THE white rose of Yorkshire will be worn with pride as people in east Cleveland make a song and dance to celebrate Yorkshire Day.
An open-air performance in Redcar High Street on Saturday afternoon by Musicians Unlimited, a 20-piece big band, will add to an impressive indoor concert line-up at the Coatham Memorial Hall, starring Vin Garbutt.
The Yorkshire Ridings Society's North Riding Group is offering white silk roses for Yorkshire Day, Sunday, in selected shops, libraries and tourist information centres, with all the £1 donations going to the Redcar-based Katie Trust for children's cancer.
Society members will also be reading the Declaration of Integrity for Yorkshire Day on Sunday at Eston Square at 10.30am; Redcar Town Clock at 11.29am - to mark the 1,129th anniversary of earliest written record summoning men of the Ridings to York - at the Wynd; Marske, at midday; Saltburn Pier at 2pm; and Guisborough Market Cross at 3pm.
Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council's cabinet member for culture, leisure and tourism, Councillor Dave Fitzpatrick said: "I think it is a great programme of events and it must help encourage tourists into the area.
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