Ryedale | Archive | 2004 | February
ENVIRONMENTAL change is an inevitable part of life, but it so often goes unnoticed until somebody suddenly pipes up and says: "Piercy End used to be called Railway Street once upon a time..." more...
SPRAY, mist-like, more...
NOW that we have reached the end of the shooting season, every duck, pheasant, goose and partridge in the area has come out of hiding to flout its presence under the very noses of their former hunters. No longer potential stars of a lunchtime menu, tasty supper or game pie, and with the unseasonable warmth of the weather, their thoughts have turned to lurve, whilst mine has turned to cooking the shooting season's last glut of game birds. more...
THE Gazette & Herald headline "Inflation-busting tax rises are on the way" was bad enough, but then it was followed by an avalanche of political verbiage and some dubious mathematical percentages. Which brought to mind that old addage "there are lies, damned lies and statistics". more...
On Saturday night, February 21, 2004 over 100 young people from all over Ryedale attended the latest in a long line of successful gigs at Kirkbymoorside Memorial Hall. more...
THINK of a gifted Frenchman and you might think of a philosopher, a painter or perhaps a poet. more...
AN interesting story about a Malton lad, Robert B North, was passed on to me by Michael Hickes, now of Sleights, who shares a place along with me on our family tree, intersecting somewhere near a great-grandma. Born February 10, 1867, in Wheelgate, Robert B North had two grandfathers, both of whom were shopkeepers. The Norths were boot and shoe makers in Wheelgate, and the other one, granddad Kirby, was a watchmaker at 56 Market Place. Robert North had been apprenticed to Spiegelhalters, watch repairers in Market Street, and by the 1914-18 war he had a factory at Watford, employing 600 workers producing his inventions, including car clocks, speedometers and magnetos. Robert's factory supplied all Rolls-Royce car and aero engines with magnetos up to 1932, and Alcock and Brown's first Atlantic air crossing from Newfoundland to Ireland, on June 14-15, 1919, was in a Vickers Vimy Bomber using Robert B North's Watford magnetos in its engines. These, incidentally, are in the Science Museum in London. "Malton boy does good"! Indeed! more...
IMAGINE the scene - a working farm village nestling in the undulating hills between Malton and Helmsley. more...
PAUL Weller and Bryan Ferry will play two massive outdoor concerts in Dalby Forest, near Pickering, this summer, The Forestry Commission has announced. more...
SNOW returned to Ryedale this week, with the prospect of more to come before the weekend. more...
A RYEDALE woman who has never had a job in her life is at loggerheads with job centre chiefs who have stopped her unemployment benefits. more...
ROADSIDE verges should become miniature nature reserves, says a North Yorkshire County Council (NYCC) report. more...
LOCAL businesses are expected to receive a boost of around £1m from `eco-tourists' holidaying at a revamped cabin complex in the North York Moors. more...
RYEDALE is proving the age-old Yorkshire adage that "where's there's muck, there's brass!" after landing a massive surprise windfall from the Government of almost £670,000. more...
SCARBOROUGH'S famous Spa - scene of some of the biggest political party conferences in the last century - needs a £3m facelift if it is to win new business, says a major report by the resort's tourism chief. more...
AS the week has rolled by, and the various industry pundits get their teeth into what meat there is on the mid-term review skeleton, it has become apparent that the more productive and intensive farmers in Severely Disadvantaged Areas (SDA) are real losers. more...
RYEDALE is proving the age-old Yorkshire adage that "where's there's muck, there's brass!" after landing a massive surprise windfall from the Government of almost £670,000. more...
Although recycling is a good thing, it is also a bit of a cosy trap. more...
OLDER people in Ryedale are being urged to get involved in a potentially life-saving "message- in-a-bottle" scheme. more...
MORE cash for such things as dry stone walls and hedges under stewardship schemes have been announced by agri-environment minister Elliot Morley. more...
HOPE is on the horizon for horse owners whose animals suffer from sweet itch. more...
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MINUTES after this rally car was pictured racing through Dalby Forest, tragedy struck when its North Yorkshire navigator was killed. more...
AN elderly man who was without electricity in his home for six weeks during one of the coldest spells for years has power again thanks to inquiries by the Gazette & Herald. more...
THE threat of closing some of Ryedale's public toilets has been condemned by town councillors at Helmsley. more...
A PICKERING war hero's memories of the legendary evacuation of Dunkirk have been re-lived as a result of the recent television series on the famous rescue operation. more...
R J F Homes Beckett League. LAST Saturday saw first league defeats of the season for first division Kirkbymoorside reserves and Union Rovers from the second division. more...
NCEL Premier Division - Pickering Town 2, Arnold Town 1. THE Pikes recorded their second successive league win last Saturday to climb into sixth position, completing their first-ever league double against Arnold. more...
RYEDALE Indoor Bowls Club is celebrating after two of its members, Pam Bayes and Mark Walton, won the Golden Charter All England mixed pairs bowls national title on Monday. more...
BUDDING Beckhams and Owens took on one of the country's top football stars, Jonathan Greening, when he led a master class during the half-term holiday at the Northern Ryedale Leisure Centre in Pickering. more...
Yorkshire One - Malton and Norton 37, Dinnington 20. AS expected, Malton had a fight on their hands against Dinnington, who are battling to ensure their league survival. more...
ANDREW Tinkler, sidelined last week with a broken collarbone, is confident of being back in action in time for the start of the Cheltenham Festival, now less than three weeks away. more...
LAST week, I was sitting patiently in the hairdresser's and things weren't going well. more...
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