MITCH COOK has set his Pickering Town team an 80-point target after two wins in a week pushed them up to sixth in the Northern Counties East League premier division table. The Recreation Ground boss is in buoyant mood after his men followed up
AN ART exhibition featuring work by 22 local artists will be held at St Mary's Church in Ebberston. Art and Soul is in aid of Martin House Children’s Hospice, Radio York’s Goodnight’s Sleep Appeal and the village church. The exhibition will
MALTON are already turning attentions to next season - and hopefully an immediate return to North One East. They ended their 2013/14 campaign on Saturday with a 63-21 defeat at Cleckheaton in what was effectively a dead rubber - with Malt already
PHOENIX Dance Theatre have recently been celebrated as one of Britain’s leading contemporary dance companies having been chosen as one of the headline events at the Yorkshire Festival, part of the festivities for the Grand Depart. Those who don
AS work continues apace on Jack Berry House, currently being constructed in Old Malton by the Injured Jockeys’ Fund, the multi-million pound rehabilitation centre for riders has received a major boost. Leading bookmakers Betfred have adopted the
THE Live Canon ensemble is heading to Scarborough to give a one-off performance at the Stephen Joseph Theatre (SJT) o launch a new audio poetry tour of the town, available from Saturday, April 19. Visitors and residents can explore the local landscape
MALTON & Norton RUFC Under-15s beat Driffield 39-7.Cameron scored two tries early on as Malton put together some great phases of play and they refused to take it easy with captain, and man of the match, Ben Fawcett leading the charge.Will Wood cleared
A GROWING demand for an award winning beer has created a new job.Hunmanby microbrewery, Wold Top Brewery has recruited Tom Cooper primarily to help with the running of the bottling line, but as with all the members of the close knit team of 15, he will
A RYEDALE charity evening is showcasing the range of Shepherds Purse Cheeses served with specially selected wines from Firth and Co Wine merchants. Established thirty years ago by Judy Bell MBE the Yorkshire cheeses are made with cow, ewe and buffalo
WOMBLETON Wanderers were unable to cap a great debut season with success in the Scarborough & District FA Junior Cup final. Wanderers, the new champions of the newitts.com Beckett League second division, lost 6-3 to holders Lingdale United,
OLD Malton St Mary's go to second-placed Huntington Rovers on Saturday knowing victory in what is their last game of the campaign will seal the York Minster Engineering League premier division title. They could have it sewn up by then as anything
MALTON junior footballer Gabriel McGill has been selected for the England Independent Schools Football Association national elite squad. The 13-year-old Terrington Hall Preparatory School pupil came through three days of trials in Shrewsbury to
FOURTH-PLACED Brooklyn Under-16s completed their York & District Minor League division one campaign with two wins - setting them up nicely for their League Cup semi-final and next Tuesday night's Scarborough & District FA Senior Minor Cup final
A LATE Grant Ryan goal earned Scarborough Athletic a point against Leek Town - denting the visitors’ title hopes in the Evo-Stik League division one south. Ryan struck eight minutes from time to cancel out a 69th-minute Matthew Plummer own goal
THE Victory Cup final in the newitts.com Beckett League will be contested between division one runners-up Sinnington and fourth-placed Union Rovers after both underdogs won dramatic semi-finals on Saturday.Sinnington, the 2013 champions, visited Kirkbymoorside
When Robert Moreno, an American citizen, is murdered in a luxury hotel in the Bahamas, it has every sign of being a contract killing. Moreno was suspected of planning a terrorist attack on a US oil company and the renowned forensics expert, Lincoln
Kate Shackleton has formed a reputation for her detective work in the days after the Great War and in this the fifth book of the series she is summoned by her cousin James, now working in the India Office, to go to investigate a disappearance of Maharajah
FOUR of the seven second-round games in the newitts.com Beckett League's Marisa Trophy had to be decided by penalty shoot-outs. Heslerton came a cropper after dominating against Kirkdale United from start to finish. Heslerton had 15 efforts
IN the 18th century in the fertile Vale of Pickering, a rather strange crop was being grown, a crop which caused much controversy depending how near to York you lived. This crop was tobacco. It was raised, cured and manufactured by a chap who had
RYEDALE Sports Club’s hopes of escaping the drop in the Scarborough & District League first division suffered a severe blow as relegation rivals Seamer Sports picked up three vital points. A late goal by Danny Bradbury after excellent work
FAMILIES caring for relatives with disabilities will have to travel more than 40 miles to access vital respite care as Ryedale's last respite centre will close. The closure of Woodside, at Keld Head, Pickering, run by the Wilf Ward Family Trust
