Gainsborough

EXPERTS from Flamingo Park Zoo at Kirby Misperton near Pickering were involved in a search for missing white whale that had been spotted blowing near flooded fields in the swollen River Trent at Gainsborough - 80 miles from the sea.

PRINCIPLED and combative, Dr Shirley Eileen Hoyes, who has died age 83, was an inveterate traveller and redoubtable critic of the controversial procedure which resulted in 121 children on Teesside being taken from their families and placed in care between February and July of 1987. Eventually all but 27 were returned to their families.