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PO on the move once more
SO Malton Post Office is re-locating, good! The current one is far too small and long queues impede the Co-op shoppers. Larger premises are needed, somewhere convenient to shoppers and businesses, central, near to a pelican crossing and with easy parking
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It's all in the family...
WE have just celebrated my mother's eldest sister's birthday, at a pub, near her home in the Midlands. Auntie Elsie is the sole survivor of her five brothers and sisters, that included her youngest sister my mum, and she was determined to celebrate as
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Our Gran
Words seem so inadequate When describing how we feel, About this lovely lady, Whose warmth she'd never conceal. From three weeks old she nursed us, With tender loving care, And whatever was to happen, We knew she'd always be there. Those Granny Mary breakfasts
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Villages agree to pay for police speed gun
VILLAGES in Ryedale are to help police buy a speed trap device - though there is not unanimous support for the scheme. Many said they would help when Ryedale police Inspector Neil Burnett asked for contributions because there was not enough money in the
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Sports pavilion work to start
A Four-year project to raise £104,00 to build a new sports pavilion in Thornton-Le-Dale has almost reached its target after a grant of £25,000 was secured this week. This means that building work can start in the New Year and organisers are aiming for
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The prettiest village around
VOTED the prettiest village in the country in the early 1900s, there is no better time that captures the beauty of Thornton-le-Dale than Christmas. For the last month, villagers have been busily preparing for the big "switch-on" night of the Christmas
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Licence to farm?
LORD Whitty has been forced to admit this week that there are plans being considered to introduce a certification system for farming and he confirmed that farmers could in future be subjected to "a combined standards inspection". In so doing, this Government
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Show date set
THE Ryedale Show has been set for Tuesday, July 30, next year. The show will be going ahead as normal complete with sheep and cattle unless there are more problems with foot and mouth. Updated: 09:30 Thursday, November 22, 2001
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Bluebells for green fingers
GREEN-fingered schoolchildren have been busy planting bluebells at Rievaulx Terrace, near Helmsley. The 30-strong group aged between seven and eight from nearby Helmsley Community Primary School are regular helpers at the National Trust gardens. Head
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Pickering's Dickensian day will be the last of its kind
PICKERING should make the most of this Saturday's Dickensian day, because it will be the last one of its kind. Organiser Natalie Warriner says she will not be organising another one next year. Her decision coincides with permission for a large Eventex
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Kate, Naomi ...and Carla?
MOVE over Kate, Naomi and Cindy and make way for the newest model in town - 15-year-old Carla Barratt-Gibson. Last weekend, Carla, from Malton, beat 30 young hopefuls to become the very first winner of the Malton and Norton Town Centre Find a Model Competition
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Christmas is coming!
CHRISTMAS bursts into life in Malton next weekend. Why jostle with impersonal crowds in the big city when you can get everything you need in Malton. Not just that, you can have a good time and chances are, whoever you bump into will be someone you know
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Glimpse of National for Meadowbank
Meadowbank, considered by trainer Mick Easterby to be a future Grand National prospect, is set to get more than a look at the unique Aintree fences this weekend. The giant-sized gelding, owned by Lord Manton, heads to the famous Merseyside track to contest
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Further cup joy for Pikes as O'Reilly header beats Buxton
Northern Counties East League Cup Buxton 1, Pickering Town 2 PICKERING Town progressed into the third round of the Northern Counties East League Cup by virtue of a 2-1 victory at Buxton on Saturday. Their reward is yet another away game in the third round
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Hannah beats the odds again
A BUBBLY Ryedale teenager has defied life-threatening illness not once, but TWICE. Hannah Swift, 14, had an emergency heart transplant five years ago. And this year she was given just three weeks to live after being diagnosed with cancer. Hannah was advised
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Malton charity to close down
A MALTON charity closes at the weekend after its elderly committee all resigned saying it was time for younger blood. The Arthritis Research Campaign has been running in the area for 20 years. But with members averaging 70 or 80 years of age, the committee
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Over half funds needed for ramps raised
OVER half the money needed to buy ramps for the skateboard park in Malton and Norton has been secured. Youth officer PC Stewart Ashton, who has led the campaign to bring a skate park to the twin towns, said grant aid and offers of help in kind now amounted
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Foot and mouth effects 'only starting to bite now'
IN the week the Government admitted mistakes in its handling of foot and mouth, a Ryedale tourism leader says the hard effects of loss of tourist trade are only now beginning to bite. Steve Jaques, of the Ryedale Tourism Association, said that the impact
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You can't beat a BeRo recipe
WHENEVER I want a simple recipe my first reaction is to look at an old BeRo book I have, which I expect was handed down from my mum, you know the one. A brown cover, with a young girl in her gym slip about to do some school cookery I expect. An interesting
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Were officials to blame for F&M?
A NORTH Yorkshire farming family who believe Government officials spread foot and mouth to one of their farms have been backed by their MP. Vale of York MP Anne McIntosh told a Commons debate that the failure of officials to observe biosecurity rules
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Research on vaccination urged by Gill
NFU president Ben Gill has had some second thoughts about foot and mouth vaccination. Throughout the crisis, there was opposition from the National Farmers' Union to vaccination as a weapon. But on a BBC4 radio programme, he urged the Government to undertake
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Christmas is coming!
CHRISTMAS bursts into life in Malton next weekend. Why jostle with impersonal crowds in the big city when you can get everything you need in Malton. Not just that, you can have a good time and chances are, whoever you bump into will be someone you know
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Ryedale project proves resounding success
A PROJECT aimed at tackling teenage boredom and anti-social behaviour in Norton has been declared a resounding success. The scheme, which involved young people become becoming involved in photography and video-making, has been so successful that a display
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£3.4m windfall for region's schools
SCHOOLS in North Yorkshire have been awarded a windfall of £3.4m from the lottery to improve sport facilities. This huge boost from the New Opportunities for PE and Sport Programme will support the creation of new, and modernisation of existing, indoor
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Malton make hard work of win
Malton & Norton 29 pts, Bradford Salem 21 pts THE rugby matched the dark dreary weather as Malton made hard work of keeping their unbeaten home record intact. The home side looked to have the edge in the three-quarters, but the forward exchanges were
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FA Cup heroics put Town on cloud nine
WHITBY Town are eying the prospect of a huge upset as they prepare to make the long trip down to Plymouth for a fairytale FA Cup first round replay. The UniBond League side were in FA Cup dreamland at the weekend as they recorded a thoroughly-deserved
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Fond memories provoked of long ago days at the fair
STEVE Linsley remembers the Malton Hirings fair of 1933 as if it were yesterday. He was interested to read in the Gazette & Herald (Nov 8) how showmen in that year braved the fear of typhoid fever to come to town. An epidemic in the days before antibiotics
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Hard work of pupils is rewarded
THE hard work of pupils at Lady Lumley's School in Pickering was recognised at a special prize-giving night last Thursday. The Newstead award for spoken English was won by Jonathan Cresswell, who also picked up the Douglas prize for GCSE geography fieldwork
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It's a dog's life at Cropton Forest
HARDY hounds who hail from the frozen wastes of Siberia descended on Cropton Forest, near Pickering, at the weekend for the Siberian Husky Club of Great Britain's two-day championship event. Over Saturday and Sunday, 83 entrants took on a 3.8-mile course
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Revenge is sweet for Old Malton
Old Malton 4, Dringhouses 2 FOR the third time in four weeks, Old Malton faced Dringhouses and were hoping to avenge the previous cup defeats. The home side welcomed back Darryl Craggs and Darren Rushworth to give some added bite. Dringhouses started
