The Yorkshire cricket team will be celebrating their cup final win at Lords by touring Scarborough in an open-top bus on Sunday.

t will leave the Crown Hotel on the Esplanade at 10am and, with a police escort, will travel down the Foreshore, along Foreshore Beach to Eastborough, through Eastborough and Newborough, St Thames Street and North Marine Road to arrive at the cricket club at 10.25am. Fans can cheer the side along.

EXTENSION PERMITTED: A home extension to make life easier for a wheelchair user has been given the go ahead, against planning officers' advice. Members of Ripon area planning committee of Harrogate Borough Council voted the scheme through. Mr and Mrs Kendall of Crow Wood Cottage, South Stainley, near Ripon, can erect a two-storey extension with a conservatory, single-storey extension and an outbuilding including a double garage, and stables.

GREEN SPACE: A resident has opposed development of a detached garage into a holiday cottage suitable for disabled people opposite Lilac Cottage Youth Hostel, Ellingstring, near Masham. Planning officers recommended approval but councillors on the Ripon area planning committee of Harrogate Borough Council voted against the scheme. It must be reconsidered at a future meeting.

IN OR OUT: Disagreement about whether a development is within the confines of a village or not has put a scheme to build a home on hold. Planning officers say an application to erect a property east of Abbotsford Lodge at Sawley, near Ripon, would encroach into the countryside. They recommended refusal. The application by Mr and Mrs Jameson has been deferred to allow a site visit by councillors.

ROAD SCHEME: Work is due to start on replacing worn carriageway on Hookstone Chase, in Harrogate, on Monday. The work is expected to last two weeks and will effect the section between Woodlands Road and Morrisions roundabout.

BALLON LAUNCH: Tory MP William Hague will release 300 balloons at Darlington College, Catterick Garrison on Saturday. The event is in aid of Northallerton and District Diabetes Club which is raising funds for a retinal camera for the Friarage Hospital.

BLOOMING FUN: The Ancient Society of York Florists, one of the oldest groups of its kind in the country, is holding its flower and vegetable show at Askham Bryan College's conference hall from 11am to 4.30pm on Sunday.

CYCLING CASH: Superfit York cyclists Joe Jefferies and Simon Tokumine spent five days pedalling across south-west France and raised £8,000 for Macmillan cancer Relief.

CATS GALORE: The Norton-based Pickering and District Cats Protection is opening its doors to all tomorrow to mark the beginning of national Cat Protection Week. The premises are at 13a Commercial Street, Norton, and the open day runs from 10.30am to 3.30pm.