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  • Body found on beach at Whitby

    A MAN's body has been found on the beach at Whitby. North Yorkshire Police were called just after 10am yesterday to reports of a body on some rocks. Work is ongoing to confirm his identity and trace his next of kin. Enquiries are ongoing

  • COLUMN: Changing face of old man’s beard

    WALKING, or should I say “squelching”, along the Norton bank of the River Derwent is a fine way of spending the first day of a new decade, and that’s exactly what I did last Wednesday. I was early enough to miss the crowds (most of whom were probably

  • COLUMN: Farmers need assurances

    For many years our farming community enjoyed the care of a pair of devoted family practitioners whose patients cherished their GPs as much as their GPs cherished them. Yesterday we were invited to share a special birthday afternoon with one of them

  • WAY WE WERE: Pickering Carnival

    FOR this week’s Way We Were we have found a folder in our archives entitled Pickering Carnival from 1989. It has dozens and dozens of great photographs of children dressed up in an array of costumes to mark the special occasion. We think you will

  • LETTERS: Was Pickering 2020 Team all a dream?

    WAS it a product of the Blair years that encouraged and financed market towns to create working parties to go forth and formulate plans for the future of their communities? It must be 17 or 18 years since the Memorial Hall hosted an exhibition