Election result: Philip Allott is the new Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner
CONSERVATIVE Philip Allott has been elected as the Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner for North Yorkshire and York. Mr Allott took 84,737 votes.
CONSERVATIVE Philip Allott has been elected as the Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner for North Yorkshire and York. Mr Allott took 84,737 votes.
A SUTTON-in-Craven man is to appear before Bradford Crown Court to face a charge of being in ‘possession of a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence’ towards three other people. Making his first appearance at Skipton Magistrates’ Court today
A DRIVER has been banned from the road after eating cookies laced with cannabis, Skipton magistrates were told. Rhys Harker Shimmin, 25, of Aire View, Silsden, had only just got his Yamaha WR 450 motorbike back after it had been stolen when he rode
A surgeon at Airedale Hospital is working with Rotary clubs in Ilkley Wharfedale and Bangalore to support medics in India as they deal with the overwhelming numbers of coronavirus patients. Mr Raj Rao, a consultant surgeon at Airedale NHS Foundation
SKIPTON schoolchildren are learning valuable lessons with the help of the school caretaker and his tractor. The outdoor education programme at Greatwood Community Primary School and Nursery aims to give the children a lifelong love of the outdoors
SKIPTON schoolchildren are learning valuable lessons with the help of the school caretaker and his tractor. The outdoor education programme at Greatwood Community Primary School and Nursery aims to give the children a lifelong love of the outdoors
ELECTED onto Cowling Parish Council are: Martyn Dalby, Alan Friswell, Amy Lynch, Bill Mercer, Sally Anne Owthwaite, Daniel Sedden, Gillian Taylor, Paul Weatherhead and Carolyn Zeyrek. The turnout was 29.5 per cent.
THE following candidates have been successfully elected onto Kettlewell with Starbotton Parish Council: Richard Appleton, John Close, Colin Lister, Ian Macefield, and Charles Wilkinson. Turnout was 54.9 per cent. Those elected onto Linton Parish
DAVID Staveley has been elected onto North Yorkshire County Council to the Ribblesdale seat, picking up more than three times the number of votes of his nearest rival. Conservative, Cllr Staveley, received 1,537 votes, Luke Allan for the Liberal
ROBERT Ogden (Conservative) has won the by-election for the Penyghent seat on Craven District Council. He took 392 votes, with Luke Allan for the Liberal Democrats receiving 295, and Brian McDaid (Labour)103. There was a turnout of 51.8 per
THE following candidates have been elected onto Bolton Abbey Parish Council: Oliver Barker, Anthony Bolland, James Foster, Pat Gill and Christopher Heseltine. Turnout was 66.26 per cent.
BUILDERS have won their bid to call a development of seven new homes and a masonic hall in Barnoldswick after the Victorian vicarage that originally stood on the site. The development, off Skipton Road, which is still under construction, will be
COMMUNITIES will lose out if the Government’s ‘new homes bonus’ scheme is scrapped says the leader of Craven District Council. The scheme was introduced in 2011 to provide extra funding for areas where new homes are built and in Craven has seen
DAVID Pighills has swept to victory in the Barden Fell ward of Craven District Council. Cllr Pighills, an Independent, comfortably won the by-election with 500 votes with the only other candidate, Conservative, John Dawson getting 142.
THE Yorkshire Dales has come second in the international car rental site EnjoyTravel.com's 2021 list of the '25 Most Scenic Places in the UK' as chosen by award-winning UK travel photographers. Outdoors and adventure photographer Adam Evans says
REFUSED plans to convert a former indoor riding school in Bank Newton, near Gargrave, to holiday lets will be reviewed by a government planning inspector. The scheme, to convert the semi-derelict metal barn into eight units with parking and landscaping
NO further Covid deaths have been reported from Airedale General Hospitals for several weeks, meaning the current total of coronavirus-related deaths at the hospital currently total 260. However, the hospital urges people to continue following
SKIPTON Auction Mart’s annual May breeding sheep highlight for hoggs with lambs at foot and geld gimmer hoggs attracted a large entry of 2,552 head - well over double the previous year’s turnout - with the usual excellent consignments put forward for
TOP price of 2,000gns (£2,100) at Skipton Auction Mart’s annual Craven Native Day show and sale fell to a 13-month-old pedigree Aberdeen-Angus bull from Adrian and Penny Johnson’s Yearsley herd, based at Clarence House Farm in the village of the same
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THE deaths of a couple, both aged 29, found with stab wounds in a Harrogate hotel on Tuesday are being treated as suspected murder-suicide, North Yorkshire Police have said. Chenise Gregory, and her partner, Michael McGibbon, from the London area
A FEASIBILITY study looking at what could be done to improve safety at a notorious Skipton road junction and which could result in a new roundabout is underway. County council highways engineers closed the right Embsay and Easby turn off the A65