A strawberry was plucked a few days ago in Mr Geldard’s garden at Paradise in Swaledale near Richmond, in this county, which measured one way six inches and a quarter, and the other five inches in circumference. it weighed one ounce.

Reeth Rural District Council. Danger Signals. Mr Guy called attention to a recommendation made by the Surveyor some time ago respecting the erection of motor signals near Muker, and he instanced a case of two motor bicycles and a car following which had passed through Muker at a terrific rate only the previous week, and he had stood in the road and shouted to them to stop on account of the dangerous turns at the bridge. The Clerk was instructed to ascertain at whose expense motor signals were erected.

When television viewers see 23 year old Miss Jean Thornborrow in October, they will be looking at a different Jean from the one I met yesterday high on the hillside above Arkengarthdale near Reeth. Smartly dressed, she will not resemble the girl in breeches and rubber boots with her lovely hair tied under a red scarf, who was yesterday bringing 100 sheep down from the wild magnificent moorland. The shepherdess of Arkengarthdale is an expert at her craft. With her dogs Floss and Rex, she helps her father to look after 1,200 sheep. “ And she is far more help to me than any man money could procure, “ said her father, Mr Thomas Thornborrow, a show judge for sheep classes.