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• New home for 'Boro?

  AN ambitious scheme to build a new home for Scarborough Football Club and for its McCain Stadium to be redeveloped for housing has been revealed by the club chairman, Malcolm Reynolds. read more

• Where's me get younger pills?

  AN interesting letter this week from Colin Gaydon of Wetherby, an ex-Norton Boys' School boy who had loads of memories to recall of an era just a little later than my own. Nevertheless he did 'serve' under dear William Frankish, that very fatherly headmaster, and one of his first recollections is being fitted with a gas mask at school. This, in turn, jogs my own memory, for masks must have been issued fairly early on in 1939, as I can remember helping to fit them to local folk whilst at the Town Hall. We spent hours assembling them, along with an extra filter which had to be added, which was to cope with some other form of gas that the original filters didn't cater for. Fitting went on in the council-chamber-cum-library, and the test that it was gas tight was when we placed a piece of card across the filter inlet, and the wearer found he or she couldn't get any air. Panic! read more

• Looking to the future in Ryedale

  BETTER facilities for young people and more affordable rural housing are top of the agenda for the future, say Ryedale residents. read more

• £100,000 boost for non-food crops

  YORKSHIRE Forward is putting up £100,000 towards a machine to peel (or decorticate) hemp. read more

• Collection scheme is 'only solution'

  A COUNTRYSIDE business group has condemned the ban on on-farm burial of fallen stock as "a prime example of the worst excesses of red tape, having been devised and implemented by Brussels with no proper consultation with either farming or rural business interests". read more

• New £5.5m scheme for sheep sector

  A NEW financing scheme with a link to English Nature has been put forward for sheep farmers. read more

• Horsetales

  INTEREST in haylage continues to increase within the equine community, providing some good opportunities for silage bale contractors. read more

• 24-hour service ruled out at maternity unit

  KEEPING Malton's maternity unit as a 24-hour service has already been ruled out by the NHS trust operating the hospital - before any public consultation has been carried out. read more

• £100,000 centre opened by encephalitis group

  AN APPEAL to raise £100,000 to provide a national centre in Malton for the brain-injury charity the Encephalitis Society, reached its climax yesterday when it was formally opened by the Lord Lieutenant of North Yorkshire, Lord Crathorne. read more

• Opening Hovingham's doors

  IT MUST be one of the most unusual stately homes in the region. read more

• Gala day for pavilion

  SIX years in the making - and Thornton-le-Dale had something special to celebrate at this year's gala. read more

• Just wild about artist's latest show

  WILDLIFE artist Robert E Fuller's much-anticipated new exhibition of his latest paintings and prints will be held next month. read more

• A64 problem needs addressing

  RE the comments made by Coroner Michael Oakley following the inquest of the American gentleman, about the closure of Barton Hill Junction on the A64. read more

• Asda cuts no slice with Parma

  I REALLY really didn't know whether to laugh or be angry when I read about the saga of slicing Parma ham. read more

• Now that's what I call Brownie points!

  BROWNIES have raised funds to buy equipment for Malton Hospital - and earned valuable Brownie Points for doing so! read more

• Plenty of 'chuckles' as Travis proves he's no Friend of Nasser

  THERE were plenty of 'chuckles' coming from Duncombe Park Cricket Club as one of their old boys hit the big time with Zimbabwe in the first test match against England at Lord's. read more

• The rascals from Raskelf?

  In days gone by, it used to be fairly common for the inhabitants of a town or village to poke fun at the residents of a neighbouring place. read more

• Proper Poorly

  Oh, Doctor, I am out of sorts. I hate to bother you, read more

• Twitchy bum syndrome

  WE'VE got a field full of shivering sheep. Several of them were displaying signs of the "twitchy bum" syndrome and turning to gnaw at their rear ends. A sure sign of maggots. read more

• Emma holds nerve to lift ladies' crown

  NEWLY-CROWNED English Ladies golf champion Emma Duggleby has immediately turned her gaze on being the best of British. read more

On this day: Ryedale Archive