Pub offered

A VILLAGE pub in the North York Moors has gone on the market with offers invited. Specialist business property adviser, Christie and Co has been instructed to sell the leasehold of The Inn at Hawnby, near Thirsk. The country inn includes a bar, lounge, restaurant, six double ensuite letting rooms and three self-contained letting rooms. It is situated on the Mexborough estate purchased by John Savile, the 6th Earl of Mexborough in 1897.

Football teams

NEW teams are being invited to join the Thirsk 6-a-side football league on Tuesday nights. There is free entry for all teams and a match fee of £26. The 40-minute games are played on Thirsk School’s astroturf pitches and the kick-off times are between 7pm to 10pm to suit teams. The games, like the referees, are FA affilliated. The season starts on October 9 and any standard is welcome. Apply via footballmundial.com/leagues/view/39/thirsk-6-a-side-league

Quaker talk

A TALK will be given by Graham Easterlow ‘Of Bullets and Barricades - A trade unionist in the Holy Land’ at the Quaker Meeting House in Thirsk. It takes place on Thursday, October 4 at 7pm and there will be tea, coffee and light refreshments available.

History society

THIRKLEBY Local History Society is hosting a talk by Adam Collier on Yorkshire Dialect this Thursday, October 4 at 7.30pm. Admission is £2 and there will be refreshments. It takes place in Thirkleby Village Hall.

Light warning

POLICE are urging cyclists to use bike lights as the nights draw in - or risk a £50 fine. Officers will be issuing Traffic Offence reports - which carry a £50 penalty - to cyclists who fail to use their lights in the dark and police are carrying out proactive patrols throughout the autumn and winter. A North Yorkshire Police spokesman said: “We deal with some horrific collisions involving cyclists – if you saw what we saw, you’d always make yourself seen.”