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• West Burton

  As the summer month approach, one of the most popular places to visit has to be the Yorkshire Dales with its spectacular scenery. This week, CELIA MORLEY looks at the historic past of the ancient village of West Burton. read more

• Livestock Movement regime under the spotlight

  MY meeting with Bill Madders who is reviewing the Livestock Movement Regime draws ever closer and tomorrow (Thursday) at 2pm we are set to have our discussion. I saw Bill had won the Princess Royal award for his services to the Dairy Industry and I hope we will be able to give him another medal if he can make some sense of the hotch-potch of movement controls we have at present. read more

• Boarding mum's skatepark dream

  SKATEBOARDING mum Andrea Goudy has launched a campaign for a skatepark in Helmsley. read more

• Cabin plan given go ahead despite concerns

  A PLAN to build holiday cabins on a former quarry near Staxton has been given the go ahead. read more

• Vandals strike church - again

  HOOLIGANS have attacked a historic stained-glass window in a brazen attack on church where only last week the congregation launched a major fundraising drive to restore the crumbling tower. read more

• Police appeal after trail of damage to businesses

  A VANDAL left trails of blood behind after smashing 10 windows around Malton Market Place. read more

• Elvis heads back into town after ASBO change

  ELVIS is back in town - but he is not sure people will welcome him. read more

• Veterans get medals - from Russia with thanks

  TWO veteran sailors have received medals from the Russian President Vladimir Putin, more than 60 years after they went through what have been described as the most hazardous sea duties in the Second World War. read more

• Mixed feelings over BID 'no' vote

  Bosses at the Malton and Norton Initiative have admitted its future is uncertain after efforts to create a Business Improvement District (BID) failed. read more

• Delays after train sparks blaze

  More than a thousand passengers were left stranded on Easter Sunday after a spark from a North Yorkshire Moors Railway steam train caused a major blaze. read more

• Biker death crash mars busy Easter

  THE Easter weekend brought chaos tinged with tragedy in Ryedale when a biker lost his life and a cyclist was left critically ill in two separate accidents. read more

• Workshops help farmers get to grips with new laws

  FARMERS have met to discuss the complex issues of farm finance and the Single Payment as part of a series of four workshops. read more

• Power plans to generate diversified income

  ONE easily missed detail in the March budget was £50 million for the Department of Trade and Industry's (DTI) Low Carbon Building Programme. read more

• 'Idiot' earns hurdles success

  A former "idiot," who has become a prolific winner, may journey to Britain's most northerly course next week in a bid to extend his glory sequence. read more

• Pock Sevens Plate triumph for Malton

  The 2006 Guinness Pock Sevens read more

• Goals galore for rampant Pikes

  Northern Counties East League: Pickering Town read more

• From the Gazette & Herald of Friday, April 20, 1956

  The Rev Kenneth MacKenzie, one of York's most outspoken Methodist ministers, strongly attacked the Budget plan for a premium bond when, in a comment on Wednesday, he said the Chancellor's statement that the bond was not gambling "appals me". It was obvious to a child, he continued, that what the punter loses is the interest on his money and if Mr Macmillan could not see that there was "something seriously wrong with his intellectual processes". If he could see it and said he could not, then that was something worse. There was no Roman Catholic comment in York yesterday but the Rev D Oxby Parker, rural dean of York and vicar of Acomb, in a personal comment, pointed out that one of the great objections to gambling was that it caused poverty as the gambler lost his stake. In this case, the investor would not lose his stake and therefore such an objection in principle was removed. While he felt, therefore, that it was not a great moral issue, he added: "There is something I don't like about it." read more

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