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  • WAY WE WERE: Forest work memories

    THIS week’s Way We Were has been sent to us by Mike Potter after he saw our recent feature on the 100th anniversary of the Forestry Commission. The photographs were taken in Cropton Forest in 2011 and show the construction of the woody debris dams

  • COLUMN: A magical moment with the peregrines

    THIS autumn a birdwatching friend sent me photographs of a young peregrine falcon spotted at Spurn Point. The bird’s identification ring confirmed it had hatched from a nest at Salt End Chemical Park in Hull and was a falcon I had watched from the

  • LETTERS: ‘I cannot praise care of nurses more highly’

    IN these days when the NHS is always in the news, very often for the wrong reasons, I would like to sing the praises of one of our NHS services. My husband and I look after our 96-year-old aunt in our own home. Recently she became ill and more frail

  • Art returns to the Rotunda

    FOLLOWING a short summer break, the popular Rotunda Nights at Scarborough’s unique circular museum start again in October. Poets, spoken word artists and musicians will perform in the spectacular setting of the Rotunda museum in the fourth of the

  • Dance back to the forties

    WARTIME Weekend is coming to the Milton Rooms in Malton with two evenings of vintage music and dance. The fun begins with a 1940s Dance Evening courtesy of York Vintage Dance Group on Friday, October 11, from 7pm to 11.30pm. Music comes from

  • COLUMN: Making a fast moo-ve out of a field

    SETTLING down contentedly in my car seat with my latest library book, I watched John disappear over the horizon with his fishing rod and assorted good luck charms to try and catch a sea trout, or even two, off the coastline. Out of the corner of