Luxury elderly care provider Hadrian Healthcare Group will open its latest care home in November.

The Manor House, Knaresborough is the company’s tenth purpose-built care development in Yorkshire and the North East since 2008.

The Town Mayor of Barnard Castle, Councillor Sandra Moorhouse, has presented the title of honorary freeman of the town to Mr Parkin Raine. The Town Council has awarded this in recognition of his outstanding contribution to recording life in Teesdale.

The ceremony took place at The Manor House care home where Mr Raine now lives on Sunday 25 October.

Care Home Catering talks to the NACC’s newly crowned Care Cook of the Year, Oliver Smith from Hadrian Healthcare’s Wetherby Manor.

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The Manor House Whickham is celebrating two garden awards again this year.

The awards were won in the Whickham in Bloom competition with a first prize Diploma for Excellence in Horticulture in the commercial premises category for the fifth year running and in the Northumbria in Bloom (Communities Growing Together) care category for the second year running.

Wetherby Manor care home in Wetherby has scooped a gold award at this year's Yorkshire in Bloom competition. The awards ceremony was held at York Racecourse on 8 September and was attended by over 350 guests.

Wetherby Manor was a joint gold winner in the public and private charitable establishments category. The judges described the gardens as "stunning" and the quality of planting as "first class". They also said the underlying philosophy and thought given to the structure, design, planting and maintenance of the gardens were to be commended.