Features

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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PICTURES: Youth theatre brings Chitty Chitty Bang Bang to Ryedale

6:00am Wednesday 10th April 2019

RYEDALE Youth Theatre will perform the family favourite Chitty Chitty Bang Bang this spring.

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PICTURES: Camera club's winter wonder

6:00am Saturday 6th April 2019

THIS month’s Malton Camera Club pictures are mostly memories from the early part of this year.

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PICTURES: The changing faces of our towns

6:00am Saturday 30th March 2019

MALTON and Norton have changed greatly over the years, with some properties disappearing and other ones built.

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"You're emotionally detached, but you have to recognise their emotions"

6:00am Saturday 23rd March 2019

“THE coroner has to establish three things,” Michael Oakley tells me. “Who the person was, why they died and the circumstances of how they came to their death. It’s a fact-finding mission entirely. What people don’t realise - I think even more so today - is that it’s not a court of blame.”

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Search on for ‘600’ to mark milestone at school

6:00am Saturday 16th March 2019

A SCHOOL based in an idyllic part of the North York Moors is set to celebrate its 60th anniversary - and is hoping to track down as many of its past pupils as possible for a big reunion.

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PICTURES: Six of the best from Kirkbymoorside Camera Club

6:00am Saturday 9th March 2019

FOR this month’s feature, Kirkbymoorside Camera Club has taken “Streetlife” as its theme. The six images capture the diverse range of life on offer, both at home and abroad.

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Ryedale museum reopens for new season

6:00am Wednesday 27th February 2019

A MUSEUM which highlights the history of rural Ryedale has reopened for a new season. Beck Isle Museum in Pickering reopened last Saturday for the 2019 season with new exhibitions and displays, alongside the old favourites.

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Welcome to Yorkshire's best kept secret. But just where is this?

6:00am Saturday 23rd February 2019

THE Yorkshire Dales, the North York Moors, the Lake District - they’re all dramatic, and stunningly beautiful, admits Simon Palmour. But their beauty is obvious. It’s on show for everyone to see.

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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.

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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".

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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.

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‘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.

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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.

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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.

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Columnists

COLUMN: Cool character who is making Ryedale home

6:00am Sunday 14th April 2019

LAST week, I thought I saw a newt in a very unexpected place. Most of our seven amphibian species (three newts, two toads and two frogs) are confined to water at this time of the year, busy doing their aquatic breeding thing, but the individual that had caught my eye was lying among dry leaves at the base of an oak tree, with no water to be seen anywhere nearby.

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COLUMN: Something not to be sneezed at

6:00am Sunday 14th April 2019

JUST when I thought I had escaped the winter without a sign of a sniff or sneeze, a sharp raw sensation in my throat signalled the onset of a latent lurgy.

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COLUMN: A beastly kind of tart

6:00am Saturday 13th April 2019

AS is often the case when I’m looking back at my dad’s columns from 40 years ago, I have come across a word that is new to me, but that has been used in various ways in the north for many years.

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COLUMN: We’re rolling back years

6:00am Sunday 7th April 2019

JUST over a year ago a mysterious message appeared in my inbox seeking to renew a friendship with my husband John. Our email address had been passed on by a friend who farms now where John grew up. And with whom we had only just spent some time at the end of the shooting season.

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Readers' letters

LETTERS: 'We are not aligned with political party'

6:00am Sunday 14th April 2019

READERS may be aware that members of the local Conservative Party undertook a mass leaflet campaign in Malton and Norton last month ahead of May’s local elections to Ryedale District Council (RDC).