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The Pheasant Hotel, Harome, near Helmsley

FORMAL BUT RELAXED: The Pheasant Hotel dining room

12:45pm Friday 12th March 2010

A new star is born in blessed village.

New Fiction: The Man Who Disappeared by Clare Morrall

New Fiction:  The Man Who Disappeared by Clare Morrall

12:33pm Friday 12th March 2010

The Man Who Disappeared by Clare Morrall is published in hardback by Sceptre, priced £16.99.

NEW NON-FICTION: Where Power Lies: Prime Ministers, the Media and the Struggle for Supremacy by Lance Price

NEW NON-FICTION:  Where Power Lies: Prime Ministers, the Media and the Struggle for Supremacy by Lance Price

12:38pm Friday 12th March 2010

Where Power Lies: Prime Ministers, the Media and the Struggle for Supremacy by Lance Price is published in hardback by Simon and Schuster, priced £20.

Plant veg among perennials, says Alys

VEGETABLE FAN: TV gardening expert Alys Fowler

12:39pm Friday 12th March 2010

FOR many years, vegetables were not considered an ornamental addition to the garden, and veg plots were often hidden out of sight or at least as far away as possible from prized flowering beds and borders.

Plotting a course to Kirkby Malzeard, via the Maldives

MILITARY HISTORY: former Lancaster bomber navigator Eric Cropper, who has written a book about his time in the RAF

12:25pm Friday 12th March 2010

A FORMER RAF navigator who narrowly escaped death in the Second World War has put his life story into print. Eric Cropper, of Kirkby Malzeard, has written Back Bearings: A Navigator’s Tale 1942 to 1974.

New fiction; Even The Dogs by Jon McGregor

New fiction; Even The Dogs by Jon McGregor

12:31pm Friday 12th March 2010

Even The Dogs by Jon McGregor is published in hardback by Bloomsbury, priced £12.99.

Swaledale moves into Barney

12:15pm Friday 12th March 2010

SWALEDALE Festival’s 30th anniversary year starts on Saturday, May 29, with a concert at Grinton by Red Priest, the only early music group that can claim the bizarre distinction of having been compared to the Rolling Stones, the artist Jackson Pollock and the Marx Brothers.

Why it’s vital the curtain does not come down on local theatre

STAGE CRAFT: members of Masham Players prepare for their most recent production, John Godber’s Happy Families

11:59am Friday 12th March 2010

Louise Cole reports on the struggle to keep amateur dramatics alive in our market towns and villages.

Middle Earth on stage at the Civic

DANGEROUS QUEST: a scene from the new touring production of The Hobbit

12:14pm Friday 12th March 2010

A STAGE adaptation of JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit comes to Darlington Civic Theatre next week.

Weegee in focus

12:16pm Friday 12th March 2010

THE Profile Gallery, Saltburn, is showing work by the late Austian-born American press photographer Weegee, the first time his pictures have been exhibited on Teesside.










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