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  • Cross Hills club to serve-up fundraising event for charity

    A SOCIAL club is serving-up a charity fundraising event. The Cross Hills club, in Main Street, is offering ‘full English’ breakfasts on Saturday, September 28, and Sunday, September 29. And part of the proceeds from each meal sold will go to

  • Skipton lose at Ossett despite spirited performance

    Ossett 50 Skipton 22 FOUR second half tries saw Ossett pull away from a spirited Skipton team on Saturday. Ossett kicked off down the slope in the late summer sunshine at their relocated pitch at Horbury and soon had Skipton under pressure

  • Wharfedale come up short despite late surge

    Sedgley Park 17 Wharfedale 14 WHARFEDALE scored two tries in the last five minutes but came up short, losing 17-14 at Sedgley Park on Saturday. Sedgley Park went ahead in the fourth minute, with a converted try out wide to Sam Peet. Dale

  • Tuck and Sparkes claim victory in battle of the duos

    IT was business as usual at the sharp end of the ACU Wessex Plant Hire British Sidecar championship at Fellbeck, where 20 crews contested Mel Harrison Trial at Kingstone Farm. Jon Tuck and Matt Sparkes cruised to victory ahead of Baildon’s Nigel

  • Moorhouse milker is champion

    IT was all smiles for Bell Busk husband and wife dairy farmers Brian and Judith Moorhouse, of Hesper Farm, who experienced the champion buzz at their local Skipton Auction Mart on Saturday, September 9. The farming family’s Aireburn pedigree herd

  • Tribute to Jason as colleagues scale the heights for charity

    COLLEAGUES of a man who died from cancer earlier this year have completed a charity challenge in celebration of his life. A 25-strong group from construction company BAM walked and cycled a gruelling 21km route in the Lake District, in aid of the

  • Barnoldswick Town march on in the FA Vase

    BARNOLDSWICK Town showed great spirit to come from 2-0 down to beat Northallerton Town in the second qualifying round of the Buildbase FA Vase on Saturday. Ric Seear's second goal of the match in the 80th minute saw Barnoldswick go into the draw

  • Ducks rule roost at poultry highlight

    CALDERDALE poultry breeder Stephen Hitchen, from Ludendenfoot, Halifax, ruled the roost at Skipton Auction Mart, on Saturday. Victory came for him after sending out the champions and setting the pecking order for the day at the autumn Craven Premier

  • Six-goal delight for Howson as Grassington thump Carleton

    SIX goals by Luke Howson saw Grassington United crush Carleton Sports Club 11-2 on Saturday. Goals by Freddie Binns, Fred Midgley, Ben Schindler and brace by substitute Jan Ozdoba completed the rout for United. Ryan Hoggarth also had a brace for

  • Walkers trot out NEMSA winners

    THE Walker family, who farm 6,000 acres of primarily fells high above Dunsop Bridge in Lancashire’s Forest of Bowland, consigned the champion pen of 10 at Skipton Auction Mart’s opening annual gimmer lamb show and sale for members of the North of England

  • Silsden on verge of title after triumph at Haworth

    SILSDEN will be in Mewies Solicitors Craven & District League Division Two next season, their second-successive promotion, and it is safe to say they will be champions. Second-placed Bingley Congs can equal them on point but their run-rate is far

  • Champions Crossflatts cruise after Foulridge 29 all out

    THERE was an air of end-of-season blues in Mewies Solicitors Craven and District League with five matches cancelled and teams turning out with nine and 10 men – and there is still one more Saturday to go. Division One champions Crossflatts were

  • Skipton skittled for just 27 but narrowly avoid relegation

    SKIPTON survived relegation from Division Three of the Aire-Wharfe League by the skin of their teeth, despite being dismissed for a paltry 27 by rock-bottom Harden. They eventually finished six points clear of second-bottom Menston, who lost by

  • Life stories told through hand sculptures

    A MULTI-MEDIA exhibition created by an international, award winning artist and her work with 30 people from North Craven will open in Settle next week. Life in Our Hands tells the life stories of people from all walks of life using casts of their

  • Poor first half sees Steeton shattered by Vase defeat

    Steeton 2 Seaham Red Star 3 STEETON bowed out of the FA Vase at the second qualifying round stage despite a valiant second half display, but ultimately they had paid the price in the first period as Seaham raced into a 3-1 lead. The opening