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Ruth Hansom has just been named chef of the year. Picture taken by Yorkshire Post Photographer Simon Hulme

The award-winning chef making waves from her Yorkshire restaurant
Ruth Hansom has just been named National Chef of the Year – the first woman in its more than 50 year history. Catherine Scott visits her at her eponymous Bedale...

Bedale Hunt's hounds in the main ring at the Great Yorkshire Show.

Trail hunting ban ‘will damage the farming community’

Bedale Grammar School left built on Wycar in 1888 photograph taken July 18 1968

The Yorkshire village known as the ‘Gateway to the Dales’

The Applegarth car park in Northallerton where EV chargers were installed.

Out-of-order EV chargers finally set to be replaced in North Yorkshire

Catterick Garrison: Fire crews tackle blaze at accommodation block

Taylor Ashworth

Best pictures from Hunton Steam Gathering 2026

Heck Foods is set to expand into frozen foods next year after a multi-million-pound extension to its Bedale facility.. (Photo by Darren Staples - Pool/Getty Images)

Heck: Yorkshire sausage-maker set to expand into frozen foods next year

Carl Les is the leader of North Yorkshire Council. PIC: Bruce Rollinson

Roads play a vital role across the region - Carl Les

Class 37 train. (Pic credit: Nick Keegan)

Tour of Britain 2026: Railway announces special park and ride train service

A North Yorkshire Police car PIC: James Hardisty

Place should be at the heart of police reform - Jo Coles

Crakehall Hall, near Bedale. Picture: Knight Frank

Inside Crakehall Hall - the Grade II Georgian country house on sale for £3m

Aysgarth station

The 200-year history of railway lines running through Wensleydale

A Swiss Air Force F-18 Hornet on Exercise YORKNITE takes off at RAF Leeming in North Yorkshire

A1 drivers warned over billowing smoke from fire next to RAF Leeming

Matt Jameson who is the operations manager of Out Together, a charity which brings together people from the LGBTQ+ community.
Picture Bruce Rollinson

How farmer who hid secret all his life is helping gay community after his death

Mill Farm is a detached stone built four bedroom family house on the outskirts of the picturesque village of Snape, near Bedale.

Dream Dales farmhouse with cottage, stables and 26 acres for sale at £1.5m

Manor House Farm is a distinctive Grade II-listed country home, which blends period character with modern living.

Inside the fabulous £2m farmhouse where the owners built their own nightclub

Owner of Yorkshire restaurant told to stop giving free lifts home to customers

North Yorkshire Council's HQ at County Hall, Northallerton.

Council plans to buy 10 affordable houses in two Yorkshire market towns

Thorp Perrow. (Pic credit: Simon Hulme)

Thorp Perrow Arboretum offers free entry on Boxing Day

Peter Fall lays a wreath each year to remember four people who died in a devastating RAF crash on his land

Farmer remembers RAF air crash on his land 55 years on

Body of man found in river after search for missing person in North Yorkshire
Officers searching for a missing person in North Yorkshire have found a man’s body in a river in Hambleton.
Daniel Sheridan

Omaze's Yorkshire House Draw.

Inside £4.5M six-bedroom Yorkshire home up for grabs in Omaze draw

Waitrose's plan to only offer free range pork has been welcomed by leading industry figure Stewart Houston.

Praise for ‘global supermarket first’

Giles Gilby from Masham pictured with his Steam Traction Engine at the show Picture taken by Yorkshire Post Photographer Simon Hulme

Hunton Steam Gathering 2025: Best pictures from steam engine festival

The steam engine event. (Pic credit: Hunton Steam Gathering)

Hunton Steam Gathering 2025: Yorkshire Dales steam engine festival returns

Millwall striker Josh Coburn, who faces former club Middlesbrough on Saturday.

Millwall v Middlesbrough: A tale of two strikers on reunion day

Armed police

Armed police shoot 'Alsatian-type dog' after it bit man and officer

A motorhome travelling through the countryside. PIC: Alamy/PA

What is the essential nature of a successful retirement? - Carl Les

Lionel Green and Alison Barnes pictured by Crakehall Watermill. Picture: Simon Hulme

'Accidental' miller puts home and business on the market for £1.3m

The location of the proposed solar farm near Bedale.

