A CRAVEN school hopes to inspire even more of its pupils to take up engineering as a career.South Craven School invited professor Kel Fidler, who regularly promotes the subject of engineering, to speak to year 10 to 13 students as part of a project called
TWO MPs united on Saturday to show their support for a campaign to re-open the Skipton to Colne railway line.MPs Julian Smith (Skipton and Ripon) and Andrew Stephenson (Pendle) met on Saturday (Dec 13) on the trackbed near Thornton-in-Craven to cut a
Mike Priestley enjoys a walk exploring Craven's industrial pastTHIS is not a waymarked route and I relied on the OS map, with its field boundaries, to show me the way.With the help of such a map you can see that the path should cross the middle of a field
A REFURBISHED coffee shop at Airedale Hospital has been officially reopened.The Friendly Coffee Shop, at the hospital's main entrance, has received a £60,000 facelift.Work included an extension into a former reception area, and new flooring.The shop is
A BOOK documenting historic houses has been published by a village's civic society.Addingham Civic Society has launched Addingham Houses 1750 - 1850, by local historian Arnold Pacey.In the first part of the book, Mr Pacey has written chapters about the
THE Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority has granted planning permission for seven static holiday caravans to be sited on a small site at Long Ashes Park, Threshfield.The go-ahead was given despite park owners Lakeland Leisure Estates failing to provide
