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  • Ooh-la-la! Here comes Settle 'Fleurpot' Festival!

    SETTLE Flowerpot Festival this summer will include a tribute to the town's French twin. A party of people from Settle's twin town Banyuls-sur-Mer recently paid a visit - and during their stay Michel Barthet, president of the Banyuls-sur-Mers twinning

  • Its a record turnout for sunny and dry Skipton Gala

    IT was the end of an era on Saturday when several Skipton Gala stalwarts called it a day. The show, which enjoyed record crowds and a dry, sunny day, was the last for Geoff Dunn, gala chairman, who is standing down after 30 years, along with treasurer

  • Craven remembers - the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings

    THE 80th anniversary of D-Day - the largest seaborne invasion in history - was marked across Craven with the ringing of church bells, services, the lighting of beacons and hand-crafted poppies. Town criers called a start to last Thursday's anniversary

  • Skipton shop and its director fined for selling illegal vapes

    AN off-licence in Skipton and its company director have been ordered to pay £6,725 for possessing to supply 160 illegal vapes. Shahram Sharifi, director of Lewiatan Ltd which operates in Sackville Street, pleaded guilty at York Magistrates’ Court