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councillors missing. The public gallery was nowhere near bigwww.scarboroughutc.co.uk enough to hold everyone who wanted to watch and the proceedings were relayed live into an adjacent Tel: 821 621 room, Mist bar and01723 online. Most councillors had their say, stretching the debate across two long hours, recorded by ITV and BBC Create Your Tomorrow, Today cameras. Most respected the five-minute limit. Several councillors complained about being bombarded with information from both the officers and campaigners and that there hadn't been enough time to absorb it all. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2

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STO RY C O N T I NUE D F RO M C O V E R . . . Bill Chatt and Colin Haddington quibbled over meeting attendance figures. Cllr Haddington said “I've got a job to go to”. Cllr Chatt replied: “So have I”. In the end, the demolition gang won. Twentytwo of the authority’s 50 councillors gave the Futurist the thumbs-down. Such a slenderest margin - 22 votes to 21 invited speculation about the councillors who didn’t attend, whose vote could have made a vital difference. They were Alf Abbott, Michelle DonohueMoncrieff, Tom Fox and Marie Harland (all Tory); Neil Price and Tony Randerson (both Labour). Cllr Fox has been a staunch advocate of demolition. The other five were asked how they would have voted. Only one replied. Cllr Randerson said: “I would have voted against the Conservatives’ proposal to demolish on the basis that there were far too many questions than answers to risk £4m of counciltax payers’ money at this juncture. “To not have agreed to insist upon more detailed reports on the Futurist and various timescales before risking this £4m has in my opinion done a disservice to the residents of this borough”, Cllr Randerson said.

The vote didn’t exactly mirror party lines but it wasn’t far off. Most Tories voted for the wrecking ball. The two exceptions were Andrew Backhouse and Hazel Lynskey. Luke Backhouse, a Tory, didn’t follow in his uncle’s footsteps, being the only councillor to abstain. Labour’s unanimity was prevented by Vanda Inman, who voted with the Tories. The Green and Ukip factions voted against. Cllr Janet Jefferson, an independent councillor and prominent Futurist campaigner, said defiantly: “The fight continues, pending clarification of various covenants relating to the sale of the auditorium to the council in the 80s. A certificate of indemnity against listing is still awaited. The total cost of demolition too great, bearing in mind the cliff slope and the retaining wall, which is presently stable. Planning permission is still needed on the method to demolish and, as no firm plans have yet been submitted, it could lead to an appeal”. Failure on these fronts would sound the final death knell for the 2,000-seat Futurist. Flamingo Land has indicated that it would be interested in building an indoor theme park on the site, at a cost of £20m.

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HOW THEY VOTED For demolition: Godfrey Allanson, Derek Bastiman, Lynn Bastiman, David Chance, Guy Coulson, Simon Green, David Jeffels, Andrew Jenkinson, Helen Mallory, John Nock, Clive Pearson, Heather Phillips, Joseph Plant, Martin Smith, Roberta Swiers, Phillip Trumper, Sandra Turner, Callam Walsh and Jane Mortimer (Con); Bill Chatt and Mike Cockerill (ind); and Vanda Inman (Lab).

Against demolition: Rob Barnett, David Billing, Eric Broadbent, Liz Colling, Paul Cross, Gerald Dennett, Carl Maw, Richard Moody, John Ritchie, Steve Siddons and John Warburton (Lab); Andrew Backhouse and Hazel Lynskey (Con); Dilys Cluer and Mark Vesey (Green); Sam Cross, Jonathan Dodds, Colin Haddington, Norman Murphy and Roxanne Murphy (Ukip); Janet Jefferson (ind). Abstain: Luke Backhouse (Con).

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Dear Editor, In 2017, Cllr Dilys Cluer and myself, as Green councillors, will be keeping a very close eye on the investigations into the water pollution in the South Bay that will result in no bathing signs being displayed this summer. We are also concerned about the proposed P1 powerboat competition which will add further pollution to the marine and natural environment. We were disappointed that the council’s recently announced Filey Flood Alleviation scheme contains no plans to plant extra trees to offset emissions generated by the scheme, or that would help reduce climate change and yet more flooding. The council created a sustainability policy with the aim of reducing the borough’s CO2 emissions by 2% a year. Yet every new building project, such as the waterpark, cinema complex, university, etc, has made no attempt to offset the damaging CO2 created by their construction. Even more worrying is that the council’s energy-saving manager, who left this summer, has not been replaced.

To add to all this, a legal challenge by Friends of the Earth, over the Kirby Misperton fracking site, has just been dismissed. This means potential industrialisation and pollution of the countryside on our doorstep in 2017. Government cuts in renewable energy grants and generating projects is a concern for us all as we have many poor families living in underinsulated homes with single glazing, lack of loft insulation and old heating systems. All in all, we seem to be going in exactly the opposite direction to the terms agreed by 195 countries at the Paris climate agreement in 2015. Our borough lies precariously on the edge of the North Sea and will be dramatically affected by higher tides and coastal erosion from climate change. We therefore urge our council to put our environment first and short-term profits second, protecting our lives, our businesses and our children’s futures. Cllr Mark Vesey Town Hall, Scarborough

Dear Editor, I would like to thank your great paper for the feature article in your December edition promoting the work in our area by the volunteers for the Operation Christmas Child shoebox appeal and following that up in your January edition by acknowledging the work of Ros Dyson, our Area Coordinator, as she handed over responsibility to her replacement Sandra Robinson. We are very lucky with the number of volunteers fulfilling many different roles to help us to keep supplying presents to children in poor countries, and trying to give love and friendship through the shoeboxes. Please may I request that through your columns we can express our gratitude to the local businesses for their tremendous support: Colin Ellis Property Services, for finding us a warehouse each year, Bookers for loaning us trolleys, Betta Motoring for supplying Sellotape, Scarborough Council for

loaning tables and Frank Wright for loaning a pallet truck. Without their help our campaign wouldn’t be so successful. When it came to the day when we dispatched the shoeboxes, we received fantastic help from the local Community Payback team in helping to load the lorry. They showed such enthusiasm and interest regarding the work of OCC. As we start collecting things towards ensuring many more shoeboxes will be leaving our area at the end of this year, through the very helpful promoting by the Review, I’m sure that other volunteers will come forward to assist us helping this part of the country to be one of the best and make us all proud. Folk in Yorkshire we know are great so let's keep showing and proving it. Again many thanks to the Review. Keep up your good work of informing people what goes on in this part of the country. David Sutcliffe, OCC Scarborough Warehouse Manager. OCC Story - page 38.

Dear Editor Last year I had a rather nasty stroke and spent a few weeks in Scarborough Hospital recovering. When one is in bed, worrying about what kind of future, if any, lies ahead, and coming to terms with the symptoms caused by the brain damage and having to be lifted out of bed at all times because you have the balance of an alcoholic ice skater and the hand-eye coordination of a York City goalkeeper, it would be wonderful to have some distraction from all the worry and depression. There are four wards in the stroke unit and each one has a TV. So what's the problem? You can't see the bloody things! Each set is only 14in wide and fastened high above the door near the ceiling. Not only are they minuscule carboot-sale rejects, but they have been screwed

flush to the wall and not on an adjustable mount, resulting in a pixelated screen – an absolute joy if you are an aficionado of moving negatives. The only way to enjoy a programme is to climb into a tennis umpire's chair. But there seems to be an unexpected shortage of them in Scarborough. Even if the sets were normalised it might be rather difficult for the NHS to justify the expense of prescribing binoculars. The stroke unit at Scarborough is staffed by some of the kindest and most dedicated people you will ever come across, and I know the TV problem is far more than irksome for them, therefore if I purchased some tilting TV brackets, could anybody arrange for some technicians to fit them? Help! John Layke - North Yorkshire

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Futurist was and still could be viable Firstly, thank you to all the residents of the borough of Scarborough for giving and showing support to the Save the Futurist campaign. They did this by attending the full council meeting and other public meetings, supporting the People’s Petition, the business case of March 2016 and the business plan submitted to the council on 5 January 2017. The business plan, whilst requesting a stay of execution, detailed how they could progress the formation of a trust through Coast and Vale Voluntary Action, carry out a current viability study for the running of the theatre and through sponsorship carry out restoration. This included free help from tradesmen throughout the construction industry both locally and nationally, which included the removal of the exterior cladding, restoration of the original façade and much needed work to the roof, voluntary help from the community, together with the raising of funds by a unique share scheme devised by a local businessman. All of which, given time, would have enabled the Futurist to be restored, reopened and sustained at no cost to the council or its rate-paying residents. Additional support was sponsored by a local surveyor who offered to carry out a full structural survey free of charge, the services of a local registered firm of accountants, offers from architects to design a new dock door (scenery access facility) and latterly the free services of a world-renowned theatre restorer to projectmanage the redevelopment. Letters of support for the retention of the theatre were received from the Theatres Trust, the Cinema Association and John Thompson and Partners. By a narrow majority of 22 to 21 (plus one abstention) the full council decision gave approval to the allocation of £4m of public funds for the demolition of the Futurist and adjoining buildings and stabilisation of the cliff. It was confirmed, as indicated in the February 2016/17 budget, that the £4m comprises £2.5m from council reserves and £1.5m to be borrowed. The council cabinet on 16 January approved the appointment of Willmott Dixon to carry out pre-construction services (as detailed in the full council report of 9 January) including completion of ground investigations already submitted but with final reports not available until the end of January. The council will now begin to incur costs and be liable to pay up to £416,000 over an extended risk period of some 30 weeks. In addition, £90,000 was agreed to appoint a project manager (these additional costs coming from capital reserves). On completion of these pre-contract services, and if the contract sum is within the remaining £3,559m budget, the council will have the option

to enter into contract with Willmott Dixon. As councillor of Castle ward, I am concerned with regard to the risk matrix within the council and cabinet report, bearing in mind that confirmation was given that both the Futurist, adjoining buildings and the cliff / slope are at present stable. However, catastrophic slope collapse could take place through the demolition of the Futurist buildings etc. A hundred families now live within the Blands Cliff, Prospect Place and King Street area. It is commonly known that Blands Cliff is hollow and properties hold each other up. Businesses could also be affected within the area. Full consultations need to be carried out together with a geotechnical survey. At the time of writing, we still await firm plans and commitments from Flamingo Land regarding their new revised roller coaster park. However, following my questions to both full council and cabinet this week with regard to the Futurist feasibility submission of October 2016 (which contained various options including a hotel, apartment blocks and new council offices, with a total spend of some £24m), I was advised at cabinet that this is heresay and that no firm plans have, as yet, been submitted for the site! We still await information with regard to the certificate of indemnity against listing which the council applied for in February 2016. If not granted, it will mean the Futurist will become listed. Through Durham Land Registry, we have been informed of restrictive covenants within the conveyance dated 23 March 1984. These were made between Futurist Enterprises Limited and Futurist Properties, referred to in the Futurist Theatre Title, which could indicate certain terms and conditions with regard to the Futurist, its maintenance and disposal covering up to 80 years. The Futurist brought economical viability to Scarborough and the South Bay, bringing, in trade terms, heads on beds and bums on seats. It should, in my opinion, have remained open until all plans and offers were secured. It was and still could be viable. The South Bay Traders have worked extremely hard to promote festivals and special events throughout the year and the free after 6 pm parking initiative has worked very well. A town with lots of theatres attracts travelling theatre clientele and in the words of Welcome to Yorkshire, Scarborough is a popular main destination. Thank you to Scarborough Review, local radio and TV for their coverage of this important issue, all of which I am sure is very much appreciated by the residents of the borough of Scarborough Janet Jefferson Independent Councillor Castle Ward, 41 Eastborough, Scarborough

Raincliff Woods are ‘lost’

prevent people getting safely to the events and thus prove unsuitable on health and safety grounds. The organisers are now looking for a suitable site within the Dales area. I am most disappointed, as I am sure the people of Scarborough will be, at the loss of this amenity. As the founder of RWCE I am ashamed of the way the community have been treated when after four years there is nothing more to show for this enterprise than a trail of destruction and a lost opportunity to do something positive for the whole community. Sadly the individuals now running this organisation, with the tacit approval of Scarborough Council, seem to lack any understanding of the community element for which RWCE should stand. These woodlands are now lost to the community. John Bradley - Sutton in Craven

As the founder of an organisation forged to benefit the Scarborough community and protect a precious woodland, I write to question the motives and agenda of the much publicised Raincliff Woods Community Enterprise (RWCE). Three weeks ago, an organisation approached me to look at the possibility of a woodland event in Raincliffe Woods. It was to be a three-day event over the May bank holiday. It would have centred around traditional woodland crafts and been based on the previously successful Secret Wood events, including horse logging, wood carving, making rustic furnishing, etc. But sadly, after a site visit, it was seen to be no longer suitable. One of the main reasons was the state of pathways and the amount of discarded brash and exposed tree stumps which would

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Dear Editor, The staff and volunteers at the Rainbow Centre would like to express heartfelt thanks for the generosity of everybody in the Scarborough area and beyond who helped us over Christmas. We saw many people over the festive season who were in need of food, the children needed presents and lots of people wanted help with their gas and electric, as well as carrying on with the day to day work of the centre with many of the neediest in our town and surrounding areas. None of the help we gave them would have been possible without the help people gave to us. There were many individuals, families, businesses, organisations and church groups who donated to us, items such as food, presents, clothes or money that made it possible for us to then help hundreds of people. Thanks to the kindness of many, we were able to help people who otherwise would have had nothing at Christmas; people of all ages, including families with very young children, right up to the elderly in their 80s and 90s who live by themselves. We would like to say a huge thank you to all those who donated as they made such a big difference to people’s lives at Christmas. The team at the Rainbow Centre would also like to thank the army of volunteers who came in to help us with the wrapping of presents and the sorting and packing of food that we were then able to give out. Once again, thank you everybody on behalf of all who benefited from your generosity. We were truly blessed. Trish Kinsella, Manager - Rainbow Centre Volunteers are needed to help with the food bank, kitchen duties and administrative work. Ring 500663.

Tremendous building On 9 January we marched from the rail station to the borough council meeting at the town hall with protest placards saying Save the Futurist. The public gallery held 64 of our near 200 marchers; the rest were able to view at screens nearby. The mayor, Simon Green, chairing the assembly, proved likeable but not very firm, warning about clapping and interruptions from the public gallery, but never quelling it. An outcome best for all, as a heavy clampdown on enthusiasm would have made the occasion bad for both sides: the protesters silenced and the pro-demolition councillors looking autocratic and repressive, dismissing the people’s views. Many believe the authorities act that way, especially over the Futurist site controversy. But today should count on an open vote in this chamber, to decide. Spokesmen for demolition were adept but not always accurate, saying the Futurist was built as a cinema not a theatre, which is untrue. Cllr Mallory, making the financial case, said the site would be cleared for any developer, not necessarily Flamingoland, who held no deal in the matter. Straight after the meeting, her side winning the vote, she told broadcast interviews that Flamingoland could now go ahead! Opposition figures such as Cllr Siddons spoke impressively, but in vain. Pro-demolition prevailed by one vote. But arising from debate here, and at the two recent YMCA meetings of the Save the Futurist campaign, many matters remain in doubt: on environmental and safety factors and distress to local households. Plus the status of the Futurist, which should have become a trust or heritage listed long ago. A tremendous building with potential the powers-that-be are incapable or unwilling to realise. Patrick Henry - Prospect Road

Review readership widens to the Med Words by Dave Barry, photo by Brian Ainley A SCARBOROUGH ex-pat living in Cyprus caught up with news from his old home town when a visiting friend took him a copy of the Review. Alexander MacMillan, known as Mac, has lived in Cyprus for over 20 years. He lives in Oroklini in the southern, Greek part of the island. It is a few miles from the British army base at Dhekelia, near Larnaca. Mac said: “As an ex-Scarborough resident who now lives in Cyprus, I found reading the Review brought back so many wonderful memories of my years spent in the borough. “Thank you for an excellent newspaper. It is a great pity that it is unavailable here in Cyprus. Well done for a very informative paper”. Mac once lived in Stepney Drive, Scarborough, and was a regular player at the Scalby Road tennis courts.

Mac catches up with Scarborough news His copy of the Review was delivered to him by his friend Brian Ainley, who took a photo of Mac reading it. Brian returned from Cyprus on 10 January.

Costly dog walk in cemetery by Dave Barry A WOMAN was fined £220 for walking her dog off the lead in Dean Road cemetery, Scarborough. Jennifer Sunderland of Fieldside in nearby Northstead was taken to court when she refused to pay the initial £75 fixed-penalty notice. She and her dog were spotted in the disused cemetery by an enforcement patrol attached to Scarborough Council’s dog-warden service. At the magistrates’ court in Northway, she was found guilty and ordered to pay £220 plus £150 in court costs. Dog warden Russell Camm said: “The control of dogs within our cemeteries is an important issue, which is frequently complained about by members of the public.

“Many cemeteries in other local-authority areas have total dog bans in place, but we relaxed the dog ban in Dean Road and Manor Road cemeteries, following consultation, to encourage more public visits to our historic cemeteries,” said Mr Camm. This means dogs are allowed in the cemeteries but must be on a leash. “In the interests of all cemetery users, this restriction is robustly enforced by our dog wardens,” Mr Camm said. “Offenders may be dealt with by a fixed penalty fine of £75, which can increase to a £1,000 fine if prosecuted in the magistrates’ court”. Total dog bans remain in place at Woodlands cemetery, the Lawns cemetery in Filey and Whitby cemetery, which are still in use.

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Mayor’s ball will raise Education secretary drops thousands for charity in for whirlwind tour Words and photos by Dave Barry

Words and photo by Dave Barry TICKETS are on sale for an annual civic fundraiser at the Spa Ocean Room. The Mayor’s Ball, on Friday 31 March, is organised by the mayor and mayoress and the Rotary Club of Scarborough. Last year’s raised £6,750 for the Mayoress's Community Fund (see story on page 16). The ball will feature entertainment from the Rich Adams Trio, with Rich on guitar and lead vocals, Mark Gordon on keyboards and Rowan Oliver on drums. They will play everything from dinner-jazz and Sinatra-style swing to rock and pop. There will be a fundraising silent auction. Lots include a piece of jewellery designed by James Haywood of Rosh jewellers, based on mayor Simon Green’s Better Together theme; a VIP ticket to a Manchester United game, courtesy of Peace of Mind Financial Services; and a pre-match lunch at the Rugby club for a group. The event will be compered by impresario and comedian Tony Peers, who says: “Having seen what’s on offer and the list of this year’s prizes, I am really excited and optimistic that we can not only have a great night but raise lots of money and hopefully we may even surpass the sums previously raised”. A PowerPoint display of photos illustrating the mayoral year, based on Better Together, is being put together by the mayoress, Val Green. “If the communities living in the borough work together we are stronger than if we work individually”, she explains.

“We have had a great year so far, meeting some fantastic people and groups from across the borough. This event will help us to celebrate this and hopefully help selected groups who would benefit from some extra funds”. Those attending the ball will wear dinner jackets and cocktail dresses or ball gowns. It will start at 7pm. n Tickets cost £40 or £375 for a table of 10. To book, ring 232423 or email civicoffice@ scarborough.gov.uk.

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THE education secretary had a whirlwind tour of educational, cultural and care provision in Scarborough. Justine Greening spent two days visiting the University Training College (UTC), the Coventry University campus, the Yorkshire Coast College, Scalby School, No Wrong Door, the Stephen Joseph Theatre and McCain. UTCs are key to achieving a brighter and better future for young people, Greening said, when she formally opened Scarborough’s. She was accompanied by Lord Baker of the Baker Dearing educational trust, set up to promote the establishment of UTCs in England, which now has 48. Principal Tim Englefield said the UTC had been welcomed by every business he had come across in the area, especially Unison Ltd, GCHQ, McCain, Hull University, Flamingo Land, Plaxton, Deep Sea Electronics and SWC. “Student applications for next year are three times as high as this time last year and we expect a boost in these numbers”, he said. Mr Englefield paid tribute to Peter Wilkinson, who chairs Scarborough Business Ambassadors. “From day one, Peter has driven this project and continues to support it and myself in his role as chair of the governors and of the trust”. Scalby School and the SJT have played a key role in the County Council’s ground-breaking £750,000 Scarborough Pledge programme to widen horizons and raise aspirations for young people in the town. Scalby School has a leading role in teacher training and development in schools across the town. The theatre is playing a part in enhancing learning in schools by providing access to cultural, arts and heritage experiences. The minister spoke to all the head teachers

who attended the Scalby School meeting. They were Chris Knowles of Newby & Scalby, Vicki Logan of Overdale in Eastfield, Jenny Hartley of Wheatcroft, Angela Spencer and Anne Parr of St Georges in Eastfield, Helen McEvoy of Graham, Andrew Galbraith of Ebor in Filey, Keith Prytherch and Jane Douglass from Whitby, Jane Pepper of Scarborough Teaching Alliance and David Read of Scalby. Besides Mr Read, Scalby Learning Trust was represented by John Scoble, Peter Noble, Nigel Penn and Paul Offord. The Government recently announced that Scarborough is one of six ‘education opportunity areas’ across England which will share £60m to help local children and young people get the best start in life. Greening visited the No Wrong Door centre in Stepney Road, run by the county council’s children’s services. No Wrong Door, rated outstanding by Ofsted, replaces traditional council-run care homes with hubs which combine residential care with fostering along with on-site support from clinical psychologists who act as life coaches, speech and language therapists, with a supportive police role. The minister, who stayed at the Crown Spa Hotel, said: “I have been impressed by the passion and enthusiasm of the young people, teachers, social work professionals and employers I have met during my visit and am excited to see what the future holds for the Scarborough opportunity area”. Greening has been tasked with implementing Theresa May’s plan to lift the ban on new grammar schools. She is also minister for women and equalities and tweeted last year that she was in a happy same-sex relationship, becoming the first openly gay female cabinet member. Greening is Conservative MP for Putney, Roehampton and Southfields in London.

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Justine Greening and Lord Baker ask UTC students Beth Summers and Darius

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Words and photo by Dave Barry ANOTHER Death Café is to be held in Scarborough, at the library on 16 February, at 7pm. It will be the third in the area, following one in Wykeham and one in the old town last year. They are run by psychotherapist Brigit Peacock, a member of the Human Givens Institute.

Red Cross info night by Mike Tyas

“Join us for an open, respectful conversation about death and dying, with coffee and cake”, Brigit says. “There is no agenda. The objective is to increase of death with a view to helping us make the most of our finite lives”. There is no charge but donations are accepted to cover costs. Justine Greening with head teachers and others at Scalby school THE British Red Cross in Scarborough are holding an information evening for volunteers wanting to join their First Aid event’s team. The team are on duty at concerts at the Open Air Theatre, Scalby Fair and at sporting events including football matches and the

McCain’s 10K run. Volunteers will be trained and then expected to attend regular update sessions on Wednesdays. They will also have the opportunity to cover events in other parts of the country.

The information evening at Northstead Methodist Church is on Wednesday 15th February, at 7pm. n For further information tel. Scarborough 376783 or email Alison or Rachel at YorkshireVolunteers@redcross.org.uk

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blokes can be seen in their glory together with links to websites featuring information and guidance on all the different issues. The family-run business that manufacturers PVC and aluminium products for trade customers employs a mainly male workforce, many of whom were eager to step up to the plate when asked to pose in a series of shoots around the Dunslow Road factory. The pictures were taken by local photographer David Walker. ‘I was overwhelmed with the response we had – the guys were very positive about it. They really wanted to do it,’ said Susan, who lost her dad to prostate cancer when he was in his early sixties. She added: ‘Everybody has issues to contend with at some time in their lives, maybe not today but maybe tomorrow. The aim of this calendar is to bring these issues into the open

and get people talking about them.’ One of the guys to strip was dispatch manager and former soldier George Baker, 26, who along with three other lads in his team was really keen to embrace the idea. George said: ‘I was quite surprised how much something like this meant to a number of individuals in my team. ‘Some of the charities that are mentioned in the calendar, mental health for one, is something I hold very dearly. ‘I served six years in the military, in the Royal Engineers, including six months on operations in Afghanistan, and have got a lot of friends that suffer with issues, post-traumatic stress disorder mainly.’ The company have had 1000 calendars printed and are available at £3 each at a number of outlets across Scarborough, Bridlington and Ryedale that are listed on their website.

