A LIMITED edition seasonal gin distilled with wild herbs, grasses and blooms from some of the richest wildflower meadows in England will be launched at a celebration of traditional hay meadows in Slaidburn next month. Goosnargh Gin will unveil the
CRAVEN School of Music is celebrating after a raft of its pupils shone in the UK Accordion Championships held at the Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool. A great representation from the North Central Area event, held at The Bailey in Skipton and sponsored
A SPEEDING biker who tried to tried to cover up his vehicle's number plate to avoid being caught has been ordered to pay almost £2,300. Robert Went, 43, of Mobberley Road, Breightment, Bolton, was riding a black BMW S1000 RR motorcycle at 4pm on
SIR - The Open Farm Sunday event at Gam Farm Rare Breeds in Grassington was an enormous success. Over 300 visitors attended the event and the bottle feeding of the lambs was a real hit. £360 was raised and will be sent to the Rare Breeds Survival
MORE than 30 people took part in the Federation of Small Businesses 'Vision 2021' event at Herriots Hotel in Skipton. Aimed at brushing up their digital marketing skills, the delegates were given training by 'digital guru' Pascal Fintoni, from Newcastle
SKIPTON and Northcliffe have made it through to the Yorkshire Union Third Division Championship. The Bradford Union clubs were among the six teams to qualify at a wet Scarcroft Golf Club yesterday. In the Fourth Division event reduced to 18 holes
GRASSINGTON bookshop The Stripey Badger is celebrating next week’s Independent Bookshop week with Michael Rosen and Helen Oxbury’s We’re Going on a Bear Hunt. First published in 1989, the timeless classic is now 30 years old and is an essential
SIR - The Friends of the Wilderness (Skipton) met this week for their Annual General Meeting followed by their quarterly meeting, and were devastated to learn of the vandalism which had taken place over the Spring Bank Holiday weekend (also reported
THE wonderful Skipton Puppet Festival is set to return in the autumn for an eighth time - and this time there is going to be giant insects galore. And, to get everyone in the mood, organisers are offering puppet-making bursaries of up to £100 for
SIR - As Nancy Stedman points out (Please consider our beautiful flowers, Craven Herald letters, June 6) the untimely cutting of roadside verges is hard to reconcile with North Yorkshire County Council’s duty to protect the environment. At a time of
MORRISONS Supermarket in Skipton is marking Prince Harry’s first Father’s Day on Sunday with its ‘gingerbread prince’ biscuits (pictured). Complete with military uniform and sporting The Duke of Sussex’s trademark ginger hair, the gingerbread prince
THERE were 62 calves through the door at Skipton Auction Mart with a healthy trade throughout the sale. It had the look of a decent day when the first calf in the ring, from Mark Smith, of Winterburn, kicked off at £400 and went on to sell for £430
A TOTAL of 961 spring lambs were put forward at Skipton Auction Mart on Monday with a mixed show for quality. Top price per head was £124 from J Barnes Farming, of Sawley, with 52kgs at 238.5p/kg, selling to Kendalls Farm Butchers, in Harrogate
THE Duke of York will visit the 161st Great Yorkshire Show. on Thursday, July 11, meeting officials, competitors and exhibitors at England’s premier agricultural show on the Great Yorkshire Showground, Harrogate. The Duke of York last visited the
DUNCAN Robinson, of Low Birks Farm, Eldroth, returned to winning ways in the auction ring at Craven Dairy Auction on Monday with a nice white 29-litre heifer, calved 20 days. The homebred heifer was picked out as champion by judge Josh Clarke, of
By Andrew Mitchell, Tax Partner, Armstrong Watson THE government’s tax take from inheritance tax (IHT) exceeded £5.2 billion in 2017/18, almost double what it was less than ten years ago. The main reason for this increase is that since April 2009
THE weather has taken a turn for the worse in the last few days and the latest forecast has suggested that the wet and cool conditions may be here for at least a couple of weeks due to the position of the jetstream. Even though last week and particularly
WHARFEDALE's Jack Blakeney-Edwards has been named in Talk Rugby Union's National League Two North Team of the Season. Blakeney-Edwards, who joined the Greens at the start of the 2018/19 season, has had a great campaign playing at fly-half. After
ROLLS-Royce is to make a further more than 100 people redundant from its Barnoldswick sites. Just six months after announcing the loss of 60 jobs from its workforce, the international company says it has identified a further 102 from its Barnoldswick
A YOUNG Skipton golfer achieved the rare feat of hitting a hole-in-one. Junior golfer Ben Topper did what many golfers fail to do throughout their career when he carded the hole-in-one playing for the Skipton Golf Club’s junior team at St Ives on
A DOUBLE Paralympic gold medallist archer is looking to making a splash with her next challenge. Danielle Brown will be taking part in the John West Great East Swim at Alton Water in Suffolk on Saturday, June 22, where she will tackle a 5km swim
