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The great British bike-off: York & Ryedale find the perfect recipe for girls on bikes

It might be a British love affair, but men are still four times more likely than women to cycle*, so the City of York and its rural neighbour Ryedale have cooked up a plan to get ladies on wheels, with the region’s extraordinary number of top-class tea-rooms becoming the perfect pit-stop. Bob Howden, President of British Cycling explains: “In Britain, we have the world’s greatest female cyclists, and so we want to make sure that as many women as possible get the chance to enjoy our new ‘national’ sport, aiming to get a million more women involved in cycling by 2020.  York & Ryedale are

Magical encounters with fantastic beasts as Yorkshire holidaymakers discover a new breed of animal attraction

Butterfly clouds, live birdsong festivals, and royal appointments with queen bees are just some of the magical encounters on offer in Yorkshire, as holidaymakers to York and its rural neighbour Ryedale are being encouraged to stand up for British wildlife. With 40%–70% of native species predicted to go extinct if action is not taken, Ryedale’s tourism businesses are working hard to ‘find a room’ for the neglected and disappearing wildlife, encouraging visitors to shun expensive holidays abroad to enjoy free safaris in one of the country’s most beautiful landscapes, encountering some of

Dickens of a Festival announced for Malton: Miriam Margolyes headlines

Harry Potter actress and The Real Marigold Hotel star, Miriam Margolyes is returning to Malton this year for the second time to headline at the Christmas Dickensian Festival.  BAFTA winning Miriam Margolyes, whose one-woman show Dickens’ Women was nominated for an Olivier award, will perform on 17th December at The Milton Rooms. Tickets are on sale now from the Milton Rooms Box Office, £14 each. Call 01653 696 240 to book. Miriam Margolyes who achieved a standing ovation last year said: “I am delighted to support the Festival for the second year in a row. I fell in love with Dickens

New romantic ideas to inspire women in love

Looking for new ideas of where and how to woo your loved one or help make popping the question memorable in this (Leap) Year of Romance? Here are some suggestions from York, one of Europe’s most romantic cities, and its little ‘kingdom’ of Ryedale, the beautiful countryside that surrounds it: Make a honeybee happy for love: propose in a wildflower meadow If you make a bee happy then Aphrodite, the Goddess of Love will smile kindly on you. Bees were Aphrodite’s sacred creatures - in fact, she was known as ‘Melissa’, meaning Queen Bee. Honey also has a long love affair with romance:

York campaigns to end romantic clichés in 2016’s Leap Year

2016 may be a Leap Year, but why should women only have one day (29 February) every four years to propose, and why stick to the same romantic clichés? As a champion of romance, the City of York is calling on women in love to make this Leap Year last the whole year. Most Leap Year statistics are depressingly conventional. Back in 2012 (the last Leap Year) two thirds of women said they would prefer the man to propose, while only 5% of marriages are a result of the woman proposing.  Now Make It York is setting out a challenge to change that. In the interests of women across the UK, York

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