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PICTURES: Arboretum puts on its autumn spectacular

6:00am Wednesday 9th October 2019

A SPECTACULAR display of autumn colours is now on offer at the Yorkshire Arboretum.

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PICTURES: The diversity of Yorkshire

6:00am Saturday 5th October 2019

THIS month’s feature by Malton Camera Club celebrates the diversity of Yorkshire with views of some well-known landmarks. Keith Goodchild’s shot of the abbey at Whitby and Mandy Barber’s of Castle Howard from the south lake are both iconic.

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Branching into the life of trees

6:00am Wednesday 25th September 2019

THE secret life of trees is explored in a new exhibition at the Yorkshire Arboretum. Lesley Seeger is displaying her work based on her year as artist-in-residence.

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Discovering the Rolls Royce of the horse world

6:00am Saturday 14th September 2019

FEW people today have heard of the Yorkshire Coach Horse, yet in the 1880s foreign leaders, colonial settlers, the English royal family, American millionaires and someone as unlikely as Buffalo Bill sought the prestige of owning one.

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And the winners are...

6:00am Saturday 7th September 2019

FOR this month’s feature, Kirkbymoorside Camera Club is showcasing the talents of some of its recent award-winners.

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Wagons ho! The North Yorkshire town renowned for its smugglers...

6:00am Saturday 31st August 2019

A NEW book delving into North Yorkshire’s history has been published, and Ryedale features strongly on its pages.

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Project to help bring plants back from the brink

6:00am Saturday 24th August 2019

RYEDALE Folk Museum is involved in an ambitious conservation project to help save endangered plants. The National Lottery-funded Back from the Brink project aims to save 20 species from extinction and benefit over 200 more through 19 projects that span England from the tip of Cornwall to Northumberland.

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These orphaned hedgehogs need your help

6:00am Saturday 17th August 2019

A RESCUE centre set up to help support hedgehogs in the area is expanding after an influx of orphaned animals.

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PICTURES: Six super shots of beautiful Yorkshire

6:00am Saturday 10th August 2019

FOR this month’s feature, Malton Camera Club is celebrating the glorious weather and scenery within the boundaries of Yorkshire with this selection of six fantastic shoots.

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New book remembers 100 years of Thornton-le-Dale Show

6:00am Saturday 3rd August 2019

A SOUVENIR book has been created to mark the 100th anniversary of Thornton-le-Dale Show. The 2019 Centenary Souvenir Edition has been launched in time to celebrate the centenary show on Wednesday, August 7.

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Exhibition draws on the wilder side of art

6:00am Wednesday 24th July 2019

A UNIQUE vision of the world’s creatures is on display at the Yorkshire Arboretum. The arboretum is hosting an exhibition by Scarborough-based artist Ryan Chadwick until Friday, August 2.

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Friends link up their talents to open a new shop in Malton

6:00am Saturday 13th July 2019

TWO designers who met while at school have opened their first shop together. Jeweller Emma Gale went on to study for a BA (Hons) in jewellery at Edinburgh College of Art, while Sallie Temple completed her BA (Hons) in fashion at Leicester Polytechnic, later discovering her love for weaving.

PICTURES: 7 super shots from Kirkbymoorside Camera Club

6:00am Saturday 6th July 2019

FLOWERS are the focus of this month’s feature by Kirkbymoorside and District Camera Club.

Focus on photographic club at annual exhibition

6:00am Saturday 15th June 2019

MORE than 100 photographs are going on display in Helmsley this week, showcasing the work of Kirkbymoorside and District Camera Club.

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PICTURES: North Yorkshire life captured on camera

6:00am Saturday 8th June 2019

FOR this week’s centrespread, we are highlighting the photographic skills of some of our readers. They have been out and about capturing the sights and sounds of our beautiful surroundings.

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Columnists

COLUMN: Foraging for ‘penny buns’ in the woods

6:00am Sunday 13th October 2019

FOR my tea one day last week I made myself a plateful of delicious penny buns but, despite the misleading name, no baking of cut-price bread products was involved. What I ate, in fact, were some of my favourite wild mushrooms, fried in butter with a hint of fresh garlic and mixed herbs.

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COLUMN: Vegetarians rule OK here

6:00am Sunday 13th October 2019

OUR 15 broiler chickens are getting perilously close to, not their sell by date, but an expiry deadline.

COLUMN: Keeping Robin at bay

6:00am Saturday 12th October 2019

ONE of the prettiest of our North Yorkshire coastal villages has to be Robin Hood’s Bay, with its jumble of houses perched right on the sea cliffs. From above, the higgledy-piggledy collection of red rooves offers a clue to the hidden maze of narrow cobbled streets which were a haven for smugglers of days gone by.

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COLUMN: Time is moving on in the garden

6:00am Saturday 12th October 2019

IN the days of my extreme youth when people would say “ooh hasn’t the year gone by quickly”, I was filled with scepticism and disbelief that these older people really knew what they were talking about. How could the year go by faster? All days and months are the same length every year?