Mayor vows to draw line in the sand to protect one of last villages from development
Andy Preston said it was time to draw a line in the sand and resist attempts to dilute the character of the village
16:00, 24 APR 2021
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Middlesbrough s Mayor says he s determined to work with local people to protect one of the town s last villages from future development.
Continued pollution fears as village green remains closed thenorthernecho.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thenorthernecho.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
OVE Tuesday may well have slipped by without there being hardly a whimper this year, but exactly 100 years ago on ‘pancake day’ there was a land-mark local sporting occasion. Skipton’s Mr Sport, Roger Ingham - himself a one time winner of the annual race - tells me it was the last time that the historic Ermysted’s Grammar School cross-country race - a notable event in those distant days – would finish in Skipton High Street. “Ever mounting traffic from 1922 and since, thus prompted the organisers, for numerable decades thereafter, to finish the races on the “Top” behind the school and which itself appears, the last time I was up there, to not be once grand ‘mini Lord’s’ that it once was.
Residents wait as parish council stalls over village green re-opening
Further samples have been taken after problems with pollution
12:45, 5 MAR 2021
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Residents look set to wait a little longer before they can return to using a village green which was closed because of a pollution issue.
Gates leading to Kell Gate Green in the Middlesbrough village of Stainton have been padlocked since last November after water from a beck was found to contain raw effluent and other pollutants which posed a significant risk to public health.
Village green in Stainton still closed because of pollution thenorthernecho.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thenorthernecho.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.