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[] | 2016-08-26T13:12:00 | null | 2016-08-25T15:12:40 | The Whitby parish has welcomed a new vicar. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fnew-vicar-welcomed-to-whitby-1-8088933.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8088932.1472134338!/image/image.jpg | en | null | New vicar welcomed to Whitby | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | The Whitby parish has welcomed a new vicar.
Father Michael Gobbett takes over the reins from Canon David Smith who has retired.
He was inducted at a special service last month and has taken on four parishes – St Mary’s Church on the East Cliff, St Hilda’s on the West Cliff, St John’s on Baxtergate and St Bartholemew’s at Ruswarp.
Father Michael was previously at Sedgefield in County Durham and felt that after 10 years at that parish it was time for a move.
He said: “I felt it was time for a move and this seemed the appropriate place.
“I have visited on days off and studied here and know the place quite well.”
Some of the things Father Michael is keen to do during his time here is work on outreach into the community and particularly schools.
He wants to build up the pilgrimage aspect at St Mary’s and create a place where people want to come to.
In addition he would like to look at ways that the churches in Whitby, not just Anglican, can work together for the benefit of the community.
He said: “I enjoy the variety of the different churches and people have been very welcoming.
“There are various opportunities available here but I am still learning how the place works and what it is all about.
“It is very busy at the moment with it being the height of summer.”
Away from the church Father Michael enjoys reading modern novels or about history and politics.
He follows cricket, listens to classical music and also likes to visit English Heritage places of interest. | http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/news/local/new-vicar-welcomed-to-whitby-1-8088933 | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | www.whitbygazette.co.uk/d7aa2a6dd607b57952315878c53f0572d37d2cec2ed36e512858a9476e497056.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:08:15 | null | 2016-08-24T00:00:06 | THE day was sunny and very warm, made bearable by a cooling breeze blowing from the Trafalgar Square end. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Fsport%2Flocal-sport%2Fyorkshire-are-left-indebted-to-andrew-hodd-and-azeem-rafiq-1-8085039.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8085038.1471983042!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Yorkshire are left indebted to Andrew Hodd and Azeem Rafiq | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | THE day was sunny and very warm, made bearable by a cooling breeze blowing from the Trafalgar Square end.
Thunder flies clung to the skin until they were swept away with sweaty hands or else flicked off – Subbuteo-like – with sticky fingers.
Spectators sat in shirt-sleeves and sun hats, occasionally raising a drink to their lips or slurping at ice creams, while seagulls squawked and circled the ground, looking for remnants of discarded food.
For much of the long and lazy afternoon, the pin-striped deckchairs in front of the West Stand marquee were vacant as important people enjoyed an extended lunch, occasionally popping their heads outside to check the scoreboard on the popular bank.
All the sights and sounds of Scarborough were present for the start of the 130th Festival, just as they have always been, and the cricket itself was of compelling character.
After half-an-hour’s play, Yorkshire were 21-0 after Notts, the bottom club, took up the right of the visiting side to field first.
Half-an-hour before lunch, Yorkshire, the second-placed club, had sunk to 51-6 after insipid batting and inspired work from medium-pacer Steven Mullaney had nipped out three of the wickets and effected a run-out.
A seventh-wicket stand of 132 in 34 overs between Andrew Hodd (96no) and Azeem Rafiq (74) stopped the bleeding, and even inspired a recovery back to rude health as both made their highest scores of the season, Hodd also making his highest score for Yorkshire.
The wicketkeeper deserved a century, but was left stranded when the hosts were dismissed for 282 deep into the evening session, Notts reaching stumps on 38-2.
On a day when 4,979 spectators gathered in glorious sunshine, it was pertinent to ponder initially who was not playing as much as who was.
Yorkshire were without Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow, Liam Plunkett, Adil Rashid and David Willey due to international calls, while captain Andrew Gale failed a fitness test on a sore back, with Gary Ballance leading the club for the first time in the Championship.
Gale, who has struggled for runs, therefore missed out at a ground where he has scored 1,372 of them in 19 first-class games at 49, including a career-best 272 when these sides last met in the Championship here in 2013.
For their part, Notts were without pace bowlers Stuart Broad (ankle), Jake Ball (international duty) and Harry Gurney (hip), with the visitors handing a debut to 19-year-old batsman Tom Moores, son of former England head coach Peter Moores, the Notts’ coaching consultant.
Despite their depleted bowling resources, Notts could hardly have wished for a better morning session.
There was a strong element of luck about the first wicket, Adam Lyth run-out at the non-striker’s end when Mullaney deflected a drive from Alex Lees on to the stumps.
But there was nothing fortuitous thereafter as Lees pushed at one from Mullaney and was caught at third slip, Jake Lehmann was caught at second slip driving at Mullaney, and Ballance went lbw to Luke Fletcher playing across his pads.
When Tim Bresnan padded up to Mullaney and Jack Leaning followed a wide delivery from Brett Hutton and was caught at third slip, Yorkshire were 51-6 and in disarray.
But Hodd and Rafiq added 46 in seven overs before lunch, and then they frustrated the visitors in the afternoon, Notts failing to build on their earlier good work.
Rafiq, who has a first-class hundred to his name, gradually grew in confidence to the extent that he contemptuously thumped Hutton for four over mid-on towards the Peasholm Park end.
When he chipped the next ball for four just over a leaping Fletcher at mid-on, Rafiq had his third first-class fifty from 75 balls with eight boundaries, a fitting way to mark a day when he was officially re-presented with his county cap – along with Leaning – by the Yorkshire president, John Hampshire.
It took an apparently controversial decision from Neil Mallender to send him on his way, the umpire adjudging him lbw to Samit Patel, a wicket swiftly followed by that of Steve Patterson, who went lbw to Imran Tahir.
Hodd breezed past his previous best for Yorkshire of 68 not out against Somerset at Taunton three years ago, and he added 88 for the ninth-wicket in 21 overs with Jack Brooks, who contributed 48 from 66 balls with seven fours and a six, Brooks chopping on to Hutton.
When Ryan Sidebottom was lbw to Hutton nine balls later, Hodd was left agonisingly short of a fifth first-class hundred, having faced 185 balls and struck 10 fours.
Notts lost a wicket to the seventh ball of their reply when Brooks pinned Jake Libby lbw, and they would have been 1-2 had Leaning taken a low chance at third slip offered by Moores off Sidebottom.
But Bresnan had Moores caught at second slip by Lyth in the final over as Yorkshire completed a fine fightback.
Scoreboard: Page 22. | http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/sport/local-sport/yorkshire-are-left-indebted-to-andrew-hodd-and-azeem-rafiq-1-8085039 | en | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | www.whitbygazette.co.uk/377befd0a414483f40642c4547a51bb8fc13ffa2ec9b2bada415d495e90c6bbf.json |
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Our winners will get to see it more than a week before anyone else - it opens in UK cinemas on August 10.
Mike And Dave Need Wedding Dates (15 certificate) is based on real life events when hard-partying brothers Mike (Adam Devine) and Dave (Zac Efron) place an online ad to find the perfect dates (Anna Kendrick, Aubrey Plaza) for their sister's Hawaiian wedding.
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[] | 2016-08-26T13:08:50 | null | 2016-08-26T08:00:16 | This is a gem of a property, hidden away in a sheltered position, yet just off the promenade, in the village of Sandsend, one of the most desirable locations on the Heritage Coast. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Fwhat-s-on%2Fout-about%2Fproperty-the-parade-sandsend-near-whitby-offers-in-excess-of-425-000-1-8085311.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8085310.1472024132!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Property: The Parade, Sandsend, near Whitby, offers in excess of £425,000 | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | This is a gem of a property, hidden away in a sheltered position, yet just off the promenade, in the village of Sandsend, one of the most desirable locations on the Heritage Coast.
The property has been newly renovated and refurbished to reach its present outstanding level, having a high standard of fixtures and fittings throughout with nothing left out.
The accommodation has a bright modern feel comprising fully fitted kitchen with the full range of integral appliances, spacious lounge which opens out onto the stunning patio and rear garden, first floor bedroom and large second room, house bathroom and a further double bedroom and en-suite above.
The secluded private rear garden, which has views to the sea, has been newly terraced to provide that all important outdoor space, a real sun trap sheltered from the colder winds, whilst also being designed to be very low maintenance.
With the beach just a few short steps away, all of Sandsend’s amenities close at hand and Whitby just a few miles along the golden beach this really is one to view, whether looking for a permanent home or holiday cottage.
Please note under the terms of a restrictive covenant, no commercial holiday letting is allowed.
Contact Astins on 01947 821122 for more details or to book a viewing.
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Yorkshire's latest Radio 1 stars The Sherlocks had a muddy great time at Leeds Festival - they drew a crowd of more than 6,000 fans then camped out with them.
The Sheffield indie four piece turned down a five star hotel and proved they are a real band of the people.
After packing out the Festival Republic stage they decided to pitched a tent in one of the muddy camp sites.
360 PHOTO: Take a look around the muddy camp site where hundreds of music fans also pitched their tents at Leeds Festival - CLICK HERE.
Frontan Kiaran Crook, aged 20, revealed: "We played our set then decided to camp through the night. We had an option to go into a five star hotel, with a jacuzzi and everything, but we decided to camp.
"We just love it."
He then joked: "We ended up camping next to the Red Hot Chili Peppers- I could hear Anthony snoring.
"But no, seriously, we love it. We love a bit of mud. We just thought, we might as well have the full festival experience."
Melvin Benn, Reading and Leeds Festival boss, said: "I didn't know The Sherlocks went and pitched up in the camp site. It doesn't surprise me. It's what my kids do. They want to be in the public camp site. Anybody who thinks the VIP area is the place to be, I can tell you it's a bit more boring."
Other Yorkshire bands who played at Leeds over the weekend included Sheffield's The Wired and Liberty Ship, Leeds band Dusk, Fighting Caravans, York based Faux Pas and many more.
The Sherlocks played to over 6,000 people then camped out with fans in muddy fields at Leeds Festival.
The Sherlocks, also featuring Kiaran's brother, drummer Brandon, 23, guitarist Josh Davidson, 22, and his brother and bassist Andy, 17, recently played the biggest music festival in the world, SXSW in Austin, Texas.
They also played at Reading Festival at the weekend but said Leeds, their Yorkshire homecoming, was the highlight of their year.
Kiaran added: "Leeds Festival is really important to us. It's given us a chance to pick up new fans. We had a blast. The tent was packed. It exceeded what we thought it would be.We're going on tour next month, starting in Brighton and finishing in Stockton, with a sold out gig in Leeds.
"It would be nice to do the NME/Radio 1 stage next year, I think that's where we are heading."
The Sherlocks at Leeds Festival
Brandon added: "We are at home when playing Leeds festival. Now we need to get an album out while we've got momentum behind us."
The Sherlocks, who will record their debut album later this year, begin a 16-date UK headline tour later this week, including a sold out show at The Wardrobe in Leeds, on Tuesday, September 20.
For full dates and tickets visit thesherlocksmusic.co.uk
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] | 2016-08-26T12:54:37 | null | 2016-07-28T10:28:03 | From Yorkshire puddings to liquorice allsorts, John Smith | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fyorkshire-day-countdown-how-our-gorgeous-grub-took-over-the-globe-1-8019917.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8019909.1468846139!/image/image.jpg | en | null | YORKSHIRE DAY COUNTDOWN: How our gorgeous grub took over the globe | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | From Yorkshire puddings to liquorice allsorts, John Smith's beer to Fat Rascals, our county is the birthplace of some of the world's best loved food and drink.
From the coast to the countryside, the cities to the Dales, all corners of Yorkshire have helped to put a fine feast of mouth watering delights on the world's dinner tables.
Henderson's Relish - a staple of Sheffield dinner tables since 1885.
In our continuing countdown to Yorkshire Day next Monday, today we are taking a look at just some of the culinary creations and tempting treats that have helped make Yorkshire produce famed across the globe.
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FAMOUS YORKSHIRE FOOD COMPANIES AND BRANDS
Thornton's - the High Street sweet shop favourite was founded in Sheffield in 1911 by Joseph Thornton. Following his death in 1919, his sons took over the business and watched it grow across northern England and then Britain.
Harry Ramsden - The world famous fish and chip shop began in 1928 when Harry Ramsden began selling fish and chips from a hut on the outskirts of Guiseley. Harry built the world's biggest fish and chip shop on the site and although it closed in 2011 and now trades under another name, the brand continues across the world.
You can't beat a cup of Yorkshire Tea.
Aunt Bessie's - The world's largest brand of frozen Yorkshire Puddings began life in Hull just over 20 years ago. Previously, the firm had made and sold puddings to Butlin's holiday camps to keep holidaymakers from going hungry.
Terry's - The purveyor of the world famous All Gold chocolate selection box and the Chocolate Orange, the firm began life in 1823 in York, eventually leading to the construction of a massive chocolate factory in the city, which closed down more than a decade ago.
Rowntree's - Another sweet treat favourite based in York, the firm has given the world Fruit Pastilles, Fruit Gums, Tooty Frooties, Jelly Tots and chocolate bars such as Kit Kat, Aero, Smarties as well as Dairy Box, Black Magic and Polos.
Mackintosh - Cementing Yorkshire's place as a provider of sweets, the Halifax based toffee manufacturer gave us brands such as Quality Street, Rolo, Caramac and Toffee Crisp before merging with Rowntree.
The Kit Kat has been a staple of Yorkshire lunchboxes since the 1930s.
Bassett's - Founded by George Bassett in Sheffield in 1842, the firm first gave the world liquorice allsorts - with the mixed bag of confection arriving by accident when a travelling salesman dropped his boxes of sweets on a sales visit. The shopkeeper decided the mixed up sweets looked better and so an institution was born.
Fox's Biscuits - A small confectionery shop founded in the centre of Batley in 1853 is the root of the biscuit empire which has given the world brands such as Rocky, Echo and Classic.
Seabrook Crisps - Founded in 1945 by Charles Brook in Bradford in 1945. The crisp manufacturer's name came about when a clerk wrote Seabrook instead of C Brook - and another Yorkshire legend arrived.
Bettys and Taylors of Harrogate - Nothing says Yorkshire more than tea and cakes at Bettys. The firm was established in 1919 and the world famous Harrogate cafe was the world's first branch. It bought the Yorkshire Tea brand Taylors in 1962.
Henderson's Relish - Dinner (or should that be tea?) just isn't the same in Sheffield without a splash of Hendo's on it. The spicy sauce has now outgrown its South Yorkshire roots and while still made there is now enjoyed across the land by the likes of Sean Bean and Def Leppard.
KP Nuts - The firm begain in Rotherham in the 1850s with the famous nuts arriving a century later in 1853. The KP stands for Kenyon Produce.
The Harry Ramsden restaurant in Guiseley before its closure.
YORKSHIRE FOOD AND DRINK WE'VE GIVEN THE WORLD
Pontefract Cakes - first made in the town in 1760. The licquorice sweets are an enduring favourite.
Wensleydale Cheese - The famous cheese, much loved by Wallace and Gromit, has been made at the Wensleydale Creamery in Hawes to traditional recipes for decades.
Jelly Babies - The sweet treats were unveiled by Bassett's in 1918 to celebrate the end of World War One and were originally known as Peace Babies.
Polos - The mint with the hole first hit the shelves in 1948, courtesy of Rowntree's. However, the hole didn't appear until later - in 1955.
Kit Kat - Made its debut in 1935 as Rowntree's Chocolate Crisp and took on its famous moniker two years later so the world could have a break.
Smarties - The famous children's favourite chocolate beans took on the Smarties name in 1937 and have been a staple for youngsters everywhere ever since.
Samuel Smith's and John Smith's - both based in Tadcaster and from the same family strand. John Smith's Bitter is the nation's favourite beer, with more than a million pints sold across the UK each day.
Tetley's - Founded in 1822 by Joshua Tetley in Leeds, the brewery no longer exists, but the brand is still a big British seller with Smoothflow produced at other UK plants.
Theakston's Old Peculier - The distinctive black beer has been produced in Masham since 1827.
Tetley Tea - The largest tea company in the UK, the firm has Yorkshire roots with Joseph and Edward Tetley, who began selling sea salt in 1822, adding tea to their repertoire shortly afterwards.
Fentimans - Created in 1905 by Thomas Fentiman in Cleckheaton. Now based in Northumberland, the firm brews soft bottled drinks to traditional recipes.
Ginger beer - Originally an alcoholic drink, it has been in existence since the 1700s and was first created in Yorkshire.
Parkin - The Yorkshire form of gingerbread and traditionally eaten on Bonfire Night. It is thought to date from at least the 1700s.
Whitby scampi - Whitby Seafoods serves up scampi - langoustines (or in other words, mini lobsters) to plates across the world.
Yorkshire puddings - The mainstay of any Sunday dinner, the humble pud has been with us for more than 270 years and a recipe for a dripping pudding first originated in 1737.
Yorkshire Forced Rhubarb - The Rhubarb Triangle - an area between Wakefield, Leeds and Bradford - was given protected EC status. The plants are grown in the dark to make them more tender and sweet.
Fat Rascals - Yorkshire's favourite biscuit and another staple for any afternoon tea at Bettys. Their roots stem from Yorkshire - although no-one is quite sure of the story behind them.
McCain - The Scarborough chip manufacturer has been putting spuds on the nation's dinner plates for decades - and Oven Chips are its most popular brand.
Haribo - The German manufacturer has a factory in Pontefract which churns out billions of sweets annually, proving that kids and grown-ups do indeed love it so.
More than one million pints of John Smith's are downed in the UK each day. | http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/news/local/yorkshire-day-countdown-how-our-gorgeous-grub-took-over-the-globe-1-8019917 | en | 2016-07-28T00:00:00 | www.whitbygazette.co.uk/368813748edda04d6c17d24066fe8b35df63912f7139fa3b2dd384979ffd8439.json |
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Arsenal have reached an agreement with Sporting over a season-long loan deal for JOEL CAMPBELL, according to the Daily Express.
The Daily Mirror reports that Manchester City are set to carry on their summer spending with a £10million deal for Dinamo Zagreb teenager ANTE CORIC.
Left-back TYLER BLACKETT is not part of Jose Mourinho's plans and will be allowed to join Reading, writes The Sun. The Royals are managed by former United defender Jaap Stam.
JUAN CUADRADO looks to be on his way out of Chelsea again after his agent flew to London to arrange a move back to Juventus, reports the Evening Standard.
The Independent reports that Chelsea could then move for Portuguese goalkeeper EDUARDO, the 33-year-old who is currently with Dinamo Zagreb. | http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/sport/local-sport/today-s-soccer-speculation-1-8079838 | en | 2016-08-20T00:00:00 | www.whitbygazette.co.uk/0b65d3af758a6462b1f75c5e21aee2d7504e422a501524b122b252d763883606.json |
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Goals from Dale Hopson (2), Mikey Roberts and Curtis Round extended the Blues’ unbeaten start to the season to five games, pushing Chris Hardy’s team up into fourth place in the Evo-Stik Premier Division standings.
Roberts and Luke Bythway came into the starting XI as Hardy made two changes from Saturday’s draw at Hednesford for the visit of the division’s bottom side.
And after five losses out of five it was no surprise that Frickley conceded the game’s first real chance when Roberts went clean through on Sebastian Malkowski’s goal, but shot too close to the visiting gloveman.
That said, the opening half an hour was a fairly even affair, and largely uneventful in terms of goalmouth action.
After 33 minutes, Hopon’s low, curling free-kick from 20 yards out was turned around the post by Malkowski at full-stretch, and as the first period drew to its conclusion, the home side began to click into gear.
The Blues began to see more and more of the ball in Frickley territory, and some neat passing and slick build-up play saw them work a number of openings.
Hopson fired a couple of efforts over the top from outside the box before Matty Tymon’s looping header dropped on top of the crossbar from Danny McWilliams’ left-wing cross.
Great pace by Roberts got him on the end of a ball into the channel down the right and he managed to prod goalwards from just inside the penalty area but Malkowski was off his line quickly and blocked with his body.
Seconds bedore the half-time whistle Malkowski denied Whitby’s number nine again, saving a low strike with his foot at his near post.
The first chance of the second period arrived when stand-in centre-half Luke Bythway intercepted the ball inside his own half and then carried possession deep into away territory.
The ball eventually came back to him via touches for Tymon and Hopson, but he sliced his effort from 10 yards out horribly wide.
Whitby continued to enjoy the majority of possession but Frickley remained a threat on the counter-attack.
Tyler Williams sent a dangerous cross across the face of goal from the left flank, Andrew Gascoigne headed just over from a corner and then Joel Purkiss came close following a swift raid down the right.
Play then switched back to the other end and only another save from Malowski denied the Seasiders the lead.
McWilliams floated a cross to the back post where Callum Martin arrived and sidefooted a first-time strike back across goal.
The ball looked destined for the back of the net but the former Polish international stuck out a hand and brilliantly pawed away the danger.
Undeterred, the Blues kept coming, and when Malkowski flapped at a high ball into his box on the hour-mark, Adam Gell smashed an effort goalwards where it was met by the hand of defender Bailey Gooda.
Referee John Matthews immediately pointed to the penalty spot and the Frickley defender was soon heading for an early bath.
With three goals to his name alredy this term, Hopson stepped up confidently, burying his spot-kick in the top right-hand corner of the net and sending Malkowski the wrong way in the process.
Ten minutes later, a second penalty was awarded to the hosts when Roberts was tripped in the box.
Malkowski again went the wrong way as Hopson slotted into the bottom right corner of the Frickley net for 2-0 in the 70th minute.
Roberts looked certain to make it 3-0 soon afterwards when he went clean through on goal, but he planted his shot straight at Malkowski despite having plenty of time to pick his spot.
Matty Tymon, yet to open his account for Town since his return to the club, then saw a diving header well saved before hitting the inside of the post with a low shot from 15 yards out.
Number three did eventually arrive in the 86th minute when Hopson slipped the ball in to Roberts on the left side of the penalty area and last season’s top-scorer grabbed his first goal of 2016/17 with a powerful close-range finish that beat Malkowski at his front post.
Out of nowhere, the visitors almost pulled a goal back when Nathan Curtis rattled Shane Bland’s post with a well-struck 20-yarder, but that was as good as it got for the West Yorkshiremen.
Substitute Curtis Round piled more misery on the former colliery side when he fired home Whitby’s fourth goal with a precise left-footed effort that he placed over Malkowski and beautifully into the top corner of the net from 18 yards out.
It was a fitting finale to a glorious display of energetic passing football from Hardy’s men, and one which will have left Town supporters licking their lips in anticipation of what is to come this season. | http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/sport/local-sport/blues-cruise-past-frickley-1-8095431 | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.whitbygazette.co.uk/64209ade28fc437e46bb131112a4c9e4959212d99468058ead700c11da611645.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:09:14 | null | 2016-08-25T15:19:53 | Whitby’s RNLI crew members had one of their most challenging rescues for some time as they brought a stricken fishing boat back into the harbour in rough weather. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fchallenging-rescue-for-lifeboat-crews-1-8088980.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8088977.1472134777!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Challenging rescue for lifeboat crews | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | Whitby’s RNLI crew members had one of their most challenging rescues for some time as they brought a stricken fishing boat back into the harbour in rough weather.
The weather and tide conditions were so bad last Friday afternoon that the lifeboat coxswain battled to get the all-weather lifeboat back through the pier ends and the 14 metre vessel that it had in tow too.
The inshore boat, OEM Stone III, was also launched to help guide the George and Mary Webb back to port during the call-out.
Station mechanic Richard Dowson said navigating back into the harbour was a close call.
He added: “Our coxswain, Mike Russell did a fantastic job of steering the boat back into the harbour.
“The conditions were difficult with poor visibility. The strong spring tide was causing the large vessel to drift substantially.
“Mike’s knowledge and experience allowed him to expertly guide the boat safely back to the fish quay.”
Both boats were back on service three and a half hours after the original call-out came at 1.30pm.
The vessel, called Ocean Spray, which had broken down after losing steering power, was also moored up in the harbour for further repairs to be carried out. | http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/news/local/challenging-rescue-for-lifeboat-crews-1-8088980 | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | www.whitbygazette.co.uk/8324e25c571ca7827e209d1e45acdf91bc09fa2ac56c7ccd9f30438be4a454b2.json |
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Yorkshire's latest Radio 1 stars The Sherlocks had a muddy great time at Leeds Festival - they drew a crowd of more than 6,000 fans then camped out with them.
The Sheffield indie four piece turned down a five star hotel and proved they are a real band of the people.
After packing out the Festival Republic stage they decided to pitched a tent in one of the muddy camp sites.
Frontan Kiaran Crook, aged 20, revealed: "We played our set then decided to camp through the night. We had an option to go into a five star hotel, with a jacuzzi and everything, but we decided to camp.
"We just love it."
He then joked: "We ended up camping next to the Red Hot Chili Peppers- I could hear Anthony snoring.
"But no, seriously, we love it. We love a bit of mud. We just thought, we might as well have the full festival experience."
Melvin Benn, Reading and Leeds Festival boss, said: "I didn't know The Sherlocks went and pitched up in the camp site. It doesn't surprise me. It's what my kids do. They want to be in the public camp site. Anybody who thinks the VIP area is the place to be, I can tell you it's a bit more boring."
Other Yorkshire bands who played at Leeds over the weekend included Sheffield's The Wired, Liberty Ship, Bang Bang Romeo, Leeds band Dusk, Fighting Caravans, York based Faux Pas and many more.
The Sherlocks, also featuring Kiaran's brother, drummer Brandon, 23, guitarist Josh Davidson, 22, and his brother and bassist Andy, 17, recently played the biggest music festival in the world, SXSW in Austin, Texas.
The Sherlocks played to over 6,000 people then camped out with fans in muddy fields at Leeds Festival.
They also played at Reading Festival at the weekend but said Leeds, their Yorkshire homecoming, was the highlight of their year.
Kiaran added: "Leeds Festival is really important to us. It's given us a chance to pick up new fans. We had a blast. The tent was packed. It exceeded what we thought it would be.We're going on tour next month, starting in Brighton and finishing in Stockton, with a sold out gig in Leeds.
"It would be nice to do the NME/Radio 1 stage next year, I think that's where we are heading."
Brandon added: "We are at home when playing Leeds festival. Now we need to get an album out while we've got momentum behind us."
The Sherlocks, who will record their debut album later this year, begin a 16-date UK headline tour later this week, including a sold out show at The Wardrobe in Leeds, on Tuesday, September 20.
The Sherlocks at Leeds Festival
For full dates and tickets visit thesherlocksmusic.co.uk
The Sherlocks on stage at Leeds Festival
Reading and Leeds Festival boss Melvin Benn
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] | 2016-08-28T10:49:27 | null | 2016-08-28T11:00:00 | Like many other people around the country I have had quite a few late nights over the last fortnight staying up to watch the Olympic Games in Rio. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fviews-from-the-pews-everyone-unique-and-available-1-8089095.json | http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/news/local/views-from-the-pews-everyone-unique-and-available-1-8089095 | en | null | Views from the Pews: Everyone ‘unique and available’ | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | Like many other people around the country I have had quite a few late nights over the last fortnight staying up to watch the Olympic Games in Rio.
I like the Olympics because of the range of sports you get to see and have enjoyed seeing the variety and celebrating the success of Team GB and am looking forward to doing it all again when the Paralympics start on 7 September.
Over the last two weeks we have seen many people win medals.
They will be faces we may recognise in the future because of their success.
But behind every medal winner there are many other people who contribute to that success.
After she became the most successful British female Olympian by winning her fourth gold medal, cyclist Laura Trott said in an interview that she wanted to thank all the unseen people who have helped her, saying that she couldn’t have done it without every single one of them.
She mentioned particularly people who collect data and her nutritionist but there are many others, people such as coaches, physiotherapists, family, friends, funders, others in the same sport to train alongside, encourage each other and compete against - athletes of past generations who have provided inspiration - athletes from the recent past who have gotten alongside the younger generations, supporting them and sharing their experiences of both the good and the difficult times so they can listen and learn from these - those involved in making the equipment used in the sport - those involved in building and maintaining the sporting venues - the crowds who support.
Some may be well known themselves, others anonymous.
Although we may not all be athletes, we too need to work with other people if we are to become the best we can. As individuals and also in our communities we all need other people to help and support us and help us to achieve.
Our communities can only be the best they can when people work together, using the different skills and abilities that everyone has.
I believe God created us all with different gifts, we are not all the same and can’t all do the same things, but we can all do something.
In the book of 1 Corinthians in the Bible, the apostle Paul talks about the church being like a body. This is an illustration which I think can apply to all kinds of community. Paul says that just like all parts of our body are important, each person is important. The foot can’t say ‘because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body’ or the ear say ‘because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body’. Some of the most important parts of our bodies are those which are hidden out of view, such as our brains, our hearts or our intestines.
It can be easy to look at people who are different from ourselves, who look differently, who live differently, who think or act differently, who are older or younger or less able-bodied than ourselves and think they’re worthless and treat them badly.
It can also be easy to look at ourselves and think we’re no good because we can’t do something that someone else can.
But everyone has something they can contribute.
We are all different and unique and good at different things - if we were all the same the world would be a boring place.
I believe God created everyone important, unique and valuable.
So rather than acting superior or putting ourselves or others down because of differences we should try to support each other and encourage everyone to achieve their potential. Take the time to look for the gifts of other people and share our gifts with others.
If we look for the best in other people and try to see how we can work together, using and valuing everyone’s different skills and abilities we can all help to make our communities, our churches and our world better - more how God created them to be.
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[] | 2016-08-27T16:49:06 | null | 2016-08-27T16:00:00 | On Wednesday, the 84th annual exhibition by The Fylingdales Group of Artists will officially open at Pannett Art Gallery, Whitby. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Ffylingdales-group-set-for-annual-exhibition-1-8082011.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8082009.1471864673!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Fylingdales group set for annual exhibition | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | On Wednesday, the 84th annual exhibition by The Fylingdales Group of Artists will officially open at Pannett Art Gallery, Whitby.
A total of 66 paintings, drawings and original prints will be exhibited.
Christine Pybus
The Fylingdales Group of Artists has been in existence since 1925, initially formed in Denton Hawley’s studio in Robin Hood’s Bay with just eight members, their aim being to exhibit Yorkshire pictures.
With the wealth of artistic endeavours found locally, the membership increased to 12 in 1926. The first meeting of the Group was held on June 25, 1925, followed shortly by the inaugural exhibition which was held in the Church Rooms, Robin Hood’s Bay.
Dame Ethel Walker, ARA, Owen Bowen and Ulric Walmsley were among the founder members of the group.
In 1929, the membership was increased again to 16 artists, then to 20 in 1938.
With the Second World War looming, the group disbanded, holding its last exhibition in 1939.
Due to the tireless efforts of Mr Harold Todd, the group was brought back together with an exhibition in 1948 –Mr Todd served as secretary for many years.
Membership was again increased to its present number of just 22. The group usually holds one exhibition per year at Pannett Art Gallery in Whitby’s Pannett Park, the venue being first mentioned in the group minutes in 1952.
We meet as a group formally once a year after our Annual Exhibition.
A glance at its list of members will show that people are scattered over a large area, quite a measure of strength of the group that members are prepared to travel quite long distances to attend its Annual General Meeting.
The main bond between them all is a love of Yorkshire, its coastline and of painting.
At each annual exhibition the group asks two ‘invited artists’ to exhibit alongside the members.
Kane Cunningham and Lynne Wixon have been asked to hang three pictures each for the 2016 annual.
A preview evening will be held at Pannett Art Gallery on September 2 at 7pm, visitors welcome.
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"Sharon Dale"
] | 2016-08-26T13:12:59 | null | 2016-07-30T16:00:00 | We British are known for our obsession with pets, property, tea and the weather… and now we can add bees to that list. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Ffeatures%2Fexhibit-of-the-week%2Fartist-laney-gets-a-buzz-out-of-her-work-1-8037009.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8037007.1469629148!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Artist Laney gets a buzz out of her work | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | We British are known for our obsession with pets, property, tea and the weather… and now we can add bees to that list.
Swarms of men, women and children in Yorkshire have rallied to learn about the plight of these champion pollinators after painter and printmaker Laney Birkhead began what she thought would be a small art project. The buzz it created revealed a heartfelt love for bees.
Laney, a beekeeper, decided to take a short sabbatical from her landscape painting and printmaking to do a few workshops where people could print bees onto fabric using ink blocks that she had designed. While they printed, she could tell them of the importance of the insects and how to help them.
“It started as a grain of an idea called ‘Swarm’ to print 50,000 bees, which is what you need to make up a hive and it’s also how many miles bees have to fly to make one jar of honey.
“The plan was to raise awareness but it has taken over my life. The response has been absolutely amazing.
“People just love bees and they really want to know what they can do to help them,” says Laney, who had to bring in ‘Swarm assistants’ including her husband, Tim, fellow artists, friends and students, to help her cope with the demand. She has done more than 40 workshops in the last 10 months and more than 1,500 people have taken part.
With fabric piling up in her front room, it was obvious she would have to do something big with it.
She settled on stitching the calico hexagons together and draping it over a giant frame to create a giant walk-through honeycomb cell.
Finding “sewing bees” was no problem. The ever capable members of Forest Moor Women’s Institute marched in with their machines to get the job done. Tim helped designed the metal frame and St Robert’s Primary School, Harrogate, provided space to test it out.
The result is 150 square metres of beautiful bee-printed fabric fashioned into a hive that looks set to tour the country after its first exhibition at the Inspired By gallery at the North Yorks Moors National Park Centre in Danby and a second at Sunnybank Mills in Farsley. Alongside it will be a range of bee-inspired work created by artists and filmmakers. Handwritten promises made by children who attended the workshops will also be on display. Many pledge to “plant more flowers” and leave proclamations saying “I love bees” in black felt-tip pen.
Laney hopes she has managed to pass on her enthusiasm for the creatures that are vitally important to our eco system but are under constant attack. Bees pollinate a third of our food crops.
“They are the canary in the mine. If they are in trouble, we are all in trouble,” she says.
Her fascination with bees began almost 10 years ago when she wanted a hobby that was completely different to her day-to-day work. She now has three hives in her garden.
“They are fascinating and highly intelligent creatures,” says Laney, who adds that the waggle dance is just one example of their ingenuity.
Swarm is at the Inspired by... gallery at Danby from now to August 9.
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"Maureen Robinson"
] | 2016-08-28T10:50:54 | null | 2016-08-28T11:00:57 | We frequently lament the neglected state of public footpaths and bridleways. Many are completely overgrown with nettles and brambles; ploughed over by farmers; diverted by reversal or removal of signs, and stiles rotting or unstable. The reason? You’ve guessed – lack of funds. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Fwhat-s-on%2Fout-about%2Fcountry-diary-reaping-the-rewards-from-the-hedgerows-1-8086455.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8086454.1472049948!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Country Diary: Reaping the rewards from the hedgerows | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | We frequently lament the neglected state of public footpaths and bridleways. Many are completely overgrown with nettles and brambles; ploughed over by farmers; diverted by reversal or removal of signs, and stiles rotting or unstable. The reason? You’ve guessed – lack of funds.
Blackberries are late ripening this year. On August 13 we found just sufficient to enhance an apple pie. Delicious! A local wild hedgerow contained several raspberry canes bearing a few berries to nibble along the way. Large hazelnuts adorned several shrubs easily recognised by their zig-zag twigs covered with reddish brown hairs. The toothed, rounded leaves end in a small point. The nut itself has a leafy husk, but will not ripen until late autumn.
Meanwhile, there’s no mistaking the slender rowan tree with steeply rising branches. Its flat-topped clusters of cream-coloured flowers have ripened to scarlet berries by August. They look good enough to eat, but certainly not raw. We must try a recipe for cooking them, they look so tempting!
The mason wasp, inhabiting a corner of our greenhouse, has been working very hard all week. When I previously mentioned its activities, the cylindrical nest was 11.5cm from the ground, and the nest itself 4cm long. Having constructed both above and below the nest, it’s now 9.5cm from the ground, and 8cm in length. It seems to collect sand or soil particles to mix with water. We’ve seen it visiting our bird bath close by. A remarkable feat of engineering for a solitary wasp. It has just pollinatedthe cucumber flowers.
Scarborough’s Castle Hill cliffs alongside the Marine Drive are plastered with ‘guano’ – the dried excrement of fish-eating sea birds (it makes a grand fertiliser).
At any great seabird colony, kittiwakes are the most numerous. Nesting precariously on narrow cliff ledges, they noisily proclaim their name, “kitti-way-ake”, with clamourous calls. They are real birds of the sea and fish out at sea most of the year, only nesting near at hand in spring. Looking to the future, we observed they’d nested on the Futurist as well as the Spa Bridge and harbour lamp posts.
Soon – silence will reign, as already many have completed nesting duties and headed to northern fishing grounds.
Visiting Scar and Castlebeck Woods just north of Castlebeck Farm, Harwood Dale, we hoped to re-discover the Bog Pimpernel. Having waded through tall, shoulder-high bracken we reached the bridge spanning the beck. Many wild flowers were recorded, such as tormentil, eyebright, harebell, heather, fleabane, and water mint etc, but the pimpernel site had vanished, alas.
A memorable seat to Shaun Teasdale, 51 years, 2012 was inscribed:
“Come sit with me, enjoy the view,
Don’t be sad, I’m here with you.”
l Mind the midges don’t bite!
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Friday 26 August
PUBS
THE PRINCE OF WALES, SCARBOROUGH: Nik Nak Karaoke.
THE GEORGE HOTEL, WHITBY: DJ Leo Thai in The Underground til 2am.
TOW BAR, CAYTON: Karaoke
THE MAYFIELD, SEAMER: Snatch, 9pm.
INDIGO ALLEY, SCARBOROUGH: Acoustic Sets (Ross Dransfield), 9.15pm.
BOARD INN, WHITBY: Folk Week.
THE IVANHOE, SCARBOROUGH: Scarborough legend, Danny Wilde, 9pm.
THEATRE
SPA THEATRE, SCARBOROUGH: Movies Meets the Musicals, 8pm.
STEPHEN JOSEPH THEATRE, SCARBOROUGH: The Karaoke Theatre Company proudly presented by the Stephen Joseph Theatre in association with Alan Ayckbourn, 7.30pm.
STEPHEN JOSEPH THEATRE, SCARBOROUGH: Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling, adapted by Vicky Ireland. Performances in the McCarthy at 11am, 2.15pm and 6.45pm.
