Environment

A FARMER who has created an inland salt marsh on one of England’s most important nature reserves has been named winner of the Yorkshire Agricultural Society’s Tye Trophy, which recognises the contribution of commercial growers to conservation and environmental improvement.

From: Colin Pyrah, Beckhole, Whitby.

Angry residents have called for action in a Doncaster area village they say is being swamped by thousands of flies.

Despite a degree in political science and a psephologist’s interest in elections, I did not see the general election result coming.

The boss of Barclays bank has said that agriculture will be a very important sector of British economic policy in the coming years as he pledged to loan a further £100m to British farmers.

A Yorkshire brewery famous for its best bitter took the drinks industry by surprise yesterday by launching a German-inspired lager at the Great Yorkshire Show.

IT’S Wensleydale, but not as we know it. The taste is traditionally Yorkshire, but it no longer crumbles in your fingers.

THE Met Office did its ambiguous best to put a positive spin on the weather for the opening day of the Great Yorkshire Show. It would rain, it said, but then brighten - though showers would continue.

SHE had not set foot in Yorkshire since childhood, but as she looked at the puddles beneath her feet, the place looked instantly familiar.

He should have been at the show with his stock of Ayrshires. Instead, they presented a trophy in his memory.

IT’S been a dream come true to head up the Great Yorkshire Show, an event close to my heart. Never did I realise when I was a young boy sat in the grandstand with my parents that I would be in the position I am now.

I’M not sure I want to live in an “enclave of the affluent”. We moved house last year. It wasn’t a purposeful decision to be closer to the countryside.

The garden needed rain by the beginning of the week, and it certainly got it.

WHAT SORT of democratic local authority threatens legal action against those who disagree with it?

Restaurant goers in Harrogate could start to see the first ‘micro’ greens in the north of England making their way onto the menu.

Purple bilberries, many of them fat and juicy, were growing on moorland above Oxenhope in the Worth Valley at the weekend, yet books on foraging insist they should not be ripe enough for picking until August and September.

Thousands of people turned out to discover more about threatened habitats at events across the country to mark National Meadows Day, including a big turnout at a community woodland meadow near York.

A renowned Yorkshire ornithologist who has studied seabirds for more than 45 years has been recognised for his outstanding contribution to the communication of science.