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  • COLUMN: Keeping the fires burning

    January is possibly my least favourite month of the year. It’s at this time that I experience a slump in my mood because all the festivities of Christmas and New Year are over, the decorations have come down, and the weather outside is mostly dark

  • York Theatre Royal to take audiences around the world in 2020

    YORK Theatre Royal will take audiences around the world in 2020 – from South London to South Africa, with stopovers in a 1960s Yorkshire mining community, a Northern pub, a sleepy Suffolk village and 1940s Germany. Award-winning South African company

  • Yorkshire Shepherdess Amanda Owen talk in Scarborough

    THE YORKSHIRE Shepherdess will be appearing at Scarborough Spa in March. Tickets have been flying out in recent weeks since Amanda Owen and her family returned to our screens in Channel 5’s Our Yorkshire Farm. In Adventures of the Yorkshire

  • What's making the headlines in your neighbourhood?

    HERE is all your latest Vale and Dale news. Find out what is happening in your neighbourhood, check out when your parish council meets or simply plan ahead with details of events taking place round the corner. APPLETON-LE-MOORS Village hall -

  • COLUMN: Finding a bright spot on the long winter days

    AT the end of last year, I was at an RHS gardeners’ networking day down at Hyde Hall, their garden in Essex. They built a winter garden about four years ago and so it was a chance to see how it had developed and learn from the people who designed and

  • Rare map on public display

    A RARE and particularly well-preserved map created by the ‘father of English geology’ William Smith can be seen at Scarborough Art Gallery. The map, which has been generously loaned to Scarborough Museums Trust by its owner, Jonathan Larwood.