RYEDALE MP John Greenway has helped secure a refund for a North Yorkshire family that paid a large sum of money for treatment for a girl who contracted variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD). The teenager was only the third person in the UK to have
'STATE-of-the-art' visitor facilities costing more than £900,000 were officially opened yesterday at Helmsley Castle. The new, contemporary visitor centre is combined with exhibitions, greatly improved disabled access, new audio tours and interactive
A REVOLUTIONARY system of flood defences could save Pickering from further inundation - at a fraction of the cost of the Environment Agency's shelved proposals, a company has claimed. Instant Barrage Services (IBS) says it has investigated the possible
AS spring slowly creeps up on us, the new equestrian season has kicked off with great enthusiasm. Well done to Middleton East Pony Club which represented the north at the Dengie and Quiz National Finals held at Warwickshire College. This was attended
A NORTH Yorkshire market town is bracing itself for a tourism boost that could see visitor numbers almost double and bring an additional £2 million to the economy after the revamp of a heritage site. Best-selling travel writer Bill Bryson opened the state-of-the-art
The green-fingered are being encouraged to follow the example of a virtual garden to attract wildlife to towns and cities. English Nature has planted the online garden on its website to show how gardeners can make their gardens wildlife-friendly by making
MY interest in gramophones goes back to schooldays, pre-war of course, when my elder brother bought himself an HMV portable which created much excitement. Ultimately, when working at Boulton & Cooper's in Newbiggin at about 15-years-old, I was able
IN Kirkbymoorside we have suffered from a decline in the number of shops in the town and, recently, we have faced the closure of a general goods shop, a television and electrical services shop and a ladies clothes shop. When I read your pages, I note
A NORTON woman has been raising awareness of a little-known muscular condition called dystonia. Marion Pickles has suffered for 15 years from the painful and debilitating condition which causes muscle spasms. It is a group of disorders which are more
ST JOSEPH'S RC Primary School pupils in Pickering had a smashing time in more ways than one during a special design and technology day last week. Year five and six pupils were given the task of building a structure - using only 20 sheets of A4 paper,
RESIDENTS in the Ryedale market towns of Helmsley, Kirkbymoorside and Pickering are being urged to set up groups to help Malton Hospital buy state-of-the-art equipment it can't afford on the NHS. Barbara Head, vice-chairman of the League of Friends of
FORMER district councillor Gary Hobbs, who died suddenly in his sleep on March 27, aged 58, was a shining light in his community and will be greatly missed by all who knew him. Mr Hobbs and his wife Glennis had only recently moved from Kirkbymoorside
PUB and club doormen are renowned hardmen - but spooky goings-on at a Ryedale pub have had tough bouncers running scared. When managers Barry Thompson, 23, and Kelly Darbyshire, 22, took over The White Swan, Old Maltongate, Malton, a week ago, they got
WITH two of my closest friends, I have just spent a day shopping in London courtesy of promotional tickets from a newspaper. For weeks, I had saved the cut-out tokens and carefully saved them in a bag to validate our cut-price tickets. No one was interested
LAST Saturday's Grand National turned out to be an unforgettable triumph for a jockey with strong local connections. Graham Lee, having only his second National ride, took the winning honours with a nail-biting victory on Amberleigh House. The 28-year-old
MALTON-BORN Andrew Tinkler finished sixth in his first ever Grand National last Saturday - an achievement that eluded his father, Colin. At just 18 years old, Tinkler was the youngest rider to take part in the 40-horse showpiece after becoming a late
A CHAPTER in the community life of picture-postcard Farndale has come to an end with the retirement of its long-serving postman, Hawson Simpson. For 40 years, he has delivered mail in the Kirkbymoorside area, most of the time travelling to nearly 100
COUNCILLORS out-numbered residents when Ryedale District Council (RDC) staged a "come and tell us" seminar this week as part of the authority's new strategy to prepare its annual budget. However, the 20 members of the council who attended were met by
THE Government has apologised for the agonising delay in sorting out the compensation claim of Ryedale war veteran Major Richard Leigh Perkins. But he still does not know if the Inland Revenue will re-pay cash he claims was wrongly taxed from his disability
A GROUP studying bovine TB is "hamstrung" by the Government's view on badgers, says the Tenant Farmers Association. Jerry Rider, TFA national vice-chairman and the TFA's representative on the TB Forum, said: "The TFA has always sought to contribute constructively
MALTON Forward on April 2 were 50 store cattle and 170 store sheep. Cattle: heifers with calves at foot to £750 from G F Winter and Son, Lim bullocks to £585 from J S Collinson, Lim heifers to £475 from J & A M Craggs, Ch bulls to £560 from F C Wardell
RYEDALE RYEDALE District Young Farmers held its AGM on March 30 at Pickering Agricultural Centre. President Mrs Rosie Harrison-Bradley welcomed members and in her report spoke of how the district had pulled together as a team this year. Ian "Nuffy" Teasdale
G-WIZ has launched an electric car which it claims will cost motorists only 1p per mile in electricity. The vehicle produces zero emissions and has an energy consumption 75pc less than the average internal combustion engine. The G-Wiz costs £9,999 to
I am an artiste. In fact, I could be a beret and one-ear-too-many away from being the new van Gogh. Hang on - van Gogh never spent all day and all night on a GCSE art project - surely that makes me the better, more dedicated artist? Sadly, my three-foot-long
DURING my frighteningly long professional life, there have been various assaults by successive socialist governments on the Englishman's right to own and manage his own property. I suppose this started with the penal Estate Duty, which caused the break-up
YOU'LL need to be on your toes if you want to catch Ryedale Youth Theatre's latest production. For the show - a staging of a Rodgers & Hart musical - is just a week away from its opening night. The show, On Your Toes, opens next Wednesday, April 14
THE Duke of Edinburgh proved a hit with teenagers when they met him during a visit last week to the east coast. The five youngsters, who are all doing Duke of Edinburgh Awards, sailed into Whitby on the vessel James Cook, ahead of the replica 18th century
DESPITE heavy overnight rain, which turned the going to soft, the Middleton Point-to-Point went ahead and produced close finishes and exciting racing. The highlight of the meeting was the Grimthorpe Gold Cup Men's Open race, run over four miles and known
THE Pikes will play the first of three games in five days this Saturday still very much in the NCEL title race, despite only picking up two points from their last two games. After ensuring title rivals Sheffield didn't gain points on them with a last-minute
LITTLE bunny in the sun, Running around just for fun, His mind is empty, he hasn't a care, He is happy just to be there. As he hops carefree by the farm gate, He comes face to face with what could be a mate, She is so fluffy, so pretty, so trim, And thinks
THE grounds of Helmsley Castle will reverberate to the sounds of Elizabethan music over the Easter weekend as celebrations take place to mark the opening of the attraction's new visitor centre and castle exhibitions. On Easter Sunday and Easter Monday
Yorkshire One - Malton and Norton 38, Scarborough 0. ALREADY-relegated Scarborough were no match for a carefree Malton side, who played some exhilarating rugby. Scarborough kicked off and initially kept the new champions penned back. However, centre Liam
RISING athletics star Richard Buck is to speed into an Italian job that could yield a place in the world junior championships. The 400-metre specialist - he was unbeaten in all his one-lap outings throughout 2003 - has been selected as part of the Great
