Woman hit in face at Scarboro’ fair

Police in Scarborough are appealing for witnesses after a woman was hit in the face at Scarborough Fair, in William Street coach park, on Saturday 1 October at around 2pm. Anyone with details should contact the police by calling 101, select option two and ask for PC Hawes or call crimestoppers on 0800 555 111. More than 60,000 people are set to attend the North Yorkshire Moors Railway’s Wartime Weekend.

Along the line of the heritage railway the clock will be turned back to when Britain was in the thick of a world war.

Starting today, each station will be transformed to create a variety of scenarios including child evacuees and a cinema showing films and newsreels from the period at Pickering,

Home Guard demonstrations at Goathland, with music and dance entertainment at Grosmont. Levisham will once again be transformed into the German-occupied French village of Le Visham with re-enactment displays and Café Allée du Bois. Wreath-laying ceremonies at Pickering and Grosmont stations help to underpin a serious message over the weekend.

Pickering Station will be recreating ‘The Sidings’, a wartime street which will include Joan’s wartime hair salon, NAAFI and Sidings Inn, wartime traders and live entertainment including Paul Harper. Ampleforth College Big Band will be playing a repertoire of music from the 1930s and 1940s Sunday afternoon. NYMR and York Normandy Veterans and Everwitch Theatre have created a new play, ‘Bomb Happy’ which will be performed each night at 8pm at Pickering Station.