Tuesday 31 August
Despite of almost twenty years of protection, thousands of miles of English hedgerow are still be grubbed out at great cost to wildlife and the landscape, according to figures published yesterday.
Friday 27 August
HERITAGE Sites across the Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) will be opening their doors to visitors between the 9th and 12th September.
Friday 27 August
MARKET gardeners and fruit growers have joined with Defra advisers to set up a task force to see how Britain can produce more and better fruit and veg at a time when world food shortages are growing.
Thursday 26 August
PROFESSIONAL landscape photographer Ged Hickey will be putting some of his work on show next week in the Bainbridge offices of the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority (YDNPA).
Thursday 26 August
THE Coalition Government’s decision to “de-clutter” the countryside by ordering local councils to remove unnecessary road signs was welcomed today (August 26) by the Campaign to Protect Rural England.
Wednesday 25 August
PUBLIC observations suggest seasonal delay on the cards.
Wednesday 25 August
YORKSHIRE businesses are being offered advice on how to cut waste and save money by cutting raw materials costs, refuse collection charges and the use of increasingly threatened water supplies.
Tuesday 24 August
A FREE taste of adventure sports will be on offer for young people visiting the Yorkshire Dales National Park next week.
Tuesday 24 August
THE workshop will look at an innovative approach for grazing high environmental value land which takes account of the positive contribution grazing animals can make to climate change mitigation.
Monday 23 August
FARMERS and landowners in Northern England are being asked to join a campaign to save one of the countryside’s most threatened birds, the grey partridge.
Monday 23 August
BATS will be stirred from their slumber to help conservationists keep tabs on their welfare.
Friday 20 August
FREE event in the Yorkshire Dales National Park to stimulate the senses for people with disabilities of all ages and their families.
Friday 20 August
TO coincide with the new series of the BBC's hugely popular television series Who Do You Think You Are, the North Yorkshire County Record Office is to stage more of its popular Family History events.
Thursday 19 August
AS the Government begins to explain what the ‘Big Society’ might mean for local communities, the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) and the Environmental Law Foundation (ELF) are calling on Ministers not to pull a U-turn on their promise to rebalance rights of appeal in the planning process.
Wednesday 18 August
SCIENTISTS are appealing for public help in the battle against a virulent avian disease which appears to have jumped species and is now attacking some of Britain’s most popular garden birds like greenfinches and chaffinches.
Tuesday 17 August
THE Tenant Farmers Association has written to DEFRA Minister of State, Jim Paice, arguing against proposals to take responsibility for TB testing away from local vets.
Monday 16 August
A CONSORTIUM of countryside bodies today (August 16) publishes what it calls a “do or die” demand for Government action to save the countryside and the future of its local residents.
Monday 16 August
GERVASE Phinn’s new book is “a personal tour of places which have meant a great deal to me” says the bestselling author.
Wednesday 11 August
A STONE feature in a Yorkshire Dales village is proving to be a time detectives’ challenge for a group of local archaeologists.
Wednesday 11 August
THE 300,000 member Woodland Trust is hoping to get youngsters down in the woods during their summer holidays by launching a nationwide photographic competition.
Tuesday 10 August
WALKERS and countryside lovers are being invited to take part in a sponsored walk in Upper Wharfedale to raise money for much-need, small scale improvement schemes in the Yorkshire Dales.
Tuesday 10 August
THE final line up for a major music festival in Richmond later this month has been announced.
Monday 9 August
FARMERS, landowners and other professionals involved in agriculture are being asked for ideas and suggestions on how to slash the red tape which is strangling the industry.
Monday 9 August
LARGER than life sheep are taking up residence in Skipton, North Yorkshire this autumn to encourage people to visit the historic market town off season.
Friday 6 August
NORTH Yorkshire's members of the UK Youth Parliament travelled to Northern Ireland recently for a four-day summit to talk about the most pressing issues for young people.
Friday 6 August
THE Forestry Commission has released 30 spectacular birds of prey at Grizedale – in the heart of the Lake District.
