RipShock kicks off for festival season
Hundreds of young people are expected to attend the RipShock Festival when it returns to Ripon next month (July 6th). The festival, which is organised by North Yorkshire County Council’s Youth Support Service and Connecting Youth Culture will include a host of local bands and DJs across two stages. Purple Mafia, Snuff, and Summer City [...]
We have a pair of tickets to give away for Lianne La Havas at the Royal Hall on 19 July 2013. To be in with a chance of winning you will need to join the facebook group and at 11pm on Friday, 21 June 2013 a draw will be made for the lucky winner. If you have [...]
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The best of the region’s farming will be recognized at the 2013 Great Yorkshire Show when the regional winners and overall champion of the 2013 Tye Trophy competition will be announced. The competition is organised by the Yorkshire Agricultural Society and recognises good farming practice in Yorkshire and the North East. What the judges are [...]
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Art to go on show as part of a summer-long exhibition profiling exciting artists from around the region at RHS Garden Harlow Carr in Harrogate. A new summer art exhibition is about to open at one of Yorkshire’s most renowned gardens, showcasing work from the region’s leading artists. Running from 17 June – 8 September, [...]
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The CCTV camera column on Wetherby Road in Harrogate has been reinstated after being completely destroyed in an accident last year. A driver collided with the CCTV camera column near to the Empress roundabout which completely destroyed it. Something like this has never happened before, so it was hit with some force. The impact not [...]
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The annual ‘Independence FROM America’ demonstration at the gates of NSA Menwith Hill, near Harrogate North Yorkshire will take place on the evening of Thursday, 4 July 2013. This is a peaceful demonstration is about raising awareness of the Menwith Hill base and has happened since 1980. In previous years there has been a [...]
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Tennants of Yorkshire Antiques & Fine Art Auctioneers have announced that building work on their £8m expansion has just begun. The 54 week build process started on 5 June 2013 at their main auction house in Leyburn, with a ceremonial ‘cutting of the sod’. It also poignantly marked twenty years since Rodney Tennant opened [...]
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A 91-year-old woman has died in a collision in Knaresborough. The woman, a pedestrian, was sadly pronounced dead following the collision with a green Toyota Aygo. The accident happened at 12.35pm on Saturday 15 June 2013, between Knaresborough and Harrogate on Forest Moor Road. The exact location was 400 metres prior to the junction with the [...]
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Monday 17th June is Fodder’s fourth birthday. Fodder is the local food shop and cafe, at the Great Yorkshire Showground. Since its inception, Fodder has grown from strength to strength and now sells produce from over 350 local farmers and suppliers. Managing Director, Heather Parry said: Fodder is one of the initiatives that the Yorkshire [...]
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Dj Trev’s guide to Nights of Cider-onism (this is a rather poor play on words of a Muse song title. If you didn’t know that, go listen to Muse : Knights of Cydonia, it is probbers their bestest ever song) Right, I’m at Download big corporate festival this weekend; for those who don’t know what big [...]
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