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  • Lottery cash helps relaunch of heritage group

    A GROUP set up to study the heritage of a remote North Yorkshire hamlet is being relaunched with the help of a 10,000 lottery grant. Ilton, near Masham, was once a thriving community on a drovers' road from Lofthouse, in Nidderdale, but as trade diminished

  • Villages horrified by metal replacement poles

    RESIDENTS have condemned new utility poles erected in their village, which they describe as "horrific monstrosities". Villagers in Middleton Tyas, which straddles a conservation area, have seen seven new utility poles installed over the past six weeks