MORE than 20 guys at a Scarborough business got their kit off in the hope of prompting men to talk about their health and well-being. The lads at SWC Trade Frames stripped naked for a fundraising calendar with only a few wellchosen props strategically placed to cover their modesty. And while the charity ‘SWC calendar boys 2017’ is intended to raise a smile as well as funds for good causes, there is a serious message behind the project explained Managing Director, Susan Richings. She said: ‘We want the calendar to raise awareness about topics that some men may feel uncomfortable having a conversation about. ‘Over the many years I’ve been in business and worked alongside these fantastic fellas I

know at first hand that at times they can be a bit stubborn to talk about these things. ‘I also know that some of them have experienced at least one of the health issues we address in the calendar, which makes this project an extra special and meaningful one.’ The men at SWC were asked to nominate their own health topics and issues that were to be featured, with two charities, Prostate Cancer UK and the Scarborough, Whitby and Ryedale branch of MIND benefiting from proceeds of sales. Issues the lads raised are featured from month to month on the calendar and include prostate and testicular cancers, mental health, gambling, alcohol and drugs, sexual health, money worries, dealing with stress, exercise, domestic abuse against men, and smoking. The company has also set up a web page, at www.swccalendarboys.co.uk, where the

Earthquake - you must be joking! QUAKE FACTS FILE

Words by Mike Tyas IT could well have been an April Fool’s joke, only it came three months early! ‘Scarborough rocked by an earthquake’, roared some of the headlines in the national press. Really? Give over – you must be joking! Well, it was no joke although it was, apparently, business as usual in the town despite the earth moving off the South Bay. The fact that it was about 11 miles towards the earth’s core and 90 miles off the coastline perhaps explains the reason the greatest damage the town suffered in the early days of January, was – apparently - an upturned wheelie bin and a spilt cup of tea, according to jokers on Facebook and Twitter. Social media was alive and shaking, though, certainly more than the town had been after the quake, with one picture depicting a Travelodge hotel in ruins – although the ruins looked remarkably similar to Scarborough Castle! The British Geological Survey (BGS), confirmed the quake had been 3.8 in magnitude at just after 6.52pm on 3 January. They said the earthquake was ‘small’ even by UK standards and they were not surprised it was hardly noticed. ‘I would not expect an earthquake of that size to be strongly felt at that distance,’ reported Dr Brian Baptie, head of seismology at the

A Photoshop image of a tsunami wave over Scarborough harbour, designed by IT expert Mick Jones British Geological Survey. A number of internet users did discuss the possibility of a North Sea earthquake trigging a tsunami wave hitting Scarborough but the BGS explained tremors the size of January’s quake do not generate dangerous waves. Said Dr Baptie: ‘Such waves generally occur if the earthquake causes significant vertical displacement of the sea floor, which typically requires earthquake magnitudes of 7 or greater.’ Studies of the biggest recorded earthquake recorded off the British Isles – a 6.1 magnitude tremor in the Dogger Bank area of the North Sea near Great Yarmouth in 1931 – suggested no tsunami wave was generated.

• An average of 20-30 earthquakes hit the UK each year that are felt by people. • There are several hundred more smaller quakes in the UK each year, recorded by sensitive instruments. • The monitoring station that recorded the The monitoring station at Glaisdale near earthquake off Scarborough is at Glaisdale Whitby that recorded the earthquake. near Whitby. • Biggest recorded earthquake in UK recorded 60 miles off Great Yarmouth in the North Sea. the Dogger Bank area of North Sea, in the • Largest recorded quake in the world early hours of 7 June, 1931. It measured 6.1 measured 9.5 on Richter scale, at Valdiva, on Richter scale. According to reports, the Chile in May 1960. It lasted 10 minutes. quake was felt in 71 places, including along The resulting tsunami affected numerous the Yorkshire coast, in Filey, Bridlington, off countries. Estimated reports suggest Flamborough, Beverley, Hull, and as far afield between 1000-6000 people died as a result of as western Ireland, Norway and France. the quake and tsunami. • The British Geological Survey report • The Richter scale is named after the most damaging UK earthquake was in American seismologist Charles Richter. It the Colchester area of Essex in 1884. ‘Some was devised in 1932. 1200 buildings needed repairs, chimneys • In the USA, the United States Geological collapsed and walls were cracked.’ Survey no longer uses the Richter scale. • According to BGS, an earthquake Since 1979 it uses the moment magnitude similar in magnitude to that off Scarborough scale. occurs on average once in every four years in

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Lifeboats are in the blood for MBE recipient by Dave Barry A PROFESSIONAL lifeboatman from Scarborough has been awarded an MBE for services to maritime safety. Lee Firman, 39, was mentioned in the newyear honours list for services to the RNLI over the last 22 years. Lee was once thought to have been the youngest coxswain in the RNLI’s 192-year history - although details from the 19th century are sketchy. By an odd coincidence, the previous holder of this record was his dad Ian, who was 27 when he became coxswain of Scarborough lifeboat in 1983. Lifeboats are steeped in the Firman family’s blood. Lee’s grandfather Walt and great grandfather Jim were tractor drivers for Scarborough lifeboat. Born and bred in Scarborough, Lee lived with his family in the Bottom End and attended Friarage School. In 1987, when he was nine, his dad was appointed second coxswain on Humber lifeboat and the family moved into the fulltime lifeboat station at the end of Spurn Point. “It was a great place for a child to grow up”, says Lee, adding that he “lived and breathed lifeboats as a kid”. In 1990, the family returned to Scarborough and Lee went to Graham School. It was one of the few schools which taught pupils marine navigation and nautical studies at GCSE level; Lee took full advantage. He attended the Sixth Form College for a couple of months before his dad became coxswain at Aldeburgh RNLI, in 1994. Lee joined the crew a few months later and took over from his dad as coxswain in 2002, aged 25. He has been a full-time RNLI employee since 2000. In 2009, he became a fleet staff coxswain, living in Aldeburgh but working for the head office in Poole, taking lifeboats around the country. He was involved in trials projects for the Tamar- and Shannon-class lifeboats. “I was the lead coxswain in all the Shannon operational trials, which began in 2012, and I saw the first three put into service”, he says. To date, 17 have been launched, including

Father and son, Ian and Lee Firman, in Scarborough

The lifeboat crew in 1951. L-R: caretaker ? Dunn, signalman Tom Rowley, tractor driver Jim Firman, bowman Bill Sheader, mechanic Tom Mainprize, coxswain Jack Sheader, head launcher Sam Cammish, second coxswain Jack Cammish, mechanic Allan Rennard, launcher Tom Flynn, crewman Tom Scales, secretary Lou Sanderson and reserve tractor driver Bob Cammish.

Scarborough’s, which was delivered in November. Lee brought the RNLI’s first Shannon to Scarborough, as part of a coastal-hello tour in 2013. He has visited twice with other Shannons and has been in and out with various relief lifeboats. In 2015, the father of three became the charity’s divisional operations manager for north Wales, based in Chester. Lee recently became an area lifesaving manager for the east coast. Lee’s fisherman brother Mark lives in the old town of Scarborough, his mum, Gill Halder, lives in Burniston, and his grandparents, Walt and Madge, live in Castlegate. His dad has retired from the RNLI and works for the port authority in Lowestoft, as coxswain on a pilot boat. Ian was awarded a bronze medal for gallantry in 2000 for his part in the rescue of four Dutch crew aboard the Rosebank, a 30ft yacht. Ian was coxswain and Lee was second coxswain on that shout. Beyond his operational duties, Lee’s personable nature and dedication to the volunteers comes across strong, as he provides

pastoral care and support to volunteers at times of distress and tragedy. This has led him to be a driving force in championing a national standard of mental wellbeing training. On receiving the news of his MBE, Lee said: “I am immensely honoured and humbled. This isn’t just for me but it recognises the commitment of my family, giving me the time to volunteer and allowing me to be part of the RNLI for so many years”. He added: “It is testament to the commitment and support from the thousands of volunteer crews and fundraisers that have helped me achieve what I have and continue to do their Ian Firman at the helm of Scarborough lifeboat bit in helping to save lives at sea”. RNLI chief executive Paul Boissier commented: “I am extremely happy that Lee has been recognised with an MBE. He is a modest and reserved character but has the ability to lead and motivate those around him. This firm but fair leadership has shone through since his promotion to operations manager in 2015. He does not shy away from difficult decisions but pursues excellence in everything he does and this honour is thoroughly deserved”.

McCain sheds 10% of Eastfield workforce by Dave Barry

Audio newspaper charity seeks IT volunteers Words and photos by Dave Barry

A SCARBOROUGH charity which provides a valuable service for blind and partially sighted people is appealing for help. Talking News is short of volunteers with IT skills who can act as recorders. The digital recording equipment isn’t particularly complicated but needs to be operated by someone who is reasonably familiar with IT in general. “If you are fairly up to date with IT skills we would love to hear from you”, says chairman Malcolm Smith. “We can provide full training in how to operate the equipment”. Talking News has 43 clear-voiced volunteers who read cuttings from Scarborough Review and Scarborough News into microphones. Four recorders, led by Alan Atherton, ensure it is done properly and copy recordings onto 70 USB memory sticks and eight cassettetapes. They are distributed by Dial-a-Ride to about 80 listeners throughout the Scarborough area and beyond. The listeners either have sight

impairments or have difficulty reading a newspaper for other reasons. The recording studio is in the converted attic of Yorkshire Coast Sight Support, in Dean Road. Recordings are made on Wednesday Buff Tappenden-Rowell, vice-chairman of Yorkshire mornings. Coast Sight Support, Talking News, a listens to a recording registered charity, was established in 1982 at Allatt House in West Parade Road. It moved to its present premises after Allatt House was pulled down, about five years ago. “Our only outlay is for rent, insurance liability and occasionally replacing the memory sticks”, Malcolm says. “We rely on donations and we don’t ask listeners for anything”. If you would like to join Talking News, ring Malcolm on 583177 or email him at bruce@ malcs70.plus.com.

L-R: readers Alan Card, Heather Bogg and Sylvia Snow with chairman Malcolm Smith and, behind the glass panel, chief recorder Alan Atherton

L-R: readers Alan Card, Heather Bogg and Sylvia Snow with editor Mary Grunwell

MCCAIN’S are planning to cut a tenth of their workforce. Seventy-four of the 736 jobs at the frozenfood giant’s Eastfield plant are under threat. Subject to employee consultations, McCain says the move will affect 74 hourly and salaried positions. The company wants to close the cold and dry storage facility at Eastfield and outsource the work. The 45-year-old facility is coming to the end of its serviceable life and no longer remains economically viable to maintain and operate, said corporate affairs director Bill Bartlett. He said: “To ensure the long-term sustainability of the overall facilities at Scarborough, and following a review of both cold and dry store requirements on site, the company proposes, subject to consultation, to close the Scarborough stores in their current format over the coming months and outsource its requirements to third-party expertise. “This proposal, subject to consultation, may present options to alleviate some of the space constraints within the site”, Mr Bartlett said. McCain is considering the possibility of updating the manufacturing capacity at Eastfield, Mr Bartlett added.

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Venue needed for Keep pressure off A&E, patients urged men-in-sheds course Words and pictures by Mike Tyas PATIENTS are being asked to choose the ‘right health care first time’ so not as to clog up Scarborough Hospital’s accident and emergency department. The Scarborough and Ryedale Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) said that ‘exceptionally high demand’ over the new year and into January at A&E resulted in patients having to wait longer than usual to be seen. The CCG say that some of the patients need not have visited A&E but could have received help elsewhere, such as at an out-of-hours GP service. In stressing patients should choose the ‘right care first time’ to help relieve the workload on A&E, CCG chairman, Dr Phil Garnett, added: ‘When demand in emergency departments is high, it’s even more important that people choose the right care, so that those who are very poorly and really need urgent assistance in A&E can be seen quicker. ‘If you need help finding the right service, call the NHS 24-hour Freephone number, 111. If it’s necessary their trained advisors will make

an appointment for you at the urgent care centres based at Scarborough Hospital. ‘If you’re suffering from a minor or persistent health problem, visit your pharmacy or make an appointment to see a doctor or nurse at your GP surgery. ‘If the injury or illness is serious or lifethreatening, then call 999 or go straight to A&E.’ The York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust which runs Scarborough Hospital, posted a message on its website which read: ‘We urge people to think carefully about which services they access. ‘A&E is for serious life-threatening emergencies which need immediate attention.’

Words and picture by Mike Tyas A CHARITY is appealing for more volunteers to help with a one-to-one support scheme that draws alongside people with mental health problems. Last year Scarborough, Ryedale and Whitby MIND supported 600 people across the region through their Side by Side programme, but there is still a ‘significant’ gap between the numbers of people needing help and volunteers able to give it As a result MIND are running courses at their Falsgrave Community Centre base to try to bridge the gap with their latest due to start in March. ‘We’re greatly in need of more people wanting to volunteer for Side by Side as there is currently a significant number of people on our waiting list needing help,’ explained volunteer coordinator Natalie Miles. Side by Side supports people in the community with the aim of helping improve their quality of life. Volunteers are matched with a service user and usually spend an hour or two once a week in their company, either in the service user’s own home or around town providing them social, emotional and practical support. Said Natalie: ‘For giving such a small amount of time, the volunteer can really make a big difference in somebody else’s life. ‘They will help a person on their recovery

Volunteer coordinator Natalie Miles journey, whatever that may be – it is different for everyone. It could be to help someone become more independent, get back into work or develop new interests.’ Natalie said their volunteers come from all walks of life and don’t need any experience of working in mental health. She added: ‘What we’re looking for are people who can express empathy, understanding and who has patience, a desire to help others and a willingness to commit time.’ MIND’s training involves attending a fourweek course of one three-hour session each week. Among the topics discussed are listening skills, awareness of mental health issues, stigma and discrimination, the recovery journey, establishing boundaries and safeguarding. n For more information, contact Natalie on (01723) 356562 or via email at: natalie. miles@swrmind.org.uk

Ted operating a milling machine in his workshop

Words and photos by Dave Barry A COURSE for men in sheds is all set to run – if a venue can be found. It will be run by Ted Fletcher, a retired lecturer in model engineering and a keen DIY enthusiast, eager to share his vast knowledge. “Other areas of England have got men-inthe-shed groups and courses, so why not Scarborough?” For about 10 years, Ted organised a weekly model-engineering class at Scarborough Technical College, which became Yorkshire Coast College. “Basically, I collected the money and gave the college a cheque,” he recalls. The original model-engineering class was run by North Yorkshire County Council, who hired a metal-working shop from the Tech. Every year, some dropped out and others joined. There was a steady 12 to 15 members, restoring motorbikes and making bits for cars, tools for home workshops, miniature steam engines and small traction engines. The college provided a member of staff who was familiar with the machines. “Eventually most of the core members became competent,” Ted says. “I use the word members advisably. You could hardly call us students as we had been attending for 20 or more years. Perhaps we were very slow learners. “Then about 10 years ago, the college wondered who we were. They had never heard of us, can you believe?! “When the next prospectus was published there was no mention of model engineering, so a couple of us arranged to see the principal and the finance department lady. We settled on an arrangement where I would collect the money from all the members. “In effect, we hired the workshop for 20 two-

hour meetings and the college provided a member of staff. “The cost was £2,150, which was shared between us,” says Ted, who collected the money and paid the college. The class continued until a couple of years ago when Ted went into hospital and no-one picked up the baton. After he got better, Ted contacted the college and was told the new cost would be £3,150 for 20 two-hour meetings – an increase of £1,000 or 46%. “We are all generally 80-plus so one or two have popped their clogs by now and few youngsters are interested if it hasn’t got a keyboard and screen, so we hit the buffers”, Ted laments. “As things are at the moment, the college metal-working workshops all stand empty every evening of the week”. Last year, Ted attempted to run a men’s event at the rugby club on a Saturday afternoon. “I had a long list of clubs and societies who would have come along, but the insurance was more that £2,000 when all the exhibits were stationary and even more if a tractor, motorbike or vintage car moved, so that was out”. Besides having a keen interest in engineering, Ted runs a neighbourhood-watch scheme on the north side of town and volunteers at the stroke club once a week. A keen recycler, Ted constructed his shed at the bottom of his garden with wood salvaged from the site of the Butlins camp, near Filey, 25 years ago. n If you know of a venue where Ted and his colleagues could run a model-engineering class, ring him on 362537.

Patients urged to stop wasting medicines Words and picture by Mike Tyas HUNDREDS of thousands of pounds could be sapped from Scarborough NHS budgets by patients wasting prescribed medications. To stop the drain, the Scarborough and Ryedale Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) have stepped up a campaign in 2017 urging people throughout the area to only order the prescription they need. A spokesman said: ‘There are 26 pharmacies in the Scarborough and Ryedale area covered

by the CCG, meaning wasted medicines could be sapping hundreds of thousands of pounds every year from the local NHS budget – money that could be spent on other local health services.’ Medication that’s returned to a pharmacy is destroyed. It cannot be given to another patient, even if it is unopened. The CCG cited the example of wastage at J.G. Squire pharmacy in Falsgrave Road, with the cost of returned medication in just a single

week adding up to an estimated £400. Pharmacist Andrew Squire, said: ‘We often see instances where a patient’s prescription may have changed or is no longer needed and a stockpile of unopened medicine is returned to us – in some cases there could be enough medication to have lasted that person six months.’ The CCG quote the annual cost to the NHS of unused prescriptions at £300 million. J.G. Squire pharmacy on Falsgrave Road

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Tidal surge causes havoc on seafront Words and photos by Dave Barry FOR sheer drama, the sea is often the best show in town. The recent tidal surge brought thousands of people to Scarborough’s seafront to marvel at the nautical spectacle. At high tide on two evenings, big, powerful waves pummeled and battered the man-made structures closest to the sea. Several buildings which are normally on dry land briefly became islands, including Watermark café on the north side (overtopped four times) and the new lifeboathouse on the south side, which sustained superficial damage. The sea wall at the Spa took a couple of hits. A small section of wall on the approach road was demolished and the entire top course of stone on the wall opposite the building was pushed back by a few inches. A few properties were flooded but nowhere near as many as during the last tidal surge, in December 2013. After that, every seafront business was offered a four-figure council grant to have steel storm barriers fitted. Bizarrely, some businesses declined. Despite the presence of a mountain-rescue team, children (and a few adults) engaged in the perilous old custom of wave-dodging, potentially endangering not just themselves but the emergency services such as the RNLI.

Foreshore Road was inundated

In the south bay, on the cobbled slipway opposite Olympia, a couple allowed a small child to play in the water. When challenged by police, they couldn’t see that they were doing anything wrong. Countless films circulated on social media. One showed a man who had pushed someone in a wheelchair too close to the surf, suddenly trying to pull back. One showed kids getting completely drenched while risking their lives on the north promenade. Another showed huge waves rushing up both sides of Watermark and meeting at the back. The clean-up operation began on the sunny morning after the second tidal surge, when the sea was still raging majestically, but at a safe distance. The seafront was full of evidence that the seafront had been ravaged by a visiting beast which had retreated: gouged-up pavements, broken walls and railings, twisted signs, seaweed and other detritus everywhere, tons of sand on the roads, people removing sandbags and clearing up, etc. Nineteen of the colourful chalets on the north promenade had been boarded up. Many rubbish bins were ripped off their mounts and the tall deckchair boxes near Coney Island were uprooted and moved across the road.

The lifeboathouse becomes an island

The sea surges into the area between the Lord Nelson pub and the lifeboathouse

The morning after: damaged railings in the north bay

The damaged wall at the Spa

Pieces of ripped-up tarmac piled up on the north promenade

The top course of the wall opposite the Spa was pushed back

Business must get busy for Tour success Words and pictures by Mike Tyas THE secretary of the association representing Scarborough’s hoteliers has urged its members to do all they can to make the most of the Tour de Yorkshire. The first stage of the third edition of the Tour de France legacy cycle race arrives in Scarborough on Welcome to Friday April 29th at Yorkshire Commercial Director the start of the Bank Peter Dodd Holiday weekend, with thousands of tourists and race fans anticipated to head to the coast to watch it. But businesses must do ‘the simple things well’ to make sure they take full advantage of the commercial opportunities the race provides, said Ged Wilcock, secretary of the Scarborough Hospitality Association. He said: ‘The tour is in its third year – it’s a well-established event in the racing calendar but the public just won’t come here because

TOUR DE YORKSHIRE 2017 FACT FILE Compiled by Mike Tyas • Tour de Yorkshire, over three stages, April 29th-May 1st • 1st stage – ‘Coast to Wolds’ – Bridlington to Scarborough (173K – 107.5 miles)

we’ve got the Tour de Yorkshire, we’ve got to get out there and make sure we wave the flag and attract them.’ ‘Businesses have to advertise themselves well, go online, get on social media, bang the drum and do the simple things well. They have to make sure people know they have vacancies and they are easy to book and their accommodation is not expensive. ‘Scarborough Council put a lot of money into getting this race to come here again so we must do all we can to get a return on that investment and get bums in beds, on seats in restaurants and cafes and get people spending in the shops.’ The hospitality association will be active in helping its members prepare for the Tour’s arrival and making the most of the big day itself, said Mr Wilcock. He added: ‘Over the last couple of years the association has made a conscious effort to pull our membership together and have a much better presence at events like this, so it benefits all the accommodation and hospitality providers as well as Scarborough as a whole.’ Mr Wilcock, who runs The Croft B&B on Queen’s Parade with his wife Barbara and

son Andrew, was speaking after tourism body Welcome to Yorkshire staged a Tour de Yorkshire roadshow at the University Technical College in Weaponness which attracted local businesses, accommodation providers and organisations from the voluntary and charity sector, including the Alzheimer’s Society, the Tour’s nominated charity. Welcome to Yorkshire Commercial Director Peter Dodd told the audience that Scarborough was an iconic venue for the Tour de Yorkshire and that it ‘had a special place in the heart of many people associated with the event.’ He said two million people watched the Tour last year and the race coming back to the coast again represented another ‘glorified opportunity for Scarborough and greater Scarborough to promote itself, make money and for community groups to come together.’ He added: ‘The Tour de Yorkshire has something for everyone. Yes, it is an international bike race – a big sporting event, but the race is only one part of the story. As well as the bike race there will be many other events that will encourage people to spend here in Scarborough.’

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The cyclists head off at approx. 12 noon from Bridlington Spa. First seven kilometres are neutral. Race starts at Bessingby and finishes (approx..) 4.30-5pm on Royal Albert Drive 2nd Stage: Tadcaster to Harrogate 3rd Stage: Bradford to Fox Valley, Sheffield The first stage passes through 44 towns & villages

Two sprints: Pocklington and Whitby Abbey Three King of the Mountain: Garrowby Hill, Goathland and Robin Hood’s Bay Rolling road closures approx. 45 mins before Tour arrives Tour route into Scarborough: Burniston Road, Peasholm Road, North Marine Road, St Thomas

The roadshow audience Mr Dodd reminded the audience that the Tour de Yorkshire followed the success of the Tour de France Grand Dèpart in 2014 and referring to the world’s biggest cycling race said there was a ‘strong desire in France’ to bring it to Scarborough one day. At the roadshow, businesses were given marketing, website and social media tips, videos showed the riders racing through Yorkshire last year and into Scarborough for the finish of the race along Royal Albert Drive, and there were details on other Tour de Yorkshire events, including the popular land art competition, the sportive for amateur riders, support for the Tour’s charity, and how volunteers can become official Tour Makers.

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Street, Newborough, St Nicholas Street, Vernon Road, Falconers Road, Sandside, Marine Drive, Royal Albert Drive 2016 Tour winner: Frenchman Thomas Voeckler 2016 boost to Scarborough economy: £1m 2016 boost to Yorkshire economy: £60 m

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Going potty for a good cause by Mike Tyas

£5,000 with various events throughout the SNOOKER players went potty at the annual year. The money will be match funded in a ratio of three to one from the European Union Christian Aid fundraising marathon. Held at its usual venue of Westborough so that £5,000 will become £20,000.’ Methodist Church, the marathon The coffee morning was held on the final snookerathon was held over two days at the Saturday of the month. end of January, with play continuous from At Westborough, the snooker event organiser Jeff Moorhouse led the home team while 8am to 8pm. Scarborough Christian Aid group secretary Chris Garforth, from Burniston Methodist Sally Garforth said they hoped to beat last Church, the chair of the Scarborough branch year’s cash total when £2,900 was raised from of Christian Aid, headed the away team’s both the snooker sponsorship and a coffee challenge. Each player gathered sponsors from their morning. All of the proceeds this year support a project church, friends and workmates. in the Democratic Republic of Congo, one of the world’s poorest countries. The central African country has suffered years of armed conflict, corruption and human rights abuses, with estimates reporting the civil war has claimed six million lives. ‘The money raised will help the poor of Maniema province have their voices heard and their needs met,’ said Sally. Already the project has helped to provide clean drinking Right on cue are, from left: Ray Sykes, Chris water to the area for the first time. Garforth, Jeff Moorhouse Sally added: ‘This year we’re trying to raise and Gordon Fishburn

Owl flies out of cupboard Words by Dave Barry STAFF at a carpet shop had a shock when an owl dropped in. Shop assistant Jade Holloway had the living daylights scared out of her when she opened a cupboard and a tawny owl flew out. It flew around the shop – Beevers in Whitby – before settling on an upturned roll. The owl broke into the premises by falling down a heating flue into the boiler room. It was rescued by Whitby Wildlife Sanctuary. A spokesman said: “He is a tad underweight so we are going to feed him up before releasing him. Caps on chimneys and secure wire fence pieces on vents is a must if you want to prevent birds from getting trapped. We have had to rescue a number of birds from chimneys and vents before now”. Shop manager Rob Riby, of Scarborough, commented: “At Beevers, we always aim to do everything properly for all our customers, no matter how small, and this is no exception. We were ever so worried that this little fellow might injure himself so called in the professionals.

The owl at Beevers (photo by Jade Holloway) “The ace lady at Whitby Wildlife Sanctuary arrived in 10 minutes and carefully and expertly caught him, safe and unharmed. He went off to be fattened up a bit and then released. “I can't praise them highly enough. They were superb!” The episode raised a few chuckles on social media. Others chipped in: “He didn't give a hoot”. “He didn't want to be owl by himself”. “Carpets going cheep?”

