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100 years ago The 28th annual Marton Horticultural Show was held in the village institute, West Marton. The attendance was down because of inclement weather. The fifth annual show of the Long Preston Floral and Horticultural Society was held

Twenty-two youngsters, aged between six and 14, enjoyed a summer drama school at Skipton’s Mart Theatre. It was run by the locally-based Bad Wolf Theatre Company and Angel Performance Arts and had the theme myths and monsters. During the first

Settle Cricket Club is holding a musical fundraiser. It will feature the star of last year’s Sponsor’s Night, Lewis Birtwell, who will perform soul and swing hits from Michael Buble. The event is on Saturday, at 8.45pm, and tickets, costing

SKIPTON: Skipton Ladies Choir will perform Music for a Summer Evening at Holy Trinity Church on Saturday. The concert, which starts at 7.30pm, is part of the church’s flower festival, which depicts the Story of Noah and runs from Saturday to Monday

Harrogate Theatre: Classic Fest, including Fiddler on the Roof (main theatre) and Patter and Palaver with Louis Dall’Ava, August 22; David Steadman (Majestic Hotel), August 23; The Merry Widow (Royal Hall), August 23 to 25; Iolanthe (Royal Hall) and

Gisburn Forest will play host to an outdoor screening of epic war film Apocalypse Now on Saturday. The Oscar-winning film, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen and Robert Duvall, will be screened on Picnic Cinema

The Bank Holiday Monday recital at Christ Church, Skipton, will be given by the church’s own organist Robert Marsh. Mr Marsh, who gained his Fellowship of the Royal College of Organists at the age of 20, was assistant organist of Ripon Cathedral

CCM Skipton’s annual show and sale of gimmer shearlings, one of the largest fixtures of its kind in the North of England, saw a local victory in the Mule class with a ten-strong pen from the Hall farming family, of Darnbrook Farm, Darnbrook, in Littondale

There was a fantastic entry and trade for dairy cattle at Gisburn Auction Marts pedigree show and sale on Thursday, August 15, with numerous cattle achieving over £2,000. Craven farmers dominated the sale, with pre-sale show champion topping the

At the Annual Bentham ‘Ram-Page’ quality commercial rams were in strong demand for all breeds. The sale day entry of 401 resulted in an 85 per cent clearance with most categories’ selling averages up on the year. Dan Towers, of Curwen Hill,

An entry of 65 Dairy Cattle including 59 newly calved met a strong trade at the Annual Bentham Genus Dairy Event. The judge Aubrey Greenhalgh picked as his Champion ‘Luptonhall Prestwick Delores 2’ from David Barton, of Kirkby Lonsdale, a Pedigree

The Abbeyhouse pedigree Holstein Friesian dairy herd of Jennings Farmers, at Hill House, Fountains, near Ripon, returned to championship-winning ways at CCM Skipton’s main August Craven Dairy Auction show and sale on Monday. The family-run herd

Lacemakers: Eighteen members and four visitors attended the July meeting of the Craven Guild of Lacemakers. Several members had visited Gawthorpe Hall to view entries in the Inspired exhibition, among which were many pieces made by the Craven Lacemakers

Tea dances: The weekly tea dances resume in the village hall at 1.45pm today (Thursday). Ramblers: Sutton Ramblers meet at 11.30am on Saturday at West Witton for the Burning of the Bartle and a pub meal. Call 01535 637055 for more details. The

Silsdenbury Festival: Coming up this August Bank Holiday weekend is Silsdenbury Fest, a free event run by volunteers for the local community. Taking place in the park, there will be two days of musical entertainment on Saturday and Sunday, made up

Photographic Club: For those who missed the photographic group’s town trail, there is still a chance to see the array of pictures at the annual exhibition this weekend. It is taking place at Clapham Village Hall and will be open from 11am to 5pm each

Martin Top: The third annual holiday Bible club has taken place at Salem Congregational Chapel. Eight children attended and, under the leadership of James Bovenizer of Faith Mission, learnt new songs and Bible texts and took part in quizzes. Mr Bovenizer

Music event: The popular Music for a Summer Afternoon event will take place on Monday at 3.30pm at the Quaker Meeting House in Airton. The concert features the talented musicians of the Vacation Chamber Orchestras (known as VaCO). With an eclectic

Women’s Institute: President Sue Brown welcomed members and guests to the August meeting and business matters were dealt with. Guest speaker was Pat Pickard, whose talk was entitled A Nurse’s Journey. It covered 43 years of of her nursing career in

Young farmers: Lawkland Young Farmers met for president’s night. Thanks go to Edward Hird and family for hosting the fun night. Sunday is the annual show at Eldroth public hall and Tuesday is hat judging at Austwick parish hall, at 7.30pm.

