NEW powers to tackle livestock worrying will offer much greater protection after incidents increased over the past year, the NFU has said. The changes introduced in the Animal Welfare (Kept Animals) Bill follows years of NFU campaigning on the
SKIPTON Building Society has been sponsoring the town’s first wellness week this week. The event was to celebrate global wellness week and aiming to improve Skipton’s wellbeing through a number of activities and workshops organised by Skipton Business
NEW insights into the prevalence and impacts of hare coursing in the countryside have surfaced in response to a survey carried out by the Yorkshire Agricultural Society. More than 300 people took part in the survey and the findings demonstrate
PEOPLE looking to make the Yorkshire Dales National Park a better place are being invited to apply for a grant from the Sustainable Development Fund (SDF). The fund has £175,000 to allocate by the end of April 2022. An annual summary of the
The Freemasons have become a strategic partner of The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award (DofE), funding a new national programme to upskill its team and volunteers with a grant of £300,000. The programme will also help enrol more schools and clubs, to ensure
THE shape of a town evolves over time, just as Skipton has done over the past couple of hundred years. Buildings were put up, then later demolished for new builds or car parks. Open spaces were ‘filled in’ with houses and mills were converted.
A VISION with bold plans for a new town square and a revamped former Rackham's car park has been launched by Skipton Civic Society. As part of its 60th birthday celebrations the society has released an imaginative concept plan of how the car park
A NUMBER of leading media websites are giving users error messages this morning following an internet outage. Websites for the Guardian, Financial Times, Independent, and the New York Times were among those down. The UK Government’s website
Cast and breeding sheep in big demand at Skipton A total of 541 cast sheep was penned for sale at Skipton Auction Mart’s latest weekly Monday turnout, with cull ewes again in the majority and averaging £115 per head. Medium meat ewes were a
BROTHERS Charles and Richard Kitching, of Grisedale Farm, Threshfield, notched up a hat-trick of monthly prime cattle championship wins for the year at Skipton Auction Mart’s June show and sale this week. (Mon, June 7) The beef farming brothers
RED Rose husband and wife sheep farmers, David and Laura Coar, of Yew Tree Farm, Darwen, stood both champion and reserve with the two five-strong pens of home-bred show lambs they entered at Skipton Auction Mart’s June prize show and sale. (Monday,
HIS long, lustrous locks may be his identity, but that identity is going to change in the near future as Stu Blenkhorn prepares to have it all cut off for The Little Princess Trust. Stu, 39, is originally from Cononley and now lives in Earby with
AS the Normal biennial Skipton International Puppet Festival in its huge celebratory form cannot happen this year, the organisers have programmed a series of puppet events for the second weekend of every month from June to November. The first weekend
Medical data held by our GPs is the most valuable healthcare data around; far richer and more complete than other forms of healthcare information. We all have a unique relationship with our GPs, who hold information about us built up over the years
UPPER Wharfedale Fell Rescue Association was called out on Sunday, June 6, at 6.04pm to a climber at Kilnsey Crag who had been injured by a falling rock. The first team member on scene found a climber who had been belaying his partner, injured
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THE Marshfield faithful were deprived of a couple of hours of Senior League cricket in perfect weather, simply because Settle made short work of third-placed Ribblesdale Wanderers. The visitors started promisingly until Harry Snowden struck twice
