SETTLE Stories will be hosting award winning storyteller Dominic Kelly and folk musicians Bridget Marsden and Leif Ottosson with The Big Blind on Sunday, April 28. The audience will be in for a treat, with both storytelling and music from the trio
A NEW calendar to mark 20 years since the Calendar Girls first took the world by storm could hit the presses later this year. Angela Baker, one of the members whose late husband, John Baker, inspired the original creation while suffering from non-Hodgkins
A FAIRYTALE was brought to life this month in a South Craven village by children and teenagers from a Silsden dance school. Children from the Elizabeth Phillips School of Dance recreated the famous story the Elves and the Shoemaker at Glusburn Institute
MUCH better weather than last year, when the country was grappling with 'the Beast from the East', helped to encourage 20 per cent more exhibitors to Grassington and District Horticultural Society's 2019 Spring Show. There were more than 350 entries
AN award winning community hub which has been established in the Dales for the past decade finds itself facing a funding criss. Grassington Hub, run by more than 80 volunteers, will run out of funds this August and is asking locals to ‘chip in’
BRAVE walkers put their best feet forward for a charity blaze of glory - by striding over hot coals. Thirty-four people, some from as far afield as London, Rochdale and York, arrived at Skipton Rugby Club to take part in the firewalk, organised
CYCLIST Gemma Towell is hard in training as she gears up to tackling the National Three Peaks Challenge next month. Gemma, 41, from Cowling, who works as a production co-ordinator for Whitakers Chocolates, in Skipton, is running each of the national
THE latest planning applications to the lodged with the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority include: Agricultural diversification scheme to provide open farm visitor attraction, agricultural museum, tea room, visitor toilet facilities, whisky
THE latest planning applications lodged with Craven District Council include: Roof windows to front elevation and bi-fold doors to rear elevation, 8 New Laithe Close, Skipton. Single storey rear mono pitch extension, 5 Raines Road, Giggleswick
AN oil tanker engineer for the merchant navy who was originally from Ilkley but spent some time in Eastby has died on shore leave in Barbados. Ben Burgess, believed to be 25, was reported in the Barbados Today paper to have been pulled from the
A FRIGHT night featuring back-to-back screenings of horror films with rural themes will be part of next month's Hinterlands international film festival in Skipton. The town's Plaza Cinema will play host for the non-stop frightening flicks including
BARNOLDSWICK Town went down to a 6-1 defeat at high-flying Congleton Town at Silentnight Stadium on Tuesday. Zack Dale got Barnoldswick off to a flying start when he scored from the kick-off to put the home side up 1-0. It was Dale's 38th goal
YOUNG bookworms at Cowling Primary School have carried out a total of 25,755 minutes of reading - equivalent to 18 days - for a sponsored read, helped by a £500 donation from the village's New2U shop, in the Methodist church. The shop helps numerous
Carlisle City 4 Steeton 3 TEN-MAN Steeton crashed to a midweek defeat at Carlisle City in the Hallmark Security League Division One North. Roy Mason's side fell to an 88th-minute winner to suffer late heartbreak on Tuesday night. The Chevrons
NORTH Craven’s Robert Towers won the high profile Easter prime lambs show at Skipton Auction Mart for the second year in succession on Monday. Mr Towers, who farms with his wife, Jackie at Greenlands Farm, Ingleton, saw his first prize home-bred
THE Craven Curiosity featured last week was fairly easy to identify as a seal, though much harder to date. Cath Cooney said: “This week’s object looks to be a seal used on wax to secure correspondence safely,” while Andy Sumnall considered it: “