Thanks: Tracy Dunkley and her fellow Friends of Horton School would like to thank everyone for their donations of cakes, help with the catering and general support on the day of Paul’s funeral. Whist: The monthly whist drive was held recently at

Flower club: Wait and See was the title of the North Craven Flower Club’s August demonstration given by Ken Hough, from Oldham. Beginning his demonstration with a “little bag of happiness”, he continued with a varied selection of containers and designs

Hebden Sports: Hebden Sports take place on Bank Holiday Monday, from 1pm. There will be flat and novelty races, tug of war, skittles, a barbecue and much more. The fell races starts at 3pm, with last registration at 2.45pm. Admission is £1, or free

Women’s Institute: Grassington WI met last week and enjoyed a beetle drive and social evening, with members sampling food and wine that others brought along. The next meeting will be held on Wednesday, September 4, at 7.30pm in the Games Room of Grassington

Giggleswick Gazelles: The Gazelles will meet on Friday, September 20, at 5.30pm at Eshtons Pavilion, Raines Road, Giggleswick. This will be followed by a visit to Gateway to Health in Settle to speak to fellow Gazelle and reflexologist Penny Lowe.

Coffee morning: There will be a coffee morning at the village hall between 10am and noon this Saturday. As well as dropping in for homemade scones, cake or a toasted teacake, you can also bring any jumble you may have for the forthcoming jumble sale

Church news: St Mary’s would like to thank everybody who supported the summer fete in the grounds of Holy Trinity, Skipton, last Saturday. Sunday marked the last service conducted by Canon Adrian Botwright at St Mary’s and the Parochial Church Council

St Andrew’s Church: On Sunday there will be services of Holy Communion at 8.15am and 10am. From 2.30pm to 4.30pm, tea and scones will be served in the parish rooms and the church will be open for visitors. Bread-making: A Christmas bread-making

Methodist church: The preacher at Sunday’s 10.30am service at St Peter’s Methodist Church will be Barbara Cole, of Colne. Churches Together: Nominations for the Malcolm King Award have now closed. Everyone is invited to the Churches Together meeting

Handmade in Clapham: A total of £1,083 has been raised for St James’s Church by Handmade in Clapham. The ladies would like to thank everyone who has supported them over the last few months by buying their goods. Their stall at Clapham Street Fair proved

Family Show Day: Everyone should have received a copy of the entries schedule for Family Show Day, which takes place on Sunday. September 1. All entry forms should be placed in the envelope in the village shop by Monday. Thanks go to everyone who has

Food bank: Carleton Post Office is a drop-off point for contributions for the Skipton Food Bank, run by Skipton Baptist Church. The collection box is emptied each week and items are taken into Skipton by Filao and Tony Wilson. Please continue to donate

Priory Church: The services on Sunday are: 8am, communion (said); 10.30am, sung eucharist; 6.30pm, evening prayer. On the first Sunday of the month the church holds a liquid family service at 9.15am. This service is aimed at youngsters and there are

Festival: Bentham Food and Beer Festival, which has been organised by the Bentham Environmentally Sustainable Town and We Are Bentham groups, runs until Monday. There is local beer, cheese and music on offer and a food quiz is available in the shops

Senior citizens outing: It has been causing a chuckle for some years when Barnoldswick and Earby Rotary Club holds its annual outing for a party of senior citizens that many of its drivers would qualify by age themselves to be treated to such a trip

Parish Hall: There will be a coffee morning, including stalls, on Saturday, September 7, from 10am to noon, in the parish hall to raise money for parish hall funds. If you have any items for the stalls such as books, DVDs, bric-a-brac, cakes, produce

An afternoon of rain couldn’t stop 4,000 people flocking to Gargrave Show on Saturday. With the weather forecast predicting heavy rain for much of the day, organisers were grateful the rain held off until early afternoon. “The weather hasn’

A former successful hairdresser with a string of salons has been handed a two-year community sentence by Skipton magistrates for assaulting his partner and a police officer. Terrence Teal, 47, punched his partner at her narrowboat moored on the

Steeton Hall Hotel will close at the end of this month. Owner Punch Taverns confirmed this week the Station Road premises would shut on the August 31 weekend. The nine-bedroom hotel is being marketed for sale. Last week, it was revealed

Barnoldswick Town 0 Hebburn Town 2 Barnoldswick Town are still searching for their first FA Cup win after bowing out of this season’s competition in Tuesday night’s extra preliminary round replay. Having drawn 2-2 away to their Northern League

Skipton have been awarded the prestigious RFU Club Accreditation status, an accolade which is shared by all the volunteers at Sandylands who have been responsible for the club achieving the demanding quality benchmarks put in place by the sport’s governing