Dead house opens to the living Words and photo by Dave Barry The Dead House at Dean Road cemetery in Scarborough is open to the living every Sunday, starting this weekend (5 Feb). The Dead House is a small building at the back of the chapel, which is in the middle of the cemetery. Built in 1856, it was used as a mortuary for the bodies of people who had died of infectious diseases and couldn’t be laid out at home, as was the custom. It was also used for people who lived in cramped conditions or who had died at the nearby workhouse or while visiting the town. Inside, it has an attractive Minton tiled floor and glazed white tiles on the lower half of the walls. From 10am until noon every Sunday, volunteers will sell books and bric-à-brac and accept donations of unwanted currency – British or foreign, old or new, coins or notes. Visitors will be able to learn more about the

project to restore the chapel, which is to become a heritage centre and café. In September, the Heritage Lottery Fund awarded over £50,000 for Dean Road Chapel Ltd to begin work. York architects PPIY have been appointed and specialist surveys are being undertaken in preparation for the submission of planning permission. Volunteers have to raise another £50,000 and have already passed the £10,000 mark. Dean Road Chapel Ltd recently became a registered charity, L-R, Rita Hooton, Jan number 1171057, Cleary and Liz Blades which will help with with their stall at the fundraising efforts. Dead House (to order photos ring 353597)

by Dave Barry A BLAST from the past raised over a grand for two worthy causes. Legends of the Discotheques, at the Roscoe Rooms in Scarborough, raised £1145.70 through ticket sales, a raffle, games and a collection. DJs Paul Murray, Ron Wilkey, Dave Marshall, Cliff Miller, Alan Blaque and Terry Fishburn reaquainted themselves with guests from long ago, reminiscing on the good old days of disco and well-remembered tunes. On behalf of Ellie’s Fund, Andrea Mason and Lucy Marshall accepted a cheque for £572.85. The same amount was given to Scarborough

Mencap, represented by Greg Jackson, Jenny Stamford and Edward Stamford. A similar event is scheduled for later this year.

L-R: Andrea Mason, Terry Fishburn, Lucy Marshall, Dave Marshall, Paul Murray, Greg Jackson (holding cheque), Edward Stamford, Jenny Stamford, Ron Wilkey and Cliff Miller

Gervase Phinn returns to help local charities by Dave Barry AUTHOR Gervase Phinn will be the guest speaker at a fundraising event in Scarborough this month. The former school inspector, who gave a show at the Spa in November, will address the Gervase Phinn mayoress’s charity dinner at the Rugby Club on Saturday 25 February, at 7.30pm. With a keen ear for the absurd and a sharp eye for the ludicrous, Phinn will share his hilarious and sometimes poignant memories of life as a school inspector in the Yorkshire Dales. The dinner is being organised by Sam Greetham and Steve Hamblett. The proceeds will go to the Mayoress's Community Fund (MCF). The next big event in the MCF’s social and fundraising calendar is the Mayor's Ball (see article on page 6) The MCF was established at least 52 years ago. One of its longest serving members was Peggy Pilgrim, who joined in 1964 (when her husband Ernest was mayor) and died recently. Former mayor’s secretary John Fawcett says: “When I came to Scarborough it was called the Mayoress's Benevolent Fund and all the monies raised were distributed in cash to old and needy folk in the town. “As I recall, the amount given to each recipient was 30 shillings. The ladies of the committee used to put it into little envelopes and distribute them personally to the recipients just before Christmas”, Mr Fawcett says. “We used to ask the churches and relevant local organisations to nominate recipients. The ladies of the committee also nominated people they knew to receive the gifts. “In 1974, on the reorganisation of local government, the fund’s name was changed to its present title, the distribution of cash stopped and the fund adopted its present format with donations being made to local charities and good causes”. The longest serving member is Sheila McWhan, who joined in 1971, when her husband Ken was a councillor. Bonnie Purchon and Jane Cockerill joined in 2007 when Janet Jefferson was mayor. Mrs Purchon recalls: “That was the year when towns like Hull and Sheffield were flooded and we brought some of their

residents to Scarborough and gave them a wonderful day out with the generosity of groups like South Bay Traders, Forum for Tourism and many others”. All the other committee members have joined since then. The MCF is chaired by the serving mayoress, who at the moment is Val Green. “I am having an interesting year on the committee, helping them raise funds and meeting a variety of community groups”, Mrs Green says. “On one hand there are groups of people raising money in the community and on the other there are community groups receiving the funds. “It's lovely to see those that 'have' helping those that 'have not'.” The money raised is distributed to deserving groups and individuals at the end of the mayoral year. Irene Webster, a former civic officer at the town hall, was instrumental in arranging the production of a new MCF banner. “Adverset have always supported the Night Before the Colours military dinners and were happy to support the MCF”. The MCF does not donate to national charities, except when the local branch finances and manages its own branch. Its funds were boosted last summer when it was one of 12 local charities which each received £22,000, bequested by a local person who requested anonymity. n An MCF application form can be found on the council website - www.scarborough. gov.uk/mayor.

Mayoress Val Green, left, with former civic officer Irene Webster and the new MCF banner

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TIME TRAVEL The tumultuous history of town’s medieval castle SCARBOROUGH’S oldest building is its medieval castle, started in the 1150s. The high rocky promontory overlooking the sea had been put to various uses before the castle was built. In the 1920s, archaeological excavations unearthed a 3,000-year-old bronze sword and other finds dating as far back as 900BCE. A replica is on display at the castle. Sadly, the original is hidden away in a storeroom at the British Museum. Other discoveries suggested an Iron Age settlement on the headland. It was erected and inhabited by settlers from what we now know as Holland, Belgium and the Rhineland. In about 370CE, the Romans built a signal tower, 33m square, near the cliff top. With stone foundations and wooden walls, it was one of several on the Yorkshire coast, designed to spot hostile Anglo-Saxon raiders approaching by sea. In around 1000CE, a place of worship was constructed in the ruins of the signal station. St Mary’s Chapel is thought to have been destroyed during the invasion of Harald Hardrada in 1066. It was rebuilt in the 12th and 14th centuries. The remains are still visible today. The castle was started in 1157. Most of the work, including the 26m, three-storey keep,

was undertaken from 1159-69 on the orders of Henry II, at a cost of £682. During Henry’s reign, his average annual income was about £10,000. It replaced a wooden fortification put up by William le Gros, Count of Aumale, a powerful Anglo-Norman baron and grand-nephew of William the Conqueror. The castle became a strategic northern stronghold for the Crown and the town that developed next to it became a royal borough. Henry II’s successor, Richard I, halted spending on the castle but his brother, King John, splashed out, making it as comfortable as possible for his four visits. John was hated by the northern barons and needed the castle to be fortified. The curtain wall on the west and south sides went up from 1202–12 and a hall called the King's Chambers soon followed. John spent more on the castle than any other monarch. It took the lion’s share (£2,291) of the £17,000 spent on 95 castles during his reign. The barbican, consisting of two towers flanking the gateway, was commissioned by Henry III, who never visited the castle. It was built from 1240–50. Two towers protecting the approach were finished in 1343 and have been modified many times.

The castle dykes in the early 20th century

The ruins of King John’s Chambers, built in the early 13th century and converted into barracks in 1746 The castle’s briefest and best-known governor castle with 65lb balls from within St Mary’s is perhaps Piers Gaveston, the king's Church, which lost its east wing in the return favourite knight, appointed in April 1312. The fire. next month, the castle was beseiged by the The castle’s most famous prisoner was king’s enemies and quickly fell, due to lack Quakers founder George Fox (1624–1691), of provisions. The victors assured Gaveston banged up for religious activities. he could leave safely but he was killed on his During the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, aimed at putting a Catholic on the throne, the King's way south. The last monarch to visit the castle was Chambers were converted into barracks for Richard III, who lived there in 1484 while 120 officers and men. The barracks were destroyed and the keep badly damaged in the assembling a fleet to fight the Tudors. Probably the best-known part of the castle’s German bombardment of 1914. history is the civil-war sieges of 1642-48. In The Master Gunner's house, constructed in this period, the castle changed hands seven 1748, provided accommodation and now times, between Cromwell’s parliamentarians hosts an exhibition. The castle became a tourist attraction in the and Charles I’s royalists. The longest siege, and one of the war’s second half of the 19th century. bloodiest, lasted five months, with almost Designated as an ancient monument, the continuous fighting. Cromwell’s forces used castle has been managed by English Heritage the country’s biggest cannon to pound the since 1984.

The barbican

What’s left of St Mary’s Chapel

A marching band at the castle

The keep

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Get Involved! Mum of two, Mya, is smack bang in the middle of the terrible twos with her little one but it’s not as bad as it seems… imaginary tea parties and getting creative with mum and dad – whether its finger painting or play fighting your toddler will love spending quality time with you.

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TODDLERS can be a pain in the backside sometimes. Between the ages of two and three, our little ones go through some key development stages that can really take the fun out of life for mum and dad.

Ah the unpredictable mobility of a two-yearold – running is becoming more common and walking is a thing of the past – you cringe as your little one whizzes through the living room. Now is a great time to make sure your home is a safe environment for them to move around in. Pool noodles cut in half are a great way to child-proof fireplace edges and doors to prevent trapped fingers. This is a great time to play football with your toddler or throw balls as their mobility and hand-eye coordination improves.

But of course, it can also be uplifting, and funny and wonderful. I’m going through this ‘uplifting and funny’ stage with Shay right now, there’s so much to learn, but everyday he’s becoming more of an opinionated human being who knows his own mind.

GRAB THE TISSUES Because the temper tantrums aren’t going to stop coming. As toddlers start feeling some of the bigger and less fun emotions such as frustration, embarrassment and guilt, they simply don't know how to process or portray these emotions thus leading onto the temper tantrum – hey we all have a little cry out of frustration now and again, am I right?

The joy of discovering that your toddler’s new found independence can be put to work is a great feeling. When your little one can wash their own hands, feed themselves and take clothes off, they can also fold laundry, do a bit of light dusting or even sweep up. Don’t expect miracles but letting your child help you with chores can fill them with confidence.

THEY CALL THE SHOTS Talking and thinking are becoming common place nowadays, and with your toddler knowing how to string together a couple of words and also think about what’s what: you’ll find that they have preconceived ideas about what’s going to go down for the day – whether it’s ice cream for breakfast or ‘I no baths’ for a week – these are the battles you will have to fight. When this starts happening, it’s a great time to capitalise on learning – functions of objects and colours are a great place to start. Later on in your toddler’s development, you might be able to take it in turns talking to each other and construct basic sentences such as ‘what did you do today?’ and ‘I go shops’.

SOCIAL BUTTERFLY Ok that’s probably a slight over exaggeration, as toddlers have no concept of sharing or taking turns. But they simply love spending time with other children, and they’ll start to learn those all important social skills from an early age. Other fun activities involve

OSGODBY LADIES CLUB Osgodby Community Centre, Osgodby Lane. Meetings on first Wednesday of the month, 7pm to 9pm, £2 per session. This year’s charity is Prostate Cancer UK. Please join us at our charity and chat coffee morning held on the second Wednesday fo the month, 10:15am - 11:30am, £1.50 inc. cake and free raffle. MEN VERY WELCOME. n Email: moiraaudsley33@gmail.com SCARBOROUGH AND DISTRICT MENCAP We are a well-respected independent local charity providing specialist care and support for children and adults with learning disabilities. We are looking for committed and enthusiastic people with a business and/or financial background to join our board of trustees. Meetings are once per month on Wednesday evenings. n For further details contact Carol Etherington, CEO, on 01723 374819 or email carol.etherington@ scarboroughmencap.org.uk

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SIGNS YOUR LITTLE ONE IS READY TO DO POTTY TRAINING Firstly, children aren’t a one size fits all so don’t panic if you don’t think your toddler is ready. Most children will learn to use the potty somewhere inbetween the ages of two to three-and-a-half-years-old, so it’s a fairly big time window for you to play with.

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

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Rainbows So far this winter, the Rainbow Centre, working with Scarborough Council’s community impact team, has housed 28 people who had been sleeping rough in Scarborough.

Scalby Sweet Pea Calendars Scalby residents are on the lookout for photographs to be featured in the Scalby Sweet Pea 2018 calendar. The calendar is the main source of income for the village’s public toilets which had its’ funding cut over eleven years ago.

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Syrian refugees receive welcome Words and picture by Mike Tyas A SMALL number of Syrian refugee families have arrived in the Scarborough area to find a new home and escape the horrors of war. The five families have been identified as some of the most vulnerable people that have suffered as a result of the five years of civil war in Syria. They were vetted by the Government in conjunction with the United Nations prior to their arrival in the UK. They came to Scarborough as part of a commitment by councils in North Yorkshire to a resettlement programme to take 40-50 families – about 200 refugees, in a two-year period ending in the autumn of next year. Twenty-six families have been resettled so far across the county. The councils’ commitment follows a pledge by then Prime Minister David Cameron in 2015 that 20,000 refugees from Syria would be accommodated in the UK in the lifetime of the current parliament. Funding to house the refugees comes from central government. Other towns accepting refugees in the county are Harrogate, Skipton and Selby. Bill Chatt, Scarborough councillor and portfolio holder for public health and housing, said the council offered a warm welcome to the families. He added: ‘Following our Full Council commitment in 2015 to support the Government’s efforts to help tackle the international humanitarian crisis, we are pleased that we are now welcoming this small group of Syrian refugee families to our borough and giving them the freedom the rest of us take for granted. ‘We will continue to work with our partner organisations to do all we can to ensure that their integration into our community is a positive experience for them and their neighbours. I hope the people of the Yorkshire coast will give the families the same warm welcome that they are renowned for.’ North Yorkshire and Scarborough councils have worked with the police, NHS clinical

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Jack and a jack crab

A party of refugees enjoyed a warm welcome at St Mary’s Church last August commissioning groups and the Refugee Council to prepare for their arrival. The Refugee Council is helping with language support, access to services such as GPs and integration into the community. The support will be in place for a year, but will be most intensive in the first few weeks. The Refugee Council is also working with local volunteers to provide longer-term befriending support to ensure that the refugees can become independent as quickly as possible. Carl Les, leader of North Yorkshire County Council, said: ‘We welcome these new arrivals to the county and, thanks to thorough preparation by the organisations involved, are confident that their settlement and integration will be as smooth as possible. Having faced some truly awful circumstances, I hope that the communities of Scarborough will welcome and support these families and their children.’ Refugee Council Chief Executive Maurice Wren, added: ‘It’s hard to describe the difference being resettled in Scarborough will make to these families. At last, they’ll have somewhere safe to sleep, their children will be able to go to school and they will be able to begin rebuilding their shattered lives. ‘The people of Scarborough should be extremely proud that they’re quietly helping transform lives by offering these families a brighter, safer future.’

In December I went into a pub in the Old Town, the Leeds Arms, as one of a carol singing group from St. Mary’s Church. A few carols were sung and well appreciated. Then I noticed something on display and was captivated. I thought straight away, there must be a story here. So I asked a few questions, then added to what I was told, to fill in the gaps. It was about 1920. For months, eight-year old Jack had been going early to the harbour, nearly every morning. His mother would say something like this. “Be a good boy Jack! Go down to the harbour. Find a kind fisherman and ask him for a spare bit o’ fish for the table this evening. They know we’re a poor family, since your dad never came back. Get what you can! That’s a good boy!” So young Jack made his way down past the Leeds Arms, past the Butter Cross, down West Sandgate to the harbour. He headed for the West Pier, where the fish were landed. The harbour was magnificent: those cobbles and keel boats bobbing on the water, and a few steam trawlers alongside. There was a buzz of excitement as fish were bought and sold at the market. So many people worked there, all their jobs connected with boats and fishing. Overflowing baskets of fish seemed to be everywhere. Scarborough harbour is still busy today, though with only a few fishing boats. Now it’s more leisure boats, trips for tourists and locals, excitement riding the speed boats and scenic pleasure cruises up and down the coast. And it’s still a fabulous place! Young Jack wandered amongst the crowds.

Girl and dad sleep rough in park by Dave Barry A MAN who worried that his daughter was taking things for granted took her to sleep rough in Peasholm Park. Former soldier Andrew Ashton and daughter Emma, 13, took sleeping bags, blankets and pillows to spend a night in the park. “Andrew said the adventure began when he thought Emma was taking things for granted”, said Victoria Wilkinson, operations coordinator for the veterans charity FirstLight Trust (FLT). “He wanted to show her how some people lived and how important it was to be safe and protected. “During the night, they talked to homeless people and learned about their lives”, Victoria said. Andrew and Emma raised £510 for FLT through sponsorship from family, friends and Andrew’s employers. He is the warehouse manager for Bidvest Food Services. Andrew served 23 years in the Royal Artillery

in Northern Ireland, Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan. He is the point of contact for FLT in Bridlington, where he lives. FLT has provided support for over 200 veterans in the last three years and regularly funds treatment such as eye-movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy for PTSD which would not be available otherwise. FLT provides practical and emotional support to all veterans, including reservists and emergency service personnel. FLT is based at 47/48 Queen Street, Andrew and Emma Scarborough. Ashton with Victoria Wilkinson of the FirstLight Trust

POLICE have renewed their appeal to the public for help finding a man wanted for breach of bail conditions. Daniel Davis, 34,

from Filey, was charged with two offences of assault and two of criminal damage. He appeared at Scarborough Magistrates’ Court on 18 November 2016 and was given conditional bail until his next appearance. Since 21 December 2016, he has failed to comply with the conditions of his bail and is

It was usually easy to find someone who would give him “a spare bit o’ fish”. Jack spied a jovial fisherman and asked him. He soon wished he hadn’t, as the fisherman chortled out, “Aye! Tha can ‘ave yon crab! Tek it wi’ ma blessing.” Crab! Jack didn’t like carrying the bigger crabs home. They were still alive, wriggling their pincers aggressively, aiming for his fingers and arm. But he couldn’t say no. News would spread about Jack’s fussiness

now wanted by the police. Despite extensive enquiries and searches of known areas and addresses, officers have not located him. They are now appealing to members of the public in Filey and Scarborough to contact them if they have seen Davis or know of his current whereabouts.

and “airs and graces” and maybe asking for fish would become difficult. “Thank you Sir!” he said. “Which crab is it?” “Look in yon basket,” said the fisherman. “Just tek it home. Go on!” He burst out laughing as Jack looked in the basket. “Phoooo!” Jack gasped. The crab was enormous, lying there, its pincers waving around. He had heard about these large crabs but had never seen one. Jack would need two hands to carry this crab. It looked about twenty inches across [fifty centimetres] and about 16 inches [forty centimetres] from its eight-inch pincers to its seven-inch legs. And it was heavy! It was a male, known locally as a jack-crab. and it didn’t appreciate being caught! Many watched young Jack trying to carry this heavy, wriggling jack-crab. It was such a struggle. The crab grabbed out with its pincers to hurt him, wriggling its legs to escape. Embarrassed, Jack struggled up the hill, up West Sandgate, past the Butter Cross, past the Leeds Arms. Exhausted, he managed to get home. What a magnificent effort! Well done Jack! However, as he laid it on the table his mother shrieked loudly. “What have you brought that for! Get it off the table! Go back for a spare bit o’ fish!” But young Jack burst into tears and hid under that table, staying there until he had rested from his epic exertions! What happened next? Well, that’s where the tale comes to an end …...... Today, nearly a hundred years later, that crab in the story is in a display box in the Leeds Arms amongst a wonderful collection of fishing photographs and memorabilia. Noone knows how it got there! It’s a mystery! Was the crab eaten at the table, and its shell exoskeleton kept? Did they give it away? Who made a display cabinet for it? Is the whole tale fiction anyway? No young Jack,? Or did he become a fisherman himself? Anyway, how did that crab in the display box end up in the Leeds Arms? Was it the same crab? I guess we’ll never know, will we! We’ll never know! My story? Mystery! Send for Poirot! © Joe Coates 2017 www.northbaytales.com

Anyone with information that could assist the investigation is asked to contact North Yorkshire Police on 101 and pass information to the Force Control Room. n If you wish to remain anonymous, information can be passed on via Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

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Historical abuse unit launched Words by Mike Tyas A NEW unit to investigate historical child sexual abuse has been set up by North Yorkshire Police. The Non-recent Abuse Investigation Team (NRAIT) will investigate cases of abuse that happened more than 12 months ago at the time of reporting, focusing on institutions and organisations where suspects were in a position of trust. The team, set up as part of a £3m strategy to improve protection for vulnerable people, is overseen by Detective Chief Inspector Allan Harder. He said: ‘We urge anyone who is the victim of sexual abuse to report it, regardless of how long ago it happened. ‘Your information could also trigger measures that are put in place to protect other victims, and help to inform a bigger picture of offending. ‘We know it takes a lot of courage for people to call us or walk into a police station, but I would like to offer the reassurance that we have specially trained officers who will support you through the process as well as offering support provided by other agencies.’ The unit, based in York, can be contacted on 01904 669339. The police also have a Supporting Victims Unit at www.supportingvictims.org, Tel. 01609 643100.

Sea Life wins Kath holds record for longest serving licensee national award Words and pictures by Mike Tyas

Words and photos by Dave Barry KATH DUFFY has run a Scarborough pub longer than anyone else. Kath and her late husband Les took over the Newcastle Packet 35 years ago. No-one else in town has been running the same pub for that long. To celebrate, Kath threw a party for her regulars and friends from away. Some travelled from Durham, Doncaster and Middlesbrough. Kath, 71, moved to Scarborough from Middlesbrough 35 years ago. To begin with, she wasn’t particularly enamoured with the pub but quickly warmed to it. The Packet is full of old and recent photos of customers, fishermen and other Bottom Enders, many long gone. Every summer, Kath organises a fabulous flower display, filling numerous window boxes and tubs with red geraniums and other colourful plants. The oldest parts of the Newcastle Packet, which is a grade-two listed building, go back a few centuries. According to the British Listed Buildings website, “the original timber framed house is believed to have been an H plan with jettied gabled wings facing the street. “Academic research suggests [it] dated to the late 15th or early 16th century, the timber framing (particularly the prominent curved braces) being similar to buildings in York dated to circa 1500. “The medieval house is believed to have survived intact until circa 1725, when a new front was added to the centre and west wing, at which time the building served as the post house. “From circa 1830, this part of the house was a public house, and the eastern part refronted and used as a shop. In 1898-9 the centre and west wing were rebuilt by local architect Frank

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THE Sea Life Centre in Scarborough has reason to celebrate after being named as a winner in the first national school travel awards. Organised by School Travel Organiser magazine, the awards recognise excellence and innovation to pupils’ learning outside of the classroom setting. The Sea Life Centre was named as the ‘Best Venue for Science Learning’ in the UK at a special ceremony in London, hosted by TV newsreader Fiona Bruce. In total, 17 awards were made to recognise schools, inspiring people that champion learning outside of the classroom, best venues, attractions and companies, as voted for by readers of the magazine. Kevin McIlmurray, Sea Life, Scarborough General Manager, said: ‘We pride ourselves on the activities and workshops we offer to different key stage pupils coming to our centre. ‘We aim to educate and inspire children, combining learning all about the fascinating sea creatures we have here with having fun.’

Kath Duffy with friends at her party at the Newcastle Packet Tugwell, incorporating the surviving timbers from the original house, and in circa 1920 the east wing was rebuilt and incorporated into the public house”.

Visitor figures smash records by Mike Tyas A RECORD-BREAKING number of visitors came to enjoy the delights of Yorkshire last summer, according to latest figures. Yorkshire saw a 12% increase in inbound visits and a 21% rise in overnight stays from July to September – both figures representing the highest quarter for the county since records began in 1961, Visit Britain have said. Latest statistics show that inbound visits to Yorkshire from July to September rose to 476,098, and the number of overnight stays was up also, to 4.9 million, the highest ever

for a July to September period in the county, with spending also up 14% between July and September last year at £194 million. Countries with the most Yorkshire-bound visitors included Germany, Australia and the USA. The top three reasons for trips were: visiting friends and relatives, taking holidays and business travel. Sir Gary Verity, Chief Executive of Welcome to Yorkshire, said: ‘This is incredible news and testament to the hard work being carried out by Welcome to Yorkshire and the businesses within the county to bring Yorkshire to the front of people’s minds at home and abroad.’

The next meeting of Castle Ward Tenants and Residents Association is at the Rainbow Centre in Castle Road, Scarborough, at 7pm on Tuesday 28 February – aka Shrove Tuesday, aka pancake day.

Businesses invited to training event Words and pictures by Mike Tyas EMPLOYERS in Scarborough will have to rise early to find out how they can offer apprenticeship training opportunities. North Yorkshire County Council are hosting an information and advice event at their Castle House offices on Elder’s Street on Tuesday 7 February, starting at 8am. Organised by the adult learning and skills department, the council say they can help employers with details about their training needs, offer business support and help them

find funding options and free courses. North Yorkshire County Councillor Arthur Barker, Executive Member for Adult Learning and Skills, said: ‘We would encourage business people in the Scarborough area to go along for an informal chat with our advisors to find out what options are available to them regarding apprenticeships. ‘Our event will also provide a networking opportunity for them.’

n Businesses interested in attending should contact Joanna Oxtoby, on 01609 535281, or 07817 289855 or email Joanna.Oxtoby@northyorks.gov.uk as soon as possible.

