TOWER SCHEME: A light aircraft firm has secured permission to refurbish a control tower at a disused Ryedale airfield and turn it into offices. Swift Aircraft plans to carry out work on the building at Wombleton Airfield, near Pickering, a training base during the Second World War, to house design, sales and administrative staff as well as storage space.

HOMES ROW: Councillors and planners in Ryedale are on a collision course over plans for 30 new homes in Ampleforth. Members of the planning committee rejected a bid by David Wilson Homes to build the houses off Station Road last month saying it would harm the village and the Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty – but officials are asking them to reconsider saying the reasons for refusal were “fundamentally in error.”

MUSEUM AWARD: The Ryedale Folk Museum at Hutton-le-Hole has secured £123,085 from the Renaissance Strategic support fund to provide an outreach programme to make the Harrison Collection – a major collection of English everyday life spanning five centuries – more accessible to the local community.