FOUR people have been rescued after sliding down an embankment at Skipton Woods. All three emergency services were involved in the rescue, which took place just before 5pm today. One woman was stretchered up the embankment before being taken to
THE UK’s rarest orchid – due to flower soon – is due to star at the Wild About Orchids Month at Kilnsey Park Estate.The event, which runs until June 19, will allow people to get close to the near-mythical Lady’s Slipper Orchid.The flower was feared extinct
A SILSDEN church will benefit from an exhibition of hand-made quilts.The event was staged by Silsden Methodist Church to raise funds for the church.Organiser Jenni Smith said a total of 37 quilts were put on display which had been made by 17, mostly local
EXCITED students at a Barnoldswick school met two Burnley FC players as part of the club's Premier League Enterprise Programme.Almost 50 year nine students at West Craven High School participated in the 12-week project, which included workshops in
THE owners of Steeton Hall Hotel celebrated the end of a major programme of refurbishment with a well attended event in the grounds of the hotel.Steeton Male Voice Choir performed next to the hotel's newly completed bandstand, which will mainly serve
A SCHOOL that raised nearly £9,000 for the Race for Life initiative last year has again rallied round to help people with cancer.Staff and pupils at Sutton Community Primary School completed a five-kilometre course at Sutton Park earlier this month to
AUSTWICK will hold its annual street market and cuckoo festival on Monday.The centre of the village will be closed to traffic as it is taken over by dray horses, a harpist, a bagpipe player, a man on stilts, some adorable farm animals, two bands, scores
THIRTEEN-year-old Zara Salim from Skipton has received a national volunteer award from Macmillan Cancer Support in recognition of raising more than £3,700 for the charity. Zara received The UK Young Macmillan Champion Award at the charity’s Volunteers
NATIONAL accolades have been awarded to the care trust which runs the Centre for Mental Health at Airedale Hospital.Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust was part of a team which won the Dementia Quality Improvement Award.The honour is in recognition
A MAN has been airlifted to hospital with critical head injuries after crashing his motorcycle in to a stone wall. The 44-year-old was riding his Suzuki motorcycle back from Kirkby Lonsdale along the A682, around a mile south of the Todber Caravan
AN Earby insurance firm has a new look after launching several new services and consulting with clients and customers.West Craven Insurance Services managing director, Ian Clarkson, said: “We’ve had the same logo and corporate colours since we started
AIREDALE NHS Foundation Trust overspent by almost £1 million on its budget of £150 million in the past financial year. The news comes after it was revealed as the NHS ended a record £2.45 billion in the red. Airedale's overspend was slightly
