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The Thirsk Weekly News is a family-owned paper for Thirsk and the surrounding area

THIRSK CONSERVATIVE CLUB - ANNUAL LEEK & VEGETABLE SHOW...

28th August, 2020.

Last Sunday saw the Thirsk Conservative Club Annual Leeks and Vegetable Show. The growing season has been difficult for growers this year with varying periods of super hot sunshine and long periods of excessive rain. Many different types of vegetables ‘peeking’ several weeks before the show. There was a good show of both Leeks and different types of vegetables. (TO READ THE REST OF THIS ARTICLE PLEASE SEE THE NEWSPAPER)

Tucker Talks...

28th August, 2020.

This is normally the silly season, the month when journalists and their normal prey go on holiday, Parliament is asleep and stories about Prime Ministers camping in tents make the front page for want of anything more serious. The most unusual picture caption of the month is probably the story of a chap at a German nudist camp chasing a wild boar which had made off with his laptop. However, there is little silliness at present as the number of Covid-19 infections rose above 1100 per day and the risk grows of once again losing those freedoms which we lost under lockdown. There is no doubt in my mind that it is imperative to reopen schools in some way that protects the children and particularly the staff. Is it a reasonable trade-off to reduce our freedom to shop or go out drinking and eating in order to keep the “R” rate – a new piece of information in our pandemic world – low? (TO READ THE REST OF THIS ARTICLE PLEASE SEE THE NEWSPAPER)

First Group Travel Visit after Lockdown at World of James Herriot...

28th August, 2020.

The first group of guests travelling by coach organised by Kirby’s Coaches of Rayleigh, Essex has visited the World of James Herriot, the award-winning attraction in Thirsk after the Covid-19 lockdown. Lockdown prevented group travel due to social distancing rules but now that these restrictions have been eased by implementing mitigating arrangements both onboard the coach and at the attraction which has a new one-way route. (TO READ THE REST OF THIS ARTICLE PLEASE SEE THE NEWSPAPER)