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First by bike, now feet
ON THE run for a good cause is children’s worker Gillian Clason who hopes to raise more than £400 in the Edinburgh Marathon. Ms Clason, 28, works as an early years’ practitioner at McNay Street Children’s Centre in Darlington. Her sponsorship
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Expecting police support officer to travel by bus is ludicrous, says council
VILLAGE councillors are furious after learning their police community support officer may have to patrol his rural beat using public transport. Hurworth Parish Council is to write to the chief constable of Durham Police and to the local police
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Wind farm opponents form second action group
VILLAGERS are joining forces to fight two plans for wind turbines on the outskirts of Hamsterley Forest. People living in Woodland and Hamsterley will be invited to join the Woodland Area Action Group to oppose plans by renewable energy specialist
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Target in sight
ORGANISERS of a charity fashion show in Darlington have reason to feel uplifted as the £100,000 target for a heart scanner moves closer. The British Heart Foundation has about two thirds of the sum needed for the machine that will give patients
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Town welcome sign is smashed by vandals
VANDALS have wrecked a £1,000 slate plinth which welcomes visitors to Stokesley. The plinth, one of six placed around the town by Stokesley Pride In Our Town Association (Spiota), was damaged last week. Eric Lee, treasurer of Spiota,
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Families wanted to take on healthy living challenge
HEALTH managers want to recruit a family from the Stockton area who would like to give themselves a healthy living makeover. As part of a Department of Health initiative called Change4Life, officials want to hear from families interested in adopting
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Cyclist to make epic journey for charity
A FATHER-OF-TWO will tomorrow set off on a 1,000-mile lone cycle ride to raise money for homeless young people. Graeme Holdsworth, 37, of Ingleby Barwick, aims to complete the 1,020-mile challenge from Land’s End to John O’Groats in just ten days
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An acting star of the future
A TEENAGER is being tipped for stardom after landing the lead role in a new television series. Grace Francis plays Zara Khan in Zara’s Notebook, which tells the story of a 17-year-old growing up in the fictitious town of Fulchester. It is due to
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Student actress in dilemma after school timetable blow
AN ASPIRING young actress has been told she must either give up her passion of studying A-level drama, or swap schools. Ellen Miller, 17, goes to Wensleydale School in Leyburn, where she is halfway through A-levels in art and law. For the past
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Turf hold on to league title with two games to spare
Hambleton Black Sheep Brewery League Division One Richmond Turf 9 Unison GLR 2 RICHMOND Turf retained the division one league title in emphatic style with this second- half blitz of runners-up Unison GLR at a wet Wavell Road last Sunday. Turf
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Moorland to benefit from £2m funding
ONE of North Yorkshire’s most cherished moorlands is to receive £2m in funding over the next ten years. The 4,500-hectare Danby Common, in the heart of the North York Moors National Park, will benefit from the Higher Level Stewardship scheme administered
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Johnson’s back to his best with Hamsterley podium
AFTER over a year out of the sport, Bishop Auckland rally driver Barry Johnson showed he had lost none of his talent by claiming a superb third place on last Sunday’s SG Petch Tour of Hamsterley Rally. Along with fellow County Durham co-driver
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Guisborough and Great Ayton set to do battle in derby match
IT LOOKS like the waiting game is over for Thornaby in the Darlington Building Society NYSD League with confirmation received from Lahore that their professional, Pakistani Khurram Shehzad, should be with them in time for this weekend. Shehzad
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Nicholls philosophical after Inxile’s Longchamp demotion
DANDY Nicholls’ good fortune of late was dealt a blow on Sunday when Inxile was demoted to third place by the French stewards, despite making every yard to win the Prix de Saint-Georges (Group 3) at Longchamp. A lengthy stewards’ inquiry found
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Smith’s main man at Witton Castle with double Point to Point victory
RICHARD Smith was the jockey in form with two winners at the Zetland Point to Point held at Witton Castle on Bank Holiday Monday, last week. The meeting started with a real thriller in the Hunt Members race. Ed Cameron had made all the running
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Pony and riding club dates
Barnard Castle & Teesdale Riding Club. May 30: junior combined training @ Streatlam, call Jane 01833-641262 or Sarah 01833-640147. Bedale & West of Yore Pony Club. May 30: Thorp Perrow Fun Day, clear round, show jumping, handy pony, games, open to
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Date for cattle sale
THIS year’s Borderway Agri Expo, organised by Harrison & Hetherington, will take place at the Borderway Mart, Carlisle, on October 30 with £8,000 of prize money. Last year’s inaugural event attracted more than 200 livestock entries as well as specialist
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Hill farms urged to join stewardship
