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used clothing, records, spare parts, etc, will be bought and sold; everything from retro tat to a fancy hat.

Two cover bands will play in the evenings.

The Jam DRC will perform on the Friday, followed by the Extra Specials on the Saturday. They will be joined by the Wainstones, a four-piece Redcar band who cover songs by the Beatles, the Stone Roses, the Jam, Oasis, etc. Sharing the bill are Red Ed’s Soul Lounge and the Alternative DJ dance-off.

A film crew has obtained permission from the council to fly camera-drones on the seafront to record the rally for a film about the scooter scene.

The VFM collective is “a non-political group dedicated to scootering”, according to the website, vfmscoot.com.

“We will not tolerate members of any extreme political groups organising meetings at our events, be they scooterists or not.

“Our advice to anyone attending our events is to get on your scooter and leave your politics at home. Except for the old Vespa / Lambretta / auto debate”. n Gig tickets cost £6 and can be booked by ringing 821888.

The 2015 scooter rally parade at the Spa

S C O O T E R fever returns to Scarborough at Easter when a national rally is staged at the Spa. About 2,000 scooters and over 4,000 people from all over the UK, plus Belgium and France, are expected to attend the event.

It is being organised by the VFM collective under the auspices of the British Scooter Rallies Association.

The bikes will be mostly Vespas and Lambrettas, plus a few vintage Velocettes and some modern models.

Scooter rallies have been held in the town every other year since the early 1980s, alternating with Whitby, says one of the organisers. Steve Foster was one of about 10,000 people who flooded the town on their bikes in 1981. Steve says he slept by the sea wall, below the castle.

Scarborough attracted big scooter rallies in the 70s.

“There was a huge northern scooter scene, tied in with the northern-soul scene”, Steve says. “Everyone wore flares and Doc Martens”.

The Spa rally kicks off the scooter season over the Easter weekend, from 14-16 April, Steve explains.

It will feature a trade and custom show, where new and

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Old phonebox finds new use in emergencies

by Dave Barry SCALBY’S red phonebox has found a new lease of life as defibrillator box.

BT was theatening to remove the traditional, old-fashioned kiosk.

The nearby Plough restaurant launched a campaign to adopt it.

Research was conducted into how other villages had transformed their red boxes to benefit the community.

It soon became clear that a beneficial use for the box would be for it to house a defibrillator which can be used by the public.

The box offers a well-recognised, safe and weather-proof home for the life-saving device.

The Plough is owned by theatre entrepreneur Nick Thomas and his wife Sandra, who live in Scalby with their family. The couple explored the possibility of adopting the box.

The restaurant displayed in-house and social-media posts asking supporters to sign a petition which was presented to Newby & Scalby Parish Council. It garnered 160 signatures.

Scalby resident Bob Walton campaigned to save the box at parish council meetings and introduced councillors to Coast & Vale Community Action (Cavca), a charity which promotes thriving communities throughout the borough of Scarborough.

The campaign gathered momentum.

“Supporters gained a great following of their cause locally and nationally, resulting in interviews with local radio station Yorkshire Coast Radio, Radio York and a TV interview with BBC Breakfast that was shown across various BBC news channels”, said a

spokesperson.

BT informed Cavca that the campaign had been successful and that the phonebox could be converted.

The Plough and Cavca are now raising funds to cover the maintenance of the box.

Collection boxes are to be placed in the Plough and the nearby Yew Tree café.

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Modern music is fine, but there is nothing that compares to the sheer coolness of the Rat Pack - Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., and Dean Martin. Classic hits still resonate today, like Come Fly with Me, That’s Amore, Under My Skin, Mr Bojangles, Mack The Knife and many more. If, however, you missed out on seeing the trio live 50 years ago (where were you?) you can still catch one of the world's greatest tribute acts, The Rat Pack Vegas Spectacular, performing on 9th April at the Whitby Pavilion. The live show features amazing Rat Pack impersonators, the Rat Pack Orchestra, and the fabulous Vegas Show Girls.

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News in Brief A free book swap will be staged at the Friends Meeting House on Sunday (2 Apr), from noon until 3pm. To participate, take unwanted books, leave them on the table, browse and pick out something you fancy.

Have a cup of tea or coffee. You could even go early and attend a Quaker worship meeting, between 10.30 and 11.30am. The venue is in Quaker Close, off Woodlands Drive, near the hospital.

A reunion for former Raincliffe School pupils who left in 1978 will be staged at the Spa pub on Saturday 8 April, from 7pm. For details, ring Sue Groom (nee White) on 07733 134322.

“It would be nice to see old faces”, says Sue. Mel Bonney-Kane of Cavca with campaigner Bob Walton, right, and Robert Lazenby from the Plough (photo by Vaughan Walton)

Steve Sherlock will give a talk for Staintondale and Ravenscar Local History Group at Staintondale village hall on Tuesday

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18 April, at 7.30pm. Steve was responsible for archaeological excavations during A1 roadworks which unearthed an Anglo-Saxon burial site. The dig, near Catterick, revealed that Britain’s longest road has been in use for 10,000 years.

Scarborough Alzheimer’s Society’s spring coffee morning takes place at the Park Manor Hotel on Thursday 27 April, at 10am. It will be opened by the mayor, Cllr Simon Green, who opened the society’s Christmas coffee morning. The Alzheimer’s Society is the Tour de Yorkshire’s official charity this year.

The annual jumble sale at Ravenscar village hall is on Friday 28 April at 6.30pm.

Admission will cost 20p. For details, ring Val Russell on 870801.

Parting gifts leaves Ros loss for words IT’S not very often that Ros Dyson is left at a loss for words but she nearly was at a surprise presentation in her honour.

Ros received gifts including flowers and a montage of photographs of her work as the coordinator for the Operation Christmas Child shoebox appeal in Scarborough for the last 15 years. She has worked for the organisation for 22 years in total.

Ros, 70, pulled the strings behind the scenes to bring together hundreds of volunteers from the Scarborough district over the years to process thousands of boxes full of gifts that are distributed as Christmas presents to

children in need across the world.

She is retiring from the post in September.

‘Thank you everybody – I had no idea these presents were coming,’ said Ros, wiping away tears at a thank you lunch held in honour of the volunteers at the Rainbow Centre.

More than 70 volunteers helped the Scarborough effort in November and December and between them processed a local record of 9,090 boxes that were transported for delivery to the Ukraine in time for Christmas.

‘We’ve had a fantastic team over the years who have helped through their work to put a smile on children’s’ faces,’ Ros told the

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Ian Proudler, Operation Christmas Child’s regional manager for the North East and Yorkshire, told Ros: ‘It has been a real honour and a privilege to work with you.

‘Thank you for what you and the volunteers in the Scarborough area have done to help so many children across the world.’

In 2016, Operation Christmas Child in the UK distributed 880,000 shoeboxes to 17 countries.

Internationally, the organisation, run by disaster relief agency Samaritan’s Purse, distributed nearly 11.5 million shoeboxes to children around the world.

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The surgeon, the psychiatrist and the pathologist

by Dave Barry Tales of life and death on the operating table will be told by a pioneering heart surgeon at Scarborough’s fourth annual Books by the Beach festival.

Dr Steve Westaby, who has performed 11,000 heart operations, will talk about his new book, Fragile Lives.

He will join numerous leading authors at the library, the Spa and other venues, from 26 April to 1 May. One of the country’s leading psychiatrists will take part in a discussion entitled Shellshock From the Somme to Syria.

Professor Sir Simon Wessely, president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, will be joined by historian Taylor Downing and ex-soldier Allan Mallinson.

Crime-scene pathologist Dr Stuart Hamilton and popular fiction writer Mark Billingham will discuss suspicious death in life and literature.

Critic and festival regular Barry Forshaw, who has met many authors and giants of the US film world including Alfred Hitchcock, will introduce his new book, American Noir.

Award-winning actor Dame Harriet Walter will talk about playing Shakespeare’s roles for women, at the Stephen Joseph Theatre (SJT).

TV presenter and former Loose Women panellist Denise Welch will talk about her debut novel, If They Could See me Now. Denise, who has been in Coronation Street and Soldier, Soldier, has written two bestselling autobiographies.

Geordie Shore star Vicky Pattison, once queen of the jungle in I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here, will join best-selling author Adele Parks, often found in the Sunday Times bestsellers list; her work has been translated into 26 languages.

Books by the Beach will feature a large dose of girl power at the Spa Theatre. The four mums who recently rowed across the Atlantic in 67 days will tell their heroic tale with humour and Yorkshire grit. They picked up a record along the journey as the oldest women to row an ocean.

The other speakers include champion jockey Declan Murphy, Victoria screenwriter Daisy Goodwin, journalist Wendy Moore, MP Alan Johnson, Jane Austen expert Helena Kelly and historians Ross King and John Lewis-Stempel.

Local scriptwriter and Beach Hut Theatre co-founder Alison Watt will run two themed drama workshops in contrasting settings: the old prison and the Crescent Hotel.

Culinary events are an integral part of the festival. Salley Vickers will speak about her new novel Cousins at a literary lunch at the Crescent Hotel. Historian Anne Sebba will transport her audience to the German occupation of Paris in the 1940s, when glamour was ever-present. That’s at the Palm Court Hotel, where a French-style breakfast will set the mood. And Eat Me café will serve light bites between anecdotes at the SJT. n To book tickets, ring 370451. For further details, visit www.booksbythebeach.co.uk.

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Curious Roots TRY to make time to hear the dawn chorus, because it’s in full voice now. The robin’s sweet, trickling song is the first you’ll hear, but blackbirds are up early too, sending their lush, fluting notes through the brightening sky. Then chaffinches, wrens, thrushes and sparrows rush to swell the irresistible tide of sound.

April is the time for egg laying, when birds need to be in good health. A supply of sunflower hearts will keep your garden songsters in trim, and are sure to attract a goldfinch or two. With his red face patch and black wings flashing with gold, the goldfinch can’t be confused with any other bird. A flock of goldfinches is called a “charm”, a word that used to mean a magic song — listen, and you’ll understand how appropriate that is.

In April the first puffins arrive, joining the thousands of razorbills and guillemots at the RSPB reserve on Bempton cliffs. Swallows skim the fields in pursuit of midges to build themselves up after the journey from subSaharan Africa, their excited twittering a foretaste of summer. But of all our summer birds, the cuckoo used to be the special one.

While we know that cuckoos spend winter in the Congo rainforest, in the past there was no way of knowing that. They just seemed to appear. Some folk said they were shape shifting faery birds — cuckoos in summer, and hawks in winter.

Hearing the first call was such a cause for celebration that workers would down tools, so they could drink to the bird that brought summer. The calendar had many Cuckoo Days when old fairs were held to mark the bird’s arrival. Today the cuckoo is much less common. Yet cuckoos still turn up on moorland, marshland and in open woodland, anywhere there are foster parents for their chick. Find out more at www.bto.org And keep listening for that iconic call. You’ll have good luck if the first cuk-oo you hear is coming from your right. If there’s money in your pocket give it a jingle, and you’ll never be short for the rest of the year.

As the month proceeds, fruit trees blossom.

Their small flowers mass to spectacular effect: the simple pale pinks of apple and plum, the dazzling froth of ornamental

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Tearful poetry at bookfest

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Poems which make women cry will be read out at Amnesty International’s contribution to Scarborough’s Books by the Beach literature festival.

Entitled Poems to make grown women cry, it

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cherries, the deep red of crab apples, and the delicate white showers of our native woodland cherry. All are at the mercy of April’s weather, which can be anything from warm sunshine to frost and hailstones.

Folklore says we must put up with it if the summer is to be any good. Even a wind off the sea is good news: “East wind in spring, a good summer shall bring.”

A likely time for an easterly is during the blackthorn winter. The exact timing is hard to predict, but when masses of white flowers clothe the bare blackthorn branches, there’s sure to be a cold snap. A clue: it often happens around mid-April, which this year is Eastertide.

Whatever the weather, children will be out hunting for hidden chocolate eggs, or chasing hard-boiled eggs down slopes.

In the days before chocolate all Easter eggs were hardboiled, and decorating them to give as presents was a speciality of England’s northern counties. Patterns were made by marking shells with candle wax, or by tying strips of lace or leaves around the eggs before popping them in the pan to simmer.

The colours came from natural dyes added to the water: onion-skins or gorse flowers for yellow, spinach for green, tea for brown, and beetroot for pink.

One reason why real eggs became popular at Easter was because there were lots of them.

Hens didn’t know that eggs couldn’t be eaten during Lent, so they kept laying them. The surplus eggs, hard-boiled or pickled, were saved until the fast was over.

The other reason is symbolic. The egg, with new life hidden inside, has inspired thoughts of hope and rebirth since ancient times.

Staff strike against pay cut

by Dave Barry

Dr Stuart Hamilton

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is being organised by the town branch of the human-rights organisation.

It will be at the library on Friday 28 April, at 10am.

The poems will include a short one written by 13th century poet Rumi, entitled Isn't that

Staff at Foundation in Scarborough have gone on strike against their employer’s attempts to cut pay and conditions.

As members of the trade union Unison, they took part in a demonstration outside Foundation’s head office in Leeds.

They were joined by other Foundation workers from around Yorkshire.

Foundation - formerly known as Foundation Housing and Home and Dry - have provided supported accommodation for vulnerable people for nearly 20 years in Scarborough.

A support worker commented: “Foundation provides an essential service, helping some of the most vulnerable people in our society, and it requires experienced staff in order to keep doing this. something?

“I like when the music happens like this: Something in His eye grabs hold of the tambourine in me. Then I turn and lift a violin in someone else and they turn, and in this turning continues. It has reached you now.

Isn't that something?”

The event is to remember the thousands of people who fight injustice all over the world

“The cuts Foundation are wanting to bring in will not only mean we have terrible pay and conditions but will also make it much harder for them to keep or recruit the staff that are so needed. What this employer is doing will help no-one”.

The Foundation management was asked for a comment but declined.

Talks are continuing.

Foundation support workers outside the company’s head office who Amnesty supports.

People like Annie Alfred, discriminated against for being albino in Malawi; Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, imprisoned in Iran and separated from her five-year-old daughter; Shawkan, a photojournalist in Egypt jailed for doing his job; Dr Tluleng Motoheng; fighting for abortion rights in South Africa; and Su Chaghan, helping child brides in China.

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Oh they do like to geek beside the seaside

by Dave Barry SCI-FI fans from across the universe are being invited to geek beside the seaside as an unconventional convention returns for the fourth year.

Sci-Fi Scarborough – or SFS – takes place at the Spa on the weekend of 8 and 9 April.

“SFS has everything you love about the world of sci-fi and fantasy with, as always, a few surprises to amaze, engage and entertain”, says co-organiser Steve Dickinson.

“We can’t believe how much SFS has grown as an event in just four years.

“We have packed this show with fantastic guests and amazing content”, Steve says. “Over 300 people are on site and involved in it. It’s an incredible amount of work, putting it together and co-ordinating everything, but it’s such a great weekend and so many lovely people have so much fun that it makes it all worthwhile!”

The world’s longest running and most respected sci-fi / fantasy magazine, Starburst, reported in a double-page review of SFS 2016: “As more and more geek-oriented events hit the calendar, the competition has got more and more fierce, but already a number of events are starting to stand out from the crowd, and Sci-Fi Scarborough does this very well indeed, thanks to a combination of a great venue and a strong, community-minded ethos”.

The venue will be divided into eight areas covering all aspects of fandom: from guest stars to gaming, props to publishers, cosplayers to comic books, music to Minecraft, artists to authors and traders to top-line creators.

The Spa Grand Hall will become Artists Alley, where guests including actors, authors, artists, illustrators, crafters, signers and other creative minds will appear.

Authors: CG Hatton, Jex Collyer, Graham Rhodes, Chantelle Roberts, Mike Brooks and Alistair Lavers.

Comic-book artists: Russell Payne, Gary Erskine, local man Richard Piers-Rayner, Nick Brokenshire and legendary illustrator Chris Achilleos.

Actors: David Warner (who has been in Star Trek and Tron), Gareth David-Lloyd (Ianto Jones in Torchwood), Sylvester McCoy (the seventh Dr Who), Sophie Aldred (Ace in Dr Who), Garrick Hagon (Biggs Darklighter in Star Wars: A New Hope), Richard Oldfield (Hobbie in The Empire Strikes Back), Liza Ross (Batman and Tomorrow Never Dies), Tim Rose (Admiral Ackbar in three Star Wars films), Jon Campling (Deatheater in Harry Potter, King Regis in Kingsglaive:Final Fantasy XV), Andrew Lee Potts (Connor Temple in Primeval, Lucky Man, Alice), Pam Rose (Leesub Sirln in Star Wars 1999) and Clem So (Guardians of the Galaxy).

Guest panels will be staged in the Spa Theatre on both days, talking about Dr Who and Star Wars.

The Sun Court will become the Underground Music Institute, where live music will be performed.

Youngsters will be entertained by a free face painter, a balloon modeller, two macaws called Inca and Zeus, pirate handlers and entertainers

Two the Hilt, with live Jedi battles.

The Promenade Lounge trading hall will provide collectors of all ages with over 20 pitches to buy and sell collectables for all budgets.

As Hangar 18, the Ocean Room will host Hollywood prop and armoury legend Terry English; Anderson & Friends with original Gerry Anderson puppets, ships and props; live bodypainting, prosthetics and SFX makeup, prop collections from the North Yorkshire Props Department, UK Sandraiders, Outer Rim Props, the Time Meddlers’ Dr Who display, Hidden Horizons astronomy and phenomenal planetarium, Magraw’s World of Vintage Star Wars and the Leeds / Bradford Starfleet.

On the rooftop Vita Dome, renamed the D20 Gaming Zone, Scarborough Games Society and Hellfire Gaming Industries will keep fans of RPG, CCG, tabletop and miniature gaming happy, with 10 big tables to play on. Throw in Scarborough Anime & Manga Society and new card game Heroes of Pentartica for arguably the geekiest area of SFS. The Fan Film Theatre will again become the main holodeck for some of the best independent and fan films on the circuit and guest panels, under the careful stewardship of award-winning Red Shirt Films from York.

Pixellated mayhem ensues as Krash Labs return to SFS, located at the top of the stairs in the Spa foyer, with high-speed LAN and 25+ PCs. Krash Labs’ 3D Minecraft recreation of the town, unveiled at Coastival, took thousands of hours of work over nine months. But at SFS,

it will be attacked by Tripod Aliens and needs defending.

Farrers bar is the Saturday night party zone with a geek pub quiz and live music from Fuzz Junkies, Parasputin and Blues Harvest playing sci-fi movie hits, followed by Cardboard Cyborg into the early hours of Sunday morning.

Cosplayers at SFS will be able to enter a competition, with daily awards for best male and female and junior male and female.

Roaming features will include the UK R2 Builders Club, fresh off their work on Star Wars: The Last Jedi, The Force Awakens and Rogue One; patrols from the judges of the Brit-Cit Justice Department; and Star Wars costumers from Rebel Legion and the East Midlands Garrison.

Scarborough’s Black Sheep Cosplay, Sons of Skaro and Daleks will terrorise SFS attendees at will.

Scarborough Art Gallery is hosting an SFS fringe event called The Gallery on the Edge of Forever until 11 April. It features work by local artists including Richard Piers-Rayner.

As part of SFS, Time Bandits will be shown at the Stephen Joseph Theatre on 7 April, at 7.45pm. Terry Gilliam’s British fantasy film stars Sean Connery, John Cleese, Michael Palin and SFS guest David Warner. n Tickets can be bought on the door, online at www.scarboroughspa.co.uk and in person at the Spa and Mojo’s Music Café on Victoria Road (to avoid booking fees). For more information, visit www.scifiscarborough. co.uk.

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Scare tactics to see Beardy weirdies off seagull attacks descend on Spa Words and pictures by Mike Tyas

‘BULLY’ boy birds of prey will become a regular sight flying above Scarborough seafront as they bid to scare off the threat from nuisance gulls.

With the onset of spring and the breeding season for herring gulls under way, the meanlooking raptures have for the last month being getting to know their new patch to police, in areas in and around Sandside and Foreshore Road.

With numbers of reported attacks from gulls soaring last year, the Scarborough Councilbacked scheme introduced falcons and Harris Hawks as part of a ‘disruption and dispersal’ programme that began place amid a flurry of media interest.

‘We want the gulls to realise they are not the kings around here anymore,’ said Bill Chatt, Scarborough Council’s cabinet member for environmental health, at a public information event on Sandside.

‘We’ve introduced the birds of prey to bully the gulls and tell them that there are now new boys on the block and living and breeding around this part of Scarborough is not a good idea.’

‘We’ve introduced a fear factor in their gulls’ lives.’

Since then, specialist bird control company, NBC Environment, have begun a trial programme removing herring gull nests and eggs at selected locations under licence and flying the bird of prey as a deterrent to the gulls The trial, approved by councillors in January, costs £36,500 and will be reviewed in 12 months. If successful, it is anticipated it could run five or six years.

‘We want to make it easier for people to walk down the sea front like they used to eating their fish and chips and ice-creams without the fear of a gull attacking them for the food,’ said NBC regional sales manager Steve Owen.

Nests and eggs are being removed by the company who then are using GPS mapping to return to the same site within 21-28 days to repeat the process as the gulls will build more nests and relay their eggs up to three or four times a breeding season. The company are to return to Scarborough seafront, and also sites in Whitby, until the autumn.

‘The idea is simple,’ said Mr Owen. ‘The gulls will associate the disappearance of their eggs with the birds of prey being around and, hopefully, they will eventually move on.

‘We want to change the gulls’ habits. They will come back to the same site every year until someone steps in and stops them. If we remove nests and eggs the birds are not going to return to the same spot, so the cycle is eventually broken.

‘The problem in Scarborough is like it is with other seaside towns. It is not the number of gulls, it is the amount of gulls that become aggressive when they are feeding their chicks and there is an easy source of food around.’

Mr Owen said residents and tourists should see a decrease in the number of aggressive attacks this year but forecast it may take three years before a reduction in numbers. He said his company had successfully introduced similar schemes in Weymouth, Plymouth and Bath.

Mr Chatt said they were also reliant on public help if the programme was to work.

He added: ‘The biggest problem in Scarborough is not the gulls – they should be here – but they have become associated with the take-away lifestyle, attacking people and getting a free lunch.

‘We again ask the public to help us, by not feeding the gulls, and by putting litter in the bins that are provided. We want the gulls to go back to eating food from the sea and not fish from a fish and chip shop.’

Notices warning the public not to feed gulls are to be displayed in the area, said Mr Chatt, who emphasised they were targeting herring gulls on the seafront rather than other types of gull in town centre locations.

‘The problem in the town centre is with kittiwakes with their mess. They don’t eat human food – they feed out at sea,’ he said.

Mr Chatt said if the trial was successful the council would look to extend it into areas of Filey seafront next year.

Scarborough Council has a website with advice on seagulls, at https://www. scarborough.gov.uk/seagulls. The public can report problems with nesting gulls to NBC Environment on Freephone 0800 169 9646, Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm.

Words and photos by Dave Barry

YOU would have thought that Ben Waddington’s twin passions would complement each other.

He keeps bees and uses bees-wax to stiffen his superb moustache.

Unfortunately, he hasn’t mastered waxproduction to the point where it’s good enough for his tache, so he has to buy wax.

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Comic Relief celebrations Words by Krystal Starkey photo by John Margett

RADIO SCARBOROUGH and Personalised Learning Pathways students, celebrated Red Nose Day with plenty of jokes at The Street, raising a grand total of £141.

The students and teachers from PLP made cakes and buns for a charity bake sale. The event was a humorous one, with students calling up their friends and telling jokes live on air throughout the lunchtime show.

PLP is a specialist provision for young people aged 19-25 with a wide range of learning disabilities.

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Gin’s on the lookout for trouble

Scarborough Spa, travelled from Leeds, where he lives, with his daughter Lola, 7.

It was his first time at the event, which was timed to coincide with Yorkshire Beard Day. However, he came second in the musketeer category of a similar occasion last year.

The Spa event featured men with all kinds of facial hair including Scarborough beard champion Anthony Springall, aka Captain Ants.

AN Easter adventure quest is coming up at Scarborough Castle, from 14-17 April.

Young participants will be able to meet a character from the past and crack the clues as they explore the castle. A chocolate reward will be given to successful adventurers. It is the first of several events planned by English Heritage for the castle this year.

The others include a Totally Socially

Radio Scarborough DJ, Mark Sinclair said: “it was a fun day with lots of enthusiasm and participation.”

PLP students at Radio Scarborough

community day on Sunday 9 July, when admission will be free to local residents.

Hands on History will have a medieval theme (22-28 July, 29 July-4 Aug, 7-11 Aug, 12-18 Aug, 21-25 Aug, 26 Aug-3 Sep).

Other events are a kite festival (27-29 May), a production of Jane Eyre by Chapterhouse Theatre (8 July), Roman Scarborough (5-6 Aug) and Scarborough at War (19-20 Aug).

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Fish and chips for 1p – Static Royals boy racers you’d batter believe it! converge on seafront Words and pictures by Mike Tyas YOU’VE heard the expression ‘cheap as chips’.

Well the nation’s favourite dish of fish and chips really was a bargain basement price as a chippy in Scarborough sold them for just 1p.

Hundreds if not thousands of hungry fish and chips fans were expected to flock to Papas takeaway at Eastfield on 29th March to take advantage of the ‘crazy offer’.

The freakish fish deal followed the success of the Hull-based company being named as the best fish and chips takeaway in the country in a BBC programme.

‘We wanted to celebrate with our customers in Scarborough who have embraced us and shown us great support since we opened,’ said co-owner Andrew Papas.

He added: ‘We could have kept the celebrations in-house but we wanted our customers to be part of our success as a way of thanking them.

‘We are number one in Britain so we thought we would sell our fish and chips at 1p.

‘We’ve done crazy offers like this before. We charged 50p for fish and chips last year at our restaurant in Hull to celebrate the company’s 50th birthday. It was a great success.’

The 1p for a portion of a regular 10oz haddock and chips was expected to attract a lot of support from hungry diners.

‘We were expecting to sell between 5-6,000 portions,’ said Mr Papas.

The normal price for medium haddock and chips at Papas is £4.25.

The company had also run the offer the previous day at their two takeaways in Hull.

Mr Papas drafted in extra staff into the Scarborough shop to help the takeaway’s normal contingent of six staff.

He added: ‘The staff in the takeaway looked forward to a really busy but fun day.’

The company planned to source extra supplies of haddock from suppliers in Scarborough and

Whitby, in addition to their usual merchant in Grimsby to meet the demand.

They also said they had contacted police to make them aware of what they were doing and the potential of traffic jams on nearby roads.

‘The 50p deal caused gridlock last year,’ said Mr Papas.

Papas was named number one in BBC Two’s Best British Takeaway, hosted by celebrity pub chef Tom Kerridge, after winning a cooking contest filmed in Devon last year.

