How community ownership of the Exelby Green Dragon pub near Bedale has brought a village back together
Resident Peter Simpson led the charge. Peter is a joiner and plumber by trade and was one of the ‘5 o’clock crew’ that regularly propped up the bar over the years, popping by for a pint on his way home after a hard day’s work.
US farm gets permission to turn livery building into 'therapeutic' café
Gledhill Farm at Almondbury will convert part of its livery building into a café, kitchen and toilets and provide outside dining in the courtyard from 9.30am to 5pm, and to 4.30pm in the winter months.
Farm of the Week: A campsite used by Johnny Vegas for filming and a 'lost' flooded village in the Washburn Valley
Richard and Louise Pullan are tenant farmers at the 225-acre Break Folds Farm situated next to what was the hamlet of West End in the Washburn Valley, until it was flooded to form Thruscross Reservoir in the 1960s.
Image of farming needs to change to prevent 'disastrous' labour shortage, says report
The poor image of farming as a career – associations with low pay, long hours, poor work-life balance, bad conditions, lack of progression, heavy physical labour and unskilled work – needs to be reformed, experts have said.
Great US Show: These are the coronavirus restrictions in place for the Great US Show
Ensuring the safety of all staff and visitors at the event, there will be restrictions in place to minimise the transmission of COVID-19 and enable the event to go ahead in a COVID-secure way.
A 'new fangled' machine which replaces manual bale wrapping is ruled out by the 'chief bale wrapper' at the farm on the M62
After several months of lambing and the accompanied sleep deprivation, a week off would be most welcomed! I dream of white sandy beaches and azure blue seas stretching as far as the eye can see. No pens to muck out, no iodine stained hands and endless traipsing of the lambing fields. Not a cade lamb or bale of straw in sight.
Weeton Show tickets go on sale as Great US Show is confirmed and agricultural shows get set to restart for the summer
Earlier this year, the Yorkshire Agricultural Society which runs the Great Yorkshire Show, said it planned to hold the event in July with visitor numbers capped and an extra day added to comply with Covid guidelines.
Great US Show to go ahead as planned despite delay to coronavirus restrictions being lifted
The show is to run over four days for the first time in its history from July 13-16, with visitor numbers capped due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Tarmac are 'drinking at the last chance saloon' after being given permission to use quarry for another 13 years
A clear majority of Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority members voted in favour of allowing the £2bn turnover firm to extract 4.4 million tonnes of gritstone from Dry Rigg Quarry, near Horton-in-Ribblesdale, before restoring the area in 2035 with a 225-metre deep lake that would take about 30 years to fill.
Vets issue warning over fatal parvovirus surge in dogs after rise in cases around the UK
Sixty clinics have reported 89 cases of parvovirus in dogs in the first five months of 2021, a rise of 82% from the 49 cases reported over the same period in 2020.
