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No comment from store as rundown site stands vacant
A SUPERMARKET chain has refused to comment on possible plans to open a store in a town centre location which has stood vacant for more than two years. The former Safeway store, in Northallerton High Street, was one of almost 500 outlets bought by Morrison's
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14,000 sign parking petition
MORE than 14,000 people have signed a petition against parking charges in four North Yorkshire market towns. The signatures were collected in Northallerton, Thirsk, Stokesley and Bedale by campaigners angry about Hambleton District Council's
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Thirsk look to the future after title
THIRSK Falcons won the Harrogate and District Premier league title for the first time in their 55-year history with a convincing 4-1 victory over their rivals Kirkdeighton Rangers. And, the Falcons A team capped a great day for the club by
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Town out of drop zone at last, after dramatic draw
Northallerton Town 2 Jarrow Roofing 2 AS A contest, Northallerton Town should have had this game sewn up after just 15 minutes, but poor finishing let them down, and they were made to pay as the league's basement club, and already relegated Jarrow
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Shildon driver Johnson claims victory at Borders event
Mikkelsen Ford Focus WRC, two times Scottish champion, Barry Johnson, claimed victory on the Brick & Steel Border Counties Rally last weekend, despite only competing on a part-time basis this year. The Shildon driver and codriver Stewart Merry
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Lampkin sixth in wind-assisted world event
DOUGIE Lampkinfs sixth place in the wind and rain that swept the second world trials championship round in Northern Ireland on Sunday was hardly a confidence booster, after his near miss in Luxembourg seven days ago, when one penalty kept the
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Havelock Restaurant, Blackwell Grange Hotel, Darlington
HOTEL dining rooms can be strange places, inhabited by people who look as if they mostly don't want to be there - or at least didn't choose to be there. Business folk attending meetings or conferences, haunted sales reps on their lonely nationwide
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Child-friendly gardens should be good for adults, too
HOW do you create a garden where you can enjoy adult time without tripping over sandpits, swings and paddling pools, while protecting beautiful borders from the dreaded football? Award-winning garden designer and mother-of-two Bunny Guinness
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Here’s Looking At You: Zillah Bell Gallery, Thirsk
THE latest exhibition at the Zillah Bell Gallery is refreshing, thoughtprovoking - and often startling. It's refreshing because for once the emphasis is upon the human figure, both as a work of art in itself and within its environment, both natural
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Chapel acoustics for young players
PLATFORM, the classical music organisation for Tees Valley, celebrates local musical talent with a concert tomorrow for Tall Trees bursary winners' and by running masterclasses for brass bands. Six young musicians from the area will perform
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Patterns are very the stuff of life
GOLD leaf and sumptuous colour distinguish the illustrative works by County Durham artist Judy Hurst, who opens a selling exhibition at the Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle next weekend. Many of the pictures were inspired by objects in the collections
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Debut novel is love letter tribute to home town
LATEST novel releases include The Monsters of Templeton by Lauren Groff (published in hardback by William Heinemann, £12.99). Pregnant and heartbroken, Wilhelmina Upton returns to her sleepy home town reeling from an affair with her married archaeology
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Chance to explore an inspirational garden and a tranquil art gallery
AN OPEN studio event this spring will provide visitors to Middleham with an opportunity to explore a jewel of a gallery set in a secret garden. It is the garden at Hill House which has provided so much of the visual richness which has inspired
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A dose of property realism is what we need
THE evidence mounts of a significant fall in house prices. This week the Council of Mortgage Lenders and the Halifax bank, the country's biggest lender, confirmed the trend that the national media has been full of over the last two months.
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Commondale, a deceptive old place
THE village of Commondale to the south of Guisborough has a name that deceives. After all, Commondale sounds as if it is describing common ownership of a patch of land or a grass common at the villagefs centre or perhaps a common or normal valley
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Northallerton – a personal past, or do its roots lie in the trees?
