A DEBT help centre in Wharfedale and Aireborough is welcoming a move to help protect people against aggressive bailiffs. The local Christians Against Poverty Debt Help Centre is welcoming news of the first independent regulator for enforcement
A FORMER senior police officer has been made rector of Thornton-in-Craven, Marton and Broughton. Rev Robert Findlow was inducted by the Archdeacon of Richmond and Craven, Jonathan Gough, at a service led by the Bishop of Leeds, Nick Baines on the
THE ‘brilliantly unique’ Hut People, an old time musical show, circus fun and foreign film nights are all heading to Settle Victoria Hall next week. English folk duo, Sam Pirt and Gary Hammond, will be performing in the hall’s Covid-safe outdoor
THE boss of a Glusburn teenager has paid tribute to a 'skilled and hard-working bricklayer who will be missed by all his colleagues'. Gareth Wooler, director of RN Wooler Ltd builders, of Keighley, said the company would greatly miss Ben Marklew
GENERAL Practices were out in the community, providing a special pop up COVID vaccination clinic to residents of the Greatwood and Horseclose estate, in Skipton, on Thursday, July 15. The team vaccinated people whom might not otherwise have been
A CRAFT shop aimed at the nimble-fingered members of the community has recently reopened in Ingleton with new faces at the helm. Craftopia has launched under the new ownership of Alison Priestley and Les Boughton after frantic times working internationally
OLD photographs of Hawksworth give a glimpse into the long history of the village. The pictures, from the online archive of Aireborough Historical Society, were taken over a period spanning about 80 years, from sometime before 1902 to 1980.
ADMINISTRATION assistant Terry Whitham, of Threshfield Court Care Centre, in Threshfield, has been crowned Customer Service Champion for the North Division in the Barchester Care Awards 2021 and is through to the national round of judging. More
A TEENAGER has died after getting into difficulty in the River Wharfe at Grassington. Police were called by the ambulance service at about 7.45pm yesterday evening, July 22, to a report of a 19-year-old man in difficulty in the river. The man
by Ian Brand Wharfedale Naturalists Society IF you only visit the countryside three times a year, then make sure to include a Bluebell wood in May, a traditional dales hay meadow in June, then come August climb up to the moors. As we enter
WITH reference to plans for a skatepark at Settle (New move in skate park saga opposed, Craven Herald, July 15), Settle Town Council is desperate to get this off the ground and over the last few years their attempts to get it done have been chequered
ARE you interested in the fascinating history behind the Settle and Carlisle Railway heroes? If so, then Settle Graveyard Tours has a real treat in store. On Wednesday, July 28 from 7pm and Sunday, August 1 from, 2.30pm, historian Sarah Lister
ASH die back is a devastating disease affecting the UK's native ash trees. Latest research suggests that less than one per cent of the country's trees will be resistant. Victoria Benn, membership and events officer for environmental campaigning
WITH the recent spate of hot weather, the Canal and River Trust is urging people in Craven not to swim in open water. The waterways and wellbeing charity says it has seen a stark rise in reports of people trying to cool off by swimming in the canals
Regarding the proposal to place Settle skate park on the Millennium Garden, would it help if Settle High School (Settle College) made the skate boarding a games subject in school hours, placing it near the other games behind the swimming pool?
I HAVE read with interest the recent article and correspondence in the Craven Herald regarding proposals to fell a mature ash tree on the road to Embsay (Skipton Road), Skipton. It not only highlights the ‘disconnect between Craven Planning and
I READ and totally agree with Richard Colley last week (Sorry for shops facing unfair competition, Caven Herald letters, July 15). On a recent visit to Harrogate we visited the Pro Cook shop to buy some simple kitchen utensils , l noticed a lot
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‘RHINO Boy’ Chris Green completed the Yorkshire Three Peaks - while wearing a 13kg rhino suit - on one of the hottest days of the year, in under eight hours. Chris, of Embsay, and his friend, Harry Strutt, reached the top of Penyghent in just 49
THERE are a number of significant concerns over this week’s announcement about changing the way local government works across North Yorkshire * The decision to put all local decision making under a single North Yorkshire Council simply concentrates
THE owner of a former indoor riding school at Bank Newton, near Gargrave, has lost an appeal to convert it to holiday cottages. Conversion of the steel-framed building next to Newton Grange farm and ‘rural retreat’ to eight holiday lets would cause
June and July have been full of love, light and positivity at Czajka Care Group’s five local care and nursing homes. As part of the first NHS Social Care and Frontline Workers’ Day, the creative and hard-working teams at Fairmount Nursing Home
AS a former resident of Craven (though not one always impressed by the performance or sagacity of the district council), I am sympathetic to Councillor Andy Brown’s objections (Craven Herald online July 23) to the imposition of a unitary authority