Mr Papas’ father Sid and brothers Dino and George took part in the ‘Bake-off’ style shootout beating chippies from Exmouth and Camden in London.

But such was the secrecy around revealing the winner that Papas’ owners did not know they had won until the night the programme was aired, Tuesday, 14th March.

‘The production company filmed three outcomes,’ said Mr Papas. ‘We found out the same time as everybody else.’

The restaurant and takeaway, in the former The Scarborough pub, adjacent to Morrisons, opened in December.

It employs 40 staff and has seating for 450 customers.

Words and photos by Dave Barry

THE first time I came across the Static Royals, I’d never heard of them.

Late one evening, last summer, I drove onto Marine Drive and was immediately immersed in the adrenalin-charged world of boy-racers showing off flashy cars.

The road and pavement were crammed with countless young motorists and their wellpolished, modified vehicles.

Many had their bonnets up and the engines illuminated with bright colours.

There was a huge buzz. We crawled along at snail’s pace and had to stop many times.

Lots of people were taking photos of the starcar behind us, which at one point stopped until about 100 yards of road had cleared in between us.

In the mirror, I watched as the driver suddenly put his foot down and accelerated towards my rusty old banger as quickly as possible, burning rubber and slamming on the brakes at the last moment, to wild cheers from phone-wielding spectators.

It took about 20 minutes to drive from the old tollhouse to the bottom of Chain Hill, nose to tail. The Static Royals Automobile Club converges on Scarborough a few times a year.

At its first meeting of the year, on 19 March, cars filled every square metre of the pavement between the Sands and the doomed public toilets. Music blared from top-end sound systems.

It was high tide and precious vehicles were getting splashed with corrosive waves so many moved. Some straddled the wider paths which meander up the hillside.

Young men and women, some with children and dogs, wandered up and down, admiring each other’s cars.

The Oasis café was making a killing, with long queues. Watermark had a gig on and was already full. Blue Crush was rammed.

The police motored up and down, keeping an eye on things. But it all seemed to pass off peacefully - apart from the backfiring.

Based in East Yorkshire, the club began as a group of young motorists with similar tastes in cars – mostly small and sporty.

“We are enthusiasts of all things motorised, from classic to modified and from bikes to trucks; we love them all”, according to the club’s website, www.staticroyals.co.uk.

The club is for “lovers of static lowered cars.

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Andrew Papas What a normal portion costs in the takeaway

The road got busier as the light faded Young motorists admire each others’ vehicles

The seafront was full of cars and young people

Staff outside the takeaway look forward to the big day. From left: Emma Burrows, Andrew Papas, Gemma Kempson, Josh Jordan, Jordan Salt, Ryan Tarry, Kelly Collins.

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by Dave Barry EASTFIELD Library is one of 21 libraries in North Yorkshire which are being taken over by volunteers in April.

They will be community run and managed but will still receive books, professional support and the IT infrastructure, all paid for by the county council.

The volunteers have already been trained and supported so that they feel confident to deliver a library service to the community.

This will continue after the transition.

The volunteer groups will retain the income generated by the library, such as fines and reservation charges, but will still need to raise money from other sources, grants, sales, etc.

Eastfield Library will be run by a group of volunteers called More Than Books.

Charitable status has been applied for and Eastfield Town Council will provide financial support.

The opening time will change to 10am daily but no change will be made to services.

Scarborough & District Age UK will hold drop-in advice sessions and other events and activities will take place regularly.

“We welcome volunteers to come in and assist with all activities”, says press officer Linda Kemp.

“This could be crafts, IT support, keeping Library volunteer the place clean and Victoria Ayrton won a tidy, or anything else raffle prize at a recent they can do to help”. event

Sitting on the More Than Books trustee board are chair Chris Parsons, who is in charge of business development, vice-chair Jacqui Smith (training liaison), secretary Brian Smuk (volunteers admin) and treasurer Keith Barber (finance policies).

On 10 April, Scarborough Council will replace its Customer First office in the library with a free-phone link for enquiries.

Other libraries moving to community management at the same time as Eastfield are in Newby, Norton, Helmsley and Kirkbymoorside.

They join Derwent Valley Bridge in Ayton, which has been operating since 2012.

The libraries in Filey, Whitby, and Pickering are hybrid, which means they will still be managed by the county council and have a paid member of staff but with volunteers, to maintain the opening hours.

The libraries in Scarborough and Malton are classed as core libraries, where volunteers are needed to work alongside staff.

Prospective volunteers should visit Eastfield Library, at the bottom of High Street (the postcode is YO11 3LL); ring 01609 536606; or email morethanbookseastfield@gmail.com. n The library has a Facebook page; search for MTBEastfield.

Working together at Eastfield Library - trustee Jacqui Smith, county council librarian Sharon Houghton, Jade Welburn of Eastfield Medical Centre and trustee Brian Smuk at an event promoting health and Wellbeing.

Praise music made spirits soar Words by Mike Tyas, pictures by Major Jack Middleton and James Giddings SPIRITS soared on successive Saturday nights of inspirational Gospel music in Scarborough.

The International Staff Songsters were the guests at the Scarborough Salvation Army’s Citadel on Alma Parade.

Singing a range of contemporary and classical worship music, spiritual, and traditional, the Salvation Army’s leading choir in the UK produced a performance of such glory that it was easy to understand why they have a worldwide reputation for excellence.

The concert was a joy to behold, very emotional and full of warmth.

‘The performance was excellent – beyond all our expectations,’ said Lieutenant Richard Weston, of the Scarborough Salvation Army.

‘One of the songs they sang was ‘more than wonderful’ – that summed up the evening – in fact it was more than wonderful, it was very special.’

The Songsters were led by Dorothy Nancekievill, a headteacher in Kent and former Director of Music at Wells Cathedral School, who said they will remember their time in Scarborough with fondness, despite making a difficult journey all the way from London after their coach broke down on its way to picking them up in the capital.

She said: ‘We had to drive in cars in the end. It was a difficult journey but we were determined to get to Scarborough.

‘We had an absolutely brilliant night on the Saturday, and a wonderful two days in all. We were really impressed with the warmth of the people and the encouragement they gave us.’

A week earlier, another choir made the journey up the A64 although their starting point was somewhat nearer.

The York Gospel Choir performed to a near sell-out audience at St Mark’s Church, Newby in aid of building funds at that church and also at St Mary’s, Cloughton.

The music was very soulful at times while, especially in the second half, the members of the audience were brought to their feet singing and clapping in time with the choir.

Organiser Jim Atkin said: ‘It was an absolutely fabulous evening – very inspiring and motivational.

‘It was lovely to see the place full, an example of what can happen when there is brilliant cooperation between two churches.’

The concert raised £1,000 which was split between the churches.

In full voice, the York Gospel Choir at St Mark’s

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Trouble ahead in Joe’s latest tale Words by Mike Tyas THE wait is almost over for young fans of prolific Scarborough author Joe Coates.

Joe will launch his much-anticipated latest book in the North Bay Railway Tales series, ‘Tunnel Trouble’ at the attraction in early April.

The book is number eight in the ongoing series that has enchanted local children of nursery and infant ages since the first title, ‘Teddy Bears’ Picnic’ rolled off the press.

Joe, who writes his popular ‘Scarborough Tales’ for The Review, said his book follows the pattern of the previous seven.

‘The focus of the story is the train ride itself,’ he said.

‘Tunnel Trouble features the train with children travelling on it in fancy dress, their bright colour costumes contrasting with the trouble in the cold, dark, damp, tunnel . . . and then something happens!’

Joe, 68, of Scholes Park Road, followed his ambition to become an author and began writing the series in 2009 after retiring as a primary school teacher.

Since then he has written seven books, using illustrations in the first three titles, before switching to photographs with the help of Mike Springall at McRay Press on Londesborough Road, and for the latest two books, local photographer Bernard Dixon.

The books have attracted wide popular acclaim, including from Sir Alan Ayckbourn, who described them as ‘delightful’ ’.

The author will be at North Bay Railway all day on Saturday April 8th with his books, bookmarks, colouring sheets, and the teddy

who waves to the train.

Children in fancy dress will be given an extra treat of a free ride on the train, with a paying adult.

As for writing another book, Joe said there’s every reason to hope that ‘Tunnel Trouble’ will not be the end of the line.

He said: ‘I’ve been given two ideas which together merge into a story which fits in with the other books in the series, so maybe, maybe . . .’

The latest book, is priced at £3.50 from the ticket office at North Bay Railway, and is also available from the author himself at joe@nbr.org.uk The new book follows: ‘Teddy Bears’ Picnic’, ‘A Birthday Surprise’, ‘A Santa Special to Remember’, ‘Donkey Alert’, ‘Percy the Cat’, ‘Jake and a Snake’, and ‘The New Steam Engine’. n More information about North Bay Railway Tales at www.northbaytales.com

Joe with two of his fans, twins Hannah, left, and Lucy Brown in fancy dress

Youngsters launch rockets at rugby club Words and photos by Dave Barry THERE was a palpable buzz of excitement when 52 young people were challenged to design and launch a mini-rocket.

The rocket had to reach a height of three metres before descending by parachute.

The University Technical College B team came out on top, winning the intermediate trophy and the Paul Curry trophy for the best overall performance.

Scarborough Rotary’s 10th annual youngtechnician tournament, at the Rugby Club, was opened by the Lord Lieutenant of North Yorkshire, Barry Dodd.

Mr Dodd is an engineer and chairman of an engineering company which he started. He has a keen interest in encouraging young people to take up engineering.

Besides the UTC, the entrants represented Graham School, Yorkshire Coast College, Scarborough College, Ebor Academy in Filey and Derwent Training Centre in Malton.

Teams of four had to prepare a portfolio explaining how they intended to approach the task. This was followed by construction and testing.

Scarborough College B team won the Foundation trophy and Yorkshire Coast College B team won the advanced trophy.

From left: Bruno Belgado, 18, Charles Hulme, 17, George King, 18, and Andrew Dove, 26, from the Yorkshire Coast College, were the advanced group winners

Everyone who took part was awarded a certificate.

Mr Dodd praised the dedication of the students in their application to the task and their obvious enjoyment in rising to the challenge.

He stressed the importance of the need for more students to take up engineering as a career.

“The tournament is an ideal platform for learning to work as a team and putting forward creative ideas”, said Mike Goode, who organised it.

“The atmosphere is one of intense activity and obvious enjoyment leading to the satisfaction of completing the task”.

The tournament was sponsored by McCain.

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Pride rules the waves for ‘remarkable’ cadets Words by Mike Tyas; pictures by Mike Tyas and Petty Officer Christine Penrose THE chairman of the Sea Cadets has lauded praise on TS Scarborough telling them they have reason to feel ‘extremely proud’ of themselves.

Captain Nigel Palmer OBE, chairman of the national youth organisation, presented the Scarborough unit with the Thomas Gray Memorial Trophy at an unforgettable presentation night at their base in the old St Thomas’ Church on East Sandgate.

The national award recognised the unit achieving high standards throughout 2016 set by the Sea Cadets.

Speaking to more than 90 cadets, aged from ten to 18, and watched by their family, friends and supporters, Captain Palmer said Scarborough’s achievement in finishing second in the UK from more than 400 units was ‘remarkable’.

He later told the Review: ‘Scarborough is a big unit compared to many others in the country – it is thriving, the unit should be extremely proud of itself and so should the town.

‘You can tell when you come into a unit if it is good or bad. When you walk through the doors at this one you can tell it is good – very, very good.

‘It’s enthusiastic, clean, and bright, the young

people are well presented – they look well in themselves and, most importantly, they look like they are having fun.’

Scarborough was pipped for number one spot by a unit from Barrow in Cumbria, but Captain Palmer said there should be no tinge of disappointment.

He added: ‘It would have been a very close thing for top spot and in no way should TS Scarborough feel they just missed out – after all there were 398 units behind them! They did very well.

‘It’s always nice to be number one of course but that’s not really what it is about in the cadets. It’s about being consistent and giving young people what they need which is a head start in life.

‘When you’ve been a cadet, an employer will know that there is a youngster who can take responsibility, has got commitment and is a person that they want to employ.’

The Scarborough unit’s commanding officer, Sub-Lieutenant Natalie Davies, echoed the sentiments of Captain Palmer.

She said: ‘We don’t set out to win trophies.

Our priority for each of these cadets is to give them the best experience possible.

‘We want to give them a solid foundation with which to go into adulthood.’

Sub-Lieutenant Davies, who doubles up her sea cadet role with her work as a teaching assistant at Graham School, said teamwork

was the key to their success.

‘I’ve got a top team with me now,’ she said.

‘I couldn’t do it without my ship, the parents, supporters and the unit management.’

Ambition however is not in short supply at TS Scarborough and though they insisted that becoming the UK’s top sea dogs was not their goal, their commanding officer, with a big smile across her face, said it would be nice.

She said: ‘We’ve never achieved this award for finishing second before and it’s amazing to receive it.

‘But we finished third nationally last year, now we are second, so hopefully we will go one better and win the coveted Canada Trophy.

We’ve got to, haven’t we?’

After the formalities of presenting the trophy – surely one of the biggest certainly in naval circles – there was an inspection of the ship’s company by Captain Palmer and guests, including Scarborough’s mayor and mayoress, Cllr Simon and Val Green.

Guests were then treated to a performance from the cadets’ band before some of the youngsters each gave a speech outlining their experiences of being a TS Scarborough cadet during 2016.

The evening concluded with a buffet in which the cadets showed their appetites are as hearty and healthy as they obviously are for hard work!

Commanding Officer Sub-Lieutenant Natalie Davis, left, TS Scarborough Chair Fay Roberts, and Executive Officer, Sub-Lieutenant Gareth Davies, with the Thomas Gray Memorial Trophy

Sea Cadets Chairman, Captain Nigel Palmer OBE carries out his inspection

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Wedding marks historic day for Eastfield church Words and pictures by Mike Tyas WEDDING Day is special but the marriage of an Eastfield couple will also be of great significance for the church where they will tie the knot.

Philip Curtis and Kelly Bradder will marry at Holy Nativity Church in the town on 29 April, the first wedding there for almost five years.

More significantly, the wedding represents a major landmark for the church, based just off Westway, as it will be the first since Eastfield became a parish in its own right.

Previously, Holy Nativity sat in the same parish as St John the Baptist, Cayton, but from 1 February that changed on instruction from the Diocese of York.

‘Philip and Kelly’s wedding will be the first in the new parish of Eastfield,’ said Revd.

Samantha Taylor, the newly-appointed Vicar of Eastfield.

She added: ‘It will be a special day of celebration for the lovely couple but it is also a significant landmark for Holy Nativity and our parish.

‘When the couple booked their wedding it was

fantastic but it was also an unusual event for us as the weddings and baptisms have taken place in recent years at St John’s.

‘But since we’re now our own parish, Eastfield people can get married here and also have their children baptised at Holy Nativity.’

The vicar said the move to give Eastfield parish status was an ‘exciting way forward’ for the church and was also good news for the area.

She added: ‘This is another step in the right direction for Eastfield in giving the town and its people further confidence and belief in themselves.’

Revd. Taylor said the growth of the Middle Deepdale housing development, the expanding congregation at Holy Nativity and the work and influence of Westway Open Arms charity next door to the church, were factors that contributed to the Diocese’s decision to grant Eastfield parish status of its own.

She added: ‘There is an element of sadness as we are not now working so closely with St John the Baptist like we have done for many

years but we believe the change will present an exciting opportunity for both churches.

‘It will enable ministry to not be so widespread and reach people locally and encourage growth at both churches.’

Revd. Taylor, who is Holy Nativity’s first female vicar, said the church felt ‘privileged’ to be part of a ‘great community’.

She said: ‘Eastfield is a growing town with a lot to offer and a great, growing sense of community.

‘The schools, businesses, town council, local residents and organisations are working very hard to make this the great place it is.

‘To also see Holy Nativity grow from strength to strength alongside them and now become a parish church in its own right is a huge joy.’

The happy couple said they couldn’t wait for their big day.

Kelly, 24, a volunteer at Westway Open Arms, said: ‘We’re really excited about getting married and doing so in our own parish church.’

Phil, 37, added: ‘It will be a special day for us, for Holy Nativity and also for Eastfield.’

Revd. Sam Taylor with Kelly and Phil outside Holy Nativity Church

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Voters urged to register for election Words by Mike Tyas HUNDREDS of residents along the Yorkshire coast may miss out on the chance to vote in next month’s county council elections.

North Yorkshire County Council say there are thousands of residents in the county including many in the Scarborough area who are eligible to vote but who are not registered for the election that takes place on 4 May, 7am-10pm.

They have until 13th April to put that right or miss out on the poll that covers all 72 county seats across 68 divisions.

Polling cards have being dropping through letterboxes throughout March but if a resident did not receive one by the 28th they may not be eligible to vote.

Those who want to register are urged to visit www.gov.uk/register-to-vote or contact Scarborough Council.

For voters already registered, but who will not be able to attend a polling station, deadlines are also approaching for the submission of

postal vote and proxy vote applications.

People have until 5pm on Tuesday, 18 April, to apply for a postal vote and until 5pm on Tuesday, 25 April, for a proxy vote.

North Yorkshire County Council Chief Executive Richard Flinton told voters: ‘We urge all eligible residents to ensure that they are registered to vote and to use their vote on 4 May. ‘Your vote gives you a say in the shape of the authority at a time of continuing change, as we meet severe financial pressures and transform the way services are delivered, working increasingly closely with communities and other partners.’ n Anyone who wants to stand as a candidate must submit their nomination by 4pm on Tuesday, 4 April.

More information about the elections, including all the dates in the run-up to the vote, can be found at www.northyorks.gov. uk/elections.

£28,340 grant for Dial-a-Ride Words and photo by Dave Barry A £28,340 grant means a community transport operator can replace a 12-year-old vehicle with 100,000 miles on the clock.

Scarborough & District Dial-a-Ride provides a lifeline for local people.

The service gives door-to-door transport for people within a 10-mile radius of the town, taking passengers to health appointments, day and respite care, and social and support groups.

Manager Julie Banks said: “We are delighted to receive this grant from the county council as we will now be able to replace our elderly minibus and deliver more reliable journeys for our passengers”.

The council awards similar grants each year across the county to support community transport schemes. Operators can apply for

up to 75% of the cost of a replacement vehicle.

Cty Cllr Don Mackenzie, executive member for public transport, said: “Community transport operators like Scarborough & District DialRide provide a lifeline, especially in the more isolated or remote parts of our county.

“They enable people, particularly the elderly or disabled, to keep medical and social appointments, helping them to remain independent and combating the risks of social isolation and loneliness.

“Despite the severe financial pressures facing the council, we continue to support community transport, wherever possible, in meeting the need for these essential journeys”. n For further information about the services provided by Dial-a-Ride, ring 354434 or visit www.scarboroughdialaride. org.

Dolphins visit Scarborough Coast

by Dave Barry Now is the time when Scarborough residents are lucky enough to get occasional visits by bottlenose dolphins.

Between March and July, this marine animal hunts fish for food, swims, jumps and breaches in the sea off our shores.

Stuart Baines, an assistant regional coordinator for the Sea Watch Foundation in Yorkshire, says: “There is a resident population of bottlenose dolphin off Scotland’s north-east coast in spring and early summer and some of them have visited the north-east coast of England.

“There is a good chance that these dolphins will be seen again off Scarborough in the next few weeks, so keep your eyes peeled for these fantastic animals”, says Stuart, who lives in the town.

The bottlenose is the dolphin species regularly seen on television, recognised by its tall, central, sickle-shaped dorsal fin.

It has a dark grey back and is a lighter grey underneath, with a robust beak.

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“Adult bottlenose are big dolphins, typically four metres long,” Stuart says.

“They should not be confused with harbour porpoise, which can be seen off Marine Drive all year round, and which are about 1.4m long - much smaller than the bottlenose dolphin”. n For further information on dolphin, porpoise and whale sightings, check out the Scarborough Porpoise Facebook and Twitter pages and the Sea Watch Foundation website or send an email to scarboroughporpoise@btinternet.com.

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Author helps beleaguered Greek charity Words and photo by Dave Barry A Scarborough author is raising money for a Greek charity threatened by government cuts.

Bill Kitson, of Middle Deepdale, says he wants to repay the kindness and hospitality shown to him and his wife Val during many holidays on Crete.

Bill says: “I’ve helped charities at home, so why not?

“When we were on holiday in Crete last September, we became involved with a local charity which has had its government funding cut due to the economic problems”.

The charity, ELEPAP, is involved in the rehabilitation of disabled people in Chania, the island capital.

Bill writes romances set on Greek islands under the pen name William Gordon.

The latest, The Fountain of Daphne, was published on 11 March, with all royalties from sales in either digital or paperback

format going to ELEPAP. Bill, who also writes crime books, has previously raised money for Scarborough Rainbows and other local groups. n The digital version of The Fountain of Daphne can be ordered on Amazon for £1.99; the paperback costs £5.99.

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Homes wanted for asylum seekers Words by Mike Tyas

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RESIDENTS in Scarborough are being asked if they can help provide a home for youngsters fleeing persecution.

North Yorkshire County Council is stepping up their search for more homes in the town and across the county for children entering the UK on their own without a parent or guardian and seeking asylum.

Already 17 children under 18 have been found homes in North Yorkshire and with more children expected to arrive, the council’s fostering service say they need more kind, caring and committed people to look after them.

‘The young people arriving in the county are likely to have very few belongings and little grasp of the English language,’ said county councillor Janet Sanderson.

‘We need foster carers who have the skills,

compassion and willingness to care for these young people who have already been through a lot in their lives.’

When the children arrive, they undergo assessments to ensure they are placed in a safe and secure family environment that is the best fit for them.

Fostering North Yorkshire also has an ongoing need for carers to look after local youngsters, including teenagers, disabled children and children whose behaviour can be challenging. n People who feel they could give a young asylum seeker a safe foster home, or are interested in the other types of foster care can call Fostering North Yorkshire on 01609 534654 or visit FNY at www. northyorks.gov.uk/fostering for more information.

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Every time you make a plan or come up with a new idea, something goes wrong and you find yourself wondering why you bothered. Best advice here is to chill out, let things evolve in their own time, and while life drifts by, catch up on a few box sets or read a couple of books. If you can relax, partners and spouses can relax with you.

This might be easier said than done, however, and

there is likely to be a major argument sometime around the 15th to the 18th which will clear the air, while at the same time also making it clear that there do need to be a few lifestyle changes brought on line during the spring and summer months ahead. In so many areas you will feel that your hands are tied, but at least you will now start looking at ways in which you can undo the knots.

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and mind. If there have been some emotional tensions, these should now start to ease, and indeed, you’ll find partners and spouses eager and willing to please. Singletons will be on the receiving end of a lot of attention, but will this be from the right person?

April can be a great month for Taureans, providing you’re on the move, embracing changes, and looking forwards rather than backwards. It can also be a very frustrating month if you’re stuck in a rut – so the challenge here is to get out of the rut. If this means breaking a few rules and acting on impulse rather than logic, then it’s still the way to go.

GEMINI 22ND MAY - 21ST JUN April will be a very encouraging month, especially for those looking for new homes or new moods of goodwill beneath existing roofs. One way or the other, you should see some change for the better in domestic routines, and this is a very positive period for all forms of property negotiation. On a local level, travel opportunities towards the month’s end look likely.

CANCER 22ND JUN- 22ND JUL A very positive time for following career and business ambitions, and if you feel inclined to take a couple of risks, no harm done! Some division of family loyalties looks like being resolved to your satisfaction, especially if someone who has been causing you a problem buggers off and causes someone else a problem instead. Bright confident moods!

LEO 23RD JUL - 23RD AUG Ladies of the sign find purpose in sisterhoods and all forms of feminine activity. Some charity work may enhance your social profile. Romantic aspects are quite zingy, especially for unattached males who are fed up of being unattached males. Some worthwhile career gains made on the 17th put you in a good mood for the rest of the month.

VIRGO 24TH AUG - 22ND SEP This is a time in which you’ll be looking forwards, with particular focus on where you might be and what you might be doing three or four years up the road. There will be interesting and exciting conversations with lovers and partners, and although that is all they are at this point in time, they do give you some focus and put a confident spring in your step.

LIBRA 23RD SEP - 23RD OCT You’ll be doing some spring cleaning – not just around the house, but also in your heart

SCORPIO 24TH OCT - 22ND NOV News from distant places (possibly concerning pregnancies or births) tie in with reunions, either taking place or being arranged. It’s a busy month where all social aspects are concerned, and there will probably be a boost in job responsibilities around the 9th or 10th. Electro-mechanical problems around the 22nd upset your budgeting.

SAGITTARIUS 23RD NOV-21ST DEC Rather a philosophical mood sits upon your shoulders at this point in time. If there are a few problems worrying you, they probably concern other people, and there’s not much you can do about them. There is healing energy around you, and this could well be a time for putting some long standing wrongs to right.

CAPRICORN 22ND DEC - 20TH JAN Someone will be eager to share their good news with you, so do please show a bit of enthusiasm and don’t rain on their parade. Work routines are just that, but they are routines that you are familiar with and they pose no threat. Finances quite good compared to any time over the last year, and it looks like you might be settling a few old debts.

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PISCES 21ST JAN - 18TH FEB You’ll be on the receiving end of dubious advice from (probably a woman) close to you, but you should really think long and hard before following it. Advice given at this time is probably not in your best interests, and you’re better advised to follow your own inclinations, using your own judgement in all things – and especially in affairs of the heart.

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Hope does not have an expiry date In his message for Easter 2017, Revd. Father Albert Schembri, the Chair of Churches Together in Scarborough, tells of the hope found in Jesus Christ Every Good Friday morning since the year 2000, hundreds of Christians in Scarborough have taken part in a walk through the town centre, up to the castle esplanade, carrying the cross as their witness to faith – and hope.

The cross is the symbol of the Christian faith. We are Christians. We might come from various denominations and traditions but we are ONE in Christ. But the Christian message of life and hope is not only for Christians.

It’s for all people. This oneness in Christ is a cause for joy, celebration and hope.

In ancient times, the cross was a symbol of the death penalty, something to be scared off and looked at askance. It reminded people of suffering and pain. These were things suffered by Jesus himself, along with the

injustices and the insults that marginalise people still struggling to this very day. But in our Christian faith, the cross does not remain a symbol of death for long.

Just three days after Good Friday, Jesus overcame death. That Friday, the hopes and expectations of Jesus’ friends and disciples, who witnessed his death, seemed to be buried with Jesus in the tomb. But on that Sunday morning, new hope sprang forth from the midst of despair. Jesus rose from the dead.

He made all things new, suffering and death as well.

Jesus is alive so our hopes live too. From that one moment, the cross becomes the icon of the resurrection, a symbol of the new life, the source of the joy of Easter. It reminds us that

Christ overcame death and lives again. We can live our lives free from guilt and shame, safe in the knowledge that Jesus who died and rose again is with us still.

