Features

Juice project presses home recycling motto

6:00am Saturday 16th November 2019

AS the saying goes: “One person’s rubbish can be someone else’s treasure”. For a Kirkbymoorside project, unwanted fruit scattered around your garden is recycled into a homemade, pristine product.

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CAMERA CLUB: Seven pictures of nature and sport

6:00am Saturday 9th November 2019

This month, members of Kirkbymoorside Camera Club have turned their focus on sport and nature, with a set of images captured both at home and abroad.

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PICTURES: Farm life through the lens

6:00am Saturday 2nd November 2019

A PHOTOGRAPH tells a thousand stories, or for a photographer, 365 photographs tells the story of a flurrying family farm over a whole year.

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PICTURES: A year in the life of Dalby Forest

6:00am Saturday 26th October 2019

A CHANGING outdoor exhibition of photographs reflecting a year in the life of Dalby Forest is currently on display in the forest. Forest 100: a year in the life features the photographs of Scarborough-based photographer

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These knitters have a yarn to tell

6:00am Wednesday 16th October 2019

A KNITTING group has spent a staggering two years creating different creepy crawlies, slimy sea creatures and cuddly cats for a week of fundraising.

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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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Columnists

COLUMN: Big thanks to our NHS

6:00am Sunday 17th November 2019

IT is a rare event for John to accompany me to the theatre or cinema. Perhaps a James Bond film might tempt him. But a pantomime when our children were younger? Or a play that I might fancy? It’s generally a no.

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COLUMN: Weaving a web in a bid to entice ladies

6:00am Saturday 16th November 2019

I LOVE watching wildlife in winter. By that I mean that I love slouching in my favourite comfy chair with the wood burner roaring while I enjoy a good nature documentary on the telly.

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COLUMN: Wood yew believe it?

6:00am Saturday 16th November 2019

THE yew is a more common sight in English churchyards than most other species of tree and there are a number of theories as to why this is the case.

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COLUMN: Dear readers, I've got a confession to make...

6:00am Saturday 16th November 2019

DEAR readers, I have a terrible confession to make this month. I used to think dahlias were a frou-frou waste of time and effort. I know. I can see you all stern-faced, lips pressed tight in disapproval at this scandalous attitude. But fear not I have turned my back on my former louche behaviour.

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Readers' letters

LETTERS: Constantly criticising must be demoralising

6:00am Sunday 17th November 2019

I HAVE just read your article re TransPennine Express (November 6, Gazette & Herald).

LETTERS: Support council’s bid to keep us safe

6:00am Sunday 10th November 2019

I ATTENDED Helmsley Town Council meeting on Monday, October 21, to discover that the future of Helmsley fire engine was on the agenda.

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LETTERS: ‘He has the utmost respect from people’

6:00am Sunday 3rd November 2019

I WOULD like to congratulate Brian Maud on being conferred as Alderman of the Council.

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LETTERS: Village eco-home is in the wrong place

5:00am Sunday 27th October 2019

RE: Council approves plan for eco-home (Gazette & Herald, October 2). As residents of Ampleforth with more than 144 years here between us, we were initially impressed (as were - presumably - the eight councillors who approved this development) with the extent of the “environmental technologies” incorporated into this “eco-home”.