Wharfedale will be holding a minute’s silence before Saturday's match with Otley at The Avenue (3pm) in memory of Gordon Thomas who died on Tuesday. He coached the first team in the 1970s and served more recently as a general committee member

Stourbridge 31 Wharfedale 12 Wharfedale’s hopes of a similar start to last season when Stourbridge were routed at the Avenue were not helped by pre-match decisions. Playing three sessions of rugby to give the chance to try out different players

Skipton remain in the driving seat in the race for the Division Three title despite Saturday’s rain. With four games to go they are 14 points clear of Upper Wharfedale with Horsforth a further point back. Three of Skipton’s remain- ing games

There is a worrying situation for the league concerning the number of games conceded due to clubs being unable to field sides because of a lack of numbers. Last weekend, seven games were called off for that reason. The total number of matches

Alan Hinkes, the first Briton to climb the world’s highest peaks – all over 8,000 meters – is to be the guest starter at Burnsall Feast Sports. He is part of an exclusive club of only about 12 people alive who have achieved this feat – many others

Gargrave Show Fell Race continues to gain in popularity with a record turnout of 156 runners on Saturday. The five age group race categories attracted runners of all abilities from far and wide, London, Surrey, Kent, Wolverhampton and of course

Steeton boss Roy Mason is hoping that he can take the club forward this campaign after their best-ever season. The Chevrons finished third in the West Riding County Amateur Premier Division and won the Keighley Cup. “We really just want to

Hebburn Town 2 Barnoldswick Town 2 Town squandered a number of chances to win the extra-preliminary round tie against their Northern League opponents on Saturday. They were without Neil Chapman and Aaron Hollindrake for this important match

Police are appealing for information after a gang of youths attacked a young male at Skipton Railway Station. The incident happened at about 10.10pm on Friday, August 9, and spilled into Black Walk. The youth received minor injuries to his

The accident and emergency unit at Airedale Hospital is meeting national treatment guidelines despite dealing with a significant rise in patients in the last year, new figures show. For most of the year, the unit achieved the target of treating

It’s the last call for entries to our fantastic photographic competition. We’ve received approximately 300 photographs so far, and you have until Saturday to send us your entry. The theme for the competition is Summer in North Yorkshire and

A window cleaner destroyed two housemartin nests a family had been watching being built at their home in Park View, Buckden. When Martin Rigby, 59, was challenged by the householder, he said “everyone wanted them removing,” thinking they were old

Silsden 1 Bridlington Town 2 The Cobbydalers, competing in their ninth season in the FA Cup, suffered a defeat which was largely of their own making. Having played so well in last Wednesday’s 3-1 defeat by Colne, Silsden never showed the same

Walkers clocked up a total of 17,250 miles – the equivalent of Australia and back – on Sunday. The annual Yorkshire Dales Walking Festival had more than 1,100 walkers, from seasoned trekkers to family strollers, completing one of three routes from

Competitors and exhibitors are gearing up for a feast of agricultural shows with two of the premier events in the Yorkshire Dales taking place within just three days of each other. Malhamdale Show kicks off on Saturday, August 24 – just a week

A Skipton man, found by police in the early hours in the town centre with a large amount of pound coins, had stolen a charity box from the town hall, magistrates heard. Officers came across Andrew Hudson, 49, at 5am, in January in Water Street

The first ever Great Bentham Duck Race will be staged on Bank Holiday Sunday. It is being organised by the We Are Bentham group and will take place on the River Wenning. “Like all outdoor race courses, the going will very much depend on how

Residents in the Belgrave Street area of Skipton are at the end of their tether after congestion and parking problems went from bad to worse. The roads surrounding Belle Vue Mills have been clogged up since Craven District Council moved into the

Power tools including a Matibo angle grinder were stolen from a blue Mercedes Sprinter van in Barrel Sykes, Langcliffe at 11.55pm on Saturday. Two males, both described as white, one tall and thin the other was shorter and fatter, were spotted

Skipton LMS football ground – home to one of the oldest football clubs in Craven – is on the market for £30,000 following a decision to sell by its owners, the LMS Social Club, based in Broughton Road. The sale of the 2.6 acre site next to Sandylands

Whatever the reasons behind the sale of the LMS sports ground in Skipton, it’s clear that the community is not being well served by the lack of dialogue or openness by those behind the scenes. The ground is well used, and is a vital piece of sporting

A 23-year-old was found rummaging around in an MoT centre looking for a spare part for his car, Skipton magistrates heard. A police officer heard noises coming from Craven MoT Centre as he patrolled Engine Shed Lane, Skipton, at around 2.20am on

North Yorkshire Police are investigating a robbery and numerous thefts from tents at a music festival in the Skipton area. The incidents occurred during the Beacons Festival, which was staged at Heslaker Lane, Carleton, between August 15 and 19