THERE is only one Yorkshire - but four different ways of saying it!

The Yorkshire Declaration of Integrity, the oath of fealty sworn by true Yorkshiremen and women on Yorkshire Day will be read out in four languages across east Cleveland on Monday.

They are Old English, Norse, Latin and modern English - the languages that have been used in Yorkshire since 879.

The time chosen for the reading at Redcar coincides with the number of years since the first known mention of the ridings, in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles of 876. This year, it is 11.30am, and next year it will be 11.31am.

The declaration will be read at Eston Square, Redcar Town Clock,The Wynd, Marske, the entrance to Saltburn Pier and at Guisborough Market Cross.

White roses will be on sale for people to wear on Yorkshire Day, priced at £1. All proceeds this year will go to Redcar Lifeboat Station.

Committed Yorkshireman Councillor Chris Abbott, of Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council, campaigned for the scrapping of the name of Cleveland, which died with the demise of the county council of that name, in 1996.

He said: "The name people come up with for local government should not determine their heritage. Counties were created hundreds of years before local government.

"North Riding County Council was abolished in 1974, but the North Riding still exists."