Features
Features
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.
Yorkshire Arboretum puts on its autumnal show
8:58am Wednesday 17th October 2018
A GARDEN of trees from across the globe which aims to inspire, educate, and conserve is revealing a glorious display of autumnal colour.
Stunning images of a voyage of discovery
6:00am Saturday 13th October 2018
A PHOTOGRAPHER has followed in the wake of a legendary Ryedale explorer to capture the immense beauty of Greenland. Richard Burdon, who lives in Pickering and is a member of Kirkbymoorside Camera Club, recently came back from a week-long trip to Scoresby Sound in east Greenland.
PICTURES: Malton Camera Club soaring to success
6:00am Saturday 6th October 2018
FOR this month's feature Malton Camera Club members have tested out their skills at Elvington Air Museum.
Art and food on the menu at North York Moors tearooms
6:00am Saturday 29th September 2018
Health concerns led a North Yorkshire couple to quit the rat race and open a cafe and gallery in the North York Moors national park
Wonderful watercolour view of region
6:02am Sunday 23rd September 2018
AN ARTIST whose work portrays many favourite places in Ryedale has opened a new exhibition.
PICTURES: 9 great images from Kirkbymoorside Camera Club
6:00am Saturday 8th September 2018
FOR this month's feature, Kirkbymoorside Camera Club has decided to focus on the work of just one of its members, John Clifton.
PICTURES: Six great photos from Malton Camera Club
6:00am Saturday 1st September 2018
FOR this month’s feature, Malton Camera Club member Tony Horsfield has picked six pictures he has taken this summer of local wildlife and insects.
The long-lost secrets of our land
6:00am Saturday 25th August 2018
AS the July sun beat down, and week after week drifted by without rain, the land began to reveal long-lost secrets. Ghostly outlines of millennia-old structures began to appear amid the yellowing grass and expanses of arable crops in the Vale of Pickering.
Celebrating the return of Pickering’s heroes
6:00am Saturday 18th August 2018
OVER the last four years, there have been an awful lot of books and memorials dedicated to the men (and some women) who gave their lives for their country in the First World War. And quite rightly, too.
Town is well and truly blooming
6:00am Saturday 28th July 2018
MALTON is well and truly blooming this year thanks to the hard work of a dedicated group of volunteers. Following the town’s achievements in 2017 when it secured a Silver Gilt, members of Malton in Bloom (MIB) have been building on the success of their inaugural year over the winter and spring months.
Move over Mary Berry – meet Sophie and Anita and their bespoke baking days
6:00am Saturday 21st July 2018
Forget the Bake Off tent, the best cakes, pies and pastries this summer are coming out of the Bakehouse barn in North Yorkshire.
PICTURES: 7 award-winning photos from Kirkbymoorside Camera Club
6:00am Saturday 7th July 2018
FOR this month’s feature, Kirkbymoorside Camera Club has chosen a selection of images from its the Best of Year competition.
PICTURES: Peter Pan at Lady Lumley's School, Pickering
6:00am Wednesday 27th June 2018
PUPILS are preparing to spread some pixie dust in their school production next week. More than 60 students at Lady Lumley’s School in Pickering are involved in Peter Pan from Wednesday, July 4 to Friday, July 6, at 7pm each night.
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Columnists
COLUMN: The oven is calling
6:00am Sunday 11th November 2018
I AM in charge. John is away fishing, except apparently there are no fish, and I am sole caretaker of the dogs, the sheep, the poultry and an awful lot of ducks and pheasants.
COLUMN: Purple reign begins for new vegan deli
6:00am Saturday 10th November 2018
A COUPLE of weeks ago we welcomed The Purple Carrot to town. Yup, you heard right, Malton’s newest opening is a vegan and vegetarian deli in a charming building at 10 Market Street.
COLUMN: The pride of Yorkshires
6:00am Saturday 10th November 2018
FOR what, in your opinion, is Yorkshire most famous? Obviously, I would put Heartbeat up there, along with the Yorkshire Dales, Herriot country, Captain Cook, cricket, cycling... I could go on.
COLUMN: A night full of mischief
6:00am Sunday 4th November 2018
THIS week sees the twin celebrations of Halloween and Bonfire Night. I have many fond memories of dressing up and going out trick or treating with my young boys, although it might as well have just been called treating, as the tradition of playing tricks on those who didn’t offer treats had pretty much died out.
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Readers' letters
LETTERS: Let's transform the way we live without delay
6:00am Sunday 11th November 2018
RYEDALE District Council is right in its recent decision to look hard at what it could do to limit climate changing emissions, which is something we all should be doing.
LETTERS: Why not embrace the 'green farming' idea?
6:00am Sunday 4th November 2018
IN response to Ben Boothman’s article on arable farming (“Knowing the drill on autumn sowing”), I have great sympathy for UK farmers and am very aware of the precarious nature of the profession as many of my family are in the business.
LETTERS: "We need to take urgent action now"
5:00am Sunday 28th October 2018
I WISH to answer some points in David Hoggard’s letter (Gazette & Herald, October 10) attempting to unpick my case against the dualling of the A64.
LETTERS: What a disgrace
6:00am Sunday 21st October 2018
A RECENT report by the Intergovernmental Panel on climate change (IPCC) calls for “deep emissions reductions in all sectors and a significant upscaling of investments in those options”.
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The Way We Were
WAY WE WERE: Pickering
6:00am Sunday 11th November 2018
FOR this week’s Way We Were we are taking a trip down memory lane in Pickering.
WAY WE WERE: Guides and brownies in Ryedale
6:00am Sunday 4th November 2018
AFTER our recent Way We Were feature on scouts, this week is it time for the girls to take centre stage.
WAY WE WERE: Queen's Coronation
5:00am Sunday 28th October 2018
THIS week’s Way We Were photographs have been supplied by the Woodham-Stone Collection. They are thought to show events related to the Queen’s Coronation in 1953.
