Edward the Confessor (1042-1066) and has stood almost untouched ever since that date. more...
ONLY 30 years ago, Scalby was surrounded by fields. Now this once rural community is clinging to its village status as the suburbs of north Scarborough encroach further and further upon it. more...
THE age-old Ryedale village of Whitwell-on-the-Hill is renowned for its steep hill on the busy A64 York to Scarborough road. more...
ONE of the biggest ancient hillforts ever found in Britain has been unearthed by archaeologists at a North Yorkshire beauty spot. more...
RESIDENTS in Scrayingham are relieved that a proposed sewage treatment plant is to be built outside the settlement area of the village not inside. more...
VOTED the prettiest village in the country in the early 1900s, there is no better time that captures the beauty of Thornton-le-Dale than Christmas. more...
CAMPAIGNERS for a bypass around a North Yorkshire village have raised fears that the scheme may have been scuppered. more...
A RELIC of life centuries ago is set to be restored in the picturesque village of Terrington near Malton where the parish council is master-minding a plan to renovate its parish pump. more...
MENTION the name Richard Whiteley in Wetwang and you may well encounter a raised eyebrow or two and maybe the odd wry smile. But also a fair bit of gratitude, for it is not every village which has a television celebrity as its honorary mayor. more...
A Ryedale woman is trying to raise £1,200 to fund a six-week trip to aid conservation work in the rain forests of Equador. more...
REGULARS at a Ryedale village pub are always game for a laugh - and have raised an impressive £2,000 for charity in the process. more...
OF ALL the unlikely places to find a bit of history... I came across a rolled-up Yorkshire Herald in a box at the community tip recently, March 28, 1947 no less! more...
CHRISTMAS is a time for present-giving and thinking of others. There is a group of people in Ryedale who show special concern for a certain section of the community, not just at Christmas, but throughout the year. more...
WITH all the achievements of this small country, we have every right to be proud of our heritage. Yet, as I've said before, this aspect seems to be slipping away and makes one think of celebrations of our younger days. more...
VILLAGE businesses hit by a slump in trade because of foot and mouth have finally won their battle for rates reductions. more...
THE remains of a vanished England still shape the landscape of North Yorkshire. History endures on our very doorstep. What happened in the immediate aftermath of the Norman Conquest had much to do with this. Towering castles began to spring up on wind-swept summits as the invaders sought to subdue the population of the land they now precariously controlled. more...
I SEE that two councils are piloting a 12-month DVLA scheme which allows police to clamp and remove untaxed vehicles without warning, instead of having to wait for seven days. more...
A RYEDALE vicar fears he may have to cut church services if congregation figures don't improve. more...
CHILDREN of Husthwaite Church of England Primary School can't wait to use their new state-of-the-art library, which should be in use by the end of term. And once it opens, they won't need to worry about losing their library cards. more...
TO coin a local saying "It's right back endish tonight", in fact all day had that wintery feel about it. more...
THOR is having a right old bang around this evening as I write this, and I'm hoping that after he's had his say, the `oppressive' feel to the weather will leave us and come fresher. more...
LOOKING at Norton's own newspaper, the Norton Chronicle, for this month in 1890, I see that Welham Cricket Club were having an evening sports event in the form of a one-mile and a two-mile bicycle race, the first event having no less than 28 entries, and the latter 25. more...
AS the A170 road winds through the undulating North Yorkshire countryside towards the coast, the motorist will come across a village noticeably different from any other along the same highway. more...
SOME of you may have noticed the hanging baskets around the town recently; others may not have spotted them, which is understandable if you have your eyes down looking in shop windows. more...
THURSDAY of last week was Air Gunners' Day at Yorkshire Air Museum and marked, once again, the getting together of so many of the unsung heroes of the Second World War. more...
It crossed my mind as I enjoyed an ice cream cone in Pickering this week that we expect, and get, ice cream all the year round, but such was not always the case. more...
This month always used to be classed as High Summer, the hottest part of the year. However, as I write this, the fire is on, and there's a definite chill in the air. more...
ABRIGHT Sunday morning as I write this, but after several days of chewing about in the garden, in weather which has been far too hot for such work, I decided that now was a more sensible time to sit at the typewriter. more...
An interesting week in lots of ways. It started with a telephone call from a young man with the broadest Scottish accent you'd ever heard, trying, I think to sell me Scottish Electricity. I did grasp some little bits here and there such as `Did ye no know how easy it is to get on a lower tariff?' Well, I `didny', but we didn't seem to get any further because I just couldn't understand him, and so he gave it up. Which makes me wonder, just why these sales administrators put people on telephone sales with strong accents, and who are on to a loser to start with. It happens all the time. more...
A WET Sunday morning as I write this. Puts a stop to most outdoor pursuits. Still, the water barrel needed topping up so all is not lost. more...
