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Whitby pays respects to the fallen at the town's annual Remembrance service. photos: Deborah McCarthy

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Saint Catherine’s Light up a Life appeal is set to support patient care over the festive season.

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Laying Poppies at Sea in 2023 - Image: Whitby RNLI

Whitby RNLI to lay poppies at sea following Service of Remembrance

Highlights from this year’s programme include Scarborough: 400 Years and Beyond at St Mary’s Church

Return of Scarborough Lights event puts sparkle into town's festive celebrations

Students and dignitaries during the graduation ceremony at St Mary’s Church in Beverley.

Celebrations for East Riding College and Scarborough TEC students

Historian Dr Allan Brodie of Bournemouth University.

Big Ideas Festival presents historical Scarborough lectures event

St Mary's Church in Whitby. photo: Richard Ponter

Appeal to help with £60,000 St Mary's Church clock restoration appeal

Elly Fiorentini.

Elly Fiorentini and David Sillito in BBC talk event at Big Ideas festival

The three mayors and chairman with their consorts and acting mace bearer, Cllr David Boynton. Photo: Liberal Action

Lib Dem leaders ‘a source of immense pride and inspiration’

Children enjoying the day!

Fantastic photos of school-children taking part in Scarborough's Big Dig 6
The sixth ‘Big Dig’ at the Big Ideas by the Sea festival is currently underway at Paradise in Scarborough’s Old Town.
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The Blow-Ins, Bridget Cousins and Phil Bennett, and local historian and theatre director Tim Tubbs (credit: Richard Ponter)

New musical show from Scarborough folk duo the Blow-Ins premieres at St Mary's

Students were in good voice at the service

Scarborough College hold Christmas Carol Service at St Mary's Church

Montage of photos from the Sandsend to Whitby walk. photos: Stuart Bell

A Stroll With Stu: five-miler from Sandsend to Whitby which escapes the winter m...

Standard bearer Mark Jenkinson at the annual memorial service - RNLI/Nick Gough

Scarborough RNLI remembers lost crew at annual memorial service

Revd Sam Tredwell will lead the service

Saint Catherine’s Light up a Life Service to take place at St Mary's

Check out the propagansey exhibition at Fylingthorpe Methodist Church. Picture Kathryn Bulmer.

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The Speak Their Name quilt at St Mary's Church in Whitby.

Yorkshire Speak Their Name suicide memorial quilt on display at Whitby church

The Yorkshire Wind Orchestra

The Yorkshire Wind Orchestra are performing in Scarborough in June 2025

Hugo Tagholm (c) Nick Pumphrey

Leading UK marine campaigner to appear at Big Ideas By The Sea Festival

VE Day event is on at Whitby Library.

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Sir Richard Evans. picture: Bill Knight

Professor Sir Richard Evans to lecture at Big Ideas festival in Scarborough

The service begins

Meet Reverend Sam Tredwell the new vicar of St Mary's Church in Scarborough

Whitby Christmas Tree Festival 2024

Take a look inside Whitby Christmas Tree Festival 2024

A steam train on the snow-covered North York Moors. picture: John Hunt.

Steam into a winter wonderland with railway's Whitby Winter Excursions

A steam train on the snow-covered North York Moors. picture: John Hunt.

Steam into a winter wonderland with railway's Whitby Winter Excursions

The wonderful Christmas tree festival in St Mary's Church in Whitby.

Whitby's St Mary's Church to host Christmas tree festival - here's when it's on

St Marys Church will host the Light up a Life Service in Scarborough

Saint Catherine’s to hold Light up a Life Service in Scarborough this December
Saint Catherine’s will be holding a Light up a Life service on Friday 6 December at St Mary’s Church in Scarborough and everyone is welcome.
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In the Planetarium

Artists showcase illuminations at St Mary's Church as Scarborough Lights returns

One ambitious project will be The Fire Garden, by Culture Creative, in the Rose Garden at Scarborough South Cliff.

Scarborough Light festival to feature fiery clifftop gardens and seascapes

St Mary's Church in Whitby.