PROTESTORS against plans to build a supermarket in Malton have handed over a petition ahead of a crunch meeting next week. Plans to build a store and petrol station on Wentworth Street car park will go before a special meeting of Ryedale District
RESIDENTS of a Ryedale village have welcomed the news that their local post office will move. Thornton-le-Dale Post Office, in Maltongate, will move to the newsagents, the Wardill Bros, in the square, as of next month. Barry Whittaker, who
BAKING fans are invited to dig out their wooden spoons and take part in the Great Harome Bake Off next Wednesday. The event is being held on St George's Day, April 23, to raise funds for the Multiple Sclerosis Society as part of its annual Cake
SHOCKING figures have revealed that last year more than 20,000 crimes across the region went unsolved. Figures show that a total of 22,976 crimes remain unsolved by North Yorkshire Police as of March 18, this year. The number of unsolved drugs
AN ALFRESCO Malton Food Lovers Market took place on Saturday as preparations mount for next month's annual festival. With over 40 stalls and live music, demonstrations were given by Jake Jones sous-chef at James Martin's Restaurant at Malton's
YOUNGSTERS from a Ryedale playgroup put on their best hats to take part in an Easter bonnet parade to raise money for a local charity. The children from Terrington pre-school playgroup were accompanied by flutist Nia Passmore as they walked to
BOOK fans in Norton have an additional library facility in the town. A new outlet has been provided in Yorkshire Housing’s Deansfield Court Extra Care Housing Scheme at Furlongs Avenue, off Beverley Road. The facility, which includes a lounge area
A CAMPAIGN group set up to support the fight against fracking in Ryedale has raised strong concerns after permission was granted for an “injection well” inside the North York Moors National Park. Frack Free North Yorkshire wrote to North Yorkshire
A NORTON woman who has previously competed in three flat races will be getting back in the saddle to raise money in memory of her dad. Wendy Hoggard, 48, who owns White Rose Saddlery in Norton, has begun her extensive training regime as she prepares
A MARKET town’s history has been preserved thanks to the latest technology. The Helmsley Archive website began in 2010 and since then has received an average of more than 400 a day said Dr Paul Harris, who, with wife, Jen helped to collate photographs
A CLUTCH of six eggs has been laid by a pair of barn owls in time for Easter. The eggs are now being carefully monitored via video link by a wildlife artist Robert Fuller in Thixendale.According to the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, these birds of prey could
A WORKING mother of three from Amotherby has been crowned Working Mum of The Year in Pitman Training's Super Achievers Awards 2014. Martina Mercer, 34, has worked tirelessly to provide a good role model for her children, balancing her own cleaning
PICKERING Rotary Club and the town’s medical practice joined forces to give free blood pressure checks. About 50 people made use of the service, led by Dr James Coppack. This is the 11th year of Rotary and the Stroke Association working together
A MALTON-based veterinary practise is raising money for two local charities during National Pet Month. The Mount Veterinary Group, in Middlecave Road, is supporting the annual event which promotes responsible pet ownership. Vet nurse Stephanie
COUNCILLORS are stepping up initiatives to get more apprentices into engineering and high-tech jobs to encourage them to stay in Ryedale. Members of Ryedale District council's policy and resources committee have backed a scheme to provide £30,000
LOCAL residents are being encouraged to dig out their antiques and heirlooms as a mini version of the Antiques Roadshow is due to return. On Saturday, May 10, Eric Knowles, who has appeared on the BBC programme, will once again demonstrate his
TWO local charities are hoping to provide lonely and isolated people in Ryedale with an afternoon of entertainment. But before the Songs and Scones evening can go ahead, Live Music Now (LMN) and Ryedale Carers Support (RCS) need the backing of
THE NUMBER of people seeking support from Ryedale Food Bank is continuing to grow. Around 500 people have been fed by the facility since it was set up last July. Organisers said it has been helped by a steady flow of food and financial donations
HUNDREDS of animal enthusiasts flocked to a mini-petting zoo to see pet lambs, piglets, ducklings and calves. The 350 visitors to the Robert Fuller gallery, in Thixendale, recently were also treated to pony rides, a woodland quiz, treasure hunt
THE North East Yorkshire Geology Trust has secured £60,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund and partners to study the life of a leading figure in the geology world – Lewis Hunton. Mike Windle, director of the trust, said: “The project will celebrate
