This Dales Life walk is a gentle stroll through arable farmland near Green Hammerton between Harrogate and York Fact File Start: Centre of Green Hammerton Walk distance/time: 3 miles (Approx 1 hour) Going: Easy level-pegging Map
Rob Bagot of Buon Vino in The Courtyard, Settle, is this week’s guest columnist. Buon Vino stocks several types of wine and spirits, but specialises in biodynamic wine – a more natural process of wine making that attempts to bring life to the soil
Well done to seven-year-old Elsa Birch from Skipton for coming up with a winning design for Tesco’s new Click and Collect service. Elsa, who goes to the town’s Christ Church CoE Primary, won £250 for the school and £25 for herself for coming up with
100 years ago The Bolton Abbey Choral Society gave a very successful concert, supper and dance at the Boyle And Petyt School, Beamsley. Captain Roger S Tempest, only son of Major Tempest, of Broughton Hall, was appointed regimental adjutant
Skipton Castle has a rich history and this weekend, thanks to the generosity of castle owners, the Fattorini family, the Craven Herald is able to offer all readers the chance to visit this superb historic building for free. Using the voucher printed
Community centre: The village hall was the setting for a performance of Wrong Un on Saturday. This one-woman show was outstanding and everyone who attended had nothing but admiration for Ella Harris who told the life of a Lancashire lass who became
Bridge club: The next meeting of Kettlewell Bridge Club will take place in the social room of Kettlewell Village Hall on Tuesday from 7pm. Organ recital: There will be an organ recital by Ian Thompson at St Mary’s Church, Conistone, next Saturday
Domino drive: Every table was full at the fundraising domino drive. The winner was Tony Curtis. The next fundraising event at the village hall will be a cookery evening in aid of the air ambulance on Friday, May 2. The organiser is Lynn Lawson on 015242
Annual meeting: Skipton Royal Naval Association will hold its annual general meeting on Tuesday. It will take place in the RAFA club on Shortbank Road at 7.30pm. The positions of treasurer, secretary and welfare officer are up for re-election and candidates
Tea dance: A tea dance will be held at the village hall today at 1.45pm. St Thomas’s: There will be a 10.30am Holy Communion service at St Thomas’s Church on Sunday. Pancake party: The community centre will host a pancake party on Tuesday from
Local history: Silsden Local History Group is launching a new project to support villagers interested in researching their family or local heritage. An informal afternoon session, open to all, will be held once a month at Silsden Town Hall, when resources
Victoria Hall: The Panjumby Jazz band will take to the stage tomorrow to perform steel pan jazz with a dash of calypso. Saturday sees the Mighty Doonans perform their own blend of folk/rock. This is followed by the Sunday Folk Night, introduced by
Young farmers: Lothersdale and District Young Farmers met last week for a walk at Martyn Jennings’ farm at Cowling. Next week’s meeting is bowling at Matrix, Skipton, at 7.30pm.
Thursday Club. The Thursday Club will meet in the Reading Rooms at 12.30pm next Thursday, March 6, for lunch followed by a talk given by Settle Fire Service. Anyone who would like to come along is most welcome.
Women’s Institute: Long Preston WI will meet in the village hall at 7.30pm on Wednesday, March 12, when the speaker will be Andrew Lay, of Lay of the Land based in Settle. This will be a wonderful opportunity for members to ask questions about plants
Young farmers: Young farmers met at Settle Rugby Club for a games night. Next week’ s meeting is at Megazone, Morecambe. Meet at Clapham car park at 6.30pm.
Age Concern: Tomorrow’s meeting of Age Concern will include a talk and presentation from Margaret Gibson, of Yorkshire Housing. It will start at 10am in Hellifield House. New members are welcome. Youth Cafe: The Hellifield Youth Cafe is open from
Rural association: President Beryl Morphet welcomed members to the annual general meeting of Ingleton Rural Community Association. She thanked the centre staff for their work during the year and the people who use the centre regularly, especially the
St Oswald’s: There is a busy month ahead at St Oswald’s Church. There will be a 9am service on the first Sunday of Lent, March 9, and a morning service at 10.30am on Sunday, March 23. Earby Brass Band will hold a concert in church on Friday, March
Embroiderers’ Guild: At their meeting in February, members and guests were introduced to the secrets of professional finishing by knitwear designer Jane Ellison. The next meeting, at 1.30pm on Wednesday at Wharfedale Rugby Club, Threshfield, will feature
Whist and dominoes: Whist and dominoes will be on offer at Gisburn Festival Hall on Saturday at 7.30pm. Admission is £3 at the door, which includes supper. There are meat prizes, a raffle and a warm welcome.
