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Friday 09 May 2008
A week in the country: Mid-summer: time for a new bank holiday
Friday 02 May 2008
A week in the country: The Dales celebrate the hayfields of yore
Friday 25 April 2008
A week in the country: Dragon flies: alive and well in the Yorkshire Dales
Friday 18 April 2008
A week in the country: How wild do we want our wildlife?
Friday 11 April 2008
A week in the country: Global warming and the lord: the backlash grows
Friday 04 April 2008
A week in the country: Will the “greens” sabotage our sublime landscape?
Friday 28 March 2008
A week in the country: Are cats the culprits in garden bird decline?
Friday 21 March 2008
A week in the country: A century late – but Salar the Salmon returns at last
Friday 14 March 2008
A week in the country: Predicting the future from potholes’ ancient past
Friday 08 March 2008
A week in the country: Water, water everywhere – and what a lot to drink
Friday 29 February 2008
A week in the country: A talk in time to save our countryside
Friday 22 February 2008
A week in the country: Wind farms in the Dales - will bird safety have the casting vote?
Friday 15 February 2008
A week in the country: Trout or cormorant - when will we learn to manage nature?
Friday 08 February 2008
A week in the country: She's no lady - the latest lethal invader in the garden
Friday 01 February 2008
A week in the country: At last, due recognition for the land girls
Friday 25 January 2008
A week in the country: The great biofuel debate - another countryside split
Friday 18 January 2008
A week in the country: Unprepared and unrepentant - flooding and politics
Friday 11 January 2008
A week in the country: Top ten reasons for a walk in the country
Friday 04 January 2008
A week in the country: Can a once-persecuted "pest" save the red squirrel?
Friday 28 December 2007
A week in the country: 2008 - the year the countryside fights back?
Friday 21 December 2007
A week in the country: A cheap Christmas change from turkey - wood pigeon!
Friday 14 December 2007
A week in the country: A bug is not just for Christmas - so save our insects
Friday 07 December 2007
A week in the country: The disabled in the countryside - will sympathy run out?
Friday 30 November 2007
A week in the country: The dashed dreams of a Yorkshire Dales river-food gourmet
Friday 23 November 2007
A week in the country: Has the dream of "green" farming turned Brown
Friday 16 November 2007
A week in the country: Spring in autumn - the seasons in a time warp
Friday 09 November 2007
A week in the country: Plant a virtual tree - a unique present for faraway people
Friday 02 November 2007
A week in country: Bubble & squeak - the tasty way to cut global warming
Friday 26 October 2007
A week in the country: Cull Government waste not our rare wild animals
Friday 19 October 2007
A week in the country: In praise of rugby union - and even the French too
Friday 05 October 2007
A week in the country: Please, planners, save that tree. Or is it too late?
Friday 28 September 2007
A week in the country: On the ropes: our farmers. At risk: our countryside
Friday 21 September 2007
A week in the country: Festive capers bring new life to the countryside
Friday 14 September 2007
A week in the country: Light pollution in the Yorkshire Dales
Friday 07 September 2007
A week in the country: Under attack - a countryman and his dog
Friday 31 August 2007
A week in the country: The soaring cost of food - just what the UK needs?
Friday 24 August 2007
A week in the country: Tatty veg plots become a developer's dream
Friday 17 August 2007
A week in the country: Sponsors wanted for Britain's biggest bird count
Friday 10 August 2007
A week in the country: Revealed: our man comes clean after 50 years
Friday 03 August 2007
A week in the country: Why a corpse means new life for Dales rivers
Friday 27 July 2007
A week in the country: Game show cancellation: a sign of things to come?
Friday 20 July 2007
A week in the country: Could biofuels bring the trees back to the Dales?
Friday 13 July 2007
A week in the country: Can Wedgie's son save our food supply
Friday 06 July 2007
A week in the country: Hug a tree - and save our history
Friday 29 June 2007
A week in the country: Frankenstein foods: science fiction becomes science fact?
Friday 22 June 2007
A week in the country: How Blair fed the countryside to the Left Wing wolves
Friday 15 June 2007
A week in the country: At last, advice to save the cotton-wool kids
Friday 08 June 2007
A week in the country: The re-birth of a trans-Pennine rail route - genuine hope or pie in the sky?
