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Under starter’s orders

Krista Brown riding out on the gallops at the Easterby Stables at Bulmer

9:49am Tuesday 22nd May 2012

A family tragedy has spurred a North Yorkshire woman to get in the saddle at York races. MAXINE GORDON reports.

Yorkshire’s old shore

Runswick Bay Lifeboat being inspected in about 1910

3:41pm Monday 21st May 2012

IT is said, writes Alan Whitworth, that North Yorkshire’s coastline truly begins at Staithes and finishes just short of Flamborough Head.

Variety’s the spice of the WI

10 members and Kirsty Hopkins, tutor from Pateley Bridge, who visited Appleton-le-Moors WI in March for a two-hour feltmaking class

3:06pm Friday 11th May 2012

NATALYA WILSON finds out all about a Ryedale Women’s Institute, which is celebrating its 85th anniversary

Authors take us on a stroll through the years

Victorian children captured on camera near the Scarborough and Whitby Breweries branch in Pickering

2:56pm Friday 11th May 2012

YOU may have lived somewhere all your life, but there are always forgotten stories and hidden corners in towns and villages which can surprise even the most local of locals.

Guild helps to keep art of embroidery alive

Avril Bartlett admires some work

9:50am Wednesday 2nd May 2012

THE historic art of embroidery is thriving in Ryedale, as was proved recently when the district’s branch of the Embroiderers’ Guild held an exhibition at Farndale.

Making room for new visitors at the Talbot Hotel

Paul Wicker, food and beverage manager at the Talbot Hotel, gets ready for the opening this week

12:17pm Wednesday 18th April 2012

THE Talbot Hotel has been a key part of the landscape of Malton for centuries.

Volvo fan’s quest pays off with a classic find

Stuart Taylor with his pride and joy

9:50am Wednesday 18th April 2012

AFTER months of searching, Stuart Taylor finally ended his car quest outside a village pub in the snowswept Yorkshire Dales in early 2010.

Ryedale artist's paintings selected for House of Lords

Jim Wright painting South Westerly Storm off Arnamurchan Point, one of the works selected for the House of Lords

2:17pm Tuesday 17th April 2012

TWO paintings by an artist from Kirkbymoorside have been selected for display at Millbank House at the House of Lords.

Make do and mend all sown up

Nicola Hulme, left, and Kath Allaway, owners of The Silver Thimble

9:30am Wednesday 11th April 2012

NATALYA WILSON learns a useful new skill at a Ryedale craft workshop

Helmsley Walled Garden sows seeds of growth for the future

Helmsley Walled Garden

9:10am Wednesday 11th April 2012

DAVID JEFFELS visits a tourist attraction preparing to thrive


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Columnists

Car-free Market Place is recipe for success

Howard Keal

2:44pm Wednesday 23rd May 2012

TORRENTS of people flowing into Malton Food Lovers Festival cooked the goose of a myth that stifles the town.

Mrs Fox enjoys a hearty last supper

Dale Lowther

9:30am Wednesday 23rd May 2012

TIME for the seven remaining chicks abandoned by their mum and left to fend for themselves in the yards, to join my sadly depleted flock of bantams and hens in their hen run.

Celebrating a magnificent reign

Anne McIntosh

9:20am Wednesday 23rd May 2012

THE scene is set for this year’s jubilee activities, a week-long celebration of events stretching to every corner of Thirsk, Malton and Filey.

Biting back from a sticky situation

Des Reed

9:10am Wednesday 23rd May 2012

MALTON, May 15. Silicone. Wonderful stuff. I first came across this many years ago when car windows had to be wound up by hand and very often took some budging.

So proud of all my pals in pink

Lindsay Burr

2:38pm Wednesday 16th May 2012

“WHAT have you done today to make you feel proud?”


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Readers' letters

Council has a duty to help rural pubs survive

9:20am Wednesday 23rd May 2012

THE saga of School House Inn has come to an end and our councillors have come to the wrong decision.

Being mayor has been a privilege

9:20am Wednesday 23rd May 2012

I WOULD like, through your paper, to thank all the people of Pickering who have supported and helped me during my two years as Pickering town mayor.

‘Thank you’ from League of Friends

9:20am Wednesday 23rd May 2012

I WOULD like to thank, on behalf of the League of Friends of Malton Hospital, all who attended the coffee morning at The Yard in Malton last Wednesday morning.

Food festival gets better every year

9:20am Wednesday 23rd May 2012

I AM writing to record what a wonderful experience I found this year’s Malton Food Lovers Festival to be.


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