Last year, fell rescue volunteer, Joe Parsons, who lives in South Craven, was joint second in the gruelling 108 mile, non-stop Montane Spine Race Mountain Rescue Challenge. This year, he went one better and won it. Here, Joe tells us all about it and
HOLDERS Burley face a repeat of last season's semi-final in the opening round of the Aire-Wharfe League's Waddilove Cup. They travel to Beckwithshaw in the first round on Sunday, May 3. Another enticing tie is at Pool, where league champions
BURNS Night will be celebrated at Alexander’s Skipton High Street, on Saturday, January 25 with haggis, a ‘wee dram’ and world champion Scottish piper, Stephen Sumner. Burns Night originates from the birthday celebrations of the Bard of Scotland
WHEN Gretchen Carlson slaps Fox News founder Roger Ailes with a lawsuit alleging sexual harassment, not a soul could predict what would happen next. Such is the juicy and effortlessly topical, premise of Bombshell, the new drama hit from Austin
By David Porter, Chartered Financial Planning Consultant, Armstrong Watson WOMEN are saving less than men for their retirement, with only 15% saving for the future compared to 20% of men. The previously unpublished figures show that women are
A MASSIVE well done to the members of Skipton Town Ladies Football Club who inspired by the Rylstone WI Calendar girls, took their kit off for a fundraising calendar. Treasurer, Bex Holt, tells me as a volunteer run, community club, they are always
WE have reader Keith Perriman to thank for these splendid two photographs taken of Skipton Christ Church cub camp at Eshton, near Gargrave in either 1954 or 1955. Keith, who is in both pictures, with his fellow cubs, tells us that the cub hut was
SIR - Congratulations to Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust (YDMT) for tackling the subject of plastic tree guards on BBC Radio 4’s Farming Today (Craven Diary, January 9). If we are serious about reducing carbon emissions and use of fossil fuels,
WHARFEDALE are targeting another five points this Saturday as prepare to play Preston Grasshoppers, another of National League Two North's struggling teams. The Greens racked up seven tries en route to a dominant 49-12 win against Scunthorpe at
SOME big changes have been made to both Mewies Solicitors Craven League cup competitions for 2020. The Wynn Cup, which is reverting back to 40 overs per side after a season as a Twenty20 competition, will now solely be applicable to first teams
SKIPTON RFC is aiming for a good second half run to avoid relegation from Yorkshire Division Three. Skipton are currently second from bottom in the league, taking eight points in two wins from 11 games. “Normally two go up and two go down, so
PLANS have been unveiled to turn a large part of Silsden into a 20mph zone. Dozens of speed humps would be placed in residential streets near the new Silsden Primary School under the Bradford Council proposals. This would include streets running
