Outdoor instructor Grant Cunliffe should have been celebrating his 50th birthday with his family on Saturday. Instead the man with a passion for mountaineering is missing in the Cairngorms and his family have accepted he is probably dead. He was last
Harrogate Theatre: Future Classics – the Piatti Quartet and Clare Hammond (February 21); Harrogate Dramatic Society in Ghosts (February 22 to 25); Comedian Richard Herring in What is Love, Anyway? (February 22). Contact 01423 502116 Royal Hall, Harrogate
SKIPTON: Pictures by award-winning Colombian photographer Juan Sebastián Pinilla will make their UK debut in Skipton. His work will be included in an exhibition at the Mill Bridge Gallery, called America, North to South. Pinilla’s varied images reflect
A vulnerable, elderly woman was left feeling like a recluse, incarcerated in her own bedroom, after her son “turned on” her, a court heard on Friday. Paul Burns, 49, was told by Judge Jonathan Durham Hall QC he had been a “hair’s breadth” from being
The thaw started on Sunday and once it did start up here in Langstrothdale, the white stuff disappeared fairly quickly. Let’s hope that is the last of it. Out in the garden the grass is flat from the weight of the snow and it all looks pretty dead, as
The time has come for a radical rethink of Craven’s renewable energy plans. Once again, an application to erect replacement turbines at Chelker Reservoir, between Draughton and Addingham, has been turned down by the planners. They ruled that not only
Former council offices in Skipton are to be demolished and replaced with housing. Just five months after Craven District Council moved from Granville Street to new premises in Belle Vue Square, housebuilder Lovell has been given permission to build 57
Skipper Rob Baldwin is absent on family business as Wharfedale return to action at home to Rosslyn Park on Saturday. Centre Dan Hart will lead the side in Baldwin’s absence with Richard Brown taking the captain’s place in the back row.
Wharfedale’s player-coach Tom McGee has been keeping his players on the ball during the recent bad weather. The first team squad have been splitting their twice-weekly training sessions between an indoor facility in Grassington and the all-weather pitch
The Bradford City chairman Mark Lawn will be the guest speaker at the second meeting of the Skipton and Craven Bantams Club next week. Lawn, who has been an at times controversial chairman, criticised the fitness of referees in Division Two last week
Barnoldswick Town will be making a couple of acquisitions from the Premier League as they bid to secure promotion from the North West Counties League. The Victory Park club are purchasing 50 seats from Everton and two turnstiles from Queen’s Park Rangers
Barnoldswick Town 1 Squires Gate 2 Lowly Squires Gate staged a late smash and grab raid to stun Premier Division title challengers Barnoldswick Town at Victory Park on Tuesday night. Striker Isaac Kusaluka silenced
Scenes for a new romantic comedy series were shot in Craven on Sunday. Limehouse Lane near Carleton and Skipton High Street provided the backdrop for the filming of Antony And Cleopatra, a six-part BBC1 series that will be screened in the summer. A
An eagle-eyed Cowling resident helped uncover an elaborate fraud involving mail order and the village shop. The resident became suspicious after seeing two men in a car parked in his access road off Keighley Road and later discovered discarded packaging
Kelda Water has been urged to remove its “rotting tooth stump” wind turbines from Chelker Reservoir, Addingham. On Monday, the company had its application refused to replace the existing mainly defunct four turbines with two new ones twice the height
A council has been rapped for failing to protect residents’ private data after the theft of a laptop from a leisure centre. The Information Commissioner has warned Craven District Council to improve security or risk fines of up to £500,000 for breaking
Burnsall Players are treading the boards again. To mark the bi-centenary of Charles Dickens’ birth and to celebrate their return after three years to the newly-refurbished Burnsall Village Hall, they are staging the musical Oliver! Based on a story