Coffee morning: A coffee morning will held on Saturday between 10am and noon in the village hall. The community library will make its monthly 100 draw during the morning and all of the proceeds from the coffee, tea, toasted teacakes and homemade cakes
Gigg Lecture: The next Gigg Lecture will take place next Friday, March 7, at 7pm when the speaker will be Sandra Gregory on the theme of Banged Up Abroad. In 1993 Sandra was sentenced to 25 years in Bangkok’s notorious Lard Yao prison, known as The
St Andrew’s Church: On Saturday, there will be a coffee morning in the parish rooms from 10am to noon in aid of the Church Mission Society and the Jigsaw Kids Ministries Project in Manila, Philippines. On Sunday, there will be a service of Holy Communion
Over 50s Forum: The penultimate meeting of the Over 50s Forum for this winter season will be today in the village hall. The doors will open at 2pm. There is a small charge to cover costs, but tea and scones will be served. February’s guest speaker
Camera club: Earby and District Camera Club will meet at 7pm on Tuesday at the New Road Community Centre. Nigel Carlisle will give a presentation titled Tricks of the Trade. Admission costs £2, including refreshments.
Moonrakers: Half of the February meeting was given over to document conservation, which is going well. It is anticipated that this valuable work will take another few months. Members then added information to the history of The Bay Horse public house
Cononley shop: The parish council is actively exploring the idea of turning Cononley Post Office into a community shop. A questionnaire has gone to all households to find out how much the shop is used and to identify anyone who can help in any way.
Church service: St Peter’s will hold an Evensong at 4pm on Sunday. Young farmers: Coniston Cold Young Farmers met at The Richard Tottie Memorial Hall for a Valentine’s quiz and games night which was organised by Aimee and Kate Beresford. Last week
Coffee morning: Thanks go to those who supported the Take Heart coffee morning in Clapham Village Hall last Wednesday. A sum of £479.40 was raised for Take Heart, a small charity which benefits patients and relatives at the Yorkshire Heart Centre,
Coffee morning: Everyone is welcome at the Methodist Church coffee morning on Saturday. It takes place in the church hall between 10am and 11.30am and includes home baking. Village Hall: Heating engineers are installing the new heating system in
Spring concert: A spring concert will take place in the village hall next Saturday, March 8, at 7.30pm. Tickets costing £5 are on sale at Carleton Pharmacy and the village Post Office. Refreshments will be available and there will be a raffle. The
Mothers’ Union: Thornton and Burton-in-Lonsdale’s Mothers’ Union held a fundraising table at Burton-in-Lonsdale Village Hall which raised £81.62 for its charities.
Priory Church: The services on Sunday are 8am Communion (said), 10.30am Sung Eucharist and Evening Prayer at 4.30pm. As this is the first Sunday of the month, there will also be a liquid family service at 9.15am, aimed at youngsters. The BBC’s Songs
Age Concern: Members of Age Concern met at the Masonic Hall on Friday. After lunch, members were entertained by Peter Marshall who gave a talk on pub signs, explaining how different pubs in the country got their names. The raffle winner was Edna Parnell
Community Players: Austwick Community Players will be treading the boards with their much-awaited 2014 show, Oil Tek the High Road. The Players will stage the show for over-65s in Austwick and Lawkland Parishes at a free supper next Thursday, March
Pendle Artists will travel over the border this weekend to exhibit at Skipton Castle. “We hope the citizens of Skipton will enjoy viewing our work,” said Pendle Artists secretary Susan Byrne. “It is of many different subjects, styles and media.
For anyone who associates organ music with the solemnity of royal occasions broadcast on TV then this concert would be a real eye-opener. For Timothy Raymond, director of music at Bolton Abbey Priory Church, demonstrated beyond all doubt that the
Young musicians from Skipton Music Centre’s Junior Wind Band will have an opportunity to perform at the Northern Chamber Orchestra’s Vivaldi and Spring Classics concert on Saturday. The young musicians have been working with the NCO’s music animateur
SKIPTON: Skipton Building Society Camerata will continue its chamber music series on Wednesday, March 12. It will play Brahms’ Clarinet Sonata No2 at Skipton Girls’ High School at 7.30pm. There will be cafe-style seating, with the musicians in
Harrogate Theatre: Alan Ayckbourn’s Bedroom Farce (to March 8); My Romantic History (to March 8); Allo, Allo Le Dinner Show (February 28). Contact 01423 502116. Dukes Theatre, Lancaster: Exhibition: Winter Trees (to March 9); Stuart Maconie: The
Nigh on 2,500 prime sheep passed through the sale ring at Skipton Auction Mart’s weekly Monday sale, with old season lamb numbers at 2,123 a head and achieving an overall selling average of £77.50 per head, or 187.1p/kg. Trawden’s Jimmy Baines
Skipton’s fortnightly Wednesday cattle sale attracted 836 head, with commercial store cattle and other premium entries highly sought after. The 312 young feeding bulls were a shade easier on the fortnight, though buyers were prepared to compete
The opening 2014 sale of working sheep dogs at Skipton Auction Mart tomorrow has attracted another solid entry of 98 dogs. Skipton remains the UK’s leading working sheep dogs sales venue and a total of 74 trained dogs will be put through their
A record entry of 59 dairy cattle were forward at Gisburn Auction Marts’ pedigree dairy show and sale on Thursday. Regular vendor Lee Donkin, of Copster Green, Blackburn, was the show winner and claimed the top price of £2,850 for a heifer.
