Archive | Homepage - Gazette & Herald

On this day: Ryedale Archive

Ryedale Archive

• Lamp posts

  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. read more

• Aftermath of FMD

  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. read more

• Crops need a drink

  ARABLE farmers who feared their crops would be washed away by continual downpours this time last year are now praying for rain. read more

• Time to change

  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. read more

• Fat stock market resumes

  THE auctioneer's hammer has finally rung true in York - as livestock auctions once again got under way. read more

• Equestrian events

  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. read more

• Waste not, want not

  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. read more

• Remembering Radar

  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. read more

• Step forward in bid to dual 'nightmare' road

  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. read more

• Shows hit by DEFRA rules

  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. read more

• Tough talking on roads death toll

  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. read more

• Disbelief at theft of charity's minibus

  DISABLED people in Ryedale have been left stranded after heartless thieves made off with a charity's minibus. read more

• Gardener's question time

  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. read more

• TV experts unearth artefacts

  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. read more

• Runners aim to smash 10K race record

  THE race is on. read more

• New golf course is on the cards for Ryedale

  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. read more

• Old Malton end on sour note but MBF march on

  Leeper Hare read more

• Inaugural tournament a great success as Helmsley CPS gain clean sweep

  Ryedale Junior read more

• Club's new logo is a work of art

  KIRKBYMOORSIDE Primary School children have been helping the town's football team by designing the new logo for next season's kit. read more

• Alliance issues demands

  THE Countryside Alliance has outlined five demands to the Government as it prepares for what it hopes will be a massive march in London. read more

On this day: Ryedale Archive