The sounds of the brass band playing seasonal favourites, choirs singing carols and the delicious smell of roasting chestnuts remain unchanged since Dickens sat down in Malton to write A Christmas Carol.
A rare respite from the seemingly endless recent rain offered us the chance to hop into the car on a glorious autumn day and go for a drive out into the country, heading for Ryedale Folk Museum at Hutton-le-Hole.
Officers from North Yorkshire Police have issued a still CCTV image of a man they would like to speak to, following a theft from a property in Norton, Malton.
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