The countryside was especially delightful today. It had started off quite warm and sunny but by the time I'd got my bike ready and organised myself the clouds started to roll in. more...
Today, September 6, was a Wednesday in 1939. This was the first week of World War II and lots of local lads were away from home for the very first time, leaving behind anxious mums, dads and sweethearts. more...
I HAVE a `thing' about pens and pencils - forever searching for the ideal writing instrument ever since Laszlo Biro of Hungary invented the ball-point pen which took his name in 1938. Currently, I seem to favour the so-called `gel' pens, with a writing ball of half-a-millimetre in diameter and always seeming to be first-time starters. more...
Back in August, Mr Cass of East Heslerton gave me a call. What it basically was about I can't remember, but during the course of our chat we covered many subjects, and from the notes I made at the time we discussed the subject of the Hurricane versus the Spitfire. This is especially interesting, as the Battle of Britain took place in the same month, in 1940, and winning it meant our very survival. At the start of the battle, there were some 32 Hurricane squadrons, which were shooting down more enemy aircraft than all other air and ground defences combined, and the average daily strength of the two aircraft were 1,326 Hurricanes and 957 Spitfires. Thus the `Hurri' showed its worth, despite being slower and older than the `Spit', and with 19 squadrons of Spits, as well as the 32 Hurricane squadrons, the combination saved the day. It was, however, the newer Spitfire which became the symbol of victory to the British people at this dark hour which made it a legend of all time. more...
I WRITE this on the day that Malton and Norton, and indeed the whole of the country, stood still, being perhaps the one universal way in which this country could show its sympathy and support to our American cousins. more...
History, for want of a better description, seems to repeat itself. more...
TWO kind folk responded to my comments about indelible pencils by actually sending me one, both going out of their way to deliver them personally, which is much appreciated. First, through my letterbox, a Canadian WWII purple pencil, from Malcolm Horsley of Old Malton. Last used, he tells me, in the '60s. more...
THERE was a time when I didn't read the writings of other Gazette & Herald columnists because of a subconscious fear that I should happen to write about some subject which they had already touched on, and which looked as though it was `copying'. N more...
CALLS for the dualling of the A64 continue to be made, and the reason for dualling is so that traffic can move faster. Not everyone wishes to travel faster. more...
THAT'S it then, another month gone, Christmas looms ahead, and many of us would still like to hang on to summer a bit longer. more...
YOU'LL have already put your clocks back, I expect, but as I write this, the coming weekend is the time when it happens. more...
IT'S strange how names for things stick, even though they don't seem to have any connection, until you look for the reason. more...
WHENEVER I want a simple recipe my first reaction is to look at an old BeRo book I have, which I expect was handed down from my mum, you know the one. more...
SOME years ago, Malton Town Council talked about the possibility of Malton becoming a smokeless zone, and this was decided against because it was thought it may cause hardship. more...
PHEW - December already! How are all the arrangements going - have the overseas Christmas cards gone off yet? Is it possible to drift slowly into Christmas I wonder? more...
A few years ago, some shrewd wine observers were forecasting that Greek vino was threatening to be the next big discovery. In one sense this proved to be correct although it was somewhat ironical as Greece has been making the stuff longer than most! more...
A SORT of poetic week, last week, for it started with a small package through my letter-box, and inside a book of poems `An anthology of Modern Verse', published 1921, with many verses in which had been learned at school. Sent to me by school pal, Dr Aubrey Wood, who lived at Norton then, and who remembers the same poems as I do. With a copy of his own, he had spotted this in a book shop and thought it might bring back a few memories for me, which it does indeed. Several marginal notes in pencil, by some previous owner, makes me wonder who he, or she was. No one will ever know, but the poem content is what matters. more...
PERHAPS it's not really the right time to be remembering the youngsters who gave their lives in the service of their country, but on second thoughts, perhaps it is. more...
YOU will all, no doubt, be regular purchasers of batteries for your torches, radios, and portable this and that, unless you're using rechargeables, which I find a bit of a bind. more...
NOT yet Christmas as I write this; yet too late for Christmas greetings, so may I wish you all a very good 2002. I hope that the world becomes a better place for everyone, and that each of you, within your own world, find life to be rewarding. more...
DESCRIBED as `the vertical expression of the horizontal desire', Salsamania looks set to sweep Ryedale. Salsa bars have sprung up in many cities across the UK, and professional dancer Lossie Holland has taken it upon herself to bring salsa to rural North Yorkshire. more...
