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The Thirsk Weekly News is a family-owned paper for Thirsk and the surrounding area
29th October, 2021.
Detectives have now confirmed that the victim of the assault, who had been fighting for life in hospital since the incident, has sadly died without regaining consciousness.
Last week, North Yorkshire Police appealed for information and witnesses after a serious assault in Thirsk left a man fighting for his life in hospital.
Detectives have now confirmed that the victim of the assault, who had been fighting for life in hospital since the incident, has sadly died without regaining consciousness.
He was 32-year-old Alan Barefoot, who was from South Kilvington, and had recently become a father again to a newborn daughter just a couple of weeks ago. He is pictured here with his daughter.
His devasted girlfriend Charlotte, has paid tribute to him as she urges anyone with any information about the assault to come forward to police.
“Alan was such an amazing boyfriend, son, brother, and friend to everyone who knew him. He was one of life’s good guys and just an all-round brilliant person.
“He was also the best daddy to our newborn daughter and our hearts have been shattered into a million pieces. It’s not possible to put into words how much we will miss him......
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29th October, 2021.
The friends of Thirsk Community Primary School PTA organized a fabulous School Disco for Halloween aptly named 'The Boo Bash' .
The dedicated PTA team have spent a lot of time organizing this event and the School hall was transformed into a Halloween setting with pumpkins, spider webs and spooky decorations. We had a treat stall and facepainting and lots of dancing......
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29th October, 2021.
Thirsk took their fifth win in five league games in convincing style beating Rowntrees RUFC 57-7 who up to this game were Y4 leaders.
Thirsk got off to the best possible start with an early opportunist try as Thirsk’s fly half Chris Wood spotted space behind Tree’s rush defence and chipped the ball over for Thirsk’s wing Orisi Katalau to catch at speed, wrong foot the full back and run in from 30metres to dot down under the posts unapposed.
Alex Shepherd added the extras 7-0 within 10 minutes.
Thirsk then extended the lead with a well work try, finishing on the left wing, the conversion missed by Shepherd from wide out.
Thirsk’s forwards dominated the visitors forwards in the scrum and line out allowing them little of the ball to put up any sort of sustained momentum into their game.
With this dominance in the forwards the home side hit a 20 minute purple patch of 3 unanswered tries.
Starting with a fantastic team try, linking 8-10 different players before the ball eventually fell to Wood to score to the left of the posts and the conversion added again from Shepherd, making the score 26-0......
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29th October, 2021.
Pupils from a local independent school learnt the importance of CPR while partaking in Restart a Heart Day.
Cundall Manor School, near Thirsk, joined schools from across the country to take part in restart a heart day. This programme equips pupils with life-saving CPR training.
Pupils from Year 5 to Year 11 joined in the training which endeavors to teach members of the public how to help restart the heart of someone who has suffered cardiac arrest......
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22nd October, 2021.
In preparation for the Remembrance Sunday march, silence and wreath-laying on 14 November, Sowerby War Memorial has been cleaned and the lettering repainted, and it looks excellent......
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22nd October, 2021.
As part of the worldwide 2021 Big Draw Festival, pupils at Queen Mary’s School, near Thirsk, have brought drawing to life with their ‘Make the Change’ Big Draw event.
With themes including Respecting Nature, The World We Want and Reusing Resources, pupils from ages 7 – 16 came to the beautiful double-height Art Studio to get creative. Pupils used many types of media from Fabriano, natural forms and acrylic screens to Posca pens, cardboard and recycled paper......
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22nd October, 2021.
Thirsk Falcons U8 Blues had an early rise this weekend, travelling to the picturesque Yorkshire Dales town of Hawes. A damp and fresh morning welcomed the team.
The match commenced with Falcons dominating, using individual skills to prevent the opposition from gaining a break and when Hawes did find some space it was quickly closed down.
On the occasion of Hawes finding a clear shot at goal, the Falcons keeper maintained composure, confidence and determination, performing some strong saves......
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22nd October, 2021.
Another busy weekend, with members at several races, saw the bulk of them at the Whixley 10k, a pleasant multi terrain race and the latest in the Club Championship series.
The winner of the race, and not actually in the photograph, was, for the second weekend in quick succession, Paul Peacock in a time of 38.13, almost a minute quicker than the second placed runner (photo courtesy David Baker)......
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15th October, 2021.
Last week, South Kilvington sent 42 children to compete in the annual cross-country race at Thirsk High School. All children competed extremely well as they raced children from other local schools. The children showed a great deal of courage as they gave it everything......
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15th October, 2021.
The thing that greets you when you walk into the East Thirsk Community Hall on a morning when the Parent, Baby and Toddler Group is in session is the happy noise of children running, playing, talking and laughing. Mums and sometimes Dads or grandparents are there too, but they tend to be a little quieter. I was invited to meet with Project Manager Jackie Wilson and Playleaders Amanda and Sara. As the children, including one or two dressed as princesses, played, Jackie recounted the difficulties they had faced during lockdown, but back on course they now attract families not just from East Thirsk but from a wide area, as far indeed as Easingwold. They run four sessions a week, some morning, some afternoon......
