THE National Sheep Association (NSA) was very disappointed to cancel its sheep events this summer, but is now proceeding with plans for its line-up of spring and summer events for 2021. The NSA 2021 diary is already looking full with the main regional
A HOTEL is to shut just weeks after the Grade II listed venue was bought by a regional leisure operator. About 30 staff will be made redundant when Whitworth Hall Hotel and Deer Park, near Spennymoor, closes indefinitely from next Sunday, October
A YORKSHIRE Dales artist showcases a selection of her latest work in a new exhibition this month. Judith Bromley returns to The Garden Rooms at Tennants, near Leyburn, with a number of new vibrant landscape paintings of the Dales in her selling
A LEYBURN-BASED accountant has been given a prestigious award by her professional body. The Association of Accounting Technicians, the professional membership body, overseeing standards and awarding skills-based accountancy and finance qualifications
A DALES-BASED academic has written a comprehensive account of an infectious disease that affected thousands for centuries, and still does today, particularly in Brazil, India, and Indonesia. For many years Wensleydale resident, Charlotte Roberts
Bid support NOW that North Yorkshire councils have received a letter inviting them to put forward proposals regarding local government reorganisation, as the former leader of Scarborough Borough Council and as a county councillor, I am of the opinion
THE meat for the class I’m about to attend at Elizabeth Fawcett’s cookery school in Hawes is from the local butcher. The veg and spices come mainly from the Spar shop down the road. And the filo pastry came to town on the Little White Bus the night
BY the time these words are published they may well be haunting me. I reckon the idea of a second national lockdown, circuit-breaker, call it what you will, is completely nuts. I know you are probably saying that this is not the place for what
TWO friends teamed up to hold a Macmillan coffee morning with a difference at a North Yorkshire farm. Claire Redhead and Sarah Seilly staged a Covid-secure cake takeaway in a shed at Dialstone Farm, at the top of Sutton Bank, raising £2,942.33 for
STOKESLEY METHODIST CHURCH and the Town Hall have been illuminated with purple lights since last Wednesday to raise awareness of polio. The initiative came from Stokesley Rotary, one of thousands of Rotary clubs across the world taking action for
