SEVERAL North Yorkshire businesses have been shortlisted in the Yorkshire Tourist Board's White Rose Awards.

The awards highlight good practice in an industry worth £4.2bn a year and employing 165,000 people in the region. The winners will be announced in September.

Clowbeck House Hotel (a previous finalist) at Croft on Tees, is listed in the guest accommodation of the year section and also for the local food and drink award.

The Boars Head Hotel, Ripley and Swinton Park, Masham have been shortlisted in the small hotel section and along with Clowbeck House, Mallard Grange, Aldfield, Helm at Askrigg, Shallowdale House, Ampleforth and the Moorlands Country House Hotel at Levisham are in the guest accommodation list.

In the small visitor attraction category, the Capt Cook Memorial museum at Whitby and the Yorkshire Air Museum at York stand a chance of winning.

Castle Howard, York, the Jorvik Centre, York, and the National Railway Museum at York feature in the large visitor attraction section.

Joining Clowbeck House in the local food and drink section are Kilnsley Park, Skipton and Helm, Askrigg - a guest house run by John and Barbara Drew.

The Drews are shortlisted again in the guest house section which they won in 1998 and 1999.

They are also shortlisted in the new section for serving locally-sourced food.

The Drews make all their bread from local flour milled at Grewelthorpe, some of their eggs come from their own free range hens, and they use more than 60 herbs from their own garden.

Local suppliers are used to obtain meat, cheese, milk, and beer.