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  • Woman brought to safety after A64 closure

    Police were called to a report of a woman in distress on a bridge over the A64 near Malton at about 3.45pm today (Sunday). A spokesperson said: "North Yorkshire Police officers attended alongside North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service personnel

  • Black Dyke Band at Spa

    BLACK Dyke Band are rounding the summer off in style with a performance at Scarborough Spa on Saturday, August 31 at 7.30pm. Black Dyke were the first Brass Band to perform on the pyramid stage at Glastonbury in 2017, where Ed Balls in his review

  • Project to mark 75th anniversary of VE Day unveiled

    A PROJECT to create a video archive of the stories of North Yorkshire people during the Second World War has been unveiled. Next year will mark the 75th anniversary of the end of the war and North Yorkshire County Council (NYCC) has announced plan

  • LETTERS: Enterprise zones are not 'pie in the sky'

    THE Gazette & Herald headline “All systems go for new Ryedale Business park” coincides with a planning application for a petrol station – clearly neither a business park nor a Food Enterprise Zone. The Food Enterprise Zones (FEZ) are part of national

  • COLUMN: Establishing a pecking order at the farm

    GHOSTLY tappings on the bedroom window at night can’t be branches on trees close to the house as John has cut them all back. No. It is more likely to be one of the many tomato plants I have sown in the greenhouse and which are now struggling to contain

  • COLUMN: Near tragedy turns into a trio triumph

    IN the valley below my gallery three tawny owl chicks make their way through a line of sycamore trees, flitting from branch to branch. They are heading towards my garden bird table, where the adult tawny owls tear up portions of food to feed to them