Picture gallery of photographs taken by The Gazette & Herald photographers, featuring news stories and notable images that have made the news in 2012.

2012 in pictures
  • The Middleton Hunt leaves Malton Market Place on its way around the town
  • Atrocious weather conditions did not deter these surfers as they enjoyed the high waves on the Noth Bay at Scarborough
  • Norton Primary School celebrates Children In Need with Pudsey Bear and Scooby Doo.
  • The Saltersgate Farmers’ Hunt meet in Lockton at the statrt of the new season.
  • Remembrance Day at All Saints Church, Kirkbymoorside.
  • Horseriders enjoyed a walk along the South Bay at Scarborough last weekend. Day trippers enjoyed the unusual spectacle, a contrast to the traditional donkey rides.
  • Heavy seas threaten to drench this amateur photographer, as he tries to capture an image on the North Bay at Scarborough.
  • Youngsters dress in Hallowe'en costumes at Nunnington Hall
  • Father Wulstan Peterburs, procurator of Ampleforth Abbey with the Ampleforth Abbey Beer which won Best Drink at the Deliciouslyorkshire Awards.
  • Festival organiser Sarah Tyson and storyteller Ian Douglas celebrate the first Ryedale Book Festival outside the Milton Rooms in Malton.
  • At Goathland during Pickering Wartime Weekend
  • Pickering Wartime Weekend
  • Lubelle rose blows a kiss among the crowds at Pickering Wartime Weekend
  • Chris Wadsworth with his Percheron horse moving logs at Castle Howard Arboretum Trust's Wild About Wood festival.
  • Runners set off from Eden Camp in the annual Ryedale 10-mile run which raises money for Malton Hospital.
  • Di Keal, a founder member of Malton's Castle Gardens management committee who have received a Green Flag Award for the second year running.
  • Visitors to Brian Ellison's stables at Malton Stables Open Day.
  • Andy Fawbert enjoys success after winning two categories in the Swaledale sheep class at Farndale Show.
  • The Marie Curie Cancer Care charity Walk at Castle Howard
  • Pickering Traction Engine Rally
  • Monika Walkowiak, who organised the flat cap throwing during the Helmsley in Business Yorkshire Day event in the town's Market Place
  • A Malton Primary School pupil astounds Mike Barfield, left, and Andy Seed of the Oh-Lympics! show when they performed at the school
  • Thousands of residents turn out to see Olympic athlete Tom Ramsley carry the torch along Eastgate, Pickering.
  • Firefights tackle flooding in Flaxton.
  • Norton-based mods from the sixties enjoy Pickering's 60s Festival, from the left, Mick Gibson, Brian England and John Ellis.
  • Fancy dress entrants in the Kirkbymoorside Jubilee parade on Sunday.
  • Steve Brailsford adds a splash of colour to Malton and Norton jubilee party.
  • Malton town crier David Jackson tucks into a pork pie from the Brandsby Pies stall at Malton Food Lovers Festival.
  • May Day is celebrated in Slingsby, near Malton.
  • Preparing for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee in Malton are, from the left, Di Keal, Jane Reid, Sophie Legard, Andrew Walker and Emily Keal
  • Getting ready for the grand reopening of the Talbot Hotel are, from left, Tom Naylor-Leyland of the Fitzwilliam Estate, his wife Alice, TV chef James Martin and general manager Rob Wormall.
  • Coun Joan Lovejoy, mayor of Pickering, makes some final checks on the town's flowerbeds before the visit of the Britain In Bloom judges.
  • Runners set off in the annual Helmsley 10k race.
  • Volunteer gardener Sian Smith potting auriculas in the greenhouse at Helmsley Walled Garden.
  • Jamie Lovering sells umbrellas on south bay at Scarborough during the wet Bank Holiday weekend.
  • Ryedale writer Jane Lovering celebrates winning the Romantic Comedy Novel of the Year award.
  • Inspector Andy Everitt, the new head of Ryedale police, says goodbye to his predecessor Tim Hutchinson, who is retiring after 30 years in the police.
  • Volunteers Ann Clark,left, and Pat Balshaw dismantle one of the exhibits as Malton Museum prepares to move out of the building.
  • The Loggie family from Farndale who have grown up with the daffodils on their door-step.
  • Selina Scott, centre, with supporters of the livestock market development before last Thursday’s meetingat the Milton Rooms in Malton.
  • Five-year-old Sarah Frank who wrote a letter to the Duchess of Cambridge and received a reply.
  • Four Kirkbmoorside residents will receive Maundy money from the Queen during her visit to York. From the left, Eliza Treasure, Brian Wood, Ray Shore and Geoff Booth at All Saints’ Church, Kirkbymoorside
  • Volunteer co-ordinator Jan Hoyland with one of the stunning rhododendrons at Ray Wood, Castle Howard, which is undergoing a restorations.
  • Olympic gold medal winner Rebecca Adlington and Emmerdale soap star Mathew Bose, launching the new headquarters of the Encephalitis Society, in Malton.
  • A vivid rainbow appears over Pickering Church.
  • Pickering Infants School pupils dress as pirates to celebrate World Book Day.
  • David Lloyd-Williams flys the flag at half mast at Malton Museum as it closes its doors for the last time.
  • Early daffodils at Castle Howard.
  • 20-year-old Charmaine Jennison-Smith celebrates her fifth proper birthday today, February 29.
  • Tom Naylor Leyland and Sophie Legard at the Milton Rooms, Malton, ahead of Saturday’s first indoor Food Producers’ Market.
  • Celebrity chef James Martin heads back to his roots for Malton's Talbot Hotel project.
  • Kevin Simms, director of Ryedale Folk Museum, at High Barn, which is being prepared to house the Harrison Collection.
  • Gordon Clitheroe, of Beck Isle Museum, in Pickering, with a kudu horn like the one used by Baden Powell, one of the exhibits at the museum's history of scouting event.
  • Annette Magee practises for the annual Pancake Party at St Mary's Priory Church in Malton.
  • The first snowdrops of the year at Stonegrave Minster.
  • Boats lie idle in the harbour at Scarborough.
  • A cast of 91 took part in Norton College's production of Grease. Pictured are Adam Hymas as Danny and Gina Devine as Sandy.
  • Peacocks in the snow.
  • All Saints' Church, Brompton-by-Sawdon.
  • Castle Howard in the snow.
  • Brian Oxberry, Gayther Gault, Richard 'Badger' Billinge, Jane Hollington and Gary Cooper are pictured at the Milton Rooms, Malton, preparing to celebrate 200 years since the birth of Charles Dickens.
  • The Sun Inn in Pickering celebrates being named CAMRA Rural Pub of the Year. From left are managers Rob and Sharon Allanson and owners Martin and Penny Robertson.
  • Steve Popham, left, Swinton Band deputy band master with his tuba, and Tom Naylor-Leyland of the Fitzwilliam Estate with the band’s new baby arrival.
  • Chris Cassells, from Kirby Grindalythe, who will be performing his magic show, From Houdini To Potter, at the Edinburgh Fringe later this year.
  • Sand sculptures depicting fallen soldiers have been created by a group of artists on Filey beach.
  • Walkers are captured in the winter sunshine on the Victorian Spa Bridge in Scarborough.
  • A rare white hart poses in front of The Church of St Mary the Virgin in ebberston, near Pickering.
  • The village of Oswaldkirk has seen its conservation status updated to preserve its historical features.
  • The Derwent Hunt arrives at Thornton-le-Dale on New Year's Day.

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