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Curious Roots FEBRUARY days can be quite spring-like, although mostly they’re still leaden and wintry. But here’s a cheerful thought. Candlemas on the 2nd is a seasonal milestone— it marks the end of the three months with the shortest days. When lives were bound to the agricultural round, February was seen as the first month of spring. After all, this is when the natural world comes to life, the month of lambs, calves, snowdrops, primroses, hazel catkins, and courting birds. However, spring is a slow process, because sea and land are at their coldest in February. But folklore can tell us whether the worst weather is over: If Candlemas Day be clear and bright, Winter will have another flight. But if it be dark with clouds and rain, Winter is gone and will not come again. A mild spell at Candlemas tempts hedgehogs from hibernation, confirming the verse’s forecast: “If a hedgehog casts a shadow at noon, winter will return.” Candlemas is a Christian festival, the last in the Christmas cycle. The English name, dating from 1014, comes from the abundance of candles lit during the service. Before the Reformation, Candlemas altars were decorated with snowdrops — a honeyscented symbol of purity — earning the flowers the name of Candlemas Bells. Long after the monasteries were destroyed and the monks dispersed, those white bells continued to spread across the old religious sites. Snowdrops are resilient plants that can spear through ice or crusted snow, thanks to a tough covering on the tips of their leaves. Their oldest name is snow-piercer. We could owe February’s love-fest to an ancient Roman festival, the Lupercalia, or a third-century Christian martyr, Saint Valentine. But birds have quite a bit to do with it as well. In a poem from around 1380, Geoffrey Chaucer wrote of birds choosing their mates on St Valentine’s Day. In his time the belief was already folklore, and during the next half century February 14 became linked with

by Dave Barry THE viability of local authorities such as Scarborough Council will be discussed at a public meeting at the library tomorrow (Sat 4 Feb). The library’s Friends group and the 40 Club will propose the motion that “local councils are no longer fit for purpose”. Ray Clarke of the 40 Club comments: “It would appear that the borough council do not enjoy the wholesale support of the wider electorate. “The Conservative-controlled council decide

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romancing humans. This wasn’t simply poetic fancy — birds do pair up during February. Lengthening days trigger male birds to start singing, and singing attracts females. In a cold snap the romancing stops as birds concentrate on finding food, but when it turns milder they quickly revert to courting. This year February ends with Shrove Tuesday. Originally this was the last chance to be shriven — to confess sins and receive a blessing — before Lent began on Ash Wednesday. The afternoon was spent enjoying every kind of pastime from mass football and tug-o’-war to quoits and marbles. And of course that old favourite, tossing (and failing to catch) pancakes. Pancakes haven’t changed since the 16th century, except for what we cook them in. “Pan-puffs” sizzling in hog’s lard, anyone? In the 19th century a pancake bell was rung as a signal to start frying and a few towns still do this, including Scarborough. 19th century schoolchildren and apprentices were given the rare treat of an afternoon off. They headed for the Foreshore to play football and other games, giving Shrove Tuesday the name Ball Day. Now we call it Skipping Day, because that’s what we do. The town has a long tradition —first recorded in 1903 — of communal skipping on Shrove Tuesday. Skipping with a rope has been traced in England to the 1730s. Before that, boys and girls used to skip with hoops. Scarborough’s custom involved long-rope skipping with thick ropes that took two adults to turn. Most likely the custom began in the fishing community where there was a ready supply of worn ropes. In the 50s and 60s long-rope skipping was common, with a dozen leapers in one rope that stretched right across the road. Sometimes you’d see the more advanced Double Dutch — two long ropes turned at the same time, in opposite directions. Skipping rhymes were still heard occasionally too. Today it’s mostly family groups of single skippers, but happily the custom is still popular. Scarborough is the only place to see Shrove Tuesday skipping, so let’s wrap up warm and keep the old tradition alive.

on issues with little or no regard to the electorate and this cannot be healthy, for the council or the people who put them there”. Mr Clarke says the Tories have controlled the council for over 10 years and asks: “Is this healthy?” He says: “It is time for a change, and not just bringing in Labour. Do we need a third party at the helm? Do we need new blood in the council chambers?” The meeting is due to begin at 11am.

Easy Street moves down the road by Dave Barry THE sudden closure of Beiderbecke’s seemed to spell the end of its popular Sunday sessions with Easy Street. However, to the relief of the band’s many supporters, they were quickly offered a warm welcome just 100 yards down the road at the Crescent. They are due to perform on the first Sunday of every month, starting this weekend (5 Feb), at 7.30pm. The quartet play the music of Michael Bublé, Tony Bennett, Matt Munro, etc. Vocalist Roger Maughan is supported by Bob Malinowski on double bass, Lee Adams

L-R, Roger Maughan, Howard Beaumont, Lee Adams and Bob Malinowski on drums and Howard Beaumont or Steve Brooke on piano. No charge will be made for admission. The band also play at Farrers, Watermark and the Londesborough Arms in Seamer.

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Petition against forest destruction bank by Dave Barry A PETITION objecting to HSBC’s role in rainforest destruction is being signed by its Scarborough customers. Greenpeace says the bank has been financing many of the most destructive palm-oil companies operating in Indonesia. The bank is responsible for destroying vast areas of rainforest, peatland and orang-utan habitat, the environmental group says. Jane Hayes, a Greenpeace activist from Scarborough, said: “It’s easy to feel powerless in the face of a problem happening on the other side of the world but HSBC, Europe’s biggest bank, will listen to its UK customers”. Outside the St Nicholas Street branch, Scarborough Greenpeace volunteers asked customers to raise their concerns with the bank. Typical comments from customers included: “Other alternatives to palm oil are more sustainable. I am not happy with HSBC funding forest destruction. I am a longstanding customer and thinking of changing my bank. Please stop, my money should not be used for this. Please work for the good of these wonderful animals and environment in a responsible manner. Please

change your policy and save the orang utans. Think about the future for our children. Our natural resources need protection. Animals can’t stand up for themselves so it’s our responsibility to speak up for them”. The comments were presented to the branch manager along with a giant cheque showing the number of customers who took part (43). Local Greenpeace spokesman Mark Vesey said: “Indonesia is suffering from the fastest deforestation in the world, partly through deliberate clearance to make room for pulp and palm oil plantations, and partly due to the enormous forest fires which are fed by the pulp and palm oil industry draining peatland, drying it out and making it highly flammable. “At their height, daily emissions from the 2015 fires were producing more CO2 than the daily emissions of the entire USA. The air pollution created is linked to 100,000 premature deaths across south-east Asia, according to a study by Harvard and Columbia universities”. The Yorkshire Coast Greenpeace group meets on the first Tuesday of the month at the Cask pub, at 7.30pm. See its Facebook page for details.

Jane Hayes and Gilbert Morrey hand in a petition and giant cheque to HSBC

News in Brief A speed-dating event is to be held at the FirstLight Trust in Queen Street, Scarborough, on 14 February – Valentine’s Day – at 7pm. The fun evening will involve a series of five-minute ‘dates’. Tickets cost £6 including a glass of prosecco on arrival. It is in aid of the FirstLight Trust. Booking is essential; ring 338810 or email enquiries@ firstlighttrust.co.uk. Derwent Valley Bridge Community Library is holding its annual general knowledge quiz at Snainton village hall on 10 February, at 7pm. The quiz master will be local author and journalist Alan Combes. There will be a licenced bar, food and a raffle. “Come along either as an individual or with friends and family to make up teams of four for a fun night out”, says Suzanne Carr of the library. Tickets cost £6 and can be obtained at the library and by ringing 863052. Scarborough’s Leisure and Learning Group enjoyed a talk from Radio Scarborough’s

Mark Sinclair in January. The 38 member group, which occasionally enjoys day trips, was started in 2000 and is now based at Scarborough Library. Mark Sinclair said: “The group were very interested to learn about Radio Scarborough and are looking forward to visiting the radio station.” Each week the group has a guest speaker, they are on the look out for more guests. To enquire about speaking or joining the group call Margaret on 07415 332643.

Scarborough’s Leisure and Learning group with Mark Sinclair. Photo credit: John Margetts

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• THE BOOK CLUB - This month we've taken time out to read and review a couple of new releases • DEAR DAPHNE - Our resident agony aunt answers all of your questions • THAT'S IT, I QUIT - Lifestyle Editor, Krystal Starkey talks about quitting smoking

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• RECIPE(S) OF THE MONTH - We're all about the beauty of brunch this month - from vegan pancakes to blueberry and chai seed muffins • RESTAURANT OF THE YEAR - The Copper Horse in Seamer is celebrating • DON'T EAT BURNT TOAST - The latest advice to come out in the world of food

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Hey Daph, I recently decided that I would undertake a new hobby that I’ve been wanting to do for ages. I always imagined that I would love painting and create good stuff as I’m naturally creative. So I was pretty gutted when I started my course to find it’s a lot harder than I anticipated and I have no natural talent in this area. I’ve now spent a fair bit of time and money doing the course to find myself incredibly disappointed and disheartened. I’ve already paid for another four weeks, but I’m wondering whether to cut my losses and not go back. Alison, Dean Road

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Noooooo, what a rubbish feeling! I’m sorry that you feel disappointed, but let’s take a reality check: so, first things first, you were dead foolish to assume that a skill just comes naturally as soon as you apply yourself - doesn’t happen that way. And thank God it doesn’t! Can you actually imagine if certain people could just pick up a paint brush for the first time, bang out a Mona Lisa and become millionaires overnight? Nuh-Uh, not fair and not real life. These things take time and practice. Stick at it, try your best and don’t get too disheartened when things don’t turn out how you imagine!

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HOW TO BE A PERSON IN THE WORLD by Heather Havrilesky Heather Havrilesky sifts through her online readers problems with an incurable optimism and insatiable level of understanding. The woman is a literary genius and her honest, sweary approach to answering dilemmas makes you feel like you’re sat on your best mate’s couch pouring your heart out while she gives you the tough love that you so desperately need. The book is a collection of some published favourites and unpublished surprises. She rants and she raves and she reminds you that you are human and it is totally acceptable to feel the way you feel (unless you’re trying to justify cheating on your wife - this - she assures, is really not acceptable). Don’t like agony aunts? You will love this book regardless. THE SCANDIKITCHEN: FIKA AND HYGGE By Bronte Aurell Fika and Hygge combines recipes inspired by ‘Fika’ the Swedish word for treat and ‘Hygge’ meaning cosiness. Gorgeous images illustrate the pages, while the book is split into chapters of Biscuits and Cookies, Tray and No bakes, Everyday Fika, Little Fancy Cakes, Celebration Cakes and Bread and Batters. The recipes are straight forward and easy to follow, and you learn a little bit about Scandinavian culture along the way. A beautiful gift for any homebody. Available from www.scandikitchen.co.uk

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That’s it, I quit, I’m moving on Adele may not have been talking about smoking, but I sure am... I picked up my first cigarette when I was 15 and living in Spain. I stared at the cigarette for a few seconds, hoping that my friend wouldn’t watch me take a drag. She didn’t laugh when I coughed and spluttered for which I am eternally grateful. No-one pressured me into starting smoking. I pursued it myself. I didn’t even like the taste at first, but I’d worked out in my adolescent mind (after being thrown head first into a local school) that smoking was a fast track to making friends and not needing to learn Spanish. Mysterious smoker suited me just fine - much easier than pigeon Spanish Krystal. Let’s not beat around the bush: smoking IS cool. A complete and utter disregard for your own wellbeing only serves to make you look like a bad ass. Especially when you’re a particularly nervous teenager worried about your alt-right classmates who aren't particularly fond of immigrants. Smoking puts you in a different bracket - one where you don’t get bullied. I’ve quizzed myself over the past year as to why I started smoking, why I’m still smoking, what’s actually in it for me? The problem is that in the media, self-destruction has been somewhat romanticised. From bad boys in films with anger issues, to Lana Del Rey-esque attitudes about the fragility of women, there is no shortage of profound quotes, high resolution images and movie clips confirming that self destruction is cool. If nothing else: I guess no-one needs to beat you up when you’re already doing it yourself.

This romanticism is exactly the sort of thing that made me decide to take up a cancerous habit that not only damaged my health, but made my clothes and breath smell, my teeth go yellow, and cost me a small fortune. I wanted to be like the character Effy out of Skins; a little bit misunderstood, with a side order of bad habits and a whole lot of attractive. Guess what: as a smoker of seven years I can reluctantly confirm that smoking does not make you any more attractive or misunderstood. I was disappointed too… I want to see a whole lot more healthy, happy young women who don’t need to pick up cigarettes and make horrendous mistakes to be cool. The cult magazines popping up all over the internet with bottles of whisky and rolled up joints as accessories in fashion shoots and the Tumblr generation with their endless stream of self depreciation. It’s totally ok not to be ok, it happens from time to time, but let’s remember that it’s not a goal. Let’s not aspire to be those damaged women who seedy blokes write songs about. Everybody likes a bad gal, except for the bad gal, and I don’t want to be her anymore. I wont be smoking and I’m glad I’ve put it down in writing. Lot’s of love, a non-smoking and not particularly cool, Krystal x

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DON’T EAT BURNT TOAST IT’S THE latest food warning, surfing the waves of the internet. The warning came about following advice issued by the FSA warning against over cooking starchy foods such as potatoes and bread, as evidence suggests it can create a carcinogen called acrylamide. Acrylamide is a chemical that is created when many foods, particularly starchy foods like potatoes and bread, are cooked for long periods at high temperatures, such as when baking, frying, grilling, toasting and roasting. The scientific consensus is that acrylamide has the potential to cause cancer in humans. The FSA is has teamed up with Olympic gold medallist and mother-of-four, Denise Lewis, to encourage people to minimise acrylamide consumption in the home by making small changes to the way they cook. GO FOR GOLD – as a general rule of thumb, aim for a golden yellow colour or lighter when frying, baking, toasting or roasting starchy foods like potatoes, root vegetables and bread. CHECK THE PACK – follow the cooking instructions carefully when frying or oven-heating packaged food products such as chips, roast potatoes and parsnips. The on-pack instructions are designed to cook the product correctly. EAT A VARIED AND BALANCED DIET – while we can’t completely avoid risks like acrylamide in food, eating a healthy, balanced diet that includes basing meals on starchy carbohydrates and getting your 5 A Day will help reduce your risk of cancer. DON’T KEEP RAW POTATOES IN THE FRIDGE - if you intend to roast or fry them. Storing raw potatoes in the fridge can increase overall acrylamide levels. Raw potatoes should ideally be stored in a dark, cool place at temperatures above 6°C.

Commenting on her involvement with the ‘Go for Gold’ campaign, Denise Lewis says: “As a mum, the wellbeing of my family is my top priority, particularly when it comes to the meals I cook for them at home. With so many factors to consider, it’s great that the FSA is helping people to understand the changes we can make to reduce acrylamide in the food we eat regularly at home”.

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Scarborough restaurant wins national award THE COPPER HORSE in Seamer has been awarded ‘Restaurant of the Year’ by a leading travel guide. The award, which comes from Les Routiers, celebrates the restaurant’s creative use of fresh, local and seasonal produce. Tina Griffiths from Les Routiers, said: “Our winners source ingredients from specialist local suppliers, which they use imaginatively in their unpretentious and often regional dishes. The Copper Horse’s appreciation of regional produce is what underpins Les Routiers’ philosophy. We are delighted to award them Restaurant of the Year 2017.” Scarborough-based entrepreneur Nick Thomas, who owns the restaurant with his wife Sandra, said: “Our fantastic team work hard to ensure that first-class food and drink are at the heart of what we do at The Copper Horse, so we are absolutely delighted to receive this latest accolade. Since the restaurant re-opened following a major refurbishment in May 2106 we’ve seen more people than ever visiting The Copper Horse and we know from talking to customers that they are delighted with the new look and feel at the restaurant”. Recently described by Welcome to Yorkshire as “a contemporary and opulent restaurant and bar that delivers on both style and substance” the restaurant’s new décor retains a nod to Scarborough's show business heritage and is a regular stop for tourists and locals alike. The Copper Horse Restaurant, along with nearby boutique holiday cottages and rooms, forms part of Nick and Sandra’s North Yorkshire-based HQ Collection, which also includes The Mayfield in Seamer, The Plough in Scalby, and The Yew Tree Cafe & Bistro in Scalby.

180 Kcal / 100g • Makes 15 small pancakes

VEGANS can enjoy shrove tuesday too, you know! Get lots of what you need by cooking with Huel (a nutritionally balanced powder).

You’ll Need • 200g oat flour (oats blended into flour) • 60g Unflavoured & Unsweetened Huel • Pinch of salt • 1 tsp baking powder • 375ml hazelnut milk • ½ a banana •1 tbsp agave nectar

What to do:

Place all the ingredients into a blender and blend into a nice smooth batter. Let stand for 5 minutes to thicken.

Chia & Blueberry Muffins 275 Kcal / 100g • Makes 10 muffins

GET your healthy hit with a side order of delicious by baking these beautiful oaty muffins. They can be enjoyed as a healthy snack or a quickie breakfast, just pop a batch in the oven on a Sunday evening ready for the week ahead.

You’ll need: • 100g apple, coarsely grated • 1 tsp ground cinnamon • Zest of 1 lemon, • 3 tbsp chia seeds • 2tbsp milk • 75ml vegetable oil • 2 eggs, beaten • 120g blueberries • 120g soft brown sugar • 120g self-raising flour • 1 tsp baking powder • 1 tbsp rolled oats

What to do:

Heat the oven to 160C fan and line a muffin tin with 10 cases. In a bowl combine the grated apple, cinnamon, lemon zest, chia seeds, oil and eggs, mix well then stir in the blueberries and set aside for the chia seeds to expand, it will take 5 minutes. In a separate large bowl mix together the sugar, flour and baking powder, making sure there’s no lumps. Tip in the wet mixture and mix together quickly. Divide the mixture between 10 cake cases and scatter a few oats over each one. Bake in the oven for 25-28 minutes until well risen and they spring back when you gently press the centre.

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Place a lightly oiled, non-stick frying pan over a medium heat. Using ¼ cup portions for 15 small pancakes or ½ cup portions for 7 large pancakes, ladle the batter into the pan. Once golden underneath, flip the pancake over and cook for a further minute or until golden and cooked through. Serve with fresh fruit, grated coconut or any toppings you enjoy.

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This recipe was made and photographed by blogger, Dash Tegtmajerova using an Olympus PEN camera. You can follow her on Instagram @veganinheart.

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Words and photo by Dave Barry Kearon Harvey reckons barbering is in his genes. He opened his traditional barber shop in St Nicholas Cliff, Scarborough, two weeks ago. Before that, he spent a few months in the Brunswick Pavilion. Before that, he spent 27 years at a barber’s in Bethnall Green in London’s East End. Going further back, the shop was run by three generations of Kearon’s ancestors: his grandfather, his great grandfather and his great great grandfather. “I’ve been following in my granddad’s footsteps ever since I was a kid”, Kearon says. “He taught me everything I know”. Kearon, who is passionate about cutting hair, says his new barber shop offers “new and old gents hair cutting / hot towel

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A SCARBOROUGH dance school is preparing some of its talented dancers to attend a prestigious competitive dancing event in Glasgow. On March 4, Anne Taylor’s Academy of Dance will send 12 junior dancers and 3 senior dancers to Scotland to compete against hundreds of competitors from across the UK in the BATD* Freestyle Scholarships hoping to place in the top six of their respective categories. Monetary rewards, trophies and prestige are all on offer to the talented students and their dance schools but being selected is an honour within itself - there are thousands of applicants. Anne Taylor's Academy of Dance, which is based in Scarborough, has been teaching children and adults of all ages to dance for over 30 years.

Classes are available for beginners of all ages whether it’s your daughter, son or an adult wanting to have a go, all the way up to students wanting to pass their grades or who are training for a career in the industry. Classes in Ballet, Musical Theatre, Latin American, Jazz, Freestyle and Ballroom are all available, as well as Adult Social Dance classes too. The adult classes run on a Monday evening with intermediates from 7pm and beginners from 8pm.

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FEELING OVERWHELMED BY ALL OF YOUR STUFF? There is a way to live a more stripped back and simple life in order to achieve true happiness: It’s not in a blank white cube, it’s Minimalism. Minimalism made waves in the 80s throughout London and New York when fashion and architecture joined forces to created large white spaces with cold lighting and little furniture. The idea behind minimalist design is to strip down objects to their essential qualities in order to achieve simplicity. Over the past couple of years, minimalism has become a bit of a movement in terms of lifestyle. Many bloggers and writers have tried minimalism in an attempt to reduce stress and allow more time for meaningful living. Don’t know where to begin? Of course we’ve got the rundown to hand…

WHY DO YOU WANT TO DO IT? Think of all the reasons you’d like to live a simpler life - whether it be debt, mess, stress about work or not spending enough time with your kids. Having less stuff to physically worry about can be incredibly liberating. Jot it down and grab this list later when you’re wondering if you can possibly survive without your

back up toaster in the attic, the answer is YES, yes you can absolutely live without having a second toaster - even if the toaster broke you could put bread under the grill, throw the god damn back up toaster away already! Better still, sell it.

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Club tours inner wheels of town hall Words and photo by Dave Barry A DOZEN members of Scarborough’s Inner Wheel Club were given a tour of the town hall by their former president. Mayoress Val Green has been succeeded as club president by Rosemary Oliver. Mrs Green and her husband, mayor Simon Green, showed their visitors around the distinguished old building. The club has about 40 members who meet once a month at the Red Lea Hotel. Inner Wheel is one of the world’s largest women’s voluntary organisations. Its 103,000 members, from 3,895 clubs, are active in 103 countries. It was founded in 1924 to unite wives and daughters of Rotarians. The Inner Wheel’s objectives are promoting true friendship, encouraging the ideals of personal service and fostering international understanding.

The Inner Wheelers are pictured with the mayor and mayoress around the civic-seal mosaic in the town-hall foyer (to order photos ring 353597). Women do not have to be linked to Rotarians to join Inner Wheel any more.

Charity’s delight at open day success

Words and picture by Mike Tyas A CHARITY which held an open day to showcase their IT suite hailed the event as a great success. Yorkshire Coast Sight Support thanked the public, borough councilors and local organisations, including Yorkshire Coast Homes, Advocacy Alliance, and North Yorkshire County Council Stronger Communities programme, for attending the event at their Dean Road office. ‘Everyone who visited was pleased we can

offer computer support to everybody, not only those with sight impairment,’ said volunteer and activities coordinator, Sam SlingerBeevers. The charity stress that they can help anyone with IT-related issues, regardless of whether they are a novice or have a lot more understanding of computers and social media. Sam said: ‘We’re offering IT support to those that need it, whether on computer, tablet, or smartphone and in whatever topic they would like support with. ‘Our sessions are not lessons as such and people will not receive a certificate; they are being held to help people solve IT problems.’ Visitors also learnt what was available to those who attend the centre with sight impairments, such as their lunches, and activities including archery, cycling, climbing, gardening and dining out. n The centre can be contacted on (01723) 354417 or at ycss.org.uk

Charities boosted by generous staff FIFTEEN local and national charities have received a surprise windfall courtesy of kind-hearted staff at Yorkshire Coast Homes. The proceeds from a wide range of fundraising events and activities, run throughout 2016 by YCH employees, are distributed annually to a number of deserving causes chosen by staff members. By the end of the year, the YCH Staff Charity Fund had collected enough cash for a £1000 donation to be made to each of the charities. One donation went to Ben Smith who made headlines around the world by completing 401 marathons in as many days – the equivalent of running from Sydney, Australia to London – with the aim of raising awareness about bullying as well as supporting antibullying projects run by charities Stonewall and Kidscape. The long-distance runner set up the 401 Foundation that offers grants to grass roots projects that help people of all ages build confidence and self-esteem as well as dealing with mental health issues. For his efforts, Ben won the ITV Fundraiser of the Year at the Pride of Britain Awards, and then was named as the recipient of the Helen Rollason Award at BBC Sports Personality of the Year. On receiving his cheque, Ben wrote to YCH Chief Executive Shaun Tymon, who had taken part in two of the marathons, to express his thanks. He said: ‘Thank you so much for this. Wow – what a surprise but then again you and your staff have been so supportive of what we are trying to accomplish that I’m kind of not surprised that you wanted to help us more.’ Another of the many grateful recipients, was Sophie Hall, Chief Executive of Scarborough, Whitby and Ryedale MIND. She said: ‘It was a brilliant surprise to receive this money. It’s a thank you from the YCH staff to us, saying that we appreciate

what you do and we know you’re doing good work. ‘It was a great boost at the start of the new year. It also helps us move closer to reaching our £24,000 community fundraising target.’ Shaun Tymon said: ‘YCH staff have proved their commitment to local and national causes by delivering an imaginative and creative programme of fundraising events and activities throughout the year. ‘I’m sure that each of the chosen charities will use their donation to continue their excellent work.’

Beneficiaries of the 2016 YCH Staff Charity Fund were: • Ellie’s Fund – Brain Tumor Trust • St Catherine’s Hospice • Yorkshire Air Ambulance • Macmillan Unit, Scarborough Hospital • Scarborough, Whitby and Ryedale MIND • Alzheimer’s Society • Scarborough RNLI / Andrew McGeown Legacy Fund • The 401 Foundation • Motor Neurone Disease Association • Help for Heroes • The Dogs Trust • RSPCA • Young Epilepsy • Special Care Baby Unit at Scarborough Hospital • Cancer Research

Health and Fun Club raise funds for Marie Curie SCARBOROUGH Heath and Fun Cub has donated £250 pounds to Marie Curie. Chairman, Mike Pixton handed over the cheque to Paddy Bateson representing the local branch of Marie Curie at the Filey Road Sports Centre on 4 January. The money, which was raised in the Christmas raffle, will go to support the work of Marie Curie in the Scarborough area. The Health and Fun Cub meet at the Filey Road Sports Centre every Monday and Wednesday from 9.00am until 12.00 noon and offers the opportunity to play Badminton, Table Tennis and use of the gym. The club

Sarah Turner, front right, YCH Assistant Director of Communities, and staff members pictured with the donation for Ben Smith’s 401 Foundation.