Let us make Christ visible in our communities, by loving God and our neighbour, accepting one another, as well as loving ourselves.

The hope given through faith is not an illusion. It does not expire with a certain date, or with death. Christian hope goes on and lives forever. Let us unite, be one, and share this joy as we plant this unique hope in one another.

In the name of Churches Together in Scarborough, we wish you all a blessed Easter.

Revd. Father Albert Schembri

Record collection at Poppy lands in Boxing Day match ice-cream heaven Words and photo by Dave Barry A YOUNG ice-cream lover has won as much of it as she can eat – almost.

Poppy Fewster adores ice cream and goes in the Harbour Bar as often as she can.

She has been a member of the Harbour Bar Kids’ Club for six years and has just won its annual competition.

Poppy, 10, designed a colourful Christmas card with penguins in snow and a short poem.

Poppy lives in Glossop with her mum Sally, who moved there from Scarborough in 2002.

They return during school holidays, every six weeks, to go to the Harbour Bar and visit Sally’s parents, Rick and Daph Davis, who live in Scalby Road.

Poppy is pictured tucking in to a chocolata ice cream with her grandparents, who are holding Poppy’s winning card, mum Sally

Words by Mike Tyas, football picture and Harbour Bar supervisor Jody Tomlinson, by James Giddings who is holding the vouchers for the children’s menu, which Poppy won.

Poppy’s poem reads: “The Harbour Bar is the place to meet, “For all the folk with happy feet.

“We all meet here from different ways, “To eat the gorgeous ice-cream sundaes”.

Poppy’s winning design

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by Mike Tyas THE former curate at St Mary’s with Christchurch and Holy Apostles will be returning to Scarborough as the church’s new vicar in the summer.

Revd. Richard Walker will be licensed by the Bishop of Hull, Rt Revd. Alison White, as the

new Vicar of Scarborough, in a service at St Mary’s on Tuesday 25th July.

Revd. Walker, who is currently the vicar at St Nicholas in Beverley, succeeds the Revd.

Martyn Dunning, who retired last August after leading the congregation for 14 years.

On behalf of St Mary’s, John Wells, Lay Vice-

THIS football match certainly was top of the premier league.

The 2016 Boxing Day comic charity clash on the South Bay between the Fishermen and Firemen raised the highest sum in the event’s glorious 123-year history – a magnificent £2,618.25.

‘It’s a fantastic amount of money – we’re just overwhelmed with the total,’ said Liz Blades, one of the organisers, and secretary of the Fishermen and Firemen Charity Fund, where the cash will go.

Liz added: ‘It’s way up on what we usually raise. Depending on the weather, we normally get between £1000 and £1600.

‘But this year was a lovely sunny day and there were a lot of people there. Either that or they were even more generous than normal.’

The cash was collected from spectators watching the football match and the raft race which followed, organised by the Sub-Aqua club around the harbour, and from the mile of pennies, stretching out from the lifeboat house across the seafront.

Scarborough mayor and mayoress Cllr Simon and Val Green join in the celebrations at the presentation night Chair of the PCC, said the news of Revd.

Walker’s appointment was greeted with ‘much enthusiasm’ by the congregation when it was announced in church.

He said: ‘We’re delighted for Richard Walker to be appointed.

‘Richard was curate for four years at St Mary’s with Holy Apostles. Since he left us as a curate ten years ago he has been leading churches in different places.

Liz wanted to thank those who helped collect the cash, including members of the Scarborough Lions.

‘They all did a fantastic job as we can see from the final amount,’ she said.

The cash will go to buy food vouchers for local elderly people, mainly from the Old Town, which will be handed out shortly before next Christmas.

Last year about 120 vouchers were given out.

The charity match, this year narrowly won by the Firemen, is Scarborough’s oldest custom, set up to help widows and orphans of five Scarborough fishermen who drowned at sea aboard the trawling smack Evelyn and Maud following a storm in November 1893.

The match was started by Scarborough’s mayor, Cllr Simon Green, who was also in attendance at the annual presentation night at the Sub-Aqua club where cups and certificates were handed out during the evening.

The highest individual collector cup went to Will Jenkinson, and The Comic Band was the group that collected the most money.

‘It was a smashing evening and a wonderful way to celebrate raising such an historic amount of money,’ said Liz.

Action from the comic clash

‘He also has had quite a substantial role in the education and training of clergy and lay people, so he brings an awful lot of experience now with him.

‘But more important than all that I believe firmly that Richard is called by God to be St. Mary’s new vicar.

‘You can’t get anything better than that. We are very excited of what is to come.’

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Changes to hospital maternity services

by Mike Tyas THE midwifery-led unit at Scarborough Hospital is to be combined with the main maternity unit from the start of April.

Women are being reassured that if they want a midwifery-led birth they will still be available in the hospital.

York NHS Trust bosses said they took the decision because there was only a small number of women using the midwifery unit – about ten each month over the last 15 months.

The midwifery-led facility opened in November 2010. In 2015/16 there were 224 births in it.

‘Having a standalone facility is now unaffordable in the challenging financial circumstances we face,’ said Patrick Crowley, Chief Executive of York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

‘Moving the two units into one place means that we can continue to provide a full range of maternity services for women in Scarborough.

‘We will be doing some refurbishment work in the maternity unit to introduce the midwifery-led environment in our low-risk birth room.’

Maternity services have been reviewed as part of the Ambition for Health programme for Scarborough, Ryedale, Bridlington and Filey.

Simon Cox, NHS Scarborough and Ryedale Clinical Commissioning Group Chief Officer, said: ‘These changes will mean women will still have access to the full range of maternity services in Scarborough, but in a way which is more sustainable and helps protect core services at the hospital.’

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Time to focus on Scarborough Charities SCARBOROUGH AND DISTRICT MENCAP We are a well-respected independent charity providing specialist care, support, day services and evening activities for adults and children with learning disabilities and additional physical disabilities, complex medical needs and challenging behaviours. We are looking for people with a strong business and/or financial background to volunteer to join our Trustees. Prior experience with learning disabilities is not essential as training can be provided. Executive Committee meetings are held once per month at our centre: Brookleigh, 60 Valley Road, Scarborough, YO11 2JE. n For further details about the role, including a job description and person specification, or to arrange an informal discussion about the role, contact Carol Etherington, CEO, on 01723 374819, email carol.etherington@ scarboroughmencap.org.uk or write to us at the above address.

SCARBOROUGH AND LOCALS TOGETHER (SALT) SALT provides goods and services to people living in the local community who are going through difficult and stressful times. It also helps schools, children’s groups and other charities. The charity is funded by its shop on Falsgrave Road which sells a large range of goods at reasonable prices which have been donated by the public. n Tel: 01723 447229 shop@scarboroughtogether.co.uk www.scarboroughtogether.co.uk

RSPCA SCARBOROUGH & DISTRICT We are a local, selffunded and independent branch of the RSPCA. Established in 1867, we are proud to be celebrating our 150th year in 2017. All of our fundraising is done locally (Scarborough, Whitby, Filey, Helmsley, Pickering) to support local animal welfare and re-homing.

Volunteers are vital to our success, if you think you can help please get in touch. n RSPCA Scarborough & District, 8A – 10 Victoria Road, Scarborough, YO11 1SD Tel.01723 371935 NATIONAL TRUST Do you have time to help us care for the North Yorkshire coast? We’re looking for volunteers to join our friendly team.

Help rangers manage habitats for nature, maintain footpaths, fences and drystone walls or run events. Or welcome visitors to the Old Coastguard Station, Robin Hood’s Bay and Ravenscar Visitor Centre. No experience necessary, all enquiries welcome. n yorkshirecoast@nationaltrust.org. uk Tel. 01723 870423 www.nationaltrust.org. uk/yorkshire-coast SCARBOROUGH LIONS CLUB Active in Scarborough for 58 years, part of the world’s largest service organisation.

Our fundraising activities include Xmas and Easter collections, New Year’s Day Dip and Fun Casino allowing us to provide support and help to the less fortunate in our community. New members always welcome. n For more info? Call 0845 8339892 or see our Facebook page.

MENCAP needs trustees Words and photos by Dave Barry A FAIR-TRADE tea party was thrown at Northstead primary school during Fair-trade Fortnight.

Over 300 cakes and biscuits, baked by the school cook using fair-trade ingredients, were sold.

Teachers, parents, pupils grandparents and others washed them down with fair-trade tea, coffee and orange squash.

The local fair-trade group sold fair-trade products. Pupils found out where they come from and drew pictures of them, which were on display.

Fair-trade products donated by Newlands Coop and Proudfoots supermarket were raffled.

Tesco donated fair-trade chocolate for the winners of a competition.

The tea party, which raised £171, was one of many similar events held around Scarborough during Fairtrade Fortnight.

The annual campaign highlights the severe lack of food security faced by farmers around

Teacher Melanie Baines with pupils, L-R, Tyler Finch, 5, Isla Evers, 6, Scarlett Coles, 6, and Jamie Curran, 5. They are holding a tray of banana slice made with fair-trade bananas and chocolate.

the world, says teacher Melanie Baines.

“Despite millions of farmers in developing countries working hard to grow the food we eat every day, many don’t earn enough to know where their next meal is coming from”, Melanie said.

“It is about better prices, decent working conditions and fair terms of trade for farmers and workers”.

Fair-trade Fortnight aims to get shoppers, campaigners and businesses talking, thinking about and buying fair-trade products.

Scarborough and District Mencap is on the lookout for new trustees with a business or finance background to join its Executive Committee.

This great opportunity to give something back to the local community will only require a few hours work a month.

The charity, which has become a major service provider in the area, provides specialist care, support and activities for adults and children with learning disabilities, physical disabilities and sensory impairments.

Up to 250 service users per week attend one or more sessions. At the centre, Brookleigh, there are two 25-place Monday-Friday day services for younger and older adults.

Prior experience with learning disabilities is

not essential as training can be provided.

Executive committee meetings are held once a month at the centre: Brookleigh, 60 Valley Road, Scarborough, YO11 2JE. n For further details about the role, including a job description and person specification, or to arrange an informal discussion about the role, contact Carol Etherington, Chief Executive Officer, on 01723 374819, write to them the above address or email carol.etherington@ scarboroughmencap.org.uk

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Ros Maynard, left, and Ruth Fairchild ran a stall selling fair-trade products. They are pictured with Reuben Allen, 5, and Lacey McDonagh, 5. (To order photos, ring 353597)

MADHATTERS Nursery and Pre-School has reminded parents that there isn't much time left to register for 30 hours free childcare funding with them for Summer.

For anyone who misses the deadline, there will still be the opportunity to get free childcare next term.

The nursery, which caters for 0-5 year olds in the town centre, has also being celebrating after raising £43 through it’s bring a pound to work day for St Catherine’s Hospice.

For details about funding and to enquire about spaces call 01723 448403

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Early childhood tutor at national conference

by Dave Barry

A SCARBOROUGH tutor presented a symposium on early childhood teaching at a national conference.

Yasmin StefanovKing, who teaches at Coventry University’s Scarborough campus, was in Birmingham for the British Early Childhood Education Research Association conference.

She described the Stay and Play initiative developed A toddler enjoys at the campus as a messy play at a Stay new way of delivering and Play session early childhood at the university teaching. campus Pre-school children, parents, family members and childminders take part in activities themed around books, hosted by students on early-years courses.

Each child is given a healthy snack, linked to the story. Parents can access support and advice from the Natural Childbirth Trust and

breastfeeding groups.

The conference was focused on the growing evidence of the importance of play in early childhood development and new and redeveloped strategies for supporting children’s learning.

Yasmin said: “The sessions give students vital hands-on experience with children before their course demands them to undertake work experience.

“Having worked extensively with students in higher education, we recognised that the placement experience could be improved for both our students and the placement settings by providing prior practical experience of working with children and families.

“As well as helping to build confidence, the sessions allow tutors to see their students in practical situations and provide support before they go into a work setting.

“They support new parents to actively play with their children in a focused way, inspiring them with new activities and allowing them to access professional support”.

The sessions will resume in the next academic year. For details, email Yasmin.StefanovKing@coventry.ac.uk. n Details of early-years courses can be found at www.coventry.ac.uk/cus.

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Scarborough Tales

BY JOE COATES

I was inspired by a photograph belonging to a friend, Jan Watts, of her and her mother at “Skipping Day” at South Bay Foreshore Road many years ago. I thought,”That will be my next Scarborough Tale.” It is the real Grandma Olga in the picture, though I confess to have exaggerated her ability somewhat. Hope you enjoy the story!

SKIPPING DAY IN SCARBOROUGH Auntie M had been telling her nephew about the traditions of Skipping Day in Scarborough.

“Way back in the past, more than a hundred years ago, the Scarborough fisherman were sorting out their ropes on Shrove Tuesday, a bit of a day off from going out to sea. Children gathered around, and old ropes were given to them to enjoy a bit of skipping. Apprentices and servants began to join them, especially as Shrove Tuesday was a half day holiday from work for many workers. On this day there was permission to play like children without being thought childish. They could become something different from their usual selves.”

“And what about the pancakes? That's what I like!” said Nephew.

“The pancakes? When the fisherman had finished their work, a bell was rung to signal to their wives that it was time to start making the pancakes. Shrove Tuesday pancakes became part of the traditions of Skipping Day, which has been happening in Scarborough ever since.”

“Are we having pancakes later?” asked Nephew.

“Of course we are! But skipping first to build up an appetite! In the early days the fishermen would join in the skipping, twirling long heavy ropes which stretched right across the foreshore. Scarborough today is the only town where long rope skipping takes place.

So let's go and enjoy!”

They joined the crowds who were gathering on Foreshore Road. The weather was glorious. Along the foreshore fancy-dress pancake races delighted the hundreds of people there. Traditionally, many children had the afternoon off school to take part.

From the Lifeboat and way past the Futurist, numerous folk were skipping. There were single smaller ropes, a few longer ropes, group skipping, double Dutch two-rope skipping and it was great. And Auntie M and

Nephew were soon skipping themselves.

Many years ago, When Auntie M was a girl, she had started coming to the skipping. She remembered her very first time. There was the incredible Grandma Olga enchanting all around her as she skipped in her phenomenal style. The memory of seeing this marvellous old lady had inspired the young girl M to keep up with her skipping for as long as she could.

“You never saw Grandma Olga skip so you missed a treat. She was amazing!” Nephew had heard this story many times and it sometimes grew in the telling. Even so, it was a good story.

“Grandma Olga could do the standard jumping over the twirling rope and then she'd switch into hopping, or Morris dancing footwork, then to Irish dancing, back to standard jumping, chopping and changing all the time. Incredible! Sometimes her legs seemed a blur as her speed quickened and quickened, and the rope turners had to turn as fast as they could. You could hardly see the rope. It was going so fast!

Grandma Olga always gathered a crowd and her own grandchildren clapped and yelled with such delight. And so did I, just a little girl. She thrilled the crowd! She thrilled me! When she started skipping Grandma Olga was certainly different from her usual self! Mind you, she would have aching legs tomorrow, and she'll need a cup of tea soon!

And guess what!”

They said it together. “She never even took off her coat!”

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Big yellow bus stops at university campus Words and photos by Dave Barry

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Words and photos by Dave Barry HARD-WORKING volunteers were out in force for Tidy Britain’s Great British Spring Clean in the Scarborough area.

Following the success of last year’s Clean for the Queen campaign, community groups were asked, once again, to don gloves and high-vis jackets to spring clean their neighbourhoods.

Participants were asked to give as little as an hour to help the campaign.

The mayor and mayoress, Simon and Val Green, joined in, visiting as many communities as possible over the weekend.

They were accompanied by Roger Burnett from the council’s community environment team.

Roger said he was delighted with “another great response” from volunteers who were all eager to get out into the spring sunshine and make their areas sparkle.

“We arranged for the mayor and mayoress to meet as many community groups as possible over the three days so they could see at first-

Scarlett Cossou-Leake, 7, grabs a bottle hand how hard working the volunteers are and how keen they are to look after their own communities”, he explained.

The mayor and mayoress met and helped volunteers at Scalby Parish Hall, the Rose Garden on the Esplanade, Peasholm Park, Dean Road cemetery, Cayton, Muston and Hunmanby.

Groups which took part included Newby and Scalby in Bloom, the Friends of South Cliff Gardens, Wheatcroft School, Peasholm Park Friends, the Friends of Dean Road and Manor Road Cemeteries, Cayton in Bloom, Muston in Bloom and Hunmanby in Bloom.

THE Game Changers’ big yellow bus visited Coventry University’s Scarborough campus to tell students about learning by designing.

Game Changers introduced students to the fundamentals of design thinking, game creation and rapid prototyping skills - the kind of things that prove invaluable in the modern workplace.

Students took part in various sessions, explained campus communications officer Jane Harper.

Fab Lab Experiences used random stuff for game and play design, experimenting with 3D printing and VR (virtual reality) headsets along with game design tools.

Remix Play involved designing solutions, inspired by play and games. This was described as a design sprint, using a fail-fast, fail-often approach.

In a session entitled Lego Serious Play, students created metaphors with Lego and were filmed doing it.

The fourth session - What's Your Story? – explored the power of cards.

Students created and kept a game, used a 3D printer and entered a prize draw.

Game Changers is a programme of activity run by the Disruptive Media Learning Lab at Coventry University. It is part-funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England.

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Business is booming at busy repair garage Words and photo by Dave Barry

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EVERY TUESDAY YORKSHIRE COAST NETWORKING, Crescent Hotel, 1-2 Belvoir Terrace, Scarborough, 7am. Visit www. yorkshirecoastnetworking.co.uk EVERY THURSDAY DROP IN FOR BUSINESS BREAKFAST, Seasons Cafe at The Heritage Landscape Centre,

Garage is one of Scarborough’s busiest repair garages.

The business has been run for over 30 years by Billy McSweeney, who has been in the motor trade for 50 years.

After serving his apprenticeshipa and working for other people, he set up his business, Billy McSweeney Motors, at the back of Falsgrave, in 1986.

Billy moved to North Street Garage in 2000 and kept the business name as it had always been known as that.

“We do everything - servicing, welding, MoTs, MoT work, paint and bodywork, breakdowns, diagnostics, etc”, Billy says.

“Home pick-up and delivery is never a problem”, he adds.

The garage has a well-equipped workshop and repairs and services all makes of vehicle.

Mechanic Dwayne Oldfield, who joined the firm as an apprentice at the age of 15, specialises in German cars such as Audi, Volkswagen, Mercedes and BMW.

The latest apprentice, Noah Young, started six months ago and is steadily building up his toolkit.

The team is completed by office manager Lee Williams.

Billy, a tractor driver on the lifeboat, said he wouldn’t be able to do this voluntary work Billy McSweeney, left, and Dwayne without the Oldfield of North Street Garage (to support of his order photos ring 353597) crew.

North Street Garage is in Clarence Place, a narrow road running between Castle Road and St Thomas Street (and near North Street). n The website is at northstreetgaragescarborough.co.uk.

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THE date for the naming ceremony of Scarborough RNLI’s new Shannon lifeboat has been set at 12 April, at 11am.

The lifeboat is named the Frederick William Plaxton, after the father of the person who left enough money in his will to pay for it.

The ceremony will be attended by RNLI chairman Stuart Popham; the Archbishop of York, John Sentamu; and the Lord Lieutenant of North Yorkshire, Barry Dodd.

In the evening, a black-tie dinner at the Spa Ocean Room will mark the occasion.

Tickets cost £38 (a table of 10 is £360) and can be booked by ringing Liz Ashworth on 360558 or by emailing lizashworth03@gmail.com.

John Senior, lifeboat operations manager, commented: “This will be a historic and memorable occasion for Scarborough lifeboat Station and crew and we hope you can all come along and help us to celebrate with us at 11am. If not, then perhaps join the coxswain and crew for a special black-tie supper at the Spa. All are welcome”.

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IT would be hard to find a kinder and more caring undertaker than Darren Unsworth.

Darren, who lives in Darren Unsworth Hunmanby, is clearly passionate about his calling and observes rigorously high standards.

Unsworth Funeral Service places great emphasis on looking after people the way they would expect their own family to be looked after.

“We try to make it easier for families at a most difficult time by keeping things simple whilst offering a caring, personal and professional service at a more affordable cost”, Darren says.

Darren was brought up in Filey and started work part time in the local Frank Dee supermarket. This led to a career in retail, eventually reaching a senior management position in the Midlands.

He then decided that he was tired of making money for people and wanted to do something more meaningful with his life and give something back.

He joined bereavement services in Nottingham, looking after thousands of funeral services before becoming the manager of Woodlands crematorium in Scarborough.

His passion for helping people led him to opening his own funeral service in his village earlier this year.

Darren’s wife Alison works in the local surgery and helps out at Unsworth Funeral Service by looking after all female family members taken into their care. It is something she feels strongly about, believing it offers women a more dignified and respectful service.

With the experience Darren has built up over the years, he has been asked to talk about the death process to small groups and is willing to speak to groups or individuals who are worried about what happens after they die and the choices they have.

It may help dispel a lot of the myths that surround the funeral service. Please feel free to contact him, or drop in and have a chat over a cup of tea.

Record-breaking summer at theatre Words and photo by Dave Barry

Words by Mike Tyas

£100 has been raised for Scarborough RNLI by staff at a bank which then doubled it.

Staff at Santander baked cakes, gave slices to customers and accepted donations for the lifeboat.

They collected £92.87 which they rounded it up to £100.

This was then doubled by the bank.

Colin Woodhead, who chairs Scarborough RNLI, declined a piece of carrot cake before saying: “We are very grateful to everyone at the bank for their fantastic fundraising effort. They Colin Woodhead, who chairs Scarborough RNLI obviously had a lot of fun (second right), accepts a cheque from, L-R, branch while raising money for a director Andrew Thompson, Simon Harrison and Alison Smith (to order photos ring 353597) worthy cause”.

FANS flocking to Scarborough’s Open Air Theatre this summer to see some of the top acts in music are set to make a record of their own.

Promoters Cuffe and Taylor announced during March they were expecting pre-ticket sales to break through the total of 50,000 fans that attended Europe’s largest open air theatre last summer.

The theatre will host a string of chart-topping acts including Little Mix, Olly Murs, Kaiser Chiefs, Tom Jones and Sir Cliff Richard, and just announced The Jackson’s. Promoters say more big names are due to be announced.

Director Peter Taylor, said: ‘The response to this summer’s shows has been fantastic.

‘Some of the shows are either sold out, or very nearly sold out.

‘There are more big names still to be announced but

2017 is already shaping up to be an amazing year at Scarborough.’

More than 100,000 tickets are on sale for the 18-planned events, which kicks off with legendary American ‘60s rock band The Beach Boys, on May 24.

The promoters have also launched a TV ad for this summer’s series of gigs at the OAT which highlights what’s on offer in the town this year.

Janet Deacon, Tourism Manager at Scarborough Council, said: ‘These fantastic ticket sales reflect the growing popularity of the theatre and the reputation of the Yorkshire coast as a great destination for first class entertainment.’ n Tickets for concerts at Scarborough OAT are available via www.ticketmaster.co.uk (0844 844 0444) and www.scarboroughopenairtheatre.com or in person from Scarborough Open Air Theatre Box Office (01723 818111) and the Discover Yorkshire Coast Tourism Bureau (01723 383636).

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Appeal to help dementia Hospice reminder about Make a Will week patients in hospitals Words and photo by Dave Barry AN appeal to raise £200,000 to help dementia patients in hospital has been launched in Scarborough.

York Teaching Hospital Charity wants everyone with dementia and other mentalhealth conditions to leave hospital as fit and healthy as possible.

Otherwise, patients can expect a decline in their condition which can happen when they are in an unfamiliar environment.

At Scarborough Hospital, the appeal proceeds will be used to pay for various activities for dementia patients.

They will include memory boxes containing reminiscence cards, photos and games to stimulate memories, and computer software designed for dementia patients in hospital.

Dementia activity volunteers will be recruited to work with patients on the wards. They will help them use the equipment and change their immediate environment to make it as comfortable as possible with special clocks, lighting and coloured toilet seats, to reduce confusion and stress.

“We already have some fantastic support in place for people living with dementia when they are admitted into our hospitals”, says Emma George, assistant director of nursing, with responsibility for dementia care, at York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

“We have open visiting hours for carers which is part of the John’s Campaign initiative and

amazing volunteers called dining companions who help support patients during meal times where possible.

“We have also recruited dementia volunteers to offer support to patients and carers and have dementia champions on various wards across the organisation.

Additional small changes across the trust will have a big impact on the experience of patients and their families and all the money raised through the appeal will make them possible”.

The appeal will pay for new equipment and projects that will revolve around the everyday work of hospitals to make sure they quickly deliver benefits for patients, carers, families and friends.

The trust’s fundraising manager, Lucy Clegg, said: “We’re encouraging everyone to get involved in the appeal as dementia is a condition that could affect us all personally or through a family member or friend. You can donate directly, hold a fundraising event or take on a sponsored challenge”.

It is estimated that 850,000 people have dementia in the UK; a sixth are over 80.

With an ageing population, the demand on hospitals to provide a dementia-friendly environment and specialised care is bound to increase.

Emma George is pictured at the appeal launch, at the hospital’s postgraduate centre, with Sue Boulton, a senior sister on Anne Wright ward; Pat Crowley, chief executive of the NHS trust; and Sue Symington, who chairs the trust.

To find out more about the appeal or to make a donation, visit york.nhs.uk / dementiaappeal.

Donations can be posted to: Dementia Appeal, York Teaching Hospital Charity, York Hospital, Wigginton Road, York, YO31 8HE.

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Marathon runner Liz Forbes-Browne with Christine Mackay of Scarborough Survivors (to order photos ring 353597)

Words and photos by Dave Barry MENTAL-HEALTH charity Scarborough Survivors is benefiting from the fundraising efforts of a long-distance runner.

Liz Forbes-Browne, a public governor for Tees Esk Wear Valley NHS Foundation Trust, has taken up the challenge of running a halfmarathon every month.

As a carer of a family member, Liz has personal experience of mental-health services and values the contributions voluntary

organisations make to people with mentalhealth problems.

With four half-marathons already run this year, Liz will be running at Retford, Sheffield, Leeds, Humber Bridge, Lytham St Anne’s, Edinburgh and Lincoln - with more fixtures to be confirmed.

She has raised £520 so far and hopes to reach the £1,000 mark.

Scarborough Survivors chief officer Andrea Woolcott said: “Liz is doing an amazing job raising the profile of mental health.

“The commitment and dedication she has shown in running these half-marathons to help Scarborough Survivors is phenomenal.

“Our members, trustees and staff are so grateful to Liz. As a small, local, independent charity, people raising money for us, in whatever way, helps us offer more support for vulnerable people affected by mental-health issues”.

