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Review: Geordie Sinatra, Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough

11:01am Saturday 26th May 2012

SCARBOROUGH put north-eastern playwright Fiona Evans on the map with her Edinburgh Fringe First-winning play in 2009.

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Actor Hugh Dennis opens attraction at Sutton Bank National Park Centre

9:32am Saturday 26th May 2012

TELEVISION actor Hugh Dennis took a trip to North Yorkshire to open a new visitor attraction at Sutton Bank National Park Centre, near Thirsk.

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Review: Annie by Pickering Musical Society

11:50am Wednesday 23rd May 2012

PICKERING Musical Society’s production of Annie was a credit to director Luke Arnold.

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Family festival will be ‘monster treat’

10:10am Wednesday 23rd May 2012

A ‘MONSTER’OUSLY entertaining family festival takes place for the third time near Thirsk this summer.

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Ryedale Festival 2012 programme launched

10:14am Wednesday 23rd May 2012

THE Ryedale Festival has launched its programme for 2012 at a concert held at St Peter’s Church in Norton where a large audience enjoyed a performance by the world-renowned Nash Ensemble.

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East Coast Artists, Back o ’the Shop Gallery, Terrington, June 2 to August 25

10:00am Wednesday 23rd May 2012

THE varied landscapes and ideas inspired by the east coast of Yorkshire is the focus of the latest exhibition at the Back o ’the Shop Gallery in Terrington.

Anais Mitchell and The Young Man, The Band Room, Farndale, June 1

10:00am Wednesday 23rd May 2012

ANAIS Mitchell and The Young Man Band perform at The Band Room in Farndale on Friday, June 1.

Ash to be star act at Galtres Festival

9:50am Wednesday 23rd May 2012

ASH, dubbed ‘the ultimate singles band’, have been announced as Saturday’s headline act at The Galtres Festival near Crayke, which takes place from August 24 to 26.

Country walk at the Hole of Horcum

The Bittern slides into view, pulling wooden carriages

12:32pm Saturday 19th May 2012

GEORGE WILKINSON becomes a trainspotter for the day on the North York Moors.

Lealholm cycle ride

The road through Stonegate that leads across the moors to Lealholm

2:56pm Wednesday 16th May 2012

THE humble gooseberry bush will give you heavy crops of fruit which can be used in many different ways.

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Hosta la vista

11:33am Saturday 26th May 2012

Hostas come in all shades from yellow to grey-green and their foliage is prized in the garden, writes GINA PARKINSON.

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A new book celebrates 200 years of Manor School

An early class photograph, dated between 1901-1905

10:42am Saturday 19th May 2012

TWO hundred years ago, in the spring of 1812, Britain was at war with Napoleon. George III was King, Charles Dickens had just been born and the Luddites – a social movement protesting against ‘new’ technology, such as automated looms, which were putting manual labourers out of work – were rampaging across wool and cotton mills in the north of England.