ONE must get one's priorities into some semblance of order. So just for the record, I had a call from a kind lady reader to tell me that Friar Tuck's Ginger Wine Essence can be obtained at one of Malton's chemists. It seems that it was taken off the market for a couple of years but the demand was such that it was brought back. So if, like me, you missed the famous traditional tipple at Christmas time, there is a chance yet. My informant, who didn't leave her name or location, wasn't too sure of the current name of the chemist in question, but it shouldn't take too much tracking down if the market has got cornered. Meanwhile, she tells me, she is enjoying tucking (no pun intended) into one of the six bottles she made. Can't wait! more...
TEENAGER Michael Ellis is planing to spin his way to success as a top DJ. more...
SOME time ago we talked about a long-ago breakfast cereal by the name of Force, at which time it was thought it had gone off the market. more...
"MY TUMMY is doing the flip." more...
I HAVE been asked a few times this week about the Shackleton expedition to the Antarctic, as I understand the BBC have been doing something about this on TV, and showing some pictures from slides brought back, with what is claimed to be the only pictures there are. more...
KIRKBYMOORSIDE vicar Canon David Purdy is celebrating 25 years in the priesthood this week. more...
THE end of the world came to Malton a couple of weeks ago, or so it seemed, when in fact it was just an electricity failure. I was in Malton's main street, it was getting towards tea-time and as I walked past a shop window, suddenly it went dark, and I realised the whole town had gone dark too. more...
Mrs Ann Hill's beautiful garden in Maltongate was the setting for the mid-summer party held by the Thornton-le-Dale Players. more...
THIS week has been full of interesting chat - with equally interesting folk - arising from mention of Shackleton's Expedition. I asked questions about his cook, a man named Green. Seems my memory hadn't been playing tricks after all, for Ron Sargeant, one-time local teacher who I knew well when my boys were at school, but who I'd never heard of for years, gave me a call. I knew his voice straight away, and pricked up my ears when he told me that Mr Green had given a slide lecture to the children at Greengate School in the fifties, and this would no doubt be the same day that he gave it again to Malton Wheelers in the evening. more...
ROBERT Meinardi, star of the opera All the Kings Men, which this week opens the Ryedale Festival, is following in a strong family tradition. more...
ELSIE King has been a cleaner at the same school for more than three decades, and her mother did the same job for the previous 30 years. more...
REBECCA Howard, who married the Hon Simon Howard in June, is expecting a baby. more...
I'm working my way towards Christmas more...
AMID the stress and strain of our daily lives, how many of us actually stop to take in the beauty of nature which surrounds us? more...
THREE girls from Ryedale have been accepted in the first wave of girls at Sedburgh School in the Lake District. more...
My Rabbit is three, more...
AN INTREPID North Yorkshire horsewoman is set to saddle up and ride out on an five-day charity challenge next year. more...
A RYEDALE mum has thanked family and friends for their help in seeing her through three health scares - one of which almost claimed the life of her baby boy. more...
The sky was blue with no trace of cloud more...
I went to Garden Answers more...
Give me a garden, that nobody sees, more...
PART-TIME firefighters who saved a vital community building from ruin - then helped raise money to rebuild it - have had their efforts commended. more...
Rising smoke billows like steam, twisting and swaying like more...
Ryedale campanologist Kirsty Watts aims to keep the bells of her local church ringing, by taking part in the gruelling Great North Run next month. more...
A YOUNG local singer has won a place to sing in an international choir for a month (pictured front). more...
A NEW lift has opened up access to education at Norton College for Rachel Benhamou - and she's just the first disabled youngster who the facility will benefit. more...
SUPERMARKET manager Mel Rogers got a surprise retirement day gift at the weekend - a £62,000 bingo win. more...
We had arranged to meet in a place quite different from our eventual destination. Both shaking dust from hot feet after separate wanderings in Rajesthan, India's North western desert state, we selected a nominal cafe in the nation's capital Delhi. more...
THE insects in Jenny Chapman's garden will never seem the same again. For she will soon be studying the weird and wonderful insects in the South American paradise country of Costa Rica. more...
BUSINESS is booming for an independent Malton retailer as it opens a bigger premises and creates three new jobs. more...
MALTON School's annual celebration evening took place on November 15, when the school reviewed the previous year's highlights, and made awards to 115 students in the school who had qualified to attend by their performance over the previous year. more...
WOULD you like taking part in school-time stories or enjoy rambling with pupils among the apple trees on a stately home estate? more...
LINDA Carter, of Mill Street, Norton, ran a personal best in the Great North Run and raised over £400 for Malton Hospital through sponsorship. more...
WHAT makes a man who has worked for 40 years in the television industry decide to throw himself back in to the media circus and try to set up not only Ryedale's first radio station but also a television station dedicated to York? more...
THIS haunting image looking across the floods to Rock Cottage was taken by Mat Smith, 16, from Pickering and earned him top place in the junior section of the Pickering Photo 2000 competition. more...
