MEMBERS of an authority are set to consider continuing to provide increased funding for community-based projects after learning how the grants helped secure much more money. Richmondshire District Council’s corporate board is to examine maintaining
LEADING members of a council which counts driving economic vitality among its top priorities are set to consider offering business rates relief to numerous businesses to help boost town centres. Hambleton District Council’s Cabinet will examine
RURAL crime was the focus of a multi-force operation targeting cross-border criminals. Operation Checkpoint saw more than 110 police officers, PCSOs and Special Constables from the North Yorkshire, Cleveland, Cumbria, Durham, Lancashire and Northumbria
A NORTH-EAST bridge builder has secured millions of pounds of funding to send hundreds of bridges to southern Asia. International Trade Secretary Liam Fox announced yesterday that UK Export Finance (UKEF) will provide £49m worth of support for Darlington-based
Riding for the Disabled Association CELEBRATIONS were underway last week at the Stokesley branch of the Riding for the Disabled Association, when one of their ponies, Hunky Dory, received a regional award for outstanding achievement. The Maggie
A FOOTBALL club has pledged to give more talented young players the opportunity to play in its first team. Shildon AFC chairman David Dent set out plans to grow the club into the wider community in October 2018, with the appointment of a new sporting
Yeadon-Guiseley Motor Club, Cobb & Jagger Trophy Yorkshire Centre Championship trial, Keighley Gate LEEDS builder Liam Walker shrugged off the ice and snow on Sunday at the exposed Keighley Gate trials venue to win the first Yorkshire Centre
THE Montane Spine Race is one of the most brutal and challenging in Europe, and last month Shelli Gordon of the Let’s Run store in Stokesley not only completed it, but came second. This Winter Marathon is known as one of the toughest ultra distance
YOUNG netballers in the North-East are celebrating success as they go on to represent the region at the biggest schools competition in the national netball calendar. Yarm School’s Under-16s and Under-19s netball squads have qualified for the National
THE first team are enjoying their first ever season playing in the Premier League in the York and District League, they are currently 9th having played 21 league games. On Saturday next they will be at home to 5th placed Wiggington Grasshoppers
A SCHOOLGIRL who was selected for the GB cycling team last year has raced against cycling legends in Manchester. Abi Smith, 16, who is a sixth former at Ripon Grammar School raced at the finals of the three-day, HSBC UK National Track Championships
A NORTH-EAST teenager has been selected to play football for her country. Lily Patrick has been selected for the under 15 England Schools' national squad this season, the only representative from Cleveland in the team. Lily, who plays left wing
DARLINGTON Football Club has announced its latest shirt sponsor in a deal set to last two and a half years. The North-East based communications specialists Nice Network Ltd will have their logo spread across the back of the Quakers' home and away
AN “outstanding” teenager who has overcome a crippling illness to become a sporting role model led the honours at a prestigious North-East sports awards ceremony. Lydia Shale, 16, was named “the winner of winners” at the 43rd Darlington Sports Winners
THE transport secretary Chris Grayling has said traffic and parking problems in a town could be fixed “on a national level” in order to ease congestion. Yarm, near Stockton, has been plagued with growing traffic concerns, and a lack of car parking
YOU may recall that in November I wrote about my unimpressive history of making Yorkshire puddings, which was sparked by my dad’s column from 40 years earlier in which he mentioned the tradition of eating Yorkshires as a starter with gravy. As a
SPONSORED CONTENT A NEW luxury hotel and wellness retreat opening in Ripon this spring is looking to take on 200 members of staff in all areas. The magnificent Grade II* building of Grantley Hall dates back to the 17th Century and has hosted
From the Darlington & Stockton Times of February 6, 1869 “SAD Affair near Ripon – Six lives lost”, said the headline in the D&S Times of 150 years ago this week. It was an extraordinary understatement – this was the Newby Hall Ferry Disaster
I VOWED I was not going to be all snobby and foodie when we set out for Uno Momento in Northallerton. Not being a fan of this Italian chain’s “pile-it-high, sell-it-cheap” philosophy, I told myself to forget the underwhelming experience I had at
