FEW people open restaurants these days. It’s nearly always a café bar, café grill, café-tea room, or café-cum-deli. We eagerly await the day someone opens a café-launderette. Now that would be really retro chic. Another café has opened in Darlington
BBC Radio 4’s Gardeners’ Question Time, which is aired on Fridays and Sundays, attracts two million listeners each week — BBC Gardeners’ World has the same number of viewers — and its influence on horticultural spending habits is immeasurable.
Thriller writer John Grisham talks to Hannah Stephenson about keeping a low profile, and his new foray into children’s fiction. HIS legal thrillers grace the best-seller shelves of virtually every mainstream bookshop on the planet and are among
THIS last concert in Swaledale itself presented a particularly interesting project combining the Fifth Quadrant String Quartet with the Benedict Biscop Gregorian Chant Choir, directed by Jonathan Adams, in a programme combining Haydn, Gregorian
SOME of the paintings by Robert McManners at the Richmond Station Gallery are of particular significance, as they represent his recovery after a serious injury two years ago which paralysed his right arm. A medical doctor by profession and artist
ROCK opera Random Access Memory has its premiere at Middlesbrough Town Hall on Wednesday, at 7.30pm. It combines a rock band with electronic music and sound effects, live performers singing with a virtual opera singer, performances on stage and
THE Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, two chart-topping choirs, Mugenkyo Taiko Drummers, guitarists John Williams and John Etheridge and literary celebrities are among a colourful array of internationally- renowned artists appearing at Ripon International
FOR many, the North York Moors is all about the beautiful and varied landscape, but the picturesque villages are an equally important part of the National Park and are often where people stay or head to for refreshments after a day walking the
IN recent weeks I have received several informal reports about mink living wild in this region. Some, possibly a family of the creatures, have been noted near Coxwold, a beautiful village between Thirsk and Easingwold. They might have established
Chris Lloyd tells the story of a devastating explosion at Catterick Bridge Station in 1944. IT WAS four minutes to four on February 4, 1944. “I saw a flame, shaped like a big bat’s wing, come from the loading area – it must have been 50 or 60yds
From this newspaper 100 years ago. – At Durham Summer Assizes Mr Justice Grantham, referring to the charges arising out of the Horden Colliery riot and the destruction of the Social Institute erected by the mine owners, said he was one of
Sir, – Recent correspondence about climate change has conjugated the verb “believe” – I believe the evidence-based research of well-informed objective scientists; you have the wool pulled over your eyes by so-called scientists; they are self-serving
WE don’t suppose there are many copies of Darlington Camra’s estimable free publication Darlington Drinker lying around the Traveller’s Rest in Cockerton. The summer issue skewers the pub and brewer Heineken foursquare over the practice of
Sir, – I recall reading that one of the artworks shown at the Great Exhibition of 1851 bore the lofty title “The Spirit of Science Conquering Ignorance and Prejudice.” Judging by the four climate change denial letters you published last week, the
Sir, – In response to the letters denying global warming in last Friday’s edition of the D&S, I would simply point out that not one produced any evidence whatsoever to counter that produced by the 500 independent specialist climate scientists who
Sir, – Your correspondents (D&S letter, June 18) are incorrect. It is general knowledge that the weather varies in 50 to 100 year cycles and it is all caused by sun spot activity which is at present at an all-time low similar to the Victorian era
Sir, – Mr Gatenby (D&S letters, June 18) fails to deal with facts and continues to promulgate myths. To assist him with the facts, can I make the following points. The Appointments Commission undertakes the selection of appointees to NHS trust
Sir, – May I through your paper ask if any readers have seen our cat. Missy was stolen from our home on the evening of Tuesday, June 15. A car pulled up and picked her up and bundled her into the car. A neighbour saw this happen and immediately
Sir, – An article published in the Evening Gazette on May 29 reported that the vice–chancellor of the University of Teesside earns £237,000 pa. Under a Freedom of Information request to the university, I discovered that the figures used were based
Sir, – Richmond is home to a number of beautiful, often hidden gardens, and Richmond Town Council would like to invite the town’s gardeners to enter this year’s garden competition, so they may reveal and potentially be rewarded for their efforts
Sir, – The home cooking of Mandy Lelaman transformed Ruby’s Snacks on the Roman Road in Linthorpe from a coffee- shop into a gourmet café (D&S letters, Mar 12). Not to be outdone, young Ruby’s Snacks employee Lucy Atkinson has now introduced
THERE, it wasn’t that bad after all, was it? After one of the longest softening-up exercises in modern political history, Tuesday’s emergency Budget was not the ideologically- driven “slash and burn” exercise that some would have had us believe.