MOTORCYCLING the length of Britain has given a Kirkbymoorside fundraiser a taste of the high-life - and now he plans to conquer Kilimanjaro. more...
A BUBBLY Ryedale teenager has defied life-threatening illness not once, but TWICE. more...
Down on the farm, more...
"NOBODY buys poetry." The words of a York publisher who turned up his nose when John Nursey first attempted to get his writing into print. more...
A RYEDALE teacher has become the only one in the district to earn a leadership qualification to take on the role of headteacher. more...
Fenella sits on the fence all day more...
The weathercock turns around in circles. more...
GOLFERS come in many guises, more...
REACHING three-score-years-and-ten may be reason enough for most people to adopt an armchair by the fire with pipe and slippers at close quarters. But not if you're Jim Dent. more...
Finally, when all the animals had been more...
BILL Spence is a sort of modern day George Eliot in reverse. more...
Silhouettes at dusk, they stand tall more...
TALK about romantic. Sandra Lee, of the New Inn at Cropton, more...
Some people say that I am thick, more...
Helping to tackle some of the world's most crucial issues is top of the list of priorities for a leading Ryedale Methodist who has been elected to the world presidency of an influential Christian organisation. more...
Fields are standing empty, due to foot and mouth more...
HORSES have returned to what are believed to be the country's most successful stables - Whitewall Yard, at Norton. more...
Fields are standing empty, due to foot and mouth more...
I LOVE to see the sun, more...
WHEN I first knew Pickering, in 1949, Dr Kirk, who had died only nine years earlier, was still very much alive in people's minds. more...
All things bright and beautiful more...
A WELL-KNOWN farming couple who celebrate their diamond wedding on Saturday attribute their long marriage to "give and take". more...
ELSIE King has been a cleaner at the same school for more than three decades, and her mother did the same job for the previous 30 years. more...
One way or another everything comes back more...
The young and the old. more...
Words seem so inadequate more...
THE river at the break of day more...
They always say more...
Mr Robin, a red breast he has, more...
HERE they sit this friendly pair more...
Is it nearly Christmas time? more...
BITING air more...
Sale notices in red and white more...
WHITE walls and a shiny white door more...
I DO not need reminders of our lives, more...
THE Euro it's a-coming; more...
I have a friend called Tabby, more...
IT is about a year since we let our ferocious goldfish, Sid Fishcious, loose in a newly-dug pond. He had led an increasingly larger life from firstly a plastic bag at the fair, then a goldfish bowl, progressing to a fish tank and, from there, a cattle-drinking trough with an annual visit to the sheep trough at silage time. more...
OUR annual fishing holiday is still on. We had wondered whether the estate we visit would welcome visitors from south of the border and were careful to ensure that our route did not go through any foot and mouth hotspots. more...
LOOKING at Norton's own newspaper, the Norton Chronicle, for this month in 1890, I see that Welham Cricket Club were having an evening sports event in the form of a one-mile and a two-mile bicycle race, the first event having no less than 28 entries, and the latter 25. more...
NEWS on the foot and mouth front remains depressing, although you have to search for it now as it rarely makes the headlines. more...
THIS time last year we hired a bull to `do the business' with our suckler beef herd. more...
PEEPEE, our peahen, has at last succumbed to domestic life. Well, at any rate, she is sitting on a nest of five eggs, and having daily arguments with Mr Peacock. more...
I THOUGHT I heard somewhere in the dim distant past that the foot and mouth virus would be wiped out by heat. Well the hot weather doesn't seem to be working any miracles according to the DEFRA web site. Cases yesterday were up again. The Government's words that we are on the downward slope of this outbreak seem very poorly chosen. If anything the outbreak has set off onwards and upwards again. more...
A COMBINATION of sun and rain has forced the grass into a last flush of growth. As a result many of the lambs and sheep need their rear ends cleaning up, dagging out the clumps of green muck that is such an intoxicating invitation to flies. more...
FOR several days, taking drinkings down to John has been a risky business that requires a set of earplugs and a tube of smelling salts. The reason? He is ploughing, and there is a necessity to protect and if required, revive me, after I have fainted away at the stream of invective emanating from my husband as he repairs yet another sheared bolt on his mole plough or subsoiler. The soil in all of our fields is heavy clay. Over the years John and Geoff have done much to improve the friability of the soil with muck spreading and a crop rotation that includes legumes (beans) whose roots benefit the soil composition. more...
IT is now over two months since the flock were clipped, and still the wool sheets are stacked up in a corner of one of the big sheds. more...
THE new Saler bull has now served all of the cows in the suckler herd. At least we presume he has, as no cows are bulling, and he has no lustful interest in any of them. Cows come bulling on a three-week cycle, and the bull has been working very hard, so with no sign of any of them coming back into season, John is confident that Mr Bull has fulfilled all expectations. Fortunately the herd grazes fields that are well inland and away from our neighbour's milking herd. He too runs a bull with his cows, and the cows are covered as soon as they come bulling, and not left to present a temptation to outsiders. more...
