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• Kirkdale are still kings

  RJF Homes Beckett League - KIRKDALE United maintained their position as first division leaders in the RJF Homes Beckett League on Saturday after beating second-placed local rivals Duncombe Park 4-2 in a cracking encounter. read more

• 'Musak' is aimed at the young

  FEBRUARY 27, and I see that the island cum pedestrian refuge at the Castle Howard Road/A64 junction still hasn't got its plastic fencing removed, although it seems to be collapsing around it. The job itself looks as though it's completed, and I wonder why the tidying-up takes so long. read more

• Farmers fear cost of removing stock

  FARMERS are worried that they face having to pay hundreds of pounds to remove dead livestock under new government regulations. read more

• Battling the poison weed

  RYEDALE MP John Greenway's private member's bill, initiated by the British Horse Society (BHS), which aims to reduce equine fatalities due to ragwort poisoning has now been published. read more

• Club raises funds for hospice

  ONE of the oldest branches of the Young Farmers Club movement, Snainton, is still going strong after more than half a century. read more

• Money running out for charities in Ryedale

  RYEDALE charities are facing a cash crisis and the leader of one of them is calling for all of them to join together in raising funds for their survival. read more

• Malton School hits £50,000 target

  MALTON School is celebrating after it raised the £50,000 needed to make a bid to become one of the first schools in the country to specialise in science. read more

• The Euro debate - 'Why we should join'

  Paul Andrews, secretary of Ryedale Liberal Democrats, explains why he believes the UK should join the single read more

• The Euro debate - 'why we should not join'

  John Ashworth, chairman of the Ryedale Conservative Association, puts the case for the UK staying out of the single European currency. read more

• Saturday night at the movies is just a radio dial away

  BUDDING radio stars will have the chance to take part in a one-off competition to rule the airwaves. read more

• School nets £60,000 to renovate hall

  PUPILS and teachers at the popular village school at Luttons are celebrating after landing £60,000 to renovate an old community hall to convert into a gymnasium and mini theatre. read more

• With a song in their hearts

  NORTH Yorkshire schoolgirls sing when they're winning - and their skills have landed them places on a prestigious choir. read more

• Wanton destruction

  ON whose authority has the large layby just north of Malton on the Pickering road been spoilt? This layby (originally the old road and, therefore, presumably under the aegis of North Yorkshire highways department) has a wide verge, and had substantial shrubbery and mature trees on its inside edge. read more

• About-turn on OTMS

  WITH typical, but inexplicable, lack of logic, the Food Standards Agency appears to be heading for another U-turn in its thinking on the OTMS scheme, which is the subject of a report due out shortly. read more

• WI ladies do their bit

  THE village of Sinnington received its annual spring clean thanks to the members of the local WI. read more

• The Ryedale cricket club that's havin' a ball...

  NAWTON Grange Cricket Club is organising an evening ball to raise funds for its flourishing junior section. read more

• The Unknown Ones

  It is not you, the splendid saints and heroes, read more

• A celebration for bookworms

  WITCHES, wizards, ghosts and even the hungry caterpillar all turned up for lessons at one North Yorkshire primary school. read more

• Mass family reunion

  WORK is nearing completion on the renovations in our middle sitting room. A layer of insulation and then chipboard has gone over the new cement floor, and John has blocked off the chimney in the recently-discovered inglenook, so that there is not a howling draught continually emptying the room of any warm air. I have laid some old rugs over the flooring and, after moving a settee back into the room, it is actually starting to feel quite comfortable and civilised again. read more

• Rejuvenated Malton move into top two

  Yorkshire Two - Skipton 0 pts Malton and Norton 15 pts read more

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