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  • Premiere of Verdi’s Aida

    THE RUSSIAN State Opera will return to Scarborough Spa’s Grand Hall this March to premiere Aida. After previous performances of Madama Butterfly, Carmen and La Traviata, the highly acclaimed company returns on Sunday, March 1 with their brand-new

  • COLUMN: Farewell to our Landie

    PANIC is setting in. Too many invitations. Not enough days left in the month to accept them. The invites are not for me, of course. They are for John. To shoot. One is from a friend who is a gamekeeper and wants him to boost the bag on the last

  • LETTERS: A64 crossing ‘tragedy waiting to happen’

    MUCH has been made of pedestrians crossing the A64 at Crambeck. However, I believe there is a much more serious issue that involves school children from Norton College, who live at Whitwell and are being dropped off after school on the westbound

  • Housing plan for empty shops

    TWO empty shops could be transformed into a House of Multiple Occupancy (HMO) under new plans. Craig Porteous, of West Park Property Developments, has applied to Scarborough Council for a change of use for the properties at 33-35 Dean Road.

  • PICTURES: Right royal knees-up for wedding

    WE were taking a look through our archives and came across these five photographs from 1981. They show the celebrations in Ryedale to mark the Royal Wedding of Prince Charles and Princess Diana, and include streets parties in Norton and Pickering