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3:16pm Wednesday 2nd July 2008
Thanks to all those who attended the meeting at Ryedale Council offices last Thursday.
9:39am Thursday 26th June 2008
The saga of Malton market heads for another milestone this evening at 6.30pm when the policy and resources committee receives the report of the strategy steering group.
2:23pm Wednesday 18th June 2008
Since that splendid turnout on March 5 when Ryedale Council chamber was filled with the farming fraternity, the steering group which was then proposed has stuttered and stumbled through several meetings.
9:33am Thursday 12th June 2008
Whatever you may think of the heated debate as to whether our agricultural land should be producing food or energy crops, the Government has taken a very positive leap onto the side of the bio-energy support groups. This week it has announced grants of up to £200,000 for farmers to invest in biomass and this will be a cash injection at the point of production. The main stumbling block seems to be one of timing as the deadline for applications is put at August 5 for individual businesses and September 5 if you are a producer group – so you need to get your skates on. The scheme will fund the following investments:
3:52pm Wednesday 4th June 2008
NATURAL England has confirmed that it is going to implement the first stage of its changes to the Environmental Stewardship rules this summer; and for those farmers already in the scheme and those preparing to make an application, you need to be aware of the proposals.
10:44am Thursday 29th May 2008
FOLLOWING the major reforms of 2003, the CAP five-year health check is firmly in the European debating arena and the German Commissioner, Mariann Fischer Boel, is pushing hard to drop production subsidies.
9:51am Thursday 22nd May 2008
Sometimes I wonder if the Brussels bureaucracy has been infiltrated by the Russian Secret Police or another anti-western politburo; such are the barmy proposals that the EC is capable of churning out.
4:00pm Thursday 15th May 2008
I knew there was a good reason why I never went into politics and for the most part it is neatly contained in the steering group appointed by our council to look at the consultants' report on Malton's future.
10:44am Thursday 8th May 2008
In the face of potential disaster it is both a relief and pleasure to report that the first two batches of three million doses of bluetongue vaccine were delivered last week.
12:16pm Thursday 1st May 2008
IN Ryedale we may be waiting for a little warmth to swell the grain, but in this day and age even the UK crop as a whole has little effect on market prices.
Updated 10:24pm Thursday 3rd July 2008
A man in his early 20s is fighting for life after being stabbed.
It was that time of year again – time to jump on the Glastonbury Express to West Country-style fantasticalness.
A fashion designer from Norton has reached the final six in this year’s Yorkshire Fashion Idol competition.
DOTTED around our coastal villages you will frequently find reference to a rocket field. The field was used by the local volunteer coastguards to practice their skills of firing a rocket at a wreck post, or rocket post.
Naturalists I have know fall into two categories: those encountered in books, newspapers and magazines, and others who were and still are in some cases, presenters on television.
THESE eyecatching images are the work of talented members of Kirkbymoorside Camera Club who have recently held their Best of the Year competition.
Malton District Riding Club were astonished to receive a letter of congratulations from the British Riding Club’s headquarters at Stoneleigh.
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