Dog lovers meet up By Krystal Starkey is open to all players over the age of 50 and refreshments are served during the morning. New members are always welcome.

Mixed-media exhibition WHAT happens when you ask 60 artists to create an original piece of work incorporating all or part of a randomly selected Ordnance Survey map? The answer can be found in a mixed-media exhibition at the Studio gallery in Belle Vue

YCH Community Involvement Officer Kelly Brown (right) hands a cheque for £1,000 to members of the Scarborough, Whitby and Ryedale MIND team, from left: Sophie Hall, Philip Hemingway, Natalie Miles and Carl Maw.

Parade, Scarborough. It is running until 26 February. The gallery is open from 2-6pm Thursday to Sunday except during Coastival (18-19 Feb) when it will be open from 10am4.30pm.

OVER 20 canine companions met up over the Christmas period at Little Indulgence Cafe, Bridlington. The hosts, who look after other people’s dogs when they go away, raised funds for Whitby Wildlife Sanctuary through a raffle and enjoyed food from the cafe. Barking Mad hosts meet up regularly to swap tips and share stories about some of the pooches they have cared for. The hand picked hosts live all over North and East Yorkshire and regardless of size or breed, there is a holiday home for every dog. n If you would like to become a host contact Helena on 07506 533840 or email helena.bramma@barkingmad.uk.com

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Choir issues SOS for pianist Words and pictures by Mike Tyas A CHOIR which has been singing for 14 years may have sung its last note. The Celebration Choir has performed more than 80 times for audiences at local churches and at fundraising events for numerous charities across the Scarborough area. But it looks like their performance at a service to start off the week of prayer for Christian unity at Queen Street Methodist Church on 22 January may have been their swansong. The choir’s pianist stepped down from the role after the performance leaving a vacancy for the job – and despite appeals the choir has not been able to find a replacement. ‘We’re still hoping there is a pianist out there who can help us,’ said Ruth Dale, the choir’s secretary who has sung alto in the choir for ten years. ‘We have been so fortunate with our accompanists so far, but our present pianist can’t do it any more so we’re looking to find a replacement, but we’ve had no success. ‘Pianists are like gold dust. There are only a few of them and everybody wants one.’ The choir of 26 women and 14 men sing mainly sing songs that have a strong Christian message at their heart. Said Ruth: ‘There are a number of very good choirs in Scarborough but I believe they don’t perform the type of music we do. I would say in Scarborough we’re unique. ‘We are looking for someone who can sight read music, be able to work with the conductor and be able pick out the different lines to play for different sections of the choir.’ Ruth said that many of the current singers

Choir prepares for church concert Words and photo by Dave Barry

Choir secretary Ruth Dale formed the Celebration Choir in May 2003 after the Gala Choir folded. ‘We have been singing for a long time now,’ she said. ‘It would leave a huge gap in our lives if the choir was not here anymore.’ Rehearsals are held each Thursday evening during term time at the Emmanuel St John’s Methodist United Reformed Church on St John’s Road in Falsgrave. The choir would expect the accompanist to be present and for each of their performances. They stage about six each year. n Anybody who can help is asked to ring Ruth on (01723) 376783 asap or email her at ruth.dale8@gmail.com

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TWO big music groups are teaming up for a show in aid of the Rainbow Centre. Entitled Stage and Screen, it will be presented by Scarborough Community Choir and Sandside Players. It will follow a similar format to last year’s successful Trial by Jury / Rhapsody in Blue concert, but with music from the cinema and theatre. Frank James will perform the first movement of Rachmaninovt’s second piano concerto, featured in the movie Brief Encounter. The second half of the show will feature Sandside Players’ abridged version of Gilbert & Sullivan’s Mikado, performed at the library and in Wykeham in November. Set in a seaside town, it has been written by Chris Gray, who will reprise his role as Pish Tush. Conductor Bill Scott’s keyboard will be replaced by the 40-piece Sandside Orchestra orchestra and the 100 plus members of Scarborough Community Choir. Tim Tubbs, reprising his role as Ko Ko, will perform the List song, revised by Dave Blaker as close to the performance time as possible. The tuneful score is packed with popular songs including The Flowers That Bloom in the Spring, Tit-Willow, A More Humane Mikado, The Sun Whose Rays and A Wand’ring Minstrel. The cast includes many well-known local

performers: Lesley Machen as Yum-Yum, Hilary Watts as Nanki-Poo, Tony Kirby as the Mikado, Kathryn Irwin as Katisha and Dave Blaker as Pooh-Bah, along with Chris Gray, Kate Boddy, Damon Hotchin, Monica Hindle, Helen Dent and Louise Stanway. The choir will also perform the haunting melody If I Fell from the Beatles movie A Hard Day’s Night and music by Rodgers & Hammerstein and Andrew Lloyd-Webber. Mr Scott says: “After last’s years concert and performance of Trial by Jury, we have had many requests to perform more Gilbert and Sullivan music in its true orchestral form. I hope this version will contrast with our pocket November production but still retain all its humour and style”. The concert is at Westborough Methodist Church on Saturday 4 March, at 7pm. n Tickets cost £5 and can be bought from choir members and on the door.

Most of the choir, pictured with conductor Bill Scott at South Cliff Methodist Church, where they rehearse on Wednesday evenings (to order photos ring 353597)

Marathon sing to raise church cash The choir performing on the sun court at Scarborough Spa

Legion receives fund boost Words and picture by Mike Tyas A DONATION has been made that helps exservices personnel in Scarborough who fall upon hard times. George Roberts, of Graham Roberts’ independent funeral directors on Sherwood Street, handed over a cheque for £200 to Steve Jewell BEM, treasurer of the Royal British Legion’s Scarborough branch. The money has been placed in the Legion’s welfare trust fund. The cash came from donations made by families who attended an annual memorial service organised by the funeral director at the Friends Meeting House on Woodlands Drive in November. The money was donated to the Scarborough branch of the Legion following a similar partnership at national level between the Legion’s Poppy Appeal and pre-paid funeral provider Golden Charter. Golden Charter donate £25 to the appeal for each plan they sell. The policies are sold at Graham Roberts’ funeral director and by independent funeral directors throughout the UK. Steve Jewell said: ‘The Legion would like to thank Graham Roberts’ funeral director for this donation. ‘Our fund is used to help ex-services personnel if they run into difficulty.

‘Most of the funding comes nationally via the Poppy Appeal but the Scarborough branch does have its own fund, so if somebody comes and knocks on the door we have some money there to help them if they require it.’

The choir hits the high notes

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Steve Jewell, left, with George Roberts

SINGERS are to repeat a ‘Hymnathon’ that proved successful last year in helping to raise funds towards a church’s ambitious building plans. The hymn marathon will take place at St Mark’s, Newby on Saturday Februrary 11th, from 9am-5pm. The singalong is part of the church’s on-going fundraising campaign to raise £800,000 for a variety of building projects, including demolishing the existing church hall and replacing it with a new community centre. ‘We were thrilled to raise £1600 last year. We hope we can repeat that success again,’ said building project manager Trevor King. Last February, two teams sang through the hymnbook with sponsors asked to pay £3 for a favourite hymn sung. ‘The format will be the same as last year,’ said Trevor. ‘We had a wonderful day. We hope the people of Newby and Scarborough will come along and support us again and

spend time listening to the beautiful music.’ Among the singers will be St Mark’s vicar Revd. Mike Leigh, a former professional opera singer. ‘I do love a good sing!’ he said. ‘The Hymnathon will be a great opportunity to sing some old favourite hymns and hopefully discover a few new ones as well. I do encourage everyone to come along, support us and of course join in with the fun.’ n To request a hymn email Libby Adamson on adamson.e@talktalk.net

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Muck & Magic

BY SHELIA JOHNSON

By Sheila Johnson

Perk Up Your Plants!

At last we have made the long march up to New Year and now we have turned the corner and are heading rapidly towards Spring. Snowdrops have been spotted and there are catkins in the trees. We are not there yet though, and there are still gardening problems to solve, albeit indoors! Mrs Starkey from Sandybed has written to ask why her house plants are looking a bit glum and sorry for themselves despite being in a nice warm and cosy house? She also wants to know what is causing the tips of the leaves to go brown and crispy? Most house plants are a lot tougher than we give them credit for but the one thing that most dislike intensely is dry heat. So in this cold damp weather we have been experiencing, when most of us will have the central heating on full belt, the atmosphere in your house will be quite dry and that is something that your plants can't tolerate. Lovely for human hot house flowers but not for plants. If you recognise the symptoms of leaves browning off at the tips then there is a good chance that the atmosphere in your house is quite dry. Try the following tips to perk up your plants this winter. • Move them away from radiators where temperatures can see saw between night and day. • Stand your plants on a saucer or tray of gravel. Keeping the gravel damp will help create a moist atmosphere around your plants without overwatering roots. • Use a small hand sprayer and mist your plants with tepid water a couple of times a day. • At this time of the year, if you are not sure whether your plants need watering, then they probably don't. Err on the side of caution and leave them a bit drier at the root but concentrate on that all important

moist atmosphere. • Your bigger plants will appreciate a bit of a wash at this time of the year. Use some tepid water and a tiny amount of washing up liquid. Sponge off accumulated dirt and dust to allow the leaves to make the most of the low light levels at this time of the year. • If you work in an office and have plants that you care for, they too may be looking a bit sorry for themselves after being untended during the Christmas break and now being bombarded with office heating systems. Maybe it's time to give them some attention to perk them up and help them through to spring which is just around the corner. Muck and Magic Garden Club will be holding their first meeting of the season on Monday February 13th at Ebenezer Church Hall, Columbus Ravine, beginning at 7pm. The speaker will be Doug Stewart who will be talking about the latest horticultural research and development and how you can use this technology in your own garden. We are a very friendly group and everyone is welcome to attend.For further details e mail muckandmagicgardenclub@hotmail.com or call Sheila on 07961 966617

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Tales of cooler water WELL, seeing as I usually write about the sea, the topic this month will definitely have to be the storms we had on Friday 13. The national news was full of people being advised to evacuate their homes and most of the East Coast was barricaded with sand bags like an old world war 2 film Scarborough was full of sightseers who came over to watch the high tide and large seas. It was quite a spectacle, with waves crashing over the seawalls and white water breaking half a mile out to sea. Inevitably, we had all the stories of people taking risks and chancing the waves. Part of the issue is that we live in a fairly safe, risk averse society and a bit of danger can seem appealing - just look at the number of people who regularly take up sports which 20 years ago would have been classed as extreme. So the thrill of a splash, a giggle and a raised heart rate seems a fairly fun thing to do. The problem is that most people are unaware just how dangerous the sea is. When storms like this hit, the power of the waves is phenomenal and even the water running back after the wave has passed can pull you out into the sea. So the advice is: watch from a safe distance; keep dogs on leads; if you see someone in the water call for help as becoming another casualty yourself won't help anyone; enjoy the view. Another aspect of the storms is the impact on wildlife and litter. Many seabirds are washed

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up, worn out after big storms, so if you are walking on the beach afterwards keep a towel handy to transport any injured birds. The RSPCA and the Sealife centre can advise on where you can get help. The winds and big surf also wash a lot of litter up onto the beaches. One advantage is that it's like a massive spring clean for the sea, dredging up loads of heavy litter and depositing it way up the beach. This gives us the chance to collect many of the big old pieces of litter we don’t usually have access to and clear the area. If you like the idea of clearing litter and a walk on the beach, I am doing a beach clean as part of Coastival on Saturday 18th February on South Bay between 12 and 2pm. All welcome, but under 16's must be accompanied by an adult. All equipment is provided, just bring yourselves. Meet at the Spa bridge slipway. n Info on Fluid concept surf shop Facebook. www.coastival.co.uk

Scarborough Strata A touch of frost can reveal all kinds of hidden delights. A couple of weeks ago I spotted a spider’s web stretched across the outside of our kitchen window. Reaching from the top middle to the bottom corner of the frame, it measured around a metre in each direction. The moisture in the air had stuck to the web and frozen, and now the morning sunlight was turning it into a dazzling open tapestry of extraordinary delicacy. My immediate thought: such an amazing piece of work was surely not made just to catch flies. Or was it? Are the drifts of mayflower that cover our hedges just there to attract bees? Is the thrill we get from seeing a humpback whale breaking surface, or a cloud of starlings making patterns in the sky just an accident of nature, a piece of human self-indulgence? Our ancestors thought not. They believed that the world and all its creatures had been made for the pleasure and delight (as well as the cooking pots) of human beings. And it was this belief that caused a major crisis in human thought, brought on by the discovery of some extraordinary fossils. In the early 1800s bones of enormous reptiles were being discovered all across Europe. A Frenchman called Georges Cuvier became famous for his skill in putting the bones together, and soon these giants were given the name ‘dinosaurs’. However, by this time Captain Cook and others had sailed to most corners of the world and they weren’t seeing dinosaurs anywhere! Nor were they seeing giant plesiosaurs, like the fossils from the alum quarries of the Yorkshire coast. And authoritative classical authors like Aristotle

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and Pliny didn’t mention these animals at all. The logical conclusion was that these giants had lived on the earth in the distant past but had died out before humans (or at least educated humans) had appeared. This was hard to swallow and a movement called Scriptural Geology was formed to combat the idea. Things came to a head at the inaugural British Association meeting in York in 1831. The mayor George Hudson, the famous railway king, was asked by the Dean of York Minster to bar geologists from the meeting, prompting Hudson to declare that, after much thought ‘We’ve decided for Moses and the Dean!’ It was a short-lived victory for the scripturalists, and once Darwin showed that extinction was an essential part of evolution they melted away. So, it seems that the world was not created for the delight of humans, and is quite able to rumble along without us being there to see it. But in another way the Scriptural Geologists have proved correct. It is, after all, human ingenuity that has unearthed the fossils of extinct creatures and re-imagined the worlds in which they flourished. And all this we have done so that extinct creatures that died out millions of years before we existed can, after all this time, bring us pleasure and delight.

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Words and pictures by Mike Tyas AFTER well over an enthralling hour of listening to David Birdsall I was convinced I was in the presence of a man who was in love with his work. David had taken me on an entertaining journey of his life story that brick by brick built the picture of the road he had travelled to the point where he leaned back on his settee at his home on West Bank, and was able to declare: ‘I’ve reached the pinnacle of my life.’ The only surprise was that the message was delivered in somewhat measured tones, and not with the usual distinctive boom that is a hallmark of his work. For David is the voice of Scarborough. He’s the town’s crier – Oyez! Oyez!: God save the Queen! That’s a refrain David is now getting used to, proclaiming at each and every one of the events across the borough, civic and ceremonial, that he is proud to attend as an ambassador of the town he loves. ‘I absolutely adore the job – it gives me such a big buzz,’ he said. ‘Some people in life set targets, I don’t but I have reached a place I would never have thought I would be at. I’ve reached a pinnacle – and I’m very happy indeed.’ David, 68, was invited to take over the role following an interview and victory in a shout off at the Town Hall 15 months ago, after the retirement of long-serving and much-loved previous Crier, Alan Booth MBE. ‘Alan was such a brilliant Town Crier – an absolute genius,’ declared David. ‘His voice was very clear, his pronunciation and diction were excellent, he was very friendly with everybody and he was always very smart.’ However David chuckled that, if circumstances had been different, Alan may never have had the chance to forge out his outstanding career as an ambassador for Scarborough that went on to span 31 years and took him across the world. He said: ‘I read that Alan had been appointed, I think it was in 1983, and I thought at the time I would have loved to have done the job but I couldn’t do it as I was working then at Wards in Sherburn full-time.’ A wait of three decades however didn’t dull his ambition and when Alan finally laid down his bell, David, who had recently retired from his job as a self-employed landscape gardener,

knew the right time had come. ‘I saw the advert in the paper and just shouted “I want it” ’ David recalls the interview and shout off battle like it was yesterday. ‘There were only two candidates in the end,’ he said. ‘We had to proclaim a prepared speech about Yorkshire Day, and then one that we had written ourselves. I wrote about Falsgrave Park at Halloween and its spooky walk. ‘The other guy spoke about Alan and praised what he had done as Crier. It was so clever and I thought that had swung it for him. ‘But I got a call later that day from the Town Hall and was told I had been selected and would I like the job. It was like a dream come true. ‘I was told later that one of the judges was overheard saying I had the X-factor.’ Since that day David has attended about 20 events, the latest on New Year’s Day when his countdown set off the intrepid, brave, and

way to communicate was to shout. ‘My dad told me I had a whisper that could be heard across a desert!’ David’s passion for public speaking was initially nurtured at secondary school where English, and particularly speaking the Queen’s English, was even at a young age becoming very important to him. ‘My writing and spelling was appalling,’ he said. ‘I could hardly read my writing at times but I was good at practical English. We did composition and then spoke in class what we had written. My English master was a genius with the language and even now when I’m putting a speech together I think how he would say something. ‘My dad was also very strict about speaking English correctly. It was just the way I was brought up.’ David was already forging out a career in public speaking and recalls one occasion when he realised he had a talent for it. He was the chairman of the East Yorkshire Federation of Young Farmers debating team

‘My dad told me I had a whisper that could be heard across a desert!’ some would say plain crazy folk racing into the sea at the Lions’ charity dip on the South Bay beach. ‘I thoroughly enjoy all the events I attend,’ said David, ‘but my job is to speak my bit, just move into the background and let the show go on.’ It may be of some surprise to learn that David’s predecessor was somewhat shy and initially reluctant to take on the job after his appointment, but David has never been a shrinking violet. He admits he has a powerful voice – and is not phased at being the centre of attention. ‘I come from Yeadon in West Yorkshire, just where the airport is,’ he said. ‘The majority of West Riding people have loud voices because many of them worked in the cotton and woollen mills that were so noisy that the only

at the national conference in Birmingham where he took part in a speaking competition. ‘I had been shown around the Frankley Water Works and I had to write and deliver a speech about it. I sat down and really thought what I wanted to say – and the speech really went down well. I thought I really like doing this.’ Those skills and his booming delivery have served him well throughout his life, though he’s never had the strength of his voice measured. ‘I’ve got no idea of how strong my voice is,’ he said. ‘But I remember when I was farming at Settrington, there were cricketers playing a match two miles away at Scagglethorpe and they could hear me shouting the cows in for milking!’ David regaled me with many such rib-tickling tales but he also showed another side during

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the interview, of a man who takes his job seriously and is meticulous in his preparation for every event he attends. He writes his notes on the back of his scroll, and then files them to use if they are needed again. His attention to detail is something to see, and so far, apart from one occasion he recounts, with a big grin on his face, it has served him well. ‘I was at an event for the Scarborough Hospitality Association at the Spa last February,’ he recalled. ‘The mayors of Scarborough, Whitby and Filey were there and so was Sir Gary Verity. ‘I welcomed the mayors and then I said “welcome to Sir Gary, Chief Executive of Welcome to Scarborough”. Everybody hooted with laughter. It should have been Welcome to Yorkshire of course but Sir Gary came over to me later and said that my speech had been terrific.’ By comparison with his predecessor’s length of service David still is wearing his L plates. But his commitment to the job is total and he certainly intends it to carry it on as long as he can. ‘Alan did the job for 31 years,’ he said. ‘If I did it for 31 years I would be 98 – so I suppose I’ll have to do it for 33 until I’m 100!’ The final word though, and it was a much quieter one, came from David’s partner of ten years, Veronica Dickinson. Enjoying a cup of tea after the interview, Veronica, who attends many of the events with David as his consort, summed up the man and his work. ‘He’s just perfect for the job,’ she said approvingly. ‘He was born to be a Town Crier.’ Now there’s something to shout about!

Off call and relaxing at home is David, with grandson James (8), and partner Veronica

In action at the Lions’ new year dip.

David is often seen along Scarborough Oyez! mayor (and former boss) Simon Green

Proud to be Scarborough ambassador

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“Caring and sharing National award rounds off year to remember in a practical way” Words and pictures by Mike Tyas

Words and photo by Dave Barry THE new year kicked off with the distribution of a huge collection of toys donated at the Salvation Army’s annual toy service. A joint venture between the Salvation Army and the Rotary Club of Scarborough, the service was started during Nigel Wood’s presidency of the club, five years ago. Staged at the Citadel, it has grown into one of the major Christmas initiatives in the town, says Mr Wood. It was supported by 14 local businesses and was a huge success, with over 200 people attending the service and 2,200 toys donated, Mr Wood added. He said: “I am humbled by the level of support and generosity that I receive for this event. It makes Christmas for many families who, without it, would not be able to provide toys for their children. This is caring and sharing in a most practical way. “Already I have had additional offers of support for this year’s toy service, which will be held at the Citadel at 6pm on Sunday 10 December. “It's great to be involved in something that meets a need in our town”. The toys were distributed by James Cliffe and his team at the Scarborough hub of No Wrong Door. This ground-breaking North Yorkshire scheme for children in care aims to revolutionise the way young people are cared for by local authorities. Councils throughout the UK are being recommended to adopt the programme in a national report on residential care in England. The report, by Sir Martin Narey, says the programme stands out for the ambition and innovation in the support it offers to the most troubled and challenging young people. No Wrong Door is designed to break the traditional cycle of young people who enter the care system in their teenage years, following a path of multiple fostering placements, insufficiently planned periods in residential care and placement breakdown. The council says the cycle runs the risk

L-R, front: Richard Weston, Don Graham, Jessica Appleby and James Cliffe. Back: Alison Jeffels, Peter Noble, Stephen Maskill, Adam Hughes, Chris Golder, Vanessa Rowbottom, Lesley Webb, Anita Hill and Nigel Wood (to order photos ring 353597) of young people becoming increasingly vulnerable and developing offending behaviour; substance misuse; disengagement from education; high risk-taking behaviour and frequently going missing. It replaces traditional council-run care homes with hubs in Scarborough and Harrogate which combine residential care with fostering. On the photo is Richard Weston of the Salvation Army, Rotary Club president Don Graham, Law Society president Jessica Appleby of Crombie Wilkinson solicitors, James Cliffe of No Wrong Door, Alison Jeffels and Peter Noble of Pinkney Grunwell lawyers, Stephen Maskill of 4 Walls or More estate agents, Adam Hughes of Shoreline Suncruisers, Chris Golder of Boyes, Vanessa Rowbottom and Lesley Webb of Lloyd Dowson accountants, Anita Hill of Yell and Nigel Wood of Peace of Mind Financial Solutions. Two people who should have been on but couldn’t make it are Charlie Tipple of Tipple & Underwood and Robin Smith of Smith Walker Westwood. A free will offering at the toy service raised £908 for the Salvation Army’s Christmas day open house.

A musical journey around the world Words and photo by Dave Barry ADULTS with learning and physical disabilities took audiences on a musical journey around the world when they presented a show at the Street in Scarborough. The performers showcased their talents through singing, dancing, drama and prop making, resulting in two performances. The cast spent six months rehearsing and choreographing the show, which had an international theme. They are members of Creative Day Care (CDC), an innovative and alternative provider of projects for adults with learning and physical disabilities. Having recently branched out from Hull, CDC focus on creativity, dance, performing arts, friendships and social integration. Ruth Barr, who is responsible for regional business development with CDC, said: “We are finding that too many people are unaware of CDC, finding us only by accident. We want

parents and carers to see what is available to their loved ones and clients. “It is a crucial time as people who would benefit from our service have just left college and want to know what is available.” CDC are taking on new members for their service which runs Monday to Friday from 9.30am to 3.30pm. n For more information or to book a taster session, ring Ruth on 480033 or email ruthcreativecare@gmail.com.

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THE Commanding Officer of Scarborough’s sea cadets has spoken of her pride after the unit rounded off the most successful year in their 97-year history by finishing runner-up in national awards. TS Scarborough won the Thomas Gray Memorial Trophy 2016 as the second best unit from more than 400 nationwide in the Sea Cadets Corps. Scarborough were only pipped for picking up the Canada Trophy as the best in the UK by a unit from Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria. The judging was carried out by a panel from the Sea Cadets Corps and the Marine Society, a charity dedicated to seafarers. ‘We are thrilled to receive this award,’ said Sub-Lieutenant Natalie Davies RNR. ‘I have never been so overwhelmed with pride when marching in front of the Queen and the cheering crowds in London at the Remembrance commemorations, but the amazing recognition of the Thomas Gray Memorial Trophy was a fabulous way to end 2016. ‘This is the culmination of a lot of hard work from everyone involved. We fitted so many things in during last year and for those that have followed and supported us I thank you. ‘We will remember last year and the experiences we had for life – I’m immensely privileged to be the Commanding Officer of such a fantastic team.’