SCORTON driver Max Coates was in action at his local Croft circuit last weekend where he was combining his GCSE exams with racing in the Ginetta Junior Championship as part of the British Touring Car Championship support series. Friday testing went well
Barnard Castle & Teesdale Riding Club. - July 3: hack from Morley Hall with Bev Lowson, contact Lezley 07891-660317. July 3: pleasure/charity ride, Gilmonby to Tan Hill (8.5 miles each way) in aid of the Great North Air Ambulance, 10am-noon. Contact Marion
LEYBURN 15-year-old Jodie McGregor impressed at the 2010 Charles Owen British Pony Championship, staged at Brand Hall in Shropshire. Only the best young pony event riders in the country gain an invitation to the championships, open to riders aged 16
MIDDLEHAM trainer Jedd O'Keeffe enjoyed a fine across the card double last Saturday with Arch Walker winning the 5f handicap under Michael Stainton at Redcar, while later in the evening Patrick Donaghy steered Dubai Celebration to victory in the two-year-old
THE two leading sides in the Darlington and District League went head to head twice in the space of four days last week - and it proved a bittersweet experience for both of them. The Division A Knockout Cup final enabled Middleton St George to keep their
AFTER the previous week's D&S Times Wensleydale Evening Cricket League washout, last week's games took place on a fine evening across North Yorkshire. Leyburn hosted high-flying Thorp Perrow. Playing on lively astroturf surface, Leyburn struggled against
Langbaurgh League CRATHORNE'S defeat at the hands of Great Broughton meant Kirby Sigston took sole possession of the top spot on the Inshore Fisheries Langbaurgh League ladder last week after a convincing victory over Moorsholm. Moors were asked to
York Senior League A SUPERB all-round performance by Mark Wilkie ensured an overwhelming victory for Sessay at Thirsk in their Hambleton derby game. Wilkie's 8-18 saw Thirsk tumble to 104 all out with only Des Wyrill, whose home overlooks his opponents
DAN Thorpe made it 101 national trial victories on Sunday in the sunshine in North Yorkshire at the hamlet of Marsett where he turned in another classy ride over Yorkshire Centre trials champion Phil Disney and builder Nathan Wrigglesworth. The JST
A NEWTON Aycliffe company has won the best kitchen title in the 2010 national Grand Designs Awards. PWS received the prized award for its Metris Wave Curve kitchen from designer and television presenter Kevin McCloud. The company, which
A LEADING furniture retailer has cut its annual energy bill by more than £47,000 a year by introducing low-energy lighting rigs in its showrooms. Barker and Stonehouse still has to introduce them in its Newcastle store where the largest savings
ONE of the region's largest water garden centres has been bought by a commercial nursery. Paddock Farm Water Gardens of West Lane, Dalton on Tees, near Croft, has been taken over by M and J Horticulture, just 250 metres away. The 12
FARMWAY has reported a good financial performance in the last financial year despite the recession and turbulent agricultural markets. The 45th annual meeting heard its profit before tax rose to £410,300 and its market share increased in all
A NEW electronic heat detection collar and monitoring system will be unveiled on a North Yorkshire farm on Wednesday. NMR developed its Silent Herdsman system with a £4.75m Scottish Enterprise research and development programme grant.
THE leaders of the Tenant Farmers Association had a successful meeting with the new ministerial team at Defra on Monday. Secretary of state Caroline Spelman and food and farms minister Jim Paice agreed to look at the implementation of the uplands
TEN passionate growers from across the country have taken on the role of potato ambassadors. They will help the Potato Council to raise the profile of potatoes and demonstrate their many benefits. Anthony Carroll, of award-winning Carrolls
AN MP has called for a parliamentary inquiry into the future of hill farming, saying the industry is "hugely important to the future of our rural areas". Helen Goodman, MP for Bishop Auckland, has written to Anne McIntosh, chairman of the Select
FARMERS whose entry level stewardship agreements need renewing have been urged to act quickly. The scheme is worth an average of £4,000 a year - more than £330 a month - but those who apply late face a gap in payments. About 2,600 (52pc
