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Carers' group may lose its funding

A GROUP which helps carers for elderly and disabled people in Ryedale is set to lose a vital grant from the district council because the authority says its work does not meet its policy for giving out cash. read more
Channel crossing 1944

RAY JONES was part of the D-Day landings 60 years ago. read more
D-Day: 60 years ago

OVER the past few weeks, as the anniversary approaches, I have heard several accounts of D-Day. Never, though, have I heard it described as 'a bit of an anti-climax'. Never, that was, until I met Bob Jackson, sub-lieutenant of HMS Pickle, one of the mine-sweeping vessels which helped clear the channel of bombs before the landings could take place. read more
The hero of Pegasus

VERA Humble's late husband Frank never talked much about the war. Like a lot of Normandy veterans, he kept his experiences close to his chest. Perhaps he judged them to have no place in the contented family life he later found in Pickering with his wife and four sons. read more
'If we fell in, they were not stopping or coming back to save us'

GEORGE Chapman was born and bred in Slingsby. "We never really left the village, apart from once a year when we would walk down to the train station in to go for our holidays to Scarborough," he said. read more

Archive - Thursday, 3 June 2004