Thursday 5 August
ENGLISH Heritage has pledged £50,000 to help safeguard one of the nation’s most important historic lead mining ruins in the Yorkshire Dales.
Thursday 5 August
RAMBLERS using North Yorkshire's newest long distance footpath will find the going easier and dryer thanks to bridge engineering work by North Yorkshire County Council.
Wednesday 4 August
THE NEW Food Minister Jim Paice yesterday called on the British food industry to be more honest in its “place of origin” food labelling after years of controversy over cheap imported foreign meat being labelled home grown.
Wednesday 4 August
YOUNGSTERS are being given chance to ape Bear Grylls and learn how to fend for themselves in the great outdoors.
Tuesday 3 August
THE CLA says that Ofcom’s report on broadband speeds backed the Association’s view that consumers are being short-changed.
Tuesday 3 August
THE Forestry Commission is offering grants to landowners as part of a drive to boost the amount of woodland in the North West of England.
Monday 2 August
PERSONAL possessions that have a story to tell are the centrepiece of a new project being run at the Dales Countryside Museum in Hawes.
Monday 2 August
THE Government has announced a £2 million boost to help local councils in flood hit areas to draw up emergency plans should major floods hit – a small but welcome increase in funding at a time of massive cuts.
Friday 30 July
FOLLOWING last month’s building of a stone stile near Browgill, cavers have again been busy on conservation work. This time it was the turn of the wooded valley around Yordas Cave in Kingsdale.
Friday 30 July
THE much-criticised Rural Payments Agency is to have a new temporary boss following the resignation of former chief executive Tony Cooper after the agency was damned for incompetence and poor service by a Government investigation.
Thursday 29 July
NEW grants have become available for Yorkshire Dales farmers and landowners to encourage them to plant broadleaf trees, it was announced today (July 29).
Thursday 29 July
UK Film Council awards new consortium £400,000 to run North Yorkshire Rural Cinema Pilot Scheme.
Wednesday 28 July
GROUSE shooting is a major industry in North Yorkshire and its two national parks, providing welcome jobs in some of the most remote areas of the county, but owning and maintaining a grouse shoot can be a financial nightmare.
Wednesday 28 July
BUSINESSES, individuals and charities are being headhunted to support a unique project to restore and conserve some of the thousands of dilapidated field barns in the Yorkshire Dales National Park.
Tuesday 27 July
SOME 2,000 hill farmers have already signed up to the new uplands subsidies scheme which only came into effect at he beginning of July, 500 of them in Yorkshire. Each will receive grants averaging £26,800 over the next five years.
Tuesday 27 July
THE White Paper on the Natural Environment provides a real opportunity to lay the foundations of nature conservation for the 21st century, according to The Wildlife Trusts.
Monday 26 July
A 10-year-old schoolgirl is the latest walker to join a special club in the Yorkshire Dales – after complete the gruelling Three Peaks challenge in 11 hours.
Monday 26 July
YET more countryside quangos are being added to the bonfire promised by the Coalition government as the new Defra Secretary Caroline Spelman takes their duties back into the heart of her department.
Friday 23 July
‘Field Barn on Tour’ will be holding an exhibition of this revolutionary (and invisible) rural regeneration solution for the re-use of thousands of redundant field barns in the Yorkshire Dales.
Friday 23 July
A £600,000 project to improve sports facilities for people in the remote dales of Swaledale and Arkengarthdale has got the green light.
Thursday 22 July
SKIPTON children's centre, one of North Yorkshire County Council's flagship services, will celebrate its first year with an official opening and a carnival on Saturday. Cynthia Welbourn, the county council's Director of Children and Young People's service and other senior officers will launch the event for families and residents in the town.
Thursday 22 July
THE Food Standards Agency has survived the new Government’s bonfire of the quangos – but with much reduced responsibilities.
Wednesday 21 July
IN ONE of the most damning reports ever issued on a Government body, the Rural Payments Agency was slammed yesterday as being inefficient in operation, offering its customers – the farmers – a poor service, and lacking in leadership at both the agency and higher up the command structure at Defra.