STEPHEN JOSEPH THEATRE, SCARBOROUGH: Consuming Passions written by Alan Ayckbourn. Performances to take place at lunchtimes in the Bistro 12pm-1pm.
YMCA THEATRE, SCARBOROUGH: The Cloughton Rat Pack featuring King Willy’s Big Band, proceeds to local charities, 7.30pm.
YORK THEATRE ROYAL: Sherlock Holmes - The House of the Baskervilles, 2.30pm and 7pm.
ESK VALLEY THEATRE, GLAISDALE: Educating Rita by Willy Russell, 7.30pm.
GRAND OPERA HOUSE, YORK: Rent, 7.30pm.
EVENTS
WHITBY PAVILION: Whitby Folk Week
PEASHOLM PARK, SCARBOROUGH: Legendary Scarborough Spa Orchestra performs a stunning outdoor firework concert. Tickets are available from The Spa Box Office 01723 821888.
MUSIC
SCARBOROUGH SPA: Coffee Dances with Howard Beaumont, starts 10.30am ends 12.30pm.
Saturday 27 August
PUBS
BONHOMMES BAR, FILEY: Family quiz and Play Your Cards Right.
THE GEORGE HOTEL, WHITBY: Dance floor with DJ Leo Thai 10pm-2am.
THE TOW BAR, CAYTON: Domino ( fun day in the garden, loads of races fun and games bouncy castle barbeque, bungee run comp lots more).
INDIGO ALLEY, SCARBOROUGH: Nowhere Now (4 piece popular covers), 9.15pm.
BUCCANEER, FILEY: Sammi Lee.
RAILWAYMEN’S CLUB, SCARBOROUGH. Wayne.
BOARD INN, WHITBY: No Regrets.
THE IVANHOE, SCARBOROUGH: The Soul Bros - Blues Brothers tribute, 9pm.
THE FLEECE INN, RILLINGTON: 6pm Gourmet barbecue picnic in the garden, 8.30pm Classic 60s, 70s and country music. Both in aid of Parkinsons UK.
THE NELSON, SCARBOROUGH: Lakeside Soul Club, 8.30pm to midnight.
CELLARS BAR, SCARBOROUGH: Mick Wheeler’s Bop Street band, 9pm.
THEATRE
SPA THEATRE, SCARBOROUGH: Movies Meets the Musicals, 8pm.
SCARBOROUGH SPA GRAND HALL: Showaddywaddy, 7.30pm.
SPA THEATRE, SCARBOROUGH: Captain Cracker and the hunt for hidden treasure, 2pm.
WHITBY PAVILION THEATRE: Beatles for Sale, 7.30pm.
STEPHEN JOSEPH THEATRE, SCARBOROUGH: The Karaoke Theatre Company proudly presented by the Stephen Joseph Theatre in association with Alan Ayckbourn, 2.30pm and 7.30pm.
STEPHEN JOSEPH THEATRE, SCARBOROUGH: The World Goes Round, music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, performances in the Round at 2.30pm and 7.30pm.
STEPHEN JOSEPH THEATRE, SCARBOROUGH: Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling, adapted by Vicky Ireland. Performances in the McCarthy at 11am, 2.15pm and 6.45pm.
YMCA THEATRE, SCARBOROUGH: Rowlies Academy of Dance present Musical Mashup, 7.30pm.
YORK THEATRE ROYAL: Sherlock Holmes - The House of the Baskervilles, 2.30pm and 7pm.
ESK VALLEY THEATRE, GLAISDALE: Educating Rita by Willy Russell, 7.30pm.
GRAND OPERA HOUSE, YORK: Rent, 7.30pm.
MUSIC
SEAMER METHODIST CHURCH: Organ concert with Richard Heal plus Seamer singing for fun choir, 7.30pm.
THE EARTHBEAT CENTRE, SALTBURN: Saltburn Blues Club present singer songwriter Michael Chapman with support from Jilly Riley, 7.30pm.
EVENT
HARBOURSIDE, SCARBOROUGH: Haunted Walks Scarborough, lower town tour, 8pm. Walks depart from opposite the Harbour Bar. Telephone 01904 654836/07906 164972.
Sunday 28 August
PUBS
THE PRINCE OF WALES,SCARBOROUGH: Nik Nak Karaoke.
THE MAYFIELD, SEAMER: Quiz Night with Barry Robinson, 7pm.
THE TOW BAR, CAYTON: Race Night.
YE OLDE FORGE VALLEY INN, WEST AYTON: Forgefest 2016 - charity, family fun and music festival, 12pm until late.
HOLE IN THE WALL, SCARBOROUGH: Mick Gale - 60s/70s, 3pm.
THE IVANHOE, SCARBOROUGH: Stereo Jacks, 8pm.
THEATRE
STEPHEN JOSEPH THEATRE, SCARBOROUGH: The World Goes Round, music by John Kander, lyrics by Fred Ebb, performances in the Round at 3pm.
MUSIC
SUNCOURT, SCARBOROUGH SPA: Morning concert with Spa Orchestra, 11am.
SUNCOURT, SCARBOROUGH SPA: Afternoon concert with Spa Orchestra, 2.30pm
SPA THEATRE, SCARBOROUGH: Elvis - On world tour with Tony Skingle, 7.30pm.
Monday 29 August
PUBS
THE TOW BAR, CAYTON: Gem n Nikki.
THEATRE
SPA THEATRE, SCARBOROUGH: The Billy Pearce Laughter Show 2016, 8pm.
STEPHEN JOSEPH THEATRE, SCARBOROUGH: The Karaoke Theatre Company proudly presented by the Stephen Joseph Theatre in association with Alan Ayckbourn, 7.30pm.
YMCA THEATRE, SCARBOROUGH: Styletrax Productions present Aladdin, 2pm.
ESK VALLEY THEATRE, GLAISDALE: Educating Rita by Willy Russell, 7.30pm.
MUSIC
SUNCOURT, SCARBOROUGH SPA: Teddy Bears’ Picnic with Spa Orchestra, 11am.
GRAND HALL, SCARBOROUGH SPA: Evening concert with Spa Orchestra, 7.45pm
SPA, SCARBOROUGH: Elvis - On world tour with Tony Skingle, 7.30pm.
SOUTH CLIFF METHODIST CHURCH, SCARBOROUGH: Summer concert - Bridlington Beat, 7.45pm.
FARRER’S BAR AND BRASSERIE, SCARBOROUGH SPA: The Monday menu with music, Julie Edwards and Kevin Dearden, 6.30pm.
EXHIBITIONS CURRENTLY SHOWING AROUND THE REGION
INSPIRED BY … GALLERY, MOORS CENTRE, DANBY: . Exhibition All Around Us. Wildlife artist Coral Rose captures the energy and beauty of rural life. Working predominately in pastel, and focussing on detail and light, she portrays traditional subjects in a recognisable contemporary style. Runs until 4 September. Open 10am to 5pm daily, (9.30am-5pm in August).
HELMSLEY ARTS CENTRE: Ryedale Festival Exhibition, Charlotte Timm and friends, papercuts, runs until 2 September. Open daily.
NUNNINGTON HALL, HELMSLEY: Exhibition of some very special illustrations of the famous dancing white mouse, Angelina Ballerina. Runs until 4 September. Open Tuesday to Sunday 11am-5pm and Mondays during school holidays.
THE GALLERY, STEPHEN JOSEPH THEATRE, SCARBOROUGH: Jean Hobson exhibition of Sea to City colourful images of Scarborough and Manchester, runs to 3 September. Free entry, open 10am-6pm (except during showtimes); Colour Landscapes - interpretations of the North Yorkshire landscape, 7 September-8 October.
WOODEND, SCARBOROUGH: Summer Open Show - Moors and Coast, runs to 30 September. Open 9am-5pm weekdays, 10am-4pm Saturdays.
SCARBOROUGH MARITIME HERITAGE CENTRE: Scarborough's story, August to September, 11am to 4pm Wednesday to Sunday.
GREJCZIK GALLERY, HANOVER ROAD, SCARBOROUGH: First anniversary exhibition. Stars Come to Scarborough - Light - Astronomy inspired art by Tina Mammoser at Grejczik Gallery. Exhibition continues through 28 August. Open 12-5pm Thursday to Saturday.
ST JAMES’ ART CENTRE, SCARBOROUGH: Exhibition - Threads of our lives is the latest display of textile work by Christine Heath. Runs from 1 September to 11 September. Open Thursday, Friday, Saturday 10am-4pm, Sunday 2pm-4pm.
PICTURESQUE GALLERY, ST JOHN’S ROAD, SCARBOROUGH: Exhibition of art from local artist Dav White, runs until 2 September, open 9.30am until 5.30pm Mon Sat. Free entry.
YORK THEATRE ROYAL: Jorvik Life and Death, a special exhibition which showcases the lasting impact of the Vikings. Located on the site of the medieval St Leonard’s Hospital, now home to the newly-refurbished York Theatre Royal, the exhibition explores the practices of those involved in providing care and remedies in the Viking period and the years that followed. Exhibition visitors can even try their hand at uroscopy, a popular medieval practise of diagnosing illnesses and ailments by examining the colour of urine! Monday to Saturday, 10am-5pm and Sunday 10am-4pm.
NATIONAL TRUST VISITOR CENTRE, OLD COASTGUARD STATION, ROBIN HOOD’S BAY: An exhibition of watercolours, drawings and prints of this famous part of the Yorkshire Coast by Tony Clegg. Runs from Saturday 27 August to Saturday 3 September. Free entry.
PANNETT ART GALLERY, WHITBY: The artwork of BTEC and A-level Art students of Caedmon College, Whitby is currently on display. Open Monday-Saturday, 9am-5pm; Sunday, 9.30am-4.30pm.
CAPTAIN COOK MUSEUM, WHITBY: Wives and Sweethearts - the sailors farewell exhibition. Behind every ship sent exploring to the Pacific were all the wives and sweethearts left ashore. Runs until November 6. Open daily, 9.45am-5pm.
GUISBOROUGH MUSEUM, WESTGATE: Full of fascinating object and photos of past time. New exhibitions - railway - toys - flower artistry - children’s quiz, free entry. Open Thursday and Saturday 10am-4pm until end of October.
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Today starts off with the spectacular motorbike and quad gymkhana on the West Cliff beach, the truck display and the fun run along the sea wall.
A giant swing ride on the west cliff for Whitby Regatta 2016. w163404p Picture: Ceri Oakes
All of these events are from 10am.
Thoroughout the rest of the day there are various other events including a vintage and post war motorbike display, post war classic car rally and the scooter club rally at around 11am.
Entertainment along the West Cliff for all the family continues with the Crazy Bears show, Captain Kipper, the Jez Avery Stunt Show and Slackline School for the more co-ordinated visitors.
Stall holders will be back at the market on Archery Green and weather dependent, the rowing schedule will continue in the afternoon.
A singer performs to crowds at the 2016 Whitby Regatta. w163404y Picture: Ceri Oakes
Yesterday there were thousands of people in town to see the greasy pole, the raft race and the bonny baby contests which are now firm favourites in the Regatta line-up. | http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/news/local/bright-start-for-second-day-of-regatta-spectacular-1-8080530 | en | 2016-08-21T00:00:00 | www.whitbygazette.co.uk/94535ddd5b35743bea1a4ae8375e58f613ce5fd7fd7fb2d107c66a1e17d90988.json |
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] | 2016-08-27T10:48:19 | null | 2016-08-27T10:55:30 | Yiorkshire | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Fwhat-s-on%2Fleeds-festival-the-sherlocks-rock-reading-ahead-of-yorkshire-homecoming-1-8092224.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8092222.1472291816!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Leeds Festival: The Sherlocks rock Reading ahead of Yorkshire homecoming | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | Yiorkshire's latest Radio 1 stars The Sherlocks proved a big hit at Reading Festival last night and are now heading home to do it all again - today they play Leeds Festival.
They top along list of big name local breaking local bands - including The Wired, Fighting Caravans and Faux Pas - who are being showcased at Leeds.
Local talent is joining the the likes of Biffy Clyro and Fall Out Boy - who played Leeds last night - Foals and Disclosure, who perform tonight, and Red Hot Chili Peppers who will close Leeds Festival this Bank Holiday weekend.
For more about Leeds Festival and tickets availability visit www.leedsfestival.com
The Sherlocks, singer songwriter Kiaran Crook, 20, brother and drummer Brandon, 23, guitarist Josh Davidson, 22, and his brother and bassist Andy, 17, recently played the biggest music festival in the world, the SXSW music festival in Austin, Texas.
But this is the biggest showcase weekend for the Bolton Upon Dearne indie quartet who have over 700 gigs to their name and have also just completed their first UK headline tour, selling out venues around the country, with their latest single Last Night getting lots of Radio 1 airplay.
Last year Kiaran, Brandon, Josh and Andy drew a huge number of fans before Sunday lunchtime at Reading, but a coveted evening slot on this year’s popular Festival Republic stage meant the crowds in the south were even bigger.
On a scorching summer evening the temperature in Berkshire was almost as high as the anticipation for the band of brothers’ 30 minute seven song set.
At exactly 5.45pm the lads, playing it cool as always, bounded on stage to kick off with single Last Night followed by favourites Escapade and Heart of Gold.
They continued with epic new song Candle Light, Live for the Moment and finished with Chasing Shadows as two giant beach balls flew back and forth across the arena.
Will You Be There?, which had one of its first plays at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, was another soaring highlight.
The huge Reading turn out for Yorkshire's latest Radio 1 stars The Sherlocks
Almost all the sides to the huge festival tent were drawn back meaning the Sherlocks’ sound carried beyond the tent poles. More and more joined the audience as the gig went on and by the end of the set the place was rammed.
“That was astonishing” frontman Kiaran told us as he came off stage.
“Last year was truly memorable, but this year Reading has taken it to another level. We’re seeing crowd reactions we'd only ever seen in the north before.
“We love it down here and now we're buzzing even more for Leeds.”
* The Sherlocks play The Festival Republic stage at Leeds Festival 5:45pm, Saturday August 27 and tour nationwide in September. More at thesherlocksmusic.co.uk. | http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/what-s-on/leeds-festival-the-sherlocks-rock-reading-ahead-of-yorkshire-homecoming-1-8092224 | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.whitbygazette.co.uk/1b8f00e39d40df081c5839df8055fee3281668843d2c100bf45988783655a22b.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:09:59 | null | 2016-08-25T12:56:41 | The long wait was finally over for Whitby’s GCSE students as they collected their exam results. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fdelight-on-results-day-for-town-s-gcse-students-1-8088253.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8088245.1472126136!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Delight on results day for town’s GCSE students | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | The long wait was finally over for Whitby’s GCSE students as they collected their exam results.
There were smiles and celebrations among the pupils at Caedmon College as the nerves turned to relief when they got the grades they needed for the next step in their education and future careers.
Josh Crabtree congratulated his friend Rosa Byatt-Goodall on her GCSE results at Caedmon College, Whitby. w163601c Picture: Ceri Oakes
Maddie Mastrolonardo is now re-thinking her future, but in a good way, after getting better results than she thought.
She picked up four A*s in maths, chemistry, French and physics as well as six more A grades.
She said: “I was so nervous and had done so much revision that that is why I was nervous because I didn’t want it to have gone to waste.
“I am not sure what I am going to do. I was not going to do maths but that was my best mark so I need to have a re-think.”
Ellie Tindall and Charlotte Robinson compare their GCSE results at Caedmon College, Whitby. w163601b Picture: Ceri Oakes
Josh Crabtree got an A* in maths, four As and five Bs which are enough to set him on his way to doing A-Levels in September.
He said: “It felt good to open them and get everything that I needed for A-Levels.”
Megan Idle has already secured her place on Caedmon’s A Level biology, German, chemistry and maths courses with her four A*s and five A grades.
She said: “I was terrified before I opened them. I wanted an A* in chemistry but will live with an A.”
Maddie Mastrolonardo and Reece Gildroy jump for joy at their GCSE results at Caedmon College, Whitby. w163601a Picture: Ceri Oakes
Mixed with the tears of joy were tears of sadness as students picked up results knowing one of their friends never would.
Francis Quattrill died earlier this year after suffering an asthma attack at home in Castleton.
Joly Cox said: “Most people want to dedicate their results to Francis. She is first and foremost.”
He added that he will be celebrating too after scoring A*s in French and maths and seven other A grades and two Bs. He will be doing A Levels at Caedmon from September in maths, further maths, history and English.
Bronte Nichola-Miller, Daniel Morris and Poppy Draper with their GCSE results at Caedmon College, Whitby. w163601f Picture: Ceri Oakes
Joly said: “I didn’t know what I was expecting, it is the path to your future and it makes a difference to your outlook and what you can do in life.
“I will be staying at Caedmon. They got me through my GCSEs so why not A Levels?”
Caedmon College said that some papers will be returned to examiners for re-marking but it is predcited that the level of five A* to C grade passes will be around 65%.
Principal Keith Prytherch said: “The College enjoyed success again this year and it is pleasing to see the smiles as so many students open their result envelope and enrol onto Post-16 courses. The current climate demands so much from young people and clearly those who are willing to put in the required effort are well rewarded. I would like to thank everyone who has supported all our students this year and I wish them all well in their future studies, training or employment; this particular year group have been a delight to have at the College.”
A successful day for Libby Booth, Megan Idle and Megan Lees with their GCSE results at Caedmon College, Whitby. w163601g Picture: Ceri Oakes | http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/news/local/delight-on-results-day-for-town-s-gcse-students-1-8088253 | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | www.whitbygazette.co.uk/f16468c0976dbb48bff1066fbfcae51047c33cf1a708e21478c306352abe0d11.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:12:55 | null | 2016-07-31T11:00:56 | Nostalgic memories of steam trains returned, when we strolled along the disused rail-track between Scarborough and Whitby. Development of the railway system caused the eruption of Oxford ragwort! | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Fwhat-s-on%2Fout-about%2Fcountry-diary-days-of-steam-remembered-on-disused-rail-track-stroll-1-8032305.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8032304.1469453263!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Country Diary: Days of steam remembered on disused rail-track stroll | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | Nostalgic memories of steam trains returned, when we strolled along the disused rail-track between Scarborough and Whitby. Development of the railway system caused the eruption of Oxford ragwort!
Originally a native of southern Italy and Sicily, it flourished on volcanic ash from Mount Vesuvius and Mount Etna. Linnaeus introduced it in the 18th century, where it was planted in Oxford’s Botanic Gardens. In 1794 its seeds escaped and established themselves in walls. Spreading towards Oxford’s station, it found the clinkers, cinders and stones beside the tracks resembled its native habitat of volcanic scree.
As our railway system expanded, more industrial landscapes were colonised. Plumed seeds were transported in the vortex of air behind trains, to alight in new destinations.
World War Two bomb sites provided new habitats, and Oxford ragwort gradually masked the scars with golden yellow flavours. You’ll find them on walls and embankments of railway lines today.
The fluttering of wings in the grassed verge near our local mere, drew our attention to a grey wagtail. The handsome bird with grey crown and back, contrasted with its bright yellow underparts. The long, white-edged tail gives the bird its name. It has a vertical wagging motion.
This bird however had met with some injury. Despite efforts to help it to safety, it swiftly vanished into the dense vegetation.
Driving through the village of Silpho, our progress was halted by the golden glory of buttercup-like flowers growing from the dew pond. We were so pleased to see this tall, hairless perennial, as it’s becoming increasingly rare, and is found only in scattered localities. Though resembling a large-flowered buttercup, its leaves are narrow and spear-head shaped.
A far more common and familiar sight beside ditches and wet areas of woodland, is meadowsweet.
Its creamy-white flowers are in dense clusters and quite fragrant. They used to be used as a strewing herb – being scattered on floors in the 16th century as a means of masking other less-desirable smells! Meadowsweet is a name derived from mede-sweete, because the plant was used to flavour mead, the Anglo-Saxon drink made from fermented honey.
Now adorning hedgerows is the convolvulus or hedge bindweed, a plant with an ability to wrap around things. It climbs up shrubs by means of its stems which twist in an anti-clockwise direction.
The large, trumpet-shaped flowers cannot be mistaken. The petals are pure, snowy-white, and at dusk seem almost luminous in the fading light. Although scentless they attract the convolvulus hawk moth, which uses its long ‘tongue’ to extract nectar from the base of the flower. When dawn breaks the flowers open once more. Maybe that’s why in the west country they’re called Morning Glory.
Remember 1976 and the ladybird plague? Where are they now? I’ve seen two this year?
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[] | 2016-08-26T13:12:39 | null | 2016-08-20T16:00:00 | Staithes Harbour is to host the first ever exhibition of ongoing experimental art installation Shoal by local sculptor Ste Iredale. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Ffeatures%2Fexhibit-of-the-week%2Fshoal-s-first-outing-in-staithes-harbour-1-8074281.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8074279.1471444216!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Shoal’s first outing - in Staithes harbour | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | Staithes Harbour is to host the first ever exhibition of ongoing experimental art installation Shoal by local sculptor Ste Iredale.
A school of individually carved wooden fish up to 1.2m in length will rise above the sea at high tide, creating a stunning spectacle for visitors to the fifth annual Staithes Festival of Arts and Heritage during the weekend of September 10-11.
Biggest glowstick installation.
Each fish is sculpted from durable Douglas fir timber using Ste’s trademark chainsaw and then finer tools adding detail and pattern and sealed with varnish.
Mounted on the railings of the little pier in the harbour, they will create a wonderful illusion of flying fish swooping out of the water.
“The fish are unique and crafted separately,” Ste told the Whitby Gazette, “but it’s the site specific arrangement of the shoal that makes the artwork.
“My intention over time is to add to the shoal and place it in a variety of locations in different arrangements celebrating both the fish themselves and the setting.
“It’s an experiment to see how Shoal works in a range of sites and how it responds to weather and time.
“Staithes Harbour will be a perfect first outing for the piece.”
Ste, who lives and works in Staithes, is highly regarded in the region for his powerful public art pieces for local councils and the Forestry Commission as well as private commission and community projects.
He has delighted festival-goers in previous years with spectacular demonstrations.
Shoal will be among a multitude of treats in the harbour.
Whitby sculptor Emma Stothard is working on a vast plesiosaur, bringing to life a creature that once roamed these shores, while light artist Mick Stephenson who enchanted last year’s visitors, will return to make the harbour at night a sight to remember.
Staithes Festival is one of the friendliest festivals on the coast.
With 100+ artists showing in pop-up galleries around the village in a unique selling exhibition, imaginative exploration of the area’s rich heritage, music, talks, walks, workshops and demonstrations, it has become a must-go event in the regional arts calendar.
For more information see www.staithesfestival.com
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[] | 2016-08-26T13:09:24 | null | 2016-08-18T11:27:23 | Caedmon College Whitby enjoyed “excellent” A Level results this morning with students achieving higher than ever point scores. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fjoy-for-whitby-students-collecting-exam-results-1-8075921.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8075920.1471516034!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Joy for Whitby students collecting exam results | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | Caedmon College Whitby enjoyed “excellent” A Level results this morning with students achieving higher than ever point scores.
Of all the A Level grades handed out this year 49% were at A*, A or B grades.
Students are now going on to university courses or apprenticeships and work placements.
College principal, Keith Prytherch said: “I am extremely proud of the students in every respect and wish them well in their future careers.
“I would like to publicly thank all those who have contributed to this fabulous set of results, especially the students for their efforts, the talented and hardworking staff we have at the college, their families for their support, and governors for the direction they provide and the community for being behind Post 16 education here at the College.” | http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/news/local/joy-for-whitby-students-collecting-exam-results-1-8075921 | en | 2016-08-18T00:00:00 | www.whitbygazette.co.uk/896ad9e55a99128e9ce86885869949b74a58ec117f206d820e5afedb78942b81.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:12:18 | null | 2016-08-18T08:00:00 | A wedding dress which belonged to Annie Newton, a housemaid from Glaisdale, is one of the star attractions at a new exhibition at Ryedale Folk Museum. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Ffeatures%2Fexhibit-of-the-week%2Fglaisdale-wedding-dress-from-1919-a-star-attraction-1-8061215.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8061214.1470839129!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Glaisdale wedding dress from 1919 a star attraction | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | A wedding dress which belonged to Annie Newton, a housemaid from Glaisdale, is one of the star attractions at a new exhibition at Ryedale Folk Museum.
The green linen dress was made and embroidered by Miss Newton for her wedding to Richard Grayson of Winteringham on February 19, 1919.
It was donated to the museum some years ago having been saved from use on the family’s dog’s bed by a relative.
Jennifer Smith, the museum’s director, said: “No other outfit, through the ages, has quite so much emotion put into it. Wedding dresses are part of almost every culture and we are fortune enough to have a wonderful array of dresses that were important to people in our area.
“This exhibition has been created by museum volunteers and has already received a very warm response from our visitors.”
The exhibition is open every day from 10am – 5pm until Sunday 4 September. Admission to the art gallery is free of charge.
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] | 2016-08-26T13:08:28 | null | 2016-08-23T16:23:58 | Whitby Town head to Warrington tonight (Tuesday) aiming to build on Saturday’s home win over Corby Town. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Fsport%2Flocal-sport%2Fblues-aim-to-build-on-corby-success-1-8084552.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8084548.1471965816!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Blues aim to build on Corby success | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | Whitby Town head to Warrington tonight (Tuesday) aiming to build on Saturday’s home win over Corby Town.
The Blues registered their first victory of the 2016/17 season with a 1-0 triumph over the Northamptonshire outfit courtesy of Dale Hopson’s second-half penalty.
Mikey Roberts is challenged by a Corby defender
And manager Chris Hardy says that his side go into the game against their newly-promoted opponents full of confidence.
“We visit Warrington at near enough full-strength and we go there with the squad in confident mood,” he told the Whitby Gazette.
“We’ve played very well in our first two games, the 1-1 and 1-0 scorelines haven’t reflected our dominance or the quality of our performances.
“That said, we need to start taking our chances in front of goal, and until we do, the scorelines won’t tell the full story.
Blues striker Matty Tymon is fouled in the penalty area
“Just as was the case at Sutton Coldfield, we were almost completely dominant against Corby on Saturday. We’ll look to continue that at Warrington.”
New recruit Luke Bythway will go straight into the squad for the trip to the North West after signing for the Seasiders from Marske United on Monday.
“Luke will travel with us to Warrington and could be involved,” Hardy added.
“He’s a player who I know well from our time together at Guisborough and he brings a lot of versatility as he can play in a number of positions.
Matty Tymon, left, congratulates Dale Hopson on his goal
“Once we found out it wasn’t working out for him at Markse it was a no-brainer for us to bring him to Whitby.
“He ticks all the boxes for me and will prove a good addition.” | http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/sport/local-sport/blues-aim-to-build-on-corby-success-1-8084552 | en | 2016-08-23T00:00:00 | www.whitbygazette.co.uk/3478edbc625d23948da84947b583176a0c434f0b58201d1e3931f5c5ef66aea4.json |
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Those were the words of Whitby Town FC chairman Graham Manser after thousands of music lovers attended The Stables at Cross Butts on Saturday.
Paul Gough and 10cc's Graham Gouldman
Festival-goers were entertained by 70s music legend Graham Gouldman with his band 10cc, and million-selling soul act The Real Thing, featuring the original members of the group.
“It was a truly incredible day and there are so many people to thank,” Manser added.
“My great friends and Whitby supporters, boxing legend Dennis Hobson, and his business partner Graeme Hinchliffe, were instrumental in getting this moving and backing the club financially.
“The Morley family at The Stables were our wonderful hosts, and BBC Tees presenter Paul ‘Goffy’ Gough has been in charge for the past four months of promoting the event. Goffy was also a wonderful host for the day.
“The VIP sponsors and people that bought tickets deserve a huge personal thanks from me.”
Final details of the amount raised for the club have yet to be announced as officials, players and supporters are currently arranging their personal ticket allocations from the big day, which was promoted by Dennis Hobson Promotions.
Regardless of the total of the funds generated on the day, the club were delighted simply to be able to stage the festival after a number of similar events in the North East were cancelled.
The region has recently been hit by the news that the annual music festival at Hardwick Hall in Sedgefield will no longer take place, while a two-day comedy festival starring Jason Manford and a host of other comedians, set for Stewarts Park, Middlesbrough in July, was also scrapped.
Gough, owner of Goffy Media, revealed that a lot of effort went into making sure that the festival went ahead.
“It was four months of very hard work as we have seen so many events are falling this summer here in the North East and on my travels I could see a little bit of negativity,” he said.
“We were however all 100 per cent focused on keeping the Coastline Festival on track for the club, and flying the flag for music festivals here in our region this summer.
“The weather was phenomenal, the bands were superb and thousands had a most memorable day. Best of all, Whitby Town Football Club will benefit financially, so everybody wins.”
Gough was also keen to praise 10cc frontman Gouldman who played his part in the success of the festival by conducting a series of radio and newspaper interviews and made various promotional appearances ahead of the event.
“Graham even allowed us to use his studio in London to record some promos for the event and even launch the new strip for Whitby Town which was released last week,” Gough added.
“Graham Gouldman is a great lesson in how music stars can help pre-promote and substantially help these kind of music festivals by getting involved personally with the media before the event.
“His help was a major factor in so many people being with us on Saturday.” | http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/sport/local-sport/thousands-flock-to-whitby-town-fc-music-festival-1-8057271 | en | 2016-08-08T00:00:00 | www.whitbygazette.co.uk/a9e642041b15806181bda32387f57fc557bf96d6416c02763af0431fc766c61e.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T12:59:26 | null | 2016-07-29T17:34:00 | To celebrate the release of Suicide Squad - in cinemas August 5 - Warner Bros Pictures and Cineworld Sheffield have teamed up with us to offer you the chance to win film merchandise and tickets. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Fwhat-s-on%2Fwin-suicide-squad-film-merchandise-and-cineworld-sheffield-tickets-1-8041730.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8041728.1469810202!/image/image.jpg | en | null | WIN: Suicide Squad film merchandise and Cineworld Sheffield tickets | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | To celebrate the release of Suicide Squad - in cinemas August 5 - Warner Bros Pictures and Cineworld Sheffield have teamed up with us to offer you the chance to win film merchandise and tickets.
Assemble a team of the world’s most dangerous, incarcerated super villains, provide them with the most powerful arsenal at the government’s disposal and send them off on a mission to defeat an enigmatic, insuperable entity.
US intelligence officer Amanda Waller has determined only a secretly convened group of disparate, despicable individuals with next to nothing to lose will do.
However, once they realise they weren’t picked to succeed, but chosen for their patent culpability when they inevitably fail, will the Suicide Squad resolve to die trying, or decide it’s every man for himself?
Hot on the heels of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice comes the third film in the DC Comics movie universe.
An all-star cast including Will Smith as ace assassin Deadshot, Margot Robbie as the deranged Harley Quinn, Cara Delevingne as the mysterious Enchantress and Jared Leto as the Joker help bring this legendary comic book series to the big screen. Look out for a cameo from Ben Affleck’s Batman.
Cineworld Sheffield will be screening this 15 cert film - only suitable for people aged 15 and older - in IMAX 3D, 4DX, VIP and normal 2D, with special midnight launch screenings. Full details at www.cineworld.co.uk/films/suicide-squad
WIN PRIZES:
We have some amazing prizes to be won including exclusive replicas of the cane used in the film by The Joker.
Our three first prize winners each get one of the canes plus a pair of tickets to see Suicide Squad on the Imax 3D screen at Cineworld Sheffield.
Three runners up each get a film merchandise bag and a pair of tickets to see the film at the cinema in 4DX.
Five other other runner up get a pair of tickets to a general screening at Cineworld Sheffield.
For a chance to win simply FOLLOW Graham Walker on Twitter @GW1962 and retweet any of his tweets featuring the hashtag #JPCompSS16 or email him - one email per person - with your full name, age, address, phone numbers and email details, with #JPCompSS16 in the subject field, at graham.walker@jpress.co.uk
Deadline is Friday, August 5, 2016, 10am.
Tickets will be for screenings at Cineworld Sheffield and from Monday, August 8, 2016, subject to availability, during this original theatre release period only. Film certification rules apply. This is a 15 certificate film. Usual Johnston Press terms and conditions apply see www.johnstonpress.co.uk/competition
* For official film social media news and more check out the hashtag #SuicideSquad on Facebook at facebook.com/suicidesquaduk, Twitter @SuicideSquadWB and Instagram at @suicidesquadmovie
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] | 2016-08-29T08:49:35 | null | 2016-08-29T08:18:31 | Here are today | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Fsport%2Flocal-sport%2Fyour-soccer-transfer-speculation-august-29-1-8093896.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8093895.1472455259!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Your soccer transfer speculation: August 29 | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | Here are today's top-flight soccer stories from Bank Holiday Monday's newspapers
Manchester United look set to miss out on Monaco defender FABINHO, who is expected to stay in the south of France, reports the Daily Express.
JAMES RODRIGUEZ will cost Chelsea £60million, according to the Daily Mirror, who write that the Premier League club have had a bid rejected by Real Madrid.
The Mirror is also reporting that Everton midfielder JAMES MCCARTHY is close to leaving the club with Crystal Palace a potential destination.
Palace are also closing in on Chelsea striker Loic Remy, according to Sky Sports.
Another player that could leave Stamford Bridge is Kurt Zouma, with the Daily Mail reporting that German side Schalke are chasing the 21-year-old. | http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/sport/local-sport/your-soccer-transfer-speculation-august-29-1-8093896 | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.whitbygazette.co.uk/265a9bfcd59aef06762719798cea85519560d060fe8470404d0c71cc09e842b8.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:01:42 | null | 2016-07-28T00:25:19 | What is the number on Herbie | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Fwhat-s-on%2Fvideo-cineworld-sheffield-disney-quiz-champions-can-you-do-better-1-8037820.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8037817.1469662056!/image/image.jpg | en | null | VIDEO: Cineworld Sheffield Disney Quiz champions - can you do better? | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | Sorry, we're having problems with our video player at the moment, but are working to fix it as soon as we can
What is the number on Herbie's car bonnet in the Disney film The Love Bug?
It's 53 of course.
And if you knew that, you might have been in with a chance against Team Goofy, the newly crowned Disney Quiz Cineworld Sheffield champions - IT worker John Youle, 33, primary school assistant Abigail Screaton, 32, sales assistants Deborah Vaughan, 29, and Sarah Youle, 32.
They won books, bags, T-shirts, hats and more, including tickets to see Frozen, the live action Disney On Ice production coming to Sheffield Arena in December.
Team Goofy also won a Cineworld star-shaped logo trophy and they each got a miniature Oscar.
The free entry event promoted this Friday's UK release of Finding Dory, the long-awaited Walt Disney and Pixar Animation sequel to their 2003 masterpiece, Finding Nemo..
Cineworld Sheffield Disney Quiz champs 2016 - John Youle, 33; primary school assistantAbigail Screaton, 32, sales assistants Deborah Vaughan, 29, and Sarah Youle, 32.
It follows a sci-fi and a Marvel quiz night, much like a pub quiz, which were also hosted in the innovative cinema's bar area, on the first floor of the building at Valley Centertainment.
Cineworld's next film quiz, with the theme of Page To Screen, will test fans' knowledge of films like Harry Potter on Tuesday, August 16, at 7pm.
Team Goofy's Abigail Screaton, of Rotherham, said: "It's only the third time we've done one of these quizzes, So it's fantastic to win.
"It's just a different sort of environment from a usual pub quiz. Lots of people get dressed up. It's nice to do something a bit different with your friends. I really enjoyed it."
Quiz master Dave Vaughan, Cineworld Sheffield's Operations Manager, said: "Pub quizzes have been going on for years. At Cineworld we do something a little bit different.
"We are doing this for free, for people to come here not for a night at the movies but a night in our bar, having fun and showing their skills of movie knowledge out.
"We've had a sci-fi quiz, a Marvel quiz and next we're having a Page To Screen quiz. So it's something for everyone. Some of the audience and our staff even dressed up for it.
"The space is bookable, we have had private events in the past, where people have hired the bar out with food for parties. Anything is a possibility in the new Cineworld Sheffield."
Team Goofy answered 100 questions, including video and audio sections, getting around 81 per cent right,
Below we have 10 of the question. Without using Google, go on, be honest...how many can you answer?
CINEWORLD SHEFFIELD DISNEY QUIZ 2016
1. What was the name of the snake in Robin Hood?
2. Who wrote Peter Pan?
3. The Blue fairy appears in which Disney Classic first?
4. What fairy tale is Tangled based on?
5. What's the name of the crab in little mermaid?
6. Put these Disney classics in order of release - Alice in Wonderland, Robin Hood. The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, 101 Dalmatians and Winnie the Pooh. ]
7. What is the name of Merlin’s owl in the Sword in the Stone.
8. What happened to Bambi’s mum?
9. Night at Bald Mountain come from what Disney classic.
10. Name the seven dwarfs.
ANSWERS
1. Sir hiss
2. J M Barrie
3. Pinocchio.
4. Rapunsel
5. Sebastian.
6. Alice, 1951; 101 Dalmatians, 1961; Robin Hood, 1973; The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, 1977; Winnie the Pooh, 2011.
7. Archimedes
8. She is shot.
9. Fantasia
10. Bashful, Doc, Dopey, Happy, Sleepy, Sneezy and Grumpy.
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[] | 2016-08-28T16:49:41 | null | 2016-08-28T16:00:00 | British Sign Language courses are on their way to Whitby so more people can communicate with deaf children. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Flearn-british-sign-language-to-help-us-all-communicate-1-8089068.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8089067.1472135958!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Learn British Sign Language to help us all communicate | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | British Sign Language courses are on their way to Whitby so more people can communicate with deaf children.
The ideahas come from Sara McLanaghan, a level three British Sign Language (BSL) who works in a mainstream school to support a profoundly deaf child, Alfie Blackwell.
Currently, Sara and the boy’s parents are the only people in the area that can fluently communicate with him, aside from the teacher of the deaf and other professionals – but other than that he is very isolated.
Sara said: “I want to change this and bring British sign language to Whitby.
“BSL is such an amazing skill to have and can lead you down so many different paths.”
Sara is running a course in Whitby on behalf of MeSign, British sign language specialists, which will run from September 22 until April at Eskdale school on a Thursday evening, 6-8pm.
The course cost is £380 per person and this covers exam costs. At the end of the qualification, students will gain level 1 in signature British sign language.