Survivors provide a safe, supportive environment and representation for people who have direct experience of mental illness, carers, family and friends.

The charity runs a temporary drop-in resource centre for anyone aged 16+ at 24 Northway, while its base in Alma Square is being renovated.

Survivors can be contacted on 500222.

Words by Mike Tyas SAINT Catherine Hospice’s annual campaign encouraging people to make or update their will takes place for a week in April.

The campaign, supported by the free service of a number of local solicitors, aims to prompt people into making the first steps to writing a will or updating their existing one.

The solicitors will take instructions and draft a professional will before arranging a further appointment for the document to be signed by the end of May.

In return, the solicitors ask for a donation to Saint Catherine’s. The suggested minimum is £125 per single will and £200 for a matching pair.

The list of solicitors taking part is on the hospice’s website at www.saintcatherines. org.uk.

Hospice fundraiser Debbie Kay, said: ‘This offer is a way for our supporters to help themselves to valuable advice whilst also raising vital funds for patient care.’

Make a Will week runs from Monday April 24.

Display celebrates church’s golden anniversary Words and pictures by Mike Tyas THE history of a Scarborough church which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year is being told by a special display.

The display forms one part of a series of activities running throughout the year at Northstead Methodist Church that will culminate in an anniversary weekend of events at the end of September.

The life and times of the church on the corner of North Leas Avenue and Givendale Road are recorded in newspaper cuttings, church memorabilia and photographs on a noticeboard at the back of the church, organised in chronological order of the ten ministers who have served the congregation, including the present minister, the Revd.

Emma Morgan.

Newspaper cuttings tell the story of the laying of the foundation stone on 21 January 1967, to the opening ceremony and dedication eight months later when 300 packed into the church itself with another 200 seated in the adjacent church hall. The opening service was conducted by Revd. J.E. Christian, Superintendent minister of the then Scarborough circuit.

The cuttings were diligently collected and kept in scrapbooks by organist Eric Appleby, from the laying of the foundation stone until his retirement in 2002. Every major and minor event is recorded, including many of Eric’s own notes recording such fine details such as the number of choir members that sung in any one service!

to come and have a look at it and at the same time think they might want to come back into the building and use it, to hold a meeting or event.

‘I also hope people who worshipped here before may come back and they may encourage others to join us. You never know, the display could be a catalyst for church growth.’

Ruth pointed out that the display will not be complete until the end of the year as it is to be regularly updated featuring photographs of past ministers who have been invited to preach at the church over the summer.

She added: ‘The display is building up as we go along to mirror the building of the church from the start of January to September. It will not be complete until the end of the year.

‘In that respect it is very much a living display that I hope people will enjoy.’

The church’s celebrations over the next six months will also include concerts and a flower festival that incorporates a wedding dress display.

“ I hope the display will attract people to come and have a look” The scrapbook albums are also on display.

After Eric retired, no-one kept up the recordkeeping so the church twice appealed to congregation members and friends for their own cuttings, first in 2007 for their 40th anniversary celebrations and then again for the display this year, said church steward Ruth Dale.

Ruth, a former librarian at Scarborough Sixth Form for 30 years, who has worked on the display since before Christmas, said she hoped it would help jog many happy memories for local people and perhaps draw them closer to the church.

She said: ‘It has been a lot of hard work and very time consuming, but it also been fun to put together ‘We have no other community facility in this area so I hope the display will attract people

Ruth looks through the archives

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Lifestyle SPOTLIGHT Page 28

• DEAR DAPHNE - Our resident agony aunt answers all of your questions.

• I CAME OFF THE PILL AND I LIKED IT Lifestyle Editor, Krystal Starkey, talks about ending a six year stint on hormonal contraceptives.

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• RECIPES OF THE MONTH - Curry in a Hurry, get your fish fix. Hot Cross Bun pudding (of course!)

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Dear Dear

Dear Daphne, I’m obsessed with Ronnie O’Sullivan. Not a day goes by without me thinking about him. I check his twitter several times a day and imagine what he’s doing constantly. The obsession started when I watched his latests series: Ronnie O’Sullivan’s American Hustle.

But I was alway intrigued by him before then. The thing is I’ve got a husband, and he’s got a wife and I don’t understand why I can’t stop thinking about him when I know it’s weird and unhealthy for me. Why can’t I be a normal adult? Anon

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Mother’s day just passed by and my kids got me one card between them both. I have one son (24) and a daughter (22) who both still live with me, but work full time. I’m not saying I expected a three course meal and limousine but I can’t believe how little of an effort they have put in. I don’t know if I’ve done something wrong or if they just didn't think I would care. Should I say something? Upset Mum, Heworth

UNDER APPRECIATED MUM

It’s ok to expect a little bit of appreciation on Mother’s Day, traditionally, a meal out or a bunch of flowers is pretty standard practice. Somewhere along the line your kids decided that you wouldn’t care if they didn't celebrate it in the way most do. There’s a couple of ways to approach this without looking too self righteous. First off, gush about what a lovely Mother’s day so and so had. How great are her kids, that’s so lovely you would love to do something like that with your kids? Alternatively start a game of Chinese whispers with the intention of your kids finding out that you were little bit put out. However bare in mind if you’ve previously asked them not to make a fuss - they might just be d o i n g what they thought you wanted. I'm sorry you had a rubbish Mother’s day - no mum deserves that. I imagine that when your kids realise you were disappointed they will be ashamed. If they don’t realise, I would bin them off and find yourself a better pair!

Love Daphne

People often develop unhealthy crushes on celebrities because they’re looking for qualities that they don’t have in their own lives.

It’s worth taking some time to think about what these might be - so you understand why you feel the way you do. Remember that you're only seeing one side to your crush, it’s not actually who they are and realistically - it’s never going to happen. It’s good that you are aware that your obsession is bad for you and are looking to sort it out. Social media makes Ronnie’s life instantly available to you. Try to stop checking your his twitter constantly - and instead endeavour to fill your time with other hobbies. Watching his latest series has obviously brought him to the forefront of your mind, this should subside with a little bit of effort on your part. If things don’t get better, in time, consider booking an appointment with your doctor to talk thing as over. Daph x

My best friend has been with her new boyfriend for about 6 months now. At first I thought she was just enjoying the honeymoon period as she wasn't seeing me a lot or bothering to keep in touch. I keep on messaging her to see if she wants to meet up, but she’s usually too busy. On the rare occasion that I have been able to see her, she always wants to bring her boyfriend along. It’s like they’re joined at the hip and I miss spending time with her on our own. I want my best friend back. S, Elivington

I MISS MY BEST FRIEND

S, It’s a well known fact that people change. This fact is usually planted firmly at the back of our minds until said person goes ahead and changes right before your eyes. Cut your friend some slack. How do you know that you would react any differently if it was you in her circumstance? In the meantime I suggest you’re honest with her.

Explain you would like to spend a bit of girly time with her like you used to. If she shuns your offer, then you have a stronger view of where you stand and it might be appropriate to say something to her.

Six months is still early days after all. Wait it out.

I came off the pill

& I liked it For most teenage girls taking the pill seems like a right of passage...

I started taking the progesterone only pill when I was 17 at the start of a long term relationship.

Since then I can only describe my six year stint on the pill as a very long period of whinging to my friends about what side effects I thought I was suffering from. I was an extremely carefree 16 year old with a sunny disposition.

I’d been lucky enough to go through my adolescent years without a single spot or any other hormonal side effects.

When I first got together with my exboyfriend (and coincidentally, started taking the pill) I was a weeping mess - if he didn’t text me back for a few hours I was paranoid and upset. I would go off at the slightest thing.

My mum and I basically figured I was love sick and couldn’t deal with my ridiculously deep feelings for another human being. Bless me! Hindsight makes me think this probably wasn’t the case.

I calmed down on my poor ex-boyfriend (thank you - appreciate your patience although I still think it’s not totally unjustified to give me a bell when you plan on staying out

all night thank you very much.) But I started to feel uneasy in other situations of my life. I decided that all of my friends hated me, I wasn’t very good at my job, felt incredibly insecure and upset a lot of the time and struggled to get out of bed and deal with my life. When I went to the doctors NOBODY asked me what contraceptive I was on - we decided I was suffering with anxiety and depression and a good old bout of Citalopram would sort me out. My wonderful boss arranged some hypnotherapy (check out Angie DoigThorne) and to be honest I couldn’t have done it without both of these things. They worked for me, I was very lucky.

This Christmas, I was in my usual pattern of whining about being spotty, moody, and hungry: ‘I just dunno what to do I wonder if it’s my pill’ when one of my co-workers turned round and suggested a more traditional method of contraceptive. I looked over to her whilst thinking of some sort of excuse along the lines of - oh it’s rubbish in the heat of the moment blah blah. To be honest it paled in comparison to the side effects that I was experiencing.

And so I had an epiphany. What if I stop taking the pill and I go back to being my chirpy 16 year old self because heaven knows I miss her and wish I still had her outlook on life.

Everybody’s wish (I know) - life was easier for everyone at 16. None the less I thought I would give it a whirl.

GET THIS. A couple of weeks after I ditched the pill, things started to happen. I came off my antidepressants, I started feeling pretty good about myself and my skin is looking great.

I can’t believe I spent six years dealing with the side effects of a hormonal contraceptive because I thought it was the ‘done thing’.

I’ve spent a long time feeling pretty unnatractive, moody and irritable without stopping to think about what might have been causing it.

I won’t be going back on it. Period.

As I’ve chatted to people about it they’ve kind of been like ‘oh cool - what are you on now’ and I’m like ‘actually nothing!’ And then I have to quickly explain that no, I don’t want a baby just yet - it’s more about me as a human being trying to be happy do my own thing.

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By Dave Barry A record 36 men’s and women’s teams will compete in the Tour de Yorkshire, which passes through Scarborough.

This is up from 33 in 2016.

For the first time, the same number of women’s and men’s teams will take part.

The men’s race on 28-30 April will include nine Tour de France teams from the seven UCI world tour teams, five Pro Continental outfits and six Britain-based squads.

The women’s event on 29 April boasts a stellar field with a record 18 teams set to compete. Eleven of the world’s 14 top-ranked teams will be in action alongside seven domestic squads.

With less than a month to go, the Tour de Yorkshire is one of the UK’s biggest cycle races of the year and on the international cycling calendar.

It will be broadcast live on TV in the UK and worldwide.

It has three stages. Stage 1 starts in Bridlington and finishes in Scarborough on 28 April. Stage 2 starts in Tadcaster and finishes in Harrogate on 29 April. Stage 3 starts in Bradford and finishes in Sheffield on 30 April. The course will cover 304 miles or 490km.

Although the distance between Scarborough and Bridlington is only 17 miles, the riders, in the yellow and blue race colours, will make a meal of it by taking the long route, covering 108 miles. This goes via Driffield, Pocklington, Malton, Pickering,

Goathland, Whitby and Robin Hood’s Bay, approaching Scarborough on the A171.

In Burniston, the cyclists will take the Coastal Road into town.

They will turn up Peasholm Road onto North Marine Road.

The direction of traffic on the one-way St Thomas Street and St Nicholas Street will be reversed to allow them to hurtle towards Falconers Road and the Vernon Road roundabout, then down to the seafront for the final stretch to the finishing line in Royal Albert Drive.

The timings have been set and are precise. The race is scheduled to begin at 12.45pm and the stage winner should cross the line at 4.47pm.

The Tour de Yorkshire is being organised by French company Amaury and Welcome to Yorkshire and is supported by the local authorities whose patches it crosses.

Some of the key climbs have been given a French name as a nod to the race’s French origins.

The idea for the race arose as a legacy event following the significant success of the visit of the 2014 Tour de France to the county.

Around two million people watched last year’s race.

The race charity is the Alzheimer’s Society; last year it was the RNLI. The Tour de Yorkshire website is at letour.yorkshire.com.

The women’s peloton makes it way through Thorner (photo

by Alex Broadway) Thomas Voeckler crosses the finishing line, watched by thousands of spectators, in Scarborough last year (photo

by Dave Barry)

Racing through the Yorkshire countryside (photo by Alex Broadway)

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E YORKSHIRE 2017 TO COAST STAGE ONE FACT FILE Compiled by Mike Tyas THE stage of the Tour de Yorkshire that sweeps into Scarborough on Friday April 28 is the first of three days of thrilling Bank Holiday cycling action.

Following the finish on the North Bay, the second stage on Saturday starts in Tadcaster with Harrogate the destination. The third and final day sees the riders leave Bradford heading for the finish at Fox Valley, Sheffield.

Tour organisers say roads will be closed for about 45 minutes before and after the race arrives at any one point, although that is likely to be longer along the finish area on Marine Drive and Royal Albert Drive.

The first leg is expected to take about four and a half hours after it leaves from outside the Bridlington Spa in a ceremonial start. The race itself starts as the riders pass through Bessingby on the outskirts of town.

The racers hit top speeds of around 30mph on level ground, and considerably faster as they approach Cloughton coming down the A171 into Scarborough. Before they get there, the climb out of Goathland – in places it is a punishing one in four gradient, is particularly testing, as is the final climb of the day, a one in five pull out of Robin’s Hood’s Bay.

STAGE ONE FACTS • 1st stage – ‘Coast to Wolds’ – Bridlington to Scarborough (173K – 107.5 miles) • The cyclists head off at approx 12.30pm from Bridlington Spa. First seven kilometres are neutral.

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by Mike Tyas THE backing from the people of Scarborough is one of the reasons why the Tour de Yorkshire keeps coming back to the town, race chief Sir Gary Verity has told The Review.

Sir Gary, whose Leeds-based organisation Welcome to Yorkshire promotes the Bank Holiday festival of cycling along with French company Amaury Sports Organisation, said it was very important that the town had taken the Tour to its heart.

He said: ‘The welcome we have received from the people of Scarborough, and the energy and excitement of the crowds on race day is the reason we keep going back.’

Sir Gary said the influx of fans and visitors the race attracts to Scarborough has played a big part in helping to make Yorkshire such a popular tourist place to visit.

He added: ‘The iconic images of Scarborough beamed across the globe during previous races have contributed to recent record-breaking visitor numbers.’

Looking ahead to the third edition of the race, Sir Gary said the first day’s finish in the town was the ideal venue to get this year’s event off to a flying start.

He said: ‘There is no better way to end the first day’s racing of the 2017 Tour de Yorkshire that with the now legendary finish along the North Bay. “We know many residents and tourists are already planning to watch and enjoy the Tour de Yorkshire in Scarborough and I’d urge them to get involved in all the other great activities happening in the town around the race.

‘It’s a fantastic opportunity to make a full day of it, or even a weekend, and for the visitors to take the opportunity to enjoy the wonderful variety of attractions the Yorkshire coast has to offer.’

Highlights of the Tour de Yorkshire will again be shown on ITV

Kids to copy Tour heroes Words and pictures by Mike Tyas SCHOOL kids will show their pedal power over the final mile of the Tour de Yorkshire route before the main race hits town.

Forty children from three Scarborough primary schools – Northstead, Newby and Scalby, and St Martin’s, will take part in their own parade from Hairy Bobs skatepark around Royal Albert Drive and cross the finish line together.

The kids will celebrate by standing on top of the winner’s podium that later in the day will be occupied by the first past the post in the main race.

The children will wear helmets and tops loaned to them

by Coast and Dale Bike Library initiative that was set up in Scarborough last year to give youngsters and adults in Scarborough and Ryedale the opportunity to ride a bike for free.

The parade starts at 1.30pm about an hour before the main community fun cycle ride, organised again by the Scarborough and Ryedale Community Cycle Group (SRCC).

The community ride will involve over 100 cyclists from a dozen local organisations from Scarborough and Whitby, many of whom will be riding specially adapted bikes loaned

by SRCC. SRCC founder member and director Rob Brown said the Tour de Yorkshire coming to town gave an ideal chance to promote the library.

He said: ‘The children will have a great time and it helps us

to raise the profile of the bike library in Scarborough.’

Following the success of the Tour de France’s visit to Yorkshire in 2014, the idea for the libraries was promoted

by Welcome to Yorkshire chief executive Sir Gary Verity and sponsored by Yorkshire Bank.

There are now nearly 40 bike libraries across the county, including one at Basics Plus on Salisbury Street in Scarborough that is run by SRCC where there are about 90 bikes, including mountain, hybrid and road bikes, suitable for all ages and abilities and available to hire free of charge.

‘We started off with about 12 bikes, but we now have about 90,’ said Rob. Bikes are donated to the library by members of the public at one of eight donation stations across Scarborough, Filey and Ryedale. If needed, they are repaired and then maintained by cycle mechanic Steve Asquith.

Bikes can be borrowed for just one day or up to two or three months at a time.

More details about the SRCC, the bike library and donation points can be found at: www. srcommunitycycling.co.uk

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Pre-heat the oven to 160°C/Gas 3 and grease a 1 litre ovenproof dish.

Cut the hot cross buns in half and spread with butter both sides. Arrange the buns in an ovenproof dish layering the cross sides face up on top.

In a small pan add the cream and milk and heat until just warm.

In a small bowl add the eggs and egg yolk, pour over the heated cream and milk and whisk thoroughly. Add the yogurt, whisk again.

Pour the mixture over the buns a little at a time, ensuring it has time to soak in.

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Ingredients • 4 x 170g cod fillets or any other white fish • 1 tbsp sunflower oil • 1 large onion, diced • 2 cloves garlic, crushed • 2 tbsp curry powder • 2 Granny Smith apples, cored and diced • 2 red peppers, diced • 400ml tin reduced-fat coconut milk • 1tbsp chopped coriander, to garnish • 500g cooked basmati rice • 2 chappatis, halved

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Heat the oil in a pan over a medium heat.

Add the onion and garlic and cook gently for a few minutes until translucent. Add the curry powder, apples and peppers and cook gently for 1 minute. Next add the fish chunks and stir in the coconut milk.

Turn the heat down slightly so all the ingredients are simmering and cook for 10 minutes until the fish is cooked through. The sauce should reduce and thicken slightly – if it hasn't, don't worry just give it an extra few minutes to simmer.

Serve with the rice and chapatis, garnished with the coriander.

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HOME & GARDEN Flamingos are EVERYWHERE right now.

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Muck & Magic

By Sheila Johnson

I think it's fair to say that Spring has finally arrived in the muck and magic garden although it is a bit intermittent at the moment. It's great to get out into warm sunshine and see plants budding up and bursting into flower. Once again, we have had daffodils, snowdrops and crocus all in flower at the same time rather than a succession of seasonal flowering that we have always been used to. Is this a sign of global warming or just Mother Nature a bit mixed up? The winter flowering shrubs have been fantastic over the last few months and even up to mid March shrubby honeysuckles and Mahonias were giving off glorious scents in the warm weather.

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Tropical plants may be notoriously difficult to keep in good health in ‘sunny’ Yorkshire, but that doesn’t mean you can’t buy a fake one.

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March and April are traditionally Camellia months and true to form they are flowering at their best now. The Muck and Magic Going To Pot gardening team probably get more questions about camellia cultivation than anything else. They are sometimes seen as being a little difficult to grow but I think this is a bit unfair. Give them the right conditions and they will repay you your kindness over many years. Above everything else the soil has to be right for camellias. They need an acid soil which is well drained but retains some moisture. They grow naturally in woodland in the Himalayas so they will tolerate some shade and most are very hardy of our temperatures. If you know you have acid soil you can plant directly into the garden and top off with a mulch of pine needles. If you are gardening on chalk try growing your camellia in a large pot with ericaceous, or lime free, compost. A soil based compost will be more beneficial than a peat based compost Water from the rain butt, rather than with tap water and don't forget that camellias love the dregs from the teapot. Generally, most people want to know why their camellia won't flower and the answer usually lies in the watering. The crucial period is from late summer and throughout Autumn when the flower buds are forming and swelling. Plenty of water at the root will ensure a good show of flowers in Spring. Too little water means the buds either won't form properly or will drop before flowering time.

The second most asked question about camellias is where should I plant it? Avoid an east facing aspect as you don't want early morning sun warming up frosty buds too quickly.

A west or south facing view will be so much more beneficial and will allow the buds to warm up gently leading to better flowering. Camellias really are worth the effort and you will feel you have achieved when you see the lovely blossom at this time of the year.

Muck and Magic Garden Club will be holding their next meeting on Monday April 10th at Ebenezer Church Hall, Columbus Ravine beginning at 7pm. The speaker will be John Grimshaw, Curator of the Yorkshire Arboretum at Castle Howard. All welcome and further details from muckandmagic@hotmail.com

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FIRST IMPRESSIONS

When it comes to our homes, the hallway is the last place you see when you head out on a morning, and the first place you see coming home at night. It’s also the first place guests see too. Give your hallway a little TLC as a mood booster for you and your visitors.

COLOUR YOUR WORLD

A colour shake up could be your golden ticket to a swanky looking entrance.

For smaller, narrower entrances, opt for light pastel tones to keep it feeling big and breezy. For larger, wider hall ways, there’s room to be bolder in your choice of colour. 2017 will see interiors move away from the safe havens of monochrome and neutral (although always a great back up) and tentatively step into a more colourful world. Charcoal grey will be replaced with navy blues, and neutrals make way for pastels and earthy tones.

MIRROR IMAGE

Bring a different dimension to your hallway by adding a large mirror, known for making spaces feel bigger than they actually are and bouncing light around. Currently, mirrors, leant up against walls are dead trendy and can add a pinch of arty intrigue to any nest.

Take the tropical vibe with you, regardless of location.

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Carnival lighting trend (TICK).Tropical trend (TICK). Damn son, when did you get so hip and trendy?

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STAIR STYLE

This is an expensive change to make to your hallway, but staircases are often something that are over looked when re-decorating, and can make hallways appear out of date and dingy. A new bannister could change the tone of your entrance in a heartbeat. If you’re working within a budget, wooden bannisters can be re-stained in different colours, or cimpletely painted.

CONSOLE CHARISMA

Furniture shake ups are a necessary evil from time to time. The ultimate hallway furniture is the timeless console table. Mid century modern tables look like a trend that is here to stay.

SIDEBOARD STOCKHOLM Clean lines and a minimalist design bring this sidebaord into the realms of mid-century modern. The walnut veneer provides a warm finish. £350 | www.ikea.com JOHN LEWIS GRAYSON CONSOLE TABLE Sliding tambour doors and splayed turned legs make this console table feel very retro. £279 | www.johnlewis.com TATSUMA WHITE AND WALNUT STAINED DRESSING TABLE Designed by Habitat's in-house team, the Tatsuma white and walnut stained drawer dressing table is a clean Scandinavian-style design. £180 | www.habitat.co.uk

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The social history of familiar names

by Martin Dove When you are shopping in Scarborough’s town centre, do you ever stop and wonder where those familiar shop names come from?

Have you ever thought about the origins of Boots, WH Smith, Tesco or Betfred?

Was there ever a Mr Marks or a Mr Spencer?

What about Mr Tesco or Mr Debenham?

Well, dear reader, let’s begin our shopping trip at Holland & Barrett. In 1870, Alfred Slapps Barrett and Major William Holland opened a store selling groceries and clothing.

In 1970, Bookers took over Holland & Barrett, along with Health and Heather, and began to sell health products. A takeover from Lloyds Pharmacy in 1992 moved them closer to the stores we recognise today. Nowadays the chain has over 700 stores all over the world, and yes, that does include Holland.

What about the giant of retailing, Marks and Spencer? Michael Marks, a Polish refugee, opened a penny bazaar in Leeds market in 1894 (“Don’t ask the price, it’s a penny”).

Ten years later, Marks met Tom Spencer and within a few years they were running 60 penny bazaars. Nowadays M&S have over 900 stores and employ 80,000 staff. If you’re wondering about the brand name of St Michaels, this was named after the founder by his son Simon.

Time for a coffee break? How about a stop at Costa Coffee? The origins of this business go back to 1971. Sergio Costa and his brother Bruno started out in London as coffee wholesalers.

They opened their first coffee house in 1978.

This rapidly expanding chain, now owned by

Whitbread, has 3,277 outlets in 31 different countries. Costa is Britain’s biggest chain, with 2,121 places where you can enjoy the Costa brothers’ famous coffee.

Now, we’ll pop into Boots the chemist. There really was a Mr Boot; in fact there was more than one. John Boot established the company in 1849, although it was Jesse Boot who pushed the company forward after his father’s demise in 1860. Boots’ original slogan was “Health for a shilling”.

William Debenham was the founder of Debenhams, although the origins of the company pre-date him by around 35 years. The firm, launched as Flint & Clark in 1778, was a draper’s store. William became a partner in 1813 and the store became Clark & Debenham.

The name later changed to Debenham & Freebody, before becoming Debenhams in 1905. William married Caroline Freebody and they had 10 children, whilst Thomas Clark went on to form Cavendish House, which later became House of Fraser.

What about Tesco? Hands up if you think there really was a Mr Tesco. Well there wasn’t. Tesco was founded by Jack Cohen, another Polish immigrant. With only £30 to his name, he set up a street market food stall in Hackney, London.

He sold a lot of tea, which he bought from his tea supplier, TE Stockwell. Jack took his initials of the supplier and added the first two letters of his surname to coin the name Tesco.

It first appeared in 1924, and the rest, as they say, is history.

So there was no Mr Tesco, but was there a Mr Asda? Once again, the answer is no. Asda was

founded by brothers Peter and Fred Asquith, who were part of a Yorkshire butchering family. The original company was known as Associated Dairies & Farm Stores. Some say that Asda is simply a shortening of Associated Dairies, but it is generally thought to stand for ASquith DAiries.

Bookmakers seem to flourish in today’s high streets. Betfred was founded by Fred Done and, Coral by Joe Coral. I think you can guess who set up William Hill, but what about Ladbrokes? This is much more interesting.

There is / was no Mr Ladbroke behind the scenes. This company was set up in the 19th century by a horse trainer and his friend who wanted to set up as bookmakers. They lived in Warwickshire, in the picturesque village of Ladbroke.

Everywhere in the high street, there is a fascinating story of social history, right there in front of us. Check it out for yourself, next time you’re in town.

By the way what do you think the land of Oz has in common with the Daleks? The answer is that their names were both coined in similar ways. L Frank Baum found the name for Oz by looking at the filing cabinets in his office.

He had three filing cabinets labelled A–G, H–N and, of course, O–Z. When Terry Nation wanted inspiration for a new baddie he had created, he looked in the London tele directories. The first was labled AAA – DAK but it was the second which gave him the name that created the evil Daleks: DAL – EKS.

Boots was originally on the corner of Newborough and St Nicholas Street, which became known as Boots Corner.

This photo was taken in about 1910.

Keyboard king to play at church concert Words and picture by Mike Tyas ‘KING of the keyboards’ Howard Beaumont is the star attraction at a special fundraising concert at a Scarborough area church.

