POLICE are hoping the public can help trace a caravan, stolen from a Marrick farmyard over the weekend.

It is thought the Elddis Typhoon, worth £6,000, was spotted being towed by a silver Ford Sierra in the Fremington area soon after it went missing. Anyone else who thinks they may have seen it in Swaledale on Sunday is asked to contact police in Richmond. Meanwhile, officers are also looking for a Ifor Williams trailer stolen from outside a property in Middleton Tyas between 6.30pm and 8.30pm on Sunday. Similar trailers have gone missing in the past few weeks and owners are being urged to review their security arrangements.

SHOW TIME: Richmond Operatic Society will perform Gilbert and Sullivan's Trial By Jury at the newly-restored Georgian Court next month. Tickets, priced £10, have gone on sale for the show, which will be staged on Friday, April 4, and Saturday, April 5. The ticket price includes wine on arrival and a buffet supper. More information is available by telephoning (01748) 823456.

GOLDEN JUBILEE: Harrogate's Royal Pump Room Museum, opposite the town's Valley Gardens, will be celebrating its golden jubilee with a nostalgic exhibition starting on March 15. The exhibition - New Elizabethans - is a festival of the fifties.

CHOPPED TREES: Trees covered by a preservation order at Chancery House, The Old Palace, Ripon, can be chopped down, but planners have ruled that details of four replacement trees should be submitted to Harrogate Borough Council before the axeman moves in.

WATER TREATMENT: Planning officials have raised no objections to plans for a new water treatment building at RAF Dishforth, near Ripon.