Christmas shows

From Jean Richards, theatre editor Christmas is looming, and you may be thinking about entertaining the family, or indeed yourselves, over the holiday period, so here’s a roundup of festive...

June Emerson's prize winners perform this weekend in Helmsley

This Sunday 21st October the 2011 winners of the June Emerson Wind Music Launchpad Prize from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland are performing at Helmsley Arts Centre, the first in a new ‘North...

Love your apples? Visit Rogers in Pickering this weekend

Kirkby Fruit Pickers: The Non-Bramley Liberation Movement

Kirkby Fruit Pickers are in full swing at the moment, offering our time for free, picking apples that would otherwise fall off and rot in people’s gardens around Kirkby. Despite the dire fruit crop...

Yorkshire in Bloom win for RFM

After many years of entering Yorkshire in Bloom, Ryedale Folk Museum has finally achieved Best in Category! Out of all the attractions that entered, the museum is extremely proud to have won in its...

Norton Wildlife Watch film premiere - 25 October

Warning over sneak-in thefts

Police are urging Ryedale residents to lock their doors and windows and keep valuables out of sight following a small but concerning spate of sneak-in burglaries. Ryedale and Scarborough have been...

Costume curator retires

For 23 years, Meriel Watson has been carefully looking after well more than a 1,000 items of clothing worn by Ryedale families of yesterday. From stately ballgowns to shepherds smocks, she has not...

Kirkbymoorside Primary School pupils become evacuees for the day

As part of the first day of the Pickering War Weekend children from the school dressed as war time evacuees and took a ride on the North York Moors Railway. ITV's Calendar programme filmed them for...

Pickering War Weekend begins today

Thousands of visitors are expected to join a three-day celebration of the wartime role of the railways. The North Yorkshire Moors Railway is staging the 20th annual Railway in Wartime weekend,...

National Park wins prestigious award

Apprentices at work  The North York Moors National Park Authority has been named Yorkshire and the Humber’s best employer in the regional final of the National Apprenticeship Awards 2012. The...

Brass masterclass opportunity

Three brass bands in Ryedale have come together to organise a masterclass event. Kirkbymoorside Town Band, Swinton and District Excelsior Band and Stape Silver Band have organised a day of free...

Death: John Wall

John Wall of Kirkbymoorside died peacefully in Malton Hospital on October 5th, aged 84 years. Beloved husband of the late Betty, father of Ruth, Michael, Antony, Mary and David, grandfather to...

Diary of an allotment woman

Mid October, apple season. Well, it would be apple season if there were any apples. That’s not quite true, of course, some trees have done fairly well, but others most certainly have not, and...

Do you love or loathe your street?

The hunt is on to find the best and worst examples of street maintenance in the UK! Whether you’re quietly fuming about cracked and broken pavements or if you love the street where you live, this...

Kirkbymoorside Town Council - Staffing Committee Meeting Agenda - 15 Oct.

The public and the press are welcome to attend at 6.30pm. 1. To receive apologies for absence 2. To receive Declarations of Interest 3. Minutes and Matters Arising I. To approve the Minutes of the...

Iolanthe in York

St Chad's reading group

St Chad's Bookworms are having an open meeting on Monday October 15 at 10.00 am in St Chad's House. If you enjoy reading and sharing your ideas about books, why not come along and meet the...

New management at the Vinehouse Cafe

Monica Gripaios, who runs the wonderful Vinehouse Café at the Helmsley Walled Garden, announced some time ago that she planned to retire at the end of this season, and was looking for a successor....

Tractor Day at Ryedale Folk Museum

Kirkby builder working hard to get Helmsleys newest attraction off the ground

This short film highlights the latest developments at the new International Centre for Birds of Prey at Duncombe Park and are described by Charlie Heap who is heading up the project. Local builder...

Dealing with slugs

Many gardeners will not only be complaining about the amount of rainfall weve been experiencing in recent weeks but the damage caused by slugs and snails who love these damp conditions. Friends of...

Kirkbymoorside areas flood alert - land around River Rye

From the Environment Agency Flood status last changed at 16:45 on 05 Jul 2012 Land around the River Rye and its tributaries, including the Hovingham, Helmsley, Kirbymoorside and Pickering areas...

Experts in a flutter over Turtle Dove revival in North Yorks woods

Forestry Commission rangers and volunteers from the North Yorkshire Forest Bird Study Group are venturing into woods to check on a bird which seems to be putting down new roots. The Turtle Dove –...

Positive Money - a talk by Sue Holden - Friday July 6th

Sharing some simple, but little appreciated details of how the current banking system perpetuates: wastefulness, inefficiency, unemployment, poverty, injustice, pollution, war and also undermines...

Kirkbymoorside Tesco gets go ahead

Plans for a Tesco store in which will create up to 100 full and part-time jobs have been given the thumbs up by Ryedale District Council’s planning committee. Supporters of the store, wearing “Yes...

What makes the perfect Yorkshire village?

Organisers of a rural stand at next weeks Great Yorkshire Show in Harrogate are asking visitors to help them paint a profile of the perfect village. Is a post office more important than a cricket...

Town Councillor Surgery - Tuesday 3rd July - 7-8pm

The Town Council holds councillor surgeries in the small downstairs meeting room in Church House on the first Tuesday of each month from 7-8pm. Councillors Brampton and Brewster will be in...

Independent Retailer Month - profile: Home Decorating Centre

To mark this special month celebrating and promoting independent retailers the Home Decorating Centre is giving away a very cute Dulux Dog soft toy with every £30 worth of Dulux paint purchased....

Antiques Road Show

The popular TV programme Antiques Road Show will be visiting Fountains Abbey near Ripon, within striking distance of us, on Thursday July 12, and yes, Fione Bruce will be there. More information here.