Whitby's St Mary's Church revealed as spookiest church in the UK

Shirley Smith, President of the Scarborough Hospitality Association, donating a cheque to Kane Cunningham, co-director of the Big Ideas By The Sea Festival,

Scarborough's Big Ideas by the Sea Festival 2025 gets £2,000 donation

The Bishop of Whitby and clergymen at St Mary's Church for the RNLI bicentenary service.photo: RNLI/Ceri Oakes

Whitby RNLI paged to call-out minutes before 200th anniversary church service

Whitby's all weather lifeboat, Lois Ivan, below St Mary's Churchphoto: RNLI/Ceri Oakes

Whitby RNLI to hold bicentenary service at town's St Mary's Church

Bill Scott, Jan Burtenshaw-Scott, Lesley Machen and Tim Tubbs will be in concert at St May's Church on June 26

Music Serenade - concert at Scarborough's St Mary's Church

Whitby Coastguard team at St Mary's Church, Whitby, on completion of the challenge, with Rev Michael Gobbett.

Whitby Coastguard stretcher carry will top £1,000 towards church clock repairs

St Mary's Church clock faces have been removed for repair.

Whitby Coastguard fundraiser to help repair St Mary's Parish Church clocks

Christine Cox gained wide recognition in Yorkshire Art Circles for her work in the abstract field. She held solo exhibitions of mixed media around Yorkshire

Friends pay tribute to 'unique and magnificent' Christine Cox

Looking out towards Cayton Bay

Our pick of winter walks in Yorkshire including Scarborough to Cayton

St Mary's Church beside the ruins of Whitby Abbey

Fears over future of clock at famous Dracula church in Whitby

Christmas trees at St Mary's Church.

IN PICTURES: Whitby's Christmas trees exhibition at St Mary's Church

St Marys Church, Whitby.

Christmas church services around the Whitby area

The lifeboat memorial service will take place on Sunday December 10

Scarborough Lifeboat Memorial Service to take place at St Mary's Church

St Marys Church Maid Nicola Hutchinson views the festive trees at the Whitby church.
picture: Richard Ponter

Whitby's St Mary's Church to host annual Christmas tree exhibition

A visitor to Peasholm Park is pictured taking a photograph of the illuminated artworks as part of the Scarborough Lights festival. The festival runs from today (Wednesday, November 15) until Saturday, December 23, and it is the first event as part of the three-year Scarborough Fair cultural initiative.

Scarborough artists speak of their pride with launch of major new festival
Internationally-renowned artists have spoken of their pride after being given the opportunity to engage with local communities and thousands of visitors as a major new festival launches in Scarborough today.
Louise Hollingsworth

Artist Richard Pottas is to display some of his most recent watercolour work.

Whitby artist Richard Pottas to exhibit watercolours at Sandsend church

A man is being sought by police after theft of a church collection and damage to the building.

Donation box cash stolen from church at Sandsend, near Whitby

Dock End service in Whitby, 2021.
picture: Alan Wastell.

Remembrance services in the Whitby area

The dedication of Standards for the Royal Naval and Merchant Navy Associations

New Standards for the Royal Naval and Merchant Navy Associations dedicated

Jessica having fun at Whitby's Pannett Park Queen's Jubilee day in 2022.
picture: Richard Ponter

King’s Coronation: round-up of events in Whitby area

An previous sunrise service at Sandsend on Easter Sunday.
Picture: Ceri Oakes.

Scarborough and Whitby Easter church services round-up

The cemetery wall was badly damaged by a reversing lorry.

Lorry crash destroys wall at Anne Brontë's grave in Scarborough's Old Town

Vampires arrive at Whitby Abbey ahead of a Guinness world record attempt las year. (Pic credit: Oli Scarff / Getty Images)

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St Mary's Church Maid Nicola Hutchinson views the festive trees.
pic Richard Ponter, 225201a

Here's when you can see Whitby's St Mary's Church Christmas trees

St Marys Church, Scarborough
Picture by Neil Silk

Scarborough RNLI to host annual service of remembrance at St Mary's

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