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  • Nearly £200m public funding boost for grassroots level sport

    UP to £195million of public funding will be made available to help grassroots sport deal with the financial impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Sport England has announced the support package in a bid to ease short-term cash-flow issues and loss

  • School ‘punches above its weight’

    GIGGLESWICK School has been named one of Country Life magazine’s top 25 UK small independent schools for ‘punching above its weight’. The 400-pupil co-educational day and boarding school near Settle was chosen for the accolade for holding its own

  • CORONAVIRUS: Council makes all its car parks free

    ALL car parks have been made free for key workers, essential shopping and community volunteers by Craven District Council. The temporary lifting of charges, in response to the coronavirus, will last until April 14 when it will be reviewed, says

  • PICTURES: View from your window

    NEVER has the view from our windows been more scrutinised, and with restrictions on our movements likely to stay put for another month or so, we are all of us going to be spending even more time looking out on the world. Send your window view to: news

  • Small Craven businesses to share a £24m windfall

    AROUND £24million is to be distributed to small business around Craven under the government’s package of assistance. Craven District Council is preparing to distribute the funding. More than 1,500 properties are thought to be eligible for the £10,000

  • Dacres estate agents offering virtual valuations

    AS businesses look for new ways to operate safely during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, one firm has adopted a virtual approach. Dacre, Son & Hartley, which has 20 offices including Skipton, Keighley and Settle has launched its virtual valuation

  • Two Craven groups are awarded grant funds

    CLAPHAM Village Store and Home-Start Craven are two of eight organisations in Yorkshire which have been awarded grants from a £14,000 funding pot. The awards are from Two Ridings Community Foundation to help support vulnerable residents and individuals

  • Firms’ rent ‘holiday’

    COMMERCIAL tennants in Pendle are being offered a three month rental payment holiday by the council to help ease the pressure during the coronavirus outbreak. Councillor Mohammed Iqbal, Leader of Pendle Council, said: “We’re aware that many businesses

  • Final dairy sale sees £2,500 bid

    THE sale judge’s £2,500 bid for his chosen champion topped Gisburn Auction Marts’ pedigree and commercial dairy sale last Thursday, the last of such sales before the coronavirus restrictions kicked in. Leading the 108-strong entry was a Ladys-Manor

  • Hellifield street is winner in People's Postcode Lottery

    SIX people in Hellifield have today learned they have won £1,000 each thanks to their lucky postcode. The Hammerton Drive neighbours netted the windfall when BD23 4LZ was announced as a daily prize winner with People’s Postcode Lottery. People

  • Meat trade buyers prominent at CCM

    STRONG meat sector demand was again experienced at Skipton Auction Mart’s latest weekly Monday primestock sales, as regular retail and wholesale customers sought to keep both their own and supermarket shelves and fridges fully stocked with quality

  • Caution called for on controlled moorland burning

    THE Country Landowners Associaton (CLA) is urging moorland managers and owners of such land not to undertake controlled burning of heather during the coronavirus pandemic, in order to alleviate the potential strain on public services and to protect

  • Skipton Auction Mart spells out its sales rules

    SKIPTON Auction Mart has issued details of the latest situation surrounding the impact coronavirus is having on its livestock sales. This is a run-down of what is happening at the mart following the ongoing implementation of Covid-19 restrictions

  • Bunty finds an ingenious use for her litter picker

    GRASSINGTON resident Bunty Leder, known for her tireless campaigning against litter in the Craven district, has found an ingenious use for her litter picker while practising social distancing. Bunty said she was concious about keeping a good distance

  • Long Preston Over 70s group offers help to all

    LONG Preston’s Over 70s committee, Age UK and the parish council has come together to offer help to anyone in the community, regardless of their age as a response to the coronavirus pandemic. The group is also conscious of the fact locals are concerned

  • Pharmacy workers in the region facing violent abuse

    PHARMACY workers are facing violent abuse from the public amid widespread stockpiling of paracetamol, hand sanitisers and thermometers. North Yorkshire Community Pharmacies said the coronavirus crisis has led to increasing reports of disorder at