TS Scarborough were put forward to contest the Canada Trophy after winning the Stephenson Trophy for the second successive year as the top unit in the Corps’ eastern area. This award is given to units that perform highly in inspections carried out by area officers and staff. The Captain of the Sea Cadets, Captain Philip Russell RN, told the Review: ‘Congratulations to Scarborough Sea Cadets for winning the Thomas Gray Memorial Trophy. It is a wonderful achievement reflecting the fact that the unit has achieved a very high standard. Scarborough cadets and volunteers should be very proud.’ Based in the former St Thomas’ Church on East Sandgate, the unit will receive the trophy in front of friends and supporters from the chairman of the Marine Society and the Sea Cadets, Captain Nigel Palmer OBE MNM, at a presentation evening in March. • TS Scarborough is holding a recruitment evening for youngsters, aged 10 - 18, on Tuesday 7 February at 7pm. Commanding Officer, Parents are also Sub-Lieutenant Natalie aked to go along. Davies, RNR

New organiser for shoebox appeal Words and picture by Mike Tyas A NEW coordinator has been confirmed for this year’s Operation Christmas Child shoebox appeal in Scarborough. Sandra Robinson succeeds Ros Dyson, who retired from the job after leading a local team of volunteers in November processing more than 9,000 shoeboxes full of toys and goodies that were sent as Christmas presents to underprivileged children in the Ukraine. Operation Christmas Child is a multi-national team organised by international Christian charity Samaritan’s Purse. Ros was in charge of the Scarborough area operation for 15 years. ‘Ros was absolutely passionate about the job and evolved it over the many years to what it is today,’ said Sandra. ‘They are big footsteps to step into but I learnt a lot about how OCC works from spending time with Ros and pestering all the other volunteers before Christmas!’ Sandra worships at St Andrew’s, Rillington which, along with the other eight churches in the Buckrose Carrs parish on the A64, have adopted the shoebox campaign as their new mission for overseas help. Her son-in-law, Joe Kinsella, son of Rainbow Centre manager Trish, is the parish Rector. Said Sandra: ‘Sometimes I go off on a tangent and I get myself into things and then think of ways to try to get out of them. But with Operation Christmas Child I’m just very calm

New OCC coordinator Sandra Robinson, left of picture, with Ros Dyson and Ian Proudler.

and excited about the role.’ Ian Proudler, Samaritan’s Purse regional manager for Yorkshire and the North East, said: ‘Ros did a magnificent job for Operation Christmas Child. I know she was praying for someone to take over from her and then Sandra phoned to say she would take on the job. ‘I’m looking forward to working with her and all the other fantastic OCC volunteers from the Scarborough area.’

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Chilly dip on new year’s day Words and photos by Dave Barry TWO Trumps and a cowboy were among the fancy-dress entrants in the new year’s day dip in Scarborough’s chilly South Bay. The wind and rain held off but it was cold – five degrees – as over 100 lightly dressed adults and children ran into the calm grey sea. Thousands of people turned out to watch the annual spectacle, taking place for the 23rd time. The fancy-dress competition was judged by the mayor and mayoress, Simon and Val Green. The winner was Delia Hopkins, who dressed as a unicorn adorned with rainbows,

in memory of her late daughter Heidi, who liked unicorns and rainbows. A bucket collection raised £1,068 and the dippers are expected to have raised about £4,000 - 75% going to their nominated charity and 25% to Scarborough Lions, which organises the event. Alan Deacon of the Lions said: “Although a fairly fast and furious event over five hours, from set up to removal of all the equipment, the day would not flow so easily without the facilities of Scarborough Rowing Club and support from the mayor, the town crier and the mountain rescue team. “So a big thank you from the Lions Club to everyone for their help and support”.

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Part of the large crowd of spectators Very few dippers were brave enough to dip completely

Making a run for it

One of the Trumps

A cowboy dipper having fun

David Ford substituted a fluffy kitten for Trump’s hairstyle

Fancy-dress winner Delia Hopkins

More drunk and drugged drivers than ever by Dave Barry THE number of drunk and drugged drivers arrested in Scarborough over Christmas and new year jumped by a staggering 46%. Across the town, the police found 35 drunk or drugged people at the wheel of a vehicle, compared to 24 the previous year. This was more than anywhere else in the county. Across North Yorkshire, 137 people were arrested for driving while under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs in December. In comparison to last year’s figures, arrests for drink and drug driving increased by 10.5% - from 124 last year. Of the 137 arrests made, 93 were for drink driving and 44 for drug driving. This compares to 92 drink driving arrests and 32 drug driving across the same period last year - a 37.5% increase in drug driving arrests. Most of those arrested have appeared in court, been convicted and fined a total

running into tens of thousands of pounds. Many have banned from driving. Police officers conducted over 1,300 breath tests in December. The highest reading was 118ug from a 36-year-old York man arrested on the first day of the campaign. The average reading was 46.8ug per 100ml of breath – the legal limit is 35ug. Deputy chief constable Tim Madgwick said: “Throughout the year, and particularly at Christmas, we issue numerous warnings about the dangers and consequences of drink and drug driving and the fact that officers will be out in force, targeting these offences. “This is why it is both shocking and astounding to see that some still choose to ignore the warnings and not only risk arrest and prosecution, but the physical safety of themselves and other road users”, Mr Madgwick said. “However, the arrest figures show that our officers remain vigilant and 100% committed

to identifying these drivers and getting them off the roads. “Over 1,300 breath tests were conducted and we now have more officers than ever who have undergone specialist drug-driving training. With the use of tools such as the drug wipe roadside testing equipment, we are making a significant number of drug driving arrests and have seen a 37.5% increase compared to last year’s figures. “Although the Christmas campaign has drawn to a close, as ever, our determination to ensure that the roads remain safe for the public of North Yorkshire remains resolute and we will persist in targeting drink and drug drivers throughout the year. “We also continue to work alongside our partners at the 95 Alive Road Safety Partnership in the educational and preventative work they deliver. “I’d like to thank members of the public who picked up the phone and reported drink and

drug drivers to us. Your actions directly led to arrests being made and ultimately lives being saved”.

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Exhibition on university building’s history by Dave Barry HULL University’s Scarborough campus is to host an exhibition documenting the building’s history, on 29 April. From 1910, when it opened, until 1947, it was Orleton preparatory school for boys. It was built in a field on High Wheatcroft Farm, which was sold off in portions just before the First World War as the town expanded southwards. The school was designed by architect Fred Rowntree (1860-1927), who was from a local Quaker family and practised in York. It was one of several private schools established on the South Cliff in the early 20th century, when private education was a flourishing industry. It was thought that boys could take advantage of the fresh sea breezes and excellent sanitation. The school closed in 1940 as a result of debts owed to builders. The building was leased for war work and housed detachments of the RAF and Royal Engineers. In 1948, the county council turned it into the North Riding College of Education, for training teachers. In 1991, it became one of the four colleges of Leeds University. When it qualified to be University College in 1993, it transferred its degree validation to York University. From 1995, the college underwent a period of expansion. Hull University took over in 2000 and hands over to Grimsby Institute Group in July. The exhibition will feature photos, memories, memorabilia, anecdotal stories,

Liam lights Little Blue Fires at SJT Words by Dave Barry, photo by Julian Bruton

Orleton School in the early 20th century

Orleton School

An Orleton School football team in 1933 etc. The organisers welcome contributions, says communications and event manager Tracy Blundell. The exhibition has a Facebook page which can be found by searching for seasidestory.

A NEW comedy about mental health can be seen at Scarborough’s Stephen Joseph Theatre this month. Little Blue Fires is by young local writer Liam Watt Pattison, who has drawn on his experiences of the ‘invisible disability’ of mental health issues. It’s about a character called Max who is struggling with life and has no idea why. It’s not helped by the running commentary of his internal and extremely annoying posse who ‘only want to help’. Can several eventful taxi rides to Dr ‘it’ll be alright’ Albright and countless invasive examinations find an answer to his problems? Are people like sweeties – and if so, is Max an M&M or more of a Jelly Tot? Liam says: “For a long time I’ve wanted to write a play based on how young people react to being thrust into the world of mental health, in part based on my own experiences, and the difficulty of understanding an ‘invisible disability’, as it can be referred to. I wanted to focus on the theme of anxiety, as, whilst as a society we’ve come to be more understanding of things like depression, dealing with anxiety is still relatively unknown in most circles”. Liam began his relationship with the SJT at the age of seven, joining the youth theatre

Liam Watt Pattison on Humber Bridge group Rounders and appearing in several productions. Eventually, his interests shifted towards the back-stage creation of theatre, leading to the development of professional skills in key areas such as writing, projection and sound design. Since then, he has worked on several shows in a variety of roles, both on and off stage, such as Beach Hut Theatre’s Remember Scarborough, Horizon Theatre’s Intoxicated and Real Life: Retold by SJT Outreach. The Hull University graduate recently went back to pursue a masters in research. Directed by the SJT’s associate director Cheryl Govan and performed by the Rounders 15+ group, Little Blue Fires is recommended for 14-year-olds and upwards. It can be seen on Friday 24 and Saturday 25 February, at 7.45pm. n Tickets cost £6.50 and can be booked by ringing 370541 or via www.sjt.uk.com.

Concert proceeds shared Benefit gig for homeless and out between charities refugees changes venue Words and photo by Dave Barry

Rainbow Centre. A BENEFIT gig has had to move as it outgrew The Snug donations will be taken to Sheffield Donations for Refugees, a grassroot volunteer the original venue. The fundraiser, for the Rainbow Centre and group who regularly travel to Calais. Scarborough Friends of Refugees’ Snug Local businesses are being encouraged to appeal, was initially planned to take place at donate raffle prizes, which can be left at Creative Crafts in St Thomas Street, Age UK the Cask. But interest grew so much that the organiser, in Aberdeen Walk, the Valley pub in Valley local musician Mark Gordon, was forced to Road or the Rivelyn Hotel in Crown Crescent. switch to the larger L’amour, in Westborough, Creative Crafts can also be used as a drop-off point for Snug items. opposite Alma Square. Snug stands for socks, neckwarmer (or scarf), Donations can be online at underwear and gloves, which is what refugees made w w w. j u s t g i v i n g . in France need. The gig, from 7pm until late on Thursday com/crowdfunding/ 9 February, is being headlined by Stony, mark-gordon. For more in sixpiece format: Rich Adams on guitar, n Mark Gordon on keyboards, Dave Kemp on information, email saxophone, Rowan Oliver on percussion, Paul snugrainbowgig@ gmail.com or visit Tilley on drums and Chris Lea on bass. the Facebook page Sharing the bill are the Laura Welburn Band, at: bit.ly/gigsr. Trilogy, Sammi Lee, Sophia Wardman, Joe Snug stands for socks, neckwarmer, Solo, Tom Davenport and Mister Tooley as underwear and gloves house DJ. Entry will cost £6, all of which will be given to the two charities. None of the participants is charging for anything. The Rainbow Centre charity organises a local food bank and provides support and advice for homeless and other vulnerable people in the area. The Snug appeal is being organised by Laura Cooper of SFR with the aim of sending warm clothing to refugees suffering freezing conditions in France. Everyone attending is invited to take either a The Stony line-up includes Mark Gordon and Snug item or a few tins of canned food for the Rich Adams (to order photos ring 353597)

Words and photo by Dave Barry THE proceeds from the 19th annual Festive Spectacular have been shared between three local charities. The concert, at the Spa in December, raised £3,000, which was split equally between Scarborough Sea Cadets, Scarborough & Ryedale Mountain Rescue Team and the local branch of the People’s Dispensary for Sick Animals, or PDSA. Representatives of each charity accepted £1,000 cheques from concert chairman Nigel Wood and secretary Eileen Cole at the Town Hall. They were joined by the mayor and mayoress, Simon and Val Green, who attended the concert. The mayor said the Sea Cadets had had an exciting year, taking part in the welcome ceremony for the town’s new lifeboat and remembrance events in London. He said the Mountain Rescue Team had been operating in the area since 1985. “We

last saw them in action mopping up on the Foreshore on the evening of the recent tidal surge”, Cllr Green said. He described the PDSA as the UK’s “leading veterinary charity”. “I remember their distinctive property in Falsgrave when I was a boy. Now they are prominent in Newborough”. For the 15th time, the charity carol concert was compered by Look North presenter Harry Gration, a frequent visitor to Scarborough. Sharing the bill were Celebration Brass, comprised of 32 salvationists from all over the north; tenor Matt Ramsay, from Govan; and the United Schools Choir, featuring pupils from six schools. “To date, we have given away in excess of £79,000 to local charities and groups”, Mr Wood says. Plans are well advanced for the 20th Festive Spectacular on 9 December. Tickets will go on sale on 18 September.

New lifeboat’s first shout

Words and photo by Scarborough RNLI press officer Dave Barry SCARBOROUGH RNLI’s new lifeboat launched on its first shout at the peak of one of the highest tides of the year. The Shannon-class all-weather lifeboat was called out by the coastguard in response to reports of a person seen in the sea. The lifeboat and coastguard searched the area near the Holbeck landslide but found no-one. The inshore lifeboat stood by on the harbour slipway but wasn’t launched.

The Shannon lifeboat is manoeuvred down the slipway by the launch-and-recovery tractor

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Gigs, art and talks at Woodend New Bengal is a hot act to follow by Dave Barry

TWO gigs, an exhibition and nine lunchtime talks are coming up at Woodend in Scarborough over the next few weeks. Tennessee singer Nathan Bell (6 Feb) was hailed as “the new Steve Earle” in the 1990s, says promoter Chris Lee. “After a long artistic hiatus, he’s back with a new album that recalls Nebraska-era Springsteen”, Chris says. “He shares the gift of lucid, piercingly insightful economy with his father, the much garlanded poet Marvin Bell, allied with a timeless countryblues sound that’s won comparisons to Kris Kristofferson and Levon Helm”. The support act is talented local artist Frankie Dixon. Keith James (17 Feb) is “one of the UK’s finest acoustic guitarists and a brilliant interpreter of Leonard Cohen’s songs”, says Chris. Tickets for both gigs, which start at 7.30pm, cost £10 and can be booked by ringing 384500 and online at Eventbrite. Woodend’s next exhibition is Sea Swim: Head Above Water (18 Feb - 31 Mar). It explores the sensations, stories, transformative effects and psychological impact of sea bathing, which has inspired artists and writers. The exhibition reveals the embodied imagination of the swimmer’s experience through film, photography, sculpture, drawing and poetry at Woodend and other venues around town. Curated by Lara Goodband, the exhibition has been supported by Arts Council England through Grants for the Arts.

It can be seen from 9am-5pm weekdays and 10am-4pm Saturdays. The Story of Arsenic is the title of the first of two series of Tuesday lunchtime talks by Tim Tubbs (7, 21, 28 Feb and 7 Mar). “Much more than the domestic murderer’s poison of choice, the element arsenic plays an essential role in our lives,” Tim explains. “The fascinating story of its discovery, production, capability of analysis, use and misuse sheds light on political, criminal, chemical, environmental and social history, art, design and interior decoration, and offers intriguing insights into women’s status and survival strategies. “Above all, the story of arsenic offers a varied international cast of characters, and is packed with interesting anecdotes”, Tim says. The second series of talks, The Roaring Girls, 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 free-wheeling heiresses (14, 28 Mar, 7, 14 April). “Shakespearian London dubbed its noisily delinquent, carousing or independent women the Roaring Girls”, says Tim. “They defied convention to live outside the expected female roles, pursuing outrageous careers, lifestyles and public images”. Tickets cost £5 (£4 concessions) per talk or £15 (£12) per series. A talk on the paranormal entitled Ghosts at Woodend, will be given at noon on 1 March. Tickets cost £6 and can be booked by ringing 07817 726970.

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WE were greeted by double-warmth when we stopped off at the New Bengal Tandoori on the way to the SJT one night last week. After a cold walk, the warmth of both the 70seat restaurant and owner Main Uddin was particularly welcome. Main, who took over in December, led us through the dining area, with its distinctive red and white décor and black ceiling with blue light-studs. The menu of Indian and Bangladeshi cuisine is reasonably priced and includes a heatlevel I haven’t come across before: phall, which means extremely hot, and which I would be keeping well clear of. We kicked off with bottles of Kingfisher and water (one of us was observing Dryanuary) and vegetable samosas as a starter, served with mint yogurt. We’ve eaten more than our share of samosas and found this one rather tasty. The main courses were just as delicious. I had pangash fish sizzler in a spicy sauce (not the brown gravy gloop you sometimes get) with mushroom rice. Christine had three small dishes: aloo peas and potatoes, vegetable bhaji and cauliflower bhaji, with coconut rice. Having told Main that she is vegan, she was impressed that he pointed out that she wouldn’t be able to eat the peshwari naan I’d ordered. Main, who hails from Dhaka, moved to

Scarborough from Darlington after running a restaurant with the same name, which won a curry cook-off run by the Environmental Health Agency. Of 34 Indian restaurants and takeaways in the town, only those with at least three hygiene stars could enter. The aim was to introduce healthier menu options for people eating out. The New Bengal Tandoori is open from 5-11.30pm Sun-Thu and 5pm-midnight FriSat. It has a money-saving coupon scheme giving £15 off a table for four when the bill is over £40; £10 off a table for two when the bill is over £30; £5 off a table for two when the bill is over £20; and £8.50 for any starter, any main course, any naan and any rice dish (collection only, £2 extra if king prawns or fish dishes are ordered).

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New Bengal Tandoori is at the town end of Part of the New Bengal Tandoori dining area Castle Road Nathan Bell (photo by Richard Duby)

Tim Tubbs (photo by Dave Barry)

Star Wars autograph book raffled by Dave Barry A UNIQUE Star Wars autograph book is being raffled by the Sense charity. Tickets can be bought at its Scarborough store, in Newborough. The book contains the signatures of Harrison Ford, the late Carrie Fisher, JJ Abrams, Daisy Ridley, Adam Driver and John Boyega. Autographs were also given by Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels and Kenny Baker from the original series, and the new series’ directors Gareth Edwards and Rian Johnson. A film industry prop-maker spent eight months collecting them from the cast and crew. Neil Ellis, a lifelong Star Wars fan, landed his dream job when he was taken on by Lucasfilm as a concept model maker and costume FX specialist. His work on the new films, including 2015’s Episode VII and last year’s Rogue One, sparked the autograph idea. Neil wanted to do it to benefit people with sensory impairments, a specialist area for sense. Sense is a national charity which supports people who are deaf, blind or both, with sensory impairments and complex needs, helping them to enjoy more independent lives. Neil said: “It dawned on me that kids who are deaf-blind will never be able to appreciate all the things that make Star Wars so amazing. I know it’s the least of their worries, but it’s just another thing they must miss out on. I’m working in such a creatively rich

Herring girls return to the harbour Words and photos by Dave Barry

Lara McCoubrey, Star Wars autograph manager of the hunter Neil Ellis and Sense store his book environment, I couldn’t imagine not being able to appreciate the visuals of the movies and their soundtracks”. The autograph book is in a Millennium Falconthemed bronze-cast that Neil designed. Rather than auction the book to the highest bidder, Neil decided that every fan should have an equal chance to win it. People are being invited to make a minimum donation of £5 to Sense. The winner will be chosen by Neil at random, to win the prize on Star Wars Day, May the Fourth (be with you).

Some of the signatures

AN evocative sculpture portraying Scarborough’s fabled herring girls has been put up by the harbour. The work was commissioned by fishingboat owner and former skipper Fred Normandale and is mounted on an external wall of his property at 33 Sandside, by the chandlery and old boat yard. The threestorey house was built in 1723. “Herring girls used to live here”, says Mr Normandale. The installation was created by Norfolk artist / blacksmith Bill Cordaroy, a former chairman of the British Artists Blacksmiths Association. The pair met on a trip from Liverpool to the Canaries about eight years ago, aboard the Nelson. The sculpture was unveiled by the mayor, Cllr Simon Green, who said: “It vividly portrays our fishing heritage and will weather and acquire the patina of age - but thankfully not the smell of the herring girls. “Congratulations to Blacksmith artist Bill Corduroy for producing this inspiring work and to Fred Normandale for facilitating the installation”. The sculpture is accompanied by an explanation panel with details about the origins of Scarborough Fair.

Bill Cordaroy, left, with Fred Normandale, the mayor and mayoress, family and friends

Herring girls on the east pier

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by Dave Barry AN ambitious and exciting recreation of Scarborough in the computer game Minecraft is a star attraction at an annual arts festival. Coastival will feature 110 events, most of them free, in 32 venues on 18 and 19 February. The theme is the unexpected, with artwork, music and performances in unusual locations as the event breaks with people’s expectations of traditional arts festival venues. Taking centre stage will be four new commissions including Scarborough Minecraft. This community effort, involving schools, colleges, community groups and individuals, painstakingly recreates the town in 3D. The other commissions are Market Hall Myriad of Music and Madness, a dynamic music and comedy night at the Hall and Vaults; See (Glass), a lit sculpture created out of glass fragments collected from local beaches, at the Spa; and Sunny Spells with a Chance of Snow, a novel recreation of a seaside experience condensed into a tiny caravan, at the Spa. Music and performance at venues with a rail theme include Platform 3, featuring music, poetry and performance at the railway station (11.30am-4pm Sat). Tracks by the Tracks,

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with music from Lazlo, Connor & Nathen and Empire, is at the old parcel sorting office at the station (1-4pm Sun). Bands Behind Bars (1-4pm Sat) will feature Frankie Dixon, Rhys Bloodjoy and Jesse Hutchinson at the former prison on Dean Road. Backseat Mafia features the freshest, upcoming alternative bands at the Spa (noon to midnight Sat and noon-5pm Sun). The Den meets Stone Penguin features a mix of live and DJ music at Farrer’s bar (noon2am Sat and noon-6pm Sun). The highlight is likely to be Newcastle funk band King Bee (11.30 Sat). Other musical treats include Raven at the Crown Spa Hotel (2.30pm Sun); the SJT’s Global Voices Choir in the Brunswick Centre (2pm Sat); Coastival Choir at a library workshop then performing at the Brunswick (3pm Sat); and Riders to the Sea, a performance of Vaughn Williams’ one-act opera at Westborough Methodist Church (7.30pm Sat, 2.30pm Sun). The festival includes several films and imaginative and surprising artwork in exhibitions by local and visiting artists, installations at various unusual locations and open studios at Woodend and other galleries.

Rollercoastival, with special events for youngsters, includes Suitcase Circus at the Coventry University campus. Youngsters aged over six can learn circus skills with award-winning performer Pete White (Sat). Activities at the library include Exquisite Corpse, a surrealist drawing game and interactive and animated Roald Dahl storytelling. At the Spa, youngsters will be able to write and perform a new song, follow the Pied Piper on a musical trail and create a picture box from their own happy memories. Plus drop-in art sessions and storytelling and Horrid History

walks from Sandside at 4pm each day. Coastival director Wendy Holroyd says: “We really have packed a tremendous amount into the two days of Coastival this year. “In keeping with our theme of the unexpected, we want people to see, experience and enjoy some of the best creative talent from our area and from the rest of the UK and abroad, in unusual locations, right here on our doorstep. “It promises to be a really diverse, exciting weekend”. n For full details, including ticket information, visit www.coastival.com or ring 384545.

Woodend leads the way to happiness by Dave Barry Looking for happiness? You can find it at Woodend in Scarborough later this month. Or, at least, take positive steps towards achieving it. Personal development consultant Ian Marshall is running two seminars aimed at finding happiness. They are on Wednesday 22 February, from 6-9pm, and Saturday 25 February, from 2-5pm.

Photo by Josh Sands, words by Dave Barry

Riders to the Sea

Pun Man is at the Market Hall

WE haven’t had much snow this winter, but when we did, young photographer Josh Sands was ready. On Friday 13 January, with an Arctic weather front moving in, Josh got up early and headed for Holbeck. He arrived at about 6.30am, way before sunrise, hoping for pre-dawn light and settled snow. Josh had a particular spot in mind for a shot but a blizzard started and he couldn't see 10ft ahead. He retreated to his car to warm up and wait until conditions improved. “After a while, the weather cleared and I managed to get out and line a shot up,

The seminars are for up to 16 people and are designed for group interaction. Each seminar costs £47.50 but Scarborough Review readers can get £10 off by using the code SBFEB when booking via the website www.mejma.com. The website links to a free personality strengths survey using the VIA Inventory of Strengths, a psychological assessment measure designed to identify an individual’s profile of character strengths.

although not where I'd originally planned”, Josh said. “I shot it on a Sony a6000, 32mm, f11, 2.5secs. “Because of the low light and low ISO, the shutter speed was slow, which smoothed out the waves, adding more white to the snow in the picture. “About an hour or so later, all the snow had gone”. It’s a beautiful shot Josh, well worth the effort! South bay snow

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by Dave Barry DOUBLE Shot headline Malton’s sixth annual Cajun festival, which runs from 17-19 March. This fivepiece was recently formed by Chris Hall, a leading figure on the UK’s Cajun, Zydeco and Creole scene. The festival line-up features seven other bands from this country and across the Channel. The music is played as intended in a friendly and welcoming party atmosphere with dancing, food and drink at the heart of things, says organiser Glyn Roberts of Yorkshire Cajun. “Cajun is the traditional music of the mainly French settlers in Louisiana”, Glyn says. “It has evolved over hundreds of years but remains true to its roots as a traditional dance music for the people and is relevant today. “Because of segregation in the deep south, the black folk who came to the area developed their music separately and it became more syncopated and bluesy”. Dance workshops will be run for those who want to learn or brush up their steps. Music sessions for musicians will be held at Suddaby's Hotel in Wheelgate, where Cajun Thursday will be staged on the 16th, for early festival arrivals. Masks, hats and costumes will be worn at a Mardi Gras-style parade around the Market Place on the Saturday afternoon. The festival, held in the Milton Rooms, will

also feature an auction of music-related items, a merchandise stall and a Cajun kitchen. “So as the Cajuns say, come and pass a good time and Laissez les bon temps rouler - Let the good times roll!” says Glyn. Tickets can be booked on the festival website, www.yorkshirecajun.com. * February is a busy month at the Milton Rooms, where Murder by Gaslight will be performed by a company called Don’t go Into the Cellar! Theatre (4 Feb). The show relives the macabre cases of diabolical doctors William Palmer and Harvey Crippen, who were hanged as murderous men of medicine in Victorian and Edwardian England, despite their pleas of innocence. Tickets cost £10 and can be booked by ringing 01653 696240. * Also coming up at the Milton Rooms are the Hut People (19 Feb), a Northern Soul event (25 Feb, 2pm-midnight) and Cardboard Fox (28 Feb). n For details, ring 01653 696240.