This year’s Craven Champions Day – Skipton Auction Mart’s annual show and sale of commercial store cattle with future show potential – was one of the best on record, attracting an increased entry of 65 bullocks and heifers. And all prize winners
Multiple past champion Brian Moorhouse, who runs the Airebank pedigree Holstein dairy herd at Hesper Farm, Bell Busk, sent out his first title winner of 2014 at the main February Craven Dairy Auction at Skipton Auction Mart on Monday. The home-bred
A Barnoldswick great-grandmother, who has just celebrated her 100th birthday, has credited a plain diet and lack of stress as keys to long life. Winifred Fairchild was born in Barnoldswick on February 16, 1914. The daughter of a butcher and
Traders are backing a call to change parking rules on Skipton High Street setts on market days. They support demands for a “full and comprehensive” review of the regulations which would allow parking if traders failed to take up their pitches by
A woman who bombarded a man with unwanted phone calls and sent him a Facebook picture of her bottom has been given a community sentence and a restraining order by Skipton magistrates. Marta Guskiewicz, 29, targeted Craig Outhwaite relentlessly,
A drink driver more than four times over the limit has been handed a community sentence with 200 hours’ unpaid work by Skipton magistrates. Nicola Rose, 48, who also received a three-year driving ban, had driven a short distance from Embsay on
A planned district-wide annual gathering of 300 girl guides has been left in tatters because of safety issues at Skipton Town Hall. The North East gathering of the Trefoil Guild – due to be held in April – is the second major event to be cancelled
Emma Lonsdale wasted little time in announcing her retirement after completing her Winter Olympic debut in Sochi – after all it’s a decision that she’s put off for the past two years. Lonsdale was the last of Britain’s freestyle skiers to compete
Brit Award winner James Newman from Stainforth was flying out to Los Angeles this week following a surprise win at the annual top music awards. James is the older brother of well-known pop star John Newman. Both James, 26, and John, 23, were
Premier Division whipping boys Carleton have withdrawn from the Mastab’s Craven Football League. They have also pulled out of the Craven FA and Morrison Cups. However their reserve side will continue to compete in Division Four. The club
Wharfedale’s injury crisis appears to be over as they bid to bring an end to their dismal run of four successive home defeats against Richmond at The Avenue on Saturday. The two-week break from SSE National League One action has certainly helped
Skipton schoolgirl Amy Howarth is hoping that a lack of funds won’t scupper her Olympic canoeing dream. The 13-year-old Aireville School student wants to compete in the 2020 Games in Tokyo but she confesses: “I come from a single-parent family
Cowling Harlequins 6 Siddal A 38 Cowling Harlequins were excited about the possibility of reaching their first cup final, but it was snuffed out. Not only were Siddal A a division higher – Division Six against Division Seven – but they included
Bradley needed extra time but they are through to the semi-finals of the Mastab’s Craven League Division Two Cup. The score was 1-1 at the end of 90 minutes at home to Skipton LMS Reserves but they netted the vital second in the extra period to
Barnoldswick Town and Silsden will be hoping the weather doesn’t continue to hamper their attempts to climb the North West Counties Premier Division table. Town’s home game with Stockport Sport was washed out last Saturday leaving them with 12
North Ribblesdale 9 Scarborough 3 An easing in the weather and hard work from the Grove Park groundstaff meant that the game – postponed from the previous week – could be played. Scarborough had first use of the wind that had helped dry the
About 100 people crammed into Settle’s Talbot Inn to cheer on local skier Emma Lonsdale in her first – and last – Winter Olympics. Emma, who has worked at the pub for two years, competed for Team GB in the halfpipe event in Sochi on Thursday –
Councillors have called for a review of the lane structure and cutting back foliage at Kildwick roundabout. The move comes after North Yorkshire county councillor Patrick Mulligan (Cons) reviewed the county’s road accident statistics with members
The innings of one of the truly great servants of local sport, Clifford Gill, has ended shortly before his 90th birthday. Clifford’s mighty contributions included more than 75 years’ service at his beloved Sutton Cricket Club where he had figured
A former science teacher at Skipton Girls’ High School has been sent to crown court on charges of sexual activity with a pupil. Gareth David Aspey, 29, faces three charges of sexual activity with a girl aged 13 to 17 while in a position of trust
A by-election is to be held in Skipton to fill a casual vacancy created on the town council following the recent death of Councillor Linda Dalton. The by-election follows the receipt of more than the ten signatures from local electors required
A Fiat Punto was stopped by police in Skipton because of a strong smell of cannabis, magistrates heard. Driver Michael Bisson, 49, handed over an unsmoked cannabis joint and a small freezer bag containing amphetamine, Skipton magistrates heard
The family of Steve Akrigg – one of Skipton’s best-known personalities – have paid tribute to the “larger than life” character who died on Christmas Day. They say he was a man who evoked smiles galore from far and wide. “‘Larger than life character
A former employee of the Bentham Development Trust has appeared at Skipton Magistrates' Court on theft and fraud charges totalling more than £100,000. Anne Celia Yaman, 63, faces one charge of theft by employee, four charges of fraud by false representation
