Evacuation after fire on oil rig
BBC News (Free subscription) | 19/10/2008
A fire on board an oil rig in the North Sea off Whitby in North Yorkshire forces the evacuation of 34 personnel.
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The Weasel: Something fishy
The Independent (Free subscription) | 13/09/2008
The whiff of the kipper is perhaps the most alluring of culinary aromas. In an extreme example of this fragrant potency, some particularly fine kippers recently attracted me from a distance of 40 miles. I was irresistibly drawn to Whitby from our base further down the North Yorkshire coast. Packing cool box plus Mrs W and two friends from London into the Weaselmobile, we tooled along the meandering...
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sandcastles in the air
Arthur Clewley's Diary (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
The agreement to build missile defences in Poland has been much in the news lately but here in North Yorkshire we've had this kind of thing for many years. I don't know if the Fylingdales warning station, which sits on the hills above Whitby like a giant sandcastle (one of those square ones made with a proper sandcastle bucket, not a plain old round one) rattles the russians as much as the as yet unbuilt...
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Have a wizard time in Whitby
Daily Express (Free subscription) | 16/08/2008
The North Yorkshire coast provides the perfect setting for a traditional English seaside holiday, says JAMES McAULEY, who discovers an area with fine beaches, delicious food... and a little bit of magic.
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The North Yorkshire Moors ....
fictions (Free subscription) | 01/06/2008
We travelled up to Whitby today, which meant driving up through the North Yorkshire Moors. Ever since first driving on them all those years ago, I've loved the openness and beauty of the Moors. We stopped for lunch and just enjoyed being under our Yorkshire sky for a while. And what a sky it was today...... The dome thing in the background is the fixed radar array of RAF Fylingdale .
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Soldier killed in Afghanistan blast is named
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 20/02/2008
British soldier killed by an explosive device named as Corporal Damian Stephen Lawrence from Whitby, North Yorkshire
