BARGAIN buy Platinum clinched his fourth and most lucrative victory of the campaign with a brilliant display in the Betfred Old Borough Cup at Haydock last Saturday. Snapped up for just £2,000 by trainer Phil Kirby last summer, the six-year-old
NICOLA WILSON picked up an 11th-place finish at the Burghley International Horse Trials at the weekend. On Opposition Buzz, who at 16 is showing no signs of age, the Morton-on-Swale rider took ninth place in the dressage, staying in that position
THE UK’s largest single site frozen food storage and distribution businesses, that handles up to £5m of food each day, has bought an ex-airport fire tender to protect its 55-acre site. Keith Boardall, chief executive of the the Reed Boardall Group
A former public convenience has been converted into a new Costa coffee shop. The building in the Applegarth Car Park, Northallerton, was acquired by Sanderson Weatherall’s chartered surveyors on behalf of London & City Estates. Sanderson
AN EDUCATION consultancy which offers advice and services to schools and academies has been shortlisted for a national award. The Darlington-based Avec Partnership was founded three years ago and has helped more than 100 schools and academies in
AN innovative partnership has resulted in two young painting and decorating apprentices gaining full-time work. The “work with a local employer” initiative run by Darlington College has resulted in Mark Evans, 19, from Barton, and Thomas Clark
AGRIPLUS, the Stokesley-based machinery dealership, recently attracted more than 50 farmers to a working demonstration day. Hosted by A & R Wilson of Hall Farm, Nunthorpe, it showcased a range of Maschio cultivation and mower machinery. In
A FAMILY-RUN North Yorkshire animal feed manufacturer has won two national awards. WE Jameson & Son, of Masham, who are also agricultural merchants and country store operators, was honoured at the National Dairy Industry Awards 2013. The
THE Co-operative is switching more of its products to 100 per cent British meat, poultry and fish. The UK’s fifth largest retailer operates almost 2,800 local, convenience and medium- sized stores across the UK, and announced the move at the same
GARGRAVE breeder Karen Shuttleworth was supreme champion at the Beltex Society’s 13th annual show and sale of pedigree rams and females at Skipton on Saturday. Show debutantes Anne and Peter Moss of Rokeby, Barnard Castle, were reserve supreme
A £34M plan to transform Askham Bryan College’s York campus – and increase student numbers by 1,500 – has been revealed. The vision, unveiled on Wednesday, would be the first major change to the campus since it opened in 1966. It includes a
I HEARD noises coming from a boy’s bedroom the other night. What could it be? Was he furtively talking on his mobile phone under the covers, shooting aliens on his games console or watching bizarre YouTube videos of cats riding goats on his iPod?
TOMORROW, September 14, was formerly known as Nutting Day and it used to be a school holiday to allow children to gather hazel nuts. This was important because there was an old belief that the Devil went around collecting nuts on this day and the objective
Making the headlines in the Darlington & Stockton Times 50, 100 and 150 years ago From this newspaper 150 years ago. – A waterspout at the High Force. – E J Lowe writes from “High Force Inn, Durham, Sept. 4th”, to the Times, of a fine waterspout
If you want a whole new lawn, or simply want to repair an existing one, Hannah Stephenson looks at the best lawn seed mixes available AFTER a summer of being dried out by heat and trampled on by outdoor activities, your lawn may be looking a bit
On a cruise through Eastern Europe, John Hobbs discovers some surprising changes taking place on the banks of the River Danube MUCH food for thought here. As the Danube – no longer the blue hue immortalised in the waltz by Johann Strauss, but rather
WE all love the Bowes Museum, don’t we? It’s just such a daft, crazy place. No matter how many times I visit, I’m always struck at the apparent absurdity of building such a massive pile in such a place, an exotic French chateaustyle lump of architectural
Betsy Everett vists the smaller of two Wensleydale creameries – the Ribblesdale Cheese Company THERE are two cheese-making factories in Hawes and one of them is so small I can’t even find it, tucked away as it is at the back of an industrial estate
EXHIBITIONS devoted to the distinguished British artist William Tillyer – more celebrated perhaps in New York than in the Cleveland area where he lives – will be mounted this autumn at mima, in Middlesbrough, and simultaneously at two other galleries
Chris Pleasance talks to North Yorkshire willow sculptor Emma Stothard about the many creatures she has created, including a very special four-legged friend for the heir to the throne IN the middle of a barn on the outskirts of Whitby, surrounded
Sir – Conservation areas: what do those two words mean to you? Dictionary definitions of “to conserve” are to preserve, to keep entire, to keep from harm, decay and loss. These all suggest that conservation areas contain something special
Sir, – Andy Bottomley deftly, in his brevity, highlights the skewed nature of our apparent priorities and inherent unfairness in the systems which have been allowed to develop. This chimes with a personal feeling of powerlessness and impotency.
Sir – Your correspondent (D&S, Aug 30) has suggested a workable and economic solution for all UK rail lines. But surely a simple review of the number of season ticket holders would give the facts for the requirement for this major project from
Sir – I am obliged to you for publishing my letter last week on the World Welly Wanging Championships to be held at the Duke of Wellington, Welbury. Unfortunately I gave the wrong date, for which I profoundly apologise. I doubly apologise to
Sir – Re: Nicholas Rhea's piece about bridge chapels. My parents used to live in Bradford-on-Avon, in Wiltshire, and I got to know the town well. The chapel is locally known as the “lock-up”. According to the tourist Information leaflet about Bradford-on-Avon
Sir – Your newspaper regularly reports on the concerns residents have over the impact of new housing developments. Living at the rear of one of these recent developments my neighbours and I have, since the original planning application, pointed
Sir – I have some concerns regarding recent A-level results at Richmond School. I wrote to the headteacher and to all governors on August 25 to outline my worries and asking for comment. To date, two weeks later, I have not had any acknowledgement
Sir – Now William Hague has failed to get support for an attack on Syria while the French are keen to get involved perhaps it is time to remind the French that they have lost their greatest accolade and now the UK is the new cheese-eating surrender
Sir – With reference to your lead headline (D&S, Aug 30), may I comment on the problems of excessive speed and the volumes of traffic passing through Tunstall. I returned from what was sometimes a heated meeting and reflected on what could
Sir – It is very sad indeed that 230 years of history has ended so abruptly with the closure of Northallerton Prison, the oldest in the UK. From the day in July 1986 when I first entered the establishment, my visits over 27 years as a member of the
NORTHALLERTON – so long regarded as vibrant and affluent – is facing an unprecedented threat to its future prosperity. In less than a month, the town discovered that it was to lose nearly 600 jobs with the closure of the prison and the town’s Rural