Friday 01 June 2007
A week in the country: Southern squeals at nuclear option - put 'em up North
Friday 25 May 2007
A week in the country - on the slippery slope: the European eel
Friday 18 May 2007
A week in the country: Adieu to Jacques Chirac - and good riddance
Friday 11 May 2007
A week in the country: Tales from the towpath - boaters-v-the bureaucrats
Friday 04 May 2007
A week in the country: Butterflies, good, bad - and green
Friday 27 April 2007
A week in the country: Peace of mind off the rural roller-coaster
Friday 20 April 2007
A week in the country - Mobiles in the mountains: life saver or time waster?
Friday 13 April 2007
A week in the country - Wanted: bumble bee watchers for an overlooked wonder
Friday 06 April 2007
A week in the country: Water power, the forgotten green technology
Friday 30 March 2007
A week in the country: Serenade the celandine, the gold star of spring
Friday 23 March 2007
A week in the country: New jobs for old: another Yorkshire Dales triumph
Friday 16 March 2007
A week in the country: Time to stop the global warming band wagon
Friday 09 March 2007
A week in the country: Bravo for Paxo, TV's politically incorrect countryman
Friday 02 March 2007
A week in the country: Another countryside conundrum - canoeing and the contemplative man's sport
Friday 23 February 2007
A week in the country: 10 Downing St and the Web - a new chapter in eDemocracy
Friday 16 February 2007
A week in the country: The good news and the even better news for Yorkshire food
Friday 09 February 2007
A week in the country: Will avian 'flu kill factory farming?
Monday 05 February 2007
Avian 'flu: can our politicians get it right this time?
Friday 02 February 2007
A week in the country: The sad tale of cats, DIY, and the old cock sparrow
Friday 26 January 2007
A week in the country: Death and a tale of two Tescos
Friday 19 January 2007
A week in the country: Let's declare email war on Downing Street
Friday 12 January 2007
A week in the country: Global warming and upside-down grass
Friday 05 January 2007
A week in the country: You've gotta larf: the BBC boobs again
Friday 29 December 2006
A week in the country: Twenty questionable New Year resolutions for country folk in 2007
Friday 22 December 2006
A week in the country: Happy Christmas, Dr Sentamu, the battling black Archbishop of York
Wednesday 20 December 2006
AS millions of paper robins fly around the British Isles this week - as one of the most popular images on Christmas cards...
Friday 15 December 2006
A week in the country: Post offices and the Law of Unforeseen Circumstances
Friday 08 December 2006
A week in the country: The robber baron's great land grab
Friday 01 December 2006
A week in the country: The latest victim of the great Defra chaos - our canals
Friday 24 November 2006
A week in the country: I'm a celebrity - get me into the gentry
Friday 17 November 2006
A week in the country: The fly-tipping menace: does your council care?
Friday 10 November 2006
A week in the country: Giving thanks to Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and his campaign for real food
Friday 03 November 2006
A week in the country: Green taxes - more billions for Brown's bottomless pit
Friday 27 October 2006
A week in the country: A toast to an absent friend, Salar the Leaper
Friday 20 October 2006
A week in the country: Mating mallards and rampant red admirals
Friday 13 October 2006
A week in the country: British Sugar goes sour when the future could be sweet
Friday 06 October 2006
A week in the country: The quest for country craftsmen - some steps in the right direction
Friday 29 September 2006
A week in the country: Village post offices and the final betrayal
Friday 22 September 2006
A week in the country: Our salute to market towns, the jewels in the crown of the English countryside
Friday 15 September 2006
A week in the country - Caravan confessions: damn nuisance - or business saviour?
Friday 08 September 2006
A week in the country: A plea to save the stately horse chestnut
Friday 01 September 2006
A week in the country Swept away: Britain's river banks as we face a new monsoon season?
Friday 25 August 2006
A week in the country: Terror comes to the river bank
Friday 18 August 2006
A week in the country: is Beatrix Potter to blame for our rabbit plague?
Friday 11 August 2006
A week in the country: Coming home to Yorkshire, the game show and its big crowds
Friday 04 August 2006
A week in the country: Natural England, another Whitehall disaster looming?
