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A MALTON business owner has reported a record run up to Christmas with the town firmly on the map as a great place to visit and shop.

A MALTON shop owner has said she is one of six businesses considering closing after Christmas due to the lack of support.

The RAF ASSOCIATION’s Ryedale Branch has celebrated a successful year of fundraising.

VOLUNTEERS have stepped in to help the local community during the recent floods. On Friday evening Scarborough and Ryedale Mountain Rescue Team (SRMRT) were called in to help people after water was reported seeping from under a brick section of the flood defences near Wallsgate Lane off Commercial Street in Norton. A spokesperon for SRMT said : “The Local Resilience Forum and Environment Agency on site wanted to reinforce the wall with sandbags and deploy high volume pumps into the area to pump water back into the river. “The challenge with this was that the fields between the rai...

MALTON businesses are hoping for a boost this weekend with a late-night event to encourage people to shop locally. Mark Brannan, who runs Universal Geek in the Shambles, came up with the idea to help give the town a pre-Christmas boost. He said: “2020 has been quite a bad year for some of the independent businesses. “Many rely on a good trading period in the run up to Christmas to help with the beginning of the year when trade can be not as good. “I wanted to try and give the local businesses a bit of a boost to their sales and encourage more people to shop locally this year b...