A FORMER employee of the Bentham Development Trust who could be jailed for the theft of more than £100,000 has had her case put back until November.Anne Celia Yaman, 63, was charged with a series offences following a police inquiry into accounting
YOUNG Becky Ackroyd was in the firing line at a fundraiser event in Silsden on Saturday.She was the target of wet sponges - all part of a mayhem and fun day organised by Silsden All Star Majorettes.Other attractions included a visit from Darth Vader,
Wharfedale will be hoping to make it three wins out of three when they visit unbeaten Tynedale on Saturday. Jon Feeley’s side can feel well satisfied with their start to the new National League One campaign, but they are aware that there are many
VICTORIA Wilkinson of Hebden has just been crowned British and English Fell Running champion. The final race was at Hodder Valley Show where she smashed the course record by 11 minutes. Over the season-long British Series, Victoria won two
North Ribblesdale 10 Bridlington 6 NORTH Ribblesdale scored a welcome win but the margin of victory was tighter than it should have been. The home scrum worked well and the line-out was solid which meant that Ribb had a good supply of possession
Skipton 29 Knaresborough 3 An overcast afternoon provided perfect September rugby conditions at Sandylands for Skipton's opening Yorkshire Division Four home game. Following on from their success in the first round of the Yorkshire Silver Trophy
Terry Dolan, one of the most successful managers in Bradford City’s history, is the guest speaker at the next meeting of Skipton Bantams, for Bradford City supporters. Dolan’s key role at the heart of City and involvement with some of its most
BOFRA champion Ted Mason maintained his winning run with victory in the Bradley Fell Race. The Wharfedale Harriers ace led by 26 seconds at the top of the climb and increased it by a further 30 seconds on the descent. His time of 24min 10sec
Simon Bailey romped to victory in the Burnsall Fell Race on Sunday. The Mercia Fell Runners member finished 11 seconds ahead of Appletreewick’s British champion Ted Mason, with Wharfedale Harriers’ Sam Watson in third place. The first lady
Earby have resigned Dave Crotty as their professional for 2015 after clinching promotion to the Houldsworth Solicitors Ribblesdale League Senior League A.Crotty who was in his first season in the paid ranks, scored 426 runs at an average of 27. He also
IT LOOKS like being another long, hard winter for struggling Embsay. They finished bottom of the Premier Division last season, with just a win and a draw from 16 outings. Embsay conceded 58 goals, and this campaign in the same division – they
SETTLE’S second team are celebrating after defeating Baxenden by 20 runs to clinch the Houldsworth Ribblesdale League Division two championship. Losing two wickets in the opening over of the game certainly wasn’t in the script. But the Marshfield
RICHARD Nichols produced a chanceless, unbeaten century that helped ensure Skipton survived to fight another year in Division Two. But Upper Wharfedale lost their final game to Colton by 40 runs and will return to Division Three after just one
TERRY Dolan, one of the most successful managers in Bradford City’s history, is the guest speaker at the next meeting of Skipton Bantams - the Bradford City supporters club. Dolan’s key role at the heart of City and involvement with some of
WE'VE had an odd sort of summer. A promising spring, a hot couple of weeks in July, and an August with plummeting temperatures, threats of frost and flash floods. It was however, 50 years ago in July, 1964, that Earby was hit by the worst floods
THE Dales will again play host to the vintage sights and sounds of the war years when Grassington hosts its third 1940s weekend, starting tomorrow (Friday). Both the previous events proved hugely popular and the organisers have not tinkered
TRAVELLING criminals beware - we're watching you!That's the message from police in Craven and North Yorkshire who joined a hi-tech operation involving seven forces to target criminals moving stolen goods across the county.Dubbed 'Operation
Peter Leighton Gledstone Gardens THE first batch of autumn and winter flowering pansies and viola were pricked out during the first week of August, which will be starting to flower and ready for sale during early September. This batch
A YOUNG man with Down's Syndrome whose passion for birds has given him a new lease of life has been told he must drastically reduce his flock. Ashley Marshall, 23, a former pupil at Brooklands Special School, and his stepfather Richard Feather
SETTLE cheese specialist Andy Swinscoe is being used a s a case study for a conference focusing in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Thrive Yorkshire is being held on September 25 from 9am to 5pm at The Craiglands Hotel in Ilkley, and will examine
High above Thornton Moor, a flock of curious sheep pose for the camera against the dramatic late evening sky.
STAFF and students from The Skipton Academy will recreate the send-off that the first recruits from Settle received 100 years to the day after they departed for the Great War.Among those attending the re-enactment at Settle Railway Station will be Eastburn
SETTLE Storytelling Festival has launched a drawing competition – to design a space ship. It ties in with the space theme that will run throughout this year’s festival, which takes place from Friday, October 10 to Sunday, October 12.
