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• Tense tussle for Pickering

  Hunters the Estate Agents York & District Senior League: read more

• Beet growers plan protest

  ANGRY beet growers in North and East Yorkshire plan to demonstrate in Brussels next month. read more

• Boost for resort as call centre arrives

  A leading call centre provider, 1st Locate, has announced plans to open a new Scarborough based centre in August, a move expected to create more than 80 jobs in the area by the start of 2006. read more

• Constructive move for students

  MORE than 20 students from four Ryedale secondary schools will leave full-time education with a unique qualification in construction skills - the first step on the ladder of a career. read more

• 10,000 up

  MINSTER Windows in Sutton-on-the-Forest is celebrating having served its 10,000th domestic customer since it began in 1987. read more

• Pyramid takes the Integrated approach

  A successful Malton firm which supplies the pig farming industry has changed its name to reflect an exciting future in agriculture. read more

• Buy-out of Pro-Pak brings jobs hope

  ONE of Malton's biggest employers has been bought out by a Danish company. read more

• Sugar reforms are not so sweet

  For all of our many sugar beet growers in the region together with other businesses associated within the industry, publication of the European Commission's proposed reforms will have made difficult reading. read more

• I envy birds their wings to fly away...

  WHEN I was a girl, an uncle used to take me for Sunday afternoon walks. He was quite good on flowers, but if I asked him what a small bird was, he would usually say "Oh, some sort of a finch, I think". read more

• The girl is back in town...

  Teenage columnist HANNAH GIBBONS is back and she's rather pleased with herself... read more

• From the Gazette & Herald of Friday, July 1, 1955

  SIR William Worsley, chairman of Malton Magistrates' Court, displayed kindness to a tramp when he offered William Noonan (32 years on the road) his fare back to York. read more

• Gig listings

  Gig listings as of Wednesday, June 29... read more

• Rumours...rumours...

  CRUITHNE will shortly be changing their name to "The Akrasia Society" in an attempt to recapture their glam-rock roots. read more

• A night for Ryedale Heroes

  As many Ryedale bands have found over recent years, it is difficult to get into Fibbers' Battle of the Bands, so gaining a place is an achievement. Getting past the first round is hard enough, so what if you were to reach the semi-finals? read more

• 16 hopefuls for White Rose awards

  THE Yorkshire Tourist Board (YTB) has revealed the finalists in this year's prestigious White Rose Awards for Tourism. read more

• A burning ambition is realised by the Worsleys

  HISTORIC Hovingham Hall has seen the unveiling of its latest prestigious architectural feature - an imposing, specially designed fireplace. read more

• Prince sends a message

  A MESSAGE of sympathy from the Prince of Wales was passed to the people of Helmsley and the surrounding villages of Sutton-under-Whitestonecliffe, Rievaulx, Hawnby, Snilesworth and Arden by the Lord Lieutenant of North Yorkshire, Lord Crathorne, when he made a fact-finding visit to see the aftermath of the flooding. read more

• Winston bidding for jockey title

  What odds a local champion jockey this year? According to the bookmakers, it's a mere 4-1 that Robert Winston will clinch the title and knock Frankie Dettori off his throne. read more

• Road races prove a run-away success

  The floods of the previous week failed to stop a fantastic weekend of cycling when the British Cycling National Road Race Championships took place at Duncombe Park, Helmsley. read more

• Yorkshire is top of the north

  Yorkshire's young farmers have shown their famous 'Yorkshire grit' once again, by winning the Northern Area Competitions' Day. read more

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