Howard, who is well-known from 30 years of playing summer concerts at The Spa, will be tinkering the keyboards at St John the Baptist, Staintondale on Sunday, 23 April, alongside well-known local musicians, vocalist Roger Maughan and double bass player Bob Malinowski.

The concert is being held to raise funds for the local Friends of St John group after Howard was asked if he could help out.

‘The lady that asked me has since passed away which is very sad, but I wanted to honour what I said to her that I would perform and raise funds to continue to keep the church open,’ said Howard.

Andrea Darrington, of the Friends, said: ‘We don’t have regular church services any longer though we still hold weddings, baptisms and funerals.

‘St John’s needs great support because it’s still a place for people to come and say their prayers and have a quiet time.

‘We do get many tourists and local people coming to use it and spend time with God.

‘We’ve kept the church doors open for seven years. We recently had repairs carried out to the tower and the bell.

‘We look forward to many people supporting this very good cause.’

The occasion, which has been billed as an ‘afternoon of great music and song’, starts at 2.30pm. Tickets, at £7.50 to include wine and nibbles, are available from (01723) 870916 or (01723) 870650, or 07736350690.‘

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Happy customers raise £2,750 for hospital Words and photo by Dave Barry Two satisfied patients have raised £2,750 for Scarborough Hospital.

Annette Reid, 33, and Deanne Leng, 42, became friends after meeting at a breastcancer support group 18 months ago.

They felt they had received excellent care during surgery and treatment, which included chemotherapy in the hospital’s Macmillan unit, in 2015.

From left, Deanne Leng and Annette Reid present a cheque to the NHS trust’s community fundraiser Maya Richardson (to order photos ring 353597) They were so grateful that they decided to raise funds for the unit, to give something back.

The pair organised a black-tie event, at the Rugby Club, featuring local band Grand Theft Audio, a raffle, an auction, games and a chocolate fountain.

Deanne said: “The evening was an incredible success and raised £2,750 thanks to the raffle, auction, generous cash donations and money from games and forfeits on the night.

“The money will be divided equally between the chemotherapy unit, the breast-care team and the hospital hairdresser, so that resources can be bought to make sure that other patients going through the same treatment that we had will have greater comfort and ongoing support.

“The total exceeded all our expectations and means that each department will receive over £900”, Deanne said.

Annette and Deanne would like to thank all the local businesses who donated raffle and auction prizes and to everyone else who contributed to the evening.

They are hoping to organise another event next year.

The breast-cancer support group is run by the hospital’s breast-care team. It meets at the Friends Meeting House, near the hospital, on the first Friday of June, September and December, at 10.30am.

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Freedom to fly without fear Words and pictures by Mike Tyas IT’S not a great idea when your job is a reporter to be lost for words. It kind of goes against the job description.

But on this occasion, I’m struggling to sum up my experience.

Words such as majestic, awe-inspiring, exhilarating . . . the list could be endless, all spring to mind but they don’t adequately reflect the day I soared above Scarborough and the beautiful Yorkshire coast. I think the best word I can come up with is, ‘wow’.

It is because of my struggles to describe my experience that I feel it is probably best to leave the job of telling you why I had my head (very nearly) in the clouds, and looking down on the town from a dizzying height of up to 2,000 feet, to a man of God. One of Revd. Neil Douglas’ passions is to fly his microlight aircraft, or to be precise for the technically minded, which I’m most definitely not, a flexwing type of microlight, with a delta (v-shaped) wing similar to a hang glider, with a trike unit hung below it.

Neil is the new minister in charge at Ebenezer Baptist Church on Columbus Ravine.

Since his arrival in October, on some of his days off Neil has taken members of his congregation for a day out with a difference and certainly one they are unlikely to ever forget.

‘I’ve not taken anybody flying yet who has not said “wow”,’ said Neil, 54, who followed his calling into the ministry ten years ago after giving up his previous career managing multimillion pound accounts for an international consultancy group.

He said: ‘There’s definitely something very spiritual about this type of flying. It gives me a chance to get lost with the creator of all this beauty.

‘When you’re flying, or just hanging around in the sky, looking at clouds close up and looking at what our Lord has created gives you a sense of the nearness of God. ‘Oh yes, and it’s fun.’

I have to say that riding the air currents, bobbing above and below clouds, up and

down the coast from the airfield near Beverley up to Scarborough and back, certainly was fun. But for me it was much more – so much more.

It was a day when I confronted my fears.

I’ve been frightened of heights since I fell off a rope swing when I was 14. It’s something that has stuck with me. So Neil’s invitation to fly in an aircraft where you literally feel the gush of the wind on your face and there’s not a stewardess with the drinks trolley in sight gave me so many excuses to say ‘no thanks’.

But I didn’t, and although I must admit to feeling nervous as I sat snuggly behind Neil in the cockpit as we raced down the runway to take off speed of around 60mph, the butterflies I feared might overwhelm me just weren’t there.

There were times when it got turbulent up there in the sky, and it was uncomfortable being rocked from side to side. And yet, mostly, there were magnificent times of calm, peace and wonder when you could see for miles, miles and miles.

Neil Douglas with his pride and joy

Yours truly all set for take off

Sandside and the harbour

Control panel

Heading down to Filey

On top of the world – above Filey!

I saw the curvature of the earth, a rainbow reflection of our aircraft bouncing off clouds below, and I could see the daily grind of living as cars scuttled here there and everywhere along the roads connecting the towns of our coast.

My confidence grew as the trip went on and, after a call of nature break back at the airfield, I was eager for more. Up we went again and this time Neil flew me high above the Humber Bridge, as the sun shone brilliantly of the estuary a thousand feet below.

Stunning.

The day lifted my spirits higher than the clouds and from such a different angle certainly gave me an alternative perspective on life.

It also taught me some home truths about the person I have struggled being for many years and the guy I want to become.

We can’t all be so lucky as to enjoy a ride like this, but we can all in our way confront our fears and stare them down.

Perhaps this was the real reason why Neil invited me along in the first place.

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CELEBRATE CARERS IN YOUR COMMUNITY

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DEAR EDITOR, In the UK, 6.5m people care, unpaid, for a disabled, older or ill family member or friend.

While caring can be rewarding, without the right support it can take a serious toll on a carer’s health, relationships and finances.

That’s why, this Carers Week (12-18 June), we are asking individuals and communities up and down the UK to do what they can to make life that little bit easier for carers.

Whoever you are, whatever you do, you can make a difference.

This year, we want to highlight the importance of carer friendly communities – places where local people and services understand what it’s like to be a carer and show what they are doing to help and support carers better.

As such, we’re asking people to visit the Carers Week website (www.carersweek. org) to recommend carer-friendly services.

It might be an employer, GP, pharmacy, care service, school or café that is carer friendly.

We urge everyone to pledge their support to carers and make a change.

There are lots of different ways to get involved in Carers Week: Recommend an organisation or service that is carer friendly;

DEAR EDITOR, We are writing to thank you for your excellent article in the January Review on a new art class at Woodend Creative Workspace on the Crescent in Scarborough.

It gave several of the group confidence to come along and try a new activity and some of us came specifically because the course

Pledge your support for Carers Week and carry out a change that will help your organisation or service to become more carer friendly; Run an activity or event and add it to the Carers Week website to get a free event pack with resources for your event; Follow Carers Week on Twitter @CarersWeek and use the hashtag #carersweek; Like Carers Week on Facebook and join in with the discussions.

Carers Week 2017 is made possible by Carers UK joining forces with Age UK, Carers Trust, Independent Age, Macmillan Cancer Support, Motor Neurone Disease Association, MS Society and Which? Elderly Care.

Join in this Carers Week to build communities that recognise and value the vital contribution carers make to our families, communities and wider society.

Heléna Herklots CBE Chief Executive - Carers UK

ILLUSIONS, ANOMALIES AND MISCONCEPTIONS DEAR EDITOR, The abuse suffered by Brexiteers from the remainers is nothing compared to the ridicule I have been subjected to as one of the few remaining Flat Earth Society members.

Let me prove my conviction in simple terms.

First hold a coin upright in one hand on a table-top, place a finger on the top of the coin and flick one side of it sharply so that it spins incredibly fast.

The form of the spinning coin then takes on a rounded or spherical shape but we know it is actually an illusion and that the coin is really flat.

This is the same with the earth. Apart from its annual trajectory around the sun, and its 24-hour rotation, it also has an additional gravitational force from the planets in our solar system that causes it to spin at tremendous speed, hence the illusion, like the coin, that the earth is spherical.

One anomaly is that a mark on the rapidly spinning coin appears to stand still and thus so with the earth, meaning that we also view the moon and stars from an almost stationary position ourselves and have no such awareness of hurtling around at great speed.

So the spherical shape taken on by the earth in that action is, after all, a complete misconception that means satellites can still appear to orbit the spinning disc that is the earth.

Without that gravitational pull from the

planets, the earth would simply fall over flat like the coin on the table when it stops spinning, leaving some countries of the world on one flat side and some on the other flat side like they appear on the one-dimensional page of a school atlas.

Cleverly orchestrated conspiracies of photos and films showing the earth as round are actually created by movie-type special effects and trick photography.

For centuries mariners feared that if they ventured too far, they would topple off the edge of the world and that is exactly what has happened in the past and is still happening to vessels today despite locations such as the south China Sea and the Bermuda Triangle reportedly being blamed for their disappearance.

In conclusion let me say that although my name and address is supplied I would be obliged if you would refrain from publishing them as I would not wish for any ‘round earthers’ coming along and lobbing bricks through my windows.

Raymond David

THANK YOU DEAR EDITOR, You recently published a photo and information on our group, Easy Street.

The effect of this has been very noticeable, with many new faces in the audience at our more recent gigs. Monday at Farrer's was

full to capacity as were the Crescent and Foxholes gigs, and I think that the publicity in the Review had a large part to play in that.

Many thanks for spreading the word; much appreciated.

Bob Malinowski - Easy Street

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was looking at the work of impressionist artists.

With thanks, Students from the WEA start painting & drawing art course *Turn to page 44 for details of the latest course

ILLEGAL DISC PARKING ZONES - THE TRUTH AND OUR MONEY DEAR EDITOR, Scarborough Borough Council issued me with a disc-zone parking fine just after the region’s appeals officer, Maggie Kennedy, upheld the appeal lodged by a Scarborough resident, Mr Thorne.

I understand Mr Thorne was assisted in this appeal by his daughter, who is a lawyer.

Immediately, many motorists across North Yorkshire and beyond were automatically offered the opportunity to appeal similar parking fines relating to North Yorkshire County Council’s disc zone parking scheme.

NYCC, attempting to forestall an avalanche of reimbursed fines, ‘ruled’ that this appeal referred solely to Mr Thorne, was inapplicable to other motorists similarly fined and, therefore, not retrospective.

I regard this statement as unlawful, challenging Scarborough Council to validate this ruling under detailed questions submitted under freedom-of-information (FOI) legislation, simultaneously contesting my fine.

SBC refused to answer my FOI questions until I paid my fine. I replied, accusing SBC of attempting to obstruct the course of justice by denying the information I needed to appeal my fine.

SBC then waived the fine, unilaterally downgrading my FOI request to a subject aspect request (SAR), avoiding the council’s requirement to publish my FOI details and reply on their website. SBC claimed

this move was to protect my identity under data protection legislation!

I have now p r o t e s t e d this decision, stating I have no objection to my details being published in this way, reiterating more detailed questions, again under FOI legislation.

This issue has now been passed by Scarborough’s appeals officer, Debbie Agar (debbie.agar@scarborough.gov.uk) to their FOI department.

Clearly SBC and NYCC are playing for time, attempting to avoid reimbursing an estimated £3m of unlawfully collected revenue.

NYCC appear not to have appealed Maggie Kennedy’s decision or to have changed the disc zone bylaws she deemed unlawful; bylaws which cannot be made retrospective.

The response to my latest FOI submission should prove interesting.

Meanwhile, I would urge anyone who feels similarly aggrieved by the disc zone scheme to follow Mr Thorne’s lead, appeal their fines, simultaneously submitting FOI requests to get at: the truth and our money.

Tony Hampshire The Esplanade - Scarborough

GREEN CANDIDATES IN COUNTY ELECTIONS DEAR EDITOR, I would like to inform your readers about the wonderful people that are standing to represent you in the county council elections in May. This election is really important because North Yorkshire County Council are making huge cuts to our public services which include libraries, roads, pavements, buses, street lighting, education, social care and children’s centres.

The county council has also approved fracking that will endanger our water supplies, peaceful countryside and fresh air.

All the Green Party candidates listed below will stand up for local residents’ rights and try to protect the services they use.

The Green Party is not just about environmental issues but about justice and equality for everyone in the borough.

David Malone is a documentary filmmaker and a father of three sons whilst Charlotte Bonner works for the National Union of Students and is the mother of a baby girl.

Tony Johnson worked in IT, David King ran

a restaurant and Robert Adams runs his own business.

Chris Phillips, Helen Kindness and Judy Deans are retired teachers.

As you can see they have a wide range of experiences and all live in and love the area they want to represent.

They all want to protect and promote the town and its residents.

If you care about what happens to your local services then please consider voting for your Green Party candidate on 4 May. The Green Party candidates are Tony Johnson (Eastfield & Osgodby), David Malone (Falsgrave & Stepney), David King (Filey), Judy Deans (Hertford & Cayton), Helen Kindness (Newby), Robert Adams (Northstead), Charlotte Bonner (Weaponness & Ramshill), Chris Phillips (Woodlands) and Mark Vesey (Castle).

For more information see https:// scarborough.greenparty.org.uk.

Mark Vesey Royal Avenue - Scarborough

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Mercury, trainers and cobblers Local artist Dav White talks about the fascinating world of history, art and mythology AROUND the world, trainers wrapped around a telephone wire indicates that illegal drugs are being sold close by.

And although communication using telephone wires is relatively modern, communication through footwear is significantly older.

Street language such as this comes from ordinary language use but is often communicated in a more cryptic, secret way, with hidden meaning sometimes aimed at a certain groups of people.

In mythology, Mercury, the Roman messenger of the gods, is associated with the communication of special or hidden knowledge. His trademarks are his Caduceus staff and the wings on his shoes.

The winged shoe motif has found its way into the logo of many of today's training shoe brands. It implies, from a marketing perspective at least, that in these shoes you will be lightning quick, so fast and so light that you'll seem to fly or get air. You will be so high that you appear to hang, suspended off the ground, like Michael ‘Magic Air’ Jordan, the famous American basketball player.

The most obvious example of this motif is the Nike swoosh, which takes inspiration from Greek mythology. Nike was the Greek goddess of victory, rewarding strength and bravery. The Nike swoosh was created for the training shoe in 1971 by designer Carolyn Davidson, who acknowledges that she used the representations of Nike's wings from

The Mercury statues in Peasholm Glen …

… and the Italian gardens

Dav White as Mercury at the Louvre in Paris

classical art and sculpture to influence her iconic design.

The foot, heel and ankle are recurring motifs in mythology. Achilles and his heel is the most obvious example. Protection of the foot, heel and ankle became a sacred duty in old myth.

It is this special duty that awarded cobblers two patron saints - the twins Crispin and Crispinian. Boots and shoes from good cobblers were used as good luck amulets when laying down the foundations of a building and placed above doorways and chimneys. This good luck charm was possibly the origin of the Christmas stocking.

A Dictionary of English Folk Law states that: “There are very few local museums in England that do not possess the odd shoe, having been found hidden in old houses, usually in a wall, roof, floor or chimney. Deposited in places that are normally accessible only at the time of building”.

When coal mines in Yorkshire and Derbyshire and copper mines in Wales were abandoned, a single boot was often placed at the far end of the tunnel, or at a point where a shaft had collapsed. At weddings, boots are traditionally tied to the back of the bride and groom’s car for good luck. Small boots as charms are made for good luck bracelets. The 'first foot in' plays a vital part in our new-year customs, to bring luck and prosperity in the new year.

The weekly Scarborough Mercury newspaper was first published in 1855. Its name may have been influenced by the long standing national newspaper, Mercurius Britannicus.

Mercury was the Roman name for the messenger and communication so it followed that Mercury was an apt name for a newspaper.

William Smith, the landscape designer funded by Scarborough Corporation, gave us Peasholm Park on the north side and the Italian gardens on the South Cliff. Perhaps he had a vested interest in the old Scarborough newspaper as he designed a Mercury statue for both parks.

The Greek name for Mercury is Hermes.

In Greek mythology, Hermes is the god of commerce, transition and boundaries as well as a messenger of communication. He too has wings on his feet and carries a Caduceus staff.

The centre of commerce at the time of the Scarborough Mercury was St Nicholas Street.

This was the former site of the Old Bank and the location of the splendid St Nicholas House, home of the prominent Woodall banking family, now the town hall.

The name Nicholas comes from the Greek Nikolaos, which meant ‘victory of the people’, from the Greek words nike (victory) and laos (people).

The Mercury statues in Peasholm Glen and the Italian gardens were made on transitional boundary developments and their design marries perfectly the classical Greek, Christian and Eastern mythologies.

For example, the Peasholm Mercury incorporates the Buddhist mandala within the design of the pond in which the statue stands and includes the lotus flower, a symbol widely used in many eastern philosophies and in Christianity. The lotus appears in many other statues within the park and at the base of the St Thomas Cross, which originally stood outside the Old Bank.

During the time of the great siege at the castle, there lived a gentleman called Elias Ashmole.

He lived in London, was from a privileged background, worked as an alchemist and was a founding member of the Royal Society.

After the execution of Charles I by the Parliamentarians, Ashmole began calling himself Mercuriophilus Anglicus (the English

Mercury lover).

In alchemy, Mercurius was seen as the staple element for change and Ashmole thought himself to be the human Mercury, an agent for transformation in the turbulent times of the English civil war. He wanted to do all he could to change society and restore the monarchy.

The publication that reported the events of the time was the Mercurius Britannicus, one of the oldest newspapers in England, responsible for reporting the affairs of the civil war to the educated classes.

On Pancake Day in 1645, the paper reported the victory of the Parliamentarians at Scarborough.

In a brutal civil war, towns throughout the country changed their allegiances again and again as the fate of the Parliamentarians and Royalists played out. Sides were taken, as is the nature of things, in order to survive.

Being a losing side meant destruction, physically or economically. Is this the real reason we skip for joy on Pancake Day, to show what side we're on - skipping for joy, ‘getting air’ and jumping as high as we can?

Is this a way of showing allegiance by skipping and avoiding the rope? Did this custom, using old rope from repaired fishing nets after the toll of the old St Thomas Bell, which became known as the pancake or curfew bell, first take hold at the time of the great siege?

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Trainers dangle from a telephone cable in Friargate (photo by Dave Barry)

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Scarborough Strata Words by Roger Osborne and Photo by Dave Barry WHICH do you prefer: stacks of bread and butter, or piles of books, or maybe even layers of sponge cake? I’ve used all of these and more to show how the rocks of the Yorkshire coast fit together. That’s what they are, just layers of rock – let’s call them strata – with the oldest at the bottom and the youngest at the top.

What makes this coast so brilliant for geologists is that each stratum of rock extends over great distances. This means you can trace a rock like the Dogger all the way along the coast from Runswick Bay to Ravenscar; the same Hambleton Oolite seen north of Helmsley forms the top of Oliver’s Mount 30 miles away.

And this stacking up of strata makes it easy to trace changes in conditions through time. If a bed of dark shale sits on top of a pale rock then you’re looking at a reduction in oxygen – due to a deepening of the sea or a change in its chemistry. This all works so well because most of the rocks were laid down on level sea floors that extended over miles in every direction – which in turn produces nice level and extensive strata.

But not all the rocks on the coast are like this.

In the Middle Jurassic period this area changed from a deep sea to a vast delta – a coastal area with a shifting array of streams, sandbanks, forests and beaches. In contrast to the level,

The rock layer on the top of Scarborough Castle Hill reaches all the way to Helmsley and beyond. uniform seabed this was a varied and changing environment.

And so, not surprisingly, Middle Jurassic rocks vary from place to place. From Ravenscar to well south of Scarborough the cliffs and scars are a complex mix of river sandstones, beach deposits, shallow sea limestones and gritstones. The rock platforms show a fascinating series of features from the Jurassic delta. River channels, meander belts, even the shifting patterns of streams are preserved in fantastic detail.

The Yorkshire coast is a natural theme park for geologists, having variation from place to place as well as up and down the strata is just one more remarkable feature of this natural wonder.

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Ryedale Festival comes to Scarborough

by Dave Barry THE team which runs Ryedale Festival in the summer is planning an Easter concert in Scarborough.

The Sixteen, described by the promoters as one of the world’s greatest vocal ensembles, will perform at St Martin’s Church on Saturday 22 April.

The programme is rooted in the great British choral tradition, with works by Benjamin Britten, Herbert Howells, William Harris and Gerald Finzi.

The programme for the main part of Ryedale Festival, from 14-30 July, will be announced in April.

It will include another concert in Scarborough, at the Spa Grand Hall on 21 July.

The Orchestra of Opera North will perform Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel overture, Rachmaninov’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (with soloist Pavel Kolesnikov) and Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique.

Ryedale Festival’s artistic director Christopher Glynn says the two concerts reflect the festival’s ambition to present great music in beautiful places. “I hope musiclovers throughout the area will be inspired to support and enjoy what I’m sure will be two unforgettable concerts”, he said.

Opera North general director Richard Mantle said the company was looking forward to The Sixteen choir can be seen at St Martin’s Church on 22 April (photo by Molina Visuals) returning to the town and introducing its music director, Aleksandar Markovic. “We’re delighted to renew our relationship with Ryedale Festival, a Yorkshire institution that shares our commitment to world-class music and the development of young artists”.

The festival has been described in the Times as “Yorkshire’s boldest music festival”.

Tickets for the church concert cost £30 (nave seats), £25 (rear seats) and £20 (side aisles). They can be booked by ringing 01751 475777 and online at www.ryedalefestival. com.

The Orchestra of Opera North will perform at the Spa Grand Hall on 21 July (photo by Richard Moran)

Friendly Filey men’s choir seeks newcomers

Filey Fishermen’s Choir at a sing-along concert in Cayton (to order photos ring 353597)

Words and photo by Dave Barry ONE of the area’s oldest choirs is hunting for new members.

Filey Fishermen’s Choir, formed in the late 19th century, is down to 14 choristers.

But that’s almost twice as many as a year ago, when things were looking bleak.

A recruitment drive in spring last year nearly doubled membership and gave the choir a shot in the arm.

The men-only choir has about 30 engagements a year, singing during church services. The next ones are at Emmanuel St John's Church in St John's Road, Scarborough, at 6.30pm on 9 April and at the village hall in Seamer at 7pm on 29 April.

In Seamer, the audience will be invited to sing along to popular old songs; printed lyrics will be available.

No charge will be made for admission and light refreshments will be served.

The choir is heading to Hinderwell on 17 April - Easter Monday. Supporters are welcome to join the singers on mini-buses

which will leave Filey bus station at 4.45pm and Northway in Scarborough, opposite the telephone exchange, at 5pm.

Filey has had links with Staithes, near Hinderwell, since the early 19th century, when fishing boats from Filey would call in at Staithes for supplies, and vice versa.

Not long after the Scarborough to Whitby railway line opened in 1885, the singers would travel north by train, to team up with the Men of Staithes choir.

Press officer Roger Carr says: “Filey and Staithes fishermen have had a long record of friendship and cooperation going back many years, so even though it would be a mammoth journey in those days, it would be the obvious place to go”, Roger says.

“Although Staithes Chapel closed a few years ago, we still carry on this tradition, but up at

the top of the hill at Hinderwell”.

The Men of Staithes return the honour by travelling to Filey for Harvest of the Sea celebrations in September.

Filey Fishermen’s Choir has always practised on Saturday evenings, because they didn’t fish on Sundays. However, they are reputed to have waited on the Coble Landing for the St Oswald’s Church clock to strike midnight before launching out for the new week’s fishing.

The large repertoire is mainly made up of songs of the sea, such as Pull for the Shore, Eternal Father, Blue Galilee, Fierce Raged the Tempest, etc.

Rehearsals are at Filey Methodist Church on Station Avenue, from about 6.30pm to 7.45pm. n If you would like to join the choir, either just turn up or ring Roger on 514746.

Young performers have fun at St Augustine’s Words and photos by Dave Barry THE music department at a Scarborough school is going from strength to strength.

A third of the pupils at St Augustine’s – 170 – are involved in its music ensembles.

And what a choice of ensembles they have.

Music teacher Oliver Barron runs the junior choir, senior choir, male voice choir, chamber choir, orchestra and senior jazz band, which is called the St Augustine’s Jazz Orchestra (SAJO).

Oliver’s colleague, fellow music teacher Caroline Watkinson, runs a junior jazz band for pupils to develop their skills.

The pupils enjoy rehearsing and performing.

Beth Metcalfe, who is in year 8, said: “I love being in all the choirs and the orchestra. It is a massive part of my and many others’ school life. It’s so much fun and I love it when we perform. There are so many opportunities for us here; it’s amazing”.

There are plenty of shows and performances throughout the year, including end-of-term concerts, an X Factor-style concert, a year7 concert involving the whole year group singing as one, performances in the town centre and Tesco, competitions (including

Music for Youth) and various liturgies.

The chamber choir and SAJO are in high demand and take on bookings like weddings and business functions.

Many of the pupils who join the school in year 7 take on a new or second instrument so they can join one of the ensembles.

Oliver said: “It is a real pleasure to work with all these talented and committed young people who just love making music together and performing.

“The department is always looking into new ways to encourage pupils in music and improve the facilities through fundraising.

“We have mentoring schemes in some of the ensembles in which the older pupils and many ex-pupils come back and help the younger ones become better players which is working wonders with the standards of the ensembles”.

Another highlight of the calendar for the department is its biannual music tour. Over the past eight years, it has performed in Italy, Malta, Spain and Switzerland and is looking forward to its visit to Croatia in July, which they are raising money for.

Year-11 pupil Darcie DeFreitas said:

“During the past five years as part of the music family I have discovered a passion for music which will stay with me my whole life”.

Music teacher Oliver Barron

A St Augustine’s choir rehearses at Westborough Methodist Church

Most of the school’s young musicians and singers (to order photos ring 353597)

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Psychedelic garage Dancing their way to band top festival bill national success

by Dave Barry HULL’S Black Delta Movement, who play psychedelic garage rock, headline the YC17 Yorkshire Coast music festival at Redcliffe Farm near Lebberston on 28 and 29 July.

Topping the bill on the sceond night is Andy Bennett from Ocean Colour Scene, who will play an acoustic set.

Sharing the bill are Page 45, All Mod Cons, Black Lime, Sub Gents, Stray Scene,

Jesse Hutchinson, Harley Likes Music, Interceptors, Happy Endings and Vasolators.

Musical director Mark Starkey promises “a good selection of real ales along with other beverages, food stalls and things for children to do”.

