Sports Direct will open a store in Skipton, it was revealed this week.

The country’s leading sports retailer is to open in the former Co-op building next to Beales in Swadford Street.

A spokesman for Chapel Allerton Investments, which owns the whole site, confirmed that contracts had been signed.

“We have signed with Sports Direct who will be starting shopfitting at the end of this month to be open before the end of November,” he said.

The site is already home to Handpicked Hall and Intershape Fitness.