MUSIC lovers are in for a treat next year as Gateways Festival reveals the special guests set to perform at The Great Yorkshire Dales Proms, live inb Aireville Park, Skipton. Lesley Garrett, one of Britain’s best known sopranos, will be performing
A RETIRED railway signalman who fell off his electric Segway while on his way home from the pub has been given a driving ban. Peter Nichols, 60, of The Crofts, Sutton-in-Craven, admitted before Skipton magistrates to failing to provide a specimen
SKIPTON Town Council has moved swiftly to make sure stalls on the town’s market are safely fixed to the ground after the original fixings were removed for safety reasons. The town council says it was given just days to install replacements along
I WAS appalled to read of the recent comments of Councillor Peter Madeley regarding Raikes Road Burial Ground (Call for fresh look at churchyard's budget, Craven Herald, November 11). If he has visited it he should realise it is a hidden treasure
ADDINGHAM Primary School invited members of the village’s environment group to join them for the official opening of its new Jubilee Nature Reserve. The school has been working closely with the Addingham Environment Group (AEG) to create a wetland
COUNCILLORS look set to take on the long standing, thorny issue of property owners on Skipton High Street and the town’s market. As part of its long term plans to ‘future proof and regenerate’ the market, Skipton Town Council is looking at all
A MAN was arrested after reports he was carrying a knife in an alleged attempted robbery at a Skipton shop. A spokesman for North Yorkshire police said: "Officers were called to the McColls store on Keighley Road just before 5pm yesterday, Thursday
THE 200 year old canal lock at Eshton Road, Gargrave is expected to be closed to boaters until the spring. The grade two listed structure on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, at the edge of the village, has suffered both leakage issues and subsidence
A NEW development of houses on the former site of the offices of Craven District Council in Skipton will be graced with a flourishing Mountain Ash tree in the years to come - thanks to residents and the town’s civic society. Hayton Way, off Granville
CHRIS ‘Rhino Boy’ Green has successfully completed his 88th marathon - this time, inside the walls of an old prison. The aptly named Green Mile Marathon took place at the Shepton Mallet Prison in Somerset, and is believed to be the only one in
NORTH Craven is looking towards less snow and more ho, ho, ho, when Santa comes to visit from the end of this month. The man himself, courtesy of the Rotary Club of Settle, will be in his grotto at the Settle lights switch-on between 2pm and 6pm
POLICE are appealing for information following a serious collision which left a man and a woman with serious injuries. Officers were called to Cockle Hill, in Over Kellett, at 4.30pm yesterday (November 17) to reports a Mitsubishi Space Star travelling
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I NOW realise that SATNAV is actually an acronym. It stands for Stupid Ass Trying to Navigate A Vehicle. I use the term 'ass' only because the Herald is a family newspaper!. Yet again last week a van tried to get up the small and very narrow
WHAT an appalling advert for Yorkshire its county cricket club has turned out to be with even its former chairman admitting it is institutionally racist. And the biggest surprise of all is that it is not a surprise. The White Rose club has been
NORTH Ribblesdale have moved up to 10th in the Yorkshire Two league after a narrow win at the weekend. They hosted Wensleydale at the weekend and squeezed past them 7-5. The difference was a Mickey Thwaites conversion, after an early try by
IT me as no surprise to me that Cllr Peter Madeley of Skipton objects to the cost of maintaining Raikes Road Burial Ground which is also a nature area (Privilege to give our time to historic asset, Craven Herald Letters, November 11). Not all town
A SKIPTON grammar school student has capped off a near perfect week with cross-country success. Ermysted's Alex Thompson won the Senior Boys' race in the English Schools Cross-Country Cup North East England. This was the first year a Senior