There are limited spaces on the course.
If it fills up, she is hoping to carry on to do another level 1 class and a level 2 class in Whitby as well, along with the linguistics of British sign language.
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[] | 2016-08-26T12:57:27 | null | 2016-08-01T09:24:56 | A PUDDING chef in New Zealand has created the first ice cream cone to be made out of a Yorkshire pudding. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fscoop-i-ve-made-an-ice-cream-cone-out-of-a-yorkshire-pudding-1-8043660.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8043658.1470039968!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Scoop! I’ve made an ice cream cone out of a Yorkshire pudding | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | A PUDDING chef in New Zealand has created the first ice cream cone to be made out of a Yorkshire pudding.
The Yorkshire Day creation by chef Giapo, who previously fashioned a cone out of Caitlyn Jenner’s Vogue magazine cover, says his latest creation is a “mash-up” of the traditional Sicilian ‘Brioche con gelato’, which is a brioche bun stuffed with a smear of ice cream, and the good old Yorkshire pud.
Ice-cream chef Giapo's Yorkshire Pudding cone
Giapo said the hollowed-out batter of the Yorkshire pudding is an ideal shape to contain ice cream.
He came up with the idea after being introduced to our national dish by the Yorkshire-born mother of his friend, British Chef Sean Connolly.
He said: “The pastry is hollow, has a neutral and not too sweet flavour and the chewy inside combines with the crisp outside and the creaminess of the ice-cream for taste explosion.”
The Yorkshire Pudding cone comes in eight different flavours:
• Creme anglaise and rhubarb
• Chocolate evolution
• Coromandel Mandarin satsuma cultivar
• Zoe’s Pinenuts from Marlborough
• Christchurch Hazelnut
• Afghan Cookies
• Siamu Popo (Samoan Caramel)
• Hokey Pokey (a traditional kiwi flavour made from chocolate and honeycomb)
A Yorkshire pudding resembles a choux pastry in taste, however it’s cooked differently. While tradition dictates its inclusion in a roast meal, it used to be served by families less well-off as a cheap and filling dessert with custard and jam.
Giapo lived in London for several years and says a roast dinner was one of his favourite British dishes. | http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/news/local/scoop-i-ve-made-an-ice-cream-cone-out-of-a-yorkshire-pudding-1-8043660 | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | www.whitbygazette.co.uk/843a2e5631867162b0b9a803b8f1465adc0ee3e52fd8e0e2cdea1c9c80d17d84.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:04:52 | null | 2016-08-19T17:00:29 | ONE man who deserves plenty of credit for Yorkshire’s progress to Finals Day is Alex Lees. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Fsport%2Flocal-sport%2Ft20-finals-day-adam-lyth-s-knock-the-spark-for-yorkshire-s-white-ball-momentum-alex-lees-1-8078722.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8078721.1471684015!/image/image.jpg | en | null | T20 Finals Day: Adam Lyth’s knock the spark for Yorkshire’s white-ball momentum - Alex Lees | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | ONE man who deserves plenty of credit for Yorkshire’s progress to Finals Day is Alex Lees.
The 23-year-old opening batsman, who took over the leadership of Yorkshire’s one-day sides last December, has helped mastermind a stunning turnaround in form which sees Yorkshire as favourites with most bookmakers to lift the trophy.
As a young and inexperienced captain, Lees must have felt the pressure of Yorkshire’s poor start to the tournament more than most.
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But he has shown great character and maturity to help get their campaign back on track, and he said he is relishing the chance to lead them out at Edgbaston today.
“Definitely. It’s always an honour to represent the White Rose, so the opportunity to lead the side in a Finals Day is massive,” said Lees, who is Yorkshire’s youngest full-time limited overs captain having taken over the role from Championship leader Andrew Gale.
“I’ve not been to a Finals Day as a player before, but I have watched a few on television.
“The atmosphere is always electric, and I can’t wait to get out there and, hopefully, we can play some good cricket and entertain the crowd.”
Yorkshire go into today’s event with confidence high after seven wins in their last eight T20 games.
Lees attributes the transformation to the players discovering a sense of belief.
“We were obviously disappointed with the early-season results, but we never felt that we were far away from playing some very good cricket,” said Lees.
“I think the turning point in our white-ball cricket this season was Lythy’s (Adam Lyth) knock against Northants at Scarborough (in the Royal London Cup).
“He played with real freedom that day, and that has given the rest of the squad confidence to go out and express themselves in both competitions.
“We’ve got a lot of talented players, and everyone understands their roles and we’ve backed ourselves and taken a very positive approach, looking to put as much pressure as possible on the opposition.
“Hopefully, we can take take approach into the semi-final against Durham.”
Lees is expecting a tough test against a Durham team boosted by the return of England’s Ben Stokes. But he believes that his own side have more than enough firepower to beat them.
“Durham are a very good side with some very experienced players who know their games inside out,” said Lees.
“We will have to play very well to defeat them and to progress to the final, but we know that we have the players on the day to do just that.
“We’ve been playing some great T20 cricket at just the right time, and I’m confident in the strength of our team. Everyone’s been contributing, and it’s a proper team effort to get to this stage.”
No-one has contributed more than Lees, who is Yorkshire’s leading run-scorer in the tournament with 272 at 22.66.
He is just ahead of David Willey, who has hit 269 runs at 29.88, while Lyth, Jack Leaning and Kane Williamson have also scored more than 200 runs for the county in this year’s competition, with Williamson having featured briefly as an overseas player before rejoining New Zealand for international action.
Tim Bresnan leads Yorkshire’s wicket-taking list with 20 at 16.20, with spinners Adil Rashid (14 at 18.85) and Azeem Rafiq (13 at 18.69) coming next on the chart.
“I feel like I’ve been hitting the ball nicely all season,” said Lees, who made 85 and 114 not out in the draw against Lancashire in the County Championship at Old Trafford last week.
“It was nice to get some runs in the Roses game, and, hopefully, I can take that form into the semi-final.” | http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/sport/local-sport/t20-finals-day-adam-lyth-s-knock-the-spark-for-yorkshire-s-white-ball-momentum-alex-lees-1-8078722 | en | 2016-08-19T00:00:00 | www.whitbygazette.co.uk/47d46748f1bf6d446fbcf6c972970296af1ed8a9ac81c09834a3260b5c4db4fe.json |
[] | 2016-08-28T08:49:21 | null | 2016-08-28T08:00:00 | Cats, dogs – and a snake which shed its skin during the service – were all guests at Old Stephen’s Church in Robin Hood’s Bay. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fsnakes-alive-in-church-1-8077240.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8077235.1471535274!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Snakes alive - in church | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | Cats, dogs – and a snake which shed its skin during the service – were all guests at Old Stephen’s Church in Robin Hood’s Bay.
The church’s boxed pews doubled up well as animal stalls and hymns were chosen to celebrate the created world and all the world’s pets and animals.
Tia the 5ft corn snake, owned by Victoria Hudson, pictured here, was one of the more unusual visitors at the service.
A total of £95.75 was raised for Raw Animal Rescue, which takes in all types of animals from cats, dogs, ducks, chickens, horses – and finds new, loving homes for them.
Jo Robinson, who turned up with her rescue cat Buttons, spoke to the congregation about the work that the animal sanctuary does and how it is run entirely by volunteers and funded by donations.
The church is open from 10am to 4pm every day for visitors.
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] | 2016-08-26T13:12:45 | null | 2016-08-07T11:00:13 | Where have all the flowers gone? Since our childhood, countless wild flowers have vanished from the countryside. Wild flowers; Corn Marigolds; Scarlet Pimpernel; Flowering Rush, Spearwort and Fumitory etc, are all very scarce. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Fwhat-s-on%2Fout-about%2Fcountry-diary-sad-decline-of-our-native-wild-flowers-1-8035980.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8035979.1469611431!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Country diary: Sad decline of our native wild flowers | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | Where have all the flowers gone? Since our childhood, countless wild flowers have vanished from the countryside. Wild flowers; Corn Marigolds; Scarlet Pimpernel; Flowering Rush, Spearwort and Fumitory etc, are all very scarce.
Martin recently photographed Fumitory on the edge of a cornfield. Modern herbicides easily destroy such weeds, depriving birds of a food supply they require. Only recently we read that turtle doves have disappeared from favoured sites. In this country they have declined by more than 93 per cent since 1994. Their favoured food supply was Fumitory. The last time we observed a turtle dove was over 20 years ago at Black Toft Sands Reserve near Goole. Will they thrive again if conditions and food requirements are met?
Hot, sunny days have necessitated frequent watering in the gardens. The water tub was completely dry, so Michael cleaned out the debris, and left it to refill when rain returned. Next morning Michael called me to witness a visitor. A frog gazed up at us, almost pleading to be rescued from his four foot fall into the steep-sided ‘prison’. The rescue team was at hand!
Having a dog certainly ensures plenty of country walks with a faithful companion. However, grooming Tigga following a recent walk through long grass, revealed a tick. Ticks are tiny, spider-like creatures found in grass or woodlands. They attach themselves to passing animals (including humans) and bite into the skin to suck blood. An unfed tick is very small, but when sucking blood it swells to the size of a pea. That’s when I noticed it. Although the bite is painless, a tick can carry disease and should be removed.
Tigga allowed me to remove it with fine-pointed tweezers. Grasping the tick’s head as close to Tigga’s skin as possible, a slight to-and-fro action levered the head out.
Dancing in the sunshine along a secluded path beside the neglected Sea Cut, were many varieties of butterflies.The majority of butterflies seen during early July were the large white, frequently noted in gardens, and the small white. Only one tortoiseshell butterfly was recently observed. They used to be much more plentiful until recent decades.
In late July a peacock butterlfly was noted as it revealed its almost black underwings. Its interesting wing design of ‘eyes’ is so conspicuous that it cannot be mistaken for any other species.
Many brown varieties have been on the wing, including speckled wood; meadow brown; wall brown, and the large ringlet, along with the copper and skipper butterlflies.
Himalayan Balsam flourishes beside our local rivers and ditches – often called Policeman’s Helmet on account of the flower’s fanciful resemblance to a helmet! It was introduced from its Asiatic homeland in 1839. I love its fragrance, with the sweetness of midget gem sweets beloved by children.
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A rocking line-up of world-class look and sound-a-likes will be headlined by Bon Jovi Experience, Coldplace and New2.
South Yorkshire's latest young indie blues band Sundance, who play a mix of their own material and crowd pleasing covers by the likes of Oasis and Arctic Monkeys, are one of five local support acts along with Nick Aslam's Rebel City Revival.
Promising to be the hottest ticket in town, festival-goers will have the opportunity to enjoy a full day and night of live music at the stadium inside a huge big top style marquee - which means it goes ahead whatever the weather,
There will be a variety of food and entertainment stalls in true festival style. Parking is available, but there is no camping at the festival site.
Fake Festival, which is celebrating its tenth year, features professional ‘touring-grade’ tribute bands that look, sound and move like the real rock-stars.
Home grown support bands include Barnsley four-piece Sundance, who recently took Tramlines by storm after featuring on BBC Music Day. They are Harry Walker (vocals/lead guitar), Kyle Grattan (drums), Owen Keane (rhythm guitar) and Jamie Darbyshire (bass).
The band's riffs and swagger belie their young years and they harbour a not-so-quiet confidence that's sure to take them places. Check out and like their Facebook page facebook.com/sundancemusicuk, follow on Twitter @sundancemusicuk and visit their YouTube page - CLICK HERE
Nick Aslam's Rebel City Revival, whose inspirations range from Kiss, David Bowie and Oasis, will perform original music including their debut single Night Train - see www.nickaslam.com, his Facebook page www.facebook.com/NickAslam or follow on Twitter @NikAslam
Doncaster Fake Festival provides a friendly environment that caters for all ages, says Mark Hughesman, of Doncaster Rovers FC, who are hosting the event.
He said: “This year celebrates 10 years of Fake Festivals. It promises to be a fabulous day of live music and we can’t wait to start the party.
"Bring your friends and family, young and old, and catch up with those you haven’t seen in a while. It’s going to be a fun-packed day with the music and bar in the marquee and the entertainments arena just outside with a variety of food stands and games.”
Coldplace
Jez Lee, owner of Fake Festivals, said: “It’s hard to believe that Fake Festivals started out in a small Lincolnshire village 10 years ago and now tours around the UK.
"I can clearly remember the day, and never imagined it would take off like it has. I’m really proud to be able to say we are the UK’s only touring tribute festival, and that we have kept it community-led to, and not sold out to commercial pressures that a lot of festivals experience nowadays.”
DONCASTER FAKE FESTIVAL SCHEDULE: Times are an estimate only.
12.30pm Doors open
New2
1.15pm Local support bands
5.45pm New2
7,45pm Coldplace
9.45pm Bon Jovi Experience
BUY TICKETS: Advanced tickets are adult (18-plus) £21, young people (10 to 17 years) £11, family (two adults/two young people} £53, children uo to nine years, free. Buy online at www.fakefestivals.co.uk or from selected retailers listed on the website. You can register, after your purchase, for a discounted ticket to The Big Fake Festival in September.
FREE DRINK: Enter the festival before 2pm on the day and bosses will give you a drink token that can be exchanged for one bar drink or two soft drinks.
Sundance - one of five home-grown bands supporting tribute acts at Doncaster Fake Festival.
FACEBOOK: For Doncaster Fake Festival updates, to invite friends, family and tell everyone you're going, follow and visit the official Facebook page - CLICK HERE.
TWITTER: Follow the dedicated Doncaster Fake Festival Twitter account @fakedoncaster
THE BIG FAKE FESTIVAL: Each Doncaster ticket can be used to redeem a 50 per cent discount on a ticket for The Big Fake Festival 2016, September 2 to 4, 2016 - at Thoresby Park, Nottinghamshire. The three-day, end-of-season festival features all 20 tribute bands that perform on the Fake Festivals tour.
FREE DOWNLOAD: Sundance's latest demo Haze is free to stream or download - CLICK HERE
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[] | 2016-08-26T13:12:50 | null | 2016-08-15T08:00:00 | Anglers around the Whitby area are being invited to go for their own Olympic gold during National Fishing Month, as the Rio Olympics does not feature the sport. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Ffeatures%2Ffishing%2Fgo-for-your-own-gold-during-national-fishing-month-1-8061099.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8061098.1470836625!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Go for your own gold during National Fishing Month | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | Anglers around the Whitby area are being invited to go for their own Olympic gold during National Fishing Month, as the Rio Olympics does not feature the sport.
Angling is still searching for its position in the mainstream sports arenas.
Although it is a participatory sport, hugely popular on a world-wide basis and practised in virtually every country, general acceptance by those that follow sports is largely absent.
There are no Olympic angling medals at stake in Rio.
There are a variety of reasons why this is the case, most of them related to a lack of understanding about the sport and what makes anglers ‘tick’.
For casual spectators, angling is difficult to understand or follow because the degree of success is rarely visible.
In golf, one can see how close to the hole the ball lands, whereas in angling, fish are usually invisible until captured. This ‘all or nothing’ outcome can be dismissed as mere luck by the uninformed, yet – consistently – the same top match anglers win national, European and World competitions.
More than 4 million people fish in the UK, an audience sufficiently large to attract serious interest by any business selling goods.
The first step to making this a reality is for forward-thinking leaders within angling and from the corporate world to foster relationships that can develop into partnerships of huge mutual benefit. As a general rule, anglers are do-it-yourselfers, and DIY chains, insurance companies and car manufacturers have started to explore giving their support to fishing.
Anglers can fish competitively, seek specimen-sized fish or merely to catch whatever fish happen to come along. This is where initiatives like National Fishing Month can help people to develop a lifelong passion as rewarding as an Olympic medal.
Created over 20 years ago by the Angling Trades Association, National Fishing Month provides an annual focus on fishing activities where anyone of any age can have a go at hundreds of NFM events across the UK.
If you don’t fish right now, there is still time to give it a chance by booking a place at an event near you at www.nationalfishingmonth.com where you can find out more.
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[] | 2016-08-30T10:51:45 | null | 2016-08-30T11:00:00 | Simon Potten, Head of Safety, Training & Services, reacts to the publication of the MAIB’s Annual Report and the steps Seafish are taking to tackle its tragic findings. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Ffeatures%2Ffishing%2Fmore-fishermen-lost-lives-in-2016-than-in-whole-of-last-year-1-8086233.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8086229.1472045576!/image/image.jpg | en | null | More fishermen lost lives in 2016 than in whole of last year | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | Simon Potten, Head of Safety, Training & Services, reacts to the publication of the MAIB’s Annual Report and the steps Seafish are taking to tackle its tragic findings.
The publication of the Marine Accident Investigation Branch’s (MAIB) Annual Report for 2015 provides an opportunity for the fishing industry and all those actively trying to improve fishing safety to take stock of how well we are doing, he said.
The two most reliable indicators of fishing safety are the number of fishing vessels lost and, tragically, the number of fishermen lost. In 2015, 13 fishing vessels were lost, representing 0.23% of the fleet.
What is more saddening is that more fishermen have lost lives in 2016 already, than in the whole of 2015, which we revealed last month. This is unacceptable and it is vital that the industry as a whole do more to improve the safety record of the fishing industry.
Grounding (5), foundering (2) and capsize (2) were the most common causes of vessel loss in 2015, but these incidents may have been prevented with better navigation, watchkeeping, maintenance and suitable stability awareness training. Seven fishermen died in 2015. Far fewer than the number of vessels lost (which confirms that in the majority of cases when vessels are lost, the crew successfully abandons ship and is rescued), but this is still seven deaths too many.
The majority of deaths between 2005 and 2015 resulted from fishermen accidentally falling overboard or ending up in the sea after their vessel sank. We have recently run a major campaign to encourage fishermen to wear Personal Flotation Devices (PFDs) while working on open decks at sea and we are now promoting Personal Locator Beacons, but these initiatives are only addressing the symptom and not the cause of these fatalities.
We have to remove the risk and stop fishermen falling over the side in the first place; not easy given the nature of this type of work.
However, keeping the crew onboard is the only guaranteed way of preventing further man overboard fatalities.
The seafood industry acknowledges their responsibility in helping the UK (and worldwide) fishing industry improve its safety record and has approved the spending of almost £3.5m of levy on safety and training in the current Seafish 3-year Corporate Plan (2015-2018).
With four dedicated teams at Seafish working to improve Fishermen’s Safety, it is one of our most important areas of work and has a simple but ambitious objective – ‘zero deaths attributed to poor working practices over a 12-month period’.
We simply cannot accept fishermen dying while working to catch the fish and shellfish that we eat. Death should not be a price that our fishermen and their families have to pay. Our multi-award winning Sea You Home Safe campaign continues to highlight the importance of fishermen wearing PFD’s when at sea on open decks.
We are also working closely with the fishing industry and the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) through our membership of the Fishing Industry Safety Group to see what lessons we can learn from Alaska and Iceland – who both had a year in which no fishermen died – and we will seek to put those lessons into practice here in the UK and redouble our efforts to help owners make fishing boats a safer place to work.
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[] | 2016-08-26T13:13:08 | null | 2016-08-23T08:00:00 | Fish and chip fans in Whitby can enjoy their favourite fast food knowing it is sourced sustainably, following the successful Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification of Trenchers restaurant and takeaway. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Ffeatures%2Ffishing%2Fblue-tick-accolade-for-top-whitby-fish-and-chip-restaurant-1-8071266.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8074378.1471445545!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Blue tick accolade for top Whitby fish and chip restaurant | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | Fish and chip fans in Whitby can enjoy their favourite fast food knowing it is sourced sustainably, following the successful Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification of Trenchers restaurant and takeaway.
The news means the New Quay Road restaurant can now use the MSC ‘blue tick’ label on its cod and haddock, assuring customers that the fish sold has been responsibly caught using sustainable methods.
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Trenchers is run by General Manager, Andrew Wilkinson, who has worked in the business since the age of 13.
Opened in 1980 as a café, today the thriving restaurant and takeaway can seat 160 customers and has a staff of 74.
Andrew explains to The Whitby Gazette what the news means to the restaurant.
“We value the amazing ingredients provided by our oceans which is why we are delighted to have achieved MSC certification,” he said.
“We all have a responsibility to ensure future generations can enjoy sustainable fish. By choosing to be MSC certified, we and our customers are playing a part in this. “
George Clark, UK Commercial Manager at the MSC, adds: “Congratulations to Trenchers who are doing their bit to protect the future of the oceans by selling MSC certified fish.
“We hope that their success will encourage other chippies in the area to follow their lead and offer their customers a sustainable choice.”
The business achieved the certification via a joint pilot scheme between MSC and the National Federation of Fish Friers. The online application process is designed to be time-saving and cost-effective, ideal for fish and chip shops looking to take the lead on sustainability in their area.
Choosing MSC labelled seafood from fisheries, retailers, brands and restaurants guarantees sustainable, traceable methods and helps protect the life in our oceans for generations to come.
The MSC ecolabel on a seafood product means that:
l It comes from a wild-catch fishery which has been independently certified to the MSC’s science-based standard for environmentally sustainable fishing.
l It is fully traceable to a sustainable source.
More than 280 fisheries in over 35 countries are certified to the MSC’s Standard.
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] | 2016-08-26T13:11:47 | null | 2016-08-17T11:12:17 | The highlight of the town’s summer social calendar takes place over the weekend with the 176th Whitby Regatta. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Ftown-raring-to-go-for-176th-whitby-regatta-1-8073501.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8073500.1471428728!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Town raring to go for 176th Whitby Regatta | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | The highlight of the town’s summer social calendar takes place over the weekend with the 176th Whitby Regatta.
A rivalry between two clubs was the basis on which the event was formed all those years ago - and still remains as strong today as the town for one weekend becomes divided.
Red or blue?
Friendship or Fisherlads?
Preparation, training and team-building have been going on for weeks now building up to the 2016 rowing races which were set to start on Thursday with the Ladies Vets (over 30s) taking to the water first.
In addition to the rowing, throughout regatta weekend, which brings locals out in force and thousands of visitors to the town, there are a a wide range of activities and events for all the family.
They range from the spectacular sight of the greasy pole challenge, a bonny baby contest, raft races, a gymkhana, dog show, market, fancy dress parade, funfair and a fireworks finale.
Regatta chairman Ivor Greer told the Gazette: “We are looking forward to a fun and hectic weekend.
“I would like to thank all the local people and businesses for their continued support especially the Royal Hotel for hosting the baby show, glamorous grannies and the grand parade and the Abbey Wharf for hosting the rowing presentation.
“Looking at the weather forecast it looks like we may be lucky and have calm weather for the rowing races and harbour events.”
Following from a hugely successful opening revue show last weekend, the main programme of events gets underway on Saturday.
The traditional bonny baby show, which over the years has seen generations of the same family taking part, starts at 10am and afterwards glamorous grannies get their turn in the spotlight.
Both of these are in the Royal Hotel rather than the Pavilion, as in previous years, due to a clash with Folk Week events.
There are a variety of events throughout the morning along the West Cliff including the dog show at 11am, Jez Avery stunt show, vintage motorbikes and a display from the Whitby and District Motor Club.
It takes the programme through to around 4pm when the raft race is due to start dependent on rowing times.
The Regatta sail past and life boat launch is expected to be from around 5.15pm and will be followed by the greasy pole where dare-devils make a slippery attempt to grab the flag from the end without faling into the water.
On Sunday the motorcyle and quad gymkhana is on the beach at 10a, while on West Cliff from 11am there are vintage and post war motorcyles on display, tractors and farm machinery and the Scooter Club rally at Crescent Gardens.
Whitby will come to a standstill on Monday as the walking floats and fancy dress assemble makes its way through the town centre. Starting in the Market Square at 9.30am it passes over the swing bridge, along Pier Road, up Khyber Pass and to the Royal Hotel for prize giving.
The fun fair opens at 10am and the results from the rowing races will be revealed at the prize giving at the Abbey Wharf pub from 7pm.
A fireworks display at 9.45pm is the grand finale to what is set to be another great Whitby Regatta.
•Send us your pictures from over the Regatta to possibly be included in our round-up of the event to editorial@whitbygazette.co.uk | http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/news/local/town-raring-to-go-for-176th-whitby-regatta-1-8073501 | en | 2016-08-17T00:00:00 | www.whitbygazette.co.uk/24f30db22920a512f88b4ece670342adc75d73a33c87a7ee1ab330bb592c53a8.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:09:37 | null | 2016-08-24T08:00:00 | Farmers, agricultural workers and show visitors are being offered free health checks at one of North Yorkshire’s biggest agricultural shows. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fhealth-checks-on-offer-for-visitors-to-today-s-egton-show-1-8074015.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8074256.1471443906!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Health checks on offer for visitors to today’s Egton Show | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | Farmers, agricultural workers and show visitors are being offered free health checks at one of North Yorkshire’s biggest agricultural shows.
Healthy lifestyle advisors will be on hand at this year’s Egton Show (Aug 24) carrying out the midlife MOTs for people aged between 40 and 74 wanting to find out about their state of health and fitness.
The service is provided by Ice Creates and is funded by North Yorkshire County Council.
The 20 to 30-minute checks involve a series of simple tests including blood pressure, cholesterol and height.
They are a helpful way of checking quickly and easily for signs of serious illnesses that can occur in midlife, such as diabetes, stroke and heart disease.
Councillor David Chance, Executive Member for Public Health and Stronger Communities, said: “Looking after our health is important wherever we live and however physically fit we think we are.
“These health checks can literally be a life-saver.
“There will be lots of people enjoying themselves at this fantastic agricultural show and we really hope they’ll take up the chance of a free health check.”
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] | 2016-08-26T13:07:35 | null | 2016-08-25T18:38:54 | Fishburn Park suffered a controversial 2-1 defeat at Redcar Newmarket in the Teesside League on Wednesday night. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Fsport%2Flocal-sport%2Fpark-beaten-after-late-controversy-1-8089609.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8089607.1472146716!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Park beaten after late controversy | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | Fishburn Park suffered a controversial 2-1 defeat at Redcar Newmarket in the Teesside League on Wednesday night.
Park started sluggishly but almost took the lead against the run of play, James Organ-Simpson’s effort from long range hit tingthe bar and bouncing back to safety.
Redcar soon led when a home player was afforded time to ghost in at the back post and tap in for 1-0.
Player-joint manager Mark Waterfield came off the bench for the second half and make a huge impact, his hold-up play feeding Nathan Storr to win a corner.
From the resulting set-piece, the half-cleared ball was rifled into the bottom corner by Waterfield to put Fishburn on level terms.
The visitors went searching for the winner and looked like they were going to find it when Storr was crudely brought down from behind when one-on-one with the home.
The referee waved away Park’s furious protests and the same player who committed the challenge went on to net the winner for Redcar with 10 minutes left on the clock.
Fishburn will be looking to bounce back when they host Stockton West End on Saturday. | http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/sport/local-sport/park-beaten-after-late-controversy-1-8089609 | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | www.whitbygazette.co.uk/0ab30d90acf44642a380bd748a9b8d3d89c58c43e0b51649d1c040336d6fca18.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:06:12 | null | 2016-08-22T06:00:48 | YORKSHIRE’s dream of winning the treble is over, but first team coach Jason Gillespie insisted that his players will come back fighting as they target the next best prize of a league and cup double. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Fsport%2Flocal-sport%2Fyorkshire-vow-to-hit-back-after-t20-defeat-1-8081295.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8081292.1471816793!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Yorkshire vow to hit back after T20 defeat | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | YORKSHIRE’s dream of winning the treble is over, but first team coach Jason Gillespie insisted that his players will come back fighting as they target the next best prize of a league and cup double.
Yorkshire failed in their attempt to win the NatWest T20 Blast for the first time when they lost by seven runs to Durham in the semi-final at Edgbaston on Saturday.
However, Gillespie’s men are still in the hunt for a hat-trick of County Championships and they are through to the Royal London Cup semi-finals for a second successive season, with Yorkshire determined to put behind them their T20 heartbreak.
“We were bitterly disappointed to lose the T20 semi,” said Gillespie, “but there’s still everything to play for in the next few weeks.
“We’re still in the 50-over comp and the Championship, and we’ll dust ourselves down and crack on.
“We can look back on the T20 campaign by and large with a lot of pride, considering the way that we started the tournament (Yorkshire won only one of their first seven games before winning six of the last seven to reach the knockout stages).
“It’s a tough one to take, losing the semi, but there’s still plenty to fight for in the next few weeks, and I know that the lads will bounce back strongly.”
Yorkshire came up against a world-class display from England pace bowler Mark Wood, who captured a T20 career-best 4-25 from four overs after Durham scored 156-6 in the second semi-final, Northants beating Nottinghamshire by eight runs in the first semi-final.
Wood twice took two wickets in three balls – including the key scalps of England batsmen Jonny Bairstow and Gary Ballance – after Ben Stokes had earlier top-scored with 56 on his return to the Durham side after a calf injury.
“Mark Wood bowled beautifully,” said Gillespie, with Wood following that performance with 1-25 in the final against Northants, who went on to take the trophy with a four-wicket win.
“We were going along quite nicely and then we lost two quick wickets (Bairstow and Ballance), and we didn’t quite recover from that.
“I certainly felt that it was a gettable total, especially with the strength and depth of our batting line-up, and we should have chased those down.
“We can look at all sorts of reasons as to why that didn’t happen, but the facts are that we didn’t get the runs and Durham played very well.”
With hindsight, Gillespie felt that Yorkshire might have made more of an effort to see off Wood, although that was clearly easier said than done.
The 26-year-old right-armer, who only recently returned to action after ankle surgery, was bowling at 90mph and he would have been a handful for any opposition.
“Maybe we just needed to soak up the pressure a little bit more and get through his (Wood’s) spell, knowing that he only had four of the 20 overs, and maybe there are some lessons to be learned there,” said Gillespie, whose side take on Surrey in the semi-finals of the Royal London Cup at Headingley on Sunday.
“We just weren’t able to win the key moments, and Wood took the wind out of our sails.
“Any cricket watcher could see that he was used very well by the captain; he was brought on to take wickets and put the pressure on us, which is exactly what happened.”
Yorkshire captain Alex Lees echoed Gillespie’s sentiments at the end of an encouraging T20 campaign for the club overall, with Yorkshire having only once previously reached Finals Day.
Lees hit the second-highest score of 22 on a day when Adam Lyth (64) led the Yorkshire chase.
“Woody tipped the scales, and when you twice get two wickets in one over, it certainly puts the opposition on the back foot,” said Lees.
“We’re bitterly disappointed, and I just think that we lacked somebody in the middle order to make a contribution.
“Overall, we had a good tournament after everyone had written us off after the first few games, and we showed strength of character to come back and qualify and reach Finals Day. That’s testament to the group of players that we have, and the lads’ work ethic and prep was second to none.”
Attention now returns to the Championship, with Yorkshire going into tomorrow’s game against Notts at Scarborough in second place in Division One, 26 points behind Middlesex with a game in hand.
Finals’ Day report: Page 9. | http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/sport/local-sport/yorkshire-vow-to-hit-back-after-t20-defeat-1-8081295 | en | 2016-08-22T00:00:00 | www.whitbygazette.co.uk/a30dc4fd84a2ef68fd90ed4c447967e63166f8ebc3cfb2d26a4592a225f77740.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:02:10 | null | 2016-07-28T11:58:46 | The Esk Valley Theatre presents the Willy Russell classic Educating Rita this summer in Glaisdale, near Whitby. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Fwhat-s-on%2Fout-about%2Feducating-rita-heading-for-esk-valley-theatre-glaisdale-1-8038785.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8038782.1469703497!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Educating Rita heading for Esk Valley Theatre, Glaisdale | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | The Esk Valley Theatre presents the Willy Russell classic Educating Rita this summer in Glaisdale, near Whitby.
Frank, a whisky-loving middle-aged English tutor seems to be drinking himself towards oblivion when his world is rocked by the arrival of Rita, a working-class girl from Liverpool.
She bursts in to Frank’s world with a raw energy and a hunger to be ‘educated’ that takes Frank by surprise.
He starts to teach her but is soon questioning the value of his efforts, as we the audience starts to wonder who is receiving the greater lesson, the pupil or the teacher?
Voted best comedy of 1980, Esk Valley Theatre is presenting an updated version of this funny, thought-provoking play.
The two-handed play was filmed with Michael Caine as Frank and Julie Walters as Rita who also played the role on stage. Maureen Lipman was also in the film.
The Esk Valley cast is Ian Crowe as Frank and Amy Spencer as Rita and the play will be directed by Mark Stratton.
It runs at Esk Valley Theatre, Glaisdale, Whitby, from August Thursday 11 to Saturday September 3.
Performances are daily at 7.3opm with 2.30pm matinees on Saturday August 13 and 20, Thursday August 18 and 25 and September 1 and Tuesday August 23 and 30.
Bookings and information on 01947 897587.
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] | 2016-08-26T12:59:49 | null | 2016-07-30T10:40:45 | A GLITZY ceremony recognising the stars of the Yorkshire tourism industry will have a new home this year, it has been announced. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fbest-of-yorkshire-tourism-to-be-honoured-at-sparkling-ceremony-1-8042252.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8042249.1469871776!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Best of Yorkshire tourism to be honoured at 'sparkling' ceremony | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | A GLITZY ceremony recognising the stars of the Yorkshire tourism industry will have a new home this year, it has been announced.
The White Rose Awards, the UK’s largest celebration of tourism, will take place at the new £11m Hall 1 at the Yorkshire Event Centre in Harrogate.
The new Yorkshire Event Centre, Harrogate.
More than 1,000 guests will enjoy the first awards dinner to be held at the centre’s newly-built exhibition and events hall on November 21.
The ceremony, hosted by Welcome to Yorkshire, will see more than 100 businesses go head to head across 17 categories, more than ever before.
These include gongs for hotels, recognising top customer service and highlighting the winning Taste of Yorkshire.
Colin Mellors, chairman of the White Rose Award judges, said: “Yorkshire’s tourism is a remarkable sector with fantastic hospitality, facilities and produce on offer.
The new Yorkshire Event Centre, Harrogate.
“Those shortlisted should feel very proud to have been selected against such strong competition. Choosing the eventual winners this year will be a really tough task.”
Sir Gary Verity, chief executive of Welcome to Yorkshire, added: “It is an honour to be hosting the first ever awards dinner at the new events hall at the Yorkshire Event Centre.
“The White Rose Awards always make for a memorable evening, so this year promises to be extra special.”
He said that the entries for the awards had been “exceptional across all categories”.
“The standard of entries just gets better every year, so huge congratulations to all those who have made the shortlist. I look forward to meeting them all in November.
“As the largest celebration of tourism in the UK, the White Rose Awards are a fitting tribute to Yorkshire’s fantastically diverse businesses that work tirelessly to help to make the county number one.”
Last year more than 1,000 people watched Take That superstar Gary Barlow and co-writer of The Girls musical, Tim Firth, being made honorary Yorkshiremen at the awards when they were held at the First Direct Arena in Leeds.
Tickets are now on sale via www.whiteroseawards.com.
Arts and Culture
Huddersfield Literature Festival
Kunsthuis Gallery, Crayke
Swaledale Festival
The Craft Centre and Design Gallery, Leeds
York Theatre Royal
Yorkshire Young Sinfonia
Business Tourism
Lakeside Conference Centre at the National Agri-Food Innovation Campus, Sandhutton
Pavilions of Harrogate
The Camp Hill Estate, Kirklington
The Royal York Hotel
York Conferences
Guest Accommodation
Barnfield House, Sheffield
Cambridge House Countryside Guesthouse, Reeth
Grassfield Hall, Pateley Bridge
Low Mill Guesthouse, Bainbridge
No. 21 York
Stow House, Aysgarth
Holiday Park
Burton Constable Holiday Park and Arboretum, Sproatley
Holme Valley Camping and Caravan Park, Holmfirth
Humble Bee Leisure, Scarborough
Masons Campsite, Appletreewick
Robin Hood Caravan and Camping Park, Slingsby
Weir Holiday Park, Stamford Bridge
Wolds Edge Holiday Lodges, Bishop Wilton
Inns and Restaurants with Rooms
Ellerby Country Inn
Shibden Mill Inn
The Charles Bathurst Inn, Arkengarthdale
The Fairfax Arms, Gilling East
The Star Inn at Harome
Wensleydale Heifer, West Witton
Large Hotel
Gisborough Hall
Holdsworth House Hotel and Restaurant, Halifax
Leopold Hotel, Sheffield
The Coniston Hotel, Country Estate and Spa, Coniston Cold
The Devonshire Arms Hotel and Spa, Bolton Abbey
Wood Hall Hotel and Spa, Wetherby
Large Visitor Attraction
Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth
Cannon Hall Farm, Cawthorne
RSPB Bempton Cliffs
The Forbidden Corner, Coverham
The Wensleydale Creamery, Hawes
Tropical Butterfly House, Wildlife and Falconry Centre, Sheffield
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield
Outstanding Customer Service
Bettys Café Tea Rooms, Harrogate
Forest Holidays, Cropton
The 36 bus. Riding Redefined, Harrogate
The Grand Hotel and Spa, York
Yorebridge House, Bainbridge
Tong Garden Centre
Self-catering
Broadgate Farm Cottages, Beverley
Cottage in the Dales, Newbiggin, Leyburn
Dalesend Cottages, Patrick Brompton, Bedale
Elmet Farmhouse, Hebden Bridge
Faweather Grange Lodges, High Eldwick
Smallshaw Farm Cottages, Millhouse Green, Sheffield
Studford Luxury Lodges, Ampleforth
Small Hotel
Feversham Arms Hotel and Verbena Spa, Helmsley
Herriots Hotel, Skipton
The Pheasant Hotel, Harome
The Talbot Hotel, Malton
Grassington House
Small Visitor Attraction
Burton Constable Hall and Grounds, Skirlaugh
National Centre for Birds of Prey, Duncombe Park
National Emergency Services Museum, Sheffield
Stillingfleet Lodge Gardens
The World of James Herriot, Thirsk
Yorkshire Trike Tours, Horsforth
Taste of Yorkshire
Asparagus Green Catering, Overton, Wakefield
Drewton’s Farm Shop, South Cave
High Parks Tearoom, Newton le Willows, Bedale
Keelham Farm Shop, Thornton, Bradford, and Skipton
The Spiced Pear, Holmfirth
Yorkshire Food Finder, Wheldrake, York
Visitor Information
Aysgarth Falls National Park Centre
Bradford Visitor Information Centre
Bridlington Tourist Information Centre
Doncaster Tourist Information Centre
Hebden Bridge Visitor Centre
Humber Bridge Tourist Information Centre
Yorkshire Event
Dale Power Solutions P1 Yorkshire Grand Prix of the Sea
Flying Scotsman’s return to the North Yorkshire Moors Railway and National Railway Museum
Frightwater Valley
HallowScream at York Maze
Hebden Bridge Arts Festival
Theakston Old Peculiar Crime Writing Festival
Yorkshire Producers and Makers
Beaver Furniture, Thirsk
Dalesbred, Settle
Sloemotion, Barton-le-Willows
The Sawley Kitchen, Ripon
Tipple Tails from Wadsley Hall Farm Kitchen, Sheffield
Yorkshire Heart Vineyard and Brewery, Nun Monkton
Yorkshire Pub
The Black Hat, Ilkley
The Chequers Inn, Bilton-in-Ainsty
The Coach and Horses, Harrogate
The Crown and Cushion, Welburn
The Swan and Talbot, Wetherby
Yorkshire Restaurant
1884 Wine and Tapas Bar, Hull
Prashad, Drighlington
The Coach House at Middleton Lodge
The Hare Restaurant, Scawton
The Star Inn the City, York
The Westwood Restaurant, Beverley
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"Sam Walton"
] | 2016-08-27T10:49:03 | null | 2016-08-27T11:00:00 | Last week I showed some updated Russian piggeries which showed a huge improvement. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Ffarming-pig-meat-price-has-shot-up-since-brexit-1-8076913.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8076910.1471531370!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Farming: Pig meat price ‘has shot up’ since Brexit | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | Last week I showed some updated Russian piggeries which showed a huge improvement.