Tickets cost £10 for the first night, £12 for the second or £15 for both, including parking and camping. n The festival website is at www.ycmfestival.co.uk.

by Dave Barry MEMBERS of a Scarborough dance school have taken two top titles in a national competition.

Fifteen talented youngsters from the Anne Taylor Academy of Dance were selected from thousands of dancers to participate in the British Association of Teachers of Dancing’s national freestyle scholarships.

They had to perform solo routines and compete against pupils of 33 dance schools from across the country.

Sarah Tindall won the prize for senior solo finalist.

The junior scholarship finalists were Sophie Lever, Jess Nalton, Tillie Marshall, Shauna George, Josie Kerr, Amalie Ware and Megan Walls.

The academy walked away with two of four titles in each section of the competition.

Amalie Ware won the junior freestyle solo

dance award and Megan Walls was the junior freestyle scholarship runner-up.

Academy principal Anne Taylor said: “To come away with two amazing awards and so many pupils making the finals was a dream come true.

“Everyone was so happy and emotional as a lot of hard work and dedication is put in by both pupils and teachers to achieve results like this”.

The senior scholarship group and teachers. L-R: Sarah Tindall, Cherie Welburn, Anne Taylor and Olivia Hall.

Black Delta Movement (photo by SydPix)

Art show opens in Falsgrave

by Dave Barry AN exhibition of Scarborough landscapes by professional fine artist Tim Knight can be seen at Picturesque gallery until the end of April.

Tim recently moved to Scarborough after completing a foundation course at Colchester Institute and obtaining a BA honours degree at Camberwell School of Art. He says he has since had an illustrious career in the arts, teaching, exhibiting and painting large exterior murals for private and public commissions.

In recent years he has been working with Creative Partnerships in Tendring, Essex, creating site-specific works and running

by Dave Barry A HANDS-ON drawing and painting course looking at elements of landscape starts at Woodend on Wednesday 26 April, at 10.30am.

It will cover skies, seascapes, storms and reflections and look at the work of landscape artists for inspiration.

The group will be relaxed and friendly, welcoming beginners and improvers. Tutor Ruth Collett says: “We will be using pastels and paint, having some outdoor drawing sessions and a gallery visit. The 10-week course will get you painting landscapes in a fun and relaxing way”.

workshop projects in schools.

Tim has been teaching adult painting classes for several years; for the last two in Filey.

He concentrates on traditional painting techniques, using oils, acrylics and watercolour.

Tim is available for private commissions, portraits, landscapes, house portraits and murals.

He can be contacted via email: tknightfineart@ btinternet.com.

His website is at www.artpistol.co.uk.

Picturesque gallery and framing workshop is in St John’s Road, off Falsgrave.

It is being run by the Workers Educational Foundation and is free for people on most benefits. n To book a place, ring 0113 245 3304 or go to enrolonline.wea.org.uk.

Artwork by students on an ongoing course at Woodend

The junior scholarship group and teachers. L-R, back: Abbie Davies, Emma Hornsey, Alyssa Roe, Cherie Welburn, Amalie Ware, Megan Walls, Anne Taylor, Josie Kerr, Shauna George and Libby Glave. Front: Henry Ware, Tillie Marshall, Sophie Lever and Jessica Nalton.

Raven swoops on village halls Words by Dave Barry Raven are playing at the village halls in Hackness tonight (31 March), Brompton (7 Apr) and Gristhorpe (20 May).

Formed 12 years ago, the band can also be seen at Watermark café (30 Apr), Helmsley Arts Centre (26 May), Grassington festival

fringe (1 July) and Woodend (8 July).

The sextet’s fusion of irresistible sounds combines daring choral, sizzling salsa, whimsical pop, ethereal melodies and rootsy folk. n For details, ring 07757 765196 or visit www.ravensong.co.uk.

Raven in full flight (photo by James Drawneek)

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TIME TRAVEL Words & recent photos by Dave Barry Despite the precedent of countless grand old buildings vanishing over the decades, it still came as a surprise to many that Scarborough Council approved the demolition of a distinguished survivor.

That was in November.

A lot of water has passed under the bridge since then.

The former Conservative Club in Huntriss Row was set to be levelled to make way for an 89-bedroom extension to the Premier Inns hotel which sits on the corner of Vernon Road and Falconers Road.

The original plans approved by the council involved retaining the façade.

But the council then accepted a property developer’s assertion that it would have cost £500,000 to keep the façade and gave the thumbs-up to the bulldozers.

Heritage groups were outraged.

Scarborough Civic Society contended that, as the building fell within a conservation area, it should be retained.

Historic England and the Victorian Society objected strongly to the demolition.

Kerry Babington, inspector of historic buildings and areas at Historic England, maintained that the application for demolition “contains insufficient information to demonstrate that total demolition is the only option for the future use of this site in the conservation area”.

James Hughes, senior conservation adviser at the Victorian Society, argued that it “would deprive the town of one of its finer and more interesting historic buildings, and would cause substantial, unjustified and irreversible harm to the significance of the Scarborough conservation area”.

The heritage groups contended that by approving the demolition, the council was conflicting with the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990, which obliges the council to pay special attention to the desirability that any development preserves or enhances the conservation area.

“If Scarborough Council are approving the demolition of culturally significant buildings such as this, it calls into question the future of Scarborough’s historically rich landscape”, Mr Hughes said.

The club is listed under the act for its “special architectural or historic interest”. The reasons for its designation are its “playfully flamboyant street frontage” and “the ornate roof structure of the hall on the first floor”.

The building is part of a conservation area which is listed on Historic England’s Heritage at Risk register.

The Victorian Society, which campaigns to preserve Victorian and Edwardian architecture, said “the polychromatic brickwork on the façade and bold mullioned

windows make it an attractive asset to the conservation area.

“As well as being aesthetically valuable to the area, the building is also of historical value.

“Despite the collapse of the original scheme, which would have resulted in much of the original architecture being removed, the council shocked heritage groups and local citizens alike by granting full planning permission to the Premier Inn developers”, the society said after total demolition was approved.

However, the plan was foiled when the building was listed.

The building which would have replaced the club would probably have been every bit as bland and nondescript as the architecural nonentities which have replaced long-lost grand buildings, such as the Balmoral arcade, the Brunswick Pavilion and Pavilion House.

Club’s origins The 1884 Reform Act saw an increase in the number of men who could vote in parliamentary elections. This prompted the creation of politically affiliated ‘gentlemen’s’ clubs across the country. But they weren’t allowed to be called Conservative Clubs, by law.

Built in 1888, the Scarborough club was designed by Henry Cheers of Twickenham, one of 90 Victorian architects who entered a competition for the job.

Cheers (1853-1914) specialised in public buildings, creating flamboyant designs drawing on Tudor, Jacobean and Baroque styles.

The building boasts a wide range of features that were reused by Cheers in his later creations, including town halls in Oswestry (1893), West Hartlepool (1897), East Ham (1901-3) and Hereford (1904).

The last two, along with libraries in Hull (1894) and Teddington (1906), are listed Grade II. The foundation stone of Scarborough Constitutional Club was laid on 20 January 1888 by the Earl of Feversham and the club was opened on 20 December 1888 by the prime minister, Lord Salisbury.

It features “a florid mixture of Tudor and Baroque styles in red brick and stone”, according to The Streets of Scarborough by Raymond Fieldhouse and John Barrett (1973).

Writing in The Buildings of England (195174), architecture historian Nikolaus Pevsner admired the “picturesque mixed Tudor and Baroque”.

For decades, the club was a hidebound menonly bastion of male privacy, an anachronism representing the attitude that women were not equal and should know their place.

Women were finally admitted in the early 1960s, but only in certain rooms. Even Margaret Thatcher was barred from the men-

The Constitutional Club when it opened in 1888

An early photo, taken before the neighbouring property was demolished only areas when she visited the club as prime minister in 1988. She was in town for a Young Conservatives meeting at the Spa. However, the occasional woman was smuggled into the club for a laugh, wearing a tightly bound scarf around her chest, a false moustache and a flat cap.

The club, with a bar and four snooker tables, finally allowed women as full members in 2004.

The club fell into decline and closed in 2012.

Membership had dwindled to about 500 and the average age was rising steadily. At least one person died on the premises.

The constituency’s various Tory MPs were based there until the current incumbent, Robert Goodwill, resigned as club president, citing concerns over the state of the finances.

He moved to premises in Albemarle Crescent. * A beautiful 120-year-old stained glass window was saved from the club before it came under threat. It bears the town seal and the wording “The common seal of the people of Scarborough” in Latin. It is now in the Maritime Heritage Centre.

Fine stone carvings above a window

Two fierce griffins hold shields above the grand door

The former Conservative Club as it is today

The other side of Huntriss Row

An old stained-glass window from the club

Sweet-talking Sue gathers bumper raffle prizes Words and photo by Dave Barry

L-R, Neil Buglass and Gemma Colley of Clock Handyman with Sue Groom, Val Pattison and Reg Towse of Newby & Scalby in Bloom (to order photos ring 353597)

NEWBY & SCALBY in Bloom have launched the first of two annual fundraisers – a raffle.

Sue Groom has been working extra-hard to gather as many prize-pledges as possible by sweet-talking businesses.

Among those who fell under Sue’s spell was Neil Buglass, co-owner of Clock Handyman and Bibelot Bee Neil is sponsoring the raffle by paying for tickets to be printed. They can be bought at the Plough in Scalby, the Rugby Club and Proudfoots.

Newby & Scalby in Bloom’s second fundraiser is a plant sale at Newby & Scalby community hall on 27 May. The money will be used to buy plants for 16 flowerbeds in Newby and Scalby.

An information day will be held at Proudfoots on 5 May, from 11am to 4pm.

The prizes are £100 cash, six months’ membership of Baron’s gym, lunch for two at the Plough in Scalby, a two-hour driving lesson by Kevin from Learn Driving UK, a gardener’s hamper, lunch and match tickets

for two at the rugby club, a meal for four at the Tunny Catch, Sunday lunch for four at the Nags Head in Scalby, two tickets for a show at the Spa, a hot-stone massage by Thomas Gillon, a canvas print by Photo Studio, a cut and blow-dry or shampoo and set by Joanna’s Hair Studio, Sunday lunch for two at Cellars, an adult ticket to Alpamare waterpark, a nails session by Beth, a £10 Proudfoots voucher, jewellery by Elaine and afternoon tea for two at Stepney Hill Farm, Oliver’s on the Mount café and the Clock café.

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Volunteers plant a beech hedge Words and photos by Dave Barry A BEECH hedge has been planted by community gardening group Growing Opportunities.

Fifteen people, including three children, planted more than 100 beech trees at the Street, a community hub at 12 Lower Clark Street, Scarborough.

The event marked the first stage in transforming land around the Street into a nature-friendly and edible oasis.

Growing Opportunities (GO) is working with Coast and Vale Community Action over the next two years and is keen to get as many people as possible involved.

GO volunteer Christine Mackay said: “It was fantastic to see so many enthusiastic people out helping and we exceeded our expectations by planting all the beech trees in one day”.

Thanks to a grant from the Postcode Local Trust, GO is running regular social gardening events and a gardening club at the Street.

With funding raised by players of the People’s Postcode Lottery, GO has bought plants, tools and protective clothing so that anyone can participate.

The volunteers included Beckie Blake, who runs the Filling Station café at the Street.

She said: “The project is such a wonderful idea and I thoroughly enjoyed helping out.

Not only will it be great for my cafe, to add a gorgeous outdoor space for customers, but it's also lovely to see how this project is bringing together so many different people from all walks of life. Anything that promotes people taking an active interest in their community and others in it can only be a good thing”.

More trees will be planted at the Street on Saturday 1 April, from 10am–2pm.

The gardening club meets at the Street every Friday, from 2-4pm. A wide range of gardening activities can be tried, with support from GO volunteers and access to protective wear and on-site facilities.

Volunteers line up with bamboo canes marking where the beech saplings were planted (to order photos ring 353597)

Hard at work

Son pays musical tribute to dad Words by Mike Tyas, picture by Glyn Whittington V E R S A T I L E musician Chris Myers kept an audience at Northstead Methodist Church richly entertained Chris entertains when he gave a charity concert in memory of his dad.

Chris regaled the audience with a full and varied programme ranging from Elton John hits to ‘30s and 40s singer-songwriter/ comedian George Formby and his ukulele,

and also tunes from country music to songs with a religious theme.

The York-based musician performed ‘the Chris Myers Show’ in memory of Eric, a member of the congregation at Northstead for 30 years, who passed away last year.

The £290 raised was donated in Eric’s memory to the Yorkshire Air Ambulance, who sent along a speaker and told the audience about their work.

Eric was a proud Yorkshireman and his son wanted the money to go a local charity his dad felt performed great work in the county.

•It costs more than £4m each year to keep the ambulance flying, or £12,000 each day.

Martial-arts instructor marries pageant judge

by Dave Barry

ANTHONY David Wendt and Sally-Ann Fawcett have married at Scarborough register office.

The groom is the only son of Tony and Margaret Wendt of Richmond, Surrey.

The bride is the younger daughter of John Fawcett and Diane Deuchar Fawcett of Scarborough.

The groom is a martial arts instructor and the bride is a pageant judge and author of Misdemeanours: Beauty Queen Scandals.

The bride's niece, Joanna Macfarlane, was chief bridesmaid, and her nephew, Dougie Macfarlane, was the photographer.

The groom's nephew, Oscar Wendt, was best man, with the bride's sister, Sue Macfarlane, and her husband Colin were the witnesses.

A reception was held at Oliver’s on the Mount restaurant.

Newly-weds Anthony David Wendt and Sally-Ann Fawcett

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Walkers help Beat eating

disorders

Words and photo by Dave Barry A SPONSORED walk during eating disorders awareness week raised £300 for eating disorder charity Beat.

Members of Scarborough Inner Wheel walked from the Spa to Watermark café in the north bay.

They included the mayoress, Val Green, who said: “We enjoyed the afternoon sunshine and had a few laughs along the way”.

The Association of Inner Wheel Clubs has chosen Beat as its charity of the year.

President Zena Coles says: “My 18-year-old granddaughter was hospitalised due to an eating disorder. Many of our members will know of people who have experience of this distressing problem, either through friends, or like me because a member of the family is a sufferer”.

At least 725,000 people in the UK are affected by an eating disorder. They can be serious - anorexia has the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric condition. Early intervention is crucial in saving lives.

Beat can provide the first contact to guide and support people in accessing the treatment they need. The charity supports thousands of people a year through its helplines, message board and text services, which are funded by supporters.

Inner Wheel’s support will help to fund Beat’s national helplines and Young Ambassador programme for volunteers aged 14-25 with personal experience of eating disorders.

Beat’s community fundraising officer Andrea Auburn said: “We are delighted that Inner Wheel of Scarborough organised this walk to fund our helplines and work with young people. Their kind support will help Beat to change the lives of more people affected by eating disorders”.

Some of the walkers wore colourful socks including, L-R, Val Green, Dora Esposito and Bernice Graham

The walkers at the Spa (to order photos ring 353597)

n For further details on the Scarborough group, ring Rosemary Oliver on 871488.

The national Beat website is at www.b-eat. co.uk.

Filipina theme to world day of prayer Words and photos by Dave Barry WREYFIELD DRIVE Methodist Church was packed to the last chair for a service marking the annual women’s world day of prayer.

Similar services were held around the UK and in 170 other countries on the same day, starting with Samoa in the South Pacific.

This year’s service was composed by Christian women in the Philippines.

“We were remembering and praying for the people of the Philippines”, said Susan Kennedy, a member of the Scarborough prayer-day committee.

“We were treated to a wonderful display of dancing by four Filipina women in national costume.

“They took an active part in other ways, including reading a dramatised version of St Matthew’s gospel, telling of the dispute which arose about who was owed most for working in the master’s vineyard”, Susan said.

“There was a dramatic display showing typical costumes, food, etc, from the Philippines.

“Everyone was moved by and enjoyed this event”.

It was attended by the mayor and mayoress of Scarborough, Simon and Val Green.

Rev Emma Morgan spoke eloquently about the theme of the service: Am I being unfair

to you?

Organist Francis Appleby accompanied the hymns and songs.

The mayor and mayoress with the prayer-day committee (to order photos ring 353597)

L-R, Heide Tagalog, Cleopatra Robles, Mila Gonzal and Wilma Thompson

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by Dave Barry A FUNDRAISING gig for mental-health charity Scarborough Survivors will feature several bands.

They are Sewer Rats, Corinth, the Subterranean Gentlemen, Dead White Doves, Dividium, the Colour Fire, AnteInferno, Republic of Trees, Danse Society Official and a headliner whose identity has yet to be confirmed.

Entitled the Light Fantastic, the gig will be at Scarborough Brewery in Barry’s Lane, off

by Dave Barry

Seamer Road, on bank-holiday Sunday 16 April, from 3pm until midnight.

It’s being organised by BTH Promotions and will feature record stalls and food.

Wrap up warm for ice-breaking show Words and photos by Dave Barry THEATREGOERS are being asked to wear warm clothing and take a blanket to wrap themselves in to enjoy being part of Beach Hut Theatre’s next show.

To add to the atmosphere, hot soup will be handed out from a specially created soup kitchen at the old parcels office, near Scarborough railway station.

The company is challenging public perceptions of mental health with its reinterpretation of The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen.

Written and directed by John Pattison and Alison Watt, SnOwQuEeN is an original urban fantasy musical that considers the social isolation caused by depression in young adults, which can culminate in homelessness.

It reunites the cast of last year’s Summer’s Edge and can be seen at 7pm today (31 March) and 1.30pm and 7pm tomorrow.

Tickets cost £8, with a £6 concession. To book, ring 384500.

SnOwQuEeN is part of Beach Hut’s Breaking the Ice project, which continues with SuDdEn ThAwS, six short plays by local writers.

With sets designed by artist Helen Birmingham, the sextet can be seen for free in the library’s main lending area between 10am and 2pm on Saturday 22 April. People can drop in and watch at any time.

Meet the fridge whose sole ambition in life is to help others chill out, or calm yourself in a forest of stories with a good friend. Or maybe follow the adventures of someone trying to get a good night’s sleep.

The mood-boosting stories aim to break the

ice around everyday mental-health issues.

Under the dramaturgical direction of Alison Watt, they upon social phobias, insomnia, selfharming in young people, eating disorders, dementia and general anxiety disorder, with moving and humorous approaches.

Alison says: “SuDdEn ThAwS has been developed to get the conversation started around the common mental-health conditions that can have an impact on us all. We have a wonderful mix of stories which have been carefully researched by a group of talented local writers”.

The plays are Strangers in Waiting by Neil Arnott, Night Follows Day by Paul Beck, The Clinic by Charleigh Christmas, Pinkie by Libby Pearson, Locked Out by Paul Spencer and Keeping it Cool by Michelle Watts.

Pinkie considers the impact that self-harming has on young people. Libby says: “Through my experience in youth work, I have worked with many young people who self-harm. While no two cases are ever the same, I recognised the need in these teenagers to be taken seriously and the positive effect that professional counselling can have. I have tried to pay attention to that in Pinkie. I have found the charity Mind’s website useful as this has very accessible resources and useful information”.

Breaking the Ice is a partnership between Beach Hut Theatre and the library, cofunded by Arts Council England and Stronger Communities.

It draws on the Reading Agency’s Reading Well scheme on common mental-health conditions.

IRISH and American music, mythical drawings and the Roaring Girls are coming up at Woodend in Scarborough in April.

Ranagri play flutes, Irish whistles, electric harp, bodhran, guitar and bouzouki tomorrow (1 Apr).

This contemporary folk band fuses Celtic folk with contemporary songwriting, enhanced by virtuosic instrumentals, vibrant rhythms and haunting melodies.

Country-rock trio Calico, from California, call in at Woodend on their first UK tour (21 Apr).

Promoter Chris Lee says: “Calico play honest, gritty country music in the Laurel Canyon tradition, merging folk, country and rock in the style of Crosby Nash & Young with a dash of the Dixie Chicks. Ted Russell Kamp helps out on bass”.

Gracie Falls, who Chris describes as a “local unsigned champion”, is the support act.

Tickets for both gigs, which start at 7.30pm, cost £10 and can be booked by ringing 384500 and online at Eventbrite.

Drawing on Myth, a collection of drawings

by Colin Challen, runs from 10 April to 2 June.

The drawings explore the theme of myth.

by Dave Barry FILEY’S annual folk festival kicks off on Friday 28 April with two great acts.

The Goat Roper Rodeo Band has been described as “the Everleys fronted by Gram Parsons” and was a big hit at last year’s

Tom Mason (photo by Mickey Dobo)

News in Brief

by Dave Barry

Friday Night is Music Night will be presented

by Scarborough Rotary Club at Westborough Methodist Church on Friday 21 April, at 7.30pm.

It will feature Scarborough Concert Band, conducted by Malcom Appleby; Scarborough Cimmunity Choir, conducted by Bill Scott; and singers Eleanor and Libby Wood. No charge will be made for admission but a free will offering will be taken to support the Alzheimer’s Society.

The SnOwQuEeN company

Choral concert in Hackness

by Dave Barry

HACKNESS Ladies Choir will demonstrate its wide repertoire and growing expertise at its spring concert at Hackness village hall on 8 April, at 7.30pm.

The concert will feature a wide variety of music, from African to Wild West, passing through arrangements of songs from the

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shows, ballads, folk songs and pop songs from the 60s and 70s.

It will include solos, readings, songs and comedy sketches and musical interludes by Frank James, a highly accomplished musician and a fine solo pianist.

The 40-voice choir was established in 1984 by Ernie Stear and a group of locals including his

Californian trio Calico are at Woodend on 21 April

But the word is loosely defined, and allows Colin to create his own myths. Their meaning is in the eye of the beholder.

The last two lunchtime talks by Tim Tubbs in a series entitled The Roaring Girls are on 7 and 14 April, at 1pm.

Tim considers the alternative careers and lives of women in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, from pickpockets and pirates to Restoration actresses, con-women and freewheeling heiresses.

“Shakespearian London dubbed its noisily delinquent, carousing or independent women the Roaring Girls”, he says.

“They defied convention to live outside the expected female roles, pursuing outrageous careers, lifestyles and public images”. n Tickets cost £5 (£4 concessions).

Beverley folk festival.

Tom Mason, from Nashville, headlines with his mix of piratical ballads and sea shanties.

On the Saturday, young traditional folk band Bric a Brac will be followed by acclaimed duo Hungrytown from Vermont and Oklahoma songbird Susan Herndon and her band Bella Counsel, which includes guitar and fiddle maestro Bob French.

Sunday’s headliner is Lauren Housley and her band, Radio 2 favourites who mix soul and country.

Country-blues legend Steve Phillips and the Rough Diamonds play on the Monday.

The festival is held at the Evron Centre. n Tickets cost £10 per show. They can be bought at Filey Travel and the Red Box in Filey. Or ring 512229.

An exhibition of felted art by Margaret Jackson and Jane Mercer will be opened by Heather Ayckbourn at Scarborough’s Blandscliff Gallery on Sunday 2 April, at 2.30pm.

A concert by Scarborough Concert Band, at St Columba’s Church at 7.30pm on 13 May, will raise money for Martin House children’s hospice.

It is being organised by its local Friends group.

Tickets cost £5 and can be booked by ringing 381449 or 372593.

Nick Harper is to headline Filey’s annual folk festival, which runs from 28 April to 1 May, across a bank-holiday weekend. Harper can be seen at the Masonic Hall on the Saturday.

A record fair at Queen Street Methodist Church is being organised by Revolutions Music of Huntriss Row, Scarborough. It is on Saturday 15 April, from 10am-4pm. n Free entry. For details, email RevolutionsMusic@btinternet.com.

daughter, who is still a member.

The musical director, Ralph Earwicker, is an experienced conductor and musician.

Over the last 12 years, the choir has raised £17,500 for local charities. This year donations have been made to the Alzheimers Society, St Catherine’s, the Mountain Rescue Service, Art Therapy Yorkshire and Scarborough

Survivors.

The choir rehearses on Tuesdays, at 7.30pm, in the village hall.

New and returning members are welcome.

There are no auditions and it is not necessary to be able to read music. n Admission to the concert costs £5 and includes home-made refreshments in the interval.

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APRIL

THROUGHOUT AUGUST SUMMER FUN, Sutton Bank National Park Centre. Children’s crafts, minibeast madness, treasure hunts and demonstrations are just some of the activities taking place. Call 01439 772738.

SECRECY AND SPIES, The Bar Convent, York. This state-of-the-art exhibition will inspire you with the story of the Bar Convent.

Discover three hundred years of history and the remarkable people who have shaped it.

Meet the radical Yorkshire nun and pioneer Mary Ward, whose devotion to her cause took her on foot across the Alps - twice. Visit www.bar-convent.org.uk

7 APRIL THE BRAND NEW TESTAMENT, Scarborough Central Library, 7.30pm.

Scarborough Film Society presents this fun take on Christian mythology. Call 07748 280871.

CHARITY COLLECTIONS, Sainsburys, Scarborough. Scarborough Lions Club will be out in force to collect for their chosen charity, Clicsargent. Also find them on the 14th at Morrisons, and the 15th at Proudfoot Newby.

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8-23 APRIL EASTER FUN, Burton Agnes Hall. Children are invited to take part in an Easter trail around the magnificent grounds of the Hall, solving clues while exploring the extensive gardens. Once the conundrum has been solved, every child will receive an Easter treat. There will also be an Easter Egg Hunt on 16th-17th. Visit www.burtonagnes.com 14-15 APRIL SCOOTER RALLY EASTER 2017, Scarborough Spa. Mammoth Parts Fair (Sat), Trade & Customer Show, plus two nights of entertainment with tributes to The Jam and The Specials, set in Scarborough Spa’s magnificent Grand Hall. Call 01723 821888.

31 MARCH-1 APRIL WELCOME BACK WEEKEND, Makis Entertainment Complex. An action-packed weekend of live entertainment for the whole family. Call 01262 401111.

1 APRIL YOU’VE GOT A FRIEND - THE MUSIC OF JAMES TAYLOR AND CAROLE KING, Scarborough Spa, 7.30pm. From the creators of the smash hit show ‘The Simon & Garfunkel Story’ comes a brand new theatre experience celebrating two of the World’s greatest songwriters of all time - James Taylor and Carole King. Call 01723 821888.

8-9 APRIL SCI FI SCARBOROUGH 2017, Scarborough Spa. Sci-Fi Scarborough once again invites you all to geek beside the seaside as the Unconventional Convention returns for a record breaking Fourth year in the quirky quarter mile that is the stunning Victorian venue of Scarborough Spa. Call 01723 821888.

NOT TO BE MISSED!

TREE PLANTING EVENT, The Street, 12 Lower Clark Street, Scarborough, 10am2pm. Help Growing Opportunities gardening group to plant some trees. Call 07422 972915.

