Ryedale | Archive | 2002 | April
IN their infinite wisdom Malton Town councillors have decided to spend £10,000 on 12 lamp posts without lights. They plan to hang flower baskets on them to celebrate the Queen's golden jubilee. The cost of watering is estimated at at least £1,000 - if they can get someone to do it for that. more...
THE Countryside Alliance has outlined five demands to the Government as it prepares for what it hopes will be a massive march in London. more...
THE race is on. more...
I'VE always been a believer in the old adage "Waste not, want not", which explains why I have so much rubbish saved up which "might come in useful", but this week's delivery of a Blue Bag whilst not fitting in with that saying in its original context, does in fact mean that used paper can have a new lease of life which is vital for this planet. more...
FINDING out that one of the pet lambs is blind has brought back memories of Radar, a blind lamb we reared several years ago. In the field, Radar's problems were very obvious. He just stood trembling and bawling, a tiny scrap of a lamb, completely lost in a strange environment. Occasionally his mother came up to check on him, and his pathetic attempts to scramble under her came to nought as she wandered away, leaving Radar stranded. more...
A LUCKY Ryedale woman's garden will be blooming this time next year - and it'll be thanks in no small part to expert gardener Paul Radcliffe. more...
FORGIVING words rebound from callous hearts, more...
A CINEMA in Malton will be a much-needed economic boost to the area when it reopens, say business leaders. more...
A LEADING Ryedale botanist wants to see wild flowers return to the North York Moors National Park and the district's countryside. more...
PICKERING is poised to become the children's play area leader for any town of its size in Yorkshire. Hopes are high that youngsters could soon have no fewer than six equipped playgrounds, thanks to investment amounting to thousands of pounds. more...
THE plethora of tourist and road signs in Pickering is to be given a big shake up thanks to a photographic survey. more...
A HOLIDAY company is teeing up a boost for Ryedale sportsmen and women with plans for an 18-hole golf course, gym and tennis courts. more...
TV's Time Team sleuths claim to have found one of the houses in the lost village of Henderskelfe, in the grounds of Brideshead Revisited's Castle Howard. more...
THE questioning spirit of the 1960s produced an avant garde play called "Look back in Anger" and this title echoes the feelings of many sectors of rural industry, reflecting on the Government's mismanagement of FMD. more...
ARABLE farmers who feared their crops would be washed away by continual downpours this time last year are now praying for rain. more...
THE new principal at Askham Bryan College, near York, says the key to its future is to continue to branch out beyond traditional agriculture courses. more...
THE auctioneer's hammer has finally rung true in York - as livestock auctions once again got under way. more...
THEY'RE under starter's orders for this year's Great Yorkshire Show, with organisers determined to bounce back after 2001's foot and mouth-enforced cancellation. more...
TRANSPORT minister David Jamieson is to meet a top level delegation headed by Ryedale MP John Greenway in the campaign to have the A64 made a dual-carriageway along its full stretch from York to Scarborough. more...
MANY of the local agricultural shows will have no livestock sections this summer because of biosecurity rules set out by the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. more...
A POLICE officer who has investigated fatal road accidents in North Yorkshire for the past 20 years - many in the Ryedale area - has spoken out about the needless tally of road deaths in the county. more...
DISABLED people in Ryedale have been left stranded after heartless thieves made off with a charity's minibus. more...
Leeper Hare more...
Ryedale Junior more...
HAVING transformed Pickering Town from relegation fodder to premier division front-runners in just three years, Jimmy Reid has made the shock decision to quit the club. more...
NCEL Premier Divison more...
Peter Niven, the history-making Ryedale jockey, who retired from the saddle last September, is set to launch a training career. more...
RJF Homes Beckett League more...
KIRKBYMOORSIDE Primary School children have been helping the town's football team by designing the new logo for next season's kit. more...
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