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  • Meet Ryedale's newest traffic warden

    TRAFFIC warden Caroline Richman is the newest addition to Ryedale's community safety team. Based at Malton police station, the mother-of-two from Filey is committed to keeping the district's roads and pavements safe for both drivers and pedestrians. The

  • It's not Terry's, it's ours!

    SOMEONE suggested this village was named after an ancient Saxon called Terry! More probable though, is the Oxford Dictionary of English Place Names' suggestion that it is derived from Tiefrung, meaning 'a picture'. Terrington, situated on the Howardian

  • 'Too many' initiatives swamp rural towns

    RURAL towns and parishes are being beseiged by regeneration initiatives, claimed Coun Lord Feversham at Helmsley Town Council this week. Action for Market Towns (AMT), the new Market Towns Renaissance (MTR) and Community Investment Prospectus were each

  • Prices at the stock markets

    MALTON Forward on November 21 were 42 store cattle and 305 store sheep. Cattle: Lim bullocks to £618 from D J Wilson; Lim heifers to £328 from W N Fletcher; Sim heifers to £448 from R & M E Temple; BB to bullocks £730 from D J Wilson; BB heifers to

  • Irton show jumping

    A SHOW jumping competition was held at Irton Equestrian Centre on Sunday, November 23, judged by Mr W H Downs. The results were: Horse clear round - Hannah Kirkham on Sockit To Them, Karen French on Freddie, Kim Reynolds on Millie, Andrea Schofield on

  • Hundreds join in price protest

    LAST Thursday, hundreds of farmers and supporters of Farmers for Action were out on the picket lines in support of the campaign to get a better price for milk. Farmers for Action says that the protests last Thursday night stopped all supplies both in

  • Thank you for your support

    AM writing to thank the Gazette & Herald on two fronts; firstly for the excellent recent coverage in your newspaper, of the East Yorkshire Mini Rugby Festival hosted by Malton & Norton Rugby Club on November 16. I trust all your readers will have

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    ALL hail the conquering heroes returning to these shores in the shape of our immortal rugby champions. I cannot refrain from praising the outstanding performance of the England side in what was surely the most tense of contests in Sydney last Saturday

  • ...and Royal Opera House is set to go as well

    THE derelict Royal Opera House, in St Thomas Street, Scarborough, which has been gutted since three arson attacks, is set to be pulled down to make way for a casino, leisure complex and restaurant. The 120-year-old 1,000-seat theatre was saved from demolition

  • Pupils light up the occasion

    ACTIVE youngsters in Pickering have continued to support their community by helping to erect this year's Christmas decorations. Since the Celebration of Youth festival held in the town last July, a regular group of young people has helped out with the

  • Malton and Norton do it the England way

    Yorkshire One - Old Crossleyans 16 pts - Malton and Norton 19 pts. If you had any fingernails left after England's magnificent performance against Australia, spare a thought for the Malton and Norton supporters who travelled to Halifax to undergo the

  • Cold comfort for farmers

    WHAT fantastic weather we have had this year in our part of the country, with the best spring for many years followed closely by the best summer since records began and then the kind of backend which we all were sure could never happen. As a born-again

  • Wilkinson magic wins it for Rosedale

    RJF Homes Beckett League. On a day when Jonny Wilkinson became a national hero, it was fitting that another Wilkinson took centre stage in the biggest win in the first division. Rosedale thrashed Thornton-le-Dale 7-2 at home, as man of the match Richard

  • Who will be the M & N king of aces?

    ROBERT Kirby's recent hole-in-one means there are now three players vying to become the king of aces at Malton and Norton Golf Club. The 11-handicapper joined fellow members Robert High and Jim Hamilton in having each made six holes-in-one when he aced

  • That loving feeling

    COUPLES in North Yorkshire will have a new way to show their commitment to each other. In partnership with the private sector, Civil Ceremonies Ltd, the registration service in North Yorkshire, is to offer adult couples a chance to make a public declaration

  • Praise for MP as ragwort bill passes through Parliament

    EQUESTRIAN groups have saluted Ryedale MP John Greenway for his support for a new law to govern the control of a common weed that is deadly poisonous to horses. The Ragwort Control Bill completed its passage through parliament last Tuesday and will today

