STALLHOLDERS have been reassured that no major changes will be made when their market comes under new ownership next month. The Fitzwilliam Estate, which will take over responsibility for Malton’s Saturday market on May 16, says it is not planning to
TWO giants of the cut-price supermarket world are going head-to-head in their fight to open up shop in Norton. Lidl, which has previously had an application to build a store in Pickering turned down by Ryedale District Council, wants to build
AN advice service is set to receive a lifeline funding boost. North Yorkshire County Council has revealed that it will be providing an extra £150,000 of funding, to be split between the eight Citizens Advice Bureaux in the county. The county council
VILLAGERS who risk their lives each time they want to catch a bus have high hopes that they have won the first of two battles to get a better deal. The residents of Crambeck, alongside the A64, have become so exasperated that they have put up a makeshift
ONE of Malton’s last remaining links with the use of the River Derwent as a trading route is set to be restored in a £150,000 project. Work has begun at Owston’s warehouse, a vacant 18th century building where goods brought into the town by barge along
SOME time ago, I was chatting to an author who lived in the Home Counties and I happened to mention the links between Charles Dickens and the north-east of England. She then surprised me by saying she knew of no such links so I told her about his
AS a member of the Women’s and Gender Equality Committee in the European Parliament and contributor to women’s group activities in the region, I am horrified at the proposal to allow prisoners to vote. I see it as a direct insult to women who worked
THE UK's most prestigious farm conservation competition – the Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group (FWAG) Silver Lapwing Awards – are open for entries. The awards are aimed at farmers and landowners who demonstrate outstanding commitment to conservation
Growers are being urged to make sure they are not missing out on the chance to save thousands of pounds through the Climate Change Levy (CCL) agreement negotiated by the NFU. Growers now registered to get CCL discount are saving an average of £14,000
The star of A Lamb’s Tale – the video diary of a Wensleydale lamb destined for the show ring at the 2009 Great Yorkshire Show – now has a name. The female lamb, owned by Mark Elliott of Providence Farm, Ferrensby, has been named Atlas Mabel following
BENINGBROUGH Hall, once a modest Elizabethan manor house built around 1556, was rebuilt by John Bourchier in 1716. Local craftsman William Thornton left his mark on the building, some of which is in the Italian style. After being in the Bourchiers
North Ryedale Riding Club’s junior novice team had cause to celebrate on Sunday after winning the British Riding Club’s Area 4 Show Cross, at Epworth Equestrian near Doncaster. North Ryedale’s team comprised Jack Teal and Trigger Happy, Hannah Milner
PONY racing came to Ryedale for the first time at the Middleton Hunt point-to-point on April 5. The 138cm race, run over five furlongs, had to be split into two divisions due to a high number of entries. The first division was won in fine style by
I AM sorry to see no mention of industry in your listing of the key features of the new Blueprint for Ryedale. I don’t know whether this reflects a lack of interest in industry at your newspaper or in the minds of the writers of the plan, but
I HEARD something the other day so infuriating that it made me want chop off my Chinese-burned wrists and send them into a science lab as evidence to dispute their latest findings. Because a new study has claimed that people are more likely
TIFFANY Robson and Jane Morley were on double-winning form on Sunday at Manor Farm, Thornthorpe’s unaffiliated show jumping competition. Lois Teal and Totti got the day off to a great start with a victory in the junior novice, before Tiffany Robson and
Whatever it was that caused the startling volte face of the RSPB regarding wind farms we may never know. But, I must ask Mr Gregory (letters, April 8) to define “…perfectly reasonable wind power proposals”. All those machines, 3,330mw of them, feed into
FIFTY-nine riders took part in the 14th annual Four Forfeits Fun Frolic on Saturday, April 4, a ride through the scenic Saltersgate Farmers’ Hunt country that is interspersed with fun challenges along the way. The day started out misty,
In answer to the comments from Gareth Lewis in last week’s Gazette & Herald, I would like to make it quite clear that I did not, as he alleged, “take great care to avoid certain of the points” he had raised. I was merely correcting the rubbish he wrote
THIS may be the last time I write to you as our forthcoming April meeting is a make-or-break attempt to keep the Scarborough branch of the Civil Service Pensioners’ Alliance (CSPA) as a viable option. The meeting is to be held at 11am on Monday, April
Right now we’re facing three crises: the recession, climate change and ‘peak’ resources. All need urgent action and only the Green Party offers policies that are high in jobs and low in consumption, to tackle all three in one go. For example, it’s
Has British society gone stark raving mad? Those rampant Islamic fundamentalists who consider our brave soldiers fighting in Afghanistan to be little more than sub-human scum should be deported without delay. Every odious pedlar of vile filth against
Last week’s farming press was full of news that DEFRA had surplus stock of Blue Tongue vaccine – by some estimates around nine million doses; and with a July expiry date these must be taken up or thrown away at a cost in excess of £3 million. When
The CLA, the rural economy experts, has published its second set of results from its Rural Economy Indicator (CLA REI). The results show that confidence in the rural economy is significantly more buoyant than that of the general economy. The CLA REI
WITH reference to the letter from Mrs S Christmas (Great shame about Britain’s sad decline), I wonder whether your adjacent headline (When stupidity leads to devastation) was linked. There is a small paperback book (150 pages) by Vernon Coleman, called
OUR Home Secretary believes that we must have a society that accepts ‘common values’. Anyone who doesn’t accept these ‘common values’ is an extremist and therefore a threat and a potential terrorist. There has been no published list of “common values