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15th October, 2021.
Another display that highlighted the development of the team. A tight early exchange that needed a special opening goal to really bring the game to life.
A long range effort finally broke the deadlock for the Clarets.
The game became open with both teams exchanging goals and eventually saw Thirsk Falcons take a narrow lead at half time.
The second half saw Thirsk play some fantastic link up play and were so effective in their transition from defence to attack......
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15th October, 2021.
Thirsk & Sowerby Leisure Centre will open its doors last Wednesday in October after undergoing a £4M pound makeover.
Work on the centre began in February this year with planned upgrades and extensions now complete, bringing it bang up to date.
The centre will now boast a gym three times the size of the old facility which will be fully equipped with market leading Technogym equipment, which for the first time, will be operational 24/7......
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8th October, 2021.
A permanent solution is being drawn up to repair the footpath connecting St James Green with Marage Road in Thirsk which is in danger of collapsing into the river.
In May, North Yorkshire County Council closed the public right of way after reports of cracks and movement of the pavement.
Inspections revealed that the route has been severely affected by river erosion to the retaining wall, damaging and reducing the structural integrity of the iron footbridge as well as the path leading to it......
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8th October, 2021.
On Saturday last, White Rose Books in Thirsk, held a very special author event and book signing with the recent second and enlarged edition of “All Memories Great and Small” by Oliver Crocker, about the making of the original, and much loved, BBC television series “All Creatures Great and Small”, which Channel Five have recently remade very successfully in two new series so far.
Oliver brought along Ali Lewis, who played a young Rosie Herriot, Paul Lyon who was young Jimmy Herriot in series four, and Jessica Sewell, who was Mary, granddaughter to Thora Hird in two episodes......
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8th October, 2021.
Pride of place this week surely goes to Paul Peacock, winner of the Round Ripon Ultra over a challenging multi terrain course of 35 miles, with Andrew Price in 3rd place not too far behind.
Eight Harriers out of a field of 92 set out under broken cloud following Ripon Rowel, fairly flat to begin with, along the River Ure towards Masham. The rain started 2 hours earlier than forecast as the route turned to the west to pass through Swinton Bivouac and the next few miles saw 2000 feet of climb along moor tops and through several small villages.
The final section took in the very pretty Eavestone Lake before returning to Studley Roger via Fountains Abbey deer park......
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1st October, 2021.
Our latest crisis involves supplies of petrol and diesel to keep our cars, lorries and buses, our ambulances and fire engines on the move. Last weekend I heard the Transport Secretary assuring the world that there is no fuel shortage.
Why then do we have motorists driving from petrol station to petrol station, finding either long queues or no fuel at all? Last Monday morning I watched as Tesco's petrol station in the centre of Thirsk closed for business, with the staff assuring me that a delivery was expected soon.
Fortunately the other petrol stations in the area were still supplying fuel, although they were clearly busier than usual, and Tesco was soon partially reopened......
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1st October, 2021.
Sandhutton and Breckenbrough village hall is set to benefit from improvement work thanks to a community fund linked to the development of the new Crematorium for Hambleton at Maple Park.
The funding will pay for the outdoor space to be enhanced and updated, improved disabled access and toilet provisions and the replacement of the existing lighting with new LED lights.
The community fund YOR4Good, supports economic regeneration and is funded by donations of cash or benefits from contractors when they are awarded contracts. In this case, Willmott Dixon is the contractor who is currently developing the new Maple Park site which will feature the new Hambleton Crematorium on behalf of Hambleton District Council......
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1st October, 2021.
6 Regiment RLC (normally based at Topcliffe) deployed on Op TOSCA have been awarded medals for their work as part of the United Nations peacekeeping force in Cyprus. Over the last 8 months they have been tasked with maintaining the 180km (111.8miles) buffer zone which has divided the island since 1974. The Force Commander attended Ledra Palace Hotel in Nicosia to present every soldier with their United Nations Peacekeeping medal on 21st Sep.
The around 300 strong force is unusually diverse and contains 75 attached personnel drawn from 23 different units as well as 23 Reservists. Staff Sergeant Gadsby is a heavy goods driver and like the other deployed Reservists he put down his civilian work for nine months to deploy. “It’s a fantastic opportunity for us” he said. “People have set aside their careers, put on their uniform and have served their country diligently and professionally side by side our regular counterparts......
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1st October, 2021.
A Thirsk swimming instructor has been named as a finalist in the Amplifon Awards For Brave Britons 2021 after becoming the youngest woman to row solo across the Atlantic.
Jasmine Harrison, who at only 21 completed the 3,000-mile journey single-handedly, has reached the final four of the Against All Odds category in global-hearing specialist Amplifon’s search for the ‘Best of British’ heroes.
She will now be invited to the virtual awards presentation next Tuesday. The event will be hosted by BBC1 TV Breakfast and Radio 5 Live presenter Rachel Burden and Falklands War hero Simon Weston will be guest of honour......
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