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  • Large amount of lead stolen from village church

    Police are investigating the theft of a large amount of lead from a village church. Some time between Saturday, 5 and Monday, October 7, the north side of the roof of the St Hilda's Church in Sherburn was stripped of lead. The damage also resulted

  • Three-vehicle crash and fuel spillage on A170

    A ROAD was closed for two hours after a crash and fuel spillage. A spokeswoman for North Yorkshire Police said the collision, on the A170 in Thornton-le-Dale, on Sunday morning involved three vehicles. She added that the force was not aware of any

  • Straw bale fire believed to be deliberate

    MALTON fire crews attended around 300 straw bales on fire in a field near Duggleby at 10.22pm on Friday. Crews monitored the fire for a period of time and liaised with police, local farm and gamekeeper. Crews left the fire to burn out in the

  • COLUMN: Skipping a generation

    ORLANDO BRIDGEMAN, director at Crombie Wilkinson, in Malton, looks at the issues surrounding trusts for landowning farmers AS A landowning farmer, what should you do if your adult children do not want to farm, but you want to keep the opportunity

  • Crafters bid farewell to sea-bound teddy bears

    CRAFTERS have waved farewell to their hand-made teddy bears as they set sail on an adventure on the high seas. The Craft and Chatter group organised a teddy bears’ picnic at the Milton Rooms in Malton to send the knitted toys on their way. The

  • Success for the Pop-Up of the North

    THE autumn Pop-Up of the North, hosted at York House in Malton, was a huge success with more than 15 high-end creative businesses attending. The pop-up event, which ran from September 26 to 28, included a variety of workshops such as a coloured-clay