A GEOGRAPHY teacher at West Craven High School, Barnoldswick, is spending half term in Mexico with other teachers after winning a Rainforest Alliance and Tui Care Foundation competition. Nicola Price found out about the competition - which is designed
A SPECIALIST speech and language therapist at Airedale Hospital has received a national accolade. Stephanie Burgess has been presented with a Giving Voice Award in recognition of her “outstanding skills” in raising awareness of how speech and language
COUNTY and district councillor Andy Solloway has been co-opted onto Skipton Town Council to replace Cllr Martin Emmerson, who died earlier this year. Cllr Solloway, who represents Skipton West on North Yorkshire County Council and Skipton South
POLICE have arrested three men, just an hour after a robbery took place in a post office in Skipton. North Yorkshire Police received a report of robbery at Swadford Street Post Office at 1.22pm today. A search ensued and a number of police
A POPULAR former Silsden player has died, the club confirmed earlier today. Ian Greenwood was a stalwart for the club, playing for them in the 1970s and 1980s. This morning, Silsden tweeted their sadness at the news, adding that Mr Greenwood
CRAVEN District Council has got to look ‘very seriously’ at its approach to climate change and consider each of its areas of operation, says its chief executive. Paul Shevlin told a meeting of the council’s scrutinising Select Committee that progress
AN investigation is underway after one of the newly installed Craven boundary signs went missing. The sign, on the A56 at Wysick Hill, between Earby and Thornton-in-Craven, is believed to have gone sometime around Wednesday this week. Just the
AN edge of Skipton housing estate has been named ‘best large development’ at the Yorkshire Residential Property Awards. RN Wooler and Co’s Higher Raikes development won the accolade at the awards ceremony celebrating the talent and expertise of
RETIRED teachers and doctors, farmers, voluntary workers, a dry stone waller, an archaeologist and a cave rescue volunteer are amongst the 30 people from North Craven whose hands and words feature in a unique exhibition in Settle. Life in Our Hands
RACKHAMS in Skipton is due to close; in September, 1961, its predecessor Brown, Muff’s opened after buying up the former Amblers. Both stores had prospered under the guidance of ‘enterprising women’, reports Lesley Tate EVEN the directors of Brown
STEETON-with-Eastburn has a new vicar. The Rev David Coleman was inducted in a special service at St Stephen’s Church. Bishop of Leeds, the Right Rev Nick Baines, and the Archdeacon of Bradford – the Venerable Dr Andy Jolley – led the induction
