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Charities receive £4,000 in Chloe’s memory
A total of £4,000 was presented to local charities in memory of Barnoldswick girl Chloe Oldfield, who died in February after a three-year battle with cancer. Before her death, Chloe, a pupil at Skipton Girls’ High School, asked that any money raised
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Pubwatch chief re-elected after drink-drive conviction
The chairman of Craven’s pubwatch scheme has been re-elected, despite being convicted of drink-driving. John Garton, 42, offered to resign from Stopping Trouble and Night-time Disorder (STAND) after Skipton magistrates banned him from driving for two
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From the archives
100 years ago The annual picnic of Messrs J Bibby and Sons, Liverpool, took place at Beamsley. Inclusive of the men’s wives and sweethearts, the party numbered 1,700 and they were accommodated in a field at Beamsley lent by Messrs Hainsworth and Butterworth
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Renowned artist who fell in love with the Dales
The wood engravings of Joan Hassall (1906-1988) added style to many literary classics, not least to novels by Jane Austen, Mrs Gaskell and the Brontes. A Londoner, Joan visited Malham in 1932, remarking to a friend: “It was just like falling in
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Cold shoulder for a shower
Work is resuming apace on the stables’ eagerly-awaited hot and cold horse showers. Ladies at the Yard were at first taken aback by The Boss’s choice of a vibrant “swimming baths blue” for the back wall. Some were heard to remark uncharitably that the
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Readers' Letters
Sir - I am 11 years old and have learned quite a bit about politics during the recent local and general elections. For instance, I know that our “councillors” are local people who other local people vote for to represent their views on all sorts of
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Awards are plain sailing for club
A sailing club in Upper Wharfedale was named as one of the best clubs in the country at an awards ceremony organised through the Royal Yachting Association. The newly-renamed Yorkshire Dales Sailing Club, which has its base on the shores of
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Park expenses case councillor back on authority
Skipton’s new mayor is back on the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority – 10 years after resigning in an expenses scandal. Councillor Robert Heseltine resigned from the park authority in 2000 after admitting 12 charges of false accounting