TRAGEDY. My lovely peahen Peepee has died. She had gone broody, sat five eggs for several weeks, and then left the nest when it was apparent that all of the eggs were addled. more...
AFTER many months of storing fleeces from the summer clip of our flock, the wool has been sold and collected from the farm under licence. I had received several kind enquiries about the fleeces, but the restrictions on movement placed on sheep also applied to their fleeces. Astonishingly we have also been paid for the wool with suspicious speed, as in previous years we have not received a cheque for up to 18 months. Perhaps the paucity of the cheque was the reason for its swiftness this year - just over £1 a fleece. If we had had to pay for clipping, it would have hardly covered the cost. more...
ANYONE watching the hand signals I make to John as I approach him on his tractor when he is drilling would think I am more disturbed than usual. more...
JOHN'S pride and joy, his walnut tree, or more precisely each walnut on the tree, is under attack. A proprietary stroll around the tree to show a friend the weight of the crop of walnuts revealed a tree denuded of nuts on one side (away from the kitchen window) and packed with nuts on the side of the tree closest to the house. A sneaky thief it appeared. A squirrel it turned out. Squirrel Nutkin. more...
SIGNS of normality are starting to return to life on the farm after all these months of turning away visitors. We have just seen off three little boys from a unit for pupils with hearing impairment attached to a mainstream school who had come to spend the day observing features on the farm to support their literacy, numeracy, geography, science, and food technology. You name it on the curriculum. We've probably enhanced it today. Even the hissing and squawking of the geese could be recorded as discordant notes and be classed as music. more...
ONCE more, the war cabinet is meeting in my kitchen. more...
AS it was a quiet day on the farm, I hid myself in the office to to answer all the kind letters that had been sent to me about how to pickle walnuts. On reading them I realised where I made my first big mistake. more...
EACH day John takes the suckler cows a big round bale of silage to supplement their grazing. Many of the cows are weaned but one or two calves remain with the suckler herd from several late calvers. more...
ELDEST daughter Bryony and I decided that a fact-finding mission on the euro was in order this week. more...
WATCHING the television programme the other night on `The farmer wants a wife', I was fascinated to hear the range of reasons that ladies of all ages across the country were expressing to assure themselves of the love of a man of the land; love of the countryside, fantasies of collecting eggs from haystacks, large kitchen tables etc. more...
WE have just celebrated my mother's eldest sister's birthday, at a pub, near her home in the Midlands. more...
THE five greylag geese that have left their summer home at the pond to return to us at home have been replaced in the field by several swans. The swans are grazing the grass by the pond and fly off into surrounding fields and down to the river when the fancy takes them. The geese have become thoroughly domesticated again and feed from the barley bowl with all the Christmas geese and ducks. And the peacock - who will not be the centre of a medieval feast no matter how many people in the village want him to be. I doubt the swans will come to us at the farm, and they may not stay too long, especially if one of our visiting foxes gets a yearning for royal tastes. They seem safe enough on the pond at night. more...
"AND what is that white stuff we can see in the Highlands? Looks like snow." more...
AN early morning abattoir slot for a trailer of lambs meant that we were on the roads at the same time as the morning commuter traffic. Our Land Rover and trailer were drawing up at traffic lights with buses full of early morning shoppers and office workers. I glanced casually in at them, and they glanced curiously in at us. Many had headphones from personal stereos plugged into their ears and seemed almost in a trance-like state. I turned on the radio and listened to the first reports of the feedback from the `race riots' that had taken place in the summer in Bradford. Suggestions were being made over tolerance of the variety of faiths and beliefs in the country together and achieving a unity of approach. Half an hour later, we reached the abattoir and followed the usual procedures of going through the disinfectant dip into the abattoir yard and handing over our movement licence and details to the various officials around the gate. more...
THE suggestions that all farmers are to be issued with computers with a direct link to the Department for the Extermination of Farming and Rural Affairs, has caused shock waves through our local farming fraternity. more...
THE news that our eldest daughter, Bryony, is expecting her first child next year, could not come at a more appropriate time than Christmas. more...
MORE joyous family news this Christmas. Not only are we to be grandparents but also Jo, our youngest daughter, has got engaged. more...
OUR greylag geese must have been crossed with a Labrador somewhere along the line. These are the geese that were banished to the large pond half a mile away last summer, but have returned home now that their flight feathers have grown back in. There are five of them, and at any one time at least two will be carrying something in their beak, whether a piece of plastic, twig, plastic plant pot, or a length of baler band. more...
IT is a time for family reunion and break-ups. Yesterday, Meg, our black labrador, spent the day with her sister and brother on a day's shooting, and four of our geese went missing in the fog. more...
