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Ryedale’s only symphony orchestra

The Friday Rehearsal Orchestra during its weekly get-together in Kirkbymoorside

4:30pm Friday 19th March 2010

THE rural market town of Kirkbymoorside is the last place you might expect to find a symphony orchestra.

Life in the country still has its appeal

Ryedale School pupils (from left) Isobel Zarb, Joe Sails, Lucy Waines, Jolley Gosnold, Verity Johnson and Jack Hugill.

9:42am Friday 19th March 2010

Young people are deserting the countryside, warns a Government adviser. But the rural life still has a lot going for it, a group of Ryedale teenagers tell STEPHEN LEWIS.

Malton tunes up for a folk festival revival

Natalya Wilson, her brother, Karl, dad Tom, and family friend John Wilson at Malton Folk Festival in 1978

11:06am Thursday 18th March 2010

Gazette & Herald feature writer NATALYA WILSON revisits memories of Malton Folk Festival of yesteryear, ahead of the festival’s revival this weekend after nearly a quarter of a century’s hiatus.

Where have all the daffodils gone?

Daffodils in the spring sunshine last year at Sinnington

9:24am Thursday 18th March 2010

WE usually have to wait no longer than late February or early March for the arrival of the flower that traditionally heralds the start of spring.

Spring clean your wardrobe with the help of a dress agency

Lorraine Turnbull at the Frock Exchange in Saville Street, Malton

9:56am Tuesday 16th March 2010

They say there is no such thing as a free lunch but what about a free wardrobe? MAXINE GORDON reports on how to dress for spring without going broke.

Meet Castle Howard head gardener John Foxton

John Foxton  with a lovely tray of spring blooms in the splendid Castle Howard setting.

11:43am Friday 12th March 2010

NATALYA WILSON chats to Castle Howard head gardener John Foxton about his life-long passion and dream job.

Conscience versus duty in the British armed forces

Lance Corporal Joe Glenton at a ‘Stop the War’ demonstration march in London last October.

9:08am Friday 5th March 2010

Lance Corporal Joe Glenton, from York, was due to be sentenced at Colchester Military Court today for going absent without leave. STEPHEN LEWIS reports on the tension between duty and conscience for soldiers who no longer believe in what they are being asked to do.






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