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  • Honk! flies the nest

    MUSICAL HONK! is flying the nest and coming to Scarborough’s Stephen Joseph Theatre (SJT) after a critically-acclaimed, award-nominated run in London. Described as ‘flawless’, ‘relentlessly excellent’ and ‘an absolute joy to watch’, this musical

  • COLUMN: Purple patch for woodland dweller

    ORCHIDS are an extremely diverse and successful family of plants. Incredibly there are 28,000 different species worldwide with the vast majority inhabiting the hot rainforests of Asia, Africa and South America. Despite their association with all

  • LETTERS: Time to curb this selfish behaviour

    ANTI-social behaviour has been in the news recently which has encouraged me to bring a perennial problem to your readers’ attention. Come a sunny day with clear skies, more likely at weekends and Bank Holidays, the inhabitants and visitors to the

  • WAY WE WERE: Thornton-le-Dale

    THIS week’s Way We Were photographs were supplied by Thornton-le-Dale History Society. They show various aspects of the village, including Lady Lumley’s Almshouses, Maltongate, the New Inn, The Buck and the market cross and stocks in the early 1900s

  • COLUMN: On form at the races

    AN abiding memory of my father is the boxes of papers, racing form, which accompanied us on our postings abroad when my father was in the army. Racing form is the record of a horse’s performance in previous races and was used by my father to hopefully

  • Rosie rides to first success

    THE latest meeting in the Yorkshire point-to-point calendar was held by Pendle Forest at Heslaker on Saturday and it was a good turn out for runners; the meeting had been well watered and had resulted in good ground. The highlight of the day was