THE devastation wrought by our ducks and geese during the recent freeze-up continues to come to light. more...
"HELLO. This is your local radio station here," came the voice down the phone. "We'd like to talk to your husband about moles." more...
IT has been several months since we enjoyed a visit from a mouse in the house. more...
IN April 5 issue of the Gazette & Herald, you asked for views on vaccination with regards the foot and mouth disease. more...
CONGRATULATIONS to Martin Vander Weyer (letters April 12) for objecting to what is now known in local political circles as the Keith Orrell Ego Trip Broadsheet. more...
RECENTLY, you published a letter from the leader of the North Yorkshire County Council congratulating themselves on the prudent and competent way in which the county council arranged its affairs. Its main thrust was that prudence dictated that the people of North Yorkshire should escape a tax burden. more...
THE debate on GM food has been pushed out of the news recently by reporting of the foot and mouth outbreak, but it has not gone away. more...
I AM pleased to see in your edition of the Gazette & Herald (May 3), that at last you have decided, with impartiality to cover the Bushite Son Of Star Wars issue and on the front page too, and without prior warning of the impending parliamentary re-election row! more...
THE letter, from John Welshman Gazette & Herald, May 17, is factually incorrect. Firstly, neither North Yorkshire County Council nor Ryedale District Council as the local planning authority, have excluded the possibility of level crossings, within Pickering, for the purposes of restoring the rail link to Malton. more...
IT was with some trepidation that we 40 members of Malton and Norton Amateur Operatic Society headed up the road to Pickering on Saturday, May 26, for the first ever complete performance there of one of our shows. more...
ON May 30 I attended a `question time' gathering at Kirkbymoorside Memorial Hall at which the four Ryedale parliamentary election candidates answered questions from those attending. more...
I WRITE in response to comments made in the articles regarding the Moors outbreak of foot and mouth and the disinfectant mats, which appeared in the Yorkshire Evening Press on June 12, and the same report in the Gazette & Herald on June 14, on the front page. more...
RE: Eden Blyth's letter in Thursday's Gazette & Herald, June 14. more...
It alarms me to hear apparently responsible people like Mr Crease (Gazette & Herald, June 14) making sweeping statements on such an important issue as the euro and the dangers of missing out on joining. more...
AM writing to the readers of your paper regarding the tragic plight of the countryside, which, at present, is being ravaged by foot and mouth. more...
AN incident early on Friday evening, July 6, made me fully aware of the lack of police presence on the streets of Malton. more...
FOLLOWING is a suggestion on how to improve the Derwent River flood alleviation plans. more...
SO the Milton Rooms is having its annual "crisis" according to the headlines; and Ryedale District Council is "seeking urgent Talks" with who-knows-what. A sad case of play it again and again and again Sam (with apologies to Humphrey Bogart). more...
CONGRATULATIONS to the organisers of the Motor Show, it really was an excellent event and proves just what can be achieved when everyone is prepared to work together for the benefit of Malton and Norton. more...
SO only one third of the pensioners of Ryedale thought the half-price bus passes worth applying for? But after all, the £16 worth of tokens never went far did they? Three trips to Scarborough or York, or six or so to Malton, and you'd had your free journeys for the year! Like many other pensioners, I usually used to spend my tokens on a rail-card. But this year I find I can no longer afford to run a car. So I am one of the third who think the half-price bus passes a great help, worth far more than the £16 of tokens ever were. However, I still see how the other two-thirds look on it. I think it would be fairer to all: more...
FURTHER to recent comment, could I clarify the position on grouse shooting on the North Yorkshire Moors and the foot and mouth crisis? more...
MARK Rooke, the farmer from Nawton who tests GM crops, suggests that Josie Downs and Friends of the Earth, would be better occupied in studying foot and mouth disease than in protesting about GM maize being licensed as animal fodder. more...
MR Winn-Darley has admitted to disinfecting the dogs taking part in grouse shoots (Gazette & Herald, August 23). more...
I SEE that the idea of new sports facilities and the closure of Derwent Pool is once again being raised. I am in full agreement with improving sports provision in central Ryedale, but I would like to raise the following points: more...
THE glorious 12th arrived and the sport of bird shooting created a great deal of concern with the foot and mouth virus still with us. Yet shooting contributes to central and local government revenue through a number of different channels, not least VAT, which at 17.5pc is undoubtedly the single most important source of revenue to central government generated by all country sports. more...
I HAVE no doubts at all that Malton town manager Mick Gains' views on the Milton Rooms are shared by most people in the twin towns. more...
I'm fed up with the negative attitudes towards our town manager who is working - and trying very hard to bring unity and progress into our community. more...