Friday 28 July 2006
A week in the country: With the holiday season in full swing, we discuss a really important subject: gardening
Friday 21 July 2006
A week in the country: The Government on rural life: re-inventing the wheel!
Friday 14 July 2006
A week in the country: Farmers, politics and the countryside: praise, thanks … or spite?
Friday 07 July 2006
A week in the country: Our personal tribute to unfiery Fred Trueman
Friday 30 June 2006
A week in the country: Motorbike madness - time to ban the Yorkshire Dales TT
Friday 23 June 2006
A week in the country: Good news, bad news on the bird front. Why the Malham peregrines are lucky to be alive
Friday 16 June 2006
A week in the country: The poor but proud country folk. We investigate a Government investigation
Friday 09 June 2006
A week in the country: Viva our roadside verges. Or are they being killed off in the Dales?
Friday 02 June 2006
A week in the country: Who killed Cock Robin? A reprieve for Farmer Giles
Friday 26 May 2006
A week in the country: Spring, the BBC and the web: the future of fusion is here
Friday 19 May 2006
A week in the country: Bill Bryson, bluebells and our 250th column
Friday 12 May 2006
A week in the country: At last, a heavyweight at the Defra helm
Friday 05 May 2006
A week in the country: The hated lady who saved our canals
Friday 28 April 2006
A week in the country: The Yorkshire Dales through the eyes of an offcumden
Friday 21 April 2006
A week in the country: Lifting a glass for England, St George - and farmers
Friday 14 April 2006
A week in the country: A fisherman at Easter. Are there grave battles ahead?
Friday 07 April 2006
A week in the country: Stars in our eyes - is this the end of light pollution in the countryside?
Friday 31 March 2006
A week in the country: Pulling together in the 21st Century Dales village
Friday 24 March 2006
A week in the country: Jurassic Park and global warming - a monster in the countryside?
Friday 17 March 2006
A week in the country: Sacked by the pen-pushers, the scientists trying to save our countryside
Friday 10 March 2006
A week in the country: good news for the gold crest - and thanks to the gardeners
Friday 03 March 2006
A week in the country: Another hunting dilemma- but this time, the quarry can strike back
Friday 24 February 2006
A week in the country: Saving Skipton's stately swans
Friday 17 February 2006
A week in the country: NFU rebellion: a war of words down on the farm
Friday 10 February 2006
A week in the country: St Valentine's Day, an important date on the countryside calendar
Friday 03 February 2006
A week in the country: Welcome back, Jack Frost, friend of gardeners, farmers, fishermen and 'flu victims
Friday 27 January 2006
A week in the country: Crime in the Yorkshire Dales: will new super-force cope - or even care?
Friday 20 January 2006
A week in the country: The millions wasted on the Yorkshire Dales bypasses which have never been built
Friday 13 January 2006
A week in the country: We take a look at just a few of the roles played by the dales over the years.
Friday 06 January 2006
A week in the country: A New Year contemplation of the loss of one of Yorkshire Dale’s most spectacular views.
Friday 23 December 2005
A week in the country: A robin is not just for Christmas - he needs our help
Friday 16 December 2005
A week in the country: Good news, bad news and food, glorious food
Friday 09 December 2005
A week in the country: Game on this Christmas - tasty, healthy, neighbourly ...and cheap
Friday 02 December 2005
A week in the country: Icebergs in Morecambe Bay, yet another fall out by global warming "experts"
Friday 25 November 2005
A week in the country: The "Ahhh" factor and yet another animal invader
Friday 18 November 2005
A week in the country: Supermarkets, shopping and market towns - will Skipton take a stand
Friday 11 November 2005
A week in the country: Red V Grey - the battle of the squirrels and a domestic drama for our countryside correspondent
Friday 04 November 2005
A week in the country: Village halls, the latest targets for Government double think
Friday 28 October 2005
A week in the country: As near panic grips parts of Europe over the avian flu bug, we ask when is a food "scare" real?
Friday 21 October 2005
A week in the country: Taking the Yorkshire Dales to town: a lifeline for deprived youngsters?
Friday 14 October 2005
A week in the country: The good, the bad and the ugly in the countryside: the Prince versus Prescott
Friday 07 October 2005
A week in the country: With River Ribble salmon under threat, we discuss the moral dilemma of the modern game fisherman
Friday 30 September 2005
A week in the country: Caravans in the Yorkshire Dales - curse or good custom?