PHOTOGRAPHERS have been urged to submit shots of their favourite woodland for a new competition. The Yorkshire Agricultural Society, organiser of the Great Yorkshire Show, has launched the Living Woodlands competition, with the best 32 images to
POLICE are appealing for information after a theft from a car. A Honda Civic was parked in the car park at the Malton and Old Malton Cricket Club, when thieves smashed a window between 7pm and 8.30pm on Thursday, March 27, and stole a laptop computer
PEOPLE are being reminded to dispose of their cooking oil correctly to prevent a costly bill. A recent YouGov poll showed that 63 per cent of adults in Ryedale mistakenly believe that a water company would pick up the bill should a drain on their
PICKERING library is to host a flagship event for World Book Night. The library has been chosen to host Yorkshire and Humberside's celebration of World Book Night on Wednesday, April 23. Sponsored by the Reading Agency, , the event will begin
PEOPLE who struggle to find a car parking space in Whitby, particularly at weekends and during the holidays, will now be able to use a new park-and ride-service. The service will open on Good Friday and is being provided by North Yorkshire County
MALTON'S links with Charles Dickens have been given a further boost with the refurbishment of the Counting House Museum. The building, in Chancery Lane, was the office of Charles Smithson, the Malton solicitor with whom Dickens formed a close friendship
AUSTERITY measures are likely to continue for some years, so people in Ryedale are being asked for their views on plans being drawn up by North Yorkshire County Council about the services it provides. It suggests more people will have to take greater
BUSINESSES in Helmsley are working together to create an egg-citing Easter activity for families. An Easter Egg trail will run from Monday, April 14 to Easter Monday, 21 beginning at Hunters of Helmsley in the town’s Market Place. Trail maps
Below are the enforcement locations for North Yorkshire Police’s mobile safety cameras for week commencing Wednesday, April 16. The safety cameras are now more visible then ever before with each of the three vehicles bearing the same hi-vis livery
AS thousands of visitors flock to the panoramic beauty spot of Farndale to see its swathes of the famous wild daffodils which adorn its valleys and riversides, a new survey is being made into similar beds at historic Rosedale and the nearby hamlet of
A WOMAN who has terminal cancer is organising a variety show to raise money for the charity which has supported her and her family. Pat Long, who had her voice box removed after being diagnosed with cancer of the gullet in 2007, was told earlier
I had a box of old family photographs that was given to me as a child. Periodically, I would look through the box and wonder who the people in the photographs were, often dreaming about what their story was and how it was connected to me. One photograph
WHITWELL-ON-THE-HILL’S Terry Temple knocked out Premier League star Dave Chisnall on his way to the last 16 of the latest PDC Players Championship event at Wigan. Temple, pictured above, beat Chisnall 6-5 in the third round of the Robin Park Tennis
AFTER defeating the infamous Three Sisters hills in the recent Hardmoors’ night race, Pickering Running Club battlers came back for more, lining up to take on the Hardmoors’ Wainstones marathon and half marathon - and smashing course records across
LACYS Cottage Riding School, Scrayingham, is holding its next rally on Tuesday. The school, which has been established for more than 25 years, is approved by, and works to the British Horse Society standards. It is also a pony club centre.
THE Holderness and Middleton Hunts are raising funds for the Yorkshire Air Ambulance by hosting an inter-hunt rugby match on Saturday. The match will take place at Driffield Rugby Club. There will be the chance to have a pre-booked three-course
SNAINTON Riding Centre got its first affiliated British dressage competition of 2014 off to a flying start with a large turnout of local competitors covering all seven classes, which also included a class for the British Young Rider Dressage (BYRDS
GOOD ground with lots of grass ensured plenty of runners took part in the Bedale point-to-point on Saturday. Racing started with the Barkers of Northallerton Confined Hunts Race, which saw nine runners go to the post. Roman Cruise and Chris Dawson
NICOLA WILSON has announced that Opposition Buzz, who she partnered to an Olympic silver medal at the London Olympics in 2012, has been retired from elite competition. The 17-year-old, who is owned and bred by Rosemary Search from Sicklinghall,
WHITBY Abbey with its famous abbess, Hilda, was one of England’s leading centres of Christianity and a major event occurred during her stewardship. It was the Synod of Whitby in AD 664, the town then known as Streoneshalh. In England there were
Ryedale needs homes. That is an inescapable fact that most people accept. Indeed, at a residents’ meeting held on April 8 to discuss the proposed new development between Castle Howard and Middlecave Roads, it was a point upon which everyone agreed.