Historic landscape of proposed solar farm highlighted by objectors

L-R Emily Denman and Fezan Iqbal of Paul Rutter Opticians

Bespoke lens technology hailed a ‘game-changer’ by pioneering Bedale opticians

Toby Milbank, left, and Tom Robinson, directors of The Property Partnership Group. Picture: Charlotte Gale

These places led North Yorkshire house price growth over last decade
House prices in York and the Bedale villages have soared over the past decade, emerging as the region’s top performers.
Lizzie Murphy

ONE LAST PUSH: Lizzie Deignan of Lidl-TREK Climbs the Saltburn Bank during last year's Women's Road Race in the Lloyds Bank National Road Championships Picture: Olly Hassell/SWpix.com

Deignan on familiar ground as she eyes finishing line

Jack Croft, 30, suffered life changing injuries after the incident in Leyburn, North Yorkshire.

Yorkshire firm fined after a worker fell through roof of sheep barn

The location of the proposed solar farm between Bedale and Exelby.

Plans drawn up for large solar farm near Bedale which could power 13,000 homes

Houses under construction on a housing development. PIC: Andrew Matthews/PA Wire

Shared ownership can help people onto the housing ladder - Carl Les

The Ripon Group's donations waiting for collection

North Yorkshire’s super slimmers throw slimmed-out-of clothes for charity

House on Beaumont Gate development

Taylor Wimpey to host chocolate Easter egg hunt for Bedale residents

Northrop Cottage in Bedale. Picture: Buchanan Mitchell

For sale: Superb Yorkshire Dales home with fabulous 'cook's kitchen'

Jervaulx Abbey near East Witton. Picture By Yorkshire Post Photographer, James Hardisty.

Yorkshire bookshop owner's hidden Yorkshire gem where you barely see anyone else

David Skaith with Broadacres staff, from left to right, James Marley (Head of Construction and Investment), Gail Teasdale (Chief Executive), Helen Fielding (Director of Development and Investment) and Helen Simpson (Chair).

Residents prepare to move into homes at £19.5 million affordable housing develop...

Alan and Betty on their wedding day

Yorkshire care home couple reflect on six decades of marriage this Valentine’s D...

Sophie Waugh has been jailed for six years and eight months

Serving soldier jailed after killing 'much-loved' man in crash

Kirkby Fleetham Church of England Primary School. Photo: Google.

Yorkshire village school with just 18 pupils set to be closed down

The ground floor is entered into via a useful rear porch which extends through to the single garage, downstairs W.C and store room.

Characterful farmhouse in Bedale hits the market for the first time in 40 years

Wensleydale Railway train 45212 Nigel Cockburn.

Wensleydale Railway: Yorkshire railway to host mince pie train service

The home is set in approximately 0.27 acres of gardens and grounds.

For sale: Refurbishment project offers blank canvas with magnificent views

Kingsley Ash is the founder of Thornborough Cider in Bedale, North Yorkshire

Yorkshire cidery shortlisted for £25,000 small business grant

Chancellor Rachel Reeves poses outside 11 Downing Street, London, with her ministerial red box, before delivering her Budget in the Houses of Parliament. PIC: Lucy North/PA Wire

Does this Government not realise how important farming is? - YP Letters

Annie Laity bakes pastries for visitors to Bolton Castle - and they've been a big hit

Meet the adopted Yorkshirewoman who bakes pasties for visitors to Bolton Castle

The house from the rear shows how spacious it is

For sale: beautiful village home that was built to last

The house from the rear shows how spacious it is

For sale: beautiful village home that was built to last

Country Post columnist Jo Foster. Picture Tony Johnson.

Unforgettable day at the sales for breeder who scooped almost £400,000

Leeming Bar with the new platform surface, lights and renovated station building. (Pic credit: Nick Keegan / Wensleydale Railway)

Wensleydale Railway: Yorkshire Dales heritage railway wins Tripadvisor award

Heck has launched its first internship programme at the Great Yorkshire Show.

Sausage maker launches first internship programme at the Great Yorkshire Show

Residents at the North Yorkshire care home, which opened after a multi-million pound investment

Luxury coastal care home opened in North Yorkshire as chain eyes up expansion in...

HECK! has installed 433 solar electricity panels, capable of generating 200,000 kwh per year, 20 per cent of the factory energy, at its Yorkshire headquarters.

HECK! Food invests in solar energy production at its Yorkshire headquarters

Chef Ruth Hansom. (Picture: Sarah Standing)

The new restaurant in Bedale with an award-winning young chef at the helm

Bedale school partners with Tesco stores to ensure people don’t go without

Bedale school partners with Tesco stores to ensure people don’t go without

Andrew Barker, who is Clerk of the Course for Bedale Point to Point Races at Hornby Castle.

Why point to point is becoming one of Yorkshire's most popular spectator sports

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