Times Online (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
When Dr Christine Gill last month successfully challenged her mother’s will, which had bequeathed the £2 million family farm in North Yorkshire to the RSPCA, it was just the latest in an increasingly long line of disputes over wills to have been picked over by the media.
Peerage News (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Robert Edward John (Robin) Compton, DL, sometime squire of Newby Hall, near Ripon, North Yorkshire, scion of the Marquesses of Northampton, died 14 Nov 2009, at the age of 87. He was born 11 Jul 1922, son of Edward Robert Francis Compton (1891-1977), A godson of King Edward VII, of Newby Hall, by his 1st wife the former Sylvia Farquharson (of Invercauld). His elder brother, Alwyne (b 1 May 1919) succeeded...
Paul Wright (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
.. and the Yorkshire 'Crafts for Christmas' Show. Jools Holland in Harrogate Every year we look forward to visiting Harrogate in North Yorkshire where we attend one of the country's largest Christmas shopping events - the 'Yorkshire Crafts for Christmas' show held at the Showgrounds a few miles from the town centre. Our unique collection of silver and gold jewellery always seems to attract attention...
Travel Destination - Trip Ideas, Hotels, Travel Guide (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
This picturesque little town on the northeast coast in North Yorkshire attract tourists for its great landscapes of the sea and cliffs, fasciniating history, wide shopping opportunities and delicious local delicies.
swpp and bppa (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Roland Fawcett has recently become a member of The Society of International Commercial & Industrial Photographers (SICIP) Find more photographers from England on The Society of International Commercial & Industrial Photographers (SICIP) web site Roland can be contacted at: 0845 2300596 Web: www.rolandfawcettphotography.co.uk The Society of International Commercial & Industrial Photographers...
Only Hot Actors (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Whether or not you like Ginger people will depend on whether or not you think he is hot! Michael "Mikey" North (born September 27, 1986, Scarborough, North Yorkshire) is an English actor best known for his role as Gary Windass in Coronation Street. Michael was born in the Cayton area of Scarborough and began acting at the age of twelve in productions locally around the town. He was noticed...
EDUCATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Britain: Classroom rewards 'do not work' Bribing pupils to work hard and behave in the classroom can backfire, according to research. The use of rewards such as points, stickers and treats causes pupils to lose motivation and has little effect on overall school performance, it was claimed. A study said that incentives rarely produced long-term results because it reduced the perception that pupils were...
Alan Sloman's Big Walk (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
A lad can only do so much walking and this lad only did so much walking and on the Sunday decided on a bit of a pottering about in the car to visit Thwaite's Kearton Country Hotel Tea Room - a place that both Shirl & I fell in love with when she was doing her Pennine Way and I, my LEJOG. So the following pictures take in the route by car to the tea room (a fine establishment() and then onwards...
thinkwhere (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Yesterday we had a great one day packed geo-conference in Harrogate, North Yorkshire. Cheers to all the sponsors, the AGI, Rollo for organising it and GeoPlan for hosting it. Folks from Yahoo, Google and Microsoft were present. Presented about Open Historical Maps – with the example of the collaborative georectification and digitization application being built for [...]
Amy Ridenour's National Center Blog (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Summary: The British National Health Service refused to provide the advanced cancer drug Avastin to Colette Mills, who was willing to pay for it herself. Mills was told that if she paid for the drug the NHS didn't cover because if its cost, the NHS would stop paying for her cancer treatment altogether. Colette Mills of North Yorkshire, England was up against a rigid National Health Service policy that...
ABC News (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
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Peerage News (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
_.Angela, Lady Frank (née Cayley) who died 6 Nov, 2009, was the first wife of Sir Robert John Frank, 3rd Baronet, and was a scion of the Cayley Baronets. She was b Angela Elizabeth Cayley, 22 Aug 1930, 1st of the seven daughters of Sir Kenelm Henry Ernest Cayley, 10th Baronet (1896-1967), by his wife the former Frances Elizabeth Edwyna Brewis, and married Sir Robert, 10 May 1950. They divorced...
Fat Man on a Keyboard (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
I am just back from a weekend away where there was no Internet and no signal for a mobile phone, cut off with only with a few friends from the Over the Hill Club (don't ask). The ten mile hikes are now replaced by gentle strolls and the alcohol consumption is down as age creeps up. This time we were in Staithes , a North Yorkshire coastal village where the Arctic wind from the North Sea seems unrelenting....
Alan Sloman's Big Walk (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
This is an unusual one for me: I have been asked to write about my stay at a hotel in the Yorkshire Dales. As I mentioned about a week ago the deal was that the Charles Bathurst Inn provided a free night’s accommodation for two people with B&B and dinner. All they asked in return is that I shared my thoughts of the hotel on my blog and tell our congregation what I thought of the walks nearby....
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
GALWAY, IRELAND (MARKET WIRE) Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) -- Plans by Drax Power Limited (Selby, England) to build one of the U.K.'s largest biomass power plants took a significant step forward following the decision by North Yorkshire County Council's planning committee to grant permission for the project. The final decision on the £700 million ($1.2 billion)...
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