Friday 23 September 2005
A week in the country: Caravans in the Yorkshire Dales - curse or good custom?
Friday 16 September 2005
A week in the country: A golden fields solution to the oil crisis: grow your own
Friday 09 September 2005
A week in the country: On the road to rural ruin. Have the Yorkshire Dales avoided the crash?
Friday 02 September 2005
A week in the country: Fancy a wild bear in your back yard?
Friday 26 August 2005
A week in the country: How a painful prick for our countryside commentator brought home the NHS shortcomings for residents of remote areas of the Yorkshire Dales
Friday 19 August 2005
A week in the country: Why life is no longer a bowl of cherries - nor peaches and cream - for farming folk
Friday 12 August 2005
A week in the country: How Bill Oddie and breeding birds exposed the dumbed-down planning of terrestrial TV programmers
Friday 05 August 2005
A week in the country: Organic -V-traditional farming. Can we really have a "win-win" situation for farmers, wildlife and the British food consumer?
Friday 29 July 2005
A week in the country: Some quiet reflections on the river bank in 50 years of angling
Friday 22 July 2005
A week in the country: Birds and mankind living together - the problems that have put vets on the alert from Surrey to South East Asia
Friday 15 July 2005
A week in the country: The clowns with sad faces - a travelling circus being forced out of business by badly conceived licensing legislation
Friday 08 July 2005
A week in the country: As London reels from triumph to disaster, our countryside commentator hopes that one of the most important reports on country life will not be overlooked in future
Friday 24 June 2005
A week in the country: Were North Yorkshire floods made worse by misguided land management?
Friday 17 June 2005
A week in the country: Cheers! As the rest of Europe squabbles, we raise a glass in praise of the English country pub
Friday 10 June 2005
A week in the country: Global warming or shifting seasons: do the Mayfly have a lesson for the scientists?
Friday 03 June 2005
A week in the country: Our countryside commentator celebrates a lost bet with a virtual reality country garden
Friday 27 May 2005
A week in the country: Praying for French "Non" to save the English countryside
Friday 20 May 2005
A week in the country: Defra's brand new, countryside quango: Will it work - or will it be another shambles?
Friday 13 May 2005
A week in the country: The gardening threat to England's green and pleasant land
Friday 06 May 2005
A week in the country: Day One of a new Government - and a new countryside controversy raises its head
Tuesday 03 May 2005
Check out some of the events taking place in the Yorkshire Dales this year .. Whatever you're in to, there's something for everyone!
Friday 29 April 2005
A week in the country: As the time to vote arrives - at last - is political correctness rather than party policy the biggest danger to the English countryside?
Friday 22 April 2005
A week in the country: As hopes rise for locals-only Yorkshire Dales housing, some useful hints for first-time buyers
Friday 15 April 2005
A week in the country: As hopes rise for locals-only Yorkshire Dales housing, some useful hints for first-time buyers
Friday 08 April 2005
A week in the country: Forget the election - let's wish Prince Charles, a good friend of the Yorkshire Dales, a long and happy marriage
Friday 01 April 2005
A week in the country: An Easter inquest: why is it so early - and how much damage does it do to the tourist trade?
Friday 25 March 2005
A week in the country: Birds versus hedgehogs - what happens when conservationists fall out
Friday 18 March 2005
A week in the country: The new face of quarrying, anathema to wildlife saviour
Friday 11 March 2005
A week in the country: Back to the wild. As spring approaches (we hope) we support the move to bring back the wonderful wildflowers that have nearly died out
Friday 04 March 2005
A week in the country: A welcome for the long-awaited Defra proposals to reward farmers for their environmental work
Friday 25 February 2005
A week in the country: Supermarkets, Sudan 1 and the FSA - how safe is our food?
Friday 18 February 2005
A week in the country: Northern market towns under threat: when will they ever learn?
Friday 11 February 2005
A week in the country: Foxhunting faces its point of no return. Or does it?
Friday 04 February 2005
A week in the country: Ladybirds, golden plovers and global warming: is atomic energy the answer?
