Vale of York

The Vale of York constituency came into existence at the 1997 GeneralElection as a result of boundary changes, and stretches from Spofforth andKirk Deighton in the south to Hackforth and Thornton-le-Beans in the north,taking in the rural communities east of Harrogate and east of Thirsk.

McIntosh meets with the Prime Minister, The Rt Hon Tony Blair along side a delegation of local sugar beet growers to discuss the futrue of Sugar Beet Farmers in North Yorkshire

'McIntosh meets George Bush Senior at Yorkshire Internation Business Convention Dinner hosted by BT'

'Anne visiting B&Q at Clifton Moor, May 2006'

Thegeographic heart of the constituency is Helperby, while the population isbased on the pretty market towns of Bedale, Boroughbridge, Thirsk andEasingwold, as well as the outskirts of York (Haxby Wigginton, Poppleton,Clifton Moor, Rawcliffe, Shipton by Beningbrough, Skelton and New Earswick).The Vale of York includes The White Horse and 'Herriot Country', and has astrong farming community.

Anne opening the new Boroughbridge website at the Library and Resource centre, St James Square, Boroughbridge