TYPICAL of Councillor Paul Andrews to tackle the man instead of the ball in the debate over proposals to build a second decent-sized supermarket in Malton. He wrongly accuses me of “hypocrisy” for supporting the introduction of three hours free
IT was distressing to read of a family grieving due to the loss of their pet cat (Gazette, p3, April 9). This is the second time recently such an incident has been reported. If I remember correctly, on the former occasion the cat’s death had been
INFANTICIDE on a grand scale has taken place on the farm – a lamb and a nest full of potential guinea fowl keets. The first squashed, the others abandoned, trampled and then strewn out of the nest. The drama started shortly after seven in the morning
IN April 1924, wealthy Norton resident Sarah Elizabeth Simpson donated the, then enormous, sum of £10,000 to form a charitable trust. The interest from investment of this money was to be used for “the relief and assistance of any old or infirm
COULD you spare an hour or two of your time once a year to save children in need? The week beginning April 27 is Save the Children Week, when volunteers in the Ryedale area work together to raise money for needy children in Britain and the world
HAVE I, as the resident of a village eight miles from Malton, the democratic right to debate a matter many who live in the town, and some of their local town and district councillors, consider of overwhelmingly substantive relevance and concern to
I RECENTLY spent a few days in North Yorkshire, primarily visiting friends in York, my former home city, then, on Friday, March 14, to Thornton-le-Dale to see an old friend, stopping en route in Pickering. In Pickering, I unfortunately had a bad
A PREVIOUS Gazette & Herald letter was headed “Food for Thought”. The origin of this phrase has been hard to find, but may come from the Babylonian “intellectual nourishment”. My thoughts turned to food. At present, one billion people in the
Royal Oak dented WMC ‘B’s attempts to finish as runners-up in the Pickering Darts League by beating them 4-3. Captain John Bristow got the WMC off to a good start, hitting five 100s and a 140 for legs of 19 and 21 darts. Oak hit back through
WASS stormed to the Ryedale Snooker League title - after losing just once in their 12 outings. Three of their players were also in the top five of the individual list performances - Nigel Taylor, John Thompson and John Howard. Taylor was outstanding
MALTON ‘A’ took a major step towards regaining the York Conservative Clubs’ Carlsberg UK Snooker League championship with a 5-2 victory over Acomb ‘A’. Richard Lillie and Roland Cox moved Acomb ahead after Lee Taylor won the first game for Malton
KIRKBYMOORSIDE starlet Dan Peace’s excellent form continued in the first round of the RT Keedwell British Solo Trials Championships in Bootle, Cumbria. The 15-year-old recently rode to a confidence-boosting win at the opening round of the British
RYEDALE enjoyed its fair share of success at the Bedale Hunt’s fine point-to-point meeting at Hornby Castle. Scackleton rider Jacqueline Coward led the way with a double, while Drom, trained by Sheriff Hutton’s Christine Shipley, won the feature
PLANS for a leisure centre at Thornton-le-Dale have been rejected by the North York Moors National Park planning committee. The committee has agreed, however, to provide a car park in a walled garden adjoining the hall in the village. The proposed
RYEDALE is in for a treat on Friday when one of the most popular local bands, Chu Ma Shu, join forces with some of the best bands in North Yorkshire for a night of no-nonsense musical entertainment. Avalanche Party, based in Rosedale, were recently
IT is funny to think that there are a lot of first-class national businesses in Malton, which may have some staff who don’t live locally, but assume that it is not as good as where they live. We had an example of this last week where a person behind
THE Wainwright family, from Fridaythorpe, had a busy week, making two journeys down to Hartpury College in Gloucestershire. Ben, 14, riding Platinum Dreamcatcher, qualified for the JC 85cms and the JD 95cms, where in the 85cms they managed 10th
HOPES of Helmsley cashing in on a Heritage Lottery Fund grant to help celebrate the 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta, have been dashed. Councillor Martin Vander Weyer, chairman of the organising committee in the market town,