UPLAND farmers in the Yorkshire Dales National Park are to be encouraged to enter the higher level stewardship scheme. Natural England and the park authority want to bring more land into the scheme to boost farmers’ income. It will give
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Increase in farmers opting for payments in euros not pounds
A LEADING rural expert has seen a significant increase in the number of farmers opting for their single farm payments to be paid in euros. Today is the deadline for the submission of 2010 SFP applications and David Coulson, founding partner of
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Grouse moor is alive with the sound of bird song
A NORTHERN grouse moor is home to a vast and varied amount of bird life. Owner Sir Anthony Milbank has counted almost 30 different species on his 7,000-acre Barningham and Holgate Estate, which straddles the County Durham/North Yorkshire border
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Azores 2a Kirkgate, Ripon
Is this the best restaurant in Ripon? ‘THE best restaurant in Ripon by a mile. Definitely.” The recommendation was unequivocal. “You mean better than Perk Up, better than the Deanery, better than Lockwoods?” I quizzed my informant
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Be inspired by credit crunch to make every penny count
The credit crunch has affected some sponsors of this year’s Chelsea Flower Show, with the number of main show gardens being reduced from a bumper crop of 22 last year to 13 this year. However, award-winning garden designer Sarah Eberle has created
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Great North jigsaws
The Pattern in the Carpet by Margaret Drabble is published in hardback by Atlantic Books, priced £18.99. The sub-title is A Personal History with Jigsaws and Margaret Drabble’s own life with jigsaws began during childhood visits to her Aunt Phyllis
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Documentary images of the hunt
PHOTOGRAPHER Kirstie Handley, of Eaglescliffe, documented fox hunting before, during and after the controversial Bill was passed four years ago. Some of these pictures are included in this weekend’s mixed exhibition at Spectrum Framing and
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Gipsy music in candlelight
RIPON International Festival has announced its programme for this year’s celebration of jazz, folk and world music, which will take place from September 5- 19. The performers will include singer Mor Kabasi, purveyor of spine-tingling gipsy music
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You can’t hurry love ...
Alan and Irene Brogan talk to Hannah Stephenson about their incredible love story and why they wanted to share it in a book. ALAN and Irene Brogan are like two lovestruck teenagers. They may be in their fifties but they have waited most
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Rotary Young Musicians Gala Concert, All Saints’ Church, Northallerton
ONE of the best things about this annual concert and each year’s Associated Board High Scorers’ Concert is the opportunity to hear the improvements made by individual students and to assess the overall state of the musical future of the Tees Valley
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Music festivals may vie for the same audience
LOOKING at the list of this year’s music festivals for the region, I am concerned about conflicts between the those at York, Ryedale and Harrogate, which all run, at least in part, simultaneously, writes Dave Robson. Attempting to draw from the
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Ancient Coatham, a place for cottages – but not idyllic
CONSIDER the name ‘Coatham’, today part of western Redcar and once a market town with a proud, independent history of its own. We do not know how old Coatham’s name is: though it certainly dates back long before the 12th century and our earliest
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To keep us in, or to keep us out – the wide and varied styles of stile
AS WE explore our wonderful countryside with its complex network of footpaths, we may be tempted to take for granted the number and variety of stiles that enable us to enjoy our route. Without the convenience of stiles our journeys would be much
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April shines and lacks the traditional showers
APRIL certainly continued the very upbeat trend which started in March. With temperatures about 2C (3.5F) above average, it was widely the third mildest April in the past 30 years, after those of 1987 and the outstanding one of 2007 which was
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Throwing open the doors on a secret store of historic treasures
Mike Bridgen is given a guided tour of English Heritage’s collection of historic objects ARCHAEOLOGIST Susan Harrison loves her job as the curator of English Heritage’s top secret treasure house at Helmsley, where more than 800,000 of the region
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Church repair scheme in Thirsk gets £92,000 boost
A PROJECT to carry out urgent repairs to a small rural grade II village church has been boosted by a £92,000 donation. English Heritage and the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) funding has gone to St Lawrence’s Church, Carlton Miniott, near Thirsk
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New food shop gets ready for opening
TWO key staff appointments have been made by the new regional food shop and cafe championed by the Yorkshire Agricultural Society. Fodder opens on the Great Yorkshire Showground in Harrogate next month. Rachel Burberry has been appointed
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Business makes it pie and easy
A FAMILY-RUN engineering firm has developed a portable glazing machine to help bakers create the perfect pie. Addington Engineers, of Brompton-on-Swale, near Richmond, normally creates labour-saving devices for the car and pharmaceutical industries
