A WROUGHT iron replica of the Queen’s coronation crown on the Crown roundabout in Harrogate will be presented to the public on the first weekend of May if fundraisers can reach the target of £7,000.

A WORLD record attempt is taking place in Knaresborough this weekend and you can be part of it!

ME and My Girl was an excellent antidote to the freezing weather outside the theatre.

Young visitors at Fountains Abbey have been encouraged to help our feathered friends by making their own bespoke bird boxes.

YOUNGSTERS from Ripon Youth Theatre will be performing hit musical The Wiz early next month.

A MAJOR conference will come to Harrogate this October - bringing more than £500,000 for the district’s economy.

HARROGATE born actor and director Hugo Speer, who announced his partnership with Harrogate Symphony Orchestra in January, says he hopes to personally attend the orchestra’s spring concert at the Royal Hall in March.

THE nations’ favourite human-cartoon double act, Big Howard Little Howard,, return to the stage with their brand new comedy spectacular Little Howard’s Big Show at Harrogate Theatre shortly.

HARROGATE International Festivals’ growing status has been confirmed by its latest programme of events.

THE curtain goes up next week on a play which scandalised a king as well as 19th century society in Scandinavia and Britain.

Showing from today, Friday

BIGGER, better and bolder, North Yorkshire’s top music festival is returning this year more ambitious than ever and with a new audience capacity of 6,000.

THE Fisher Singers, supported by opera stars from Covent Garden and pupils from St John Fisher’s School will perform two contrasting works at the grand re-opening concert at St Peter’s Church in Harrogate next Friday.

Pancakes will be flying when Ripon stages its traditional Shrove Tuesday races next week.

FOR anyone who loves the dazzling, fractured art pop of Field Music’s new album Plumb, just released this week, and who’s thinking of going to see them live at the Brudenell Social Club in Leeds next Monday night but is wondering how on earth they manage to replicate their intricate songs on stage, I have a simple message: don’t worry, they don’t really try to.

IN bygone days, if you wanted to convert an outbuilding, add on a bedroom or build a conservatory, you just did it.

ONE thing is for sure, Basil Fawlty would never have pulled this off.

A LOTTERY grant of £45,000 is set ot breathe new life into Harrogate’s Royal Hall.

A FREEMAN and former Mayor of Ripon made it a ‘full house’ when he carried out one of Ripon’s traditional civic jobs.

A KNARESBOROUGH indie band has decided to dedicate the launch gig for their new CD to the Sadie Rose Clifford appeal.