Even though pigs require a fundamental way of being farmed, designs do vary a lot.
Austria is a beautiful country and they have quite an efficient way of farming and have some piggeries the likes of which I have never seen anywhere else.
Usually in UK, the inner walls are either insulated panels or plastic with the occasional brick or block walls plastered.
One piggery I saw there was clinical to say the least as all the pen walls and surrounding walls were ceramic tiles.
They looked nice and would be easy to clean but I guess would cost a fortune.
A tiled farrowing house.
Nevertheless it was nice to see them but I cannot make my mind up if they would look right here as perhaps they are not very practical as it only needs someone with a barrow to run into them or accidentally knock them and they could break.
What I don’t know is whether or not the walls they are on are insulated, as they could be quite cold.
I suppose most piggeries inside are fairly similar these days as systems have developed but there is still a huge difference in the piggeries themselves in shape and design.
Austria, like Switzerland, is a very clinical country with green hills, green pastures, and fertile valleys.
There are plenty of trees around which all adds to the general picture, so you get a sense of cleanliness everywhere.
Strange how things happen, the poor old pig producer has been losing money for the last 18 months at least and suddenly the price has shot up to around 140p per kilo deadweight as I write this.
Is this the effect of Brexit?
After all with the £ dropping in value, it means importers will have to pay more to obtain the sort of things they need, pig meat being one of them. Had the buyers here played ball and paid a fair price all the time, we would have had certainly enough pork produced here and possibly 60 per cent of bacon but they are always after a quick profit and hang the consequences.
It is difficult to build a relationship with these people as they only look at today,not tomorrow and beyond.
One thing is for sure and if Brexit means no support for agriculture, many farmers will go out of business and I wonder how much your food will cost you then?
If someone desperately needs something and there is no leeway available, then the seller can charge more or less what he likes.
When there is an abundance then the boot is on the other foot. The problem we have had here is that buyers have treated our industry as if the boot was on the other foot. Why do you think so many dairy farms have closed down? It is a bit of rum job when bottled water is more than double the price of milk.
Maybe farmers should look for other non-food enterprises on their holdings and let us all rely on imported food.
Pretend I did not say that!
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] | 2016-08-26T13:10:20 | null | 2016-08-25T17:30:00 | More than 50 children staged their own production of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in workshops themed on the popular book and films. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fchocolate-makes-whitby-drama-youngsters-feel-good-1-8086705.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8086702.1472057121!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Chocolate makes Whitby drama youngsters feel good | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | More than 50 children staged their own production of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in workshops themed on the popular book and films.
Youngsters aged five to 14 took classes in dance, singing, set design and chocolate making at Airy Hill School in Whitby.
Youngsters at the summer production of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, by Hannah Verity Dance Studios.
After just two days, each group at the Hannah Verity Dance Studios summer performance workshop had learnt a full dance, two songs and made an amazing backdrop with 3D pop-up elements.
The final day culminated in chocolate lolly making and a spectacular performance in front of the set for family and friends.
Hannah Barnett-Savage, who ran the workshop, was delighted with the success of it.
“The children had a brilliant three days and loved performing all of the new skills they have learnt with the new friends they have made,” she said.
Youngsters at the summer production of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, by Hannah Verity Dance Studios.
“All of the children who attended are so incredibly talented and certainly put on an impressive performance.
“They are already looking forward to next year.”
Visit www.hannahveritydancestudios.co.uk to keep up-to-date with class information and upcoming events.
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] | 2016-08-28T10:49:22 | null | 2016-08-28T11:00:59 | We frequently lament the neglected state of public footpaths and bridleways. Many are completely overgrown with nettles and brambles; ploughed over by farmers; diverted by reversal or removal of signs, and stiles rotting or unstable. The reason? You’ve guessed – lack of funds! | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Fwhat-s-on%2Fout-about%2Fcountry-diary-reaping-the-rewards-from-hedgerows-1-8081733.json | http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/what-s-on/out-about/country-diary-reaping-the-rewards-from-hedgerows-1-8081733 | en | null | Country diary: Reaping the rewards from hedgerows | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | We frequently lament the neglected state of public footpaths and bridleways. Many are completely overgrown with nettles and brambles; ploughed over by farmers; diverted by reversal or removal of signs, and stiles rotting or unstable. The reason? You’ve guessed – lack of funds!
Blackberries are late ripening this year. On August 13 we found just sufficient to enhance an apple pie. Delicious! A local wild hedgerow contained several raspberry canes bearing a few berries to nibble along the way. Large hazel nuts adorned several shrubs easily recognised by their zig-zag twigs covered with reddish brown hairs. The toothed, rounded leaves end in a small point. The nut itself has a leafy husk, but will not ripen until late autumn.
Meanwhile, there’s no mistaking the slender rowan tree with steeply rising branches. Its flat-topped clusters of cream-coloured flowers have ripened to scarlet berries by August. They look good enough to eat, but certainly not raw. We must try a recipe for cooking them, they look so tempting!
The mason wasp, inhabiting a corner of our greenhouse, has been working very hard all week. When I previously mentioned its activities, the cylindrical nest was 11.5cm from the ground, and the nest itself 4cm long. Having constructed both above and below the nest, it’s now 9.5cm from the ground, and 8cm in length! It seems to collect sand or soil particles to mix with water we’ve seen it visiting our bird bath close by. A remarkable feat of engineering for a solitary wasp. It has just pollinatedthe cucumber flowers.
Scarborough’s Castle Hill cliffs alongside the Marine Drive are plastered with ‘guano’ – the dried excrement of fish-eating sea birds. (It makes a grand fertiliser.)
At any great seabird colony, kittiwakes are the most numerous. Nesting precariously on narrow cliff ledges, they noisily proclaim their name, “kitti-way-ake”, with clamourous calls. They are real birds of the sea and fish out at sea most of the year, only nesting near at hand in spring. Looking to the future, we observed they’d nested on the Futurist as well as the Spa Bridge and harbour lamp posts!
Soon – silence will reign, as already many have completed nesting duties and headed to northern fishing grounds.
Visiting Scar and Castlebeck Woods just north of Castlebeck Farm, Harwood Dale, we hoped to re-discover the Bog Pimpernel. Having waded through tall, shoulder-high bracken we reached the bridge spanning the beck. Many wild flowers were recorded, such as tormentil, eyebright, harebell, heather, fleabane, and water mint etc, but the pimpernel site had vanished, alas.
A memorable seat to Shaun Teasdale, 51 years, 2012 was inscribed:
“Come sit with me, enjoy the view,
Don’t be sad, I’m here with you.”
l Mind the midges don’t bite!
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] | 2016-08-26T13:02:36 | null | 2016-08-26T10:00:00 | Staithes will retain their Premier Division title if they can avoid a heavy defeat away at rivals Staxton on Saturday. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Fsport%2Flocal-sport%2Fbeckett-league-fixtures-staithes-aiming-to-wrap-up-title-at-rivals-staxton-1-8088771.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8088770.1472132704!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Beckett League Fixtures: Staithes aiming to wrap up title at rivals Staxton | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | Staithes will retain their Premier Division title if they can avoid a heavy defeat away at rivals Staxton on Saturday.
Staithes lead the way with 335 points from Staxton on 306, with Seamer way back in third on 247 points.
Cloughton host Staxton 2nds in Division One, with Staxton needing a hugely one-sided victory to jump above their hosts and win promotion to the top-flight.
Cayton 2nds need to pick up points at Brompton to be in with a chance of leaping above Wold Newton, who are at Wykeham, and avoid the drop.
In Division Two, Bridlington 2nds will wrap up the title with victory against Sewerby 2nds, who could still be relegated if Scarborough 2nds beat Scalby 2nds.
Great Habton and Fylingdales are separated by 10 points and both could still get promoted, Habton are in the driving seat and they travel to already relegated Forge Valley 2nds, while Fylingdales travel to Ravenscar.
Seamer 2nds will join champions Kirkbymoorside in winning promotion from Division Three if they beat Flixton 3rds, but third-placed Wykeham 2nds are only four points behind and play away at Flamborough.
At the other end of the table, Muston need to beat Ryedale at home to try and jump above Nawton Grange 2nds and stay up, while Grange are away at Heslerton 2nds.
Lockton will look to turn around their nine-point deficit to third-bottom Wold Newton 2nds and jump above their opponent to avoid the drop in Division Four, while in Division Five, Forge Valley 3rds hold an 11-point advantage over closest rivals Ravenscar 2nds, who have finished their season, and a 13-point gap over third-placed Wykeham 3rds, who play at rock-bottom Scalby 3rds, so they'll want to get over the line with a win against Muston 2nds.
Saturday’s Readers Scarborough Beckett League fixtures
Premier Division (1:30pm)
Cayton v Ebberston
Flixton 2nds v Seamer
Mulgrave v Heslerton
Nawton Grange v Forge Valley
Scalby v Filey
Staxton v Staithes
Division 1 (1:30pm)
Brompton v Cayton 2nds
Cloughton v Staxton 2nds
Settrington v Grindale
Sherburn v Thornton Dale
Wykeham v Wold Newton
Division 2 (1:30pm)
Bridlington 2nds v Sewerby 2nds
Ebberston 2nds v Ganton
Forge Valley 2nds v Great Habton
Ravenscar v Fylingdales
Scarborough 3rds v Scalby 2nds
Division 3 (1:30pm)
Flamborough v Wykeham 2nds
Heslerton 2nds v Nawton Grange
Muston v Ryedale
Seamer 2nds v Flixton 3rds
Kirkbymoorside – No Game
Division 4 (2pm)
Filey 2nds v Cayton 3rds
Hospitals/Rugby v Cloughton 2nds
Snainton v Sherburn 2nds
Wold Newton 2nds v Lockton
Division 5 (2pm)
Forge Valley 3rds v Muston 2nds
Ganton 2nds v Valley Bar Nomads
Scalby 3rds v Wykeham 3rds
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[] | 2016-08-26T13:13:20 | null | 2016-07-28T08:00:00 | A self-taught plein air painter is to showcase his work in Whitby for the first time. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Ffirst-exhibition-in-home-town-for-artist-1-8024216.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8024214.1469019010!/image/image.jpg | en | null | First exhibition in home town for artist | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | A self-taught plein air painter is to showcase his work in Whitby for the first time.
Yorkshireman Douglas Hill lived and worked in St Ives, Cornwall, for 20 years before moving to the north east, and now lives in Whitby.
Douglas Hill's oil painting of Clara's on the West Cliff, Whitby.
He is showcasing his work in Whitby for the first time in an exhibition to start on Friday (July 29) at St John’s Church, Baxtergate.
Most of the 50 oil scenes to go on display are of Whitby, including a charming one looking towards the west pier laden with Whitby Regatta fairground rides.
Other plein air scenes include a rather topical one of traffic queuing on Whitby’s high level bridge – although perhaps not to the same extend as the past few weeks – a shopper looking at the window of the Victorian jetworks and Whitby’s Saltwick Bay.
The one featured on the page here is instantly recognisable is Clara’s cafe on the West Cliff. Douglas has exhibited in Northern Ireland, New Zealand and New York in addition to many provincial galleries in the UK.
He has also had several solo exhibitions in a variety of galleries.
One of his St Ives paintings was used for a book cover illustration for Black Swan titles, and he was a member of both St Ives Society of Artists and the Arts Club for many years.
Douglas, who says he is very much influenced by northern artist LS Lowry, paints directly from life, without reference to photographs.
“For me, nature is the teacher,” he said.
“What is important to me is the wonder and mystery waiting around the next corner, the joy of light and the beauty of the seasons.”
The exhibition runs from next Friday to August 12, and you can pop into the church from 10am to 5pm.
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] | 2016-08-26T12:57:52 | null | 2016-08-24T18:40:19 | Punk duo Slaves say they may be unable to live up to the name of their forthcoming album and Take Control of the | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Fwhat-s-on%2Faudio-i-don-t-know-if-we-can-take-control-of-wild-leeds-festival-crowd-jokes-punk-stars-slaves-1-8086864.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8086863.1472060502!/image/image.jpg | en | null | AUDIO: 'I don't know if we can Take Control of wild Leeds Festival crowd', jokes punk stars Slaves | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | Punk duo Slaves say they may be unable to live up to the name of their forthcoming album and Take Control of the 'wild' Leeds Festival crowd this weekend.
Drummer vocalist Isaac Holman and band mate Laurie Vincent, on guitar and vocals, play Leeds Festival main stage on Sunday after Reading Festival on Saturday.
And they say northern fans are often more wild than anywhere else in the country.
"I don't know if we can take control of the Leeds crowd but I'll give it a good old go," laughed Isaac, promising fans 'blood, sweat and laughs'.
AUDIO: Listen to Slaves star Isaac Holman's exclusive chat with Graham Walker - CLICK HERE.
"We are a southern band so we did a bit better down south at first. But the northern crowds are even more wild for us now than down south sometimes. I think Leeds is going to go off.
"It's completely what I live for. I love playing live. It's the only time my mind goes quiet and I feel comfortable when I step out on stage. The more people there the merrier."
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Slaves are on the same bill as Red Hot Chili Peppers. Imagine Dragons and Courteeners.
Other superstar bands playing this weekends include Biffy Clyro, Fall Out Boy, Foals, Disclosure, The Vaccines and Chvrches - along with rising local stars, such as South Yorkshire's own Radio 1 hitmakers The Sherlocks. Leeds Festival is set to attract around 80,000 people.
Isaac, who also revealed they still get starstruck, said it will be a highlight of their year which also includes a 15 date UK headline tour in November and the release of next album Take Control on September 30.
Isaac added: "Sometimes you get starstruck. Me and Laurie definitely do fanboy some people we meet. But the more you get into the scene you realise everyone is just a person and it becomes a little bit more normal.
"We've worked our way up through the stages. Being main stage is like another level - Leeds and Reading were the festivals we went to when we were younger and I don't think we ever imagined we would be on the bill let alone on the main stage. It's brilliant."
Slaves, from Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent, will be laying waste to venues across the country as they launch into a full UK tour in November. Yorkshire dates include Leeds O2 Academy on Tuesday, November 15 and Sheffield O2 Academy, on Friday, November 25.
See full tour, ticket details and album download links links below.
Slaves earned a reputation for themselves as one of the UK’s fiercest live acts with their constant touring and festival appearances off the back of last year's debut album, Are you Satisfied?
Their next hit album in waiting was part recorded at Jackson Browne’s studio in Santa Monica, California.
Take Control was produced by one of the legends of early hip hop and New York punk, Mike D who, says Laurie, “Became like another member of our band – we can safely call him our friend, which is just surreal!”
The album finds the young pair sharpening up their skills, both in songwriting and in execution and sounding heavier in places.
Several tracks on the album were recorded on vintage equipment used by the Beastie Boys on their classic records, Including STD’s PhD’s, Angelica and Consume Or Be Consumed.
Recorded back home in London, Steer Clear was a collaboration with another hero, Baxter Dury, who lent his distinctive vocals to a duet with Isaac.
Slaves first emerged in 2012, working their way up through the local toilet-venue circuit to become one of the success stories of 2015.
The band’s debut album Are You Satisfied? smashed in to the UK top 10 and earned the band huge critical acclaim. Thanks to their charismatic mash-up of punky urgency and silly humour, they bagged Kerrang!’s Spirit Of Punk award and NME’s Best Video award (for Cheer Up London), while also securing nominations for the Mercury Music Prize, and for Best New Band at Q and NME.
Along the way, they’ve won the hearts of The Streets’ Mike Skinner, stolen the show on last year’s NME tour, had Skepta join them on stage at Radio 1’s Big Weekend and toured with Jamie T and Wolf Alice – the latter in America in March, after which Wolf Alice’s drummer Joel Amey bunked off to California to play on new track People That You Meet.
Pre-order new the album now to get a free download of Spit It Out, first single from the album, at youareallslaves.com - you can also order at iTunes, Amazon or Google Play.
VIDEO: Check out Spit It Out, the first single off the album - a snapshot of their manic daily lives in Tunbridge Wells and New Cross - CLICK HERE.
Leeds Festival Ticket Information
Weekend tickets are £205 + £8 booking fee = £213 total Day tickets are £59.50 + £7 booking fee Early entry permits - £20 (No booking fee) Campervan permits - £75 (No booking fee) Lockers - £16 (No booking fee)
Slaves 2016 UK Tour dates (All shows 14 +)
Thu 10 Nov 2016 – Bexhill - De La Warr Pavillion - UK
Fri 11 Nov 2016 – Truro - Hall for Cornwall - UK
Sun 13 Nov 2016 – Cardiff - University Great Hall - UK
Mon 14 Nov 2016 – Cambridge - Corn Exchange - UK
Tue 15 Nov 2016 – Leeds – O2 Academy - UK
Thu 17 Nov 2016 – Newcastle – O2 Academy - UK
Fri 18 Nov 2016 - Glasgow – Barrowland - UK
Sat 19 Nov 2016 – Birmingham – O2 Academy - UK
Mon 21 Nov 2016 – Bristol – O2 Academy - UK
Tue 22 Nov 2016 – Leicester - O2 Academy - UK
Wed 23 Nov 2016 – Nottingham - Rock City - UK
Fri 25 Nov 2016 – Sheffield – O2 Academy - UK
Sat 26 Nov 2016 – Manchester - Albert Hall - UK
Tue 29 Nov 2016 – London - Shepherds Bush Empire - UK
Wed 30 Nov 2016 – London - Shepherds Bush Empire - UK
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A stunning unbeaten century from Ben Luntley laid the foundations for Cloughton's 188-6 in their rain-reduced 40 overs, the in-form batsman striking a brilliant 114 not out, Jack Hakings weighing in with 38, while Eddie Rounthwaite snapped up 4-43 from his 11 overs.
George Rounthwaite then smacked 46, but top bowling from Gary Jordan (4-47) saw Settrington all out for 176 with eight balls remaining.
Grindale's relegation was confirmed by their six-wicket loss at hme to Brompton, Ross Triffit the star man for the visitors, taking 6-34 to skittle the strugglers for just 74.
Triffit (21) and Karl Theobald (24) then made sure of the 18-point win.
Wykeham cruised to an eight-wicket win at Thornton Dale, Gareth Barnard bagging 4-13 as the hosts slipped to 115 despite a gritty 41 from Dave Scott.
In-form James Bryant then smashed 68 to wrap up the comfortable win.
The game between hosts Wold Newton and Sherburn was evenly-balanced when the heavens opened to halt play with the home side on 76-2 chasing Sherburn's 169 all out, in which Ben Simpson scored a cracking 70.
Cayton 2nds boosted their chances of beating the drop as they moved within two points of third-from-bottom Wold Newton thanks to a stunning eight-wicket win at Staxton 2nds, also placing a massive dent in the latter's promotion hopes.
A swift 52 not out looked to have steered Staxton to an impressive 172-7, but fine batting from Cayton captain Simon Glave and Dave Walker, who hit 83 not out and 63 not out respectively, saw the visitors to a vital victory.
Staithes continued their march to the Premier Division title with a 14th successive win, easing past visitors Filey by 60 runs.
The hosts made it to 221-6 in a match reduced to 37 overs a side due the wet weather, Simon Bowes hammered 57 Chris Morrison struck 48 and Richard Hegarty 47 as the leaders reigned supreme.
David Brannan's 68 gave Filey hope but three wickets from Morrison and 4-41 from Tom Steyert saw the Clarence Drive side dismissed for 161.
Staithes head to second-placed Staxton next weekend knowing a win will secure their third title with a week to spare.
Staxton were made to work hard for their seven-run win at relegation-battling Ebberston.
Left-handed batsman Dave Morris led the way for the visitors with a fine 78 in his side's 188-8, Reece Milner taking 3-34 for the hosts.
Ebberston's Ben Lockey (54) and Eddie Craggs (37) gave Ebberston a fighting chance but 4-33 from off-spinner Linden Gray pegged the hosts back to 181-0 and they remain in the relegation zone.
Gregg Chadwick smashed an excellent 108 as Seamer thrashed visitors Scalby by 131 runs.
Anthony Jenkinson added 50 and Craig Baker 43 as the hosts amassed 257-5, Connor Carson the top Scalby bowler with 3-47.
A stunning spell of 6-31 from Adam Morris and 3-44 from fellow pace bowler Liam Bennett then saw Scalby skittled for 126.
Flixton 2nds boosted their battle against the drop with a two-wicket win at Forge Valley.
The visitors won the toss and opted to bowl and this seemed a poor choice as opener Tom Brough smacked a rapid 43, Nishadh P Wijesinghe 41 and Joe Bradshaw 25.
Flixton refused to buckle and wickets began to fall with Matt Mason taking a superb 6-43 and Connor Stephenson claiming 4-47 as Valley sank to 170 all out in 35.5 overs.
Ehtesham took 4-37 in Flixton’s reply to keep Valley in touch, but 27 from Stephenson and an unbeaten 34 from skipper Mark Shackley saw his team home with 2.4 overs remaining.
Charlie Allott's magnificent century helped Nawton Grange earn a 104-run win at Heslerton.
The batsman smashed seven sixes and eight fours as he made his way to 103 in their 218-8, Paul Kinghorn and Andy Slaughter bagging three wickets apiece for the hosts.
Paul Bowes, who struck nine forus and a couple of sixes in his 70, was the only batsman to shine as his side sank to 114 in reply in the face of fierce bowling from Nick Thornicroft (3-19) and Nathan Marwood (3-31).
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[] | 2016-08-31T08:50:25 | null | 2016-08-30T18:18:27 | Architects have been appointed to lead a project to rebuild and renovate the First White Cloth Hall in a four year contract set to start later this month. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Farchitect-in-place-to-help-save-leeds-first-white-cloth-hall-1-8096625.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8096623.1472630754!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Architect in place to help save Leeds First White Cloth Hall | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | Architects have been appointed to lead a project to rebuild and renovate the First White Cloth Hall in a four year contract set to start later this month.
Leeds City Council’s director of city developments gave the go-ahead for Buttress Architects to create and front a design team which will bring back into use the semi-derelict grade II listed building on Kirkgate in the city centre.
Leeds, 28th July 1991 Kirkgate. Renovation of the historic White Cloth Hall. The chairman of Leeds Civic Trust, Dr. Kevin O'Grady studies an artist's impression of how the first Cloth Hall in Kirkgate looked in 1710 and how it looks today. (1991). The trust is campaigning for the retention of major architectural features in the hall.
Worth in the region of £245,748, the contract starts on September 12 and runs until the end of August 2020.
The council said that Manchester based firm Buttress had put forward the most “economically advantageous” tender with the brief being about 60% quality and 40% price.
The next phase of the project is for the design team to develop options that can be put forward as planning application submissions.
According to the council report discussed, the main aim of the First White Cloth Hall project is to “bring back into use an important historic building and allow users to experience this” as well as making it a financially viable venture.
It is now working with the owner of the building, City Fusion, to acquire the building so the project can go-ahead.
If both parties fail to come to an agreement then compulsory purchase of the building is being considered.
A council spokesperson said: “The property is in a fragile condition and requires significant investment which the owners are not able to provide.
“By aquiring the property the council believe the building can be saved and a financially viable use found for it.”
It was built in 1711 but is virtually derelict.
The hall has been on the Heritage at Risk Register since 1999 and in 2011 half of it was demolished after the collapse of neighbouring 101 Kirkgate.
A grant of £1.5 million has aready been secured from the Heritage Lottery Fund to put towards vital repairs.
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[] | 2016-08-26T12:59:02 | null | 2016-08-15T10:54:08 | Churches across the North York Moors are bursting into life with the eighth annual Chamber Music Festival. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Fwhat-s-on%2Fout-about%2Fnorth-york-moors-music-festival-under-way-1-8069410.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8069409.1471254930!/image/image.jpg | en | null | North York Moors music festival under way | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | Churches across the North York Moors are bursting into life with the eighth annual Chamber Music Festival.
This year’s festival celebrates the life and work of Schumann and features 13 concerts at 11 venuesuntil August 27.
Some 45 musicians from all over the world are gathering to play in venues across the Ryedale, Whitby and Scarborough.
The festival was set up and is run by cellist Jamie Walton who says the success of the event is it’s affordable and accessible to everyone.
“It has always been our intention to make the festival as anti-elite, non-exclusive as we possibly can to encourage as many people as possible to access this wonderful music, in fabulous settings, here in the North York moors,” he said. “For that reason we keep ticket prices as low as we possibly can and it is paying off as the concerts are being wonderfully-well supported once again.”
The festival is celebrating what Jamie calls the life and “rollercoaster personality” of Schumann.
Each concert has been given a name to represent a theme from his life.
Singers will feature in two concerts: at Philosophy, a 2pm concert at St Mary’s Church, Lastingham on today when baritone James Newby will take centre stage and at Cycle of Life, another 2pm concert, this time at St Hilda’s Priory, Sneaton Castle, on Monday when acclaimed young mezzo-soprano Anna Huntley, from nearby Yarm, will sing.
The concerts are:
Philosophy, Wednesday August 17, 2pm St Mary’s, Lastingham
Folk, Wednesday August 17, 7pm St Mary’s, Lastingham
Turmoil, Friday August 19, 7pm All Saints’, Helmsley
Transcendence, Saturday August 20, 7pm St Martin-on-the-Hill, Scarborough
Roots, Sunday August 21, 2pm St Hilda’s, Danby
Cycle of life, Monday August 22, 2pm St Hilda’s Priory, Sneaton Castle
Reverence, Monday August 22, 7pm St Hilda’s Priory, Sneaton Castle
Reflection, Wednesday August 24, 7pm St Stephen’s, Fylingdales
Romanticism, Thursday August 25, 7pm St Oswald’s, Lythe
Transformation, Friday August 26, 7pm St Nicholas, Guisborough
Celebration, Saturday August 27, 5pm St Hilda’s West Cliff, Whitby.
To book tickets contact bookings@northyorkmoorsfestival.com or ring 01751 417795.
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[] | 2016-08-26T13:12:24 | null | 2016-08-25T15:18:11 | The £9m stabilisation scheme to protect the main A174 route between Whitby and Sandsend has been officially opened after a long scheme of works which have permanently changed the face of the coastline. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Flocals-praised-for-help-with-9m-scheme-1-8088969.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8088967.1472134675!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Locals praised for help with £9m scheme | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | The £9m stabilisation scheme to protect the main A174 route between Whitby and Sandsend has been officially opened after a long scheme of works which have permanently changed the face of the coastline.
But experts said they were necessary after warning that the road between Whitby and Sandsend would have disappeared into the sea within a few years if nothing had been done.
The work was funded by £4.5m from North Yorkshire County Council and £4.7m from the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
On Friday afternoon, representatives from the county council attended the official launch on the beach.
Conducting the opening ceremony, Robert Goodwill, MP for Scarborough and Whitby, said: “I am delighted to see this major investment in my constituency to protect this vital stretch of coastline and the main road that runs alongside it.
“As well as protecting the environment, the work will benefit residents, visitors and the economy.”
During the opening the input of local people was also recognised.
Throughout the project the knowledge of local people in relation to the road and the history of landslips has been taken note of.
Local residents were also thanked for their patience with regards roadworks, temporary traffic lights and works vehicles .
County Councillor David Chance, local member for Whitby Mayfield cum Mulgrave, added: “This was a major civil engineering project, and the county council made sure that we assembled the best team possible.
“But throughout the project the team has been keen to draw upon local expertise and knowledge, whether that has been through employing local tradespeople and professionals, or simply by listening to local people who have offered their perspectives.
“I am certain that this blend of technical expertise and local knowledge has helped us to improve the project at every stage.”
Before the ceremony, a drop-in exhibition detailing the work was held at the Pyman Institute, Sandsend, for the public to speak to members of the project team, including contractor Balfour Beatty, who were keen to hear feedback on the completed project.”
For years there have been studies carried out on the movement of the sea and the effect and consequences that erosion was having on the popular route. | http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/news/local/locals-praised-for-help-with-9m-scheme-1-8088969 | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | www.whitbygazette.co.uk/a4f5de03b2183a10dd50bc00830e4835993985faef21de938013920643f6b31f.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:05:56 | null | 2016-08-19T13:15:00 | It could be a pivotal weekend ahead in the Readers Scarborough Beckett League. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Fsport%2Flocal-sport%2Fbeckett-league-cloughton-head-to-champs-settrington-battling-to-stay-in-hunt-for-top-flight-1-8077202.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8077201.1471534948!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Beckett League: Cloughton head to champs Settrington battling to stay in hunt for top flight | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | It could be a pivotal weekend ahead in the Readers Scarborough Beckett League.
In Division One, second-placed Cloughton travel to league winners Settrington, while third-placed Staxton 2nds play struggling Cayton 2nds looking to close the gap.
Staithes will look to to take a step closer to retaining their Premier Division title at home to Filey, while their solitary challengers Staxton are at Ebberston.
Two of the promotion chasing sides meet in Division Two as Fylingdales host Bridlington 2nds, while the top two meet in Division Three as leaders Kirkbymoorside travel to Wykeham 2nds.
Hospitals Rugby Club will look to boost their promotion bid with victory at Sherburn 2nds in Division Four, while the top two meet in Division Five as Valley Bar Nomads host second-placed Forge Valley 3rds.
Saturday
Premier Division (1:30pm)
Cayton v Mulgrave
Ebberston v Staxton
Forge Valley v Flixton 2nds
Heslerton v Nawton Grange
Seamer v Scalby
Staithes v Filey
Division 1 (1:30pm)
Grindale v Brompton
Settrington v Cloughton
Staxton 2nds v Cayton 2nds
Thornton Dale v Wykeham
Wold Newton v Sherburn
Division 2 (1:30pm)
Fylingdales v Bridlington 2nds
Great Habton v Ganton
Scalby 2nds v Ebberston 2nds
Scarborough 3rds v Forge Valley 2nds
Sewerby 2nds v Ravenscar
Division 3 (1:30pm)
Flixton 3rds v Heslerton 2nds
Flamborough v Muston
Nawton Grange 2nds v Seamer 2nds
Wykeham 2nds v Kirkbymoorside
Ryedale – No Game
Division 4 (2pm)
Cayton 3rds v Wold Newton 2nds
Cloughton 2nds v Snainton
Filey 2nds v Lockton
Sherburn 2nds v Hospitals/Rugby
Division 5 (2pm)
Ganton 2nds v Muston 2nds
Ravenscar 2nds v Scalby 3rds
Valley Bar Nomads v Forge Valley 3rds
Wykeham 3rds v Thornton Dale 2nds
Sunday
T20 Readers Cayley Cup Finals Day at North Marine Road (12noon)
Division 1
Settrington v Wykeham
Premier Division (3pm)
Seamer v Staithes.
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[] | 2016-08-26T13:11:08 | null | 2016-08-19T10:33:02 | Students and The Scarborough News have been given a sneak preview of the new £14 million university
campus which opens next month. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fscarborough-s-new-flexible-course-university-1-8078060.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8078058.1471599171!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Scarborough’s new, flexible course university | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | Students and The Scarborough News have been given a sneak preview of the new £14 million university campus which opens next month.
Construction firm Wilmott Dixon is putting the finishing touches to the three-storey, triple atrium building at the Coventry University Scarborough Campus at Weaponness which can house 2,000 students.
Coventry University Scarborough Campus. .pic Richard Ponter 163418c
It includes IT suites, engineering and science labs, a mock law court and a library as well as a café and social areas and is part of the £50 million sports and education facility on the town’s old Weaponness coach parking site.
While works have been taking place studying has taken place at Scarborough Spa and Woodend Creative centre.
Provost Craig Gaskell said: “We have been clear from the moment the decision was made to invest in Scarborough and the Yorkshire Coast area that this would be a great opportunity for people from across the region who want to study, but also for the town itself.”
Jess Williams, of Cayton, is studying Early Childhood. She added: “It’s been great to see where we will be studying – the facilities are fantastic. I am really excited.”
The university offers honours degree courses including business, management, IT, accounting, finance, law, policing, biological and chemical sciences, engineering, health, early years education and counselling. In addition, foundation and access routes are provided for those who do not yet have the qualifications to start degree-level studies, along with HNC and HND qualifications available in all subjects.
Students are aged 18 or above, joining direct from college or with prior work or related experience. In addition to very flexible full-time study, therenis part-time and day release, including Saturday University. | http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/news/local/scarborough-s-new-flexible-course-university-1-8078060 | en | 2016-08-19T00:00:00 | www.whitbygazette.co.uk/5de8d2642a75d1166612458f69d35e99ee1bc479ff9f8ac6c923553980357b43.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:03:49 | null | 2016-08-20T23:35:50 | Hospitals/Rugby Club paceman Marcus Edwards bagged all 10 wickets as his side thumped Sherburn 2nds to secure promotion from Division Four. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Fsport%2Flocal-sport%2Fbeckett-league-edwards-takes-10-as-hospitals-claim-promotion-1-8080407.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8080406.1471732681!/image/image.jpg | en | null | BECKETT LEAGUE: Edwards takes 10 as Hospitals claim promotion | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | Hospitals/Rugby Club paceman Marcus Edwards bagged all 10 wickets as his side thumped Sherburn 2nds to secure promotion from Division Four.
The former Wykeham bowler bagged all 10 Sherburn wickets for 39 runs as the villagers were dismissed for 85.
Mark Kelly's 34 saw Hospitals to victory despite the best efforts of Ashley Oldroyd, who bagged three wickets.
Lockton pace bowler Andrew Sellers took a cracking 6-10 as Filey 2nds were rattled out for just 43 runs, the villagers winning by seven wickets to keep them in with a chance of beating the drop.
Cayton 3rds won by 34 runs at home to Wold Newton 2nds despite being dismissed for 99, Chris Hodgson taking 3-18 for the visitors.
Captain Mathew Micklethwaite weighed in with 4-16 as the away side slumped to 65 all out.
Bridlington 2nds secured promotion from Division Two with a rapid seven-wicket win at rivals Fylingdales.
Swing bowler Mike Tate took 4-30 and Matty Clay 3-9 as the hosts slumped to 52 all out, Brid easing home for the loss of three wickets to secure promotion and move within seven points of the title.
Great Habton took full advantage of the slip-up by Fylingdales, as they cantered to a 104-run win at home to Ganton, with a trip to basement club Forge Valley 2nds to finish their season they will fancy their chances of nicking promotion.
Rob Richardson's 75 helped Habton to 201 all out, James Richardson taking 5-49 for the visitors.
Dan Reardon, stepping up from the seconds, top-scored with 27 in reply but Ganton slipped to 97 all out in the face of astonishing bowling from Will Curtis, who collected 8-46.
Joe Bayes smashed an unbeaten 135 in Ravenscar's 90-win at a weakened Sewerby 2nds
John Nelson then took three wickets and Oli Duck two as Sewerby slipped to 144 all out.
Ebberston 2nds claimed a five-wicket win at Scalby 2nds.
James Wainwright hit 36 for the home side, but George Hardie’s 3-23 saw Scalby dismissed for 146.
Tom Holmes then hit fine unbeaten fifty and Doug Bentley added 49no to secure the win for Ebberston..
Scarborough 3rds bowler Tom Pratt took 4-7 as his side shot Forge Valley 2nds all out for a paltry 38 all out.
Scarborough won in eight overs, but lost four wickets, though the win keeps them in with a slight chance of beating the drop.
Kirkbymoorside won by four wickets at promotion hopefuls Wykeham 2nds to secure the Division Three title.
Ian Thompson shone for the hosts with a cracking 73 in his side's decent 178-7 and Adam Eustace grabbed 4-29 to put Wykeham in charge only for a superb 72 from Andy Bayes to hand the Moorsiders the title triumph.
Seamer moved into second place but were denied by the rain at Nawton Grange 2nds.
The away side made 226-4 with Josh McNeil making an excellent 72 and Phil Metcalfe 69 not out.
Spinner McNeil then took over with the ball, taking 4-29 but rain intervened with Grange ailing on 85-5 to leave Seamer on 12 points for the game.
Flamborough also remain promotion possibles following a resounding 10 wicket win over Muston.
Dave England took 3-27 to bowl Muston all out for 81, before Luke Dixon’s 56 not out ensured a 20-point win.
Luke Stokoe was the star with bat and ball as nine-man Ravenscar 2nds completed their fine Division Five season with a win over seven-man Scalby 3rds.
Stokoe took 5-15 then made 40 not out alongside Wil Warwick’s 45 not out for a 10-wicket win.
Champs Valley Bar Nomads defeated second-placed Forge Valley 3rds by 15 runs.
Ben Atkinson hit 64 as Nomads made 141-7 despite 4-21 from Neil Arnott.
Stalwart Tim Farrant made 53 in reply, but 4-26 from skipper Tony Hulme made sure of the win.
