A PUPIL at a school in Ryedale has qualified for the national working hunter pony championships at Hickstead this summer. Year 8 Terrington Hall pupil Alex Cordingley, 13, has qualified for the competition in West Sussex on July 24 where she will
THE RENOWNED Albion Quartet returns to North Yorkshire this month for a midsummer concert as part of the North York Moors Chamber Music Festival fringe series. The string quartet, comprising Tamsin Waley-Cohen, Emma Parker, Ann Beilby and Nathaniel
FORTY years ago this week, my dad was marking the 150th anniversary of this country’s professional police force in his column of June 16, 1979. Over the months following the article, a number of events were planned nationally to mark the occasion,
I GOT a lovely surprise when I went into the Physic Garden the other day. Iris germanica, otherwise known as Orris Root in physic was flowering. Now that may not sound very exciting or unusual. It is the time for iris to flower after all, but what
MORE than 100 photographs are going on display in Helmsley this week, showcasing the work of Kirkbymoorside and District Camera Club. Doors opened on its annual exhibition yesterday (Friday) at the Old Library Room in Helmsley Town Hall. It
THE rotation of our planet on its axis gives us the bizarre phenomenon of daytime and night-time and two separate communities of animals that are generally active in one or the other. We humans fall into the diurnal camp, that is animals active
