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Linda Viney takes a look at some of the prize winning ideas from Yorkshire at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show

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New ideas blossom at flower show

Linda Viney strolls around the exhibits at the Harrogate Spring Flower Show looking for new ideas and isn’t disappointed...

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Seeds of change

What's new at Yorkshire's premier spring flower show? HARROGATE Spring Flower Show is growing. New events, displays and competitions mean it looks set to get the national horticultural show season off to a flying start. The 81st annual show, which runs from April 24th to 27th, is organised on behalf of the North of England Horticultural Society and covers 22 acres of the Great Yorkshire Showground. Just short of 60,000 people attended last year – a figure the organisers are hoping to top this time.

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Growing Vegetables

Lesley Wild is very much a driving force behind the development of Bettys Cafe Tea Rooms and the company cookery school. Now she has written a family recipe book that reveals her passion for not only preparing seasonal food but growing it too.

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Search for the garden of the year

Win £1,000 worth of mature plants and a £900 John Deere lawn mower...

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Prickly problem

Head gardener Chris Robinson learns to take care as he tends a college cacti collection. Linda Viney reports

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Pretty as a picture

It is one of the finest bays on the East Coast. Penny Wainwright reports from Runswick. PHOTOGRAPHS BY MIKE KIPLING

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Home grown success stories

Linda Viney takes a look at some of the prize winning ideas from Yorkshire at this year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show

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Rita Britton

A famous Yorkshire designer who put Barnsley on the fashion map? That’ll be Rita Britton, then. Tony Greenway finds out about her Yorkshire life…
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Malton's moving forward

Chris Titley visits a traditional Yorkshire market town with its eyes on the future. PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANDY BULMER


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Headingley-It's just not cricket

Headingley is more than just the home of Geoffrey Boycott’s hundredth 100. It’s a Leeds village suburb with a mixed community, a very positive vibe and a get-up-and-go local development trust as Tony Greenway discovers. PHOTOGRAPHS BY SAM ATKINS

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Great days

As the Great Yorkshire Show reaches a milestone anniversary, Jo Haywood talks to one of its past honorary directors

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Huddersfield Life

The busy West Yorkshire town of Huddersfield is set for a multi-million pound makeover. Jo Haywood reports PHOTOGRAPHS: LEO ROSSER

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The rise of Reeth

Maggie Stratton finds out what it’s like to live in an historic Yorkshire Dales village. With a century of life here between them, there’s little Gordon and Enid Walker can’t tell you about Reeth – the picturesque market village at the junction of Yorkshire’s two most northerly dales.  
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Golcar- Lily of the valley

Penny Wainwright visits a former textile town that has blossomed in the Colne Valley. Take walking boots and a camera, advises one guide to Golcar. It’s a good tip: they’re invaluable for climbing its steep streets and cobbled ginnels, and for capturing some spectacular views across the Colne Valley. spectacular views across the Colne Valley.
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Scarborough- It's just grand

Scarborough is a favourite with holidaymakers, Yorkshire’s artistic community and house hunters with an eye for a property bargain. Tony Greenway visits this popular East Coast resort PHOTOGRAPHS BY MIKE KIPLING

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Harrogate- Overflowing with culture

The halls are alive with the sound of music, readings, singing, fun and laughter. Jo Haywood finds something for everyone in Harrogate PHOTOGRAPHS BY MIKE KIPLING



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Hats off to Ilkley

Jo Haywood travels to one of West Yorkshire's busiest towns to visit a very special centenarian Photographs: Sam Atkins and Leo Rosser
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