Wednesday 21 July
WALKERS, horse riders and mountain bikers on the Pennine Bridleway National Trail will soon be able to stay dry when they cross the River Ribble – thanks to a joint project by the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority (YDNPA) and Natural England.
Tuesday 20 July
VOLUNTEERS are proving to be vital in helping to keep the Yorkshire Dales National Park in tip top condition.
Tuesday 20 July
MOST of us can picture a hedgehog, blue tit, or grasshopper, but what does one sound like? Members of Wildlife Watch, The Wildlife Trusts’ network of groups for children, are now able to find out thanks to some new state of the art field recording equipment.
Monday 19 July
THE COSTS of cleaning up Britain’s litter epidemic has risen alarmingly in the past year to reach £858 million, despite a campaign by the former Yorkshire Dales resident, writer Bill Bryson, who is President of Keep Britain Tidy.
Monday 19 July
PENNY Plain Theatre Company will be performing their new Summer Mummers show this year at Festivals across the North.
Friday 16 July
SCHOOL pupils have been putting their practical skills to the test to create special plaques to mark a long-distance trail that runs through the Yorkshire Dales National Park.
Friday 16 July
THE organisation responsible for providing school meals across North Yorkshire has demonstrated once again its commitment to the county's food producers.
Thursday 15 July
THE skies above Ripon this Saturday afternoon (July 17th) will be capturing the attention of anyone looking heavenwards as masses of balloons will be released at the racecourse to mark the official start of the 2010 Yorkshire Racing Summer Festival.
Thursday 15 July
PUBLISHED by the Dalesman a new book by Colin Speakman Walks Around Bronte Country is one in a series of books specially for those who like to get out and about in Yorkshire the easy way.
Wednesday 14 July
THE 2010 Ken Willson award was presented in Kettlewell on Saturday (10th July) to Nurjahan Ali Arobi by the Yorkshire Dales Society.
Wednesday 14 July
OLD road signs in the Yorkshire Dales are being given a wash and brush up.
Tuesday 13 July
A MAJOR new campaign to press for the building of thousands of low-cost houses in rural areas is launched today as a joint venture between developers and several countryside protection bodies.
Tuesday 13 July
CAVERS have been busy again improving the appearance of the countryside.
Monday 12 July
THE Tenant Farmers Association is setting up a stand at the Great Yorkshire Show this week to continue its campaign for more recognition of the contribution that its members make to producing Britain’s food.
Monday 12 July
THE Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority’s National Park Centre in Malham is staging an exhibition of abstract work by Skipton artist Susan Duffey.
Friday 9 July
THE famous views of Yorkshire are to be brought to life using the work of renowned British artist JMW Turner.
Friday 9 July
MEMBERS of the public are having their say about future plans for housing in the Yorkshire Dales National Park.
Thursday 8 July
BRITAIN'S walking charity highlights the threats to your paths.
Thursday 8 July
CRAVEN District Council’s Craven Museum & Gallery, Skipton is inviting families to travel back in time to the Ice Age.
Monday 5 July
THE Yorkshire Dales have produced a musical prodigy trained at an elite Russian conservatoire and he is back home from St Petersburg to lead a concert in Skipton later this month.
Monday 5 July
VISITORS to Leyburn Tourist Information Centre will be stepping back in time this month.
Friday 2 July
NIDDERDALE Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) will be hosting an evening of moorland adventure above Bolton Abbey on Thursday 8th July.
Friday 2 July
MUSIC is to blast from the ramparts of Richmond Castle again this summer.
Thursday 1 July
FROM a bucking sheep to a milking cow, flock to Skipton this year for some shear family fun at the town’s annual celebration of its historic roots.
Thursday 1 July
THE Woodland Trust is launching one of the most ambitious projects ever devised by a British charity – a drive to get the public involved in planting 20 million trees.
Wednesday 30 June
THE Coalition Government took its first step yesterday in what is promised to be a massive cull of Labour-created quangos by axing the Commission for Rural Communities.
Wednesday 30 June
A GROUP of year 12 students from Ripon Grammar School will be comparing fish and other creatures, such as shrimps and stoneflies, that live in the rivers Laver and Skell on Monday 5 July.
