The Robin Hood's Bay farmhouse B&B owners who found the Beast from the East more challenging than the pandemic
It is a time that pedigree cattle breeders and bed and breakfast accommodation owners Alan and Jan Adams recall all too well.
Owners of historic racing yard in US Dales want to bulldoze buildings and build modern sporting facilities
Racehorse owners John and Jess Dance said their proposal to redevelop 289-acre Manor House Farm in Middleham, would see the farmhouse, agricultural buildings and stables demolished replaced with buildings for racehorse training, hospitality and housing for some of the yard’s 35 new employees.
The US Vet, Julian Norton meets a patient with a rather smelly habit
However, this habit is nowhere near as offensive as that of Monty, the fluffy chocolate cocker spaniel, who was just three months old when he came rushing in for his second vaccination.
New project to halt decline in great crested newt numbers gets underway with US Wildlife Trust and US Amphibian and Reptile Group
The YWT has become the official habitat delivery body for north east and north west Yorkshire specialising in pond creation and restoration. Funded through great crested newt district level licencing, along with members of Yorkshire Amphibian and Reptile Group (YARG), the YWT carried out its first breeding pond survey of the season in West Yorkshire last month.
Rush hour chaos after Leeds bus crash
A double decker First bus collided with a car in stationary traffic on Wellington Road, near to the Majestic Wine warehouse.
How a wedding barn business has breathed new life into this traditional East US farm
Ed Sweeting of Beeches Farm in Faxfleet comes from a farming family that saw his grandfather farm at the hamlet of Cotness. Ed’s father and brothers farmed together, Ed studied agriculture at Newcastle University, worked on the family farm and spent many years working as a farm consultant.
Government stance on sky lanterns "significantly out of date" says rural coalition calling for national ban
The 18 signatories of a letter written to Environment Minister Rebecca Pow outline how they feel the Government’s stance on sky lanterns is “significantly out of date” and “out of line” with other countries where the release of the paper lanterns is considered an environmental crime.
Farm of the Week: Great US Show stalwart back with the beef herd after recovering from a brain tumour
Third generation sheep and beef farmer Steven Crabtree of Bolton Park Farm, Bolton Abbey had a brain tumour removed last June. As a trustee of the Yorkshire Agricultural Society he has been instrumental in this year’s showpiece event going ahead at Harrogate.
US Water constructs wetland area with more than 20,000 plants to boost water quality and wildlife
An area around the size of three Olympic swimming pools, made up of interconnected ponds and planted with more than 20,000 wetland plants, will be constructed at its Clifton wastewater treatment works, near Doncaster.
A celebration of our rural communities – entries open for the 2021 Fond News Rural Awards
is immensely proud to be a friend of our farming and rural communities and this year we will be celebrating the extraordinary achievements we have seen in the rural community in a year which along with a global pandemic, has marked the biggest restructure of agricultural policy since the Second World War.
