CONCERNS are mounting for mental health provision across a wide area after NHS bosses confirmed plans for a new hospital and another for extra in-patient beds had both been ditched. A joint health scrutiny committee for North Yorkshire, Leeds and
THE Riding for the Disabled Association's Unicorn Centre at Hemlington is celebrating a unique achievement: becoming the first riding establishment and RDA Centre in the country to become officially 'Working to become Dementia Friendly'. Following
Bradford & D.M.C. Timperley Cup Yorkshire Centre Championship trial, Yarnbury. Sunday TOM MINTA produced a result many riders could a dream about. The Telford motor engineer cleaned the entire Timperley Cup trials on Sunday on the bleak unforgiving
LATE-ENTRY Matt Edwards came, saw and conquered the 2019 Able UK Riponian Rally last Sunday as he and co-driver John Millington took an easy victory in their Ford Fiesta R5. After a year’s sabbatical in 2018, Ripon and Whitby Motor Clubs again combined
RECORDS tumbled as around 400 pupils from a Darlington school took part in their annual swimming gala. Nine school records were shattered as Hummersknott Academy students raced in the Dolphin Centre swimming pool in Darlington. It was an especially
THE club presentation evening was held last Saturday evening, but that did not deter many who attended, rising early to prepare and run in the popular Muddy Boots 10K in Ripon. This was the club's first Championship race of the season and conditions
RESIDENTS have welcomed plans for a former hospital to be turned into a hospice at a planning consultation over the use of the old Lambert Hospital. Last year, Hambleton District Council bought the former Thirsk hospital, with the objective the
THE business case for Miscanthus continues to strengthen in the face of rising uncertainty in the farming sector, due to attractive long-term contracts available and secure markets for the crop. Colin Chappell, a miscanthus grower and AHDB Monitor
By Philip Sedgwick A WENSLEYDALE woman has developed her own on line travel business in order to provide niche tourism in the Yorkshire Dales and beyond. Having lived in the Yorkshire Dales for over 20 years, including attending school in Leyburn
A FESTIVAL of music and the arts will return this spring with musicians from across the world and closer to home performing at venues around the Dales. The Swaledale Festival runs from May 25 until June 8, will welcome the current BBC Young Musician
THEY do say 'what’s in a name'? well obviously when it comes to home sweet home something memorable is always good and a bit of a talking point. So Spectator was interested to hear news from Bedale Town Council that the latest new housing development
BRITAIN'S first ever guide horses who are being trained to help blind and partially sited people have been put through their paces at a special care home. Digby, an American miniature horse who is in the final months of his two year training at
SHOPPERS will be able to learn some essential life-saving skills when members of the St John Ambulance team come to Darlington. They will be setting up stall in the Cornmill Shopping Centre next Thursday and Friday to hold the interactive first
A PROGRAMME of events is planned this year for Darlington's newest leisure complex as work gets underway on a revamp. The Feethams complex in the town centre, which incorporates restaurants, a hotel and Vue Cinema, was sold by original owners Urban
BARNARD Castle is one of my favourite market towns in County Durham and always offers something for the whole family. My husband, Ali, like to wander around the gift shops or the castle, or take a trip to the Bowes Museum on a rainy day, and now
WHEN it comes to desirable locations, Wainstones Court may have a great postcode...but that's only part of its appeal. Situated in a private gated development of four similar properties, it is within walking distance of Yarm Cricket Club and one
Road closure IT is with great dismay that the Brompton convenience store is suffering along with other local businesses due to the closure of the main road through Brompton (D&S Times, Feb 1). North Yorkshire County Council’s head of strategy
A GRANDFATHER has said he has no plans to give up his motorbike despite having been airlifted to hospital twice. Ronnie Murray, 54, a coach driver from Darlington, was travelling through Croft-on-Tees to head to work when he came off his motorbike
AN MP has slammed those who are against the building of affordable homes in rural North Yorkshire. Rishi Sunak MP for Richmondshire said whenever proposals were being put forward for new and affordable homes to be built, oppositions groups were
THE father of a toddler who was diagnosed with leukaemia last year is preparing to take on the Yorkshire Three Peaks – twice in one day. Ian Clarkson, from Leyburn, has chosen the challenge to raise cash for two children's cancer charities which
From the Darlington & Stockton Times of February 13, 1869 EXTRAORDINARY scenes accompanied the funeral of the famous fox-hunter Sir Charles Slingsby, who had been one of six huntsmen to drown nine days earlier on the River Ure while in pursuit
WALKING in woodland and forestry can often be the best thing to do in winter, particularly if the weather is not great. Here the contrast of open woodland and close forestry adds to a pleasant ½ day from Helmsley. Helmsley is where the southern
A LOCAL arts festival is calling for creative people and organisations to be part of this year's line-up. Now in its seventh year, the Darlington Arts Festival will run across the town from Friday, May 17 to Monday, May 20. Under the theme of
AN ACTION group has expressed concerns over proposed changes to plans to build dozens of new homes in a village. Low Coniscliffe and Merrybent Action Committee have sent a letter to Darlington Borough Council to express their “deep concerns” over