THERE are few constants during an emergency, but one is that children - the most innocent and vulnerable of all - are among the first to suffer. more...
THE Poppy Appeal will be launched on October 28, in this the 80th anniversary of the Royal British Legion during which time the Poppy Appeal has helped to fund the legion's work to deliver a caring service for the benefit of the ex-service community in need continuously since 1921. More people are approaching the legion for help than ever before and the need for public support is as great as ever. more...
EARLIER this year a letter from Yvonne Taylor appeared, slamming the rearing of game birds. So I rang her and explained that I am a game farmer and her letter was misguided. I then invited her to come and visit my rearing field and said if she could see anything cruel I would gladly change it. Sadly she declined the offer. She now writes that pheasant rearing is a huge agri-business built on greed and excess. We are still laughing about that. more...
I WOULD like to know where the new town centre working group for Malton and Norton get their information from, as I have read with interest the article on the front page of your newspaper dated October 18. more...
ONCE again Kirkbymoorside Council, Ryedale District Council and many residents of Kirkbymoorside are preparing to fight Tay Homes plans for the site of Hodgsons garage. more...
GLADYS Turner raises several issues in her letter on parking in Helmsley (November 1). more...
SO Malton Post Office is re-locating, good! The current one is far too small and long queues impede the Co-op shoppers. more...
I WAS shocked to read the article on November 1 on the attitude of the landlord at the Lettered Board to having been given three parking tickets. more...
SOME comments on the proposed amalgamation of the two towns - Malton and Norton-on-Derwent. more...
MR Fisher's comments on the Keith Knaggs affair are gutter politics in the lowest form. more...
SOCIAL security rules state that pensions must be cut for hospital stays longer than six weeks. more...
A NORTH Yorkshire equality campaigner is celebrating a landmark victory in the House of Commons which will enable men over 60 to claim free bus travel. more...
Dear Gazette & Herald, more...
DETERMINATION paid off when Chris Petch set about trying to trace his old school friends. more...
A NORTH Yorkshire public health medicine consultant, Phil Kirby, said this week that he expects to see cases of measles develop in the county because of a decline in the number or children receiving MMR immunisation. He urged any reluctant parents to ensure their children received the vaccine. more...
SCARBOROUGH'S centuries old fishing fleet is set to become the smallest in its history with news that two of its biggest trawlers have been put on the market and likely to leave the port. more...
AN HISTORIC educational trust in a Ryedale village has helped fund a state-of-the-art IT complex at the local school and boost the learning skills of its pupils. more...
GM CROPS, which have caused great controversy across the country, are again to be planted near Helmsley as part of the Government's continuing trials. more...
A JUBILANT Simon Howard said today the birth of his twins had made him "very proud". more...
ON Monday, I got a call from a farmer in the Otley area. I had sold most of his stock for many years. more...
ANGER isn't a very attractive trait but I have rarely been so furious as last Friday afternoon when, at 3 pm, without any notice, we received a faxed letter closing down the York collection centre with immediate effect on the recommendation of DEFRA. more...
OH no it isn't! - Oh yes it is! The York Christmas Pantomime story continues unabated and, precisely seven days after shutting the York Collection Centre down, DEFRA allowed a new licence to be issued which enabled us to operate last Monday. more...
FOLLOWING my outbursts in the last two Gazette & Herald issues, Tom sent me this latest edict from our beloved Department of Extremely Foolish & Ridiculous Activities (DEFRA). more...
ONE of the most distressing features of our agricultural industry at the minute is that it is led by ministers who have no knowledge, no affinity and no love for the countryside. more...
I UNASHAMEDLY admit that I celebrated the departure of 2001 with a great deal of enthusiasm. more...
THROUGH all our letter boxes this week dropped yet another barmy proposal dreamt up by DEFRA in response to the 1991 Nitrates Directive. more...
IN common with many other sections of our agricultural community, auctioneers have been short of social opportunities and Tuesday night's association meeting brought together more auctioneers suffering from rostrum withdrawal symptoms than we have seen for many years in the county. more...
THIS Government's policy is clearly to divert direct financial support for farmers into projects more focused on environmental issues and "regeneration of the countryside". more...
THE long-awaited final version of regulations for the reopening of markets arrived last Friday; and has been "condensed" from its previous 18-page volume into an 81-page serial killer. more...
IT was with a good dose of trepidation last Friday that the Malton auctioneers' team met the DEFRA vet who has been appointed to inspect markets in our area to see if they meet the new standards for licence. more...
HORSE owners have been warned of the incidence of strangles in several parts on the country, including a case at Selby and three in South Yorkshire. more...
TOTAL income from farming in 2001 in the UK is estimated to be £1.7 billion which is 13pc (11pc in real terms) higher than its 2000 level. more...