2 APRIL FREE BOOK SWAP EVENT, Friends Meeting House, Quaker Close, Scarborough, 12noon-3pm. Bring your unwanted books and put them on the table, have a cup of tea or coffee, browse and pick out something you fancy. Email angelajnellis@yahoo.co.uk

5 APRIL COUNT ARTHUR STRONG: THE SOUND OF MUCUS, Whitby Pavilion, 7.30pm.

Using stories and other things that are secret, Count Arthur Strong, showbiz legend, pays tribute to one of the best musicals he can remember. Call 01947 458899.

EDWARDIAN SCULPTURE, Concert Room, Scarborough Library, 2.39pm. Scarborough and District Civic Society presents a talk by Andrew Clay, Director of Woodend Creative.

Email christinehepworth@googlemail.com 13 APRIL A BEAUTIFUL NOISE - THE NEIL DIAMOND STORY, Bridlington Spa, 7.30pm.

It is 50 years since the legend that is Neil Diamond had his first hit single ‘Solitary Man’ released in April 1966, which proved the launch pad to international stardom. Call 01262 678258.

ONGOING UNTIL 22 APRIL WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR EXHIBITION, Treasure House & Art Gallery. The world-renowned exhibition, on loan from the Natural History Museum, will open in Beverley, featuring 100 aweinspiring images, from fascinating animal behaviour to breathtaking wild landscapes.

Call 01482 392780.

11 APRIL MAGIC MIKE - EASTER EGGSTRAVAGANZA, Bridlington Spa, 2pm.

Magic Mike has visitors coming back each year to see his fast moving hilarious show that has grown ups laughing as much as children. Call 01262 678258.

9 APRIL RAT PACK VEGAS SPECTACULAR, Whitby Pavilion, 7.30pm.

Modern music is fine, but there is nothing that compares to the sheer coolness of the Rat Pack - Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., and Dean Martin. Classic hits still resonate today, like Come Fly with Me, That’s Amore, Under My Skin, Mr Bojangles, Mack The Knife and many more. If, however, you missed out on seeing the trio live 50 years ago (where were you?) you can still catch one of the world’s greatest tribute acts, The Rat Pack Vegas Spectacular, performing on 9th April at the Whitby Pavilion. The live show features amazing Rat Pack impersonators, the Rat Pack Orchestra, and the fabulous Vegas Show Girls.

Visit www.whitbypavilion.co.uk

14 APRIL MEET SCAMP’S FAIRY FRIENDS, Scampston Walled Garden, Meet Scamp the Mole’s new fairy friends! A fun and fairy-filled day of story-telling, crafts, games and fairy cakes. Visit www.scampston.co.uk 15-17 APRIL EASTER CELEBRATIONS, St. Oswald’s Church, Flamborough. 10.30am4pm. Easter flowers in church and raffle, tombola, second-hand books, bric-a-brac and home-made refreshments in the church hall. Call 01262 671917.

15 APRIL FOSSIL HANDLING, Rotunda Museum, 10.30am-4pm. Explore a stunning collection of real fossils through hands on sessions with fossil experts. Visit www. scarboroughmuseumstrust.com 16 APRIL PASHA KOVALEV & ANYA GARNIS LET’S DANCE THE NIGHT AWAY, Bridlington Spa, 7.30pm. Pasha Kovakev from Strictly Come Dancing and his fantastic dancers are back again touring the UK with their completely brand new show.

musical adventure. Call 01262 678258, 21-23 APRIL WHITBY GOTH WEEKEND, Whitby Pavilion. Join the thousands of Goths and alternatives of all ages and walks of life for an amazing long weekend. Whether you spend the nights watching fantastic live music or the days shopping in the various ‘Bizarre Bazaar’ locations, it’ll be a weekend you’ll never forget! Call 01947 458899.

21 APRIL OUR LITTLE SISTER, Scarborough Central Library, 7.30pm. Scarborough Film Society presents this meticulously shot and gracefully orchestrated Japanese film. Call 07748 280871.

22-23 APRIL RYEDALE COMMUNITY WEEKEND, Scampston Walled Garden. Free entry all weekend for Ryedale residents. Visit www.scampston.co.uk

24 APRIL BESIDE THE SEASIDE CONFERENCE, Scarborough Spa, 9.30am6pm. A day conference dedicated to seaside history and heritage, hosted by Scarborough Museums Trust. Visit www. scarboroughmuseumstrust.com 25 APRIL ARTISTIC IMPRESSIONS, St Columba Church Hall, Dean Road, 7.15pm.

Scarborough Flower Club presents a floral demonstration by June Borrowdale. Call 07935 474239.

28 APRIL THE SUPERSONIC 70S SHOW, Whitby Pavilion, 7.30pm. It’s the hottest ticket in town! An incredible live show so jam packed with classic 70s hits it’s no wonder it’s been described as “the best 70s show of its kind- West End quality”. Call 01947 458899.

29 APRIL ABSOLUTE BOWIE, Scarborough Spa, 7.30pm. Absolute Bowie, Europe’s Finest David Bowie Tribute continue to celebrate the life and music of the Starman with a spectacular show uniting Bowie fans across the UK. Call 01723 821888.

29 APRIL MUSICAL EVENING, St Oswald’s Church, Filey. Featuring renowned organist Michael Carr (resident organist at the Flower of May Scarborough Fair Museum) singing and choirs. Call 01723 512075.

19-20 APRIL THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS, Bridlington Spa. Join the hilarious Mr Toad and his trusted companions as they leap through the countryside and battle the wicked Weasel King in this all-new family

30 APRIL VINTAGE FAIR, Scarborough Spa, 10am. Brought to you by AdVintageous Fairs & Events. Enjoy live entertainment on-stage throughout the day, a Hair & Beauty Parlour, NAAFI Cafe serving a 1940s menu, a Vintage Tea-Room, classic bikes and scooters, and 60 stalls of pure vintage! Call 01723 821888.

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30 APRIL CHAS & DAVE - THE FULL STORY LIVE, Bridlington Spa, 7.30pm. The history of Chas & Dave in one special show. Call 01262 678258.

MAY 1 MAY SPRING FAIR, St Andrew’s Church, Ramshill Road, Scarborough, 11.30am1.30pm. Home baking, toys, crochet creatures, bric-a-brac, tombola, refreshments, a raffle, and lots more. Free Admission. Email Grantkg29@aol.com

Scarborough Review QUAY SCRABBLE GROUP, Sewerby Methodist Church, 6.30pm. Have a great night of Scrabble, and enjoy a cuppa. Call 01262 409718.

WURLITZER AFTERNOON TEA DANCES, Scarborough Fair Collection, Scarborough.

Visit www.scarboroughfaircollection.com or call 01723 586698.

FIRST MONDAY OF EVERY MONTH PSYCHIC NIGHT, Ivanhoe Hotel, Burniston Road, Scarborough, 8pm . Enjoy thoughtprovoking ‘Demonstrations of Mediumship & Clairvoyance’ with Guest Psychics. Call 01723 366063.

SCARBOROUGH SUB-AQUA CLUB, 25 St Mary’s Street, Scarborough. New dive and social members are welcome to this weekly meeting. Visit www.scarboroughsubaquaclub. net or call 01723 372036.

SECOND MONDAY OF EVERY MONTH SCARBOROUGH ACTIVITY GROUP, Scarborough Library, Vernon Road, Scarborough, 2-4pm. A range of activities for people with dementia and their carers along with access to a Dementia Support Worker.

Call 01723 500958.

THIRD MONDAY OF EVERY MONTH DRIFFIELD ART CLUB, Driffield Community Centre, 7-9pm. Visit www.driffieldartclub. co.uk EVERY TUESDAY LUNCHTIME LECTURES, Woodend Creative, Scarborough, 1-2pm. Tim Tubbs will deliver a series of talks titled ‘Scandalous Queens’.

Visit www.woodendcreative.co.uk or call 01723 384500.

BOOK NOW! FOREST LIVE, Dalby Forest. Book tickets now for performances in June & July by Rick Astley, Elbow, and Ed Harcourt. Visit www. forestry.gov.uk/music and call 03000 680400.

REGULAR EVENTS EVERY DAY WOLDGATE TREKKING CENTRE, Woldgate, Bridlington. There are excellent horse and pony treks, suitable for both beginners and advanced riders, as well as Saturday morning club fun days for children.

Visit www.woldgatetrekking.co.uk or call 01262 673086.

MONDAY TO FRIDAY WALKING FOOTBALL, Baron’s Gym, The Rugby Club. Classes for both men and women.

EVERY SUNDAY QUIZ NIGHT, The Mayfield Hotel, 10-11 Main Street, Seamer, Scarborough, 7pm. Enjoy this weekly quiz of music and general knowledge, followed

by Rock ‘n’ Roll Bingo, and Lucky Thirteen’s Play Your Cards Right. Call 01723 863160.

QUIZOKE, Ivanhoe Hotel, Burniston Road, Scarborough, 6pm. Be looked after by ‘Hostess with the Mostest’ Jeannette DuPont.

Call 01723 366063.

EVERY SUNDAY UNTIL 9th OCTOBER LEBBERSTON CAR BOOT SALE, opposite Jet service station, A165 to Filey, from 6.30am.

Turn your trash into cash at this great car boot sale. Call 07966 254179.

FIRST SUNDAY OF EVERY MONTH BIRD AUCTION, Eastfield Community Centre, 12noon-2pm. Alongside the auction, there will also be a raffle and refreshments. Call 01723 581550.

EVERY MONDAY FENCING CLASSES, YMCA Leisure Centre, St Thomas Street, Scarborough, 7.15-8.30pm for nine to 17 year olds; 7.15-9pm for over 18s. Visit www.scarborough.ymca.org.uk or call 01723 374227.

WALKING WOMEN’S FOOTBALL, Barons Fitness Centre, Silver Rd, Scalby. Call 01723 357740.

Roller Disco @ The Spa, The Spa Bridlington, 5pm, 6.45pm & 8.30pm. Fun for all ages! Visit www.thespabridlington.com or call 01262 678258.

TABLE TENNIS SESSIONS, Whitby Pavilion, West Cliff, Whitby, 7-9pm. Whether you are an experienced player or a complete novice, you are welcome to head along and join the regular club members for some friendly games. Visit www.whitbypavilion.co.uk or call 01947 458899.

FIRST TUESDAY OF EVERY MONTH YORKSHIRE EAST COAST WIDOWED GROUP, Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, 2pm.

Members meet in the coffee lounge. Call Maureen: 01723 365991 or Sheila: 01723 639315.

SINGING FOR THE BRAIN, South Cliff Methodist Church, Filey Road, Scarborough, 1.30-3pm. For people with dementia and their carers. Call 01723 500958.

BARRY ROBINSON’S BIG QUIZ, Ivanhoe Hotel, Burniston Road, Scarborough. 8pm.

Email admin@theivanhoe.co.uk for more information.

SCARBOROUGH CONCERT BAND, St. James Church Undercroft, Scarborough 7.309.30pm. Visit www.scarboroughconcertband. co.uk or call 01723 369008.

WALKING WOMEN’S NETBALL, Barons Fitness Centre, Rugby Club, Scalby Road, 11am.

EVERY WEDNESDAY AND FIRST SUNDAY OF THE MONTH DANCE4LEISURE, Grand Hotel, Scarborough, 2pm. Two hours of non-stop dancing! Visit www.dance4leisure.wix.com/comedancing EVERY WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY & SATURDAY EASY SEQUENCE DANCING, Cayton Village Hall, North Lane, Cayton, 1.45-4pm Weds; 10am-12.15pm Fri; 7.30-10pm Sat. Beginners welcome. Call 01723 351380.

SECOND WEDNESDAY OF EVERY MONTH RYEDALE JAZZ CLUB, Beansheaf Hotel, A169 Malton Road, 8-10.30pm. A traditional jazz session with an established band.

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FIRST FRIDAY OF OCTOBER, NOVEMBER, FEBRUARY, AND MARCH STAR GAZING, Dalby Forest Visitor Centre, Thornton-le-dale. The dark skies of Dalby are amongst the best in the country and with the expert help and advice from Scarborough and Ryedale Astronomical Society you will be amazed what you can learn about the sky.

Call 07812 660184 for more information.

THIRD SATURDAY OF EVERY MONTH MONTHLY FOOD MARKET, Westborough, Scarborough. A range of local produce including fruit, vegetables, meat, bread, pies, and much more! Visit www. themarketmanagers.co.uk MUSTARD SEED, Ebenezer Church Hall, Scarborough, 11.45am-2pm. A monthly meeting for adults with learning difficulties, connected to the charities Livability and Prospects. Call 01723 583566.

LAST SATURDAY OF THE MONTH RYEDALE EMBROIDERERS’ GUILD, Wrelton Village Hall. Call 01723 862417.

MOST NIGHTS LIVE MUSIC, The Commercial, Falsgrave Road, Scarborough. A great mix of live acts performing on several nights each month.

For details, call 01723 447109.

There’s always something on… at the libraries!

FILEY LIBRARY Station Avenue, Filey Call 01609 536608 APRIL EVENTS: 1st Creative writing group 10-12 5th Storytime 2-2.30pm

FILEY FLOWER CLUB, Evron Centre, Filey, 7.30pm (October to July). See the flowers and meet a great ‘bunch’ of people. Call 07791 101231.

5th Code Club time 6-7pm

SECOND TUESDAY OF EVERY MONTH CHRISTCHURCH PENSIONER ACTION GROUP, Bridlington Library. 11am. Coffee mornings, outings, and easy exercise classes.

Call 01262 602866.

EVERY THURSDAY AND SATURDAY CRAFT AND GIFT FAIR, The Grand Hotel, Scarborough, 8.30am-4pm. Quality crafts and gifts are on sale, to raise funds for St Catherine’s Hospice.

12th Library Reading Group 5-6.30

SCARBOROUGH ASSOCIATION COFFEE MORNING, Wreyfield Drive Church, 10.30am.

New members always welcome. Call 01723 368913.

FIRST THURSDAY OF THE MONTH RYEDALE WOODTURNERS, Snainton Village Hall, 7.30-9.30pm.

Guests welcome to enjoy first class professional woodturning demonstrations. Visit www. snaintonwoodturningclub.org.uk or email oldfern@btinternet.com

THIRD TUESDAY OF EVERY MONTH SCARBOROUGH FLOWER CLUB, St Columba Church Hall, Dean Road, Scarborough, 7.15pm (except January, July and August). A warm welcome to all. Admission £6.50. Visit www.scarboroughflowerclub.co.uk EVERY TUESDAY AND THURSDAY JU JITSU CLASSES, YMCA Leisure Centre, St Thomas Street, Scarborough. There are junior sessions (7.15-8.15pm Tues; 7-8pm Thurs) and adult classes (8.15-10pm Tues; 8-10pm Thurs) available. Visit www.scarborough. ymca.org.uk or call 01723 374227.

BARON’S WALKING FOOTBALL, Scarborough Rugby Club, 9.30-11am. Call 01723 377545.

EVERY WEDNESDAY SALSA CLASS, St James Church, Scarborough, 7.30-9.30pm.

Partner and booking not required. Visit www. stjamesscarborough.co.uk or call 07788 873523.

EVERY FRIDAY MEN’S WALKING FOOTBALL, Baron’s fitness Centre, Scalby Road, 9.30am. Call 01723 363397.

GROWING OPPORTUNITIES GARDEN GROUP, The Street, 12 Lower Clark Street, Scarborough, 2-4pm. Help to create an edible and nature garden. Call 07422 972915.

FIRST & THIRD THURSDAY OF THE MONTH PARKINSON’S UK CARERS GROUP, 2pm.

First meeting at Danes Dyke Community Hall, Scarborough; second meeting at St Columba’s Church, Dean Road, Scarborough.

Call 01723 862681.

FIRST AND THIRD FRIDAY OF EVERY MONTH BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP, St Martinon-the-Hill Church, South Cliff, Scarborough, 2-4pm. This small, friendly group is led by a Cruse Bereavement Care qualified volunteer.

8th PCSO drop-in 10-11 12th Story time 2-2.30pm 12th Code Club time 6-7pm 14th 19th Easter shutdown 19th PCSO drop-in 4-5 21st U3A Family History on PN 10-12 26th Support for Carers Drop-in 10-12 26th Story time 2-2.30pm 26th Code Club time 6-7pm 27th U3A Reading Group 5:15-6pm 29th Creative writing group 10-12 Every Friday & Saturday CAN WE HELP? IT HELP SESSIONS; 1-5pm Fri, 10am-1pm Sat..

Every Thursday KNIT & NATTER, 1-3pm.

Last Tuesday of every month FILEY ACTIVITY GROUP, 2-4pm.

EASTFIELD LIBRARY Eastfield Library, High Street, Eastfield, Scarborough. Call 0845 034 9512.

Every Tuesday STORYTIME, 10.30-11.15am.

DERWENT VALLEY COMMUNITY LIBRARY

BRIDGE

3 Pickering Road, West Ayton Call 01723 863052 Second and last Wednesday of the month KNIT AND STITCH, 7pm – 9pm Every Wednesday during term time STORY TIME, 2pm – 3pm

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Theatre

Scarborough Spa

Visit www.scarboroughspa.co.uk or call 01723 821888.

29 APRIL ABSOLUTE BOWIE Celebrating the life and music of David Bowie.

Scarborough YMCA Theatre Visit www.scarborough.ymca.org.uk/ theatre-shows or call 01723 506750.

APRIL 2017

Visit www.whitbypavilion.co.uk or call 01947 458899.

18-22 APRIL FOOTLOOSE With popular numbers including ‘Holding Out for a Hero’ and ‘Let’s Hear it for the Boy’, as well as ‘Footloose’ of course, this high energy musical will have audiences singing along.

29-30 APRIL FIFTY SHADES OF HATTON Presented by Hatton School of Performing Arts.

Stephen Joseph Theatre

5 APRIL COUNT ARTHUR STRONG: THE SOUND OF MUCUS Using stories and other things that are secret, Count Arthur Strong, showbiz legend, pays tribute to one of the best musicals he can remember.

9 APRIL RAT PACK VEGAS SPECTACULAR A totally live show featuring the Rat Pack trio, the Rat Pack Orchestra, and the fabulous Vegas Show Girls. WIN TICKETS IN OUR COMPETITION PAGE!!!

15-18 APRIL BRASSED OFF Grimley Colliery is set to close as the accountants say there’s more money in it being closed than open, even after redundancy payments.

28 APRIL THE SUPERSONIC 70S SHOW An incredible live show so jam packed with classic 70s hits.

Spotlight Theatre, Bridlington

The Firebird Quartet returns to Scarborough Jazz at the Cask on 19 April. They play contemporary jazz, funky grooves and their modern take on standards, with original material and music by Wynton Marsalis, Terence Blanchard, Wayne Shorter, etc.

FRI 31 MAR Rattlin’ Sheiks at the Merchant; Jesse and Laura at Blue Crush; Midnight Junction at the Mayfield in Seamer; Raven at Hackness village hall.

SAT 1 APR Jez Ech (4pm) and Hillbilly Blues Band (9pm) at the Merchant; Bladerunner at Cellars; Trilogy at the Tap and Spile; Chris Barton at the Eastway Club in Eastfield.

SUN 2 APR Mick Wheeler at the Tap and Spile (5.30pm); Tom Townsend Originals at Watermark (7pm); Easy Street at the Crescent (7.30pm); Mr Jim at the Merchant (8pm).

MON 3 APR Scarborough Folk at the Merchant.

TUE 18 APR Steve Phillips and the Rough Diamonds at the Grosvenor in Robin Hoods Bay. WED 19 APR Firebird Quartet for Scarborough Jazz at the Cask; Alastair James at the Merchant; open mic at the King & Cask; open-mic with John Watton at Cellars.

THU 20 APR Jesse Hutchinson at Cellars; open mic at the Merchant and Nags Head in Scalby.

FRI 21 APR Colcannon at the Merchant; Chris Mountford at Blue Crush.

SUN 23 APR Prendo at the Tap and Spile (5.30pm); Stony at Watermark (7pm); Connor Lawlor at the Merchant (8pm).

UNTIL 1 APRIL CHARLIE AND THE LIGHT FANTASTIC Join Charlie and his clever cat as they explore the galaxies.

5 & 7 APRIL WHO KILLED THE HOLIDAY REP? In an in-house production Northern Lights Theatre presents a murder mystery comedy.

4-8 APRIL CYRANO Northern Broadsides return with a lively new adaptation of the swashbuckling tale of unrequited love.

6 & 8 APRIL WHO KILLED THE MAD SCIENTIST? This Northern Lights Theatre murder mystery comedy concerns the eminent scientist Felix Oppenmeister.

FRI 7 APR Colcannon at the Merchant; John Watton at Blue Crush.

19-20 APRIL NOEL & GERTIE A warm and witty musical comedy.

8 APRIL TWELFTH NIGHT Tamsin Greig is Malvolia in a new twist on Shakespeare’s classic comedy of mistaken identity.

21 APRIL MORGAN & WEST’S UTTERLY SPIFFING MAGIC SHOW FOR KIDS (AND CHILDISH GROWN-UPS) Morgan & West present magic and mayhem for ages five to 105!

21 APRIL ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN The play that made a young Tom Stoppard’s name overnight, returns to The Old Vic in its 50th anniversary celebratory production.

SAT 8 APR Sam Lenton at the Merchant (4pm); Sheepskin at Indigo Alley; at Cellars; Chapter 4 at the Tap and Spile; Louise at the Eastway Club in Eastfield.

21 APRIL MORGAN & WEST’S PARLOUR TRICKS Mind-boggling magic.

22 APRIL EUGENE ONEGIN In Tchaikovsky’s Lyric Opera, Eugene Onegin, the hardened socialite, rejects the love of passionate Tatyana Larin.

MON 10 APR Scarborough Folk at the Merchant.

23 APRIL COPPELIA This sparkling tale of magic and mischief romps along to Delibe’s lilting score.

TUE 11 APR Steve Phillips and the Rough Diamonds at the Grosvenor in Robin Hoods Bay.

29 APRIL JULIUS CAESAR In Julius Caesar, a charismatic military leader inspires jealousy in the Roman Senators.

WED 12 APR Jon Taylor for Scarborough Jazz at the Cask; Alastair James at the Merchant; open mic at the King & Cask; open-mic with John Watton at Cellars.

13 APRIL A BEAUTIFUL NOISE - THE NEIL DIAMOND STORY

MON 17 APR Scarborough Folk at the Merchant.

WED 5 APR Johanna Alba & Alastair James at the Merchant; Joel Purnell for Scarborough Jazz at the Cask; open mic at the King & Cask; open-mic with John Watton at Cellars.

1 APRIL MADAMA BUTTERFLY Madama Butterfly is one of Puccini’s most moving operas.

11 APRIL MAGIC MIKE - EASTER EGGSTRAVAGANZA Magic Mike returns to Bridlington for an exciting and colourful stage show.

SUN 16 APR Full Tilt at the Tap and Spile (5.30pm); Miles Gilderdale at Watermark (7pm); Mark Gordon & Laura Welburn at the Merchant (8pm).

SAT 22 APR Trilogy at the Merchant; Midnight Junction at the Tap and Spile; Phil May at the Eastway Club in Eastfield.

UNTIL 1 APRIL FIRST DRAFT Newly developed plays from the members of the SJT’s script-writing class.

Visit www.thespabridlington.com or call 01262 678258.

SAT 15 APR Ross Dransfield at the Merchant (4pm); Sugar Licks at Indigo Alley; Chu Ma Shu at the Tap and Spile; Raving Rupert at the Eastway Club in Eastfield.

TUE 4 APR Steve Phillips and the Rough Diamonds at the Grosvenor in Robin Hoods Bay.

Visit www.spotlighttheatrebrid.co.uk or call 01262 601006.

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BY DAVE BARRY

FRI 14 APR Connor Lawlor at Blue Crush.

Visit www.sjt.uk.com or call 01723 370540.

13-15 APRIL MR DARCY LOSES THE PLOT Award-winning comedy duo LipService celebrate Jane Austen’s life.

Gigs at Scarborough pubs unless stated. Please send submissions to dave@thescarboroughreview.co.uk

THU 13 APR Jesse Hutchinson at Cellars; open mic at the Merchant and Nags Head in Scalby.

16 APRIL PASHA KOVALEV & ANYA GARNIS LET’S DANCE THE NIGHT AWAY Pasha Kovakev from Strictly Come Dancing and his fantastic dancers are back again.

Whitby Spa Pavilion

7-8 APRIL MAGIC OF DANCE Presented by Yorkshire Coast School of Ballet.

14 APRIL THE THREE LITTLE PIGS The Three Little Pigs set off into the big wide world to seek their fortune...

19-20 APRIL THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS Starring Billy Pearce, join Mr Toad and his fairytale friends in their biggest adventure yet.

1 APRIL DEREK RYAN Derek Ryan has become one of country music’s leading entertainers and makes his highly anticipated visit to Scarborough.

Pub Gigs

A remarkable live show celebrating the life and songs of Neil Diamond.

18 APRIL CINDERELLA Performed by Vienna Festival Ballet.

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THU 6 APR Jesse Hutchinson at Cellars; open mic at the Merchant and Nags Head in Scalby.

SUN 9 APR Kez at the Tap and Spile (5.30pm); Mambo Jambo at Watermark (7pm); Ross Dransfield at the Merchant (8pm).

MON 24 APR Scarborough Folk at the Merchant.

TUE 25 APR Steve Phillips and the Rough Diamonds at the Grosvenor in Robin Hoods Bay. WED 26 APR Blind Monk Trio for Scarborough Jazz at the Cask; Alastair James at the Merchant; open mic at the King & Cask; open-mic with John Watton at Cellars.

THU 27 APR Jesse Hutchinson at Cellars; open mic at the Merchant and Nags Head in Scalby.

FRI 28 APR Rattlin’ Sheiks at the Merchant; Alistair Huntly at Blue Crush.

SAT 29 APR Mr Jim at the Merchant (4pm); Hi-heel Sneakers at Indigo Alley; Hoodoo Brown at the Tap and Spile; Dave the Rave at the Eastway Club in Eastfield; Bladerunner at the Three Jolly Sailors in Burniston.

SUN 30 APR Little Big Horn at the Tap and Spile (5.30pm); Raven at Watermark (7pm); Lottie Holmes at the Merchant (8pm).

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Scarborough Sport RADIO SCARBOROUGH’S TWELFTH MAN, SPORTS SHOW HOST ANT TAYLOR, GIVES HIS MONTHLY VIEWS ON THE WORLD OF SPORT.

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Junior hockey squad revived

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For Dave THIS has got to be one of the hardest columns I'll probably have to write. It's been about a month since the passing of Scarborough Athletic Chairman, David Holland. He was always glad to chat to you and he always gave me an update on the new ground.