Thornton Dale 2nds capped their campaign with a five-wicket win over promotion-chasing Wykeham 3rds, who posted 132 all out with Josh Briggs top scoring with 39.
Paul Waring registered the best figures for Dale with 3-21 and then contributed 43, youngster Tom Snowden was the main man with the bat with an unbeaten 56no to get his side home.
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[
"Helen Le Roux"
] | 2016-08-26T13:11:40 | null | 2016-08-20T08:00:00 | Ken and Christel Smith know all about supporting their local community. They took time out while volunteering at Lythe Village Store, to talk about how they need more drivers for Staithes Coble Courier. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fcourier-bus-aims-to-coble-together-more-drivers-1-8069393.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8069392.1471254460!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Courier bus aims to coble together more drivers | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | Ken and Christel Smith know all about supporting their local community. They took time out while volunteering at Lythe Village Store, to talk about how they need more drivers for Staithes Coble Courier.
The Coble Courier is a much loved volunteer bus service which enables all of those without their own wheels to get out and about.
Coble Courier, picture: David Manship
Due to popular demand, Ken and the Coble committee decided to launch a campaign to get more drivers on board.
“We’re having a fundraiser and a relaunch party for the Coble Courier at Staithes Village Hall on Wednesday August 24 from 5.30pm, and everyone is welcome. Filip Cieslik will be performing music and there will be a buffet and wine, along with a grand raffle,” said Ken.
“Part of the relaunch is to help it expand. It’s known as a Staithes bus but we want to have a larger catchment area and encourage others to book the bus for their own outings.
“For example, Lythe Forum use it with their own driver. Also there’s a fortnightly service from Staithes to Redcar which has become a social fixture for many who want to go and do a big shop.”
Whitby Computers are putting together a website which Ken and Christel hope will raise awareness and get more people using this very special service. Christel does all the booking and tries wherever possible to get the right drivers for the right outing.
“If I know our drivers love theatre then I get them to look after trips that are taking groups to see a show.
“It’s nice to include drivers in the experience. Some love gardens or stately homes so if I have enough notice I can organise it that they enjoy the day as well.”
Officially formed in May 2005 with a steering group of six and a second hand LDV bus, affectionately called the old rattler, this ran until Christmas of 2013. A major fundraising campaign, helped with grants, managed to raise £23,700 for a smart new Ford bus.
Ken, along with the steering group members, will help with advice and funding for anyone who would like to become a driver.
“If you have a driving licence that was issued before January 1 1997, then it will have a D1 category. Drivers need a one day Midas training course, which will make them eligible to drive any section 19 licenced vehicle. The training will be paid for by us and then all you need is to do is volunteer a few hours each month.”
On the relaunch evening Ken will be there, along with other members and drivers.
To get involved ring 01947 841768.
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[
"Maureen Robinson"
] | 2016-08-26T13:12:34 | null | 2016-08-21T11:00:06 | We’re rapidly approaching autumn! From West Heslerton, the lane, gently rising towards West Lutton, was devoid of flowering plants. All were seeding apart from the bluish-lilac heads of Field Scabious. What a show it made along the dry, grassy chalk bank! | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Fwhat-s-on%2Fout-about%2Fcountry-diary-beekeepers-take-advantage-of-lush-moorland-1-8069547.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8069545.1471257662!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Country Diary: Beekeepers take advantage of lush moorland | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | We’re rapidly approaching autumn! From West Heslerton, the lane, gently rising towards West Lutton, was devoid of flowering plants. All were seeding apart from the bluish-lilac heads of Field Scabious. What a show it made along the dry, grassy chalk bank!
Many swifts have already departed for South Africa. Although born here, they only spend a third of their life in Britain. On leaving the nest for the first and only time, a young swift instinctively heads south immediately, without its parents to guide the way. It’s amazing to feed, bathe and even sleep on the wing!
Beekeepers are leaving their hives on the moors in order to obtain heather honey. Some transported their apiaries between May and August for the early-blooming bell heather. Now the ling, or true heather is in full bloom until September, enabling the honey bees to produce locally popular heather honey.
Tigga and I are both in the greenhouse – waiting! He hopes to grab a home-grown tomato ripe enough to eat. Having rejected three green ones, he appreciates he’ll have to wait. Michael has now erected a plastic wire screen around the plants to deter his antics.
Meanwhile, I’m waiting and watching a corner of the greenhouse for a visitor. Several days ago, Michael observed an unusual wasp working between the adjacent metal framework. The wasp has constructed a cylindrical-shaped nest 4cm in length and about 11.5cm above the paved floor.
Recording its movements, we discovered that it visited the nest quite frequently, spending only a few seconds either inside the upper entrance, or working on the rim. More recently it has concentrated on the lower end of the nest.
We’ve often seen wasps rasping wood from outdoor tables and benches to mix with saliva for multi-celled ‘paper’ nests, but this was a solitary wasp. It’s one of several very similar species known as mason wasps. They use sand and mud often moistened with saliva for the strong construction.
I’m afraid I felt guilty of an act of vandalism last week. While removing a dense tussock of grass that had invaded a patch of miniature London Pride, I disturbed a colony of ants. Using a spade, I sliced away the upper surface of soil and vegetation, revealing not only ants, but millions of their white eggs. An army of irate ants erupted, dashing hither and thither to protect their site and eggs.
Carefully replacing soil, I imagined the frenzied attack would last about half an hour. Actually it took one and a half hours before they calmed down, and four hours until only 10 ants remained. Peace reigns once more!
Only the sharp-eyed will have spotted the microscopic red spider mites present on walls during those hot summer days. They leave bronze-coloured patches on leaves, so watch bean and tomato plants!
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[] | 2016-08-26T13:13:31 | null | 2016-07-29T08:00:30 | Nestled in a beautiful elevated position, with an outlook which stretches for miles over the surrounding rolling countryside to the sea beyond, you will find Middlethorpe. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Fwhat-s-on%2Fout-about%2Fproperty-middlethorpe-fylingthorpe-525-000-1-8034854.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8034851.1469543737!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Property: Middlethorpe, Fylingthorpe, £525,000 | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | Nestled in a beautiful elevated position, with an outlook which stretches for miles over the surrounding rolling countryside to the sea beyond, you will find Middlethorpe.
Sitting on a plot of approximately two and a half acres this charming stone-built house boasts six bedrooms, a huge garage and stunning landscaped gardens.
The ground floor briefly comprises an entrance porch leading into a large entrance hallway from where there are doors opening into a downstairs-cloakroom, a useful storage cupboard, a contemporary fitted kitchen from where there is access into a light and airy dining room, with double doors opening into a lovely spacious lounge, which has a conservatory to the side.
Also, a compact breakfast room, and two double bedrooms with both having the benefit of an en-suite shower rooms.
The first floor continues to impress with a modern family bathroom and four bedrooms of generous proportions, two have en-suite shower rooms.
Features include solid oak flooring, coving, modern white bathroom suites and a range of integral appliances to the kitchen.
Ample parking for several vehicles and a very large garage which measures over 34 feet in length.
The gorgeous front garden is made up of lawned areas, a decked seating area, pond and flower borders.
Lawned paddocks wrap around the side and rear of the house. It would be easy to while away many an hour whilst admiring the truly breath-taking views.
The property is currently being used as a successful bed and breakfast but would also make a perfect family home with no adjustment to the layout needed.
Contact Hendersons on 01947 602626 for more details or to book an appoinment to view.
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Yorkshire lost by 10 runs to Hampshire in the final at Cardiff on their only previous appearance at Finals Day.
Yorkshire's Azeem Rafiq
They have waited a long time to erase the memory of that setback, and director of cricket Moxon feels it will drive the players on at Edgbaston today.
“It was tough losing that final, and it whetted the appetite to try and win the tournament in the future,” said Moxon.
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“Clearly it’s taken longer than we would have liked to get back there, and I think it’s a great opportunity for us, given the team that we’ve got on paper, to go one step further and hopefully win the competition.
“With our England players available, we’ve got a very good team, but clearly it’s about what happens on the day.
“T20, in particular, is all about how you perform on the day, and there’s four good teams involved, each of which is capable of winning it.”
Yorkshire take on Durham in the second semi-final at 2.30pm. Notts and Northants meet in the first semi at 11am, with the final taking place at 6.45pm.
“Durham are a very good team,” said Moxon.
“They’ve got match-winners in the likes of Ben Stokes and Mark Wood.
“We’ve got to be at our very best and, if we are, we can certainly beat them and hopefully go all the way and win the thing.
“The T20 is something we haven’t won before, so it’s important to us, and it would be nice to get that monkey off our backs.”
That Yorkshire even have a chance of erasing the memory of 2012 is a minor miracle given that they were bottom of the North Group at the halfway stage.
Yorkshire won only one of their opening seven games before winning six of their last seven to reach the quarter-finals.
“T20 is all about finding a method and I think that we’ve found it,” said Moxon.
“It’s taken hard work and, to a certain extent, failure for us to find it, because clearly the things that we were doing at the start of the competition weren’t working.
“From a batting point of view, we’ve worked on the areas in which we’re trying to strike the ball. They’re much better areas now.
“We’d found ourselves getting into trouble by playing too square of the wicket, so, as a consequence, we are hitting the ball a lot straighter now.
“It’s probably taken too long to change and rectify, but that’s been the biggest thing as far as the batting is concerned.
“Bowling-wise, having the skills that are required, the change-ups, and having the ability to bowl the change-ups (different deliveries) that are needed at various times in the innings, we’ve got better at that as well.
“As for our fielding, I think that’s been outstanding generally.”
Moxon was particularly pleased with Yorkshire’s fielding when Glamorgan were clinically beaten by 90 runs in the quarter-final in Cardiff.
David Willey laid the platform with a swashbuckling 79, proving again why Yorkshire were so keen to sign him last winter to improve their white-ball cricket, and the bowlers did the rest in a fine team performance.
“We brought our A-game to the quarter-final,” said Moxon.
“We were outstanding in the field, as good as you can get, and the ruthless way we went about our business was superb.
“David Willey set the tone with the bat, and we signed him precisely because we wanted to improve our one-day form immediately.
“Long-term he can have an impact in red-ball cricket too, but he’s made a big difference to our T20 side.”
Another player who has made a big difference is Azeem Rafiq, the off-spinner who returned to the club in mid-season after almost two years out of the professional game.
It is no coincidence that Yorkshire’s T20 resurgence can be traced back to Rafiq’s arrival.
“It has been a team effort to get to Finals Day, but Rafiq has done exceptionally well and he’s a great competitor,” said Moxon.
“He creates a buzz in the field as well as bringing his bowling skill, and he’s been a big factor in our improvement.
“Bottom line is, we’ve worked really hard to try to find the right method in T20.
“There’s been a lot of frustrations along the way, a lot of disappointments, and hopefully the lads can get some silverware now to show for their hard work.”
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A Royal London Cup semi-final looms on the horizon but, for now, Yorkshire’s attention returns to the Specsavers County Championship.
England's Stuart Broad is absent from the Notts line up Picture: Adam Davy/PA.
They are second in Division One, 26 points behind Middlesex with a game in hand.
And this week’s match against Nottinghamshire at Scarborough represents that game in hand.
It comes against a side who are bottom of the league and staring down the barrel of relegation.
Mathematically, it is not a must-win fixture, for there are still four to play after this match.
But it presents an obvious opportunity for Yorkshire to close the gap on Middlesex, and to close it to just two points if they can claim the maximum 24.
Yorkshire travel to second-bottom Hampshire next week and host third-bottom Durham the following week, before ending their campaign at home to Somerset and away to Middlesex.
A hat-trick of titles is still in their hands, but you sense that they need to seize the present moment.
It will not be easy.
Not only is the weather unpredictable at this time of year, rendering victories already gained like gold dust, but sides such as Notts are scrapping for points for different reasons – namely, their First Division survival.
Trent Bridge is arguably the finest ground in the country – at least outside of Lord’s, and with all due respect to Scarborough –but it faces the unpalatable prospect of Second Division cricket.
It will be extremely tough for Notts to beat a strong Yorkshire team at Scarborough, a ground where Notts have won only once in 12 matches, indeed, but that does not mean that they will be pushovers in what has been a tight division.
Yorkshire have a good recent record in the Championship at North Marine Road, but they lost on their last outing there in early July – an innings defeat to Middlesex that they hope will not have the same look in retrospect that Durham’s win there did in 2013, when it provided the impetus for the visitors to go on and pip Jason Gillespie’s team to the title.
Yorkshire, on paper, should be too strong for Notts, and yet the visitors possess some talented players.
Stuart Broad, the England pace bowler, is out with an ankle injury, and there is no Jake Ball or Alex Hales, who are on one-day international duty along with Yorkshire’s Joe Root, Jonny Bairstow, Liam Plunkett and Adil Rashid.
But Notts have plenty of seasoned campaigners – not least the evergreen Chris Read and Samit Patel.
First-team coach Gillespie is certainly not taking Notts for granted as his side go in search of their fourth win of the Championship campaign.
“It’s going to be a massive challenge,” said Gillespie.
“Notts are a very good side, and although they haven’t played the cricket they’d like in the Championship, they’re an incredibly dangerous team and they’ve got some real match-winners.
“We need to play at our best if we’re going to compete with them, and we’ve got to make sure that we tick all the boxes.
“We’ve got a good record at Scarborough in recent times, and hopefully we can build on that this week.”
A week of inactivity for Middlesex would be as good a week as any for the champions to strike, with the leaders battling problems of their own.
With pace bowler Steven Finn currently out with a hamstring injury, Middlesex have been dealt another blow with the news that former Notts batsman Adam Voges will not be returning to captain them for their last four games, with Cricket Australia wanting him to rest his own hamstring problem.
Middlesex return to action next week when they travel to Warwickshire before visiting Notts the following week.
They continue their programme away to Lancashire before the potentially key fixture with Yorkshire in late September.
Notts, who are 14 points adrift at the bottom, really need something from this week’s fixture.
Mick Newell, their coach, is considering changes to his batting line-up, with Root’s brother, Billy, among those who could come into the team along with fellow batsman Tom Moores, the 19-year-old son of former England coach Peter Moores.
Whoever he selects, Newell is conscious of the need for immediate improvement.
“We’re in a mess in the Championship,” he admitted.
“We’ve got to try and get out of the bottom two.
“This is a really big game, and I’m not sure where the pressure sits because they’re trying to get to the top and we’re obviously trying to get off the bottom.
“We’ve got to find a way of winning games.” | http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/sport/local-sport/yorkshire-v-nottinghamshire-yorkshire-lookint-to-seize-the-moment-in-championship-title-bid-1-8083109 | en | 2016-08-23T00:00:00 | www.whitbygazette.co.uk/f3fa1959164d544c6366adec548bc336dbb8d679ce277f910703eaaf49dc552b.json |
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] | 2016-08-29T12:49:40 | null | 2016-08-29T10:32:25 | Unbeaten Whitby Town go into their Bank Holiday Monday clash with Frickley Athletic in confident mood, according to boss Chris Hardy. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Fsport%2Flocal-sport%2Fblues-confident-ahead-of-bank-holiday-test-1-8094053.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8094052.1472463126!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Blues confident ahead of Bank Holiday test | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | Unbeaten Whitby Town go into their Bank Holiday Monday clash with Frickley Athletic in confident mood, according to boss Chris Hardy.
The Blues were boosted by a last-gasp leveller at Hednesford Town on Saturday, a goal which extended their unbeaten start to the campaign, and today’s visitors are currently rock-bottom of the Evo-Stik Premier Division table having lost five out of five so far.
“We go into this game with confidence and some good momentum and expect to maximise our points return,” Hardy said.
“We know we will have to put a shift in and maintain the levels of performance we have produced so far this season if we are to do this though.
“The late equaliser at Hednesford left us with a good feeling and we’ll look to carry this into the Frickley game
“We’ve played consistently well so far this season, but digging deep and keeping going to earn a draw in injury time showed another one of our qualities and the character of this group of players.”
Hardy will be forced to shuffle his pack for the visit of the West Yorkshiremen with centre-half Jamie Poole unavailable.
Fellow defender Mark Robinson is still away, however long-serving midfielder Dave McTiernan returns from a suspension picked up at the back end of last season.
“When you have two games to play in three days there is always a possibility that you will have to change things around, but that is what the squad is here for – to be used,” Hardy added.
“We had a very different kind of game at Hednesford on Saturday where we packed the midfield. At home to Frickley we may approach things another way.
“Poole and Robinson are unavailable but apart from that we are at full-strength, so we’re well set.”
Former colliery side Frickley have had a high turnover of playing staff over the summer, losing key men as well as all five league matches so far.
They have conceded 14 goals already this season, including four in their most recent defeat, a 4-0 home mauling by Mickleover on Saturday.
Last season, a resurgent performance from the West Yorkshire side saw a comfortable top half finish secured, including two draws against Whitby.
Admission at the Turnbull on Monday is £10 for adults (with accompanied under 16s admitted free), £6 senior citizens and £3 under-18s. | http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/sport/local-sport/blues-confident-ahead-of-bank-holiday-test-1-8094053 | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.whitbygazette.co.uk/d89196412541375f518491f4771b2b4e742cdcc65c4800510086f41f4f1ea92f.json |
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] | 2016-08-30T14:49:34 | null | 2016-08-30T15:06:21 | Yorkshire | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Fwhat-s-on%2Fyorkshire-s-strictly-ex-champs-to-give-free-dance-lessons-at-city-limits-1-8096127.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8096126.1472566063!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Yorkshire's Strictly ex-champs to give free dance lessons at City Limits | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | Yorkshire's Strictly Come Dancing ex-champions Darren Bennett and Lilia Kopylova will quick step back home this weekend - to give free dance lessons to fans.
It coincides with the start of a new season of the hit BBC One show.
Strictly's most successful couple, now parents to one-year-old Valentina Rose, are returning to their family's City Limits Dancentre studio in Penistone Road, Sheffield.
They will take part in free taster sessions on Saturday, September 3, from noon to 2pm. Full details and more at www.city-limits.co.uk
City Limits is run by Sheffield born Darren's parents, former dance champions, Tony and Judith, and his twin brother Dale.
Darren, aged 39, and his Moscow wife Lilia, 37, are the most successful competitor couple of their generation, winning four British amateur championships, three UK championships and representing Great Britain at the World and European Championships.
They turned professional in 2003, winning the British National Professional Championship two years running and made the final of the World and European Championships.
But they became household names when they joined the cast of Strictly Come Dancing in 2004 and won the show in consecutive years.
At his first attempt Darren, dancing with Jill Halfpenny from Eastenders, won the show and then went on to win the Champion of Champions dance off.
In 2005, Lilia waltzed off with the title while partnering Barnsley's own former Yorkshire and England cricketing star Darren Gough, after which they also went on to win the International Christmas special.
They went on to host their own West End show, Latin Fever, which they toured nationally and are today still regarded as one of Britain’s finest Latin American dance couples.
More recently they have worked on the Turkish and Lebanese versions of the Strictly TV show, Darren, born in Deepcar and brought up in Todwick, as a judge and Lilia as a consultant choreographer to the professional dancers.
Darren has also consulted on Danse Avec la Stars, the first series of the French version of Dancing with the Stars.
As well as being successful competitors and performers they have built up an International reputation as coaches, choreographers and first class trainers in both dance and corporate arenas.
They have also trained many of the top junior, youth and amateur couples, including the British Junior champions and No. 1 youth couple in the UK.
Darren's twin Dale said: "Strictly is back and we have Darren and Lilia joining us for an open day, with free taster sessions for children and adults to come along and see what being a student at City Limits is like.
"Fans can take part in one of our Ballroom and Latin classes led by Darren and Lilia.
"It runs from 2pm until 4pm, and we have a timetable of taster sessions throughout the day. Plus visitors can chat to our teachers and find out more about our new beginners' classes starting in September.
OPEN DAY TASTER CLASS SESSIONS
12.15-12.45pm: BALLROOM & LATIN WITH DARREN AND LILIA ALL AGES
12.30-1.00pm: STREETDANCE FOR ALL AGES 4-ADULT
12.30-1pm: BABY BALLET AND TAP
1.00-1.30pm : SALSA AND LATIN WITH DARREN AND LILIA
1.15-2pm: ZUMBA AND FITSTEPS TASTER
1.15-1.45pm: ADULT TAP
The pole fitness studio will also be open, for demonstrations and free workshops, from 12-2pm.
There will also be three Ballroom and Latin technique workshops for those wishing to develop their skills
2pm: Juvenile (under 12's), 45min, cost £5.
2.45pm: Junior (age 12 to 15), 45min, cost £5.
3.30pm, - Adult (age 16+), 60min, cost £8.
For more information about the open day and new class timetable, call he studio on 0114 234 4866 or visit www.city-limits.co.uk
Also visit Darren and Lilia's official website at www.darrenandlilia.com
* Strictly Come Dancing has confirmed this year's celebrity cast for the show, which returns on BBC One on Saturday, September 3, 6.50pm.
The line-up features EastEnders actor Tameka Empson, Birds of a Feather’s Lesley Joseph, former shadow chancellor Ed Balls, Pop Idol winner Will Young, former Eternal singer Louise Redknapp, actor Danny Mac, newsreader Naga Munchetty, reality TV’s Judge Rinder, US singer Anastacia, model Daisy Lowe, GB long-jumper Greg Rutherford, gymnast Claudia Fragapane, presenters Laura Whitmore and Ore Oduba, DJ and presenter Melvin Odoom.
TV stars Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman will be on hosting duties with the judging panel of Darcey Bussell, Bruno Tonioli, Craig Revel Horwood and – in his final year – Len Goodman. For more visit www.bbc.co.uk | http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/what-s-on/yorkshire-s-strictly-ex-champs-to-give-free-dance-lessons-at-city-limits-1-8096127 | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.whitbygazette.co.uk/c9d57b5c1c8c7b44a8d058922935e7d8d18c405a5580a06afd881d470e1c8834.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:09:48 | null | 2016-08-17T08:00:00 | At this time of the year, on Sundays, you can get to some parts of the North York Moors National Park that are usually out of reach on public transport. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fa-stroll-with-stu-take-moorbus-to-rievaulx-for-latest-walk-1-8064655.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8064649.1470931209!/image/image.jpg | en | null | A Stroll With Stu - Take Moorbus to Rievaulx for latest walk | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | At this time of the year, on Sundays, you can get to some parts of the North York Moors National Park that are usually out of reach on public transport.
And those lovely people who have been operating the Moorsbus network since a man with a spreadsheet decided that the funds were needed to varnish a banker’s yacht, have added a third bus this year.
Stepping stones near Rievaulx Abbey
They’ve scrounged enough money together to run a frequent service between Helmsley, Rievaulx and Sutton Bank and you can get to Helmsley by catching the 0930 service from Guisborough.
Hey, check times at Moorsbus.org (or go in your car if you really insist).
Rievaulx Abbey was originally built by Cistercian monks, who were happy that the site afforded them the peace and tranquility that they were looking for in order to pursue a life of tranquility away from the hustle and bustle of 12th Century life, preferably without a Moorsbus turning up on their doorstep every half hour.
From the Abbey entrance, head back up the road towards the village and after a couple of cottages follow the first footpath sign on your left. This leads you through successive gates onto a path signed for Bow Bridge.
Re-enactment at Rievaulx Abbey
The clear path is soon joined by the River Rye and after a gate or two, a marker post points you up onto a track, where you go left to soon cross the bridge. (Having diverted the river and built the Abbey and the original Bow Bridge, I’m not sure those monks really knew how to relax after all).
After 200 yards, ignore footpath signs and follow the wide track as it starts climbing into the woods.
At a clear junction, turn sharp left and keep climbing up to a metalled lane (I wouldn’t like to have to put the bins out from the houses at the bottom of this track).
Turn left downhill but soon go sharp right on a wide track down into woodland, ignoring the bridleway sign.
Immediately after crossing the brook at the bottom, leave the track to join an unmarked muddier version on your right. Someone has helpfully plodged through some drier bits on the right, but the path eventually widens into a gorgeous secluded grassy dale.
There are many such steep-sided dales and howls in these parts. I presume they were created by glacial run-off as the ice across the plateau rapidly melted, retreating all the way back to the Carling pump in the Lion Inn on Blakey Ridge.
A tempting track on your left may well be a good option, but go straight on as the mud returns, the hogweed grows (careful now, Ted), and the path narrows. Soon though, a clear path on your right rises steeply through the trees emerging with an audible gasp onto the road at the village of Old Byland.
It was here that a battle raged in the 14th Century between the Scots and the English, presumably much to the annoyance of the monks at Rievaulx who had to get the map out again and find somewhere a tad quieter.
Turn left on the road, and after 100 yards (ish) turn left onto a path which appears to be taking you back where you came from. Never fear, for it goes across to the other side of the valley through a gate into open fields. Say “no” to a gate on your left, and “yes” to another gate ahead.
The views on a clear day – and mine certainly was – are excellent now that you’ve left those woods behind.
A mile later, drop steeply left through woodland hugging the next dale. At the bottom, cross the footbridge and head straight on to cross stepping stones before turning left at a Cleveland Way sign. Some pretty lakes fill the valley bottom on your left as your path eventually joins a minor road leading back to Rievaulx.
The abbey was dissolved by Henry VIII, who took a little time away from wedding cake and prenuptial contracts to order that the buildings be stripped of anything valuable such as lead and sheep.
Today, it is owned and operated by English Heritage who do a great job in preserving what is left and organising events, exhibitions and the museum.
It is well worth a visit, as is the Helmsley Brewery (on the main road in town as it heads south towards the bridge) where I went after the short trip back on the Moorsbus.
It has a small bar with a few tables outside and serves the freshest and finest real ales which are brewing away just a few yards from your seat. I heartily recommend Striding the Riding, a clean and refreshing pale ale which appropriately is the official beer of the Cleveland Way.
Moorsbus and microbreweries. Scrumptious.
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[] | 2016-08-26T13:05:41 | null | 2016-08-22T22:30:18 | TWENTY-four hours after announcing that he had been ruled out of the one-day series against Pakistan through injury, England yesterday announced that David Willey, the Yorkshire all-rounder, is to rejoin the national squad after all. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Fsport%2Flocal-sport%2Fsecond-scan-clears-willey-for-action-as-yorkshire-get-ready-for-notts-1-8083100.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8083098.1471899259!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Second scan clears Willey for action as Yorkshire get ready for Notts | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | TWENTY-four hours after announcing that he had been ruled out of the one-day series against Pakistan through injury, England yesterday announced that David Willey, the Yorkshire all-rounder, is to rejoin the national squad after all.
In a statement on Sunday, the England and Wales Cricket Board said that an X-ray to Willey’s left hand, his bowling hand, had “not excluded a significant injury”, casting doubt on his participation for the rest of the season considering that the summer has only a month or so to run.
But a second scan yesterday revealed that there is no fracture to the hand that Willey injured when he was struck by a fierce return drive from Mark Stoneman, the Durham batsman, during NatWest T20 Blast Finals Day at Edgbaston on Saturday.
It is now being suggested that Willey could even feature in the second one-day international at Lord’s on Saturday, with the five-match series starting in Southampton tomorrow.
Jake Ball, the Nottinghamshire seamer who was called up to replace Willey, will stay with the national squad and therefore be unavailable for the County Championship game against Yorkshire at Scarborough, which starts this morning.
Stuart Broad, the England pace bowler, has also been withdrawn from Notts’ squad for the fixture at North Marine Road pending a scan on his left ankle.
Both second-placed Yorkshire and bottom club Notts are depleted due to injuries and international calls as they each look to bounce back from losing in the T20 semi-finals.
Alex Lees, the Yorkshire one-day captain, said that there was no time to dwell on that setback as the county champions seek a win that would significantly strengthen their hopes of a hat-trick of titles.
“We don’t have time to feel sorry for ourselves because there’s some big games coming up in the next five or six weeks, starting with Notts,” said Lees.
“It’s a massive game against a team who have struggled for form this year, and if we can play our brand of cricket, I’m sure that we’ll put pressure on them over the four days.”
Lees said Yorkshire are relishing the chance to get Saturday’s disappointment out of their system.
“The opportunity to get back up and running in a different competition with a win, and so soon after the disappointment of Saturday, is a great incentive,” he said. “We need to show the character that this group has become renowned for in recent years.” | http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/sport/local-sport/second-scan-clears-willey-for-action-as-yorkshire-get-ready-for-notts-1-8083100 | en | 2016-08-22T00:00:00 | www.whitbygazette.co.uk/42e4441a4e4754539a7a95b14f94c06f5c2ad4d619e0f60dea89d3e222bafcda.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T14:50:33 | null | 2016-08-05T00:10:00 | Chart-toppers including B | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Fwhat-s-on%2Fwin-100-family-tickets-to-leeds-summer-sounds-pop-and-rock-shows-1-8052297.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8052294.1470352438!/image/image.jpg | en | null | WIN: 100 family tickets to Leeds Summer Sounds pop and rock shows | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | Chart-toppers including B'witched, S Club stars, 911, The Hoosiers and Toploader will play at Summer Sounds concerts in Leeds on Saturday and you could see them for FREE.
We have 100 family tickets to be won - that's four tickets each - to either the day or night show of your choice in Millennium Square on August 6, 2016.
Check out the official web site for full details and how to buy tickets at www.summersounds.info
Worried About Ray and Goodbye Mr A hitmakers The Hoosiers, plus Dancing In The Moonlight stars Toploader and support Jamie Gilder will perform at the first concert, from 11.30am to 2pm.
B’Witched, famed for their number one hits C'est la Vie, Rollercoaster, To You I Belong, and Blame It On The Weatherman, head up the night slot, from 7.30pm to 10.30pm.
Sharing the later bill is S Club Party, featuring Jo and Bradley from S Club 7, who topped the charts with songs including Bring It All Back and Don't Stop Movin, along with A Little Bit More stars 911, Damage and Sweet Female Attitude.
B'witched
Both shows, which are standing only and presented by Livewire Events, are in a specially-created outdoor arena complete with licensed bar and catering, in the heart of the city.
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But hurry - we are giving away five family tickets for each show every hour throughout the day from Friday, August 5, 10am.
The Hoosiers
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Toploader
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Or follow @GW1962 and retweet any of this #JPCompSSNIGHT tweets.
Gate for the daytime show open at 10.30am, with performances from 11.30am. Gates for the evening concert open at 6.30pm, first band on 7.30pm.
Please only enter if you can definitely attend.
Winners will be notified throughout the day and entry will be via guest list names on the gate.
Each family of four winning party must include at least one supervising adult. transport not included. Johnston Press usual terms and conditions apply, see www.johnstonpress.co.uk/competition
* Guarantee your tickets - buy now at www.summersounds.info also see whatson.leeds.gov.uk , call 0113 376 0318 or buy in person from City Centre Box Office at The Leeds Town Hall (open 10am -6pm Monday to Saturday).
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"Sue Wilkinson"
] | 2016-08-26T13:00:45 | null | 2016-08-01T14:55:47 | Nobodys got no class! – So sing the cast of The World Goes Round – a celebration of the Kander and Ebb songbook. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Fwhat-s-on%2Fout-about%2Freview-the-world-goes-round-stephen-joseph-theatre-scarborough-1-8044414.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8044413.1470059715!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Review: The World Goes Round, Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | Nobodys got no class! – So sing the cast of The World Goes Round – a celebration of the Kander and Ebb songbook.
Well, this show has class and style in spades – it’s one of the best shows to be produced as part of the repertory in the Round in years.
The cast – all with West End pedigree – are Nigel Richards, Shona White, Laura Jane Matthewson, Ashley Samuels and Phoebe Fildes. All can ‘act’ a song as well as sing it.
The show is a revue of songs from Kander and Ebb musicals including the big hitters Cabaret, Chicago, Kiss of the Spider Woman and New York, New York plus the lesser known The Rink, 70, Girls,70, The Happy Time, Zorba, Flora, The Red Menace, Funny Lady and Woman of the Year.
The cast perform either singularly in duets, trios or all together – each given their moments in the spotlight.
The pace is quick – there’s no narrative arc just number after number – but the mood swings from melancholy to mirth in minutes .
The opening number is slowly paced And the World Goes Round – it is sung again later on – followed by the jittery, jolly Coffee in a Cardboard Cup.
Then there’s the fun of Sara Lee, The Rink - performed on skates – the sexy Arthur in the Afternoon, the sleazy Class and joyous Ring Them Bells.
All that Jazz gets the treatment from Shona White and every tear is wrung from the heartbreaker Maybe This Time by Laura Jane Matthewson.
Nigel Richards is outstanding – and shines in Mr Cellophane and I Don’t Remember You.
Of course, Cabaret is in the mix but is given a different jazzier arrangement – and the curtain comes down with the crowd pleaser New York, New York.
Get your tickets before word gets round – and it will – and this becomes a sell out.
The World Goes Round is at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, in rep, until September 3.
Box office: 01723 370541
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"Jane Pottas"
] | 2016-08-30T10:50:11 | null | 2016-08-30T11:00:00 | Disinfectant spray kills 99.9% of bacteria and viruses on surfaces and can help to protect your familyfrom illness. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fopinion-why-it-is-good-to-jog-along-with-bacteria-1-8085625.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8085624.1472031675!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Opinion: Why it is good to jog along with bacteria | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | Disinfectant spray kills 99.9% of bacteria and viruses on surfaces and can help to protect your familyfrom illness.
The Advertising Standards Authority makes sure that all advertising is legal, decent, truthful and honest so this claim made for a well known brand of aerosol disinfectant must comply with these regulations.
But why are consumers made to feel that it is necessary to eliminate practically all bacteria and viruses from our homes? We have been manipulated by powerful advertising into thinking that all bacteria are harmful and that we can protect our families by using all manner of antibacterial products including disinfectant sprays, antibacterial hand wash/detergent/washing up liquid, antibacterial impregnated chopping boards etc etc etc. However, unless we are in hospital where it is important to prevent the spread of disease, or have a compromised immune system and should avoid exposure to pathogens there is no need for our homes and bodies to be subject to the same rigorous standards of cleanliness as an operating theatre. The aim of cleaning in the home should be to reduce bacterial numbers, not to eliminate them altogether.
Humans and our ancestors evolved over millennia alongside thousands of species of bacteria. We have learned to jog along together.
Our bodies are home to 100 trillion microorganisms on our skin, in our gut, and on mucosal surfaces. The skin microbial community (microbiota) is made up of over 1,000 different species, the majority of which are thought to be harmless. Some species are beneficial– the skin microbiota is known to educate the immune system, for instance.
The numbers of each species are kept in check by the others but harmful bacteria can multiply to dangerous numbers and cause disease if the microbial community changes for some reason.
We cannot survive without our microscopic passengers or should that be partners. The advertisers’ message that says that all bacteria are bad and must be destroyed should be questioned and discredited.
Thorough hand washing for 20 – 30 seconds with ordinary soap is as effective at removing bacteria as an antibacterial equivalent.
Using an antibacterial hand wash may even contribute to poorer skin hygiene in the belief that the antibacterial component can compensate for a quick rinse under the tap. Hot water and ordinary washing up liquid will clean dishes as successfully as one with an added antibacterial agent.
Plastic chopping boards get scratched and dirt gets trapped in the cuts.
Tests have shown that wooden chopping boards are more hygienic. Wood contains natural antibacterial substances and cuts made by knives in the wood grain close up and do not harbour germs. Washing with hot soapy water and a regular scrub with salt will keep a wooden chopping board clean. Bacteria thrive and multiply where conditions are favourable, ie moist, warm and a source of food.
It only requires good hygiene practice to make conditions less favourable and it does not necessitate the use of antibacterial products.
There is no need to kill 99.9% of bacteria and viruses because they aren’t all harmful anyway.
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] | 2016-08-26T13:08:39 | null | 2016-08-20T09:00:24 | AT this moment in time, the County Championship title race looks like going right down to the wire. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fandrew-gale-lord-s-showdown-is-looming-and-we-re-really-beginning-to-hit-our-straps-1-8079356.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8079355.1471682760!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Andrew Gale: Lord’s showdown is looming and we’re really beginning to hit our straps | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | AT this moment in time, the County Championship title race looks like going right down to the wire.
From the outside, you cannot help but look at the last game of the season versus Middlesex at Lord’s, although there is still a lot of cricket to be played up until then and Middlesex got over the line in good fashion this week and are playing some good cricket.
When you get to this stage of the season, you talk about holding your nerve and we have been there before.
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For us, Leesy is coming into some form and Lythy is and me now as well and, hopefully, we can use that to really start hitting our straps.
I was happy to contribute with 83 in the Roses game at Old Trafford. I wanted three figures and was desperate to get there, but I did occupy the crease for a long period of time and in the context of the game, it was an important knock and I was pleased to get runs.
Coming to the business end of the season, I had said before that we can get our players in form, then it sets us up nicely.
I was pleased to contribute. In the context of the game, there was a lot of rubbish flying around on the field and it was nice to shut up a few of their lads.
We needed 219 from 30 overs at tea on the last day, but decided that the target was just too much and shook hands on the draw.
You have to trust the batsmen out there, I guess, and their decision and the pitch was deteriorating.
There was quite a lot of spin and with our left-handers in the top-order, it was probably a bridge too far. And I think that it was a good statement with us being none down as well.
The last thing we wanted to do was be holding out for a draw, seven or eight wickets down or something like that and it was a decent statement from us, even though we didn’t play our best cricket at times. We came out with our heads held high.
If we had been chasing 150 or 160 going into that last 18 to 20 overs, then it would have given us a good chance. We just felt it was too many to chase.
I don’t think that Lancashire would have gone for it either, to be honest.
Overall, it was a solid draw, although I was a bit disappointed with the way we bowled on the morning of day two as I thought we were exceptional on day one and held our lines and lengths and were patient.
All that hard work was undone by poor bowling on the second morning and it really put us behind the eight-ball.
But the encouraging thing is we got past the follow-on and got back into the game.
Azeem Rafiq, Jack Leaning and David Willey all got their Yorkshire caps before the game and it was a fantastic moment.
The best part of my job is to give caps out like that and see what it means to the lads.
In particular, you could see it for the two lads who have come right through the age groups. To eventually get a Yorkshire cap; you could see the emotion in their faces when they received them.
It was good for David, too. He is starting to win games for us now in the short-ball format, although he probably has not played as many red-ball games as he would have liked and has had a few injury niggles and going into that Old Trafford game, he had a hamstring injury.
But he is starting to win games of cricket and that is why we signed him; for us to be in the hunt – in the white-ball Twenty20 and 50-over competition.
