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• Old Malton up to third

  Old Malton 3, Dringhouses 0 read more

• East Pier restoration will cost up to £6m

  SCARBOROUGH'S East Pier, which has protected the ancient harbour and seafront for some 250 years, is to get a multi-million pound restoration because the structure's future is at risk, say engineers. read more

• Hovingham villagers celebrate as home-made defences hold

  THERE were smiles all round at Hovingham on Tuesday morning when flooding, which has been a regular feature of life for the residents of Brookside properties for so long, never happened in spite of heavy rain and melting snow over the weekend. read more

• Figures show three of the safest places in Ryedale

  HELMSLEY, Ampleforth and Oswaldkirk are among the safest places to live in Ryedale, according to the latest crime figures. read more

• Safeway threatens to pull out of Pickering

  PICKERING must decide for itself what is best for the town and must not be bulldozed into a new supermarket, say protesters. read more

• £74,000 later... and it still leaks

  THE MANAGEMENT of Kirkbymoorside's War Memorial Hall are gutted after a £74,000 refurbishment programme on the Dugout has failed to keep the water out. read more

• Tup walked a mile for love

  JOHN has brought several of the ewes inside, as he envisages an early lambing for them. They were the recipients of a visiting Suffolk tup's charms at the end of September. read more

• A touch of Eastern promise

  AN ARABIAN night is on the way to Ryedale - courtesy of belly dancer Sherah. read more

• Fourth place for Susan

  SUSAN Kirby, of Burniston near Scarborough, and her 21-year-old Palamino mare Sand Drifter (or 'Sandy' as he is more affectionately known) have finished in fourth place in the 2000 Performance Points Awards run by the Side-Saddle Association. read more

• Last-minute Marwood strike sinks Swans

  Beckett League roundup read more

• Easy Shield victory

  Malton & Norton 49, Wath-on-Dearne 14 pts read more

• Is it about cruelty or about curtailing freedom?

  Like most of the writers who contribute to our newspapers, I like to see readers taking issue from time to time about the content of our stories. read more

• Kelso kind to local racers

  IT isn't often that a dull, drizzly Thursday afternoon at Kelso provides the most significant racing action for Ryedale yards, but such was the case last week. read more

• Start as you mean to go on

  If I get the first line typed out without making a mistake that's usually a good sign that the next five hundred words stand an equal chance. read more

• A warm welcome at Wombleton

  Wombleton has no shop, no school, no church and no post office. But what it does have is a wonderfully eclectic mix of residents, all ready to pull together, help each other out and ensure any newcomers to the village have an especially warm welcome. read more

• Copepods

  ALTHOUGH never bigger than a grain of rice, often only pin-head size, the copepod is a most significant sea-dweller. read more

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