Words and photo by Dave Barry A CHARITY specialising in art-psychotherapy has been awarded a grant of £22,100. Art Therapy Yorkshire (ATY) provides artpsychotherapy to children, young people and adults either at the Street in Scarborough, where it is based, or via a mobile service throughout Yorkshire. The latter uses different funding streams to offer a variety of projects within the community. The £22,100 grant will fund ArttalkingPLUS in Scarborough, offering individual and group art-psychotherapy sessions. Art-psychotherapy uses art and the creative process as its primary mode of communication. Art materials are used to make images or objects which can be worked with by a qualified art psychotherapist to help understand and relieve difficult or painful feelings about issues and difficulties that have arisen through past or present trauma. “Sometimes it can be difficult to talk openly about painful and confusing thoughts and emotions”, explains art psychotherapist Sue Holmes. “Communicating through the medium of art and art-making allows for the safe guidance and acceptance of damaging issues and can help improve self-esteem, mental health and general wellbeing”. Launched in 2012, ATY runs sessions for

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individuals and groups, encouraging selfreferral or with referrals made by local mental health services. The project expects to support 30 people. “The thing about art therapy is it doesn’t matter how good the art is, it’s about being creative and using creativity to get a better understanding of difficult issues, such as PTSD, trauma, abuse, illness, etc”, says art psychotherapist Peter Brown. “It’s about managing the symptoms, making hidden things visible, taking ownership of them. “For example, with armed-forces veterans, the art process allows things to be drawn out symbolically and metaphorically”, Peter says. “From our point of view, that’s really rewarding”. Group members help and support each other as they progress on the same journey. The art medium can be anything from painting and drawing to writing poetry and taking photos. In addition to Sue and Peter, other, equally qualified art therapists are registered with ATY to support projects such as this. The £22,100 grant has come from North Yorkshire County Council’s Innovation Fund. This is for projects which improve the wellbeing of vulnerable people and reduce loneliness and isolation. n ATY can be contacted by ringing 07888 998962 or via its website, www. arttherapyorkshire.org.uk.

Rough Chowder members do Mardi Gras at a previous festival parade

Headliners Double Shot. L-R, back: Murray Brailsford on bass, Ben Topley on drums and Jules Clark on guitar. Front: Hazel Scott on scrub-board and Chris Hall on accordion.

Murder by Gaslight

Strange exhibition coming up at gallery by Dave Barry A RETROSPECTIVE exhibition of work by artist and yacht designer Albert Strange opens at Scarborough Art Gallery this month. Strange (1855-1917) played a key role in the evolution of the design of the small cruising yacht, developing single-handed craft that were built for speed. Presented by the Friends of Albert Strange, the exhibition will commemorate the 100th anniversary of his death. A co-founder of Scarborough Yacht Club,

An advert for Scarborough School of Art, from 1899

Strange was also a marine artist and illustrator, and a frequent exhibitor at the Royal Academy and the main London galleries. He was the principal and mainstay of Scarborough School of Art from its foundation in 1882 until 1916. The contemporary successor of the original institution is Yorkshire Coast College’s school of art and design at Westwood. The exhibition runs from 21 February to 19 March. A coinciding exhibition, Three Men and Their Boats, features paintings, drawings and prints by three members of the Humber Yawl Club - Albert Strange, George Holmes and John Henry Lonsdale. It can be seen at the library from 22 February to 18 March. Albert Strange

Art psychotherapists Peter Brown and Sue Holmes of Art Therapy Yorkshire (to order photos ring 353597)

From the USA to Iceland on screen by Dave Barry SPORTING his perfect Hollywood teeth and CDH (conspicuously dyed hair), Robert Redford was an unlikely choice to play Bill Bryson. But it didn’t bother Ken Kwapis when casting for the biographical film A Walk in the Woods, which Scarborough Film Society is screening tonight (3 Feb). After 20 years in England, the anglophile author reacquaints himself with the USA by hiking the Appalachian Trail with an old friend (Nick Nolte). The society’s next offering, Rams (17 Feb), is an Icelandic drama about sheep-farming

brothers who haven't spoken to each other for 40 years, harbouring petty jealousies and rivalries. They are unmarried, attached to their flocks and live in adjacent properties. The droppings hit the fan when disease strikes the sheep, which are the last of their breed but have to be killed, by government decree. Films are shown at the library, starting at 7.30pm. The society’s season continues with Carol (3 Mar), Mustang (17 Mar), The Brand New Testament (7 Apr), Our Little Sister (21 Apr), Macbeth (5 May) and Victoria (19 May).

Sigurður Sigurjónsson and Theódór Júlíusson in Rams

Robert Redford and Nick Nolte in A Walk in the Woods

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Out & About

Local Events

FEBRUARY

FEBRUARY 3 FEBRUARY PUBLIC STARGAZING, Dalby Forest. Enjoy Scarborough & Ryedale's Astronomical Society public stargazing sessions in the Great Yorkshire Forest. The sessions are held at the Low Dalby Astronomy Centre. Wrap up warm and bring a torch. Visit www.forestry.gov.uk/dalbyforest A WALK IN THE WOODS, Scarborough Library, 7.30pm. Scarborough Film Society presents a lightly comic amble through hill, dale, and cinematic nostalgia, in which travel writer Bill Bryson (Robert Redford) takes a long-lost old friend (Nick Nolte) along the 2000 -mile Appalachian Trail. Call 07748 280871. 4 FEBRUARY-5 MARCH SNOWDROP SPECTACULAR, Burton Agnes Hall. The snowdrop walk makes a truly memorable day out at the end of a long winter. The beautiful little flowers are always such a welcome sight, and grow in numbers each year. Call 01262 490324.

13 FEBRUARY LISA FEATHERSTON, Scarborough Spa, 7pm. Relax with the wonderful backdrop of Scarborough’s South Bay whilst listening to some of the very best musical talent that the local area has to offer. Call 01723 821888.

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.

14 FEBRUARY SCARBOROUGH WRITERS’ CIRCLE, Beiderbecke’s, The Crescent, Scarborough, 7.15pm. Email dacdor@gmail. com THE CIRCUS OF HORRORS: THE NEVERENDING NIGHTMARE, Whitby Pavilion, 7.30pm. The spectacular features an amazing amalgamation of bizarre, brave & beautiful acts all woven into an Alice in Horrorlandtype story. Call 01947 458899. 16 FEBRUARY THE MYSTERY OF HOLBEIN'S AMBASSADORS, Driffield Rugby Club, 7.30pm. Driffield Wolds Decorative & Fine Arts Society present a lecture by Mr Anthony Russell. Email peterbernard@live.co.uk

WHITBY STEAMPUNK WEEKEND 2017, Whitby Pavilion. This unique, colourful and fascination of assortments for your delectation and amusement will include a veritable feast of performers, attractions and the finest traders around. Call 01947 458899.

FIRST SUNDAY OF EVERY MONTH

22 FEBRUARY MAKE A WORMERY, Filey Library, 2-3pm. North Yorkshire Rotters will be there to spread their message about recycling by composting. You will be able to make your own mini wormery with them. This is free, but booking is essential. Call 01609 536608.

24 FEBRUARY MAGIC MIKE'S PIRATE ADVENTURE, Whitby Pavilion. See above listing.

WALKING WOMEN’S FOOTBALL, Barons Fitness Centre, Silver Rd, Scalby. Call 01723 357740.

4-5 MARCH ORCHID FESTIVAL, Burton Agnes Hall. Dramatic and creative displays of the vibrantly coloured exotic plants will fill the ground floor of this historic Elizabethan house. Visitors are invited to enjoy the floral spectacle, and choose competitively priced plants from the broadest - and rarest selection in the area. Additionally, orchid expert Ray Creek will be on hand to answer questions. Visit www.burtonagnes.com

4 MARCH YORKSHIRE BEARD DAY, Scarborough Spa, from 2pm. The annual family friendly fun event for beard growers, lovers, and appreciators in and around Yorkshire. Call 01723 821 888.

AN AFTERNOON WITH ERIC HART, Sewerby Hall. Enjoy a performance by the classical vocalist. Visit www.sewerbyhall.co.uk 11 FEBRUARY QUIZ NIGHT, St Oswald's Church Hall, Flamborough, 7pm. A great night out, so bring some food to share and enjoy. Call 01262 671917. LEGENDS OF AMERICAN COUNTRY, Bridlington Spa. Direct from Ireland 'The Legends of American Country' show is now firmly established as Europe's number one country music tribute show. Call 01262 678258.

19 FEBRUARY MARTY MACDONALD'S TOY MACHINE, Bridlington Spa, 2pm. A brand new show featuring the voices of CBeebies' Justin Fletcher and Nicole Davis as Pongo the Pig and Molly-Moo the Cow. Call 01262 678258. 21 FEBRUARY BLACK MAGIC - THE LITTLE MIX SHOW, Bridlington Spa, 7pm. A tribute show featuring hits from Little Mix's first album and X-Factor appearance. Call 01262 678258. TWIGS AND TWINE, St Columba Church Hall, Dean Road, Scarborough, 7.15pm. Scarborough Flower Club presents a display by Nicola Davies-Murray from York. Call 07935 474239. FAMILY ARCHERY, Sewerby Hall. Why not go along and try your hand at archery, a traditional Sewerby Hall and Gardens pastime? Visit www.sewerbyhall.co.uk

QUAY SCRABBLE GROUP, Sewerby Methodist Church, 6.30pm. Have a great night of Scrabble, and enjoy a cuppa. Call 01262 409718. 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. 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.

COASTIVAL 2017, Scarborough Spa. Visitors can expect to see artwork, music and performances in unusual locations as the event looks to break with people’s expectations of a traditional arts festival. Call 01723 821888. 5 FEBRUARY EAST RIDING YOUTH DANCE PLATFORM 2017, Bridlington Spa, 6pm. An exciting array of dance pieces to be showcased this evening including East Ridings County Company. Call 01262 678258.

EVERY SUNDAY FLEAMARKET, Scalby Parish Hall, 10.30am-1.00pm from January to the end of March. Call 01723 882352.

MAGIC MIKE'S PIRATE ADVENTURE, Scarborough Spa, 2pm. Join Magic Mike, Captain Cus-Tard, Pirate Ria & the ship's crew in a hilarious adventure for the whole family! Call 01723 821888.

4 MARCH STAGE AND SCREEN, Westborough Methodist Church, 7pm. Scarborough Community Choir and Sandside Players present a concert. 18-19 FEBRUARY VIRTUAL SCARBOROUGH, Scarborough Spa, from 10am. See Scarborough as you’ve never seen it before with all its favourite places and landmarks painstakingly recreated, 1:1 scale, within the 3D world of Minecraft. Call 01723 821888.

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.

MARCH 17 FEBRUARY RAMS, Scarborough Library, 7.30pm. Scarborough Film Society presents the story of a hard-drinking Icelandic farmer and his estranged brother try to save their flocks of sheep from authorities who want the animals destroyed. Call 07748 280871.

4 FEBRUARY THE ILLEGAL EAGLES, Scarborough Spa, 7.30pm. Often acclaimed as the world’s best Eagles tribute, The Illegal Eagles return to the stage, this time celebrating their own incredible 20 years. Call 01723 821888.

Scarborough, 6pm. Be looked after by 'Hostess with the Mostest’ Jeannette DuPont. Call 01723 366063.

FROM 19 MARCH LEBBERSTON CAR BOOT & MARKET, on the Scarborough/Filey Road. The Sunday car boot and market returns! Call 01964 542695.

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. 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,

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. SECOND TUESDAY OF EVERY MONTH CHRISTCHURCH PENSIONER ACTION GROUP, Bridlington Library. 11am. Coffee mornings, outings, and easy exercise classes. Call 01262 602866.

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46 SECOND TUESDAY OF EVERY MONTH FOR CHRIST CHURCH PENSIONERS - can that be deleted and the below place with the Thursday listings. 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.

Call 01262 602866. EVERY FRIDAY MEN'S WALKING FOOTBALL, Baron's fitness Centre, Scalby Road, 9.30am. Call 01723 363397. FIRST & THIRD THURSDAY OF THE MONTH

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PARKINSON’S UK CARERS GROUP, 2pm. First meeting at Danes Dyke Community Visit www.scarboroughspa.co.uk or call Hall, Scarborough; second meeting at St 01723 821888 Columba’s Church, Dean Road, Scarborough. Call 01723 862681. FIRST AND THIRD FRIDAY OF EVERY MONTH

Call 01723 865406.

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.

Magic Mike returns to Scarborough Spa during February half term with a brand new show. Join Magic Mike, Captain Cus-Tard, Pirate Ria & the ship’s crew in a hilarious adventure for the whole family!

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. 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. FILEY FLOWER CLUB, Evron Centre, Filey, 7.30pm (October to July). See the flowers and meet a great 'bunch' of people. Call 07791 101231.

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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. Email www.livability.org.uk or call 01723 583566.

Whitby Spa Pavilion Visit www.whitbypavilion.co.uk or call 01947 458899.

13 FEBRUARY THE CIRCUS OF HORRORS: THE NEVER-ENDING NIGHTMARE The spectacular features an amazing amalgamation of bizarre, brave & beautiful acts all woven into a Alice in Horrorland-type story driven by a mainly original soundscape. 24 FEBRUARY MAGIC MIKE’S PIRATE ADVENTURE

27-29 JANUARY THE LION SLEEPS TONIGHT Presented by Hatton School of Performing Arts. 4-5 FEBRUARY KEEP ON MOVING Presented by Scarborough Dance Centre.

Spotlight Theatre, Bridlington Visit www.spotlighttheatrebrid.co.uk or call 01262 601006. 4 FEBRUARY AMADEUS Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a rowdy young prodigy, arrives in Vienna, the music capital of the world – and he’s determined to make a splash.

MOST NIGHTS LIVE MUSIC, The Commercial, Falsgrave Road, Scarborough. A great mix of live acts performing on several nights each Visit www.sjt.uk.com or call 01723 370540 month. For details, call 01723 447109. UNTIL 1 APRIL

Stephen Joseph Theatre

There’s always something on… at the libraries! FILEY LIBRARY Station Avenue, Filey - Call 01609 536608 EVERY FRIDAY & SATURDAY

CHARLIE AND THE LIGHT FANTASTIC Join Charlie and his clever cat as they explore the galaxies in search of new friends. 3-4 FEBRUARY WHO’S KEEPING SCORE?

This year the college is trying something CAN WE HELP? IT HELP SESSIONS; 1-5pm new for the college presidential elections... Fri, 10am-1pm Sat. something ‘modern’. EVERY THURSDAY KNIT & NATTER, 1-3pm. 16 FEBRUARY LABELS LAST TUESDAY OF EVERY MONTH

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.

EASTFIELD LIBRARY Eastfield Library, High Street, Eastfield, Scarborough. Call 01609 536606.

FIRST THURSDAY OF THE MONTH

STORYTIME, 10.30-11.15am.

PENSIONER ACTION GROUP EAST YORKSHIRE, Christ Church, 2pm. Coffee mornings, outings, and easy exercise classes.

A brand new show featuring the voices of CBeebies’ Justin Fletcher and Nicole Davis.

Magic, comedy, dancing, lots of audience participation and swashbuckling fun!

LAST SATURDAY OF THE MONTH RYEDALE 24-25 FEBRUARY Poppins – The Panto! EMBROIDERERS’ GUILD, Wrelton Village Presented by Y-Musical Theatre School. Hall. Call 01723 862417.

FILEY ACTIVITY GROUP, 2-4pm.

SECOND THURSDAY OF EVERY MONTH

19 FEBRUARY MARTY MACDONALD’S TOY MACHINE

Scarborough YMCA Theatre

FIRST FRIDAY OF OCTOBER, NOVEMBER, FEBRUARY, AND MARCH STAR GAZING, Visit www.scarborough.ymca.org.uk/ Dalby Forest Visitor Centre, Thornton-le- theatre-shows or call 01723 506750. 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.

EVERY THURSDAY AND SATURDAY

SNAINTON WOODTURNING CLUB, Snainton Woodworking Supplies, Barker’s Lane, Snainton, 7.30-9.30pm. Guests welcome to enjoy first class professional woodturning demonstrations. Visit www. snaintonwoodturningclub.org.uk or email oldfern@btinternet.com

The past 12 weeks have seen dance artists work with groups based in East Yorkshire.

Magic Mike returns to Bridlington for an exciting and colourful stage show.

BARON’S WALKING FOOTBALL, Scarborough Rugby Club, 9.30-11am. Call 01723 377545.

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.

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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. 22 FEBRUAY

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Pub Gigs

Gigs at Scarborough pubs unless stated. Please send submissions to dave@thescarboroughreview.co.uk

BY DAVE BARRY

Scarborough alternative / indie band Empire have four gigs this month. Freddie Schmuck, Adam Lodge, Sam Dowling and Perrie Bunton play original songs and covers of tracks by the Beatles, the Jam, Stone Roses and Oasis. They are at the Yorkshire Tap (4, 18, 24 Feb) and the old parcel sorting office next to the train station for an acoustic set as part of Coastival (19 Feb). Photo by Amanda Steeples. FRI 3 FEB Little Big Horn at the Tap and Spile; Colcannon at the Merchant; Alistair Huntly at Blue Crush; Tom Davenport at the Mayfield in Seamer. SAT 4 FEB Jez Ech (4pm) and Rockin Hillbilly Band (9pm) at the Merchant; Fireball at the Commercial; Walking on Air at Indigo Alley; Bladerunner at Cellars; Ordinary Affair at the Newcastle Packet; Friday Street at the Tap and Spile; Geoff Aday at the Eastway Club in Eastfield. SUN 5 FEB Trip Hazard at the Tap and Spile (5.30pm); Adams & Greaves Band at Watermark (6pm); Alistair Huntly at Blue Crush (6pm); Easy Street at the Crescent (7.30pm); Mr Jim at the Merchant (8pm).

THU 16 FEB Jesse Hutchinson at Cellars; open mic at the Merchant and Nags Head in Scalby. FRI 17 FEB Keith James at Woodend; Colcannon at the Merchant; Townsmen at the Mayfield in Seamer. SAT 18 FEB Ross Dransfield (4pm) and Trilogy (9pm); Kickback at the Newcastle Packet; Infinity at the Commercial; acoustic jam at Indigo Alley; Hoodoo Brown at the Tap and Spile; Steve Dell at the Eastway Club in Eastfield. SUN 19 FEB Woas at the Tap and Spile (5.30pm); Mark Gordon & Laura Welburn at the Merchant (8pm); Alistair Huntly at Blue Crush.

MON 6 FEB Nathan Bell and Frankie Dixon at Woodend; Jelly-Roll Jazz Band at Farrers; Scarborough Folk at the Merchant.

MON 20 FEB Ross Dransfield at Farrers; Scarborough Folk at the Merchant.

TUE 7 FEB Steve Phillips and the Rough Diamonds at the Grosvenor in Robin Hoods Bay.

TUE 21 FEB Steve Phillips and the Rough Diamonds at the Grosvenor in Robin Hoods Bay.

WED 8 FEB Rock & Bella at Mojo’s (4pm); Scarborough Jazz at the Cask; Alastair James at the Merchant; open mic at the King & Cask; open-mic with John Watton at Cellars.

WED 22 FEB Tom Davenport at Mojo’s (4pm); Scarborough Jazz at the Cask; Alastair James at the Merchant; open mic at the King & Cask; open-mic with John Watton at Cellars.

THU 9 FEB Jesse Hutchinson at Cellars; open mic at the Merchant and Nags Head in Scalby.

THU 23 FEB Jesse Hutchinson at Cellars; open mic at the Merchant and Nags Head in Scalby.

FRI 10 FEB Fuzz Junkies at the Merchant; Jesse Hutchinson & Laura Welburn at Blue Crush; Chu Ma Shu at the Mayfield in Seamer.

FRI 24 FEB TJ Micheals at the Newcastle Packet; Rattlin’ Sheiks at the Merchant; at Blue Crush; Hoodoo Brown at the Mayfield in Seamer.

SAT 11 FEB Sam Lenton at the Merchant (4pm); Snake Davis at the SJT; Six Foot Above at the Newcastle Packet; Friday Street at the Commercial; Mark Gordon & Laura Welburn at Indigo Alley; East Coast Vagabonds at the Tap and Spile; Gary Lee at the Eastway Club in Eastfield. SUN 12 FEB Prendo at the Tap and Spile (5.30pm); Kieran Halpin at Watermark (6pm); Alistair Huntly at Blue Crush (6pm); Ross Dransfield at the Merchant (8pm); Snatch at the Commercial. MON 13 FEB Lisa Featherston at Farrers; Scarborough Folk at the Merchant. TUE 14 FEB Dan Budd as Robbie Williams at the Mayfield in Seamer; Steve Phillips and the Rough Diamonds at the Grosvenor in Robin Hoods Bay. WED 15 FEB Lottie Holmes at Mojo’s (4pm); Scarborough Jazz at the Cask; Alastair James at the Merchant; open mic at the King & Cask; open-mic with John Watton at Cellars.

SAT 25 FEB Mr Jim at the Merchant (4pm); Bladerunner at Indigo Alley; Over the Limit at the Newcastle Packet; East Coast Vagabonds at the Tap and Spile; French Letter at the Commercial; Colin Powell at the Eastway Club in Eastfield. SUN 26 FEB Trilogy at the Tap and Spile (5.30pm); Alastair James Band at Watermark (6pm); Connor Lawlor at the Merchant (8pm); Alistair Huntly at Blue Crush. MON 27 FEB Robert Schmuck at Farrers; Scarborough Folk at the Merchant. TUE 28 FEB Steve Phillips and the Rough Diamonds at the Grosvenor in Robin Hoods Bay. WED 1 MAR Scarborough Jazz at the Cask; Alastair James at the Merchant; open mic at the King & Cask; open-mic with John Watton at Cellars. THU 2 MAR Jesse Hutchinson at Cellars; open mic at the Merchant and Nags Head in Scalby.

Ceramic maps show at café Words and photo by Dave Barry AN exhibition of ceramic maps opens at Lupin café in Ramshill, Scarborough, on 17 February. The work is by Ruth Collett, who will give a talk at Lupin on 18 February, at 3pm. The artist will take visitors on a journey through her process of creating the delicate maps in paper-clay. The exhibition, entitled We Are Here, is “an exploration in ceramics of the power and functions of maps as memory, imagination and experience”, she says. “People expressed their fears of the unknown on maps by showing sea monsters and devils at the edges. “Medieval monsters were shown with the warning ‘Here be Dragons’. “Strange bird-headed people and a race with a single large foot, which they could use as a boat or an umbrella, were thought to live beyond the edge of the known world”, Ruth explains. “Made from the clay beneath our feet, these fragile paper clay maps show overlapping views and experience of landscape, the body, memory and imagination. “Within the paths we walk are held history and myth, geology and archeology, which all build our understanding of the world around us. “Now our environment is under threat, not just from natural erosion, but from fracking: what does this mean for a community invested in the beauty of our landscape?”

Ruth Collett with one of her ceramic maps (to order photos ring 353597)

Paper-clay is made by mixing paper with clay to produce a material that can be rolled out thinly. “It’s so good for maps as you can create the effect of fragility but it’s quite sturdy”, Ruth says. We Are Here, which is part of the Coastival festival, is at Lupin until 16 March. The café is open from 10am-4pm Monday to Saturday. Ruth also has a couple of ceramic pieces with an anti-fracking theme in the East Coast Open exhibition at Scarborough Art Gallery until 16 March.

Alice to star in popular panto Words by Mike Tyas IT’S that time of year for the ever so popular Burniston panto – oh no it isn’t . . . oh yes it is! The annual fundraiser for good causes in Burniston and Cloughton is in its 16th year – yet for the first time the panto will be Lewis Carroll’s classic Alice in Wonderland. The cast of 27 and the production team have been in rehearsals since well before Christmas to bring a show they promise you will be as mad as a hatter to miss. ‘It’s a great community event where everybody comes together, does their bit, has a laugh and really enjoy themselves and helps local causes,’ said Barbara Hargreaves. This year proceeds will go to the proposed building of a new playground in Cloughton. Directed this year by Liz Fettes and produced by Barbara Hill, the show includes St Mary’s, Cloughton vicar Revd. Mike Leigh who is taking on a number of parts, including playing an axe man! Don’t be late for this show! It will be staged on the nights of Wednesday 1st March to Saturday 4th March, at Cloughton &

Burniston panto: Alice, alias, Joy Nurse, and white rabbit, Emily Hazeldine Burniston Village Hall, at 7pm. There will also be a Saturday afternoon matinee at 2pm. n Tickets, at £6 for adults and £4 for under16s, are on sale at Burniston Post Office, the Station tea room, tel. 870896, or from Barbara Chambers, tel. 870666.