It’s finals day today in the T20 and I am looking forward to it and am going down there and will be in and around the squad.
It is a big day for the club and we want to keep our name in the hat for all three formats and trophies.
Obviously, I would have been liked to have been a part of the white-ball stuff. But when you look down the team sheet when all the international players come back, it is a bloody tough side to get into! | http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/news/andrew-gale-lord-s-showdown-is-looming-and-we-re-really-beginning-to-hit-our-straps-1-8079356 | en | 2016-08-20T00:00:00 | www.whitbygazette.co.uk/d278ec36edf941199a00159422efee352fafc3edb767d7348f57f7f3674da740.json |
[] | 2016-08-30T18:50:16 | null | 2016-08-30T18:18:27 | Architects have been appointed to lead a project to rebuild and renovate the First White Cloth Hall in a four year contract set to start later this month. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Farchitect-in-place-to-help-save-cloth-hall-1-8096625.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8096623.1472577481!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Architect in place to help save Cloth Hall | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | Architects have been appointed to lead a project to rebuild and renovate the First White Cloth Hall in a four year contract set to start later this month.
Leeds City Council’s director of city developments gave the go-ahead for Buttress Architects to create and front a design team which will bring back into use the semi-derelict grade II listed building on Kirkgate in the city centre.
Leeds, 28th July 1991 Kirkgate. Renovation of the historic White Cloth Hall. The chairman of Leeds Civic Trust, Dr. Kevin O'Grady studies an artist's impression of how the first Cloth Hall in Kirkgate looked in 1710 and how it looks today. (1991). The trust is campaigning for the retention of major architectural features in the hall.
Worth in the region of £245,748, the contract starts on September 12 and runs until the end of August 2020.
The council said that Manchester based firm Buttress had put forward the most “economically advantageous” tender with the brief being about 60% quality and 40% price.
The next phase of the project is for the design team to develop options that can be put forward as planning application submissions.
According to the council report discussed, the main aim of the First White Cloth Hall project is to “bring back into use an important historic building and allow users to experience this” as well as making it a financially viable venture.
It is now working with the owner of the building, City Fusion, to acquire the building so the project can go-ahead.
If both parties fail to come to an agreement then compulsory purchase of the building is being considered.
A council spokesperson said: “The property is in a fragile condition and requires significant investment which the owners are not able to provide.
“By aquiring the property the council believe the building can be saved and a financially viable use found for it.”
It was built in 1711 but is virtually derelict.
The hall has been on the Heritage at Risk Register since 1999 and in 2011 half of it was demolished after the collapse of neighbouring 101 Kirkgate.
A grant of £1.5 million has aready been secured from the Heritage Lottery Fund to put towards vital repairs. | http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/news/local/architect-in-place-to-help-save-cloth-hall-1-8096625 | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | www.whitbygazette.co.uk/15b90a6c4d43a1187d0848c8970915d3f3aeaadcda86fd35142abfb62958f084.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:08:01 | null | 2016-08-24T20:01:18 | THERE is a fine line between wanting Yorkshire to do well but not wanting them to do so well that it cuts short a visit to Scarborough. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Fsport%2Flocal-sport%2Fyorkshire-v-notts-seaside-air-leaves-gary-ballance-in-mood-to-play-on-1-8086935.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8086934.1472065259!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Yorkshire v Notts: Seaside air leaves Gary Ballance in mood to play on | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | THERE is a fine line between wanting Yorkshire to do well but not wanting them to do so well that it cuts short a visit to Scarborough.
Such concerns must have crossed the minds of the Yorkshire crowd yesterday when the hosts were busy ripping through the Notts’ batting line-up with the ease of piranhas devouring their victims.
But after dismissing Notts for 94 on the stroke of lunch, after they had started day two on 38-2 in reply to their own first-innings 282, Yorkshire chose not to enforce the follow-on despite a lead of 188, thereby ensuring that the game could not be over inside two days, which had seemed eminently plausible.
As owners of local guest houses and hostelries no doubt turned cartwheels of joy, so too did those Yorkshire members who adore it at North Marine Road, with 84 per cent of them having voted in a recent survey conducted by the club to retain two Championship games there from next season.
With Yorkshire having to take one match away from Headingley or Scarborough due to changes to the fixture list, it can be taken as read that the decision will come down in the seaside town’s favour, but that is not to say that many of those Scarborough devotees were not a little baffled as to why Yorkshire – their bowlers fresh and their opponents fragile – opted to increase their lead in glorious sunshine.
It is the modern way, of course, not to enforce, and it is unlikely to make a jot of difference to the result, with Yorkshire set to close the gap to five points on leaders Middlesex with a win here, and Notts looking every inch like relegation material.
Yorkshire followed up with 200-4 in 61 overs in their second innings, Gary Ballance, the captain, scoring an unbeaten 75 to stretch the lead to a lofty 388.
Even with dodgy weather forecast today, Yorkshire’s fourth Championship victory of the season would seem as much of a formality as high and low tide.
Regardless of the question as to whether to enforce, that Yorkshire were even in a position to do so was tribute to a rousing recovery from 51-6 on day one.
Magnificent contributions from Andrew Hodd, Azeem Rafiq and Jack Brooks were mainly responsible for a revival completed by Yorkshire’s four-pronged pace attack of Brooks, Ryan Sidebottom, Tim Bresnan and Steve Patterson, who needed just 25.5 overs on the second morning to winkle out the last eight wickets.
The tone was set – as it so often is – by the venerable Sidebottom, who belied his 38 years with a splendid exhibition of swing bowling from the Peasholm Park end to take 3-5 in 12 balls and reduce Notts to 52-5.
Michael Lumb, the former Yorkshire batsman, was drawn forward and caught behind by one that shaped away; Steven Mullaney was lbw playing across the line; and Samit Patel was caught upper-cutting high to Bresnan at first slip.
Sidebottom would have had a fourth wicket with the score on 59 but Bresnan dropped a low chance at first slip, with Brendan Taylor not then off the mark.
But it was only a temporary setback for a Yorkshire side who made equally light work of the mid-to-lower order.
Chris Read miscued an attempted pull off Brooks to cover; Brett Hutton edged Brooks low to Adam Lyth at second slip; Taylor’s luck finally ran out when he played on an attempted drive off Patterson; Luke Wood flashed in foolhardy fashion at Bresnan and was caught behind, and an innings caked in collective embarrassment ended when Luke Fletcher helped Bresnan to Jack Leaning at third slip.
That Yorkshire would bat again was betrayed by the sight of openers Lyth and Alex Lees sprinting off the ground to strap on their pads, and they safely negotiated the one over that remained before lunch.
After the break, the cricket grew steadily soporific as the 5,000 crowd watched Yorkshire increase their lead in the way of builders systematically adding bricks to a house.
Lees added 30 bricks before he was lbw to Hutton, ending a first-wicket stand of 72, and Lyth followed shortly after for 41, caught and bowled by Wood off a leading edge.
Lehmann and Ballance added 61 in 22 overs before Lehmann slogged Samit Patel straight up in the air to Wood at mid-on.
Ballance, dropped on 20 when he pulled Fletcher to a diving Tom Moores at mid-wicket, advanced to a 113-ball half-century that included eight fours, and Leaning helped him add 57 before being stumped.
Play was halted seven overs early due to bad light with swooping seagulls ready to reclaim the outfield once the cricketers had left for the evening. | http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/sport/local-sport/yorkshire-v-notts-seaside-air-leaves-gary-ballance-in-mood-to-play-on-1-8086935 | en | 2016-08-24T00:00:00 | www.whitbygazette.co.uk/6917c9c92bb487c7ac2b392b50c1fab0b71a16e0ab05886314965dfe5a0cd6e7.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:07:03 | null | 2016-08-21T11:38:18 | In the only Whitby CC game on Saturday, the seconds were edged out by two wickets at Newton Aycliffe in NYSD League Division Two. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Fsport%2Flocal-sport%2Fnysd-league-aussie-chapman-fails-to-save-whitby-2nds-1-8080585.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8080584.1471775995!/image/image.jpg | en | null | NYSD League; Aussie Chapman fails to save Whitby 2nds | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | In the only Whitby CC game on Saturday, the seconds were edged out by two wickets at Newton Aycliffe in NYSD League Division Two.
The visitors looked to be heading to a comprehensive defeat after collapsing to 130 all out in 39 overs, Andrew Marshall the main man for Whitby with 47 from 68 balls including eight fours and a six.
Kai Morris also weighed in with a brisk 24 from 25 balls but the bowling of Jack Slatcher, with five wickets for 36, helped peg the away side back to 130.
The hosts then lost wickets at regular intervals, several batsmen making starts but only Sam Telford, with 33 from 22 balls including three fours and two sixes, got to grips with the bowling of Australian ace Jonathan Chapman (3-18) and Stephen Crowther (2-35) as they struggled to 112-8 as Whitby looked set to clinch an unlikely victory.
But the unbroken ninth-wicket stand of 21 between Chris Palmer (18no) and Patrick Howe (9no) saw the home side safely to victory. | http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/sport/local-sport/nysd-league-aussie-chapman-fails-to-save-whitby-2nds-1-8080585 | en | 2016-08-21T00:00:00 | www.whitbygazette.co.uk/cddac31037cec2b82b39cf958e504bc4a2bd35516f0a723fa311494e749a7cb7.json |
[] | 2016-08-30T08:50:12 | null | 2016-08-29T16:18:30 | THERE was one unmistakeable conclusion to be drawn from the crowds thronging Whitby last week. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fandrew-vine-sunny-outlook-as-seaside-s-old-image-is-washed-away-1-8094685.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8094684.1472484299!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Andrew Vine: Sunny outlook as seaside’s old image is washed away | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | THERE was one unmistakeable conclusion to be drawn from the crowds thronging Whitby last week.
It is that Yorkshire stands on the brink of a new golden age of tourism, not only for our seaside resorts, the traditional magnets for visitors, but for attractions across the county.
A few miles south of the tourists strolling around Whitby harbour and climbing the 199 steps to the Abbey, Scarborough was also packed, its cricket festival only adding to the buzz of a resort in full swing for the remainder of summer.
These snapshots of a sunny day bringing the crowds out are part of a bigger picture that should give us cause for great optimism about the future of tourism in Yorkshire.
Across Britain, the bank holiday weekend is anticipated to have seen five million people opting for “staycations” – holidaying here instead of abroad – which is worth £1.25bn to the country’s economy.
Yorkshire’s share of that will be substantial, and there is every prospect of it growing because the evidence of our eyes and ears tells us that more people are coming here, and from farther afield, than in recent years.
That evidence was clear on the busy North Yorkshire Moors Railway steam train that took three of us to Whitby.
As we steamed through that glorious landscape, chatting to the people around us in the carriage, their conversation spoke of first-time visitors already determined to return.
A family of four from the United States. A group from Scotland. A couple from Hampshire and their family from Ireland. A wonderfully ebullient couple with five children from Wolverhampton.
All of them new to Yorkshire, and crucially, all of them charmed by it.
We saw most of them again on the train back to Pickering later that day, and when I asked how they had liked Whitby, all said they loved it and planned to come back to stay over for a few nights.
There is nothing quantifiable about conversations like this, no firm statistics to be drawn about the number of nights booked.
But they dovetail perfectly with the hard evidence we do have – that the number of overnight stays in Yorkshire by visitors grew by 20 per cent last year.
And another hint that suggests the fortunes of our tourist industry are on the up came when I booked a mid-September break to Scarborough.
It was harder finding a room than a couple of years ago since more hotels and bed-and-breakfasts are full. Good news for them, and equally good news for Yorkshire’s economy.
This growth in tourism has been a long time coming. The vigour of Welcome to Yorkshire in promoting the county is a key factor, as are the high-profile events it has brought, like Le Grand Départ and the Tour de Yorkshire, which have created a greater showcase than ever before.
Grimmer events have played their part as well. The spectre of terrorism abroad has made many Britons rethink their holiday plans and opt to stay in this country where they feel safer.
The tourist industry is also reaping the rewards of a transformation in the quality of accommodation for visitors.
My first proper job, more than 30 years ago, was in Bridlington, where a lot of the accommodation on offer appeared to have hardly changed since the end of the Second World War.
For every well-kept, modernised guest house there was another which was gloomy and outdated, with shared toilets and bathrooms where visitors were expected to queue up, towels draped over their arms, to wait their turn and hope the hot water hadn’t run out.
Some of the proprietors were as gloomy as their properties, still kicking out guests after breakfast and forbidding them to return until evening, even if the weather was atrocious.
And the food. Heaven preserve us. The memory of the smell of cabbage boiled into a dull green sludge that floated out of the windows of guest houses around where I lived still makes me shudder.
Unsurprisingly, bookings were plummeting as it dawned on people that for about the same cost, they could have a week in Spain with guaranteed sun, an ensuite bathroom, a balcony and paella served by smiling waiters.
It’s not like that now. Bed and breakfast has reinvented itself as welcoming boutique accommodation, comfortable and cosmopolitan homes from home that serve excellent food.
A category of accommodation that within fairly recent memory was in danger of consigning itself to the history books has been revived thanks to hard work and an appreciation that guests rightly demand high standards.
All of us who live in Yorkshire know how much we have to offer to visitors, whether on the coast, in the countryside or in the towns and cities.
The evidence of the crowds in Whitby and Scarborough, and on the platform waiting for a steam train, is that increasing numbers of people from elsewhere are discovering that too. And that’s as good for us as them.
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[] | 2016-08-26T13:10:16 | null | 2016-08-19T08:00:03 | The Old Blacksmith’s Arms is a substantial period property which comprises the main family home and two adjoining holiday cottages set within half an acre of gardens located in the North Yorks Moors National Park. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Fwhat-s-on%2Fout-about%2Fproperty-old-blacksmith-s-arms-high-hawsker-whitby-595-000-1-8073208.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8073207.1471423013!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Property: Old Blacksmith’s Arms, High Hawsker, Whitby, £595,000 | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | The Old Blacksmith’s Arms is a substantial period property which comprises the main family home and two adjoining holiday cottages set within half an acre of gardens located in the North Yorks Moors National Park.
The property was formerly the village pub and was converted into a residential home in the 1970s, with the current owner’s doing the majortiy of the refurbishmnents in the 1990s and converting agricultural buildings into the holiday cottages.
The main family home has three reception rooms, a traditional country kitchen with a utility, five bedrooms, family bathroom and shower room all benefitting from gas central heating and double-glazing throughout.
The two adjoing cottages are of a similar design with an openplan kitchen/lounge and bathroom downstairs and a double bedroom with a separate WC upstairs. Both have their own separate services with gas central heating and double-glazing.
The cottages provide an attractive income to the owner and would be suited to a similar commercial venture or provide flexible annexe accommodation to the main house for relatives or guests.
Outside there are generous gardens which amount to half an acre and comprise a gravelled terraced patio area overlooking the ornamental pond and garden.
To the rear of the plot there is a kitchen garden and greenhouses which offer the possibility of a smallholding. There is also a detached garage/workshop and other outbuildings.
This property is located between the two popular coastal resorts of Whitby and Robin Hood’s Bay.
Internal viewing is highly recommend to fully appreciate the scale of this property and its idylic setting.
Contact Jacksons Property Sevice on 01947 606111 for more details.
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] | 2016-08-26T13:13:27 | null | 2016-08-05T08:00:00 | An Ugglebarnby student wowed teachers with a life-size steel replica of a horse and her foal – after her grandfather taught her to weld. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Ffeatures%2Fexhibit-of-the-week%2Ftutors-say-weld-done-for-charlotte-s-horse-1-8043395.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8043393.1470003038!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Tutors say ‘weld done’ for Charlotte’s horse | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | An Ugglebarnby student wowed teachers with a life-size steel replica of a horse and her foal – after her grandfather taught her to weld.
Charlotte McAdam, 19, took on the ambitious project as part of her one-year foundation course at the Scarborough School of Arts’ Westwood campus.
Charlotte McAdam's horse and foal.
Although she has been drawing horses all her life, her college brief this time was a little more challenging – to reinterpret a painting through 3D sculpture.
She enlisted the help of her grandfather Peter, who works for Whitby company Dock End Engineering, in creating the 16 hands high horse from a Stubbs painting.
“He taught me to weld,” said Charlotte. “It was great for him to be able to teach me and to spend time with him doing what he does.
“It was quite a lot of trial and error as I’d never made something like that before.
“I got quite comfortable using the welder and hydraulic cutter but it took a lot of practice.”
Despite adding a new string to her bow, the project did not progress without mishaps – Charlotte set fire to her hair during one piece of welding!
But the blood, sweat and tears was all worth it in the end.
After 53 hours and using more than 300 metres of quarter inch round steel, the horse Petra and her foal Jordan were complete.
“It has to be made convincing as a horse, as it has to follow the bone structure,” said former Fyling Hall student Charlotte.
Her sculpture was modelled on the larger of her two horses Toy Boy – particularly his face.
“Having my own horses helped,” she said.
“It helps being around them and knowing them as I’ve drawn them all my life.”
When Petra and Jordan arrived at the college in a horse box, here course tutors were amazed.
Charlotte was delighted to receive a distinction from her tutors, as well as a prize for the most impressive student.
They’d also said that if she took the exhibit to an auction house in London, it would sell immediately.
Her mum Coleen added: “We are so proud of her.”
The horse and foal were due to be exhibited at a house near to Charlotte’s family home, to mark the 90th birthday of the Cleveland Bay Horse Society, as part of an open garden event.
Charlotte is now going to study a course in theatre and set design at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts in September.
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] | 2016-08-26T13:07:18 | null | 2016-08-20T06:00:11 | NO-ONE is better qualified than David Willey when it comes to the T20 Finals Day experience. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Fsport%2Flocal-sport%2Ft20-finals-day-david-willey-is-aiming-to-give-yorkshire-the-edge-1-8079713.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8079712.1471684026!/image/image.jpg | en | null | T20 Finals Day: David Willey is aiming to give Yorkshire the edge | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | NO-ONE is better qualified than David Willey when it comes to the T20 Finals Day experience.
Yorkshire have been there only once, but this will be Willey’s fourth appearance, having made it three times with previous club Northants.
In 2009, Willey was part of the side that lost by seven wickets to Sussex in the semi-final.
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He was just 19 years old and had an unremarkable match; he did not bat as Northants totalled 136-6, and then he bowled two wicketless overs for 16 runs.
In 2013, Willey had the antithesis of an unremarkable match when Northants beat Surrey by 102 runs in the final.
He opened the batting and scored 60 from 27 balls with six fours and four sixes, and then he took 4-9 from 2.3 overs, finishing the match with a hat-trick when he dismissed Zafar Ansari, Jon Lewis and Chris Tremlett.
Willey was on the losing side last year when Lancashire beat Northants in the final by 13 runs.
He took 2-21 from four overs as Lancs scored 166-7, and then he hit 24 from 21 balls as Northants replied with 153-6.
As no other Yorkshire player has been to Finals Day more than once, his experience will be invaluable as Yorkshire seek to win the competition for the first time.
“I guess so,” said Willey, who left Wantage Road for Headingley during the close season.
“My primary role with regards to the move to Yorkshire was to try and help improve the club’s one-day cricket, and, hopefully, we are starting to make improvements.
“There will be expectation on me to perform (at Finals Day), but that’s the case with any one-day game.
“It’s a big day out and a great day out, particularly if you’re part of the team that lifts the trophy.”
Willey, one of four Yorkshire players who appeared in the World T20 final against the West Indies in April, along with Joe Root, Liam Plunkett and Adil Rashid, has made a habit of performing on the big stage.
He did it again when helping Yorkshire book their place at Edgbaston with a 90-run win over Glamorgan in the quarter-final in Cardiff, thumping 79 from 38 balls with seven fours and six sixes.
“I like to perform on the big occasions,” he said.
“Against Glamorgan, I didn’t really have a plan; I just tried to give myself a chance to clear the ropes, and a couple of loose deliveries gave me a platform.
“We’re all looking forward to Finals Day, and fingers-crossed we can win a couple more games and get the trophy.
“We’ve got all our England lads back, which will make it a massive headache for the coaches to pick 11 players.”
The man with the headache is first-team coach Jason Gillespie, who has an embarrassment of riches at his disposal.
But you can bet that one of the first names on his team sheet will be Willey, who has a proven record for lighting up Finals Day.
“Dave’s the type of player who can change a game,” said Gillespie, whose side take on Durham in the second semi-final, with the winner playing Northants or Notts in the final.
“We’ve seen what he’s done for Northants in the past, and he can pick up wickets early and swing the ball, score quick runs and he’s always in the game.
“That’s what I really like about him, and he’s brought a lot to our team.
“We’re delighted to have him because he’s such a positive guy, happy to challenge his team-mates – which is really healthy – and very competitive, too.”
Willey’s all-round ability gives Gillespie flexibility.
He is effectively three players in one – good with the bat, ball and in the field.
“To have someone who’s great in the field, who whacks them like he does, and who opens the bowling gives us so many extra options,” said Gillespie.
“It allows us to play an extra batsman as well.
“The start he gives us with the bat is fantastic, and it’s something we probably haven’t had in T20 for a while.
“It showed with his performance at Cardiff, when people could see why we were so keen to secure his services.”
Gillespie encourages all of his players to speak in the dressing room and Willey will address the team prior to Finals Day.
Yorkshire are keen to tap into his knowledge and know-how in an effort to gain an extra edge.
“Some of our lads haven’t been to Finals Day before, and it will be good to get Dave’s thoughts in the team meeting,” said Gillespie.
“His knowledge of it will be important, and something that we can draw on, and Dave’s the type of player who steps up when needed, and hopefully he can show everyone how good he is again.
“We’ve got a lot of match-winners in our side, and it’s going to be fantastic
“There was a lot of drive and ambition from everyone at the club to get this far in the competition after everyone had written us off – that was a really good motivating tool for us – and we’re just pleased as punch to be in with a shout.”
Ben Duckett hopes Northants can sneak under the radar again, having been part of the Steelbacks side which defied the odds to win the tournament in 2013 and fell at the final hurdle against Lancashire 12 months ago.
Northants face Notts Outlaws in the first semi-final today and are the only side involved in Finals Day who have previously won the competition.
Left-hander Duckett says confidence will be high despite their lack of high-profile players.
“We haven’t got any international stars. Finals Day will be interesting to see who is talked about – Yorkshire,” said the 21-year-old Duckett.
“We just keep going under the radar but smost of our guys love the pressure. We just go out and enjoy ourselves.” | http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/sport/local-sport/t20-finals-day-david-willey-is-aiming-to-give-yorkshire-the-edge-1-8079713 | en | 2016-08-20T00:00:00 | www.whitbygazette.co.uk/e0e157dde7e8bbf0d6135cf067cd7f69df1df7f03a1fec5260f973e651ef55d6.json |
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] | 2016-08-27T22:48:47 | null | 2016-08-27T22:36:55 | Staithes retained the Readers Scarborough Beckett Cricket League Premier Division title after their game at rivals Staxton was rained off. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Fsport%2Flocal-sport%2Fstaithes-claim-title-as-rain-wrecks-beckett-league-programme-1-8092802.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8092801.1472333936!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Staithes claim title as rain wrecks Beckett League programme | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | Staithes retained the Readers Scarborough Beckett Cricket League Premier Division title after their game at rivals Staxton was rained off.
The visitors were 17-0 when the heavens opened at Staxton, and the five points apiece meant that Staithes secured the title with a week to spare.
Relegated Mulgrave were 88-5 at home to Heslerton when the elements terminated play, Chris Raine aptly shining for the hosts with an unbeaten 34.
Ebberston were frustrated by the weather as they had reduced Cayton to 14-3 when rain stopped play Frankie Beal bagging 2-4, Ebberston will now need to win at home to Filey in their final game of the season, and hope that third-from-bottom Flixton 2nds slip up at home to Scalby.
Scalby were 67-0 before rain stopped play at Carr Lane against Filey, openers Ryan Labuschagne hitting 40 not out and Joe Hills 26 not out.
Hosts Nawton Grange reached 93-5 before the showers halted the action at home to Forge Valley, Charlie Allott hitting 27 and Charles Tindall grabbing three wickets.
Cloughton confirmed their return to the Premier Division after their game at home to Staxton 2nds also ended in a rain-affected draw, the visitors making 55-4 before rain brought play to a close
Pete Milner capped a cracking season for the hosts, taking 3-23.
The only game completed in this division saw Brompton ease to a seven-wicket home win against Cayton 2nds, who were relegated by this result.
Jes Riley hit 28 and Simon Stubbs 21 as the visitors were limited to 128-8, Kit McCrystal and James Allison taking 3-40 and 3-38 respectively.
Fine knocks from Mark Bruce (57no) and Tom Pateman (47no) wrapped up the win and condemned Cayton to the drop.
Wold Newton escaped the drop after their game at Wykeham was rained off with the visitors in control of proceedings.
A superb 59 from Charles Gray helped Wold Newton post 167-7.
Gray then turned in a fine spell of 4-22 to leave the hosts struggling on 89-5 when rain stopped play, the visitors having earned enough points to stay in the first division.
Champions Settrington were handed the 20 points as visitors Grindale conceded, Sherburn also being handed the points by their scheduled visitors Thornton Dale.
Bridlington 2nds wrapped up the Division Two title despite being robbed of a derby victory at home to Sewerby 2nds by the wet weather.
The visitors posted 144-9 from their 42 overs, P Davies top-scoring with 59 and P Hanson adding 38.
Brid looked nailed on to secure victory in reply after Andy Clay had smacked 61 and Elliott Traves 46 not out as the hosts raced to 119-1 from just 22 overs before rain halted the game.
Great Habton secured promotion as runners-up as they had Forge Valley at 32-2 when rain stopped play, rivals Fylingdales only making 106-6 at Ravenscar before the elements took over.
Mark Estill hit 23 for Dales and Guy Shrimpton was unbeaten on 23, while John Nelson bagged 2-26 before the close of play..
Scarborough 3rds' relegation was confirmed as they only made 40-1 from the nine overs possible in their home game with rivals Scalby 2nds.
Wykeham 2nds won the race to claim the second promotion slot in Division Three with points earned before their match at rivals Flamborough was also scuppered by the inclement weather.
The away side dismissed Flamborough for 106, Andy Dixon and Harry Burton hitting 31 apiece, Steve Day taking a superb 5-14.
Burton's 3-24 had the villagers struggling at 55-4 when rain stopped play, Ian Johnson top-scoring with 26.
Seamer 2nds' hopes of stepping up were dashed when their home game against Flixton 3rds was washed out after only 7.3 overs with the visitors on 20-1.
Ryedale looked set to close in on victory on 88-4 chasing 130 to win at Muston when the weather halted their progress.
Veteran Dave Meer smashed a superb 50 and youngster Max Truelove 29 as the hosts posted 129-9, the Pickering side halted with the game well-poised after 20 overs of their run-chase.
Division Four champions Snainton capped a dominant season with a four-wicket home win against Sherburn 2nds despite an excellent 88 not out from Dan Simpson.
The latter took the away side to 166-9, but Michael Kipling smashed a powerful 68 and Liam Cooper as Snainton wrapped up the win.
Cayton 3rds finished their season with a tense 11-run win at Filey 2nds
The visitors were dismissed for 117, Nick Hodgson hitting 38 for the villagers.
Mike Johnson's 64 not out gave Filey a great chance but top bowling from J Smith (4-20) saw them finish short on 106 all out.
Lockton finished bottom of the table after conceding to Wold Newton 2nds. | http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/sport/local-sport/staithes-claim-title-as-rain-wrecks-beckett-league-programme-1-8092802 | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.whitbygazette.co.uk/96da79b30280fd7f1ab89fc907b916dc9359c7715da2d656e9a1bea0ab285b51.json |
[] | 2016-08-29T16:50:04 | null | 2016-08-29T16:00:00 | Post Office Ltd is proposing to restore Post Office services to the communities of Danby, Easington, Kildale, Lane End and Staithes, with the introduction of a mobile service to be operated by the Postmaster from Marske-by-the-Sea. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fpost-office-plans-to-launch-mobile-service-to-villages-1-8088094.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8088093.1472123765!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Post Office plans to launch mobile service to villages | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | Post Office Ltd is proposing to restore Post Office services to the communities of Danby, Easington, Kildale, Lane End and Staithes, with the introduction of a mobile service to be operated by the Postmaster from Marske-by-the-Sea.
Since the temporary closures of Danby, Easington, Kildale, Lane End and Staithes Post Office services, Post Office has been working hard to identify a solution to restore services to these local communities.
The establishment of a Mobile services presents the best possible solution to restore Post Office services to these communities.
Post Office is now inviting customers and interested parties to give their comments on the move in a six-week public consultation.
Should the proposal go ahead, the service would operate from a Post Office van that will visit the communities at a fixed place and times every week.
The proposed services are:
· Danby Mobile Post Office service, Danby Village Hall Car Park, Dale End, Danby, 2.45pm to 4.15pm Wednesday & 12.30pm to 2pm Friday.
· Easington Mobile Post Office service, Abingdon Road Shops, Easington, Saltburn-by-the-Sea, 9.15am to 10.15am Monday, Wednesday & Friday.
· Kildale Mobile Post Office service, Kildale Village Hall, 2.30pm to 3.30pm Friday.
· Lane End Mobile Post Office service, Staithes Athletic Club Car Park, Seaton Crescent, Staithes, 10.30am to noon Monday & Wednesday & 10.30am – 11.30am Friday
· Staithes Mobile Post Office service, Coach Parking Bay, Outside Gateway Centre, Whitegate Close, Staithes, 12.15pm to 1.45pm, Monday & 12.45pm – 2.15pm Wednesday.
Post Office Field Change Advisor Daniel Rooney, said: “We are confident this proposed mobile service will meet the needs of these local communities. ”
During the public consultation, Post Office Ltd welcomes feedback on any issues before a final decision is taken on this proposal.
The consultation will close on September 28. Customers can also share their views online through the quick and easy questionnaire at postofficeviews.co.uk
On entering the site you will be asked to enter the code for these services: Danby - 223337, Easington - 260327, Kildale - 231337, Lane End - 248327, Staithes - 258327.
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[] | 2016-08-26T13:10:39 | null | 2016-08-19T11:58:35 | Stephen Tarr will walk his bride down the aisle in Whitby today – the exact same time and day as he did in Whitby 16 years ago. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fwhitby-romantics-tying-the-knot-again-1-8078338.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8078335.1471604331!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Whitby romantics tying the knot again | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | Stephen Tarr will walk his bride down the aisle in Whitby today – the exact same time and day as he did in Whitby 16 years ago.
The couple are set to seal their own romance and their long-time love of Whitby when they get married at 10am at Whitby Registry Office ... just like they did at 10am on Friday August 19 in 2000.
They split up for a while later but remained friends and it was on a date to Whitby, while taking a stroll along the pier, that Stephen, 52, got down on one knee to ask 62-year-old Sue if she would be his wife again.
Both Stephen and Sue spent a lot of their time in Whitby during their younger years and as a couple, so with Whitby having a special place in the hearts of the pair, they were keen to get wed in Whitby, as they had the first time.
He told the Gazette: “I proposed the first time at 2am on August 19, 2000 at the end of the pier. This time I got down on one knee and said ‘will you marry me’ and she said ‘yes of course I will’.”
The day following Stephen’s proposal they rang Whitby Register Office and asked for the next available date and were both stunned with what they were told.
He said: “They said there was one day available in August and it was the 19th at 10am - the same time and date as last time and it was a Friday. I could not believe it, I would never have expected getting married again on the same day and time, it is unreal but I just love her to bits I really do.”
Being a traditionalist, Stephen won’t move back to the house he once shared with Sue in South Elmsall, near Pontefract until after the wedding and the newly-weds will be enjoying their post wedding celebrations in Whitby of course.
Sue, a seamstress, said she had always hoped they would get back together and still wore her wedding rings from before and had kept cards he had sent and photographs of them together.
The pair split due to the strain put on their marriage when Stephen, who was adopted, found his birth mother after 40 years of searching.
However, they had always stayed friends and Stephen would often pop into Sue’s shop to say hello or take her a Scotch egg. But it was a wood carving project Stephen had been working on that finally got them back together.
He had carved a bench with two hearts on, took it to her as a gift then asked if she wanted to go for a meal. Afterwards they spent an afternoon in York then arranged a trip to Whitby for later in the week which is where Stephen proposed.
Sue added: “I am still reeling from it. When we split up it was something he had to deal with and I knew I had to let him and until he did, he could not move on so I took a back seat.
“I have had friendships since but never anything more than that. He is an amazing guy and I have never met anyone like him.” | http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/news/local/whitby-romantics-tying-the-knot-again-1-8078338 | en | 2016-08-19T00:00:00 | www.whitbygazette.co.uk/99de4098c947d00d8b260db44d8c29399d8a34558661006236d4885d303e1099.json |
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] | 2016-08-27T08:48:37 | null | 2016-08-27T09:00:13 | IT WAS just fantastic for us to win at Scarborough this week and I thought our bowling display was as good as I have seen. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fandrew-gale-outstanding-display-against-notts-left-me-as-proud-as-punch-1-8091926.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8091925.1472242993!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Andrew Gale: Outstanding display against Notts left me as proud as punch | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | IT WAS just fantastic for us to win at Scarborough this week and I thought our bowling display was as good as I have seen.
Personally, it was obviously frustrating not being involved after the good work I had done at Old Trafford, I had started to feel like my old self back at the crease. But I was proud as punch for the lads at Scarborough, they put in a real performance against Nottinghamshire after being 60-6 on the first morning and to turn it around on a similar fashion that we did, it followed a similar path to the Durham game at Scarborough last year.
We actually mentioned it on the first morning and last year, we were 90-9 on the first morning and ended up winning in three days and we came through again.
We have played some good cricket at Scarborough over the years and I can only remember losing a couple of games in seven or eight years. We were outstanding again and are getting to the business end of the season and it is very tight at the top of the league.
Middlesex are playing some good cricket. But we have the experience of coming through what we have done for the last few years and if we keep the pressure on and keep doing what we do, we can get over the line and make it three in a row. I am confident that we can do it.
Azeem Rafiq and Andrew Hodd came good with the bat for us when we were in trouble. Hoddy has had a bit of stick throughout the season about his batting from a number of supporters and he came in and showed what he is about and rolled his sleeves up and stuck his chest out.
It is not always about stats; it is about making that match-winning contribution and that is exactly what he did. To get 95, in the circumstances, helps keep the pressure on, given how close the league table is.
Rafiq also showed his prowess. He has got a first-class hundred and I think he made that on debut and I also remember playing a game at Worcester around 2008 and he got a hundred there, but probably never kicked on from that.
It is his way to be aggressive and the situation suited him and probably the best thing to do was attack and that is what he did and it came off.
The bowlers finished it off and it was pleasing to see how ruthless we were. I have previously spoken in this column about missed opportunities in games and not being able to clean the tail up. But our bowlers were outstanding throughout and bowled the right lines and lengths which you need to do at Scarborough.
To be fair, the ‘blotter’ that came from Headingley did its job on the ground. I think it set off a few days ago and it was really slow on the A64, but we managed to get it to Scarborough!
Obviously, it was frustrating to miss out with a back injury. It happened last Saturday when I was in the gym in the morning and just twinged it when I was squatting. I was okay, but then I came and had a bit of treatment from the physio and he treated to loosen it off and it actually made it worse and it locked up and I couldn’t move on Monday.
I had a fitness test on Tuesday morning. I probably could have got through the game if it was just about batting, but I couldn’t have really moved in the field and would have been letting the lads down if I had tried to get through. It has improved a lot since and had we started the game yesterday, then I would have been good to go, really. But unless there is a blip over the weekend, I will be ready for the game at Hampshire next week.
There was at least good news with David Willey’s injury. Looking at it on Saturday night after the Twenty20, I thought he had bust his hand with the size of it and everything. It added up to him breaking his hand and being out for the rest of the season.
It is added bonus that he isn’t and fingers crossed that we can get him back to tomorrow’s semi-final. | http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/news/andrew-gale-outstanding-display-against-notts-left-me-as-proud-as-punch-1-8091926 | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | www.whitbygazette.co.uk/e7e9f891fa0bfb9bdb580f06528d176d3850ac988c8f1e24929c4d4f6495db41.json |
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] | 2016-08-26T13:10:58 | null | 2016-08-20T21:16:50 | Despite the dodgy forecast, rain didn’t stop play as Whitby Regatta got underway today. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fwhitby-regatta-1-8080336.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8080333.1471724184!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Whitby regatta | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | Despite the dodgy forecast, rain didn’t stop play as Whitby Regatta got underway today.
The main programme of events kicked off with the bonny baby and glamorous gran competition at the Royal Hotel, hosting the shows for the first time in years.
The overall bonny baby winner was six month old Martha Grace Pottas.
Dogs of all breeds, shapes and sizes barked it out at the dog show on Archery Green, just next to where a market was being held for the second time after a successful debut last year.
Also on the West Cliff were stunts, rides, birds of prey, children’s games and a display of cars and motorbikes.
Later in the afternoon, home-made rafts took to the water for the race which this year was won by the Welcome to Yorkshire team. It was followed by the sail past of vessels from Whitby Yacht Club and Whitby’s lifeboat crew.
The highlight of the day, which despite driving rain didn’t deter entrants was the greasy pole competition which is now a firm favourite in the programme after neing re-added three years ago.
After several attempts the winner was Whitby lad Adam Steele.
Rowing races also fared better than expected due to the weather forecast with only two so far having to be re-arranged. | http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/news/local/whitby-regatta-1-8080336 | en | 2016-08-20T00:00:00 | www.whitbygazette.co.uk/464475c09c680a482b4f8027bfb55c63d6369b452207f02db6935ee62a837061.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T13:13:04 | null | 2016-07-30T08:00:00 | Whitby-built boat Resilient was put through its paces in sea trials last Friday night. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Ffeatures%2Ffishing%2Fsea-trials-for-resilient-1-8035050.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8035049.1469547886!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Sea trials for Resilient | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | The types of cookies we, our ad network and technology partners use are listed below:
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] | 2016-08-29T08:49:37 | null | 2016-08-29T09:39:35 | A last-gasp goal from new signing Luke Bythway earned Whitby Town a share of the points at Hednesford Town, on Saturday. | http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitbygazette.co.uk%2Fsport%2Flocal-sport%2Funbeaten-blues-earn-injury-time-point-1-8093976.json | http://res.cloudinary.com/jpress/image/fetch/w_300,f_auto,ar_3:2,c_fill/http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/webimage/1.8093980.1472460249!/image/image.jpg | en | null | Unbeaten Blues earn injury-time point | null | null | www.whitbygazette.co.uk | A last-gasp goal from new signing Luke Bythway earned Whitby Town a share of the points at Hednesford Town, on Saturday.
