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• Why are they bored?

  I HAD a good laugh at the "serious" lack of facilities for young people in Ryedale. Just in Malton and Norton I can tick off on my fingers: read more

• The road ahead

  Sara Schultz, countryside officer with the Countryside Agency, writes about the future of farming in Ryedale... read more

• CAP in hand plea

  THE Government is being urged to go to bat for British farmers in negotiations for the mid-term review of the Common Agricultural Policy. read more

• Guilty verdict in FMD case

  DEFRA and the National Farmers' Union have welcomed a court's ruling against Northumberland pig farmer Bobby Waugh. read more

• Prices at the stock markets

  The latest prices at the stock markets. read more

• I say, is that...?

  A NORTH Yorkshire village paid their respects to the royal family in their own special way during the Jubilee weekend - with Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles scarecrows. read more

• Jubilant!

  RYEDALE celebrated the Queen's golden jubilee in style over the bank holiday weekend. read more

• Rise in fees may be death knell for WI markets

  WOMEN'S Institutes are fighting a tenfold rise in registration fees which have been imposed on their markets - and which they fear could sound the death knell of many of them. read more

• History sails back into Whitby harbour

  A WORLD-famous and much-loved replica warship has returned to a North Yorkshire seaside town. read more

• Ampleforth has one eye on the past but one eye on the future

  AMPLEFORTH College and its adjoining landmark Abbey Church, celebrating their bicentenary this year, are looking to an exciting future as much as reflecting on an impressive past. read more

• 'Replacing stiles was a waste of money'

  PERFECTLY good footpath stiles have been torn out for no reason and replaced at ratepayers' expense, says the person who looks after footpaths for Pickering Town Council. read more

• A good bit of nostalgia

  A DATE to remember, as if we should ever forget, for it was on this date in 1944 that the D Day landings took place in Normandy, where so many good folk gave their all, and for those remaining it was the beginning of the end. We owe thanks to so many! read more

• The life of a daring lady - Dolly the Parachute Queen

  ON the stairs of the educational section of the Beck Isle Museum, in Pickering, is a fascinating display about a women called Dolly Shepherd, who was a pioneer of the sport of parachuting. read more

• Dolce et Gabbana

  Here they come, rows on endless rows read more

• Marvellous Mason reduction sale

  ON Wednesday of last week, with rain clouds over most of the country, the sun shone on Danebury Manor where Roland and Patrick Mason were having a reduction sale of their suckler herd. read more

• Rural shows facing tough rules

  FARMING shows across North Yorkshire are set to go ahead without livestock because foot and mouth regulations are proving too expensive for many organisers. read more

• History and beauty

  NESTLING in the Yorkshire Wolds between Driffield and Malton lies Sledmere village. A lovely, peaceful hamlet, it is overflowing with history, from one of its churches' 14th century walls, to a 19th century cross and war memorial. read more

• Wombles hang on

  Derwent Valley League Division B: Snainton seconds 106 for 9 lost to Wombleton 107 for 9 by one wicket read more

• Harome come a cropper as Grayson smashes winning six

  Ryedale Beckett League Division One: Harome 100 for 7 lost to Cropton 103 for 6 by four wickets read more

• All decked out for jubilee

  WHAT else but red, white and blue for Lady Lumley's non-uniform day. read more

On this day: Ryedale Archive