ALTHOUGH perfectly suited to modern family living, The Old Vicarage simply oozes old-world elegance and character. That it occupies a first-class site, in the centre of one of North Yorkshire's most sought-after villages, and offers some of the region's
THE dale of Airedale is rarely explored in favour of the more popular Yorkshire Dales but there are some interesting shorter walks with great views and pretty vales. This one from Sutton-in-Carven is one of the best. I parked on the road outside
Ahead of the Stokesley Song Fest, Jan Hunter meets opera singer Emily Smith and talks about her work with Teesside choirs of homeless people and asylum-seekers A TORY baronet once said that the homeless were the people that you step over when you
Entertainment HAVING read Chris Green's letter (D&S letters, Jan 25) concerning loud conversations in coffee houses and the further comment by Marion Moverley (Feb 1), there is one further aspect which might be worth considering; that of sheer
AN appeal for £1.25m has been launched by church, community and mental health leaders to save a special retreat centre in North Yorkshire. Supporters of Holy Rood House, in Sowerby near Thirsk say hundreds of people have been helped and countless
A WENSLEYDALE farm has won the NMR RABDF Gold Cup, the dairy sector's top award. Philip Metcalfe and his team from Metcalfe Farms, Leyburn, was presented with the award by The Princess Royal at Dairy-Tech, Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire on Wednesday
A NEW gin which has only been in production for ten months has won a national award. Whitby Gin was named the Best British London Dry Gin in the World Gin Awards 2019, beating such well-known brands as Gordons and Tanqueray. Now it goes forward
A POPULAR exhibition exploring men’s voices is returning to south-west Durham. Bishop Auckland-based arts company Changing Relations has announced that Men’s Voices: Stepping Out of the Box exhibition will tour throughout this year. Thanks to funding
A LONG-AWAITED multi-million pound road junction near Thirsk is set to open this Spring. Work started on the Sowerby Gateway junction off the A168 last July - almost five years after people were told it would be built as part of a massive housing
LINKS to the early life of the regions most famous explorer Captain James Cook have been unearthed by contractors working at the family home. Although the Cook family cottage in Great Ayton was moved to Australia in 1934 recent excavations to create
THE final curtain came down for Britain's longest serving panto dame as Berwick Kaler took his last bow after 41 years on the stage. Amid emotional scenes the 72 year old gave his final performance at York Theatre Royal where he has entertained
A SPECIALIST steel fabricator has celebrated its first year in new premises by passing the £1m turnover landmark and taking on the next generation of workers. Northallerton based Langtons moved from their old Finkills Way site to a bigger open plan
AN Open Day will reveal the ancient finds and archaeological artefacts discovered during a £98,000 investigation into a villages past. The Heritage Lottery Fund has backed the two year exploration at the tiny village of Thornton le Street, near
SPECTATOR never ceases to be amazed at the fascination a load of old bones, rocks or bits of flint can create. Of course it’s real history, even though it may just be a tiny legacy of what great buildings may have been there in the first place.
YOUNG fundraisers showed what can be achieved when they try after collecting £22,000 for a rugby player struck down by an incurable disease. Barnard Castle School pupils and staff handed over the proceeds of a single term’s fundraising to the My
A FORMER tea manufacturer and civil servant has turned his career sights to chatting on the telephone. Robin Grey, from Darlington, had a long and fulfilling career working until the age of 74. Following his retirement, he decided to take a "
A FORMER Olympic canoe coach who is using his love of the water to raise awareness of climate change is trying to get support from the royal family. David Train, who was born in Stockton, is calling on world leaders to sign his Paddle for Life –
RACING yards in the region have been taking extra precautions against equine flu after the country's meetings were abandoned for six days following an outbreak. Yards in Middleham and Malton have been trying to keep horses free from the disease,
A MAN has fulfilled a 30-year dream by landing a full-time job as a pilot. Lee Davison, 51, of Northallerton, had a desire to fly when he was 21 but a change of career meant he served several years working with various ambulance services. In
THE former home of Daleswoman, Hannah Hauxwell has been put up for sale. Her extraordinary story of endurance farming in the harshest conditions in Upper Teesdale made the world fall in love with her when Yorkshire Television made a documentary