THE Trinity Methodist Church in Norton, which was badly hit by fire this week, will be restored to its former glory, its minister has pledged. more...
ture after staff were told they could face redundancy or shorter working hours. more...
THE once-popular carnival in the twin towns of Malton and Norton could be revived if an ambitious plan by Norton's mayor, Coun Keith Mennell, becomes a reality. more...
AVILLAGERS living next to a busy main road have welcomed the news that a pedestrian crossing is to be built linking them to the rest of the village. more...
PLANNING councillors in Ryedale warned this week they will get tough with the growing number of applications for development being put in after the work has been done. more...
LAST week, too late for more than a passing mention, Jimmy FitzGerald announced that he was to give up training and hand over to his son Tim, later this year. more...
Yorkshire Three more...
JF Homes Beckett League more...
Pickering Town 8, more...
WORLD number four Graham Jarvis is the favourite for Eboracum MCC's national Colonial Trial at Rosedale Abbey this Sunday. more...
A COUPLE from Malton and Norton Golf Club achieved a remarkable double recently when they both shot holes-in-one within a day of each other. more...
CHILDREN at Malton Community Primary School are certainly getting their hand in young - learning the traditional skill of letter writing. more...
CHILDREN and parents at Kirkbymoorside Primary School had a "wonderful day" at their annual summer fair, held at the weekend. more...
JESSICA Shelley, a 13-year-old from Lilling, near Sheriff Hutton, is making history. more...
TO readers of Young Gaz We apologise, because of technical difficulties we were unable to present the feature with the paper this week. more...
IT was the day the teddy bears had their picnic at Leavening primary school on Friday. more...
A GROUP of musical youngsters from Pickering Community Junior School visited the infants school to perform a little jazz last week. more...
Young Gaz will return next week. Watch this space. more...
TALENTED young singers from across North Yorkshire gathered recently to record music for a freshly composed musical. more...
PUPILS at Lady Lumley's School have been speaking with many tongues. more...
A NEW building fit for a king at a North Yorkshire primary school has come from unlikely beginnings. more...
WHEN students from a Ryedale school had a fundraising day, they made sure they looked the part. more...
EDEN Camp was a fulfilling trip for me. It was hard for me to say which my favourite thing was. more...
SUPPOSING you were asked to perform in an opera which was set in China, written in Italian and performed by Russians - how do you think you would do? more...
STUDENTS at Ryedale School, in Nawton, have released a CD which has been produced in collaboration with local singers and musicians. more...
PUPILS at Luttons School have been reliving wartime celebrations - and tasting the delights of Spam, Marmite and jelly. more...
A BAND of Ryedale youngsters have done their performing arts school proud. more...
A HARD-HITTING drama is to show the impact that drugs can have on young people's lives. more...
CHILDREN from Gillamoor School took a step back in time last month when they took part in the war re-enactment weekend at Pickering. more...
THE hard work of pupils at Lady Lumley's School in Pickering was recognised at a special prize-giving night last Thursday. more...
YOUNGSTERS at Brooklyn Playgroup have been busily preparing for Christmas - thanks to a helping hand or two. more...
CHILDREN in a Ryedale village are making sure they will be at a special Christmas party. more...
PERSONNEL at RAF Leeming have raised more than £1,000 for a special-needs school that was the adopted charity, this year, of RAF Leeming Supply and Movements Squadron. more...
WEST Heslerton C E Primary School "successfully provides a happy and caring learning environment and values all its pupils". more...
LITTLE Stephen Cockerill is always ready to help out on his granddad's farm. more...
TO encourage young artists, BT has put up awards totalling £100,000 in a new scheme in which it is joined by Tate Modern. more...
A PATCHWORK wall hanging which children at a Ryedale primary school began work on two years ago has finally been completed. more...
FUNDRAISERS will be sticking their oar in at Terrington Hall School to help raise cash for a breast cancer charity. more...
CHILDREN at the Rainbow pre-school, in Malton, have given a warm farewell to co-ordinator Tina Kelly, who has retired after 15 years service. more...
TOTS and teachers at Thornton Dale Pre-School have every reason to be pleased with themselves. more...
AN EXHIBITION in Ryedale this week aims to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Meccano. more...
HOW does the countryside compare to the coast? more...
AT Pickering Community Junior School, two new huts have been installed which will form part of the pupils' outdoor theatre equipment. more...
STUDENTS from Malton School got a taste of life in the Army during a training day at Strensall Barracks. more...
Official attendance at school finished for the current Year 11 and Year 13 students at Malton School last week. From now on they only (!) have to attend for their GCSE and A-level examinations. more...
THE story of the Bugthorpe Sword provided the inspiration for children from a village school who made their own video film. more...
A BOY from Hong Kong is settling into a Ryedale prep school this week as part of a national scheme to encourage parents to educate their children in the UK. more...
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