Features

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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Time moves on, the wall stands still

6:00am Saturday 1st June 2019

I’M conscious that - not to be too dramatic about it or anything - I’m about to do something with a mallet that can never be undone.

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PICTURES: Going wild about nature

6:00am Wednesday 22nd May 2019

THE spectacular British Wildlife Photography Awards exhibition has returned to Nunnington Hall.

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What's Sophia Loren doing at Brideshead? Castle Howard appeals for more photos like this...

6:00am Saturday 18th May 2019

THERE are many Castle Howards. There’s the magnificent country home designed by Sir John Vanbrugh in 1699 for the 3rd Earl of Carlisle. There’s Castle Howard the film set where, most famously, the 1981 TV series of Brideshead Revisited was made - turning the house into one of the most famous stately homes in the world.

New book reveals remarkable life of a solider

6:00am Saturday 11th May 2019

AS a boy Murray Naylor was unsure of what he wanted to do for a career but quite fancied working in railways. The reaction from his father was far from enthusiastic so after finishing school he went off to do his National Service with no particular thoughts for the future.

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PICTURES: 8 great images by Kirkbymoorside Camera Club

6:00am Saturday 4th May 2019

THIS month's feature by Kirkbymoorside Camera Club focuses on the Yorkshire Photographic Union’s annual exhibition, in which members have excelled.

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PICTURES: 10 great photos of Rosedale

6:00am Friday 26th April 2019

A FORMER army photographer is now capturing the beauty of Rosedale and surrounding Moors. These images of moorland vistas were taken by Patrick Chambers.

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New exhibition celebrates the wonders of our oaks

6:00am Wednesday 17th April 2019

AN EXHIBITION showcasing the magnificence of oak trees is on display at the Yorkshire Arboretum.

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Columnists

COLUMN: Meet the kings of the castle in Scarborough

6:00am Sunday 18th August 2019

SEAGULLS are not a family of birds you would instinctively associate with landlocked Ryedale but they are undoubtably among our easier-to-see species.

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COLUMN: Back to the hen house

6:00am Sunday 18th August 2019

I’M struggling to keep up with the lightning changes in television programmes that John is making as he switches between motor racing, cricket and tennis. Normally I would not be inside on such a beautiful summer’s afternoon, but I am incapacitated by a bad back.

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COLUMN: Fire up the engines

6:00am Saturday 17th August 2019

I WAS very sorry to read in the news this week that our local timber merchant, who is based near the village of Wass, has been hit by an awful fire that destroyed 120 tonnes of wood and one of their wagons.

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COLUMN: Establishing a pecking order at the farm

6:00am Sunday 11th August 2019

GHOSTLY tappings on the bedroom window at night can’t be branches on trees close to the house as John has cut them all back. No. It is more likely to be one of the many tomato plants I have sown in the greenhouse and which are now struggling to contain themselves as they have not enough room to grow.

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Readers' letters

LETTERS: ‘I can’t stand back and watch it happen’

6:00am Sunday 18th August 2019

IN reply to Nick Hardman and Lorraine Allanson. We know that we have more than enough fossil fuel reserves to push us past a survivable temperature rise.

LETTERS: Enterprise zones are not 'pie in the sky'

6:00am Sunday 11th August 2019

THE Gazette & Herald headline “All systems go for new Ryedale Business park” coincides with a planning application for a petrol station – clearly neither a business park nor a Food Enterprise Zone.

LETTERS: How long before speed results in a fatality?

6:00am Sunday 4th August 2019

I AM reminded by the article by Stuart Minting in the Gazette & Herald (July 17), about a similar speeding problem some 50 years ago when the residents of Carlton, near Snaith, were unhappy with the local police being reluctant to tackle the problem of trucks speeding through the village on route to the Drax Power Station construction site.

LETTERS: Action needed now to help social care

6:00am Sunday 28th July 2019

AFTER so many delays is it now time to bypass the social care Green Paper and get on with implementing some changes that will help the 1.4m people who aren’t getting the care they need?