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The North Yorkshire Moors Railway is celebrating after it reached the halfway point in its fundraising target of £800,000 needed to pay for the vital repair of Bridge 42 at Grosmont. The fundraiser was launched earlier this year to pay for structural repairs to stabilise the bridge between Grosmont Level Crossing and the tunnel. In… →
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North Yorkshire Police’s rural task force will be at Ruswarp Mart tomorrow as part of a crackdown on crime in the region’s isolated farming areas this week. National Rural Crime Action Week is an annual campaign led by the National Rural Crime Network (NRCN) to raise awareness of rural crime and got underway on Monday.… →
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For well over a hundred years, at least, artists have been drawn to the small, isolated fishing village of Staithes – once one of the largest fishing ports in the region – to find inspiration in its old world charm. The Staithes Festival of Arts & Heritage continues that to this day. Next weekend, from… →
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Whitby is renowned for its love of weird, wonderful and whimsical but a five-foot bronze mouse doing a handstand on top of a ball on the beach at Sandsend may have raised an eye-brow at least amongst the early-morning risers and dog walkers. It was in fact a sculpture by Stephen Charlton, who trained at… →
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In a fairly unassuming building tucked into the cottages, red pantile rooves and winding cobbles streets which make for that unmistakable Staithes street scene, there is the most unlikely treasure trove of local history. Some 30-odd years ago Reg Firth and his beloved wife, Anne, bought the former Primitive Methodist Chapel on Staithes High Street… →
Read: One man’s lifetime collection of Staithes history is awarded museum accreditation
Two National Trust run cafés, in Robin Hood’s Bay and Ravenscar, will close next month after being deemed “no longer viable”. The cafés at Ravenscar and Bay’s Old Coastguard Station will cease trading and close to customers on Sunday September 6. A number of jobs have been made redundant and The National Trust says it… →
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Sleights Football Club will return to competitive football with a local derby tonight after a four-year hiatus. Fishburn Park Academy provide the opposition at the Sleights sportsfield with kick-off at 6.30pm. Sleights has a mix of 16 and 17 year-olds who have come through the junior setup, alongside seasoned players such as former Doncaster Rovers… →
Read: Sleights FC makes return to local football four years after disbanding
Four farming generations ago, Lythe farmer, Eric Dobson, milked his own cows and sold the milk door-to-door in Sandsend. There were no supermarket contracts or price wars back then. On the back of what has been a turbulent few years for the farming industry, the same Dobson family farming business, some 80 years later, has… →
Read: The farming family behind Lythe’s new milk vending machine
For the best part of 50 years Staithes and Runswick RNLI has operated inshore boats on this stretch of the coastline and, just like its colleagues in Whitby, it relies on public donations and support to keep going. Each year, the village of Staithes hosts a weekend of family fun and fundraising to ensure the… →
Read: Supporters gather for annual Staithes and Runswick Lifeboat Weekend
As a child, food and home-cooking were a big part of life for David Atherton. Unbeknown to him, but that childhood in Ruswarp would stand him in good stead. The winner of the 2019 series of The Great British Bake-Off, David is still a health advisor for the Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO), has published cookbooks,… →
Read: Bake Off star David Atherton on why Whitby will always be home
Near perfect sea conditions and a spectacular sunrise greeted swimmers as they gathered for the Whitby Regatta sea swim early on Saturday morning. More than 70 swimmers took to the water for the two swim distances – two miles from Sandsend to the Battery Parade and a 1000 metre distance from the end of the… →
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Sleights Cricket Club is experiencing a new injection of life since a return to action in 2023. They briefly left their Lowdale Lane home, for four years, but are now back in rude health with a walking cricket team for all ages and junior coaching for primary school youngsters through the ECB’s Dynamos and All… →
Read: Not out just yet: Why Sleights Cricket Club is enjoying new lease of life
Over the years it hasn’t been unusual to see television cameras and film crews flocking to Goathland – but news that village sweetheart and actress Tricia Penrose was part of a business trio taking over the pub which featured in Heartbeat has led the national news agenda for days. Tricia, Andrew Fiddler and Jason Wood… →
Read: “It has blown us out of the water” – new owners of Goathland Hotel shocked by reaction to take-over
A day off from the farm, a family day out, villages and communities coming together in the countryside – not to mention an award winning lemon curd or the best baked pie being shown with pride. The first agricultural and country shows to take place in Yorkshire date back to the late 1700s. Some 250… →
Read: Aislaby Show returns after 40 year hiatus as local village show season gets underway
“For every house we are building, we are losing three to second homes and holiday lets.” This, along with “an explosion in Airbnbs” has become a priority problem for the North York Moors National Park (NYMNP), which says it is, “for the first time”, looking at expanding its villages with developments of housing on the… →
Read: National Park having to build more houses because of second homes and holiday lets
“It flies in the face of the ointment with other ways of life”. Rural village life has changed over the years, churches close, post offices, shops and other local facilities fall by the wayside or under threat. Quaint cottages are now holiday lets and the old family names for so long synonymous with a place… →
Read: How a thriving Ruswarp Mart is bucking trend for livestock auctions
Actress Tricia Penrose has taken over the real-life pub in Goathland, where millions of viewers around the world saw her character Gina Ward pull pints in the television series Heartbeat for 18 years. Along with local businessmen, Andy Fiddler and Jason Wood, Tricia has taken on the lease for The Goathland Hotel, used as the… →
Read: Heartbeat actress takes over Goathland pub which made her a global house-hold name
For the last 30 years or more, the dying art of skills which were taught during the Industrial Revolution, have been kept alive in a cramped portable cabin in Grosmont. But now, the North Yorkshire Moors Railway (NYMR) has created a dedicated space – the last remaining facility of its kind in the world –… →
Read: NYMR’s teaching centre in Grosmont is only one in world preserving traditional steam skills
It has served fishing crews, the town’s workers and local folk going about their business with a quick glance up the east cliff for more than a hundred years. But, after almost three years of time standing still, plans are winding up to repairing the clock at St Mary’s Church – but it is going… →
Read: St Mary’s Church launches £60,000 fundraising appeal to reinstate 130 year-old clockWhitby’s sheep farming finest brought home the rosettes, cups and the kudos after a successful week at the Great Yorkshire Show. For some it was their first time at The Great Yorkshire Show (GYS) – hailed as the UK’s premier agricultural event – for others, they have been making the trip to the Harrogate showground… →
Read: Whitby farmers take it to The Great Yorkshire Show 2026
Sleights C of E School will say goodbye to its longest serving member of staff when school breaks up for the summer holidays tomorrow. Deb McGill has been a teaching assistant at Sleights C of E for 26 years and in that time has seen generations of families attend the school, including her own five… →
Read: A fond farewell to longest serving member of staff at Sleights C of E after 26 years