Tuesday 29 June
RESIDENTS in Buckden and Clapham are being asked to have their say on how best to help to conserve and enhance the special character of their villages.
Tuesday 29 June
THE Wensleydale Creamery, at Hawes in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, has secured a significant win for its new Jervaulx Blue cheese - a contract with quality food retailer Waitrose.
Monday 28 June
BRITAIN’S oldest countryside conservation body has produced a new plan to advise people on how to settle all-too-frequent disputes over the rights of access and use of common land.
Monday 28 June
SWALEDALE artists Hazel and Vic Smith will be putting samples of their work on show at the Yoredale offices of the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority (YDNPA) in Bainbridge next week.
Friday 25 June
AN exciting conservation project has been launched which will see 90 spectacular red kites released in the Lake District – the first time the birds have been reintroduced in the North West.
Friday 25 June
AMATEUR photographers across North Yorkshire are being given the chance to see their work "in print" in a competition organised by the county council's library and information service.
Thursday 24 June
THE countdown to CultureShock, North Yorkshire's unique youth arts festival, has begun. In less than two week's time thousands of young people will gather for the only youth festival in the country to offer a three-day greenfield-site event.
Thursday 24 June
CUSTOMERS at Craven District Council’s Craven Pool & Fitness Centre will notice that the poolside café has had an upgrade.
Wednesday 23 June
BRITAIN’S leading dieticians have expressed their dismay at last week’s decision by members of the European parliament to reject calls for a “traffic light” system of food labelling to warn consumers of the dangers of excessive amounts of salt, sugar and fat.
Wednesday 23 June
COUNTRYSIDE campaigners are worried that there was little in the Coalition’s emergency budget to justify pre-election promises by the Tories to create the “greenest Government ever.”
Tuesday 22 June
THE new farm team at the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs received more praise yesterday from what was once one of the department’s sternest critics, the Tenant Farmers’ Association.
Tuesday 22 June
YORKSHIRE Dales National Park Authority Ranger Matt Neale is making the final preparations for his coast-to-coast charity run on Friday (June 25) – covering 190 miles in 60 hours.
Monday 21 June
MOUNDS of stone built up during ancient lead mining operations in the Yorkshire Dales are under threat, according to a new study.
Monday 21 June
WHILE some bird species may be struggling elsewhere, the nocturnal nightjar has found the night life of North Yorkshire very much to its liking!
Thursday 17 June
AS widely feared, last winter’s harsh weather appears to have almost halved the numbers of Britain’s smallest bird, the goldcrest – but ornithologists are confident the species can fight its way back.
Wednesday 16 June
A CARNIVAL of stilt walkers, unicyclists, dancers and drummers led by giant sculptures will kick off the countdown to CultureShock, North Yorkshire's unique youth arts festival.
Wednesday 16 June
NEW results from the British Trust for Ornithology’s (BTO's) Garden BirdWatch suggest that the harsh winter could be having lasting effects on Britain’s smallest bird.
Tuesday 15 June
SWEEPING new proposals to guarantee the future conservation of England's uplands and ensure the economic survival of their residents receive a warm welcome from a range of rural organisations.
Tuesday 15 June
VET Alex McPherson surprised girlfriend Mel Speechley when he dropped to one knee on the steps of the centre dedicated to the man who inspired him to join the veterinary profession and asked her to marry him.
Monday 14 June
MORE than 150 soldiers will march through the streets of Skipton on Friday 25 June with drums beating, colours flying and bayonets fixed.
Monday 14 June
ONE of Britain's foremast conservation charities has investigated the amount of CO2 that is being created by tens of thousands of fans flying to and from the football World Cup in South Africa – and the results are staggering.
Friday 11 June
THE festival kicks off tonight with the Opening Carnival and Ceremony which sets off at 5.30 and finishes in the square at 6.30 followed by some funky music from ace band Panjumby to get us all in the mood!
Friday 11 June
VISITORS to Richmondshire’s two Tourist Information Centres are being urged to put on their walking boots!
