ALMOST 200 tractors took part in the 15th Beadlam Charity Tractor Run - driving the total the events have raised for Yorkshire Air Ambulance to more than £100,000.
The event is now one of the biggest in the country and was launched in 2003 by retired local builder Bernard Simpson.
Just 35 tractors took part in the first run, raising £1,700 for the charity. The following year the number of vehicles and the amount raised more than doubled.
Bernard, 88, and his family still organise the event that takes the tractors on a 50-mile route through 19 village and this year raised just over £10,000 bringing the total donated to teh charity to more than £100,000.
Bernard’s son, Malcolm, an estate worker from Kirbymoorside, said: “I do a lot of the organising now, but this is still very much my dad’s event."
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