Boss Chris Hardy made one change, with last season’s runaway top scorer Mikey Roberts replaced by ex-Middlesbrough star Cameron Park, as the Seasiders packed the midfield with Matty Tymon their lone striker and this season’s leading marksman, Dale Hopson, appearing to be afforded a free role.
Hednesford are tipped by many to challenge at the business end of the Northern Premier League and they threatened within seconds of kick-off. It was Tristian Dunkley who sped forward and grazed the crossbar with a rising effort from distance.
Shane Bland then held at the second attempt, from the same player, at the near post.
For Whitby, Park released Callum Martin down the right and he crossed to the far post for Hopson to head onto the roof of the net.
On eight minutes, Sean Geddes, one of Hednesford’s summer signings, from Stourbridge, forced Bland to clutch low down with a 16-yard shot.
The hosts, relegated from the Conference North in April, came close again on 13 minutes when Cohen Brammall crossed from the left for Ashley Sammons to power a seven-yard header wide.
Dunkley slipped a low drive past Bland’s left-hand post from the edge of the box before the men in white created their best opening yet, midway through the first half.
A deep right-wing cross found a completely unmarked Tom Thorley who sent a looping header goalwards, forcing Jamie Poole to nod off his own goal-line and Bland saved spectacularly point-blank from Sammons’ follow-up.
George Carline headed straight at Bland before a frenetic last five minutes of the half.
First, Sammons sidefooted an angled, 18-yard shot across Bland and against the foot of the ex-Middlesbrough keeper’s right-hand post.
Adam Gell instinctively passed the rebound back to Kieran Weledji, with the ball bouncing off the defender and another shot being charged down as a result.
Seconds later, at the other end, Dan Crane smothered Hopson’s awkward skidding effort, then play flew back to the Whitby box where Bland saved with his legs from Brammall’s left-wing near post drive.
The Blues broke quickly and Tymon brilliantly released Dan McWilliams, Brammall’s opposite number, to bring a good block with his legs, from Crane, one-on-one, on the edge of the Hednesford penalty area. Soon after, Bland tipped away Sammons’ shot from distance, on the break.
Hardy introduced attacking midfielder Curtis Round, in place of Gell, at half-time, with skipper Steven Snaith dropping a little deeper to compensate.
Five minutes into the restart, Sammons came close from 18 yards, then soon after, Martin overlapped down the right and crossed for the stretching Hopson to turn just wide.
On 57 minutes, Carline’s bicycle kick, across the face of goal, from a right-wing corner, was well watched by Bland as it passed his left-hand post.
Whitby remained a threat and may well have led themselves on the hour when Martin cut in off the right and fed Round whose deflected low shot looped up over Crane and struck the crossbar.
Bythway replaced Park on 65 minutes, adding physical presence in behind Tymon, but it was Hednesford who remained on the attack.
Only a last ditch Poole tackle denied Sammons, with the big Blues defender then furiously remonstrating towards the linesman for keeping his flag down against two home players following a neat, chipped ball into the box.
Just after seeing defender James Mutton force into the Whitby net, only for a foul to be given, against the Pitmen in the build-up, home boss Liam McDonald swapped his strike pairing for another as Joel Logan and Gurjit Singh replaced Sammons and Dunkley.
Carline’s first-time shot from the edge of the Blues’ box went narrowly over, before Hopson fed Bythway, who mimicked Carline’s effort with a rising crack at goal.
The breakthrough then arrived, with 82 minutes on the clock. Carline squared from the right for Logan to sidestep two challenges just inside the Blues penalty area, before slotting into the bottom-right corner of the net.
Singh then had an opportunity, from similar range, within seconds, but scuffed low past Bland’s right-hand post.
Hardy threw Roberts on for Hopson and it looked to have paid dividends when the nippy frontman was released by Round and beat Crane with an angled shot from the right edge of the home box, only for the ball to clip the experienced keeper’s right-hand post.
Whitby never gave up though and midway through four minutes of injury time got their reward when a ball from the right was laid off by Roberts for Bythway to steer through a crowded six yard box and low past Crane for his first Blues goal.
Whitby Town FC: Bland, Martin, McWilliams, Weledji, Poole, May, Gell (Round 46), Hopson (Roberts 86), Park (Bythway 65), Tymon, Snaith. Subs not used: Hume, Dawson (GK).
Attendance: 387
Man of the match: Shane Bland- outstanding saves late in the first half combined with brave keeping from crosses kept the score blank at the break. | http://www.whitbygazette.co.uk/sport/local-sport/unbeaten-blues-earn-injury-time-point-1-8093976 | en | 2016-08-29T00:00:00 | www.whitbygazette.co.uk/a4aa7428fa9b25928b9f6fcf6d08421579e54e4edddbcda0b1f8e0c7c20d5b3d.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:50:16 | null | null | null | http%3A%2F%2Flagacetanewspaper.com%2Fcharter-school-explosion-on-the-fringe-of-legal-part-7-of-7%2F.json | http://lagacetanewspaper.com/charter-school-explosion-on-the-fringe-of-legal-part-7-of-7/ | en | null | La Gaceta Newspaper | null | null | lagacetanewspaper.com | By Patricia W. Hall
This is the last of our series of seven articles regarding Charter schools and their changing relationship to our community.
As we complete the series of seven articles in La Gaceta today, the study of charter schools by the League of Women Voters of Florida gives direction regarding education principles. Public education is required by the Florida Constitution and recognized as a paramount duty of the state. The constitution establishes local school boards who are accountable to the electorate and are audited for compliance to statute and rule. They should be the sole agency with authority to contract with charter schools to complement the public school system within a district. They should have oversight and enforcement authority and be held responsible for meeting the needs of the students residing within their districts.
Based on extensive research throughout the state with the nearly 17-year history of charter schools in Hillsborough County and the state of Florida, and even longer history elsewhere in the United States, we make the following recommendations:
OVERSIGHT
An Office of Charter Schools at the state level to monitor performance and effectiveness of charters and their authorizers must be funded. With 578 charters as of September, 2013, this office must be adequately staffed with one staff member for every 10 charters.
• The office must have statutory responsibility, authority and resources to investigate fraud, waste, mismanagement and misconduct. The Florida Inspector General Act of 1994 put a watchdog in every state agency. From the website, inspectors have the duty to “promote economy, efficiency, and effectiveness in state government and detect, deter and prevent fraud, waste and abuse.”
• The office should have authority to withhold funds as necessary.
• The office should have power to adjust charter grants, renewal contracts and the like if charter entities are found to be in violation of state or federal laws.
• The office should have power to revoke the authority of charter authorizers.
• Independent audits should be required annually; available online on charter schools’ websites. The audit template must be adequate for comparison and analysis, identifying facilities’ ownership and management contractors.
TRANSPARENCY
No longer can we have the blurred lines of “public” when it suits us and “private” when we don’t disclose!
• Declare that charters are public schools; subject to the same nondiscrimination and transparency requirements as traditional public schools.
• Publicize the original application and charter agreement to the public online.
• List members of the board of directors, officers and administrators with affiliations and contact information on the website.
• Require that board members, administrators and employees, as well as public officials, file financial disclosure reports, report conflicts of interest, relationships with management companies or other business dealings with the school much like members of public boards.
• Require quarterly minutes and advance notice of governing board meetings, information about staff members and school policies, etc., on school website.
• Require full compliance with state open-meetings/open-records laws, resulting in swift action if noncompliant.
• Financial documents must be available annually, detailing use of public and private funds by the school and management entities. Full disclosure required of sources of private funds, duration of leases and mortgage payments/and satisfaction thereof.
• Require disclosure of vendor and service contracts over $25,000 and prohibit contracts with anyone who constitutes a conflict of interest with members of the governing board.
• Legislators serving on education or appropriation committees must recuse themselves on votes related to charter school finance if they or family members have financial interests in charter schools.
GOVERNANCE
Governance means who is in charge of the day-to-day operation of the school. This has been a particularly thorny topic in Hillsborough County with the proliferation of charter-management interests in the last few years.
• Require charter school governing boards to include representatives of parents, teachers and students (if charter is a high school). Others on the governing board must be residents of the community/school district so they can be answerable to parents.
• Require board members to live in close geographic proximity to the school site/community.
• Members of the board should be held legally liable for fraud and malfeasance occurring at the school.
• Administrators and board members of all public schools, including charters, must not supervise or determine the compensation of family members.
• Just as public schools do, state guidelines must be followed for all reporting issues, including submission of monthly student-enrollment numbers.
ACCOUNTABILITY
• Teachers and administrators, including principals, must meet certifications and qualifications at the same level as all other public school instructors and administrators.
• Professional qualifications or standards for charter operators and officers must include insurance bonds of the sort to prevent theft of resources.
• All schools, even small ones, receiving state funds must report state assessment test scores and receive some indicator of student achievement levels. Graduation rates for high school students must be reported.
• All public schools, including charter schools, must report teacher and student retention.
• Charter school admissions and dismissal policies and procedures should be supervised by district staff to ensure they conform to state guidelines.
• Charter schools that educate students requiring ESE (Exceptional Student Education) must hire appropriately certified full- or part-time instructors before applying for additional funding for the services.
Many of the above-mentioned recommendations were adapted from the Department of Education’s Office of the Inspector General’s (OIG) Semiannual Report to Congress, No. 60 with a subsection titled Charter School Vulnerabilities to Waste, Fraud, and Abuse. This examination of fifteen states with large numbers of charter schools found fraud, waste and abuse cases totaling over $136 million in losses to taxpayers. The voluminous examples cited by the OIG’s report are beyond staggering! Yes, Florida is one of the top five states with hundreds of charter schools!
Sen. Bill Montford (D), former Leon County Superintendent of Schools, wants to see charter schools held to the same levels of accountability as other schools in the state. “The taxpayer deserves to make sure that tax dollars are well spent.” A retired teacher from Hillsborough County Public Schools now teaching in a small charter school said, “If you are doing nothing wrong, you should have nothing to hide!” Thank you to Tom Gonzalez, attorney for the Hillsborough County School District, and Jenna Hodgens, director of charter schools, for holding charter operators’ feet to the fire in Hillsborough County!
The ties between high-powered lobbyists, flush PACs and politicians seem to underlie every mission of the so-called “school choice” agenda. Jon Hage, CEO of Charter Schools USA with 58 schools in 7 states, served as advisor to Jeb Bush and writer of the initial law authorizing charter schools in Florida. Jon Hage profits from these laws and has lobbied extensively – giving $50,000 to Gov. Rick Scott last September and another $50,000 to the Republican Party of Florida. Does this $100,000 come from our tax dollars paid to his charter schools?
The League of Women Voters’ research indicates that if a charter school is not incubating innovative methods of teaching or taking calculated risks to improve and collaborate with traditional public schools WE DON’T NEED THEM! Charters “cherry-pick” higher-scoring students and get rid of those who don’t help school grades. They are draining huge resources from K-12 budgets. School grades show that there is little difference in academic performance by students attending charter schools vs. traditional public schools except for slightly higher reading scores for African American children from poor communities. Both systems have students who do well and those who do not. Parents are looking for a school that helps their children succeed!
According to the OIG report, there have been more than 20 years of lax charter oversight nationally, with the result that fraud and mismanagement have proliferated. That is “all the proof we need that the charter industry is incapable of self-policing.” While some charter organizations are well managed and accountable to authorizers, parents, students and their communities, clearly others are not, as referenced in previous articles in this series. “The public deserves common-sense laws that protect their children and their tax dollars from incompetent or unscrupulous charter operators.”
Will November 4th finally be the day state legislators and officials pay a political price for their charter school fetish? | http://lagacetanewspaper.com/charter-school-explosion-on-the-fringe-of-legal-part-7-of-7/ | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | lagacetanewspaper.com/c79b7086e95a15ac75b977d64aa7017bbfa112c49899fd362e98b9a6bfb29d80.json |
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By: William March
Printed May 29, 2015
England, says Joan Rixom, “is a small island.”
When she was growing up in Newcastle, a mining and shipbuilding town in the northeast of England, the island seemed to offer limited opportunity for young people.
Elderly people and neglected kids in Tampa can be grateful she felt that way.
It’s the reason Rixom ended up in Tampa, where she has become one of the foremost workers in two crucial programs that depend solely on volunteers to help some of the most vulnerable people in society.
Rixom has put her career skills as a nurse and nurse educator to work as a “long-term care ombudsman,” one of a corps of volunteers who check to make sure nursing homes and other long-term care facilities are taking proper care of their residents.
Without them, many nursing home residents who lack attentive family members would have no independent person checking on their welfare.
She’s also a volunteer in the state guardian ad litem program, which provides court advocates for children who are under state supervision because of family abuse or neglect.
The guardians are needed because in a typical case involving child abuse, neglect, foster care or state custody, the state agency and the parents may have lawyers, but there’s no one in the legal system whose sole job is to speak for the welfare of the child.
Last month, the state Department of Elder Affairs announced that after eight years in the long-term care program, Rixom had been named Ombudsman of the Year.
“All should admire her stamina and commitment to others,” said Lynn Penley, manager of the program for West Central Florida.
Rixom, 77, and her husband Roger live part time in Apollo Beach and part time in one of several houses they’ve renovated in Ybor City. Both are retired after long careers.
Today, she devotes around 20 hours a week to her demanding volunteer tasks, which involve a lot of driving, walking and working with bureaucrats, at an age when most people think mostly about taking it easy.
She doesn’t seem eager to talk about her motivations or feelings about the work.
When she retired, she said, she realized that if she weren’t volunteering, “I’d have to do housework.”
“I’m not good at it, and I don’t like doing things I’m not good at.”
But in a conversation in their tiny 5th Avenue house, both speaking in accents from their native England, Roger is a bit more forthcoming.
“She’s always been a carekeeper of some kind, from when she was growing up with a younger sibling to raising children to being a nurse,” he said.
“I feel immense pride in what she’s done, but I’m not surprised.”
Rixom was born just before the outbreak of World War II, to a father who was a blue-collar worker in Newcastle’s mining and shipbuilding industries and a mother who worked occasionally as a maid.
Like many English children, she didn’t see much of her father until the war was over – he was in the army, mostly in Europe. She started helping take care of her younger brother at an early age.
She knew from early in life that she would be a nurse.
“I don’t remember ever giving a thought to why or how,” she said. “I just knew it was what I wanted. I was one of the lucky ones who knew what I wanted to do.”
She got married young, at least by today’s standards, and not long after she started her nursing career in England, she and her husband moved to Toronto, where he found better job opportunities.
They ended up in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, where she trained for a specialty as an intensive care nurse, and then moved into nursing education. Eventually she became director of a three-year “diploma program” for training nurses, now phased out and replaced by bachelor’s degree programs.
She and her husband then moved to Atlanta, where she headed a hospital’s continuing-education department for nurses.
That’s also where her first marriage ended, and she met Roger, another émigré Brit and a member of a circle of friends with connections to the old country.
He had had an even more cosmopolitan career, working for the chemical company Unilever in Liverpool, South Africa and Germany.
He’s the same age as the world’s most famous Liverpudlian, as they’re called, Paul McCartney.
“No, I never met him,” he says without being asked when a reporter mentions the Beatles, and managed to miss to grow up without ever even hearing the Beatles play in their hometown – it’s a big town.
Joan and Roger have now been married for 28 years, have five children from their previous marriages and a dozen grandkids – “a wonderful blended family” who all enjoy each other’s company, she said.
Her ombudsman work involves visiting facilities where her clients live to check on complaints by residents or their families. Her caseload includes 15 local facilities.
As a guardian ad litem, she handles the cases of six children.
As a veteran and unusually skilled volunteer, she’s also a field trainer for other new volunteers.
“We find out if the residents are satisfied with the care they’re getting, that they’re being treated well, they’re in a secure area, they’re happy with the meals they get,” she said.
The complaints often involve cleanliness, lack of privacy, food or finances. Ombudsmen also check on such issues as discharges and evictions and medication administration.
In some cases, an ombudsman must get permission from the state to initiate an investigation, which can involve questioning staff and checking records. It’s not like a law enforcement investigation – ombudsmen don’t have subpoena power and depend on cooperation from the administration of the home.
“We try to work cooperatively with the administration,” she said. “For the most part they work cooperatively because they also want their residents to be happy.”
In rare cases – it’s happened to Rixom only once in eight years – when the ombudsman doesn’t get the necessary cooperation or results, they can refer the matter to the state Agency for Health Care Administration, which regulates and licenses long-term care facilities with the force of law.
The ombudsman program is run by the state Department of Elder Affairs, which recognized Rixom as ombudsman of the year.
According to its figures, there are 321 volunteers statewide in the program, who completed 6,077 facility assessments, traveling more than 360,000 miles to do so, and worked an estimated 91,790 unpaid hours.
If that sounds like a lot, there are 679 nursing homes in Florida with 83,129 beds and about 73,000 residents, plus 3,042 licensed assisted living facilities with 85,000 beds, according to the Florida Health Care Association, a trade group.
Nearly 60 percent of those residents don’t receive visits from family members and friends, according to the Department of Elder Affairs web site.
“It’s shocking,” Rixom said. “It’s like they were dumped.”
The need for more volunteers, she said, is always pressing – “People burn out, or move away.”
She got into the work, she said, because, “We saw an advert.”
“I tried it and liked it. I could use my background. It’s very rewarding.
The need for volunteers is so great, and the rewards so satisfying, that retiree volunteers like Rixom tend to want to remain in the job for a long time.
Occasionally, a volunteer will try to work too long, she said, and the director of the program will have to “ease them out.”
How long does she want to remain?
“That’s a good question,” she responded. “The best answer is, as long as I’m capable of doing a good job. I want somebody to tell me if I’m not.”
Rixom discusses her work professionally, giving concise, direct answers to questions. Even at 77, she’s clearly a long way from being eased out.
“That’s why I usually don’t discuss my age.” | http://lagacetanewspaper.com/rixom/ | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | lagacetanewspaper.com/43dedcd0fa6068b7823570a846ea35ff6c22dbdabe9b0240e943b5f43f217669.json |
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Originally appeared in the July 15, 2016 edition of La Gaceta Newspaper
It’s not often that a business survives 100 years. It’s even less likely that a company with such vast history will remain in the hands of a single family the entire time.
This is part of what makes the story of Ybor City’s La Segunda Bakery, which celebrated its centennial anniversary last year, so amazing.
“I’ve read about this. I’ve heard that the third generation is the one that usually fails,” said Copeland Moré, the fourth-generation owner of the bakery known for its authentic Cuban bread. “So I have to give a lot of credit to my dad, [Tony,] and his cousin, [Raymond.] They were really just hard workers. There’s really no other way to put it.”
Copeland said the driving force that has kept the family bakery in business is a shared passion for the bread that has continued from generation to generation. Even today, his father, who is now 74 and co-owns La Segunda, comes into work every morning and often puts in a full work day. “He loves it. He doesn’t ever want to retire. He doesn’t want to just go home and lay around, just sit there,” Copeland said. “He wants to stay active and be involved in the business.”
Copeland added, “And there’s part of that in me too. I love it. I love talking about it. That’s how the business carries on and becomes a family legacy.”
La Segunda was founded by Copeland’s great-grandfather, Juan Moré. Hailing from Spain’s Catalan region, he traveled to Cuba to fight in the Spanish-American War in the late 19th century. This was where he fell in love with authentic Cuban bread and learned how to make it himself.
After the war, like many others, he was drawn to Ybor City during its cigar boom, with one goal in mind: opening a bakery. At the onset of World War I, he joined a small baking cooperative that opened three bakeries: La Primera, La Segunda and La Tercera. When the other two folded, Juan purchased La Segunda in 1915. He made a name for himself supplying local restaurants, such as the Columbia, with bread, and residents of the district knew La Segunda was where they could purchase authentic Cuban bread.
Over the years, the business passed on to other family members, first to Copeland’s grandfather, and then to his father and his father’s cousin. It was Tony and Raymond who started the company’s wholesale operations in the mid-1990s.
The Columbia Restaurant Group began making its wholesale food purchases through food distributor Sysco. When the Columbia made the change, they told Sysco: “We need La Segunda bread.” So Tony and Raymond figured out a way to freeze and ship the bread, which opened up opportunities to get their product to new customers.
Meanwhile, Copeland, who worked in the bakery as a child and teenager, doing everything from delivering bread to packing cookie boxes, never thought he’d enter the family business. “I grew up in the bakery,” he said. “It was always a big part of our family … But I never thought I’d run it one day.”
His father never pressured him to feel like he had to enter the family business and instead encouraged Copeland to pursue his own interests. His father had a PhD in chemistry, teaching for a while and even had an offer with a chemical company. But his father felt compelled to take over La Segunda. “It was a business that I don’t think my dad really wanted me to be exposed to,” Copeland said. “He was there long hours. We are open 24 hours a day.”
After graduating from Berkeley Preparatory School, Copeland headed to Ohio, where he studied business at Miami University. He returned to Tampa and began working at his friend’s company, Franklin Street Financial, a real estate financing company. Then the real estate bubble burst in 2008. The company hung out – and today is doing well, Copeland said – but he began to rethink what he wanted to do for a living.
At the time, Raymond was ready to retire from La Segunda. So Copeland decided to step up and become co-owner of the family business. “The opportunity happened really organically,” he said. “I weighed all the options, looked at the numbers, met with everyone and made a decision. It was a big opportunity. I felt we had a great brand and a great product.”
He also saw the chance to modernize the company, a bit, while retaining its old-world charm that is such a draw for customers. The first thing he did was build a website for La Segunda.
Next, the father-son team looked to rebrand the company. “If you say ‘La Segunda’ to people, they’re like, ‘Oh yeah, great bread,’ but they don’t come here,” Copeland said. “They know our bread from the Columbia and other local restaurants.”
There had always been a large divide between La Segunda’s wholesale business and its café business, where they sold bread, sandwiches, pastries and coffee. So they looked to improve the café side of the business. “It was just about rebranding it a little bit so people were aware of it being a destination and show them that it’s a different concept than Panera Bread or wherever else you might get a sandwich,” Copeland said.
They renovated the building, making it more trendy and appealing, while still offering an old-school feel of a century-old business. “I feel the most important part of marketing is making sure the internal stuff looks good and is functioning,” he said.
He also brought in a digital register, allowing the café to accept credit cards for the first time. He also focused on customer service. “We wanted people to come in and feel like they’re part of the family and also get served quickly,” he said. While the café doesn’t offer seating, “we want people to come in and out fast without being rushed. We want families to see what an old-world bakery is like and take their time. But once they make their decision, we get them out fast.”
Café sales improved drastically with the changes. Though wholesale sales still make up the bulk of La Segunda’s business – wholesale accounts for 75 percent of all business for the bakery – café sales tripled, Copeland said.
He also brought a pair of fresh eyes to the wholesale end of the business. His father and cousin had done a great deal to grow that side of the company. But as La Segunda began to provide bread to national chains – World of Beer, Beef ‘O’ Brady’s, Larry’s Giant Subs – Copeland saw an opportunity. “We market towards the markets that already have distribution established” thanks to these chains, he said. “We have sales reps that really hammer those markets and work on expanding our distribution.”
Today, La Segunda Cuban bread is used by restaurants from Seattle to Texas and throughout the East Coast, he added. As the Cuban sandwich gains popularity throughout the country, more and more restaurants are offering it on their menu. “But they put it on hoagie bread of Italian bread because they don’t know any better,” Copeland said. “They don’t know that they can get handmade Ybor City bread. Now we can get it to them.”
Despite the growth and changes, La Segunda retains its family feel, Copeland said. Many employees have worked for the bakery for decades. Sheila, who works up front, has been with the company for 44 years. Many of the master bakers have worked for the bakery for 20 or 30 years. “We’re fortunate a lot of the staff has stayed with us,” Copeland said. “Making Cuban bread way we make it is difficult. There’s no air conditioning in the back of bakery. So they’re really at the mercy of the elements and the weather. Being able to adjust and know this flour is different from that flour and today there’s more humidity and it’s hotter out and making all those adjustments takes years and years of experience of working with the dough and touching the dough. Without those guys there wouldn’t be Cuban bread the way people taste it.”
Copeland has also become involved with the Ybor City Chamber of Commerce. In May, he was inducted as chair of the chamber board. He started out as a board member five years ago, before becoming treasurer and then incoming chair.
He has a big year planned for the chamber. He plans to create a small business council, which would offer resources and information to small business owners. “I feel like what a chamber should be to a district is to really help small businesses and I think it’s something we’ve lost focus on a little bit over the years,” he said.
He added, “Big businesses move in and the government gives them tax incentives, and this and that, and small businesses don’t really get anything. We want to help them get into business and stay successful.”
The chamber will also rebrand some of its seminal events to make them more family friendly. “We want Ybor City to be thought of as family friendly and not just night clubs and bars and a part district,” Copeland said. “There’s a lot of history here and people should know about it.”
He added, “It’s an important organization for me and our family, so I definitely want to give back. It’s important to give back to the district that has done so much for us over the years.” | http://lagacetanewspaper.com/more/ | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | lagacetanewspaper.com/d5371fb09163c9d02b0a2f692a8c05726a163966dd4865bcfb62c7499fe9ebcb.json |
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by: Tiffany Razzano
Father Carlos Rojas
In his late teens, Father Carlos Rojas found divine inspiration in the most unlikely place: the movie “Braveheart.”
More specifically, this inspiration originated from the film’s tagline: “Every man dies. Not every man really lives.” Every time he glanced at the DVD box, the words seemed to jump off the packaging to speak directly to him.
“This was really the start of my own personal, spiritual journey,” said Rojas, now 38. “I was living in this world, but I was longing for something more. I was looking for something that would help me feel less empty and wanting more.”
The phrase didn’t leave his mind and forced him to think about his own path.
“I wanted to do something I could do the rest of my life and not just make money, but be happy and fulfilled with it,” he said. “Because of that movie I kept asking myself, what’s going to be that thing that I do with the rest of my life so that I live life to the fullest? Little by little, I landed on priesthood.”
He’d grown up in a Catholic household in Puerto Rico. His father was a deacon at their church and he attended Mass on a regular basis.
“So I was raised in a Catholic environment,” he said. “It was very sheltered in many ways.”
At 15, his family relocated to Tampa and he was enrolled at Chamberlain High School. This was an eye-opening experience for Rojas.
“I came to the United States from this little island and things were huge to me,” he said. “I was learning about different cultures and people for the first time.”
He graduated from high school in the mid-1990s and attended the University of South Florida.
But he was uncertain about what he wanted to do with this life, and switched majors several times.
He loved the social aspect of college though. He joined the fraternity Sigma Lambda Beta, becoming president of the group, and also became involved with student government on campus.
In the evenings he taught Latin dance in Ybor City, merengue and salsa, enjoying the nightlife as many of the local college students do.
During college, Rojas also rarely went to Mass. “If I went five times that would be a lot,” he said.
He added, “It’s not the typical setting for a guy who was called to priesthood. But it was during my college years that I felt the Lord calling me. Through his gentle persistence, he eventually reached me.”
In 1998, he began attending St. John Vianney College Seminary in Miami.
“I felt the calling,” he said.
There he finished his bachelor’s degree in philosophy. Because of the credits he’d already accrued at USF, he could have finished the degree in just under two years. But he enjoyed the environment so much that he dragged it out an extra year to write a 50-page thesis about Michelangelo’s “The Creation of Adam.”
It wasn’t all about academics for him, the pull was about spiritual fellowship as well.
“It’s a place where men come together wanting to learn how to serve God,” Rojas said.
From there he headed to St. Vincent de Paul Regional Seminary in Boynton Beach. There he earned two masters degrees, one in divinity, the other in the arts.
On May 20, 2006, he was ordained a priest.
His first assignment was to St. Clement Catholic Church in Plant City. Its members were predominantly Mexican migrant farm workers.
“It was a whole different world,” he said. “I learned about their life and the injustices they suffer.” He even spent two weeks living in a migrant camp.
“I tried to pick strawberries,” Rojas said. “I lasted 35 minutes. I’m pretty athletic and I don’t know how they do it. I guess they do it out of the love they have for their families and their willingness to make sacrifices for them.”
He remained at St. Clement for four years. During that time, he helped to transform the church’s annual celebration of the Festival of Our Lady of Guadalupe into a large-scale community event.
He was instrumental in moving the festival from the church to the Plant City Stadium, where they held a 5 a.m. mass on the feast day, Dec. 12, with a full mariachi band, and also brought in vendors and carnival rides.
Nearly 5,000 people attended the event that first year.
“It had a pretty powerful impact on the people,” Rojas said.
He spent a year at Our Lady of the Rosary in Land O’Lakes before being called up to serve Nativity Catholic Church in Brandon, the largest church in the diocese, where he spent two years.
From there, he was abruptly called up to serve the migrant community again, this time at the Our Lady of Guadalupe Mission in Wimauma.
He was brought in not long after the pastor, who had previously served the church, was injured in a Sun City bicycling accident.
“He went flying over the handles,” Rojas said. “He hit the concrete head first. It was a mess.”
The priest survived, which Rojas “attribute[s] to the prayers of the people. But he was in no position to lead the mission and do the work a pastor needs to do.”
So Rojas took over the church leadership. During the Lenten season, he led a campaign where parishioners spruced up the church – painting the building, installing new signage, planting flowers and foliage.
“It looks so beautiful now,” he said. “It was quite the masterpiece.”
By then, he’d become known as “the troubleshooter of the diocese.”
So one year ago, he was called in to lead St. Joseph Catholic Church in West Tampa.
Rojas had his work cut out for him. He was called to take over for Father Vladimir Dziadek, who hanged himself last May after being confronted about embezzling church funds.
It would be a tough job. “To be a parish and to have gone through the scandals and challenges they have gone through, of course their spirit was broken,” he said.
He organized a similar program to the one he spearheaded in Wimauma and rallied parishioners during the Lenten season to clean up the church grounds.
But he looked for other ways to bring the parish community together. From the beginning, he noted the diverse cultures represented at St. Joseph. When a group asked to celebrate the feast day for Our Lady Madonna de la Rocha – the patron saint of Italians, he agreed.
Rojas added, “It was a hit. It was just amazing. There were a lot of Italians who hadn’t been to church in a long time who came out to church that day.”
It snowballed from there.
Since then, aside from the Easter season and the Feast of St. Joseph, each month the church has recognized a feast day celebrated by a different cultural or ethnic group – Cubans, Guatemalans, Puerto Ricans.
Even during its annual March Feast, these different groups set up booths serving their native foods and celebrating their cultures.
“We have a place where cultures and religion are celebrated and supported,” Rojas said. “[The March carnival] highlighted not just the beauty of each culture, but our unity as a community.”
On July 19, the Colombian culture will be celebrated at the 11:30 a.m. Spanish Mass. Costa Ricans will celebrate their patron saint on Aug. 2, while Bolivians get center stage on Aug. 3.
Incredibly, because of this, he’s watched his parishioners rally together to overcome “their grief, sorrow and pain.”
“We’re good,” Rojas said. “We’re moving forward. Christ has not abandoned us.” | http://lagacetanewspaper.com/rojas/ | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | lagacetanewspaper.com/4ecfd230ea976e55db6742c2b3d7c243f41c3ac4249bbd003ab2ae5d13fb54ff.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:50:50 | null | null | null | http%3A%2F%2Flagacetanewspaper.com%2Fcharter-school-explosion-accountable-to-whompart-6-of-7%2F.json | http://lagacetanewspaper.com/charter-school-explosion-accountable-to-whompart-6-of-7/ | en | null | La Gaceta Newspaper | null | null | lagacetanewspaper.com | By Patricia W. Hall
This is the sixth in a series of seven articles regarding Charter schools and their changing relationship to our community.
The scariest thing about the charter school industry is the move toward for-profit management, possible influence peddling in Florida government and the lack of transparency. The “Wild West” business model doesn’t work for education. Ample warnings exist in large cities like New Orleans, Chicago and Philadelphia about where this privatization issue is headed. The issues of profit are trumping the public good. Recently at the National Convention of the League of Women Voters (LWV) of the United States, I met the president of the Louisiana LWV. Shocking as this sounds, by September of 2014, ALL public schools in New Orleans will be charter schools!
Charter schools began as experiments in public education, proposed and run by a group of dedicated parents, educators and community representatives who promised to make the children the beneficiaries of their innovations. In exchange for this promise, the authorizing school district would provide loose oversight. The arrangement was a partnership based on trust. But, increasingly the promise has been broken, and as a recent Sun Sentinel article (June 18, 2014) said, a growing number of charter school operators in Florida are going “unsupervised,” and as a result, the quality of the education children receive suffers.
At the charter school level, many of the boards of directors are unprepared for the complexities of school administration and either fail or hire a for-profit management company to handle administrative tasks. In some cases, the for-profit company creates its own board with little or no local representation … no teachers, no parents … and in the case of Charter Schools USA, often holds its very infrequent board meetings hundreds of miles from the local schools it represents. Charters are only granted to nonprofit boards of directors representing “public charter schools.” Ken Haiko is the board chair for 36 of those nonprofit school boards representing 36 individual charter schools throughout the state, which are managed by Charter Schools USA. These are all unpaid, volunteer positions; when does he have time to earn a living?
Multiple cases have been documented of principals and administrators with lavish six-figure salaries and fraudulent expenses. As we have reported previously, charter and traditional public school teachers are required to be certified in Florida but principals have no such requirements, resulting in unqualified and inept administration at some charter locations. At best, taxpayer dollars are being siphoned off to pay huge management and leasing fees and at worst our hard-earned dollars go into the pockets of unscrupulous managers. Unless charter schools are doing a better job of educating children than traditional schools, there is no reason to have them! “This isn’t just a regular business. This isn’t a restaurant that you just open up, you serve your food, people don’t like it, you close it and move on,” said Krystal Castellano, a former teacher at the now-closed Next Generation Charter School in Lauderdale Lakes. “This is education; this is students getting left in the middle of the year without a school to go to.” In Hillsborough County we had 2,601 “YOYO” children representing 19 percent of the charter population who went to charter schools and then returned to traditional schools within the last year.
At the district level, there are few controls due to Florida laws aimed more at promoting the schools than policing them. Due to actions of the current Legislature and governor, there is still less per pupil funding in the 2014-15 education budget than in 2007. As a result, the staff providing oversight is pinched. In Hillsborough County an additional supervisor, Jeremy Klein, was needed to assist Jenna Hodgens, director of charter schools, with the myriad of details in charter school oversight. Compared to other states, it is comparatively easy to open a charter school in Florida. While the application is detailed, there are no criminal, financial or educational background checks. This topic will be addressed in our last article next week. Because of this laxity the result is that charters open, get taxpayer dollars and close, and school districts cannot recoup the funds. The Sun Sentinel article revealed that in South Florida a “man named Trayvon Mitchell of Oakland Park received $450,000 in tax dollars to open two new Ivy Academies, just months after his first school collapsed. The schools shuttled students among more than four locations in Broward County, including a public park, an event hall and two churches.” Teachers had school supplies in the trunks of their cars awaiting early morning calls to know where to meet their students! Both schools closed in seven weeks.
This accountability mess ultimately rests with the Florida Legislature who passed the charter school friendly laws drafted at the request of Jeb Bush by Jon Hage, now CEO of Charter Schools USA. A number of Florida legislators have profited from their various connections to charter schools. Miami Rep. Erik Fresen (R), chairman of the Education Appropriations Subcommittee for 2013, was accused of ethics charges for not disclosing his family connection to the largest for-profit charter operator in Florida, Academica. In addition, Academica’s business practices are being audited by the Inspector General’s Office of the U.S. Department of Education. Erik Fresen’s sister is Academica’s vice president and his brother-in-law, Fernando Zulueta, its owner. Fresen was a former lobbyist for Academica. Zulueta has contributed hundreds of thousands of dollars to the campaigns of many other legislators. Additionally, Zulueta has served on Jon Hage’s board of directors for Charter Schools USA. At the end of 2012, Academica was the largest for-profit charter management company in Florida with 72 schools.
Additional legislative conflicts include Sen. John Thrasher (R), a former charter school lobbyist, who has repeatedly proposed easing charter school laws. Rep. Will Weatherford (R), Speaker of the House for the last two sessions, submitted a charter school application along with the wife of Rep. Richard Corcoran in Pasco County; they were turned down by the Pasco County School Board. Sen. John Legg (R), chairman of the Education Committee, has founded and serves as business manager of Day Spring Academy in New Port Richey since 2000. His wife, Suzanne, is the director of the charter school earning $62,955 for 2011-12, while Legg earned $48,412 in addition to his legislative salary. Unlike most charter school administrators, Legg is a certified social studies teacher.
Rep. Seth McKeel (R) owns charter school McKeel Academy in Polk County. Sen. Anitere Flores (R), Senate Majority Whip in 2013, became Academica’s leader for their charter college in Doral in Miami after encouraging a virtual charter school bill. Rep. George Moraitis (R), of Ft. Lauderdale, has repeatedly sponsored charter school legislation to benefit for-profit management companies; at the same time he has taken hundreds of dollars in donations from Jon Hage of Charter Schools USA, headquartered in Ft. Lauderdale. Our own Hillsborough Rep. Betty Reed (D) has abstained from voting on charter bills because her daughter, Dr. Cametra Edwards, is the principal of Village of Excellence Charter School in Temple Terrace.
The not-so-hidden agenda of the charter school advocates appears to be the elimination of teacher unions, teacher tenure and ultimately public schools – the bedrock of our democratic society. Do you see the pattern of the web of influence? Subordinating children’s educational needs to for-profit management companies will not create the human capital we need for the future of America. | http://lagacetanewspaper.com/charter-school-explosion-accountable-to-whompart-6-of-7/ | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | lagacetanewspaper.com/f684a271a739700e64459cf8d47497e67111024687d0d3460c0e4ca3f8e02ce5.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:49:43 | null | null | null | http%3A%2F%2Flagacetanewspaper.com%2Fcharter-school-explosion-following-the-money-part-5-of-7%2F.json | http://lagacetanewspaper.com/charter-school-explosion-following-the-money-part-5-of-7/ | en | null | La Gaceta Newspaper | null | null | lagacetanewspaper.com | By Patricia W. Hall
This is the fifth in a series of seven articles regarding Charter schools and their changing relationship to our community.