Thursday 10 June
TRANSPORT planner JMP has been commissioned by the Yorkshire Dales Railway Museum Trust (YDRMT) to establish the benefits to be gained from reconnecting the Embsay & Bolton Abbey Railway to the main line network at Skipton.
Thursday 10 June
Care about your food? That’s the message from farmers across the country, as they prepare to open their farm gates on Open Farm Sunday (13 June 2010).
Wednesday 9 June
THE surprise Coalition interest in genetically modified crops – the so-called "Frankenstein foods" – has been met with resistance from a raft of conservation bodies opposed to their introduction in Britain.
Wednesday 9 June
APPLICATIONS are being invited from young Yorkshire Dales people anxious to start a career in the countryside – a scheme which has already received the enthusiastic backing of several Dales organisations.
Monday 7 June
FOR a super staycation summer head to Skipton this year!
Monday 7 June
THE Forestry Commission is offering nature lovers a close encounter with a badger.
Friday 4 June
AFTER a 20 year battle for funding, the British Horse Society has secured the funding to open a bridleway in the Eden Valley.
Friday 4 June
THE Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) expressed serious concerns that 40 per cent of farmers do not intend to participate in the Campaign for the Farmed Environment (CFE), set up to retain the environmental benefits of the abolished set aside scheme, according to the latest Defra survey.
Thursday 3 June
IT’S never too early to learn about conservation and caring for the environment. North Craven Children's Centre is celebrating National Family Week by running a series of conservation workshops for the under fives.
Thursday 3 June
THE best-value vegetables are being produced by farm shops in Yorkshire, according to a local food champion.
Wednesday 2 June
RESIDENTS of a picture postcard Yorkshire Dales are being asked to come up with ideas about what to do with the site of an ancient quarry that was abandoned 100 years ago.
Wednesday 2 June
EVER wanted to trace your family history but don’t know where to begin?
Tuesday 1 June
HUNDREDS of Yorkshire Dales residents will be keeping their fingers crossed for the next few weeks to discover if their communities have escaped being swamped by massive housing developments ordered by the last government.
Tuesday 1 June
EXPERTS in Dalby Forest will don the mantel of mythbusters extraordinaire as the Forestry Commission stage the Third Dalbyology Fun Day in the 8,600 acre woodland.
Friday 28 May
A TEAM of cyclists have completed a 240 mile ride across North Yorkshire – collecting pledges to support the Olympic Games.
Friday 28 May
A FEMALE Great Tit has built what appears to be the biggest nest ever made by this species. The monster nest, constructed inside a revolving compost maker, is four and a half times larger than a normal Great Tit nest.
Thursday 27 May
ENTRIES are now being accepted for the 2010 Friends of Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) Conservation Award.
Thursday 27 May
LESSONS are being offered in the ancient – but little used – art of scything a hay meadow as part of the revival of traditional crafts in the Yorkshire Dales.
Wednesday 26 May
LESS than one in ten hill farmers are aware of new changes to their special allowances and could face massive financial hits by missing out on the new system.
Wednesday 26 May
HOUSEHOLDERS in Craven are being given the chance to get rid of unwanted items – and help the environment at the same time.
Wednesday 26 May
JOIN a charity walk in some of Yorkshire's finest countryside and help to raise money for The Samaritans and other Rotary charities.
Tuesday 25 May
THE CAMPAIGN to double Britain’s tree cover has received a huge boost with an agreement between the Woodland Trust and the Ministry of Defence – which has vast land holdings – to plant thousands more trees on it training grounds.
Tuesday 25 May
A JOINT exhibition of landscapes will go on show at the Dales Countryside Museum in Hawes later this month.
Monday 24 May
GRANTS varying from a few thousands to more than £100,000 are to be made available to Yorkshire Dales communities with plans for projects to on social, economic or environmental themes.
Monday 24 May
THERE’S never been a better time to get on the property ladder – even when your des res is made of branches and brash rather than bricks and mortar!
Friday 21 May
CRAVEN Museum & Gallery launches amateur photography competition to celebrate Craven.