  • Church opens doors for Friday service

    CHURCH services designed to fit in with busy modern lifestyles have been a huge success at the Venerable Bede Church in Leavening. Friday afternoons are now the chosen day of worship for parishioners who cannot make the Sunday service due to family or

  • Cash incentives for NHS dentists

    'GOLDEN hellos' and loyalty bonuses could be used to lure and secure NHS dentists in Ryedale. Scarborough, Whitby, Ryedale Primary Care Trust submitted plans to the strategic health authority on Friday, November 21, in a bid for funding. The PCT proposes

  • Young Farmers' Club reports

    HELMSLEY LAST week, 25-30 Young Farmers and friends enjoyed a visit to the Black Sheep Brewery at Masham. Members were entertained with an interesting tour around the brewery. Gifts were bought from the gift shop and then there was plenty of time to sample

  • Initiative overload for rural towns

    RURAL towns and parishes are being beseiged by regeneration initiatives, Helmsley Town Council was told. Town councillor and local landowner Lord Feversham said Action for Market Towns (AMT), the new Market Towns Renaissance (MTR), and Community Investment

  • The season suddenly arrives

    FRIGHTENING, isn't it - only a month to Christmas and I haven't yet got out my card list. Originally drafted so that it would function for about five years, it has to be carefully checked each year, adding on the new entries, and the sad bit, deleting

  • Shame about burnt toaster

    THE alarm rang at five to nine on Saturday, and my immediate reaction was to swear at myself for setting it on a weekend, and roll over back to sleep. But I'm smarter than that - I had reckoned on myself reacting like that to loud noises at an unearthly

  • It all adds up for maths challenge

    TWO pupils from St Joseph's Roman Catholic School, in Pickering, have made it through to the next stage of a primary school national maths competition. Joseph Howard and Callum Watson, both aged ten, gained high marks in the Primary Maths Challenge, organised

  • Futurist to be demolished

    SCARBOROUGH'S big seafront Futurist Theatre - once one of the biggest venues in the British summer seaside show scene - is set to be pulled down and the site redeveloped in a joint venture between the borough council and Malton-based developer Harrison

  • Cycler the recycler comes to town

    A RAPPING robot taught children at a Ryedale school how to tackle waste through reducing, reusing and recycling their rubbish. Children at Norton Community Primary School had a visit from Cycler, an all-singing all-dancing robot, as part of a national

  • 'There will be no justice for my brother's murder'

    THE grieving sister of a man murdered at Sutton-on-the-Forest told how his family felt cheated of justice. Barbara Sherwood said she and her relatives were angry that a legal decision meant the killer of her brother, David Williamson, would probably never

  • Fraught life for pigeons

    WE often have racing pigeons resting up for a day or two in the yard. I feel guilty that they stay as long as they do, imagining a frantic owner waiting for them back in their loft. Not realising that their prize pigeon is lolling around, pecking at grain

  • Accolades for Ryedale sports stars

    TWO Ryedale sports stars were honoured at the BBC Sports Awards in the North at the Harrogate Conference Centre on Monday night. Malton and Norton golfer Emma Duggleby was named Sport England's regional women's sports star after a season in which she

  • Barnes brace ends Town's Vase hopes at Shildon

    FA Vase second round - Shildon 2, Pickering Town 0. Pickering Town's FA Vase run started and ended at Shildon last Saturday when they were beaten by a brace of Gary Barnes' goals in the second half. The former Darlington and Spennymoor United marksman

  • Pikes' striker signs for Cambridge

    PICKERING Town's teenage striker Brian Dutton has signed for third division side Cambridge United. The 18-year-old, from Malton, impressed Cambridge boss John Taylor in a trial, while playing for their reserve side against Millwall reserves last Wednesday

  • St Hilda's Church rewiring

    Our church needs re-wiring - we have to raise the money, So we're having functions - some serious, some funny We started with a chain of hope - round the church we all linked hands Paying 50p to be a link - raised a hundred plus - that's grand! Anne donated