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Huge mid-season sheep sale

4:11pm Friday 3rd September 2010

IT is the first season I can remember when the price of fat lambs and cull ewes has remained pretty steady without any dramatic fall since spring.

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Chinese lanterns threat to farming

4:47pm Wednesday 18th August 2010

I HAVE happy memories of a family holiday in Thailand and going down to the beach one night to witness hundreds of Chinese lanterns being lit and gently floating over the sea into the night sky.

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Grain trade riding on a rollercoaster

2:34pm Wednesday 11th August 2010

LAST week I almost sympathised with the grain traders, but the past seven days have been even more of a rollercoaster.

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Is this what we fought for?

3:51pm Wednesday 4th August 2010

IT seems a long time since King John was forced to sign the Magna Carta in 1215, and this finally broke the stranglehold of the absolute monarchy creating a platform for our British constitution for which many have fought over the centuries.

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Ryedale District Council should listen to the people’s voice over Wentworth Street car park

4:50pm Wednesday 28th July 2010

ON Monday evening, yet another public meeting attended by more than 40 people from Malton, Norton and elsewhere in Ryedale came out against the district council's proposal to sell off Wentworth Street as a car park.

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A lively Malton market meeting

4:37pm Wednesday 21st July 2010

AT a difficult time of year, the cattle ring at Malton market was filled on Monday night with about 60 people representing farmers and the wider community, all of whom had strong feelings about the future of the market and the potential impact of the district council’s proposal to sell off Wentworth Street car park as a supermarket.

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High hopes for harvest prices

3:31pm Wednesday 7th July 2010

IT’S a strange world when an ill- wind does some good, and chatting to my old friend Derek Padgett, of Argrain, he feels that a lot of investors are disillusioned with the stock market prospects and are looking to buy into commodities such as grain futures as a safer bet.

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Democracy on trial over Wentworth Street

12:12pm Thursday 1st July 2010

CONVALESCING from a recent hip operation, I have been an enforced bystander in the extraordinary saga over Wentworth Street car park. What I am about to say will no doubt offend the high and mighty, but in a way I believe democracy is on trial in Ryedale over this issue.

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Malton car park loss could harm cattle market

2:47pm Wednesday 23rd June 2010

TOMORROW (Thursday) could see Wentworth Street car park on its way to being redeveloped in to another supermarket. The Policy and Resources Committee of Ryedale District Council is being asked to approve an officers recommendation to offer the site for redevelopment.

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