Friday 28 January 2005
A week in the country: The best laid plans… More bureaucratic heartache for the long-suffering hill farmers of the Yorkshire Dales
Friday 21 January 2005
A week in the country: At last, positive action to put roofs over the heads of ordinary country folk
Friday 14 January 2005
A week in the country: Badgers and bovine TB - is there a better way to handle an environmental disaster?
Friday 07 January 2005
A week in the country: Crippling the countryside with political correctness
Friday 17 December 2004
A week in the country: We take a look at the ups and downs in life for our feathered friends
Friday 10 December 2004
A week in the country: Thirsty work ahead for the oldest brewers in the Yorkshire Dales
Friday 03 December 2004
A week in the country: How happy was your Christmas turkey? New spat between animal welfare campaigners and farmers
Friday 26 November 2004
A week in the country: Christmas shopping, country-style - there are bargains to be found
Friday 19 November 2004
A week in the country: Hunting and the death of democracy - rural rights crushed in the name of PC politics
Friday 12 November 2004
A week in the country: Can townie oldies be of use in the countryside?
Friday 05 November 2004
A week in the country: Let's copy the Queen and get hydro-power back in the Dales
A week in the country: Brown field building in green field Britain - the answer to the affordable rural housing famine?
Friday 22 October 2004
A week in the country: Good news for birdlife augers well for next year's country stewardship scheme
Friday 15 October 2004
A week in the country: A harsh winter to come - goods news or bad news?
Friday 08 October 2004
A week in the country: A diversification success story - the sloe way to a quick profit
Friday 01 October 2004
A week in the country: A warm welcome for Alan Titchmarsh as he prepares to make TV stars of the Yorkshire Dales
Friday 24 September 2004
A week in the country: As Tesco announce record profits, we examine the effects of the supermarket chains on country life. And it is far from good…
Friday 17 September 2004
A week in the country: meet the Minister of Rural Misadventure
Friday 10 September 2004
A week in the country: To ban fox hunting, that cunning old fox, Tony Blair, will feed honest country folk to his baying hounds
Friday 03 September 2004
A week in the country: A decade of ornithology– the winners and losers of Britain's wild birds
Friday 27 August 2004
A week in the country: Pity the poor farmer as global warming adds further misery to an agricultural earthquake
Friday 20 August 2004
A week in the country: Taking the sting out of the summer the old fashioned way
Friday 13 August 2004
A week in the country: Busted banks and the threat that summer flooding poses to home-owners, farmers and wildlife
Friday 30 July 2004
A week in the country: Searching for the good news behind the latest rural red tape
Friday 23 July 2004
A week in the country: Searching for the good news behind the latest rural red tape
Friday 16 July 2004
A week in the country: The new countryside code – a curate’s egg of right and wrong
A week in the country: At last, official recognition for man's contribution to the landscapes of our national parks
Friday 02 July 2004
A week in the country: Stirring up the compost heap – is this the new agricultural black gold?
Friday 25 June 2004
A week in the country: Chaos and the Right to Roam - why can't they get our rights right?
Friday 18 June 2004
A week in the country: UKIP, the European Union, and what do they mean now for the English countryside?
Friday 11 June 2004
A week in the country: The people worry as the walls come tumbling down
Friday 04 June 2004
A week in the country: Millennium magic - a visit to the highly successful Eden Project in Cornwall, one of the few Millennium dreams that came true
Friday 28 May 2004
A week in the country: Celebrating our 150th edition, we ruminate on changes in rural attitudes over the past three years
Friday 21 May 2004
A week in the country: Eels on the slippery slope – thanks once again to foreign imports
Friday 14 May 2004
A week in the country: Protecting our landscape – are the bureaucrats moving in?
Wed 12 May 2004
Comedian, writer, broadcaster and conservationist Mike Harding was elected as the Yorkshire Dales Society's new President at the Society's AGM at the weekend.
Friday 07 May 2004
A week in the country: The dutiful Duke of Devonshire who felt that his first duty lay to his estates – and the people who worked them
Friday 29 April 2004
A week in the country: whatever happened to spring? John Sheard discusses the latest signs of global warming
Friday 22 April 2004
A week in the country: Raising the flag – and a knife and fork – for the St George’s Day diet
Friday 02 April 2004
A week in the country: The skylark tragedy and moves to prevent it ever happening again
Friday 26 March 2004
A week in the country: Goods news, bad news for Skipton as a market town
Friday 19 March 2004
A week in the country: Lambing time in the Dales – a chance for townsfolk to witness rural life in the raw
Friday 12 March 2004
A week in the country: GM maize, the most dangerous decision ever made for the British environment?
