Tributes have been paid to an award-winning businesswoman who was found dead in freezing conditions.Champion cheese-maker Mandy Reed's body was discovered in a snowy garden near her home in the village of Scorton, on the edge of Yorkshire Dales, near Richmond, after a night out.She is one of three people who have died in sub-zero, icy conditions in the north of England this week.Mother-of-two Mrs Reed, 47, was found dead in a garden in the early hours of Sunday morning.North Yorkshire Police are investigating the circumstances. A spokesman said today it had still not been established exactly how she died.Mrs Reed ran the Richmond-based Swaledale Cheese Company for 25 years after starting it with her husband David in 1987. Mr Reed died in 2005 aged 46.Former Richmondshire councillor Martin Bearpack said Mrs Reed's death was a terrible tragedy, especially as her husband also died so young.He said: "I knew them both for a number of years and they were great entrepreneurs."It's such sad loss. She will be very much missed."The company was such a good thing for this area and she was a very well-known figure."The chairman of regional tourism agency Welcome to Yorkshire, Gary Verity, told the Yorkshire Post: "She was a familiar sight, certainly at Leyburn market on a Friday, and she was known as 'the cheese lady'. That was the slogan on her stall."She was part of the furniture, really, and she will be sadly missed."In Hull, a man believed to be in his 50s was found dead in a park.Police were called to the park near Woodland Road on Monday morning after the body was found by a dog walker.He is thought to have frozen to death in temperatures which hit minus 7C in Hull on Sunday night.Humberside Police is investigating how the man came to be in the park.In Castleford, West Yorkshire, a 10-year-old boy was found collapsed outside a friend's house on Sunday after going out to play in the snow.Joshua Houlgate, who is understood to have suffered from epilepsy when he was younger, was pronounced dead in hospital despite frantic efforts to save him at the scene.Julie Murray, headteacher at Smawthorne Henry Moore Primary School, Castleford, said yesterday: "Joshua held a very special place in our hearts. He was a much-loved pupil who was well liked by his friends and all the staff at school."
What a whopper! This bouncing baby weighed into China's record books yesterday at 15.52lb (7.04kg). Chun Chun was born on Saturday by caesarean section and is believed to be the country's heaviest baby on record.His arrival came as China celebrated the Year of the Dragon. Chun's father Han Jingang told local TV broadcaster Xinxiang Television: "My wife was not different from other pregnant women. She ate and drank normally as she should. But she's given birth to such a big, fat son. "Today is the first day of spring in the Chinese calendar and he's a 'dragon baby'. I feel very happy." The couple also have a six-year-old daughter who weighed just over 4kgs (8lbs) at birth.Chun's 29-year-old mother, Wang Yujuan, added: "I clearly felt that my body was more clumsy than when I had been pregnant with my daughter. "My belly was bigger than it was then. I guessed the baby would be between 4.5and 5kgs. I never expected to hear that he weighs 7kgs."Guinness World Records said the heaviest newborn ever recorded was born to an Ohio woman in 1879 and weighed 23.7lb (10.77kg).
SHERLOCK Holmes, Miss Marple, Poirot, and DCI Barnaby could join forces and still fail to unmask the “Downing Street source” who supposedly declared: “Andrew Lansley should be taken out and shot.”
OUT of Work Minister Maria Miller’s claim there’s no job shortage would be laughable if she wasn’t serious, her own Department’s figures showing 20 people workless for every vacancy – 9.29m to 460,000.
YVETTE Cooper, the best leader Labour doesn’t have, not kitten-heeled Tory Minister Theresa May, had the air of a Home Secretary when they discussed preacher of hate Abu Qatada’s release.
Fabio Capello and Football Association chairman David Bernstein are expected to meet to try to draw a line under the fall-out from the decision to strip John Terry of the England captaincy.
Aston Villa supporters are being urged to attend a proposed pre-match protest against manager Alex McLeish ahead of Sunday's home clash with Manchester City.
Ben Morgan has revealed the punishing training regime that helped turn him from a part-time builder, part-time rugby player into a full England international.
What a whopper! This bouncing baby weighed into China's record books yesterday at 15.52lb (7.04kg). Chun Chun was born on Saturday by caesarean section and is believed to be the country's heaviest baby on record.His arrival came as China celebrated the Year of the Dragon. Chun's father Han Jingang told local TV broadcaster Xinxiang Television: "My wife was not different from other pregnant women. She ate and drank normally as she should. But she's given birth to such a big, fat son. "Today is the first day of spring in the Chinese calendar and he's a 'dragon baby'. I feel very happy." The couple also have a six-year-old daughter who weighed just over 4kgs (8lbs) at birth.Chun's 29-year-old mother, Wang Yujuan, added: "I clearly felt that my body was more clumsy than when I had been pregnant with my daughter. "My belly was bigger than it was then. I guessed the baby would be between 4.5and 5kgs. I never expected to hear that he weighs 7kgs."Guinness World Records said the heaviest newborn ever recorded was born to an Ohio woman in 1879 and weighed 23.7lb (10.77kg).
Andy Flower can be in no doubt he has a major challenge on his hands, to arrest England's decline in the desert, but he is nonetheless relishing the opportunity.
Millwall manager Kenny Jackett praised his side's battling qualities after they advanced to the FA Cup fifth round with a 3-2 victory over Southampton at St Mary's.
Scotland head coach Andy Robinson paid tribute to the retiring Dan Parks as he signalled his readiness to turn to a new generation of fly-halves in Sunday's RBS 6 Nations clash with Wales.
MARK CAVENDISH claimed his first win for Team Sky as a trademark sprint finish earned him victory in stage three of the Tour of Qatar. The Manxman (above), who switched to the British team after winning cycling’s world championship, beat race leader Tom Boonen into second
?DVINSKY reaches a remarkable landmark when running in the race named in his honour - the skysports.com Dvinsky's 200th Run Racing Handicap (Div II) (6.00) - at Kempton today.
Blackpool earned an FA Cup fifth-round trip to Everton after a scintillating 3-0 demolition of Sheffield Wednesday in their fourth-round replay at Hillsborough.
Dimitar Berbatov expects to remain at Manchester United beyond this season but has reiterated his disenchantment at his lack of playing time at Old Trafford.
Alberto Contador has protested his innocence over the two-year doping ban imposed by the Court of Arbitration for Sport and insisted he will return to cycling stronger than ever.
Chelsea boss Andre Villas-Boas has backed Fabio Capello in the row over John Terry being stripped of the England captaincy and insisted the Italian had every right to make his unhappiness known.
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