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• Italian job for Buck

  RISING athletics star Richard Buck is to speed into an Italian job that could yield a place in the world junior championships. read more

• We don't need more supermarts

  IN Kirkbymoorside we have suffered from a decline in the number of shops in the town and, recently, we have faced the closure of a general goods shop, a television and electrical services shop and a ladies clothes shop. read more

• My very own music producer

  MY interest in gramophones goes back to schooldays, pre-war of course, when my elder brother bought himself an HMV portable which created much excitement. Ultimately, when working at Boulton & Cooper's in Newbiggin at about 15-years-old, I was able to purchase my very own music producer. This was a unique Cliftophone, bought from Annie Johnson's second-hand shop, next to Malton's GPO in Wheelgate, for the princely sum of 9pence (about 4p). I was earning 12/6d a week then (62p) and, if I remember rightly, had 9d for myself, the rest going to my mum, so I must have 'blued the lot' in that week. Unless it was a birthday. read more

• How does your virtual garden grow?

  The green-fingered are being encouraged to follow the example of a virtual garden to attract wildlife to towns and cities. read more

• If ever a Wiz a Wiz there was

  G-WIZ has launched an electric car which it claims will cost motorists only 1p per mile in electricity. read more

• Writer Bill takes a bow at castle

  A NORTH Yorkshire market town is bracing itself for a tourism boost that could see visitor numbers almost double and bring an additional £2 million to the economy after the revamp of a heritage site. read more

• Equestrian season gets off to a canter

  AS spring slowly creeps up on us, the new equestrian season has kicked off with great enthusiasm. read more

• Young Farmers' Club reports

  RYEDALE read more

• Prices at the stock markets

  MALTON read more

• Badger probe 'hamstrung'

  A GROUP studying bovine TB is "hamstrung" by the Government's view on badgers, says the Tenant Farmers Association. read more

• 'We can solve town's flooding problems'

  A REVOLUTIONARY system of flood defences could save Pickering from further inundation - at a fraction of the cost of the Environment Agency's shelved proposals, a company has claimed. read more

• Sorry - but still no cash for war veteran

  THE Government has apologised for the agonising delay in sorting out the compensation claim of Ryedale war veteran Major Richard Leigh Perkins. read more

• Castle opens £900,000 visitor facility

  'STATE-of-the-art' visitor facilities costing more than £900,000 were officially opened yesterday at Helmsley Castle. read more

• Family paid £38,000 for 18-year-old's NHS op

  RYEDALE MP John Greenway has helped secure a refund for a North Yorkshire family that paid a large sum of money for treatment for a girl who contracted variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD). read more

• No-show at council tax meeting

  COUNCILLORS out-numbered residents when Ryedale District Council (RDC) staged a "come and tell us" seminar this week as part of the authority's new strategy to prepare its annual budget. read more

• Art is life safely contained in a three-letter word

  I am an artiste. In fact, I could be a beret and one-ear-too-many away from being the new van Gogh. Hang on - van Gogh never spent all day and all night on a GCSE art project - surely that makes me the better, more dedicated artist? read more

• A dangerous new property act

  DURING my frighteningly long professional life, there have been various assaults by successive socialist governments on the Englishman's right to own and manage his own property. read more

• Keeping you on your toes

  YOU'LL need to be on your toes if you want to catch Ryedale Youth Theatre's latest production. read more

• Malton pile on the agony for lowly Scarborough

  Yorkshire One - Malton and Norton 38, Scarborough 0. ALREADY-relegated Scarborough were no match for a carefree Malton side, who played some exhilarating rugby. read more

• Stately ruin spikes the sky

  THE grounds of Helmsley Castle will reverberate to the sounds of Elizabethan music over the Easter weekend as celebrations take place to mark the opening of the attraction's new visitor centre and castle exhibitions. read more

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