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• Great start to Pikes' FA Cup bid

  FA Cup extra preliminary round - Bacup Borough 0, Pickering Town 5. read more

• Growing visitors

  THE custodians of Helmsley's historic walled garden have cultivated impressive visitor numbers - reaching 40,000 per year after only nine years in business. read more

• Susan rides the glamour thermals

  A TOUCH of Italian chic has been brought to Ryedale by one firm which has entered the Gazette & Herald Business Awards. read more

• MHS threatening beef revival

  For the last few weeks this column seems to have been full of beef but I shall not apologise as the industry is in a pretty parlous state, with many producers deciding to quit. read more

• Chefs and farmers prepare for third country show

  Plans for the third Countryside Live Food & Farming Fair are well underway, with top class cattle and sheep, and entertainment including motorcycle displays, the Great Yorkshire Cookery Competition, the Yorkshire Woodfair plus pigeon and poultry shows on the agenda. read more

• Haven for wagtails

  AN environmentally-minded Dales farmer has been playing a waiting game, putting off harvesting his final meadows to allow Yellow Wagtails to raise their young. read more

• Report from young farmers' club

  KIRKBYMOORSIDE: ON July 6, members went to Monks Cross, York, go-karting. Everyone enjoyed it. read more

• Local produce gets place at festival

  Fresh farm produce from across North Yorkshire will be on sale at the York Festival of Food and Drink thanks to a novel discounting scheme. read more

• Now here's a smart idea...

  FARMERS in Richmondshire are to benefit from a new, invisible weapon in their fight against rural and cross-border crime, police have said. read more

• Reminder over field margins

  WITH the harvest now almost complete, the National Farmers' Union is reminding farmers in York and North and East Yorkshire that new two-metre field margins, alongside hedges and watercourses, must be established as soon as the harvest is in. read more

• No kidding! Farmer's goat scheme gets underway

  A NORTH Yorkshire farmer has diversified his business into goats' milk production, thanks to a grant from the Government's Rural Enterprise Scheme. read more

• I am certain that floods disaster was man-made

  DURING the past six weeks, I have been involved with the appeal which is raising money to help the farming community in the Helmsley/Hawnby area, whose farms have been devastated by the floods of June 19, and, at times, have been horrified by some of the comments about the worthiness of the people we are raising money to try to help. read more

• Caf's a passion

  A caf serving some of the freshest food around is hoping to be recognised in the Rural Growth Business of the Year and Small Business of the Year categories in the Gazette & Herald Business Awards. read more

• Riding over new terrain

  IF YOU are looking for an all-terrain vehicle, one company which has entered the Gazette & Herald Business awards can cater for your every need. read more

• Credit for putting the Customer First

  Leading Yorkshire accountancy firm Garbutt & Elliott has been officially recognised for the quality of its service to customers. read more

• Malton end Easingwold's league title hopes

  Hunters the estate agent York & District Senior League. read more

• Carte Diamond eyes Australia trip

  Norton trainer Brian Ellison is eyeing up an ambitious assault 'down under' with Carte Diamond, last week's runner-up in York's Ebor Handicap, who is to be aimed at the richly-endowed Melbourne Cup on November 1. read more

• Wreckers must foot £9,000 bill

  SIX teenagers who went on a drunken "wrecking spree" in Ryedale have been ordered to pay more than £9,000 in compensation to their victims. read more

• Coroner's safety barrier demand after drownings

  A SURFER from Ryedale who tried to save the life of a drowning schoolgirl was praised by the coroner and thanked by her father at an inquest this week into the tragic deaths of a mother and her two children at Scarborough's North Bay last March. read more

• CCTV cameras to target town's car park yobs

  A MAJOR clampdown on anti-social behaviour at Pickering's Eastgate car park is set to begin - with police and local authorities using CCTV footage to gather evidence. read more

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