Friday 05 March 2004
A week in the country: Blackmail allegations in the never ending row between farmers and the supermarket chains
Friday 27 February 2004
A week in the country: The Prince and the Yorkshire Dales, a love affair worth reporting
Friday 20 February 2004
A week in the country: Back in business, that sinister little phrase "compulsory purchase"
Friday 13 February 2004
A week in the country: Letting the dust settle on the storm over farm subsidy reform
Friday 06 February 2004
The foundation for rural skills growth in the Yorkshire Dales
Friday 06 February 2004
A week in the country: ONE OF the drawbacks of writing about countryside matters over the decades is that the same old problems keep cropping up time and time again.
Friday 30 January 2004
A week in the country: The snow-bound Yorkshire Dales, a true winter wonderland
Friday 23 January 2004
A week in the country: As the Yorkshire Dales National Park begins its 50th birthday celebrations, we discuss what it means to the locals
Friday 16 January 2004
A week in the country: Why Scottish salmon joined British beef on the food poison hit list
Friday 02 January 2004
NORTH YORKSHIRE County Council is about to start major roadworks in Hawes, the first package of schemes linked to the town's traffic management strategy.
Tue 30 December 2003
A week in the country: 2004 - a Happy New Year for country folk? Our forecast: occasional sunshine but heavy showers
Friday 26 December 2003
Christmas in the country: some unexpected seasonal presents for the countryside
Friday 19 December 2003
A week in the country: The air travel quandary: a benefit for the Dales - or a disaster for the environment?
Friday 12 December 2003
A week in the country: We take a seasonal look at Robin Redbreast - and advise how you can help to keep him flourishing
Friday 05 December 2003
A week in the country: At last, some good news for farmers - but we consumers can do more
Friday 28 November 2003
A week in the country. Horses for courses: the EU gets something right - by accident
Friday 21 November 2003
A week in the country: Promises, promises from the BBC: will they be kept?
Friday 14 November 2003
A week in the country. The Haskins review of the rural future: plain boring - or deeply sinister?
Friday 07 November 2003
A month out of the country: John Sheard reflects on the pleasure of returning to the Yorkshire Dales after a month in the tropics.
Friday 31 October 2003
A week in another country: John Sheard reports from Penang, Malaysia, on a tourist trade bedeviled by politics
Friday 24 October 2003
A week in the country: Rugby union and country life: the threads which connect the two
Friday 17 October 2003
A week in another country: Our environmental writer John Sheard, on his way to Australia, stops over on the paradise island of Bali
Friday 10 October 2003
Countryside writer John Sheard, on his way to Australia for the world rugby cup, calls in on Java to see what efforts the now democratic Indonesia is making to overcome its appalling past in environmental matters.
Friday 03 October 2003
Country columnist John Sheard reflects on the news that profits have soared for British cereal and beef farmers - but asks when some relief will arrive for northern hill farmers?
Friday 26 September 2003
A week in the country: Will the Government, committed to "rural proofing," allow the Settle-Carlisle railway line to stagnate?
Friday 19 September 2003
Our countryside commentator John Sheard reports on the maze of red tape choking the English country estate and calls for specialised training for future landowners and farmers
Friday 15 August 2003
Our countryside commentator John Sheard takes a busman's holiday -ten days off in the countryside which is his professional workshop
Friday 08 August 2003
Our countryside commentator John Sheard compares two major open-air events staged in Yorkshire and asks why it is always the yobbos who get favoured treatment
Friday 01 August 2003
Our countryside commentator John Sheard asks if the notorious case of Tony Martin will help focus attention on the long overlooked problem of rural crime
Friday 25 July 2003
Our countryside commentator John Sheard recalls memories of dragon flies and sticklebacks, newts and dragon flies - and welcomes efforts to bring them back to life
Friday 18 July 2003
Our country commentator John Sheard ponders the mystery of the ever-growing sea trout and its causes. Could it be global warning?
