'Fly fishing is the new golf'
	9:33am Fri 9 May 08
	Because I pay my extortionately expensive salmon fishing licence by direct debit - which has gone up another £10 as another un-reported "stealth tax" - I receive from the Environment Agency a full-colour magazine called Catch.

	Want to hire a cake tin – with a smile thrown in?
	1:38pm Mon 28 Apr 08
	At gloomy times like this, what with an awful spring, my allotment under water and the trout too thin after a foul winter to be worth catching, I thought I would join Julie Andrews and go in search of some of my favourite things.
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	‘To destroy this wonderful way into Skipton would be sacrilege'
	9:37am Fri 11 Apr 08
	Craven's planning process was thrown into a state of confusion this week with a judicial review threatened and then withdrawn on the building of a controversial new office block on a green field site at the entrance to Skipton on Gargrave Road.
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	A £20,000 fine? Not a lot of people know that!
	10:47am Fri 28 Mar 08
	Not a lot of people know that the actor Michael Caine never said "Not a lot of people know that." The quote attributed to him was actually used by the late Peter Sellers as the message on his answer phone, mimicking Caine's cockney accent.
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	Overweight? The moaners make Cheryl furious!
	10:07am Fri 14 Mar 08
	Sometimes this job leaves you absolutely gob-smacked. Just what should I have been expecting when I was asked to interview a world champion female bodybuilder: a sort of rugby front-row forward with cauliflower ears in a skirt?

	Son of a dining dynasty who couldn't stay away
	9:59am Fri 29 Feb 08
	Practitioners of my trade have been known to frequent licensed premises from time to time. Not for pleasure, of course, but for business: this is where we often find our stories. But when it comes to pubs, hotels and restaurants, my subject this week makes me feel like a teetotal hermit.

	The ‘tearaway’ who’s an example to all children
	10:13am Fri 15 Feb 08
	Schoolchildren in this country get a pretty bad press. In much of the media, they are portrayed as lazy truants "bunking off" from school, obese couch-potatoes, heads always bent over their computer game screens or - at worst - violent thugs capable of beating older people to a pulp.

	Dalesman editor bids a fond farewell
	3:32pm Thu 31 Jan 08
	It might seem a little odd that, after 20 years or so wandering round the Yorkshire Dales chatting to folk, that I had never before met the subject of today's column.

	Hugh's a gadget guru
	3:14pm Thu 10 Jan 08
	A friend and I were recently crossing Skipton High Street when we spotted a "Sale" notice in a shop window with "massive reductions" on various electronic gadgets.
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	Ruth's key role in railway's survival
	9:17am Fri 28 Dec 07
	Most people have a small but inextinguishable store of memories of where they were when they heard some life-affecting item of news. It could be good; it could be chillingly bad; or a moment of pure joy.

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