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Lending to farmers by agricultural agency hits record levels
THE York office of Carter Jonas has been named as one of the top performing Agricultural Mortgage Corporation agencies in the UK. AMC-lending to farmers in the North of England reached record levels last year and was one of the busiest ever for
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Safety needs lead to rise in demand for audit firm
EVER-GROWING health and safety demands has led to increased business for one Tees Valley company. R S Industrial Services, of Billingham, carries out on-site safety audits for companies and has recruited two new sales executives, bought three more
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Memories of when mighty 'Big-B' was first lit
Memories of when mighty ‘Big-B’ was first lit IT’S naturally sad news that Europe’s largest blast furnace at Redcar is to be mothballed after 30 years. It’s as tall as St Paul’s Cathedral and dominates the Tees estaury. Those present at the opening
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Election info
Sir, – In less than a month, we shall be invited to vote in European and local elections. As usual, most of us will not have much idea which candidates will be standing or what their views on relevant matters might be, while few, if any, of the
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Underhand
Sir, – On Friday, May 8, I was stopped in Thirsk Market Place for dropping a cigarette end. The women who challenged me about the incident were showing no ID on the exterior when they approached me. On confronting me, they then produced a Hambleton
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Prompt?
Sir, – Following Hambleton Council’s announcement it would pay bills within 20 working days, I said in my letter last week that taking four weeks is nothing to brag about. This week, I received my copy of Hambleton News and I found they are doing
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County woes
Sir, – North Yorkshire, a once proud and independent county, is now dead. Twenty years ago, it had its own roadbuilders, who built and designed the roads, bridge-builders, stonemasons, bricklayers, carpenters, welders, blacksmiths, and street-lighting
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Built for all
Sir, – I was very interested to read Nicholas Rhea’s article about Lincoln and its magnificent cathedral (DST, May 8). However, although I am happy to accept its Catholic origins, I query his statement that it was built by and for Roman Catholics
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So grateful
Sir, – May we take this opportunity to publicly thank all the marvellous people who helped my husband and me when we were involved in a car accident at Thornton le Street. Yorkshire Air Ambulance, the fire service, the North Yorkshire Ambulance
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Every cloud?
Sir, – The proposed closure of the steelworks on Teesside will cause intense pain in the short term. It may, however, lead to economic rebirth in the longer term: It has been conclusively proved that the presence of steelworks in a region leads
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Rise and fall
Sir, – Your article (DST, May 1) on councillor allowances at Richmondshire District Council told only part of the story. Coun Griffiths, for the Tories, had proposed that all basic allowances be increased in line with the report before council.
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Bikes bias
Sir, – I read with interest Mr Lee’s letter (DST, Apr 24) regarding development in Osmotherley, especially his last paragraph regarding the introduction of problems not currently experienced – littering, vandalism, bikers, increased crime etc.
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Post campaign
Sir, – I write in support of the campaign, Keep the Post Public, which aims to stop the partial sale of Royal Mail. If this sell-off, guaranteeing ongoing profits to a private, probably Dutch, company (therefore effectively subsidised by the taxpayer
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Park problems
Sir, – In your item on potential changes to national park boundaries (DST, May 8) you overlook the reduction of democratic rights for residents in those areas. National park authorities are responsible for many aspects of management reserved to
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Just do the job
Sir, – It is sad that, with the current debate about just what an MP can claim, we all seem to have forgotten the basics. An MP is elected by constituents to serve their local community nationally and support their communities locally. But what
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Care in Yarm
Sir, – Nothing could be more important for Yarm than for all its residents to have an upgraded, central, medical centre, which would reduce the need to go to the main hospital, and be easily accessible to all, especially with the proposal to move
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May 15th, 2009
From this newspaper 100 years ago. A sensation was caused in Thirsk on Thursday evening by the discovery of a baby’s body in the Cod Beck. Children, who were playing near the mill dam, brought a paper to shore, a man cut the string and was surprised
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Appreciation
Sir, – The front page (DST, May 8) carried an uplifting story concerning the landlords of the Wombwell Arms, Wass, who have made their premises available as a polling station in the temporary absence of the village hall, and have donated the £120
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Country limits
LIKE so many recent ideas from this beleaguered Government, the plan to reduce many of the nation’s speed limits seems, superficially, seems like a good idea. Speeds kills, so the television advertisements, tell us. Speed uses more fuel, the environmentalist
