THE  arrival of the Tornado at the North Yorkshire Moors Railway (NYMR) this weekend has been cancelled due to the bad weather.

Services scheduled on 6, 7, 8, 10 & 11 March are expected to go ahead, and NYMR is now running additional Tornado services on Friday 9 March at 9:30am and 12:40pm to enable guests that have previously booked for this weekend to move their date so they can get those eye catching shots and board the very popular, and extremely fast, locomotive.

Chris Price, General Manager, said: "The safety of our passengers and staff is paramount and despite the tremendous efforts to ensure this event went ahead, concern over customers travelling to departure stations must come first."

NYMR is currently in the process of contacting all customers booked on to the services. If anyone has any questions they should contact Customer Services on 01751 472508. Please bear with the team, lines are extremely busy, someone will get to you as soon as possible.

A number of events are being cancelled across Ryedale as the wintry weather continues.

Malton and Norton Tidy Group has cancelled two events this weekend to tie in with Keep Britain Tidy’s Great British Spring Clean campaign.

A litter pick event was due to held in Old Malton on Saturday, followed by the main event on Sunday at St Nicholas Street car park in Norton.

Antony Croser, from the group, said: “We hope to reschedule the litter picks for the weekend of March 17 and 18."

Hovingham Village Market has also been cancelled this Saturday due to the safety of visitors and stallholders. The next market will be held on Saturday, April 7 from 10.30am.

The weekly market has also beenn cancelled this Saturday.

The Monthly Food Market on Saturday 10th March is currently scheduled to go ahead.

A number of local attractions are also currently closed including Castle Howard, Nunnington Hall and Ryedale Folk Museum.

Have you cancelled an event due to the weather? Email the details to gazette@gazetteherald.co.uk