Features
Features
Shedding light on our dark skies
6:00am Wednesday 13th February 2019
IT is estimated that 80 per cent of the world’s population can no longer see the Milky Way - the great band of billions of stars which cuts across the night sky. In parts of the UK, in particular urban areas, visibility of any stars is reduced to a mere handful, so washed out is the sky by humanity’s relentless illuminations.
PICTURES: Six shots from Malton Camera Club
6:00am Saturday 9th February 2019
FOR this month's feature, Malton Camera Club is showcasing the work of two of its members who it say have "a large difference in experience".
Meet the Ryedale couple bringing education to India's 'untouchables'
6:00am Saturday 2nd February 2019
THE sight of grubby-faced street urchins begging at the side of the road when they should be at school, or young teenagers working down stinking open sewers wearing nothing but loincloths, does something to you. Or at least, it did to Ian and Sue Bretherton.
‘It’s the whole gamut. Just like any human hospital’
6:00am Wednesday 23rd January 2019
THE surgical staff flutter around their anaesthetised patient. A large ventilator hisses in time with the patient’s breathing. A heart monitor beeps. The team talk matter-of-factly about different aspects of their subject’s status.
PICTURES: Pantomimes from the past
6:00am Saturday 19th January 2019
WITH the pantomime season in full swing, this week we look back at some of the previous productions which have taken to the stage over the decades.
PICTURES: Curtain up on Pickering Musical Society pantomime
6:00am Friday 11th January 2019
THE curtains go up on Pickering Musical Society’s annual pantomime today.
PICTURES: 5 wild weather photos from Kirkbymoorside Camera Club
6:00am Saturday 5th January 2019
FOR this month’s feature, Kirkbymoorside Camera Club showcases a selection of weather images taken by some of its members. The club meets on the first and third Thursdays of the month at the Moorside Bar and Club, Shaw Drive, Kirkbymoorside, at 7.30pm. New members of all standards welcome. For details, go to kirkbymoorside-camera-club.co.uk or find them on Facebook.
REVIEW OF THE YEAR: Headlines hot up in 2018
6:00am Saturday 29th December 2018
FROM heatwaves to housing, here’s part two of our review of just some of the news in Ryedale during the second half of 2018. DAVID MACKIE reports
REVIEW OF THE YEAR 2018: Remember when all this happened?
6:00am Saturday 22nd December 2018
WHAT’S been making the headlines locally in 2018? We look at some of the news that’s been happening in the district of Ryedale this year, from January to June:
Calendar celebrates town's past
6:00am Saturday 15th December 2018
KIRKBYMOORSIDE History Group has produced a 2019 calendar combining old images with artefacts.
PICTURES: Autumn colours by Malton Camera Club
6:00am Saturday 8th December 2018
THIS month’s photos have been taken by four of the members of Malton Camera Club and represent their views of the Autumn season.
New book reveals life of a storytelling spy
6:00am Saturday 1st December 2018
A FORMER car salesman has just completed his own remarkable journey of discovery into the life of the writer who created Lassie. Greg Christie’s fascination with writer Eric Knight began when he was confined to bed with a broken back 20 years ago and was given a copy of one of his books, The Flying Yorkshireman.
A wildlife haven 20 years in the making
6:00am Saturday 17th November 2018
A NEW exhibition tells the story of how a wildlife artist turned an empty and isolated farmhouse into a buzzing haven for his wild subjects.
PICTURES: 6 creative shots from Kirkbymoorside Camera Club
6:00am Saturday 10th November 2018
FOR this month's feature, Kirkbymoorside Camera Club have got creative.
"I hope people will just stumble upon it and wonder what it is"
6:00am Saturday 27th October 2018
AT first sight, glimpsed through the trees, it’s ghostly white, like an apparition. But further along the winding path, deep in Dalby forest, it comes into focus: a curious tunnel-like structure, ridged, corrugated and textured.
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Columnists
COLUMN: Discovering about the origin of the species
6:00am Sunday 17th February 2019
HERE’S a good pub quiz question, “Which country’s national flag is the only one in the world to feature a parrot?” No? It’s the Caribbean island republic of Dominica, and apologies to readers shivering in the winter climes of Ryedale at the moment because, as I write, I am sat on a beach in said tropical idyll.
COLUMN: Egg-cellent reception from refugee hens
6:00am Sunday 17th February 2019
SPRINTING upstairs to the shower room, I could not wait to wash away all the little creatures that seemed to have invaded my hair and sneaked under my jumper after mucking out the hen house. A thick layer of compacted straw and hen poo was not the “welcome to your new home” message I had wanted to extend to half a dozen hens we have rescued from a probable fate as chicken pies.
COLUMN: My funny valentine
6:00am Saturday 16th February 2019
THIS week is the celebration of St Valentine where couples across the land will exchange cards and gifts and make the effort to spend a bit of quality time with each other. Or maybe they’ll just pretend it isn’t happening.
COLUMN: The highs and lows of a decade of writing wildlife tales
6:00am Sunday 10th February 2019
THIS year I celebrate my 10th anniversary as a columnist for the Gazette & Herald. As I look back over a decade of articles about watching wildlife, it’s funny to think when I first started and was worried I wouldn’t have enough material.
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Readers' letters
LETTERS: 'Take a collective foot off consumer pedal'
6:00am Sunday 17th February 2019
WE the clergy of the churches in Helmsley, and Helmsley in Business, wish to express our deep unhappiness that the traditional Maundy Thursday market is being moved by Ryedale District Council to Good Friday.
LETTERS: Let's thank all schools for their hard work
6:00am Sunday 10th February 2019
THE Rt Hon Nick Gibb, asked MPs to write to primary schools within their constituencies, which increased the proportion of Year 6 pupils achieving Age Related Expecations (ARE) for English and Maths combined, in 2018 compared to 2017.
LETTERS: PM's deal delivers on the promises
6:00am Sunday 3rd February 2019
I READ with interest the letter from Ms Evans, from Ampleforth, who accuses me and my parliamentary colleagues who support Mrs May of overriding the views of the majority of northerners.
LETTERS: Honour your party promises on Brexit
6:00am Sunday 27th January 2019
AN open letter to MP Kevin Hollinrake. Thank Heaven the embarrassing surrender to Eurocrats was defeated last week. Unless a true exit from EU encroachment into our self-government were to occur, many in Ryedale would feel utterly betrayed.
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Fundraising Fun
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The Way We Were
WAY WE WERE: Thornton-le-Dale
6:00am Sunday 17th February 2019
AFTER last week’s faces from Thornton-le-Dale, this week we have gone for some places in the village that you might recognise from years gone by.
WAY WE WERE: Thornton-le-Dale
6:00am Sunday 10th February 2019
FOR this week’s Way We Were we are heading to Thornton-le-Dale and featuring some faces you might recognise.
WAY WE WERE: Reflections on rural life
6:00am Sunday 3rd February 2019
FOR this week’s Way We Were we have a selection of photographs from the Woodhams Stone Collection.