BRADLEY Family Day has been hailed as a great success.It proved a good day for Patrick McGowan who won three trophies - J Bibby Trophy for most points in vegetable section, the Bill Miles Tankard for best vegetable and the ES Germaine Trophy for most
THE long-time sub-postmistress of the award-winning Cross Hills post office is stepping down.Fifty-three-year-old Sharon Latta is moving into a new role after working in the Royal Mail's office on Prospect Street for the past 31 years, 16 of which
GRASSINGTON businessman Joe Azzopardi will have to move house after admitting the making of indecent images, Skipton magistrates were told.So great was the impact on his and his wife Elizabeth's business that he felt he could no longer continue living
A BRAKES malfunction forced a bus to make an emergency stop, blocking an entrance to Skipton's High Street car park on Monday morning. "The brakes got hot and seized up, so I stopped straight away," said Doug Harrison, driver of the National
LAWKLAND Young Farmers held their annual show – and it proved a good event for Robert Polkinghorne He took home five trophies – for the champion heifer calf, overall cattle points, best handicraft exhibit, most points in senior handicrafts
A WELL-KNOWN football referee who officiated at more than 1,700 local matches has died at the age of 83.James Edward Dick, known as Jim, died peacefully at Bradford Royal Infirmary with his family at his side.Jim was born in Barnoldswick and was educated
THE couple seated at the front of this picture are Mr and Mrs Harold Bell.We believe the picture was taken at a gathering organised to thank them for their services to the young people of Cononley just before they left the village in the late 1950s.Mr
ORGANISERS of the Skipton Charities Gala are asking community groups or local good causes to come forward if they wish to be considered for a donation from funds raised at this summer’s successful event. The Skipton Charities Gala Committee
A COUPLE who met when they both worked at Mark Nutter's Mill in Skipton celebrate their diamond wedding anniversary today.Jack and Shirley Beresford, of Burnside Crescent, both lifelong residents of Skipton, got chatting at work - Jack was a weaver
Tunstill's Men,SettleTO use the word poignant to describe this potent drama is to devalue the impact that it so clearly had on the audience. Similarly, the term audience seems painfully inappropriate as the piece is so skilfully written, staged and
THE team at Herriot's Hotel, Skipton, is challenging people to get baking.It wants people to create a cake before it holds its World's Biggest Coffee Morning in the Rhubarb Restaurant next Friday, September 26.As well as its own homemade cakes
CRAVEN'S long awaited planning blueprint for the next 15 years will go out to public consultation next week.The draft Local Plan will be published on Craven District Council's website from Monday and will also be available at libraries and the
STAFF at Skipton Body Repair Centre will be swapping spanners for sponges on Saturday.They are holding a charity car wash at the centre, on Engine Shed Lane, to raise money for local tot Connor Wrighton.Connor was born blind and his parents, Nathan and
DETAILED plans for an estate of 45 new homes off Raikes Road, Skipton, are set to be approved.Following the granting of outline planning almost a year ago, a reserved matters application for a mixture of two, three, four and five bedroom homes, including
A committee has accepted that a "pinch point" in Otley Road, Skipton, was right to be re-instated after it was removed to make way for the Tour de France, this summer. The crossing point was originally set up following a request from Brougham
TWO hour parking on Skipton High Street setts is to be scrapped. Craven Area Committee agreed to the introduction of hourly parking from Monday to Saturday, including market days. Drivers will be able to park their cars on the setts
A UNIVERSITY lecturer who suffered sexual abuse as a child in boarding school has hailed the courage of Skipton-born Ruzwana Bashir in speaking out about her own abuse. Robert Minton-Taylor, of Cononley, said it had had taken more than 50 years
THE largest entry of CCM Skipton’s peak sheep sale season so far saw JM Wilson & Sons, of Beckwithshaw, triumph in the Masham wethers annual prize show.David Wilson, chairman of the Masham Sheep Breeders Association, picked up the top prize
A WOMAN suffered a suspected broken leg after being trampled by cows.The incident happened while she was walking her dogs along the Dales Way above Kettlewell around lunchtime on Friday.She was assisted by paramedics from the Yorkshire Ambulance Service
A BACK-TO-BACK championship double was secured by the Smearsett flock of North Craven’s WA and A Booth at the big opening annual ewe lamb show and sale for members of the North of England Mule Sheep Association (NEMSA) at Skipton Auction Mart.The
FIVE generations helped to celebrate the 100th birthday of great great great grandmother Jane Garnett.Known to many as Auntie Jennie, she lives at the Dales Nursing Home, Draughton, where an afternoon tea party was held.Guests ranged from her 92-year-old
RESIDENTS of Embsay and Eastby have submitted more than 750 pages of written objections to two planning applications for 53 houses, which they feel could destroy the unique, rural nature of the villages.That is the claim of the Keep Embsay Rural campaign
A SCHEME to alleviate traffic problems caused by ongoing building work at Granville Street, Skipton, is set to be approved.Lovell, builders of Lambert Hills, the 57-house development on the site of the former Craven District Council offices, is planning
