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Top Gear provided different take on modern art

9:13am Thursday 24th December 2009

HAVE you been to Middlesbrough’s mima modern art gallery yet?

The chocolatier thrives while steelmen are idle

11:01am Friday 18th December 2009

WHAT irony. A Saltburn chocolatier is expanding to “export”

Don’t underestimate the power of four spaces

11:17am Friday 11th December 2009

THERE may be only four car parking spaces at stake, but it is enough to cast doubt on plans to create a town square for Northallerton.

Village schools will survive if good enough

12:24pm Friday 4th December 2009

TEACHER-turned-bestselling author Gervase Phinn has forecast that village schools in North Yorkshire will survive if good enough.

Girls add more than just volume to choral tradition

11:31am Friday 27th November 2009

SUNDAY afternoon found Spectator in Durham Cathedral for a very special occasion.

If wasn’t political why the political adviser?

11:55am Friday 20th November 2009

WHILE Spectator doesn’t hold with some of the wilder political conspiracy theories about the failed prosecution of Coun John Blackie, it was curious that one individual not directly connected or involved in the case chose to sit in court for the entire two-day hearing.

Charges hit shoppers who want to linger

1:42pm Friday 13th November 2009

ANECDOTAL intelligence about the effect of Hambleton Council’s parking charges continues to dribble in.

A fine vista to accompany your dessert, ma’am

12:05pm Friday 30th October 2009

COUNTRYSIDE Live, or the little Great Yorkshire Show, continues to go from strength to strength to strength. Only eight years after the first one, it has become one of the must-attend events in the county’s agricultural calendar.

Theatre will be a fitting memorial to a true lady

10:41am Friday 23rd October 2009

LAST week’s memorial service for Sylvia Crathorne in York Minster was a truly special occasion. Spectator was among the 1,000-plus who enjoyed an immaculately put together service, with notable and well-measured contributions from family and friends.

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