A RETIRED music teacher appeared at Bradford Crown Court today charged with historic sex offences against a young boy. David Hope, 72, of Granby Close, Headingley, Leeds, pleaded not guilty to three allegations of buggery with a boy under 16, three
PARCEVALL Hall gardens at Skyreholme, near Appletreewick, are due to open next week for the first of two snowdrop weekends. The gardens of the Parcevall Hall, a retreat for the Leeds Anglican Diocese, will be open specially for the annual snowdrop
A WOMAN who lashed out at police officers after being arrested for being drunk and disorderly told Skipton Magistrates Court she was the ‘nicest person’, apart from when she had been drinking. Olivia Mattock, 18, was in Skipton on January 17 to
A LEADING supplier of heavy building materials has won permission to continue its quarrying operations in the Yorkshire Dales National Park and close to sites of special scientific interest. A meeting of the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority
FOLLOWING their last sold-out performance of Handel’s Messiah, Skipton’s own professional chamber orchestra Skipton Camerata, sponsored by Skipton Building Society, return to Christ Church next month to perform music of a fiery, even diabolical nature
GLUSBURN Community Primary School pupils looked at climate change during this year's UNICEF Day of Change. Lynn Ashton, the school's Head of Values and Ethos, said the Day of Change supported children's rights to good nutrition, an education, sanitation
A SILSDEN-born woman who devoted much of her life to the famous Ffestiniog Railway has died at the age of 75. Eileen Elisabeth Clayton, who died on December 27, gained the MBE for her work over several decades with the ‘Great Little Trains of Wales
