Top role: The new chairman of Ryedale District Council is Coun Janet Dales, a member of the authority for the past six years. Brought up in Farndale and educated at Ryedale School, she has worked in the hotel industry for most of her life and has run the Moors Inn at Appleton-le-Moors for the past 11 years.
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