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  • Skipton rugby club's young players round off excellent season

    SKIPTON Rugby Club's U8/9s have rounded off an excellent season of growth and engagement with a much-deserved award-winning performance at Harrogate RUFC’s End of Season festival and Skipton RFC’s age grade awards ceremony. On Sunday, May 1, The

  • Bell Busk bells to ring for jubilee celebrations

    CHURCH bells in Bell Busk will ring for the first time in years to celebrate the Queen’s platinum jubilee next month. A small committee of Bell Busk and Coniston Cold residents has been working together to organise a timetable of events to put

  • Students blend art with nature

    AN artist has been working alongside the Aire Rivers Trust to deliver workshops to some of the district's schools as part of the River Reflections public art project for Gargrave. The project aims to celebrate improvements in the health of the

  • Town’s Street Angels group decides to fold

    A GROUP of volunteers who have been walking the streets of Skipton and helping people feel safe at weekends for over 13 years is disbanding. Skipton Street Angels was formed in March 2009 through Churches Together in Skipton and District and have

  • Landowner's anger after B&M lorry flattens wall

    A LANDOWNER is seeking compensation and an apology from the B&M store group after a lorry overturned onto one of his walls. Nigel Hawkins said the incident occurred on January 12 at around 6.45pm, but B&M has not been in touch and his insurance

  • Upper Wharfedale's lightning fast start continues

    SATURDAY saw a top of the table clash, albeit an early one, between Upper Wharfedale and Burton Leonard who had both secured maximum points in their opening two games. Taking the field first, the Rams got off to a fantastic start in the second

  • Skipton youngster given Yorkshire shot

    THREE Skipton RFC players, Alex Cruise-Brown, Luther Hall and Joe Hayes, attended the final trial for the Yorkshire Under 17's squad at the weekend. And Hayes made it through and is selected for the squad to play Lancashire Under 17's this Sunday