The Craven Herald: News from across skipton and surrounding areas.

CSI:Craven - starring crimefighting Louise

11:31am Thursday 12th March 2009

The plots on smash hit US television series Crime Scene Investigation can be a bit far-fetched at times – and nobody knows that better than Craven’s own Louise Devereaux.

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New SBS chief confident for the future

11:00am Saturday 7th February 2009

The credit crunch is a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity”, says Skipton Building Society’s new chief executive, and he has no intention of letting it pass him by.

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I’ll phone up troublemakers’ mums, says new police chief

5:10pm Saturday 17th January 2009

“Does your mother know?” That’s what Skipton’s new police chief is asking young troublemakers.

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Best-selling writer Marina happy to be back in town

4:00pm Saturday 10th January 2009

International best-selling author Marina Fiorato has travelled the world this year promoting her successful debut novel – but she’s never happier than when back at her mother’s home in Langcliffe.

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Farewell to our own John Sheard

9:50am Sunday 28th December 2008

On a September morning in 1956, a callow 17-year-old youth fresh out of an ancient grammar school walked into a Grade Two listed office building to start a job as a copy boy on his local weekly paper, a traditional, county broadsheet with ads on the front page. It was called the Derbyshire Advertiser.

Nurse’s mission to halt advance of a ‘silent assassin’

2:10pm Saturday 13th December 2008

On two sad but deeply moving occasions in the past, I have written about people facing death from terminal illness.

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The hobby that ballooned into a successful business

2:20pm Saturday 29th November 2008

Some of the happiest, most fulfilled people I know are those who have turned their hobbies into businesses. Doing what you like doing best is an enviable way of making a living and many of them have been happy to barter less pay for more job satisfaction.

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Cold fury of the Legion man leading the parade

2:00pm Friday 7th November 2008

Pomp, pride and patriotism may not be as fashionable as they once were, but they will be on show in force this Sunday to mark the 90th Remembrance Sunday since the end of the carnage of World War One.

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Carolyn out to net a new generation of sporting champions

12:30pm Saturday 18th October 2008

British sport is on something of a roll at present.

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A premier league gentleman

10:10am Saturday 13th September 2008

A recurring theme of this column is the small number of people who spend much of their lives organising leisure and social activities for lots and lots of other people to enjoy. It is, sadly, a dwindling bunch so many of the veterans keep soldiering on.

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