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Scarborough Athletic commentator Ant Taylor reviews the team’s season so far... @iamradioant

NO BATTLE, NO VICTORY Words and photos by Ant Taylor AS YOU know, I've been doing the Scarborough Athletic matches on Yorkshire Coast Radio Extra, with Boro’s Communications Officer, Will Baines, this season. So I thought I'd give a summary of the first half of the season, as it's definitely been a fun journey so far. I made my debut on Yorkshire Coast Radio Extra at the FA Cup qualifier when we played Tadcaster Albion, and lost 3-2. It was a very entertaining game and I do love to stick in a football cliche: it was a game of two halves for the Seadogs as they came out of the starting block like Usain Bolt in an Olympic grand final. It was two goals from Lamplough and Nelthorpe, that gave Boro a really healthy lead going into the second half. In the second half it was as though Usain Bolt had decided to run a marathon and Boro let Tadcaster back into the game with two goals. There was a sour note to the game, when Brewer cut into Ormsby, an ex-Taddy player himself, and he was laid out from a terrible tackle and the visitors were down to ten men, with momentum from the home side they then got the winner. Will and I have travelled to quite a few games together and it has been fun travelling up and down the UK highways and byways. One of Scarborough's best performances away was at Radcliffe Borough, as they really showed how a team who just didn't want to give up could get a fantastic win. They came from behind twice to nick a win right at the very

end of the game. One of the best grounds I've been to was Trafford FC: it didn't have bells and whistles, it was just simple and the fans and officials were great. Also a big shout out to the guys at Glossop North End, not only did they tweet me which pie I wanted when I got there, it had one of the best views of the Peak District and the Snake Pass (well we weren't having a great game that day). One of my best away days was December 3 at Prescott Cables. Will was away that day so I had to find my own way to the game. I ended up going with some lady Seadogs, it was a fun day with the ladies as we had a great laugh and brought home three points. Let's talk about some of the players that have come in and out of the club. I think we've had a young back four, well three as Dave Merris isn't getting any younger. With Humble and Ible plus the addition of Matty Turnbull, they have come out with some great performances. We did start the season with a large squad, but with injuries and players moving on, it's now down to the bare bones, but the team spirit looks really good. I know that after Carl Stewart decided to move back down the A64 we did lose a goal scorer. The team have done well to get where we are today (which is a lot better than where we were last year). Over this season I have become a massive Steve Kittrick fan, I've even gone on record to give this man a peck on the check in an interview. What he has done for the club in the year he has been with us is tremendous, he is also an open and honest bloke. I really do think he has a plan for the club, yes I know we have been a bit flat and yes, we have lost a few games on the road but this is where we, the fans, need to kick into gear. Let’s start doing our bit, next season is going to be our return back home. Let's give this club something to be proud of: win, lose or draw - I'm there. I hope the exiles listening in can hear the passion as Will and I are booming out across the airwaves and the crowd are cheering in the background. We all need to start singing from the same hymn sheet now to give the players, and especially Queensgate, a right good send off. So if you're reading this, get down as there's not that many home games left. Come on Seadogs, NO BATTLE NO VICTORY!

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Sport in Brief by Steve Adamson

CYCLING

Scarborough Paragon Cycling Club, formed back in 1953 are holding their annual dinner and presentation evening at Scarborough Rugby Ground on Saturday, 4 February. Guest of honour will be Sir Gary Verity of 'Welcome to Yorkshire'.

Sunday, 24 April. Opening day fixturers areCayton v Staithes, Ebberston v Heslerton, Flixton 2nds v Filey, Mulgrave v Nawton Grange, Seamer v Forge Valley and Staxton v Scalby. Each of the other five divisions get underway six days later, on Saturday, 30 April.

CROSS COUNTRY SPORTS Scarborough Athletics Club had a number COUNCIL AWARDS of competitors at the Yorkshire Cross Country championships, staged at Lightwater Valley, Ripon on 7 January. Best results were achieved by Emma Clapham and Hannah Mainprize who finished 8th and 9th respectively in the junior women’s event. Issy Nicholls came home 12th in the under-13 girls race, and Chris Mummert was 13th in the under-15 boys race.

KICK BOXING

Scarborough's Desapline Martial Arts Club, based at the Corporation Club on Dean Road, is led by former multiple world kick boxing champion Andy Des'a who has also coached the senior GB kick boxing team. Martial arts enthusiasts of all ages are welcome to give the sport a try, contact the club via their Facebook page for more information.

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The annual Scarborough & District Sports Council Awards evening takes place at Scarborough Spa Ocean Room on Monday, 27 February at 6-30pm. Awards will be presented in 19 categories for teams, coaches, volunteers and individual sporting achievement. Guest of honour will be former swimmer Chris Cook, double gold medalist at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, who also represent GB at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games.

LOGAN REJOINS BORO Ace goalscorer Billy Logan has rejoined Scarborough Athletic after a brief spell with Pickering Town. Already with 35 goals to his credit this season (26 for West Pier and 9 for the Pikes), he marked his first match back with Boro by scoring in the 1-1 draw away to Brighouse Town in the Evo Stik League Div One(North) on 21 January.

The Readers Scarborough Beckett League premier division campaign gets underway on

Lewis Dennison makes his debut against his old club Goole AFC.

South Cliff Golf Club If you are a beginner, or if you have been a member of a golf club in the past and fancy joining a club again, we have our “New to Golf” scheme which offers you the chance to gain a Handicap, play in competitions and also includes free coaching throughout the summer. Benny Igiehon takes on a Tadcaster Albion player during the Boxing Day win.

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From the touchline Following an injury-time defeat by Bridlington in the last game of 2016 before Christmas, Scarborough RUFC would have looked to bounce back in their first game of the year following an extended lay off of three weeks over Christmas and New Year; and that game came on the 7th of January at West Leeds. However, the Seasiders looked as if they had over indulged in a surfeit of Turkey, Plum duff and Wallop and turned in a somnambulant display sleep-walking through most of a performance which was tinged with more than a little January ‘blues’ before going down 10-37. West Leeds sit in the coveted runners-up playoff position in Yorkshire One with at least three other clubs, including Scarborough vying to finish in it. So the remaining three games in January against opposition struggling in the bottom half of the table were vital to their hopes of a play-off place and a chance of promotion to North One East division this season.

First up at Silver Royd was Horsforth-based outfit Yarnbury who had been narrowly beaten 29-24 in the corresponding fixture on the road earlier in the season. The game was the quintessential ‘game of two halves’ played out in bitter but bright conditions. A turgid first half was kicked into life with a try for either side late in the forty minutes and Scarborough led 7-5 at the break. The second half was a far zippier affair with Scarborough cutting loose and running in five tries for a bonus point win. The excitement levels throughout the following week were high as the club was hosting a double-header on Saturday the 21st kicking off with a British & Irish Cup tie between Yorkshire Carnegie and Ealing Trailblazers followed by Scarborough versus North Ribblesdale which had been postponed before Christmas when the referee hobbled off with an injury. The opening professional game was quite frankly a bit of a bore with both sides looking

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to batter through the other’s defence without a trace of subtlety. Ealing led 10-0 at the break but a couple of late converted tries saw Carnegie scrape home 14-10 and progress to the semi-finals of the competition where they’ll play Championship leaders London Irish. The second game under floodlights was far tastier fare with Scarborough scoring three tries to lead 21-3 at half-time. A second half blitz saw the home side run in a further five touchdowns in a sparkling spell to run out 5210 winners. The men from Silver Royd finished off their January fixtures with a trip to Middlesbroughbased Acklam RFC last Saturday. Having failed to win a single game in their last season in Yorkshire One in 2014-2015 the Teesiders made a poor start on their return this season winning only one of their fourteen opening games. However having won a further three before Christmas and having moved up the league

this was a serious possible banana skin for the Seasiders. The travelling supporters need not to have worried as Scarborough continued where they had left off the previous week, running in six tries without reply for a 38-6 win and a third consecutive bonus point to finish the month on a high. YORKSHIRE ONE (WEF 28 JAN 2017) So an awful start to the month with defeat at West Leeds was followed by three big wins in which skipper Matty Jones’s men ran in a total of 20 tries. Good news for the club was the return from vacation of American Devin Ibanez last Tuesday; however the Boston-born flanker will have to wait to get back in action as there is no league rugby this week due to the Six Nations Championship. Looking forward to the rest of this month, there is only two first team league fixtures; Bradford Salem are the visitors to Silver Royd on the 11th and the following week Scarborough are on the road at Beverley where they’ll be looking to continue their push for promotion.

Walking netball for women at rugby club Outlining the evolution of the new session, she says: “Following the success of the walking football and rugby, I thought about which sport could be adapted to walking for ladies. “Then I recalled my many years of playing and umpiring netball, some 40 years ago, and decided it would adapt well to walking. “I surfed the internet for a local group but found the nearest one to be at Beverley. I went to watch their session and they asked me to join in. I enjoyed it so much that I decided to set up a group in Scarborough”. Baron's gym at the rugby club “have the ideal facilities and equipment”, says Lesley. “We hope to continue to attract new members and assure them that walking netball is for everyone”. Anyone interested can just turn up at the rugby club, which is on the northern fringe of Scalby, at 10.45am Wednesday. “The session is free and we have coffee afterwards to make it fun and sociable”.

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Group 2

WITH walking football and walking rugby taking off for older men, walking netball has been launched for older women, at Scarborough rugby club. Lesley Bayes, a retired netball umpire, has set up a weekly session in the club’s sport hall. The idea is to promote and maintain a level of physical activity without getting too competitive and overdoing it; it’s aimed at older players. It’s starting to take off. Enough women turned up for the second and third sessions to play a full five-a-side game. Lesley says: “Lots of the ladies, like myself, haven't played since school days, but they are enjoying being part of a team again. “The footwork and passing has improved already”. Lesley has borrowed bibs with positions marked on them. For example, C means centre and GA means Goal Attack. “When we got them, it meant we could play the proper positions,” Lesley explains.

Group 1

Words and photos by Dave Barry

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From the Sidelines

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A review of the local soccer scene.... BY STE VE ADAMSON

WEST PIER MARCH ON Reigning Scarborough News District League first division champions West Pier remain on course to repeat their title success after winning each of their first ten league games, their latest being a 9-2 away win against Whitby Fishermen with strikes from Sean Exley 5, Martin Cooper 2 and brothers Gary and Neil Thomas. By the end of January Pier were 3 points clear of Hunmanby United at the top, having played two fewer matches. James Pinder and Matt Atkinson were the scorers as Hunmanby beat Whitby Fishermen 2-1, while 3rd placed Newlands Park won successive matches, 3-1 at home to Filey Town with strikes from Ben Luntley 2 and Liam Mancrief, and 3-1 away to Cayton Corinthians when Ryan Rivis 2 and Ben Luntley were the scorers. Edgehill were handily placed in 4th, with games in hand over the top three, and their scorers in an 8-0 defeat of Sleights were Danny Collins 4, Kurtis Henderson 2, Kieran Link and James Gunn.

FILEY LEAD SECOND DIVISION Filey Town Reserves are six points clear of nearest rivals Edgehill Res and Seamer Sports Res after a 3-0 win at Cayton Res thanks to a Joe Gage hat trick, but they then let slip a 3-1 lead to draw 3-3 at home to Newlands Res, when Billy Coyne 2 and Joe Gage scored their goals. Seamer Sports Res have two games in hand on the leaders, and in their 10-3 win against Falsgrave Athletic, Nick Hegarty scored six of the goals. Two good wins for Edgehill Res saw Liam Cooper 4 and Jon Cairns 3 amongst the goals in a 10-0 thrashing of Cayton Res, and Kieran Grzesiowski hit a hat trick in a 6-3 defeat of Cayton Res. Goal Sports are up to 5th after a 5-2 win at Snainton with goals from Mike Beeby 3, Tyson Stubbings and Kieran Friett, while Snainton moved away from the relegation zone after Liam Cummings and Ryan Collings both hit hat tricks in a 9-1 rout of bottom side FC Rosette.

TIGHT AT TOP IN THIRD DIVISION Just five points seperated the top four teams in division three, with Edgehill 3rds holding a one point lead over Sherburn, but having played two more games than the 2nd placed side, while third placed Itis Itis Rovers appear to be title favourites, with three matches in

Goldsborough United 7-2 in the other semifinal.

SUNDAY LEAGUE ROUND UP First division leaders West Pier had their 100% record shattered when they crashed 8-0 to title rivals Newlands, for whom Ryan Rivis and Ben Luntley both scored twice. Pier bounced back to beat Roscoes 11-1 in their next match (Luke Delve and Rob Speight both scoring four), followed by a 7-0 ewin at Fylingdales. Newlands, who beat Roscoes Bar 5-1 in their last outing are now 6 points behind West Pier, but have three games in hand. Third placed Trafalgar beat Heslerton 5-0 with goals from Liam Salt 2, Danny Price, Nick Ellis and Luke Jones.

hand on the leaders. Edgehill 3rds beat Seamer 3rds 9-1 with George Allen, Tom Scales and Kyle O'Toole each scoring twice, while Sherburn had six different scorers in their 6-2 home defeat of Goal Sports Res, Carl Sample, Dan Sheader, Paul Mills, Rich Malthouse, Kurt Williamson and Matt Whitehall. Ryan Matson and Sam Pickard both scored twice as ItIs ItIs Rovers won 4-0 against Hunmanby Reserves. A Chris Millson hat trick helped Commercial to a 5-1 win against Goal Sports Res, and Marc Usher struck 4 times as Fishburn Park beat Hunmanby Res 5-4.

NORTH RIDING CHALLENGE CUP The two remaining local sides both face opposition from the Eskvale & Cleveland League in the quarterfinals on 4 February. Four times winners of the trophy Edgehill are away to Great Ayton Royals, while Andy Spivey's West Pier are at home to Redcar Athletic Res. The other two ties are Bedale v Tockwith and Loftus Athletic v Huby United.

Cooper. In other ties West Pier needed extra time to overcome Filey Town 6-3, their goals coming from Will Jenkinson 3, Sean Exley 2 and Jimmy Beadle, while third division ItIs ItIs Rovers won 6-5 on penalties after a 2-2 draw at Whitby Fisherlads, Curtis Rose scoring both their goals. The last remaining quarter-final is on Saturday, 4 February, when Hunmanby United entertain Newlands Park.

LEAGUE TROPHY QUARTER FINALS Fishburn Park won 3-1 at home to Falsgrave Athletic to book their semi-final place. The three reamaining ties see Filey Town Res at home to Goldsborough United, and Scalby entertaining Goal Sports, both on 4 February, withherburn at home to Eastway Sports on 11 February.

FRANK WHITE TROPHY Eastway Sports have reached the final after a 3-0 defeat of Sherburn in the semi-final, whileformer Boro midfielder Gary Hepples struck a hat trick as Edgehill 3rds beat

In the second division Angel Athletic's run of twelve straight wins sees them an incredible 22 points clear at the top of the league. A Dave Bell hat trick helped them beat Scarborough Campus 9-3, then Ali Caw, Ben Davis and an own goal secured a 3-1 win against Ayton Res, followed by a 5-0 defeat of Scalby when the marksmen were Jackson Jowett 2, Dave Bell, Lloyd Henderson and Tyler Richardson. Simon Coupland hit a hat trick as Ayton Res beat Crown Tavern 6-0 in a bottom of the table battle.

SENIOR CUP QUARTER FINALS (To be played Sunday 12 February) Ayton v West Pier Cayton v First In Last Out Fylingdales v Heslerton Newlands v Roscoes Bar

SEMI FINALISTS Kenward Cup are Ayton, Crown Tavern, Fylingdales Reserves and Trafalgar, while in the Goal Sports Trophy the four semi-finalists are Angel Athletic, Ayton Reserves, Newlands Reserves and Scarborough Campus.

COASTAL SHELLFISH LEAGUE CUP Edgehill trounced Westover Wasps 6-0 in their quarter-final, with strikes from James Gunn 3, Dean Craig, Kieran Link and Liam

Extra Judo Sessions for Scarborough by Krystal Starkey JUDO enthusiasts in Scarborough can now take an extra training session each week. The town’s two clubs, despite being from different organisations, have come together to ensure more mat time for members of both clubs. Scarborough Judo Club, the long-standing British Judo Association outfit, run by Paul Johnson, trains at the Sports Centre on Thursday evenings, whilst Scarborough Ippon, a Judo For All club run by Dave

Hammond operates out of The Street on Wednesdays. But as of February 6, the two clubs will also run a joint session on Monday evenings, at the Sports Centre. Both instructors will take coaching responsibilities, with the idea that members of both clubs will get the opportunity to train with different people as well as getting an extra session in per week. n Dave Hammond can be contacted on 07525451454. Paul Johnston can be contacted on 07429134981

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THE BOROUGH OF SCARBOROUGH (OFF STREET PARKING PLACES) ORDER 2012

The Council hereby gives NOTICE in exercise of its powers under Sections 35(1), 35(3) and 35C of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 and Regulation 25 of the Local Authorities’ Traffic Orders (Procedure) (England and Wales) RegulationsFebruary 1996 that it is to vary 42 - Issue the current parking tariff for ‘Pay and Display’ off–street parking in Schedule B and permit charges in Schedule C to the Borough of Scarborough (Off-Street Parking Places ) Order 2012 The Variation is to introduce revised charges for Pay and Display, and Parking Permits as set out in the attached tables.

Scarborough Review SCARBOROUGH BOROUGH COUNCIL NOTICE OF VARIATION – PARKING CHARGES THE BOROUGH OF SCARBOROUGH (OFF STREET PARKING PLACES) ORDER 2012

SCARBOROUGH BOROUGH COUNCIL NOTICE OF VARIATION – PARKING CHARGES THE BOROUGH OF SCARBOROUGH (OFF STREET PARKING PLACES) ORDER 2012

Pay and Display Tariffs

The Council hereby gives NOTICE in exercise of its powers under Sections 35(1), 35(3) and 35C of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 and Regulation 25 of the Local Authorities’ Traffic Orders (Procedure) (England and Wales) Regulations 1996 that it is to vary the current parking tariff for ‘Pay and Display’ off–street parking in Schedule B and permit charges in Schedule C to the Borough of Scarborough (Off-Street Parking Places ) Order 2012 The Variation is to introduce revised charges for Pay and Display, and Parking Permits as set out in the attached tables.

Car Park

Duration

Existing Charge

Proposed Charge

3.Castle Road (excluding July and August)

2 hours

£3.00

Pay and Display Tariffs

Scarborough Car Parks

Car Park

Duration

Whitby Car Parks

Existing Charge

Proposed Charge

Car Park

44.Church Street

Duration

3.Castle Road (excluding July and August)

2 hours

£3.00

7.Friarsway

4 hours

£5.00

2 hours

12.North Terrace

6 hours

£6.50

£7.00

3 hours

26.Westwood

24 hours

£7.50

£8.00

Existing Charge

1 hour

£2.00

Proposed Charge £2.00

£4.00

£6.00

4 hours

27.William Street

6 hours

The Council hereby gives NOTICE in exercise of its powers under Sections 35(1), 35(3) and 35C of the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 and Regulation 25 of the Local Authorities’ Traffic Orders (Procedure) (England and Wales) Regulations 1996 that it is to vary the current parking tariff for ‘Pay and Display’ off–street parking in Schedule B and permit charges in Schedule C to the Borough of Scarborough (Off-Street Parking Places ) Order 2012 The Variation is to introduce revised charges for Pay and Display, and Parking Permits as set out in the attached tables. Car Park

Duration

4.Eastborough

1 hour

9.Marine Drive **

2 hours

15.Quay Street

3 hours

20.South Bay Underground

6 hours

Existing Charge

Proposed Charge

£2.00

£4.00

£6.00

24 hours

£7.50

£8.00

Existing Charge

Proposed Charge

13.Northstead Lower

1 hour

£2.00

21.Spa Drive

2 hours

22.Spa Forecourt

3 hours

£4.00

28.West Pier

6 hours

£6.00

25.Weaponess Valley Road

24 hours

£7.50

Duration

Existing Charge

Proposed Charge

£2.00

Car Park

18.Scalby Mills **

1 hour

23.Victoria Park **

2 hours

Car Park

£7.50

£8.00

Duration

Existing Charge

Proposed Charge

58.Endeavour Wharf

2 hours

£3.00

51.Marina Back

4 hours

£5.00

£6.50

Duration

Car Park

24 hours

6 hours

£6.50

£7.00

Scarborough Car Parks

3 hours

26.Westwood

24 hours

£7.50

£8.00

4 hours 6 hours

£6.00

Duration

Existing Charge

Proposed Charge

24 hours

£7.50

£8.00

4.Eastborough

1 hour

£2.00

Duration

Existing Charge

Proposed Charge

9.Marine Drive **

2 hours

58.Endeavour Wharf

2 hours

£3.00

15.Quay Street

3 hours

£4.00

51.Marina Back

4 hours

£5.00

20.South Bay Underground

6 hours

£6.00

£6.50

6 hours

£6.50

£7.00

27.William Street Car Park

24 hours

£7.50

£8.00

Duration

Existing Charge

Proposed Charge

13.Northstead Lower

1 hour

£2.00

21.Spa Drive

2 hours

Car Park

£2.00

2 hours

£3.00

4 hours

£5.00

£6.00

6 hours

£6.00

£8.00

24 hours

£7.50

£8.00

Duration

Existing Charge

Proposed Charge

1 hour

£1.50

3 hours

£4.00

2 hours

£2.60

6 hours

£3.60

6 hours

£6.00

£7.00

4 hours

£4.60

24 hours

£7.50

£8.00

6 hours

£5.60

Car Park

Duration

Existing Charge

Proposed Charge

24 hours

£7.50

£8.00

14.Northstead Upper **

1 hour

£1.50

Duration

Existing Charge

Proposed Charge

Car Park

2 hours

£2.50

43.Abbey Headland **

1 hour

£2.00

6 hours

£5.00

£6.00

49.Pavilion Top **

2 hours

£3.00

24 hours

£7.00

£8.00

48.Pavilion Drive **

6 hours

£5.50

£6.00

£6.50

£7.00

** - All Seasonal charging from 1 March to 31 October

53.West Cliff **

£4.00

2 hours

£7.00

£2.00

3 hours

£4.00

£5.00

1 hour

£4.00

£2.00

£6.50

£8.00

£4.00

£2.00

£5.00

Proposed Charge

3 hours

1 hour

4 hours

£7.50

46.St Hildas Terrace

Proposed Charge

6 hours

Existing Charge

Car Park

Existing Charge

7.Friarsway

24 hours

50.Marina Front

44.Church Street

Duration

12.North Terrace

Duration

Car Park

Whitby Car Parks Car Park

Car Park

Car Park 50.Marina Front

24 hours

£7.50

£8.00

Duration

Existing Charge

Proposed Charge

1 hour

£2.00

2 hours

£3.00

22.Spa Forecourt

3 hours

£4.00

4 hours

£5.00

28.West Pier

6 hours

£6.00

6 hours

£6.00

25.Weaponess Valley Road

24 hours

£7.50

£8.00

24 hours

£7.50

£8.00

Duration

Existing Charge

Proposed Charge

Duration

Existing Charge

Proposed Charge

18.Scalby Mills **

1 hour

£2.00

23.Victoria Park **

2 hours

Car Park

1 hour

£1.50

2 hours

£2.60

£4.00

3 hours

£3.60

£6.00

£7.00

4 hours

£4.60

24 hours

£7.50

£8.00

6 hours

£5.60

Car Park

Duration

Existing Charge

Proposed Charge

24 hours

£7.50

£8.00

14.Northstead Upper **

1 hour

£1.50

Car Park

Duration

Existing Charge

Proposed Charge

2 hours

£2.50

43.Abbey Headland **

1 hour

£2.00

6 hours

£5.00

£6.00

49.Pavilion Top **

2 hours

£3.00

24 hours

£7.00

£8.00

48.Pavilion Drive **

6 hours

** - All Seasonal charging from 1 March to 31 October

46.St Hildas Terrace

53.West Cliff **

£5.50

£6.00

£6.50

£7.00

24 hours

Harbour Parking Permits/Charges (Inc VAT) Harbour Parking Permits/Charges (Inc VAT) Permit Type

Existing Charge

Proposed Charge

59.Marina users car park:

Permit Type

Permit Type Existing Charge

Proposed Charge

Visiting Commercial vessels – weekly charge (28&58)

£25.00

£28.00

28.West Pier, 30Vincent Pier & 58.Endeavour Wharf :

Proposed Charge

59.Marina users car park:

Permit Type

Existing Charge

Proposed Charge

Visiting Commercial vessels – weekly charge (28&58)

£25.00

£28.00

£192.61

£196.46

28.West Pier, 30Vincent Pier & 58.Endeavour Wharf :

Visitors and slipway launches/boat trailer – daily charge

£7.50

£8.00

Berth holders on pontoons – annual

£125.00

£150.00

Commercial Harbour users 1st & 2nd permit

£288.92

Crew Permit -annual

£151.00

£176.00

3rd Permit

£283.25

£288.92

4th Permit

£435.07

£443.77

Visitors and slipway launches/boat trailer – daily charge

£7.50

£8.00

Berth holders on pontoons – annual

£125.00

£150.00

Commercial Harbour users 1st & 2nd permit

£192.61

£196.46

Crew Permit -annual

£151.00

£176.00

3rd Permit

£283.25

57.Fish Quay:

Existing Charge

4th Permit

£435.07

£443.77

57.Fish Quay:

Harbour users – annual

£230.00

£234.60

5th Permit

£541.57

£552.40

Harbour users – annual

£230.00

£234.60

5th Permit

£541.57

£552.40

Non Harbour users - annual

£507.58

£513.73

Annual Permit

£507.58

£513.73

Non Harbour users - annual

£507.58

£513.73

Annual Permit

£507.58

£513.73

The above variation to charges will take effect on 01 March 2017 In all other respects, the provisions of the current Borough of Scarborough (Off-Street Parking Places ) Order 2012 will remain in force. A copy of this Notice of Variation and the Order are available for inspection at the Council Offices as well as at www.scarborough.gov.uk Date: 1st February 2017 Trevor Watson, Director

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