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• You can play part in rural future

  IF you are interested in access to the countryside, here's an opportunity to play a role in offering "strategic advice and comment". read more

• Tenants group studies NVZs

  THE Tenant Farmers Association (TFA) is reminding landlords of their duty to their agricultural tenants to help them comply with the statutory restrictions imposed on land newly designated as NVZs. read more

• Pig farmer leading a struggle for survival of an industry

  STRUGGLING pig farmers are urging supermarket giants to give them a better deal - or British pork could be a thing of the past. read more

• Consultation on future for animal health

  WHAT'S been labelled a 10-year vision for sustainable animal health and welfare in Great Britain has been launched by DEFRA. read more

• £5m in grants

  FARMERS can bid for a share of a £5m a year fund to help to improve their competitiveness and marketing, after the European Commission gave the go-ahead for a new government scheme. read more

• Warning over beef subsidy payments

  DEFRA is once again contriving to create a situation where subsidy payments to farmers are either delayed or in some cases rejected altogether and we need to be aware of this, together with a possible solution. read more

• Post offices close in the wake of terrifying raid

  THREE Ryedale villages are to lose their post offices in the wake of last week's raid on the Helmsley post office. read more

• United in praise of maternity unit

  WHEN it comes to the future of Malton's maternity unit, the mums of Ryedale are of one voice - it must stay. read more

• Drink-driver jailed for killing young father

  A DRINK-DRIVER who killed a young father has started seven-and-a-half years in jail for his "callous disregard" of the law and the safety of others. read more

• 'Road gritting system should be re-thought'

  TOWN councillors at Kirkbymoorside are urging North Yorkshire County Council to re-think its system of gritting roads in icy conditions. read more

• Call to women and the young

  CALLS for more women and younger people to put themselves forward for election to Ryedale District Council have been made by the authority's chairman, Coun Helen Schroeder. read more

• Heartbreak and devastation as post offices shut down

  POST office operators have reacted with horror to the raid at Helmsley and those who have quit have expressed their sorrow at having to do so. read more

• The dreaming spires beckon

  A NORTH Yorkshire college headmaster is stepping down at the end of the year - to go to Oxford. read more

• Village postmasters vow to carry on despite robberies

  VILLAGE postmasters across North Yorkshire have vowed to stay at their jobs - despite fears they could be the next target for a gang of robbers. read more

• English muffins wonderful

  IN my continuing search for things which I have liked and enjoyed over the years there was included muffins. Not the odd variety which appear on the shelves today, but the traditional English muffin, which all but disappeared. One or two national manufacturers produced them, but not awfully successfully. Never would they ever reach the standard of Norton confectioners, Browns of Commercial Street. However, that is but a dream now, nevertheless, it has been the standard by which I have judged them over the years, and Warburtons of Bolton came as near as any to reaching their standard. That was until they too disappeared last year. I've heard from them this week telling me that they weren't selling very well, and so they have been discontinued. So that's the end of another era. What next I wonder? read more

• Prime purpose for Fylingdales

  THANK you for reporting that the recent meeting to supposedly discuss the updating of Fylingdales was not what people imagined it would be (Gazette & Herald, January 8). "The format was that when Geoff Hoon answered a question, no one was given any opportunity to come back," one of the invited guests commented. read more

• A horse to Beatall challengers

  Ryedale-based Michael Newton, whose 13 successes in the saddle as a conditional jockey a few years back, included a brace of bumper wins on top-notch hurdler Dato Star, is displaying a new dimension to his talents - in the privacy of his garden shed. read more

• Wins see Swinton gain upper hand

  Ryedale League read more

• All change for St Martin's

  Since its formation back in September 2001, St Martin's Ampleforth prep school is beginning to establish its own identity. read more

• 'Nitrogen Vulnerable Zone'

  FRIENDS of ours recently went on a New Year trip to Paris with the obligatory stop off at the ferry supermarket, on the return trip, to stock up on a few celebratory bottles of wine. During the wait to go through customs on their return to England, the coach load of passengers were surprised to hear a series of knocks and shouts from the bowels of the bus. It transpired that not only had they brought in wine and luggage, but two asylum seekers as well. The coach driver was furious, he, or his company, now being liable to a hefty fine but the asylum seekers were non-abashed and delighted to have reached a safe haven in Britain and the welcoming arms of the British police and customs officers. The two young men were keen to join friends and family already in London, but according to the customs officers, were far more likely to be sent to Aberdeen, Middlesbrough or Glasgow, from where apparently, 'they disappear and end up in London anyway so I don't know why we don't send them there in the first place'. read more

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