Tax on drunkenness

1:39pm Friday 7th March 2008

THE changes to Britain's licensing laws were much feared. The introduction of 24-hour drinking was thought to be the herald of unrestrained disorder.

Signal failure

12:40pm Friday 29th February 2008

THE possibility that The Local Radio Company will pull its broadcasting operation out of Northallerton is very disappointing.

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Our mutual friends

1:31pm Friday 22nd February 2008

AS the dust settles, albeit temporarily perhaps, on the Government's decision to nationalise the Northern Rock bank, we report this week on the results of our local building society.

Post office warning

12:29pm Friday 15th February 2008

IN November last year we expressed the hope that the consultation process which had just started over proposed post office closures in parts of North Yorkshire would be meaningful.

Small is beautiful

1:18pm Friday 8th February 2008

WARNINGS that increasing numbers of small village schools are to come under threat of closure should be given some credence.

A wake-up call

1:13pm Friday 1st February 2008

THE fine and costs handed out to a company found guilty of damaging Pennine moorland at Durham Crown Court this week sends a loud and clear message to the nation's landowners and custodians.

Charging questions

12:57pm Friday 25th January 2008

PROPOSALS for introducing car parking charges in Hambleton have been handled, up to this point at least, with a degree of good sense.

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Gas and gaiters

1:05pm Friday 18th January 2008

THE quest began in County Durham in 1912. Now the search for a holy grail of British industry, a way to harness a virtually inexhaustible source of energy safely and cleanly without reliance on Johnny Foreigner, is being backed by the North-East's senior churchman.

Cheap commuting

12:43pm Friday 11th January 2008

THE Channel 4 television cameras return to the region next week so let's hope they leave with a more favourable impression than the last time, when Middlesbrough was labelled the worst place in the country to live.

Park politics

2:01pm Friday 4th January 2008

THE George and Dragon is the most English of pub names. It is perhaps not surprising that the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority took a dim view of the Caribbeanstyle umbrellas that appeared outside the 18th century public house at Aysgarth three years ago.

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