He was also a keen listener, and always asked about my neck. He'd be glad to know that I'm heading for surgery this month. He would tell me about his Rugby days at Bridlington and his injuries, they were the same stories he'd tell me week in week out but now, I’ll never hear them again.

I first met David when he started his tenure as Chairman of the club that we had both supported as kids. Even though we were born into different generations, the sentiment of going to the Athletic ground to watch our favourite players was the same, his being Harry Dunn or Barmby and for me, Darren Foreman and Tommy Mooney.

I'd just moved back from Sheffield, and while working, I had built up a relationship at Sheffield FC, and now back in my home town I wanted to do what I could for the Phoenix Club, Scarborough Athletic.

David and I met up and talked about roles, I was interested in helping the team on the front line and offered my assistance with the vacant kit man job. It was a messy job sometimes, but being involved in the team that would eventually win the NCEL Premier Division, I could see the team would have a great future.

Every time I'd get to the game, I'm sure I never got there before David Holland, it's like he lived at Queensgate. He was always there telling people as much as he could about the club and his master plan.

You will have heard later down the line how Dave was not just the chairman, he had many types of hats, Kitman, secretary, changing room cleaner and so on. I remember at Radcliffe and Hyde United, Dave helping out with the kit to get it inside for the team, there weren't many Chairmen that would do that.

Scarborough juniors teams with coaches

Action on the artificial turf When it was first announced that David was fighting for his life in intensive care I felt numb, it just didn't feel right, I only spoke to him on Saturday at Lancaster. He was telling me how the team and himself came to the game on the coach and morale was high.

You did feel like you were all in it together with Dave, he loved how the few of us would rally round to get a football match on. Yet his main focus was getting the team back home.

It's times like that when you think he'll never see the first team play back in Scarborough at the new stadium.

So this is why we as fans need to get behind this and the team so he can damn well hear us when we're at home. Fully backing the team will mean football can have a resurgence in the town, after an exile lasting over 10 years.

Football in the borough has been on a decline and this in turn has effected the grass roots level.

Come later this week, the ground that Dave helped build should make the voice of a few hundred fans, become thousands.

I want to thank Mr Holland for what he has done for us and condolences again to his family for their loss of such a great man.

by Dave Barry SCARBOROUGH Hockey Club’s junior team played its first fixtures in 13 years recently.

After a spell in abeyance, the team was restarted in October, since when the youngsters have regularly attended training sessions.

The club hosted a mixed tournament

against Whitby Hockey Club at Scarborough College.

“What a wonderful day it was, with fantastic hockey, wonderful weather, brilliant parents supporting and all done within a fantastic spirit”, said spokesman Paul Witty.

“Scarborough came out on top this time but Whitby are keen to have a return fixture back at theirs”, Paul said.

Kitted out to stay safe and healthy

Filey angler nets £770 prize

by Dave Barry A FILEY angler has come fourth in a big east-coast competition, ranking him 17th in Europe.

Colling was one of a thousand competitors from 12 European countries in the 24th annual European open beach championship.

Staged between Bridlington and Spurn Point, the contest is organised by East Yorkshire Council.

“It’s the biggest beach-angling festival in Europe”, said Adrian, who was fishing at Holmpton, near Spurn Point, with his brother Mark and a friend, Andrew Cammish.

“I caught a 2lb codling using a crab and worm cocktail as bait”, Adrian said, adding that only seven codling were caught in the competition.

The catch put him in fourth place on the day and 17th overall. His prize was £700 worth of fishing equipment. The winner was Graham Elliott of Hull, who caught a skate and won the Paul Roggenan trophy.

Adrian Colling on winning form

Cllr Billing with West Pier Juniors chair Ian Louth and the teams (to order photos ring 353597)

Words and photo by Dave Barry MONEY for new football equipment is set to be a game changer for some junior teams in Scarborough.

West Pier Juniors FC is to receive £1,000 from the locality budget of Woodlands ward county councillor David Billing.

Despite its name, West Pier runs a series of teams based at Northstead School, in Maple Drive.

Cllr Billing says: “The teams are going from strength to strength but still need all the support they can get.

“Given the frightening figures on the lack of participation in activity and the increase in childhood obesity leading to type-2 diabetes, I am pleased I was able to support, albeit in

a limited way, such a worthwhile venture which may benefit young people now and in the future”.

Alan Knight of West Pier Juniors says the club is run “for the benefit of children aged four to 16.

“This funding will help to provide the equipment, including portable goalposts, required for an adequate and safe environment for the club to operate in”.

Locality budgets are a two-year pilot scheme which allows the 72 county councillors to respond to local needs and requests by recommending funding of up to £5,000 for each of the two years to support projects or activities that benefit the communities they represent.

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From the Sidelines COUNTY EXIT FOR PIER West Pier were beaten in a penalty shoot-out after drawing 2-2 at home to Bedale in the semi-finals of the North Riding Challenge Cup. Cup holders Pier, who beat Stokesley Sports Club 5-0 in the final last season, twice came from behind against Bedale, with Sean Exley and Jimmy Beadle scoring equalisers, before losing 6-5 on penalties. Bedale will now play Great Ayton Royals in the final.

ON COURSE TO RETAIN TITLE Despite their exit from the North Riding Cup, West Pier look set to retain their Scarborough News District League first division title. A 4-1 win against Whitby Fishermen in their latest outing left them 4 points clear of Newlands Park at the top of the table, having played 3 fewer games than their nearest challengers.

On target for Andy Spivey's side were Martin Cooper 2, Jamie Bradshaw and Sam Garnett.

Newlands Park kept up their outside hopes of the title with a 4-1 win at Seamer Sports, with strikes from Drew McCoubrey 2, Dan Freer and Jack Ramos. Edgehill were 3rd in the table after a 6-1 success against bottom side Cayton Corinthians, with goals from Dean Craig 3, Jamie Patterson 2 and Jackson Jowett. Westover Wasps moved away from the relegation zone with two good wins, 4-2 at home to Filey Town with goals from Danny Thomas 2, Noah Young and Mark Bean, followed by a 3-1 away defeat of Seamer Sports courtesy of a Luke Delve hat trick.

FILEY OPEN UP BIG LEAD Filey Town Res were 7 points clear at the top of division two after a 5-1 away win against Snainton, with goals from Joe Gage 2, Max Gage, Tom Haxby and Aaron Howard, followed by an 8-0 thumping of Falsgrave Athletic, when Aaron Howard, Tom Haxby and Billy Coyne each scored twice. Nearest challengers Edgehill Res won 2-0 at Newlands Park Res, with Andy Noon and Jon Cairns getting the goals, while Seamer Res were

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handily placed in 4th, with games in hand on the sides above them, after a 3-1 away success against Scalby, with Tom Adams 2 and Danny Kelly on target. Bottom side FC Rosette picked up their first win (at the 15th attempt), by beating 2nd from bottom Duchess 4-1, with Dane Robinson scoring twice.

THIRD DIVISION WIDE OPEN Just 6 points seperated the top four sides in the third division, with Snainton maintaining top spot after a 6-1 defeat of 5th placed Commercial, with strikes from Steve Parker, Paul Mills, Matty Whitehall, Gary Tyson, Liam Scott and Carl Sample. Edgehill 3rds kept up their title challenge, with Tom Scales and Kyle O'Toole both scoring twice in an 8-5 defeat of Scalby Res, while Goldsborough United also stayed in contention as Simon Taylor scored twice in a 4-0 win at Seamer Sports 3rds. Zack Hansen struck five goals as Eastway Sports beat Hunmanby United Res 10-3, and lowly Ayton picked up two excellent wins, 5-1 away at Fishburn Park, with Chris Milburn scoring twice, followed by a stunning comeback from 4-1 down to beat Goalsports Res 5-4, with strikes from Chris Reddish 3(1 pen), Chris Milburn and Tom Hick.

DISTRICT CUP SEMI FINALS Andy Spivey's West Pier maintained their bid to win all four major local trophies as they won 4-1 at Seamer Sports, with goals from Will Jenkinson 2, Sean Exley and Gary Thomas, with Danny Glendinning replying for the home side. In the other semi-final, Edgehill thrashed Whitby Fishermen 7-0, with strikes from Danny Collins 3, Jackson Jowett 2, Dan Jones and Leigh Watson.

LEAGUE CUP SEMI FINALS Kieran Link fired Edgehill ahead after just three minutes, but hosts West Pier fought back to win 2-1, with goals from Martin Cooper and Neil Thomas. In the other tie, Dan Freer, Drew McCoubrey and Jack Hakings netted as Newlands Park beat third

Sport in Brief

By Steve Adamson

HOCKEY.

ATHLETICS.

Scarborough Ladies maintained their promotion push from Yorkshire League Division 5(North) with three hugely impressive performances, starting with a 5-0 win against Ben Rhydding 5ths with two goals apiece from Helen Evans and Kelly Brown, and one from Alexandra Seymour. That was followed by a superb 2-0 defeat of league leaders Selby 2nds courtesy of strikes from Kelly Brown and Harriet Stephenson. In their most recent outing the ladies won 9-2 away to City of York 7ths at Huntington School, with goals from Harriet Stephenson 3, Kelly Brown 2, Kate Dibb 2, Joanna Shepherd and Alexandra Seymour.

Scarborough Athletics Club had six runners in the Thirsk 10-mile road race on 19 March.

A total of 969 athletes took part, with Warren Foster the first Scarborough runner home, finishing 179th with a time of 69 mins, 45 secs.

Next Scarborough finisher was Mark May with a time of 77-47, while the first female finisher was Lisa Bourne in 83-19. Emma Clapton represented Yorkshire in the Inter Counties Cross Country championships at Loughborough, helping Yorkshire Womens Under-20's team to finish 3rd out of 24 teams.

Issy Nicholls competed in the Under-13's girls race at the English National Cross Country championships in Nottingham, finishing 95th out of 650.

CRICKET. With the 2017 first class cricket season now upon us, here is a reminder of the major fixtures scheduled for Scarborough's North Marine Road ground this coming Summer13-15 June (Second Eleven Championship) YORKSHIRE v LANCASHIRE 3-6 July (Specsavers County Championship) YORKSHIRE v SOMERSET 6-9 August (Specsavers County Championship) YORKSHIRE v ESSEX 19-21 September (Second Eleven Friendly) YORKSHIRE v DURHAM

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Scarborough Athletic FC has appointed Trevor Bull as new club chairman to replace Dave Holland who sadly passed away on 21 February. The club has also added two new faces to strengthen the board of directors, Andy Crossland and Fred Firman. Next season will see the club playing home fixtures at the new Weoponess Sports Village, following ten long years in exile at Bridlington.

BY STE VE ADAMSON division ItIs ItIs Rovers 3-1, with Mike Barker grabbing the consolation goal. The final between Newlands Park and West Pier is at Pickering Town FC on Wednesday, 12 April, kick-off 7-30pm.

LEAGUE TROPHY SEMI FINALS Goalsports were 3-0 winners at home to Fishburn Park, with goals from Bradley Parkin, Tyson Stubbings and Harry Denness, while in the other tie, a single Nathan Till strike secured Eastway Sports a 1-0 away success against Goldsborough United. The final berween Eastway Sports and Goalsports is at Pickering Town FC on Wednesday, 29 March, kick-off 7-30pm.

FRANK WHITE TROPHY FINAL Eastway Sports will play Edgehill 3rds in the final at Seamer Sports FC on Friday, 14 April, kick-off 6-15pm. To reach the final Eastway beat Goalsports Res, Hunmanby United Res(walkover) and Sherburn, while Edgehill 3rds knocked out Seamer Sports 3rds, ItIs ItIs Rovers and Goldsborough United.

TRAFALGAR REACH COUNTY FINAL Col Jenkinson's Trafalgar have reached the final of the North Riding Sunday Challenge Cup final after a crushing 7-0 win against Thornaby Roundel in the semi-finals. On target were Liam Salt 2, Jimmy Beadle, Mike Barker, Chris Dove, Sean Exley and Shan Dodson(pen). They will play Thornaby Aerodrome in the final at Stokesley on Thursday, 20 April, kick-off 7-30pm.

CLOSE AT TOP OF SUNDAY LEAGUE There is a three way battle for the Sunday League first division title, and Trafalgar picked up a crucial 3-2 win against title rivals West Pier, with strikes from Liam Salt, Jimmy Beadle and Sean Exley, while the other contenders Newlands made it eight straight wins with a 10-0 thrashing of Cayton,

with goals from Danny Glendinning 4, Liam Cooper 3, Drew McCoubrey 2 and Ben Lintley.

Six points sepaerated leaders West Pier from Newlands in 3rd place, but Newlands had four games in hand on the leaders. Ayton recorded a 4-1 win against Roscoes Bar, with goals from Jonny Blakestone 2, Louis Rafter and Tom McKenzie-Fenwick.

ANGEL ROMPING HOME Angel Athletic were an incredible 21 points clear at the top of the Sunday League second division after a 13th straight win, 4-1 away at Scalby, with goals from Joe Gallagher, Dave Bell, Josh Dolan and Neil Thomas. Crown Tavern climbed to 2nd in the table, beating Scalby 3-0 with strikes from Steve Molloy, Dave Barber and James Burrows, followed by a 4-1 defeat of Scarborough Campus, with James Burrows scoring twice and Leeriy Donaldson and James Day also getting on the scoresheet.

SENIOR CUP QUARTER FINALS Tyson Stubbings was the match winner as Ayton achieved a shock 1-0 home win against West Pier, while Newlands beat Roscoes Bar 4-0 with goals from Ryan Rivis 2, Jack Ramos and Kurtis Henderson. A Harry Purves hat trick helped Fylingdales to a 10-0 win against Heslerton, and Whitby side FILO won 5-2 away to Cayton, with goals from Harry Smith 2, Jimmy Landers, Dave Welham and Luke Storr.

OTHER SUNDAY CUP TIES Trafalgar beat runaway second division leaders Angel Athletic 4-1 in the quarterfinals of the Scarborough FA Sunday Cup, with goals from Jimmy Beadle 2, Liam Salt and an own goal, while in the semi-finals of the Goalsports Trophy for second division teams, Dan Bateson and Adam Martin were the marksmen for Scarborough Campus in a 2-1 extra time win against Ayton Res.

Care company steps in to help netball group

by Dave Barry A SCARBOROUGH care company is supporting a local group’s efforts to stay fit and active.

St Cecilia’s Care Services has backed a new walking netball group by funding new bibs for the players.

The group, which meets at Barons Fitness at the Rugby Club, was set up to enable women to enjoy netball regardless of their age or fitness level.

Organiser Lesley Bayes said: “We are grateful to St Cecilia’s for their support, which will help the group enormously.

“The group is a wonderful way for people to get some gentle exercise and also have a wonderful time with a great bunch of ladies!”

Lesley is looking to grow the group as they start to play matches against other groups.

St Cecilia’s believes supporting activities like the walking netball group is a great way to promote the link between remaining physically and mentally active.

Director Melanie Padgham said: “We are really pleased to support the walking netball group as we know how much enjoyment the

ladies get from it.

“There is a proven link between remaining physically active and retaining your mental health and we are always keen to promote this.

“Walking netball is a brilliant idea and provides an excellent way to remain fit and active and also enjoy great company!”

The walking netball sessions are on Wednesdays from 11am to noon. For more information ring Lesley on 07752 173345.

St Cecilia’s director Melanie Padgham with some of the walking netball players.

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April - Issue 44

From the touchline

BY DAVE CAMPBELL

ALL THE LATEST FROM SCARBOROUGH RUGBY CLUB WITH so much going on at all levels throughout the club from walking football, rugby and netball, through senior teams, youths, girls and women’s rugby down to micro-mini rugby there is something for every age group at Silver Royd. In March for instance there were only three first team league games in the month but as usual there was plenty of activity at all levels; let’s have a look at some of it starting with the month’s early league action: In the first league game against Keighley on March the 7th Scarborough got off to a cracking start racing to a 14-0 lead in fifteen minutes. However they seldom controlled the game and with minutes to go found themselves leading only 22-15 with the west Yorkshiremen pressing for an equalizing try; however a late bit of magic from exScotland 7s centre Graham Hogg sent former club skipper Tom Ratcliffe through for the clinching try and a bonus point earning 27-15 win. Unfortunately my Scarborough Review player of the month for January and February,

MATTY YOUNG AT NORTH RIBBLESDALE

Drew Govier limped off in the 55th minute to add to the club’s every growing injury list.

A week later skipper Matty Jones’s men made the 200 mile plus round trip to Settle for the game with North Ribblesdale and for the first time since 2002 came away from Grove Park with a win. A slow Scarborough start saw the home side take an early 14-0 lead. However the visitors hit back with a try from first team debutante Jonty Holloway followed by a touchdown from Matty Young. Conversions from Tom Harrison and Graham Hogg levelled the scores at 14-14. After the break a second try for Matty Young converted by Graham Hogg and a couple of North Ribblesdale penalties saw the Seasiders to a narrow but deserved 21-20 win. The day was somewhat spoiled by young American back row Devin Ibanez in York hospital with a neck injury.

The following Thursday (16th) saw a primary schools’ tag tournament taking place at Silver Royd. A terrific turnout saw a feast of kids rugby enjoyed by the children and their parents; further proof of the club’s commitment to the community.

With the first and Vikings’ teams without a game on the 18th of March Scarborough RUFC’s third XV, the Danesmen had the rare opportunity to take centre stage at Silver Royd as they took on Hullensians’ Legends.

A blustery day did not lend itself to a free flowing game but nevertheless both sides showed plenty of effort in a hard fought encounter. Scarborough took the lead midway through an evenly-fought first half with a try directly from a lineout; man-of-the-match George Wardell taking the catch and powering

over from 30 metres for a 5-0 lead which they maintained to the break. The Humbersiders fought back to level the scores early in the second half but a further two tries from the home side saw them to a deserved 15-5 win.

The following day saw the club’s women’s team the Valkryies at last getting a game having been let down on so many occasions this season. And they made up for their many frustrations lately with a massive 96-5 victory at Middlesbrough-based Acklam RUFC. The Scarborough ladies ran in 14 tries, four from outstanding fullback Mel Halstead who also kicked 13 conversions for a 46 point personal points tally.

The month’s league action concluded with a home fixture with west Yorkshire club Old Brodlieans. The Seasiders turned in one of their best performances on the road winning 32-12 at ‘Brods’ Hipperholme HQ before Christmas and they continued that form into the home game running in an amazing eleven tries including four from winger and man of the match Matty Young in a massive 69-20 win their seventh in the last eight games.

Looking forward to April, the Scarborough 1st XV complete their league programme with a game on the road at Heath RFC tomorrow. Heath was beaten 24-3 at Silver Royd back in November but are a completely different proposition in their own back yard . Hullensians and Selby are the Seasiders opponents at Silver Royd on the 8th and 22nd of the month respectively. The Mo Stevenson memorial game and activities are at Silver Royd on Easter Monday.

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By Krystal Starkey SCARBOROUGH Footgolf is looking forward to welcoming a diverse array of guests again after having a successful first year.

The undulating 9 hole course has received rave reviews since opening last year, and is becoming an increasingly popular sport.

From families, team building groups and even under 7’s football teams enjoying a recreational alternative to practice, there doesn’t seem to be a limit on who can enjoy playing the healthy outdoor game. Everyone is welcome and the game cam be played by people of all ages and abilities.

Scarborough Footgolf welcomes birthday parties and encourages parents to bring cake, light refreshments are available on site or guests can visit the Stained Glass Centre and tea rooms for more substantial refreshments.

Sports team managers are welcome to organise their own mini tournaments and invite opposing teams to come along and play in a mini league or knockout event.

Mini leagues and tournaments are on the horizon for the course too, with invites going out to interested clubs and associations.

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Soccer old boys do well in Hull

by Dave Barry BARONS over-50s walking footballers in Scarborough raised two squads of six players to take part in the People’s Cup tournament at the Goals Centre in Hull.

Barons A played Grimsby Men Only first and in a tight encounter managed to win with a fantastic strike from captain Ricardo Murray.

Their second game proved more difficult and they lost 1-0 to a well-organised Hull Pacer Makers Vintage.

The third game proved the best encounter, with Barons losing 2-1 to Grimsby Ancient Mariners A. The Barons strike came from Tom Gillon who ventured forward from his defensive berth to tuck a great hit into the bottom corner of the Mariners’ net.

The final game, against Hornsea Town Seniors, was another tight encounter.

Gordon Porter hit a peach of a shot to earn Barons a great victory.

The team qualified for the Shield competition. In their semi-final, they were drawn against Lincoln City, dominating the game and qualifying with another super strike from defender Gillon.

During the semi-final, Murray was injured.

Having already lost John Tayne to injury in one of the league games, Barons A had only four fit players for the final.

Hornsea Town Seniors soon made their fitness advantage count. While Barons battled, they were well beaten 4-1 with a late consolation goal from from Colin Bayes.

The goalkeeper was Keith Crowe.

Barons B played Hornsea Town Vets in their first game. Unfortunately they were beaten 2-0, having controlled most of the game but being unable to put away any of the many chances they created.

They faired much better in their second game, against Lincoln City, earning a creditable draw with a thunderbolt from Martyn Thompson.

The third game, against Grimsby Ancient Mariners B, was a tight encounter with the final score 0-0.

In their last game, Barons B hit top form, putting three goals past Hull Pacer Makers Gold. They included another thunderbolt from Thompson, whose shot gave the Pacer Makers goalkeeper no chance. The other scorers were Brian Taylor and Gordon Fleming.

The B side was completed by Ron Glegg (captain), Dave Drydale and Mick Thompson (goalkeeper).

The Barons then retired to the White Horse, aka Nellie’s, at Beverley to lick their wounds and start preparations for the next tournament.

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SCARBOROUGH WALKING FOOTBALL

SCARBOROUGH & DISTRICT CANOE CLUB

Women’s Walking Football runs on Monday’s from 9.10am until 10am and is led by Vanessa.

The Gentlemen’s Walking Football is led by Jim and runs on Wednesdays from 9.30am until 10.30am. Call 01723 362922 for more info. n Sessions take place at Scarborough Rugby Club, Scalby Rd and cost £2.

A friendly local based canoe and kayaking club welcoming everyone. So come along. GIVE IT A GO! We are out on the sea and rivers throughout the year, run pool sessions in the winter, and lake sessions in the summer, for anyone wanting to have a go, either absolute beginners or experienced paddlers, all are welcome. n Visit www.scarboroughcanoeclub.org.uk for more information

SCARBOROUGH RAMBLING CLUB There are two group rambles organised on most Sundays during the year. There is a short walk (5-9 miles) and a long walk (1014 miles) on offer. Occasional short walks on Thursday evenings are also arranged. n www.scarboroughramblingclub.co.uk

THE SCARBOROUGH WRITERS CIRCLE Encouragement for writers both old and new. Monthly meetings are held on Tuesday Evenings at Scarborough Library, Vernon Rd. n www. scarboroughwriterscircle.com

SCARBOROUGH ART SOCIETY Demonstrations from professional artists take place in monthly meetings on the first Wednesday of every month at 7.00pm, at the Methodist Central Hall on Queen Street. n www.scarboroughartsociety.co.uk

SCARBOROUGH PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY Meetings are held weekly on Wednesdays, between September and Easter. The meetings include presentations, competitions and practical sessions with all abilities are welcome. n scarboroughphotographicsociety.com

SCARBOROUGH PARAGON CYCLING CLUB This cycling club is open to all ages and abilities. Join if you are interested in improving fitness with regular social riding and time trials. n Visit www.spcc.org.uk

TAI CHI CLASSES CLASSES Held every Tuesday at 10am and 7pm and every Thursday at 1.30pm with beginners welcome. n www.theartsworkshops.co.uk

SCARBOROUGH BIRDERS Interested in bird watching? Scarborough birders offers a network and a voice for people in the Scarborough area who are interested in wild birds. Meetings are held monthly. n www.scarboroughbirding.co.uk

SCARBOROUGH ATHLETICS CLUB For people interested in athletics such as track and field, running and cross country, this group is open to all abilities. You can join whether you’re interested in competing at national standard or just want to join for fitness. n Visit www.scarboroughac.co.uk

SCARBOROUGH MODEL YACHT CLUB A thriving, active and organised club with members of all age groups. They sail at Wykeham Lakes on club days, Tuesdays & Saturdays, from 10 am. New members, beginners or skilled, are very welcome. n For more information & contact details, see: www.scarboroughmyc.uk

QUAY SCRABBLE GROUP

The scrabble club meets every Monday evening to play several games of scrabble together.

Newcomers and visitors are welcome.

Entrance in £2, including tea, coffee and biscuits. 6.30pm, Sewerby Methodist Church. n For more information call 01262 409718.

SCARBOROUGH CHESS CLUB Currently playing at the North Riding Hotel in North Marine Road, Scarborough. Club nights are every Tuesday from 7:30pm to 11pm.

There are a variety of tournaments organised including a Club Championship which runs throughout the year, two handicap tournaments, as well as informal friendly games played on club nights. There are a wide range of playing strengths in the club. n For more information, contact Neil Pennock - npennock@btopenworld.com

SCARBOROUGH SUB AQUA CLUB has been providing BSAC training for divers and offering members a wide variety of diving since 1960. The club owns an air compressor, and both a RIB and a hard boat, enabling members to enjoy lots of quality diving.

Meetings are held every Wednesday evening in the clubhouse and bar. n For information visit www.scarboroughsubaquaclub.net

WALKING RUGBY Perfect for those who used to play rugby and want to get back into it, or for those who haven’t tried it before – this no contact sport is all about ball skills, passing and keeping moving. Classes run at 11.15am on Mondays at Barons Gym. n Call Tom Gillon or 01723 362529 or Barons Gym on 01723 357740

WORRIED ABOUT SOMEONE’S DRINKING? Alanon - (sister fellowship to AA) meets every Thursday night 7.30pm at Westborough Methodist Church. If you’re worried about your own or a loved one’s drinking you can talk in complete confidence. n Call 020 7403 0888 or visit www.alanonuk.org.uk

ST MARY’S CHURCH BELLRINGERS Meet at the church 7pm Wed (church bells) and St Mary’s Parish House 7pm Thu (handbells).

New members welcome. n Ring Edwin King on 891547

HAPPY HASH HOUSE HARRIERS The fun running and walking club meets every Sunday at 10.30am in pubs and venues around Scarborough. After the walk/run members go for drinks, food and chatter. A trail is left in flour or chalk so that runners and walkers will finish within a short time of each other. n Contact Phil Bayley on 01723 864545 or email boghopper@hotmail.co.uk

SCARBOROUGH

ASSOCIATION

Meets on the second Tuesday of each month.

New members welcome, especially ex-WRVS or RVS, for coffee mornings, lunches or outings n For more details call Christine on 01723 368913

SCARBOROUGH LIONS If you have a few hours to spare a week, why not help those in need in the local community.

Scarborough Lions raise funds, provide transport and recycle. n Email scarborough. lions@talktalk.net

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