DISCUSSIONS with a fellow author led to a debate about the name of Northallerton. She understood it should be spelt as two separate parts, ie North Allerton whereas in most modern publications it is a single word. One supposed reason for splitting
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April 11th, 2008
From this newspaper 100 years ago. - A voracious trout. Whilst fishing in the river Yore on Saturday, Mr T Chapman, Hawes, caught a trout which weighed 1 lbs. On handling the fish, Mr Chapman was surprised to discover in its throat a newly hatched
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The reality check
THE scale of the change in the housing market was underlined this week by a series of statistical announcement which, taken together, amount to a clearly defined, no-argument, decline in the housing market. This was the cue for much hand-wringing
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Felling by fools?
Sir, - On April 1, three more healthy alders were ordered to be cut down for no good reason on Low Green, Great Ayton, making the total now of 14 trees. April Fool's Day? I rest my case. SHIRLEY HETHERINGTON Low Green, Great Ayton. Sir, - I
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What a waste
Sir, - Some 18 months ago, turning into Rosemary Lane, Richmond, I came upon a scene of wanton destruction. Large lumps of the road surface, which had been in a good state of repair, were on the back of a truck, and the kerb and paving stones
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Crying foul?
Sir, - In recent months, we have been led to believe that the Town Crier, produced by Darlington's Labour Council, is entirely self-funded from advertising receipts; however, the small number of adverts which appear each month in the publication
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Manorial points
Sir, - The article on parking charges written by Nicola Fenwick (D&S, April 4) needs a little clarification. As trustees of the Manorial Lands, the Stokesley parish councillors hold the land on behalf of the inhabitants of Stokesley for various
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Beware the strings
Sir. - It is pleasing to read that schools in Redcar and Cleveland are to benefit from a "£90m package to transform secondary education," but I would offer a word of warning for local residents. The Government's Building Schools for the Future
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Interior disaster
Sir, - When my regular copy of the D&S arrives each Friday, one of the first articles I read is the Weekend Eating Out feature. More often than not that is written by Malcolm Warne, and that was certainly so last week when the King's Head Hotel
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Anti-democratic
Sir. - On Tuesday, Richmondshire District Council will consider proposals to change from a democratic committee structure to a strategic board, which will do away with the majority of the committees on which ward councillors serve, replacing
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Consider the times
Sir. - Your report (D&S, Yorkshire edition, April 4), of the meeting concerning Middleham Moor failed to mention that, at the beginning of the discussion, the trainers' representative gave a brief speech outlining the situation from their point
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Use this site
Sir,- Since Morrisons closed their Safeway store in Northallerton a few years ago, the premises have remained empty and in a deteriorating state of repair. Nobody appears to be making moves to bring it back into use. May I suggest that Hambleton
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Great for Tesco
Sir, - Although just about everything has already been said in your paper opposing the hugely unpopular car parking charges scheme, there are two points I would like to emphasise. Firstly, the district council's proposed reliance on car parking
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Beauty salon expands after just six months
A HAIR and beauty salon has been so successful in its first six months of trading, it has decided to create a £40,000 expansion - and take on seven new employees. Hobson and Holmes, in West Park, Darlington, is looking for three stylists, three
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New body will represent English food and drink
THE UMBRELLA organisation for regional food groups will support food and drink producers when Food From Britain closes next March. The FFB Council agreed to close after the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs cut its budget and
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Friday 11th April 2008
Thursday's prices GrainCo, Tyne Dock. - Wheat: May £173; June new crop £174; July new crop £175. Barley: No prices. Oilseed rape: May £352.