Friday 21 May
LOCAL Craven businesses and individuals are invited to find out how a new cycling route can benefit both themselves and the District.
Thursday 20 May
THE APPOINTMENT of two new junior ministers for the food and environment department Defra is more goof news for the farming community – because all three people at the head of the Labour-created ministry come from farming backgrounds.
Thursday 20 May
FORESTRY Commission wildlife experts are keeping their eyes peeled for a new species of bat in the region.
Wednesday 19 May
ORGANISATIONS, businesses and individuals wanting to develop small-scale schemes to generate electricity through water power are being given a big boost by the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority (YDNPA).
Wednesday 19 May
A CHARITY set up to aid England’s hard-hit hill farmers is staging an invitation walk in the Yorkshire Dales this weekend – and anyone interested is being invited to join in.
Tuesday 18 May
FARMERS and landowners were this weekend digesting the appointment of a new Secretary of State at the Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs – and first impressions were good.
Tuesday 18 May
THE winners of the 2010 Yorkshire Rural Awards have been announced, organised by Dalesman and backed by leading business people and community groups across the county.
Friday 14 May
IN this collection of original choices, a cast of high profile and well respected commentators reveal their favourite representation of rural England adding personal anecdotes and refreshing insights into what the countryside really means to them.
Friday 14 May
AN exhibition of work by textile artist Mary Taylor is being staged in the Bainbridge offices of the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority until the end of June.
Thursday 13 May
THEY ate dormice, wore sandals and were partial to bathing, but there was nothing soft about the Roman army.
Thursday 13 May
AS the World Cup approaches, Craven Museum & Gallery opens a new football exhibition.
Wednesday 12 May
THE Woodland Trust has re-launched its MOREwoods woodland creation programme encouraging landowners to plant more trees on their own land with the charity’s support and, in some cases, funding.
Wednesday 12 May
FUNDED by the Yorkshire Dales LEADER Programme, Sustainability 4 Yorkshire Ltd (S4Y) has teamed up with the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority to help local communities to become more sustainable.
Tuesday 11 May
SUPPORTERS of the River Bain Hydro scheme are having an Open Day on the village green in Bainbridge on Saturday 22 May which will be launched by Lady Diana Brittan at 12 noon.
Tuesday 11 May
FROM over sixty applications nationwide The Old Courthouse, Thirsk, has been selected as a venue to host four artists films over the coming year.
Monday 10 May
TWELVE young Yorkshire Dales folk are to be given special training in environmental and countryside management, thanks to a £95,000 grant from the LEADER scheme which backs small-scale improvement schemes in some of the most remote areas of the Dales.
Monday 10 May
THE Yorkshire Dales National Park has been named as one of the top 25 UK travel destinations in a new internet poll.
Friday 7 May
ADVENTURE lovers still have time to book a place at a special event at Yorkshire Water’s Thruscross Reservoir near Harrogate tomorrow (May 8).
Friday 7 May
AS the wedding season gets into full swing the CLA in the North is calling for tighter controls over the use of Chinese Lanterns.
Thursday 6 May
YOUNG artists across North Yorkshire are being given the chance to submit their work for a county-wide art competition as part of the region's annual youth art festival CultureShock.
Thursday 6 May
YORKSHIRE’S 209 million visitors a year will now be able to see more of Yorkshire for less following the launch of the UK’s first regional sightseeing pass, the Yorkshire Pass.
Wednesday 5 May
THE CLA says that, as voters in rural constituencies head off to vote in tomorrow’s General Election, they will have the opportunity to tick off mentally some of the key issues our new Government must address – land use, rural business and rural communities.
Wednesday 5 May
TAWNY owl numbers in Kielder Forest are soaring as the UK’s longest running research project on the bird enters its 30th year.
Tuesday 4 May
IN ONE of the strongest condemnations ever issued against a Government body, the Rural Payments Agency has been attacked once again – but this time by all three major farming bodies.
Tuesday 4 May
YORKSHIRE Dales National Park Authority Ranger Matt Neale is training hard for the longest run of his life – 190 miles in under 60 hours.
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