A Helmsley fashion retailer is going large and launching a new outlet aimed specifically at the larger ladies among us. CLAIRE METCALFE went along to find out more. MADRID may have banished size zero models from its catwalks, but a fashion house in
IT is often said that a person's eyes are a window to the soul. Pupils dilate when we are in love or feel frightened but according to some natural health practitioners they can also give away medical conditions lurking within the human body. Iridology
TORY abstentions and criticism, if continued, would undoubtedly give England Socialism in 1960, said Mr R H Turton, MP for Thirsk and Malton, speaking at the Assembly Rooms, Malton, on Friday. Mr Turton said that the series of bad bielection results
SARAH HYDE and family headed to Pickering for pizza and pasta. WHAT do you do on the last day of half-term when it is cold and damp and the prospect of packing lunchboxes, ironing school uniforms and a return to fraught mornings is casting a pall over
WE are at the dawn of a new age for Ryedale music as we have finally seen one of the young bands take that step out of the crowd up into the big world of the professional music industry. One Night Only is that band and those of you who have been following
FINALISTS in this year's tourism Oscars have been announced - and North Yorkshire features prominently. Four local tourism operators have made the final shortlist for the prestigious national Enjoy England Awards for Excellence 2007, England's tourism
A CENTURIES-old tradition is being brought back into the modern age. Jackie Farnell has set up Hope and Dowry, named after the chests which girls of the 18th and 19th centuries would receive to keep table and bed linen in to take with them into their
A BID to keep alive the ancient tradition of thatching is being made by one of the small handful of thatchers in North Yorkshire. Christopher Smart, of Sheriff Hutton, says housebuilders should consider thatching some new homes rather than using tiles
DALTON Park attracted the largest crowd of the season so far as The Holderness Hunt hosted its annual point-to-point. The excitement in the crowd grew throughout the day following a number of close finishes and unlike the previous week's rain, the
RIDERS in Yorkshire will get the opportunity to see one of the world's leading riding coaches in action when Mary Wanless visits BishopBurtonCollege in March. Mary, who has written five books on her 'Ride with Your Mind' technique, will be presenting
Wednesday, March 14 Wednesday Night Jumping, Willerby Hill, for schedule go to www.willerbyhillcompetitionyard.co.uk Thursday, March 15 BSJA Seniors, Port Royal, start 9.30am, clear round 80cm.10.30am prompt - Progressive/Advanced Schedule. Class
A VIST to Whitby, with the inevitable struggle up the 199 steps to the abbey (and failing to count them accurately), reminded me of an interesting epitaph outside St Mary's Church. It can be seen copied onto a marble slab near the south chancel door
GOOD grief, is it Red Nose Day again? The male leg waxing and baked bean baths come round with unfailing regularity, particularly so at university when people tend to do that sort of thing on your average quiet Tuesday in. So I'm expecting a good line
RILLINGTON Young Farmers Club held its annual ploughing match at Sherburn. The ploughing match was a success with 85 tractors competing. However, the ploughing match would not have been able to happen without the help of some of the members of Rillington
AFTER months of pressure from dairy farmers and the media, Tesco decided last week to lift the price of milk by around 2.6p per litre on the shop shelf; and the expectancy within the industry is that a large part of the rise will be passed back to the
Scarborough 40, Malton & Norton 13; We have to win on Saturday. That's the verdict of club secretary Bill Laidler after Malton and Norton were left in dire straights by this result. A win at home against Old Brodlians, who are currently four points
Old Malton St Mary's 5, Heslington 1; Following last week's 4-0 thumping of Thorpe United, Old Malton continued their impressive home record with another resounding win against struggling Heslington. With the visitors fighting for Premier League survival
CHARACTER Building, who had a choice of options at this week's Cheltenham Festival, will bid to carry the Ryedale flag to glory in the National Hunt Chase. Tackling four miles for the first time in his burgeoning career around the twists and turns
MALTON maternity unit is closed for deliveries, sparking fears that health chiefs have already shut the popular wing by the back door. On Monday evening officials gathered to discuss the future of local maternity services prompting a member of the
THE 30-year campaign to build a new sports and leisure centre cleared a hurdle last night when councillors gave initial approval for it to be built in the grounds of Malton School. And in an eleventh hour move, officials gave their backing to making
PICKERING is in line for a revolutionary environmentally-friendly street lighting scheme. A £300,000 project gets underway next month to replace 50 county council-owned lamp-posts on housing estate roads. Plans for 15-week project will go on display
RYEDALE'S tourist industry - now worth £120 million a year and supporting hundreds of jobs - is in line for a major boost. Regarded as one of the district's leading economic drivers and job providers, tourism in Ryedale is expected to benefit significantly
MOVES to use holiday cottages as much-needed homes for Ryedale workers have taken a step closer. Councillors gave their seal of approval to investigate ways to relax planning laws to allow properties to be let to people who live and work in the area
COUNCIL taxpayers will have to fork out more than £3,000 to put up 27 flower baskets in Norton. At the same time when householder's annual bill was increased by three per cent, town councillors have agreed to spend thousands of pounds on buying flower
RYEDALE'S latest tourist attraction, the visitor centre at Castle Howard's Arboretum, now has a cafe. The venture has been launched by Dorianne Butler who spent many years in the hotel and catering industry before having her own business, Rangers House
A GLIDER pilot may have been distracted by taking photographs of other gliders before he crashed in North Yorkshire, an official report has revealed. Barry Thompson, 54, of Bedford, died in hospital weeks after missing the landing site at Sutton Bank
A GRANDMOTHER was forced to deliver her daughter's baby by the roadside after discovering Malton maternity unit was closed. Carol Whitehouse came to the rescue after a call from her daughter, Gemma, who went into labour last Sunday morning. Realising
A BRIGHT new future faces Welburn Hall, the North Yorkshire County Council special school near Kirkbymoorside, after a long period of uncertainty. Taking it forward is its new headteacher, David Coram who has been the deputy head for 16 years. Mr