Although charter schools must, by Florida law, be overseen by a non-profit board of directors, there are many ways in which for-profit organizations have begun to highjack the charter school movement. For-profit management companies frequently provide everything from back office operations, including payroll, contracting with vendors for food services, textbooks, etc., to hiring principals and teachers and curriculum control. So what was sold to parents and children as a local public education innovation now looks more like national charter-chains, the “Walmart-ization” of public education. According to education expert Diane Ravitch, “nearly half of all charter school students are enrolled in a charter chain school” in the United States. The top four charter operators in Florida for 2011-2012 were Academica (72), Charter Schools USA (37), Charter School Associates (20), and Imagine Schools (23). These are not the small, locally run experimental schools envisioned by the original legislation.
The real profits, however, are not in the operation of the charter school, but in the real estate development. After receiving a variety of grants, loans and tax credits for building a charter school, the for-profit chain charges ever escalating rents and leases to the school district, paid by taxpayer education dollars. The for-profit then reaps the profits when the building is sold in a few years. Meanwhile, the properties with high, nontaxable values based on claimed “commercial” revenue streams from public taxpayer dollars are leveraged to borrow additional funds to build more school buildings.
Our shining local examples in Hillsborough County are owned by Charter Schools USA. My first glimpse of Winthrop Charter School in Riverview in November of 2011 was during a scheduled visit with then-Rep. Rachel Burgin. When told the two-story brick building was a charter school, I was mystified. The site on which it was built was purchased from John Sullivan by Ryan Construction Company in Minneapolis, MN. From research done by the League of Women Voters of Florida, all school building purchases ultimately owned and managed by for-profit Charter Schools USA are initiated by Ryan Construction. The Winthrop site was sold to Ryan Co. in March 2011 for $2,206,700. In September 2011 the completed 50,000 square-foot building was sold to Red Apple Development Company, LLC for $9,300,000 titled, as are all schools managed by Charter Schools USA. Red Apple Development is the school-development arm of Charter Schools USA. We taxpayers of Hillsborough County have paid $969,000 and $988,380 for the last two years to Charter Schools USA in lease fees!
The big prize purchased by Ryan Co. at the same time, March of 2011, was the 58,000 square-foot former Verizon call center on 56th Street in Temple Terrace for $3,750,000. Ryan Co. made no discernible exterior changes except removal of the front door and the addition of a $7,000 canopy. They sold the building as Woodmont Charter School to Red Apple Development for $9,700,000! Who would not love a $6 million boost in 6 months? Lease fees for the last two years were $1,009,800 and $1,029,996! Are we outraged yet? Woodmont made headlines in the Tampa Bay Times this spring as an “F” rated (FCAT score) school advertising for new students and a fired teacher reporting that out-of-field teachers and uncertified teachers were on the faculty.
Similar figures exist for the last of the triumvirate for CSUSA, Henderson Hammock Charter School in Citrus Park, which opened in 2012. This school’s lease fees are the largest of the three – $1,170,000 for 2012-2013 and $1,193,400 for 2013-2014!
These three Hillsborough schools, which have been opened since 2011, enroll more than 20 percent (2,799) of all charter students: Winthrop – 1,254; Henderson Hammock – 895; and Woodmont – 650. The other for-profit management companies in our county are Charter School Associates with 10 schools, the Leona Group with two small schools and Accelerated Learning Solutions with two virtual (online instruction) high schools. These four for-profit management companies, including Charter Schools USA, control the finances for 17 of the 42 charter schools in Hillsborough County.
In Florida, according to the League of Women Voters Statewide Charter School Study, the three largest for-profit management companies (Academica, Charter Schools USA and Imagine) control 27 percent of all charters. The proposed MacDill Charter School was rejected by Hillsborough County Schools because of questions regarding governance (the people running the school, which will be covered in the next article.
The high per-student management fees (around $450), plus rent/lease fees (at least 20 percent of the total school budget) mean that there is less funding available for “instruction,” including teacher salaries, books, etc. In Florida Trend Magazine, Jonathan Hage, CEO of Charter Schools USA, brags his biggest efficiency is in administration. Where Miami-Dade County spends $2,036 per child on administrative costs, he spends $1,425. In Hillsborough, that equates to 2,799 children times $1,425 equaling $3,988,575! That is money in his “pockets,” not instructing children who need to be educated.
In addition to direct funding of charter schools, the federal government provides tax breaks to encourage banks and individuals to invest in charter school construction. The Community Renewal Tax Relief Act of 2000 included the New Markets Tax Credit, which provides wealthy investors with a 39 percent tax credit that more than doubles returns on these charter school construction investments within seven years. Furthermore, the head of Entertainment Properties Trust – a large real estate investment firm – David Bain, appeared on CNBC in 2012 telling the audience “how profitable charter school investment has become.”
While you are shaking your head at the implausibility of the aforementioned investment, hold on! The Immigrant Investor Program, also known as EB -5 (Employment Based to the 5 Category) Program permits foreigners who make investments in charter schools to bring their whole family to the U.S. on green cards! Wealthy foreigners can contribute just $1,000,000 toward urban charter school development or $500,000 in a rural area; they are required to create 10 jobs for Americans and the investor gets visas for the whole family!
We discovered that Ryan Construction Company, in collaboration with Red Apple Development and the Florida Development Finance Corporation, secured a mortgage and loan agreement for multiple sites with Regions Bank in Tallahassee for $55,800,000 tax-exempt series (the “Series 2012A Bonds”) and $3,520,000 taxable series (the Series 2012B Bonds ). This transaction was November 1, 2012. Red Apple Development had secured a mortgage from Church Loans and Investments Trust dba CLI Capital in Texas for $9,841,000 for the Woodmont Property in late 2011; they paid off the nearly $10,000,000 mortgage in 16 months (January of 2013) by virtue of the $55,800,000 “windfall”.
From The Tampa Bay Times opinion editorial April 1, 2014, “Another area where the distinction between public and private is blurred for the benefit of for-profits is the issuing of bonds. Although Florida law prohibits charter schools from issuing bonds, Charter Schools USA has found a way. When naming Jon Hage as Floridian of the Year, Florida Trend, in December 2012, contended that Charter School USA is the largest seller of charter school debt in the country. “It will sell $100 million worth of bonds this year (2012-13), Hage says. … The bonds come with tax-exempt status because they are technically held by the non-profit founding boards that oversee the schools.”
As you can see “following the money” in the for-profit charter sector is very complex and, in some cases, impossible. Audits are incomplete and, because of the blurred line between the non-profit and for-profit entities, requests for information are rebuffed, as these charter chains claim to be “public” when seeking public education dollars and “private” when avoiding accountability. As one of our LWV members characterizes their attitude, “Heads we win, tails you lose.”
America’s for-profit education industry is BIG BUSINESS on a global scale. Charter school profiteering is alive and thriving in Florida and many other states. Profit is the end game, with profits trumping public good. What happened to “corporate social responsibility” and political ethics? | http://lagacetanewspaper.com/charter-school-explosion-following-the-money-part-5-of-7/ | en | 2016-08-01T00:00:00 | lagacetanewspaper.com/38810d38117d3772ea6182a4757149bb0e4e5fdf97d75ef11007881e2fa4ade7.json |
[] | 2016-08-30T22:50:40 | null | 2016-08-30T17:31:42 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fmytoba.ca%2Ffeatured%2Fpeter-katz-to-play-winnipeg%2F.json | http://mytoba.ca/content/uploads/2016/08/Peter-Katz.jpg | en | null | Peter Katz to play Winnipeg | null | null | mytoba.ca | JUNO-nominated singer-songwriter Peter Katz is set to return to Winnipeg on October 28, 2016. Peter will bring his French version of “We Are The Reckoning” to the WECC.
Peter spent the better part of the past 2 years writing well over 50 new songs. His hard work paid off when he attracted the attention of co-producers Royal Wood (multiple Juno-Award Nominee) and Bill Lefler (Ingrid Michaelson, Cary Brothers), who signed on to help create his latest album. Katz will be joined by multi-instrumentalist Benjamin Rollo.
Here’s what some media have said about Katz;
“Try listening without getting goosebumps” London Free Press
“One of the most promising songwriters of our time” B.Y.E. Magazine Germany
Take a listen for yourself – Peter Katz
Buy your tickets here – WECC
Staff, MyToba News | http://mytoba.ca/featured/peter-katz-to-play-winnipeg/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | mytoba.ca/aa518e1c264821b44fe965fb824158d8b11f2ae41d5e9693224246a478f0f32f.json |
[] | 2016-08-30T14:50:28 | null | 2016-08-30T09:26:30 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fmytoba.ca%2Ffeatured%2Ftuesdays-top-clip-huskies-interrupt-workout%2F.json | http://mytoba.ca/content/uploads/2016/08/crop_620x350_20160830_924AM.jpg | en | null | Tuesday's Top Clip: Huskies interrupt workout | null | null | mytoba.ca | This woman wanted to record her workout, but her two huskies had another idea. In this case, perhaps walking the dogs would be a better exercise choice. | http://mytoba.ca/featured/tuesdays-top-clip-huskies-interrupt-workout/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | mytoba.ca/333289b446e08393139101b9e5e2f2bdfcd751758cf8f047eec8ad0eec38d23f.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T20:47:43 | null | 2016-08-26T14:01:04 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fmytoba.ca%2Ffeatured%2Ffatal-fire-in-portage-la-prairie%2F.json | http://mytoba.ca/content/uploads/2015/12/fire-fighters_fotolia_620x350.jpg | en | null | Fatal Fire in Portage la Prairie | null | null | mytoba.ca | PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE – RCMP reported a fatal fire early this morning on 15th street in Portage la Prairie.
The body of a deceased person was discovered on the main floor. Police have indicated this person was alone in the home at the time of the fire.
Portage RCMP along with the Forensic Identification Section are investigating to determine the identity of the deceased.
The Office of the Fire Commission is investigating the cause of the fire.
-Staff, MyToba News | http://mytoba.ca/featured/fatal-fire-in-portage-la-prairie/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | mytoba.ca/bd6b33d2a2e596b61f29106c1440abf5d517badbf47633d6714e26f419d38169.json |
[
"Andrew Mccrea"
] | 2016-08-26T22:47:44 | null | 2016-08-26T17:00:40 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fmytoba.ca%2Ffeatured%2Fkfc-recipe-reportedly-leaked-colonels-nephew%2F.json | http://mytoba.ca/content/uploads/2016/08/portrait_620x350_20160826_348PM.jpg | en | null | KFC recipe reportedly leaked by Colonel's nephew | null | null | mytoba.ca | NEW YORK — Kentucky Fried Chicken is once again denying that it’s secret recipe has been leaked.
A list of ingredients was published by the Chicago Tribune after a reporter interviewed Joe Ledington, nephew of Colonel Harland Sanders.
The reporter discovered the recipe written on the back of a notebook in Ledington’s home, which he claimed was the real deal.
He later backtracked on those claims and the company said they’ve never seen one correct version of the recipe leak.
“Many people have made these claims over the years and no one has been accurate — this one isn’t either.”
The fried chicken giant says its signature blend of 11 herbs and spices is “one of the biggest trade secrets in the world.”
Sanders original recipe is handwritten on a piece of paper and kept under tight security at KFC’s headquarters.
Here is the listing from the back of Ledington’s notebook:
2/3 tsp salt
1/2 tsp thyme
1/2 tsp basil
1/3 tsp oregano
1 tsp celery salt
1 tsp black pepper
1 tsp dried mustard
4 tsp paprika
2 tsp garlic salt
1 tsp ground ginger
3 tsp white pepper
Combine above spices and mix into 2 cups of white flour
—ANDREW McCREA, MyToba.ca | http://mytoba.ca/featured/kfc-recipe-reportedly-leaked-colonels-nephew/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | mytoba.ca/dc8243cc6b94a8f649864dfb56514e61b4ec6681941e55317c9efaa858ab6b9c.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T14:48:12 | null | 2016-08-26T08:46:48 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fmytoba.ca%2Ffeatured%2Fmanitoba-bisons-football-team-preview%2F.json | http://mytoba.ca/content/uploads/2016/08/DavidOnyemata2_Bisons_620x350.jpg | en | null | Manitoba Bisons Football Team Preview | null | null | mytoba.ca | After a Top 4 finish in 2014 by the Manitoba Bisons, expectations were high for the 2015 football season and the team actually had a better regular season record but fell short in the playoffs with a conference semi-final loss.
This season, the Bisons have a good mix of veterans returning and young recruits that will make an immediate impact in 2016 season.
Heading into 2016, Manitoba will have a veteran core group returning as six of the 12 starters on offence and ten of 12 starters on defence return from the 2015 season and seek to build off a third place 5-3 regular season. The offence will be led again by third-year starting quarterback and St. Paul’s HS grad Theo Deezar, two starters (Jesse Walker and Anthony Dyck) are back from last season at the receiver position (one starter at running back with Alex Christie) and two (Geoff Gray and Jordan Medal) of five starters return on the offensive line.
On defence, the front four is solid with two returnees (Christian Turner) from last season highlighted by 2016 East-West Bowl Defensive MVP and two-time conference all-star Evan Foster. In addition, all three starters (DJ Lalama, Bami Adewale, Houston Rennie) at linebacker and all five starters (Jayden McKoy, Cam Teschuk, Eric Plett, Tanner Hamade, Tyler Fong) in the secondary also are back.
Manitoba has lost some weapons on both sides as NFL Draft pick David Onyemata, defensive tackle, is now with the New Orleans Saints while Top 5 receiver Alex Vitt graduated and was a CFL Draft pick of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. In addition, 2015 Canada West Rookie of the Year and CIS Second Team All-Canadian Jamel Lyles, running back/kick returner, has returned to junior football and offensive linemen Alex McKay and Nevin Gamblin graduated. The Herd will offset some of the losses with strong national recruits (DT Brock Gowanlock; WR Derek Yachison; OL Anthony Daley and Tom Clarkson; QB Des Catellier; DB Marcel Arruda-Welch).
The Bisons will make some history prior to the start of conference regular season action. They play in the first-ever CIS football game on Vancouver Island when they play the defending CIS champion UBC Thunderbirds in Langford, BC in pre-season action. After that test, Manitoba will have a good idea where they will stand by the conference bye as they host three of the first five games at home.
Manitoba looks to remain a perennial CIS Top 10 team but will have to battle a tough conference to contend for a playoff spot in 2016.
“We have veteran leadership in the dressing room and I expect the team to be gritty and determined. This group will battle and fight for a playoff spot in the most competitive conference in the nation” said Head Coach – Brian Dobie
OFFENCE
Number of returning starters: 6
Key returning players:
– QB Theo Deezar in his third year at Manitoba. Last season, Deezar was starting quarterback for six of eight conference regular season games and was third in conference with 2,227 passing yards on 64.1% efficiency. He attended the Winnipeg Blue Bombers training camp in 2016 and also part of the West roster during the 2016 East-West Bowl game prior to this season. Deezar was a captain last season and expect to lead on and off the field in his second season as starter.
– RB/KR Alex Christie is in his fourth season at Manitoba and was a team captain last season. He was ninth in Canada West with 366 rushing yards and 13th overall in conference all-purpose yards with 750 while playing in all eight conference regular season games during 2016 campaign. Christie was part of the West roster during the 2016 East-West Bowl game prior to this season.
– WR/KR Jesse Walker is in his second season at Manitoba and was a ninth in conference receiving yards with 511 in his rookie season. Walker was 18th overall in conference all-purpose yards with 653 yards while playing in all eight conference regular season games.
– OL Geoff Gray is in his fourth season with the Bisons. He has been a mainstay on the O-line as he has dressed in 23 of the 24 conference regular season games over the last three seasons and has not missed a start in the last two consecutive years. Gray was part of the West roster during the 2016 East-West Bowl game prior to this season.
Key recruits or transfers:
– WR Derek Yachison last played with Kamloops Broncos in 2011-15. The Winnipeg native has an extensive resume during his four years with Kamloops. Yachison was 2015 CJFL Outstanding Offensive Player of the Year, two-time CJFL All-Canadian (2014-15), two-time BCFC All-Star (2014-15), two-time BCFC Outstanding Receiver (2014-15) and 2015 BCFC Outstanding Offensive Player of the Year. The 6’0”, 195 lbs receiver set a new BCFC single season record with 73 receptions, collecting 1,026 yards and 14 touchdowns – led conference – in 2015. His 73 receptions tied him (with Andrew Busby of the 2006 Saskatoon Hilltops) for second most in CJFL history. He attended three CFL’s BC Lions training camps.
– OL Tom Clarkson last played with The University of Nevada in Las Vegas from 2012-15. He was three-star recruit according to ESPNU, which ranked him the No. 117 offensive tackle in the class prior to joining UNLV. The 6’7”, 305 lbs lineman was named Best offensive lineman three times at Mission Secondary School (2009-11).
– OL Anthony Daley last played with Langley Rams from 2011-15. Over his four-year junior career, he was CJFL All-Canadian honours in 2012, 2013 and nominee for 2015 plus also selected as the BCFC’s top offensive lineman award for two consecutive seasons (2012-13). In addition, he earned the Langley Rams’ Leadership Award in 2014. The 6’3”, 315 lbs lineman has spent three seasons as a territorial protection of the CFL’s BC Lions, training with the practice squad in Vancouver.
– QB Des Catellier last played with St. Francis Browns in high school action in Calgary in 2015. The 6’2”, 195 lbs. quarterback led the Browns to both the Calgary city championship and Alberta Tier I provincial championships. He also played for the Lions of the Calgary Area Midget Football Association and was both the quarterback and kicker for Team Alberta during the 2014 and 2015 Football Canada Cup tournaments. He represented Canada as the quarterback for the U-18 program.
Key losses:
– Former starting slotback Alex Vitt (CFL Draft pick with Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
– Former offensive lineman Alex McKay (CFL Draft pick with Saskatchewan Roughriders)
– Former offensive lineman Nevin Gamblin
DEFENCE
Number of returning starters: 10
Key returning players:
– DL Evan Foster enters his third season at Manitoba and was named a conference all-star for the second consecutive season at the defensive end position. Foster accumulated 2.5 sacks, tied for eighth in conference, in 2016 and added 38 total tackles (13th in Canada West in 2016). He was selected as Defensive MVP for West team at the 2016 East-West Bowl game as the 6’1”, 240 lbs player registered three solo tackles (two for losses of eight yards) and added a quarterback sack for five yards for the defensive honour.
– Fourth-year linebacker DJ Lalama was a captain with the Bisons last season. He was selected by the Edmonton in the 2016 CFL Draft. The 6’1”, 230 lbs. linebacker tied for 15th in the conference with 36 total tackles (27 solo) and tied for fifth in Canada West with 5.5 tackles for losses while playing in six of eight conference regular season games during the 2015 season. In his three-year career, he has 111.5 total tackles (84 solo) plus was invited to the NFL’s New York Giants rookie mini-camp in May 2016.
– DL Christian Turner starts his second season (third-year eligibility) at Manitoba. The 6’2”, 200lbs. defensive end was tied for eighth in Canada West with 2.5 sacks in 2015. He added 15.5 tackles while playing in all eight conference regular season games.
– DB Cam Teschuk begins his fifth season at Manitoba. The 5’8”, 175lbs. defensive back was 22nd in Canada West with 32 total tackles with three break-ups and one interception while playing in all eight conference regular season games in 2015. He added 15.5 tackles while playing in all eight conference regular season games. In his four-year career, he has amassed 89 total tackles and been a two-time team captain.
– Third-year DB Jayden McKoy led the team and tenth in conference with 41.5 total tackles in 2015. The 5’10”, 180lbs defensive back has already 81.5 total tackles and six interceptions in just two seasons. He has started and played in while playing in all 16 conference regular season games in his CIS career.
– Fourth-year safety Tyler Fong was a captain for the first time in 2015. Last season, he notched 226 total tackles (tenth on the team) with one interception. In three seasons, the 6’0”, 190lbs. safety has registered 69 total tackles with six interceptions.
Key recruits or transfers:
– DL Brock Gowanlock last played with Langley Rams 2013-15. The 6’4”, 310 lbs interior lineman had a strong 2015 season at Langley as he was selected as CJFL All-Canadian, BCFC All-Star and Rams’ Defensive MVP. Gowanlock stats for 2015 was 14.5 sacks – led the conference, 17 tackles plus five assisted, two batted passes, two forced fumbles and one fumble recovery for a touchdown.
– DB Marcel Arruda-Welch played four high school football seasons (2012-15) at Garden City Collegiate. The 6’0”, 180 lbs. defensive back was named WHSFL John Potter AAA Defensive Player of the Year in 2015. He finished with 27.5 tackles and fifth in the WHSFL John Potter AAA Division with three interceptions in 2015.
Key losses:
– Former starting defensive lineman David Onyemata (First-ever NFL Draft choice in Manitoba Bisons history; in NFL now with New Orleans Saints)
– Former linebacker/defensive back Brett MacFarlane
– Former linebacker/defensive back Mitchell Harrison
– Former starting defensive lineman Shahpour Birjandian
SPECIAL TEAMS
Key returning players:
– Third-year kicker Ryan Jones as he builds on his sophomore campaign as was third in Canada West scoring with 78 points from 16/20 (80%) field goal in 2015. In his rookie season, he went 9/13 in field goals. Jones was in both roles of place kicker and punter in 2015.
– Alex Christie had over 200 yards on return yards on kickoff and punt returns in 2015.
– Jayden McKoy
Key losses:
– Former starting kicker returner Jamel Lyles
-Chris Zuk, University of Manitoba | http://mytoba.ca/featured/manitoba-bisons-football-team-preview/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | mytoba.ca/211d9f9b65c6680ec0b318ee29b38b96f5d851b682ea5bd034cfd22cddba9b9e.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T12:57:36 | null | 2016-08-25T19:28:07 | The 3rd Annual Winnipeg International Salsa Festival is hitting the Exchange District on September 9–11, 2016. | http%3A%2F%2Fmytoba.ca%2Flife%2Fwinnipeg-salsa-dancing-festival-returns-to-the-exchange-district%2F.json | http://mytoba.ca/content/uploads/2016/08/patrick-scarlet-salsa-dance.jpg | en | null | Salsa dancing festival returns to the Exchange District | null | null | mytoba.ca | The 3rd Annual Winnipeg International Salsa Festival is hitting the Exchange District on September 9–11, 2016.
It features workshops, performances, competition and nightlife parties with world-renowned artists from USA, Mexico, Cuba, and Canada.
“We are excited to present this festival for the 3rd year. It’s a great place to learn if you are new to Latin dance, as well as to increase your skills with some of the best teachers and artists from the U.S. and Canada,” says Harold.
Attendees will enjoy a weekend of salsa, bachata, cha cha, afro, cuban rueda, reggaeton, kizomba, latin house and much more!
The festival is hosted by Harold Rancano and Regan Hirose, a Canadian dance couple that has been decorated many times at Latin dance competitions, and their RHR Latin Dance Company.
“We are calling it Salsa in the Exchange as the entire event will be held in the Exchange District,” adds Regan. “Workshops will be held at Ted Motyka’s Dance Studio. Evening events will be held at The District. The local restaurants and clubs have been wonderful to work with and they are as excited as we are to welcome everyone to the area.”
— MyToba Life | http://mytoba.ca/life/winnipeg-salsa-dancing-festival-returns-to-the-exchange-district/ | en | 2016-08-25T00:00:00 | mytoba.ca/0e1ea0fa33aac2f774bb265fd8e3f82ff7b29388cc7ba4d89c3eeb9deb237d18.json |
[
"Andrew Mccrea"
] | 2016-08-27T22:48:35 | null | 2016-08-27T17:00:38 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fmytoba.ca%2Ffeatured%2Fcasino-pas-eyeing-relocation%2F.json | http://mytoba.ca/content/uploads/2016/08/crop_620x350_20160827_420PM.jpg | en | null | Casino in The Pas eyeing relocation | null | null | mytoba.ca | THE PAS — Aseneskak Casino is closing on the heels of 300 layoffs at the Tolko Industries mill.
That puts another 150 people out of work in the northwestern Manitoba community of nearly 5,700.
Aseneksak says they have 600 VLTs and 32 games tables, but are only using about 130 machines and six tables.
The casino is planning to relocate to a bigger community, maybe even closer to Winnipeg.
Aseneskak says current staff members are invited to make the move.
All of the plans are up in the air as it is more of a long-term deal to help employees plan.
Some are preparing for a relocation while others might want to seek employment elsewhere.
The province says all casinos are approved and regulated by them.
Aseneskak will need written permission to abandon The Pas.
—ANDREW McCREA, MyToba.ca | http://mytoba.ca/featured/casino-pas-eyeing-relocation/ | en | 2016-08-27T00:00:00 | mytoba.ca/de6f66e7564a86097a0627acd9a69a7ca88f58b360c461102efd0d4eed32ee91.json |
[] | 2016-08-31T00:50:47 | null | 2016-08-30T18:01:57 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fmytoba.ca%2Ffeatured%2Fwant-uber-in-winnipeg%2F.json | http://mytoba.ca/content/uploads/2016/08/Uber-1.jpg | en | null | Want Uber in Winnipeg? | null | null | mytoba.ca | WINNIPEG – There is a petition online that’s hoping to convince the provincial and municipal governments to change with the times. The petition is in support of Uber, the internationally known car service. The alternative to the taxi has been outlawed in many communities across Canada.
The petition website says; “This petition is to get the government of Manitoba and the City of Winnipeg to allow Uber and other ride-sharing services OR to institute a mandatory system similar to ride-sharing for all taxicab companies in a reasonable amount of time (less than 12 months). There are programmers that can make it happen in half a year.”
Two taxi companies in Winnipeg have worked to improve their digital presence for customers with the introduction of their own Apps. These Apps allow you to book a taxi in advance, track your driver and more. There’s also an app called The Ride. This free app gives you the ability to E-hail a cab anytime and get an up-to-the-minute ETA. The Ride website goes on to say, if e-hailing is not available yet in your area they connect you to a leading local taxi dispatcher – no busy signal. The App also provides you with some transit options.
In 2014, The Competition Bureau of Canada released a statement supporting new alternative; “In recent years, the taxi industry has witnessed the emergence of innovative business models that make use of software applications to efficiently connect passengers with available drivers.”
“The Competition Bureau is of the view that these innovative business models have the potential to offer important benefits to consumers through more competition, including lower prices, greater convenience and better service quality for a variety of reasons.”
You can sign the petition here – petition
-Staff, MyToba News
Credit – change.org | http://mytoba.ca/featured/want-uber-in-winnipeg/ | en | 2016-08-30T00:00:00 | mytoba.ca/aee6b31abea04ea2fd724aaf229dc3ee489e4bcad863b7b74f6063834bc8d8e5.json |
[] | 2016-08-26T18:50:21 | null | 2016-08-26T12:31:40 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fmytoba.ca%2Ffeatured%2Fwinnipeg-weekend-weather-with-hal-anderson%2F.json | http://mytoba.ca/content/uploads/2016/06/HalAnderson_620x350_WeekendWeather_v1.jpg | en | null | Weekend Weather With Hal Anderson | null | null | mytoba.ca | WINNIPEG -Look for Sunny skies this weekend in beautiful Manitoba forecast. Cooler tomorrow with highs in the low 20’s. It will be warmer Sunday, with temperatures getting close to 30. Possible hit and miss showers next week, but nothing serious with temps in the low to mid 20’s.
Click play, on the picture above, to hear Hal & Bruce talk about the forecast, the chance of severe weather and even a bit of harvesting.
-Hal Anderson, MyToba News | http://mytoba.ca/featured/winnipeg-weekend-weather-with-hal-anderson/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | mytoba.ca/3203ae31a421d0d4623eea4ff408c71a0749954b05a093ef7fb1cd55688a77bf.json |
[] | 2016-08-27T00:47:59 | null | 2016-08-26T18:30:18 | null | http%3A%2F%2Fmytoba.ca%2Ffeatured%2Fstrands-win-rrcs-not-enough-can-cup-stays-canada%2F.json | http://mytoba.ca/content/uploads/2016/08/crop_620x350_20160826_424PM.jpg | en | null | Strand's Win at RRCS Not Enough; Can-Am Cup Stays in Canada | null | null | mytoba.ca | WINNIPEG — Red River Co-op Speedway hosted the third annual NLRA Can-Am Challenge on Thursday where 5 selected Late Model drivers from Canada and the USA teamed up in hopes of stamping their country’s name on the prestigious Can-Am Cup. The silver plated trophy has called Canada home since the inaugural event 3 years ago. However, without Canada’s past top-runner Ricky Weiss, the Americans were favoured by many to win as they looked to finally bring the cup south of the border.
The other WISSOTA classes battled as the winners in the Street Stock, Midwest Modified and Modified classes looked to earn berths to the AFCO Race of Champions in Huron, SD.
Cool temps and rain early in the day created conditions for a tacky track lasting most of the night. However the surface looked dry at the conclusion of the event – supplying all kind of grip and multiple lines of racing throughout the night.
Shawn Teunis battled hard to beat veteran Art Linert to the checkers in the Street Stock feature.
Tony Caissie picked up two spots to claim victory in the Midwest Modified division ahead of Paul Veert and Grant Hall.
Ward Imrie walked away with another win and widened the points gap, while Kevin Sexton edged Rick Delaine for the runner up position in the Modified class.
American Late Model driver Dustin Strand continued tearing up the NLRA circuit with another feature win – finishing well ahead of team Canada’s Bill Mooney and Mike Balcaen. However, Strand’s win wasn’t quite enough as team Canada squeaked out a win by just 4 points over the heavy-hitting Americans and claimed victory for the third consecutive year.
In NLRA Late Model action, team Canada had a 4 point lead on team USA going into the feature. Dustin Strand, Brad Seng, Cole Schill, Steffen Snare and Zach Naastad represented the American team while fans filled out ballots upon gate entry to build their home town Canadian team. After ballots were counted, RRCS Late Model points leader, Shane Edginton, 30 year Late Model veteran Mike Balcaen, Bill Mooney, Mike Martin and possibly RRCS’s most decorated driver ever, Kevin Sexton were voted to represent team Canada.
The only caution of the race fell on the opening lap when team Canada’s bid to defend the Can-Am Cup took a blow after Shane Edginton spun in front of the pack from the front row. The field of 18 reset with Edginton placed at the back.
On the restart, Dustin Strand set a blazing pace while Mike Balcaen and Bill Mooney formed the top 3. On lap 2, Mooney completed a pass on Balcaen exiting turn 2 to secure the second position. Balcaen surrendered third spot on lap 7 after Brad Seng moved up 4 positions from the start of the race.
At this point, team Canada’s efforts to keep the winning streak alive began looking grim. However, on lap 12, Balcaen began hooking up as the tack started drying and took back third position from Seng on the back stretch. Seng fell back to fifth on lap 15 when his American team mate Cole Schill completed a pass in turn 1.
Strand navigated lap traffic with ease – moving to whatever line he had to to keep a leading pace. Mooney was never really able to close the half straightaway gap the leader built as Strand went on to claim yet another NLRA feature win. Canadian Bill Mooney finished in second ahead of fellow Canadian Mike Balcaen, while the pair of Americans, Cole Schill and Brad Seng rounded out the top 5.
Dustin Strand swept the NLRA field with a win in heat 3. Shane Edginton and Tom Corcoran also collected heat wins.
After some double and triple checking, officials confirmed team Canada edged team USA 247 – 243 and defended their title for the third consecutive year.
In WISSOTA Modified racing, a number of cautions slowed racing and only 10 cars would survive until the end. Ryan Kereluk led the opening lap after a battle with Rick Delaine. Delaine took back the lead on the next lap as Ward Imrie picked up 3 spots to move into second position. Imrie needed just 1 more lap to knock Delaine off the point as he took over the lead in turn 4. On lap 4, Kevin Sexton moved into the top 3 after completing a pass on Kereluk in turn 2.
The first caution of the race took place on lap 7 after Chris Unrau looped his Modified in turn 4. Lee McRae was deemed responsible and was sent to the back. Imrie took advantage of the restart to take over the lead from Delaine.
Imrie held the point until the second caution occurred on lap 10 when Unrau spun alone in turn 3 – collecting Ian Rousseau and causing a bit of sheet metal damage. Another caution took place on the restart when Kereluk took a spin in turn 3 after some bouncing off some cars setting up for the corner’s entry. Kereluk was deemed responsible as he took his car to the pits knowing his chances for the night were over.
The last caution of the night took place with 5 laps remaining when Unrau made heavy contact with the turn 4 wall – ending his night after his second caution. On the restart, Imrie continued to dominate as Sexton was battling Delaine for second.
Imrie collected his sixth RRCS win of the year and takes a 23 point lead over Kevin Sexton. Sexton held off Delaine for second, while Scott Greer and Danny Staff finished with top 5s.
Lee McRae and Ian Rousseau both picked up heat wins.
In WISSOTA Midwest Modified competition, 21 cars took to the track to battle it out in the tack. Only 2 cautions occurred all race – the first for an opening lap spin byJason Williamson in turn 4. On the restart, Christopher Leek took the early lead with Tony Caissie hot on his tail.
On lap 5, Caissie outdrove Leek exiting turn 4 to take over the lead. The second and final caution fell on lap 9 when Jeff Fulham spun alone in turn 3. On the restart, Caissie stayed on the point as Paul Veert moved by Leek for second position.
A couple laps later, Leek fell out of the top 3 when Grant Hall got by in turn 4. As the rest of the race wore on, the top half of the field strung out and Caissie easily collected his first RRCS feature win of the year. Veert beat Hall for second while Leek and Austin Hunter finished the night in the top 5.
Nick Audette, Christopher Leek and Darren Boychuk each collected wins in their respective heat.
In the WISSOTA Street Stock division, Art Linert and Shawn Teunis duelled all race long in a battle between youth and experience. Linert led the opening laps from the front row and was able to slam the door shut on Teunis every time the young points leader had a run on him.
Eventually after all kinds of pressure, Teunis was finally able to squeeze by with 4 laps remaining to move to the point. The race’s only caution took place with 3 laps left on the board when Andrew Maxwell made contact with a tire low in turn 3 – causing it to roll dangerously onto the race surface. Officials reset the tire under yellow, put Maxwell to the back of the pack and stacked the field up for a single file restart.
Despite his best efforts, Linert was unable to regain the lead he gave up as Teunis went on the collect his seventh RRCS feature win of the season. Linert finished a hard-fought second ahead of Weyburn, Saskatchewan’s Stefan Klym, Jesse Teunis and Brad Wall. Unfortunately for Klym, he was disqualified from both the heat and feature for being 60 pounds under the legal weight.
Art Linert collected a win in the class’s single heat race.
Racing continues at Red River Co-op Speedway at 7PM on Thursday, September 1 as the Pure Stocks, Street Stocks, Super Trucks, Modifieds and Late Models take to Winnipeg’s dirt oval. For more information on upcoming events, visit www.redrivercoopspeedway.ca.
Race Summaries
NLRA Late Models
Feature – Dustin Strand, Bill Mooney, Mike Balcaen, Cole Schill, Brad Seng, Tom Corcoran, Shane Edginton, Kevin Sexton, Walt Morris, Steffen Snare, Rick Fawcett, Mike Martin, Zach Naastad, Steve Anderson, Paul Veert, George Balcaen, Kevin Geisbrecht, Jeff Hapala (DNF), Leo Feeleus (DNS), Kody Scholpp (DNS).
Heat 1 – Shane Edginton, Mike Balcaen, Brad Seng, Steffen Snare, Cole Schill, Rick Fawcett, George Balcaen (DNF).
Heat 2 – Tom Corcoran, Zach Naastad, Mike Martin, Paul Veert, Steve Anderson, Kevin Geisbrecht, Leo Feeleus (DNF).
Heat 3 – Dustin Strand, Bill Mooney, Kevin Sexton, Jeff Hapala, Walt Morris, Kody Scholpp (DNF).
WISSOTA Modifieds
Feature – Ward Imrie, Kevin Sexton, Rick Delaine, Scott Greer, Danny Staff, Jerome Guyot, Ian Rousseau, Lee McRae, Ryan Cousins, Al Geisbrecht, Chris Unrau (DNF), Ryan Kereluk (DNF).
Heat 1 – Lee McRae, Danny Staff, Ryan Kereluk, Scott Greer, Ryan Cousins, Al Geisbrecht.
Heat 2 – Ian Rousseau, Rick Delaine, Kevin Sexton, Ward Imrie, Jerome Guyot, Chris Unrau.
WISSOTA Midwest Modifieds
Feature – Tony Caissie, Paul Veert, Grant Hall, Christopher Leek, Austin Hunter, David Delaine, Nick Audette, Jason Somack, Murray Kozie, Darren Boychuk, Brandon Rehill, Dylan Sabatini, Tom Morriseau, Jason Williamson, Brandan Luschinski, Dennis Greskiw, Victoria Stutsky, Justin Lee, Devon Gordon, Curtis Geisbrecht, Jeff Fulham (DNF).
Heat 1 – Nick Audette, Tony Caissie, Jason Williamson, David Delaine, Justin Lee, Brendan Luschinski, Curtis Giesbrecht.
Heat 2 – Christopher Leek, Paul Veert, Victoria Stutsky, Austin Hunter, Dylan Sabatini, Dennis Greskiw, Jeff Fulham.
Heat 3 – Darren Boychuk, Grant Hall, Tom Morriseau, Murray Kozie, Jason Somack, Brandon Rehill, Devon Gordon.
WISSOTA Street Stocks
Feature – Shawn Teunis, Art Linert, Mike Olson, Jesse Teunis, Peter Letkeman, Brad Wall, Andrew Maxwell (DNF), Barry Hixt (DNS), Stefan Klym (DQ).
Heat – Art Linert, Shawn Teunis, Brad Wall, Andrew Maxwell, Barry Hixt, Peter Letkeman, Jesse Teunis, Mike Olson (DNF), Stefen Klym (DQ).
—STEVEN BRADLEY
Photos courtesy Kaz Grafix | http://mytoba.ca/featured/strands-win-rrcs-not-enough-can-cup-stays-canada/ | en | 2016-08-26T00:00:00 | mytoba.ca/e046172673ad191ee91271efcd0d85a829d7dc99e4396c3de0d385e010340d90.json |
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