Friday 11 July 2003
Our countryside correspondent John Sheard welcomes a re-opened railway line for Wensleydale but despairs that life will ever get better for the villagers of the A65
Friday 04 July 2003
Our countryside commentator John Sheard despairs over this week's fracas in the House of Commons when there are so many more important issues at stake
Friday 27 June 2003
Our countryside correspondent John Sheard muses on two items of good news this week - agricultural reforms and a new scheme to back affordable rural housing - but wonders if anyone has read the small print
Friday 20 June 2003
With great reluctance, our countryside commentator John Sheard turns again to politics - and asks whether North Yorkshire must be sacrificed to political vanity
Friday 13 June 2003
As the Yorkshire Dales National Park announces party plans for its golden jubilee next year, our countryside correspondent John Sheard discusses some of the successes - and the failings - of the national park movement
Friday 06 June 2003
Our country correspondent John Sheard expresses little surprise at the fact that important countryside legislation is being delayed by Whitehall indifference
Friday 30 May 2003
Our countryside commentator John Sheard hopes that a new plan to give Dales youngsters affordable homes will succeed - but wonders who will give the project necessary support
Friday 23 May 2003
Our countryside commentator John Sheard urges more farmers, landowners and even gardeners to take advantage of generous grants for tree planting
Friday 16 May 2003
Country commentator John Sheard delights in the comeback of the otter - but warns that this is a story with a sombre message for the future
Friday 09 May 2003
Our country commentator John Sheard digests the latest annual statistics from the Countryside Agency - and, like the curate's egg, they are good and bad in parts
Friday 02 May 2003
In this, his 100th Week in the country column, John Sheard picks the good and the bad from the past two years
Friday 25 April 2003
Our countryside columnist John Sheard hopes that an ill-judged legal threat from off-road vehicle drivers will finally provoke Government action save the green lanes of the Yorkshire Dales
Thu 17 April 2003
Our countryside columnist John Sheard discusses the importance of this Easter holiday for businesses facing a general downturn - and still not fully recovered from FMD
Friday 11 April 2003
In 1960, our country columnist John Sheard was one of the first journalists in Britain to expose the dangers of the widespread use of farm pesticides. At last, he can now welcome a coordinated, scientific approach to this sad subject
Friday 04 April 2003
Our country columnist John Sheard looks at an ambitious project to decide the future of rural life and asks: is this just more wishful thinking or can it really work?
Friday 28 March 2003
Country columnist John Sheard wonders if new controls on foreign food imports can prevent another outbreak of FMD - or even worse
Friday 21 March 2003
With the opening of the brown trout fishing season, our country columnist John Sheard renewed his 30-year-old relationship with a family of yellow wagtails. They were still there - but he was lucky
Friday 07 March 2003
Britain's dogs have been betrayed and belittled by a century of in-breeding encouraged by Crufts supporters, says former dog-owner John Sheard
Friday 28 February 2003
Although country columnist John Sheard believes Government plans for "green" electricity are largely hot air, he still fears they might cause untold damage to the landscape
Friday 21 February 2003
Two years after the first outbreak of foot and mouth disease, country columnist John Sheard wonders if a vital tool, the Internet, could have saved the day?
Friday 14 February 2003
Our country columnist John Sheard is dragged away from important matters of country life -like fly fishing and gardening - by the incessant uproar caused by politicians banging the rural drum
Friday 07 February 2003
Our country columnist John Sheard is dragged away from important matters of country life -like fly fishing and gardening - by the incessant uproar caused by politicians banging the rural drum
Friday 31 January 2003
Country columnist John Sheard welcomes plans to train apprentices in rural skills in the Yorkshire Dales National Park – and hopes that others will take up the campaign
Friday 24 January 2003
Our country columnist John Sheard rages about a dream turned sour and urges Tony Blair to go to war - in Europe
Friday 17 January 2003
Our country columnist John Sheard raises an eyebrow at a Yorkshire Forward decision to designate old West Riding mill communities as "market towns"
Friday 10 January 2003
Our country columnist John Sheard urges readers to serve up an early meal for their garden birds - or lose them to the cold snap.
Friday 03 January 2003
Country columnist John Sheard welcomes the honour given to Sir Ewen Cameron, chairman of the Countryside Agency, because he is a man who speaks his mind.
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