Skipton Building Society’s Charitable Foundation has increased its annual donation to £200,000 following a turbulent 18 months for the charitable sector due to Covid-19. Skipton’s Charitable Foundation, according to last year’s figures, receives
THIS picture is a fairly recent addition to the online Rowley Collection and features Skipton Pant Shop centre stage. Who remembers buying their jeans from this shop, or did you have a favourite store elsewhere? It was located, as the photograph
WHO remembers this building which was built in the mid-1960s at the top of Skipton High Street, only to be demolished less than 25 years later? It was the old health centre which was sandwiched between two imposing buildings which are today home
SIXTEEN hundred pupils from 63 North Yorkshire primary and special schools joined the first Healthy Schools online pupil voice and celebration event in June. The event celebrated the achievements of 61 schools that have gained a Healthy Schools
BRADLEY youngster Millie Naisbitt has been helping the flora and fauna around the village for her “Captain Sir Tom Moore 100 Challenge”. Millie made up 100 packets of sunflower seeds and offered them free to people. They were available in the village
RESEARCH data by outdoor experts Millets which looked at Tripadvisor reviews has placed Ingleton Waterfalls Walk, a four-and-a-half-mile trail, in fourth spot as one of Britain's most beautiful walks. The trail received 1,109 beautiful walk reviews
THE Skipton branch of Soroptimists International have sponsored two planters at either side of the entrance to the newly refurbished town hall, as well as the large promenade planter on the traffic island at the bottom of the high street at Caroline
THE life of a rifleman who saw bloody action through the Peninsular wars and at the Battle of Waterloo has been collated by his relative, David Spencer.... THE interest started by finding a scrapbook of my grandfather’s, Haydn Spencer, said David
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