Tamsin worked for BBC News for 20 years. She was the former Head of BBC Yorkshire and the North West of England. As a radio and TV journalist and Editor she covered major events such as the Hillsborough Tragedy, the 7/7 Bombings and the trial of Harold Shipman. Tamsin has lived in the Harrogate area for the past 15 years.
Tickets for next year’s Great Yorkshire Show will be available to buy from Wednesday, November 1. Since 2021 tickets are only sold in advance with visitor numbers capped at 35,000 a day. Next year's 165th show will run from Tuesday, July 9, to Friday, July 12. Last...
An open-top bus will take visitors around Harrogate as part of the Christmas experience. The sight-seeing bus is to be part of the town’s Christmas Fayre in December which has been extended this year to help draw in more visitors. The bus will be provided by Transdev...
Luxury lingerie company Rigby & Peller’s innovative ‘3D mirror’ takes 140 measurements of a customer’s upper body in less than a minute and instantly determines their exact bra size.
Leeds Bradford Airport has re-opened after a plane veered off the runway in yesterday's storm Babet. The TUI Airways flight from Corfu went off the runway and onto the grass after landing at around 1.53pm in heavy rain. None of the 195 passengers and crew were...
Sean Donkin dropped out of university to run a pub, much to his father's dismay. Now chief executive of the Inn Collection Group, he has overseen the acquisition and renovation of three well known hotels in the district — the St George in Harrogate, the Dower House in...
The Stray Ferret Business Club’s next meeting is a breakfast event on Thursday, October 26 at Banyan in Harrogate from 8am to 10 am. The Business Club provides monthly opportunities to network, make new connections and hear local success stories. Get your tickets...
Harrogate vegetarian café, Delicious, is to host art exhibitions every month highlighting the talents of local artists. The café, on Mayfield Grove, has only been open since June this year. It’s owner, Olivier Roch, told the Stray Ferret that he wants it to become a...
The annual Hopewalk will take place in Harrogate's Valley Gardens this Sunday in support of Papyrus, a UK charity that aims to prevent suicide in young people. Over the last six years Harrogate Grammar School has supported the event in memory of one of its students,...
Invited guests got a sneak preview today of the new Ripon Inn hotel. The Inn Collection Group, bought the former landmark Ripon Spa Hotel in June 2021 and began redevelopment work 13 months ago. The group's managing director says the final bill for the work has been...
The manager of Clarks shoes in Harrogate has said a serious sexual assault in an alleyway behind the store would 'never have happened' if gates had gone up earlier to block it off. The alleyway behind James Street and Market Place was the scene of a serious sexual...
Harrogate Lioness Rachel Daly has had a grass pitch at her former football club in Killinghall named in her honour. Daly trained with Killinghall Nomads at the start of her footballing career as a young girl. She has gone to be one of the best female footballers in...