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Dutch TV chef serves up Yorkshire beef
GOING Dutch took on a new meaning this week as a range of premium beef cuts from Yorkshire were unveiled on the Dutch market. EBLEX Ltd, the new industry body for beef and lamb levy-payers in England, unveiled the range - called Yorkshire's Perfect
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Tesco’s price rise of 0.5p on litre of milk is good but still not enough
TESCO'S announcement of a 0.5p per litre price rise for its dairy farmers has received a mixed reaction. Gwyn Jones, chairman of the National Farmers' Union Dairy Board, said that, although small, it was "a move in the right direction". But Tim
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Birthday gift led to farmers keeping Highland cattle
WHEN Robert Phillip bought his wife two Highland cows for her birthday, he could not have imagined the impact they would have on their lives. For six years later the "hobby" cows have grown into 230 Highlanders which are now one of the largest
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Lords back pig farmers over supermarket prices
SUPERMARKETS have been attacked by Food and Farming Minister Lord Rooker as the British pig farming industry heads into meltdown. Speaking in the House of Lords, he said: "If supermarkets want to see the end of English pork production, they
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Pony and riding club dates
Barnard Castle & Teesdale Riding Club. - Mondays, Thursdays: regular fortnightly lessons, flatwork with Caroline Jackson, contact Lezley 07891-660317. Monday evenings: SJ with Chloe Gosling, contact Chloe 07967594685. May 1: tack and togs sale
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Northallerton quartet finish high up at Gloucester event
A QUARTET from the Northallerton Riding Club finished in the money at the British Riding Clubs NAF Five Star Superflex Junior Novice Indoor Show Jumping Championship. The indoor championship, for which teams of riders aged under 17 had qualified
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Yasmin’s a double winner at Pony of the Year Show in Essex
THORNABY 11-year-old Yasmin Tanfield was a double winner at the 2008 Pony of the Year Show. The four day show, which took place in the impressive main arena at the Unex Towerlands International venue in Essex, is the early season highlight for
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Tidal Bay puts field to sword on National day
TIDAL BAY, who landed the Arkle at Cheltenham, put the rest of the field to the sword on Grand National day at Aintree, landing the Grade 1 John Smith's Magull Novices' Chase by a good six lengths under Denis O'Regan. Once again, the smile of stable
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Exciting finish in Gold Cup at Middleton steeplechase
AFTER four miles and one furlong, less than half a length separated the first three home in the feature Grimthorpe Gold Cup, part of the Middleton Point to Point, held at Whitwell on the Hill on Sunday of last week. One of the most exciting finishes
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Young’s on form in ODE tester in Suffolk
STANHOPE 22-year-old Amy Young was the rider they all had to beat at the Poplar Park one-day-event in Suffolk. Young, who won individual and team gold at the 2006 Young Rider European threeday event championship with her top ride Highville, headed
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Moving Market Cross could ease traffic flow
THE Market Cross in Barnard Castle - one of the town's most historic features - may be moved because it is in the wrong place for modern traffic. The idea is one of four options put forward by Barnard Castle Vision team which is studying ways to improve
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Show society questions morality of moves to introduce parking charges
ORGANISERS of an annual show have questioned the morals of a council over its plans to charge for parking on a show field. In an open letter to Hambleton District Council leader Coun Arthur Barker, Stokesley Agricultural Society has urged the authority
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Vintage cars break the ice
MORE than a dozen vintage cars were on show at the first meeting of the North-East Club for Pre-War Austins. Owners and enthusiasts gathered at the Lakeside Farm Shop and Cafe, between Scorton and Northallerton, this week. The club will meet at the
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Luxury ideas for long-derelict building
A NOTORIOUS eyesore on the outskirts of Gainford may be turned into a luxury retirement village. The former St Peter's School has been derelict for more than a decade and a target for crime over many years. It was recently made more secure, but a stalemate
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Cliff safe and well after rescue
POLICE are searching for the owner of a dog which survived a dramatic cliff rescue. The spaniel, nicknamed Cliff by police officers, was discovered 40ft down a rock face in Guisborough Woods early on Tuesday morning. A 68-year-old member of the public
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Council abandons flats scheme for Yorke Square
PROTESTERS who took their council to court for granting an illegal planning permission have welcomed the authority's decision to drop the application. Richmondshire District Council's attempts to build 14 flats on the site of Yorke Square car park, in
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Thrilled and befrilled by duty
THE next High Sheriff of County Durham is a man who moved to the region six years ago and fell in love with this part of the country. Paul Townley, of Wycliffe, near Barnard Castle, will be sworn in before His Honour Judge Richard Lowden on Monday at
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Stables plan turned down against planning officers' advice
PLANS to build stables for breeding horses in a quiet village have been turned down - despite approval from planners. Members of Stockton Borough Council's planning committee said they could not give the go-ahead to proposals for the business in Redmarshall
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Hopes rise for long-awaited bypass
FRESH hopes for a bypass serving Bedale, Aiskew and Leeming Bar emerged this week with an announcement that the £31.3m scheme is being recommended for Government funding. Lobbying by North Yorkshire County Council, which has been promoting the project
