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Long Preston housing gets go-ahead despite parish objections
A HOUSING development featuring a mix of affordable and market housing on a site approved for housing has been given the go-ahead in Long Preston, despite resistance from the community’s leaders. While such developments are wanted by many communities
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Craven College staff strike for better pay and work conditions
MEMBERS of staff at Craven College, Skipton took to the picket line last week for three consecutive days of strike action. Members of the University and College Union (UCU) joined other higher education workers from across the country to take part
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Grassington firefighters grow their tashes for Movember
THE lads at Grassington Fire Station are growing their 'tashes in November as part of the Movember campaign - a national annual event which raises awareness of men's health issues. And, some moustaches are growing quicker than others with the team
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Students and Rotarians unite in fight against polio
STUDENTS at West Craven High School in Barnoldswick spent a lunch hour recently planting 2,000 crocus bulbs as part of a worldwide campaign to end the disease polio. The bulbs, purchased by Barnoldswick and Earby Rotary Club, will herald spring
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Listen to Skipton Brass playing at Malham Cove
SKIPTON Brass is returning to Malham Cove to play a selection of Christmas carols. The Cove concert has been Carols a highlight of the season for Skipton Brass for many years and this year will take place on Saturday, December 2, from 2pm to 3.30pm
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20-year old caught drugs driving in Skipton Tesco car park
A 20 YEAR old has been banned from driving after being over the drugs drive limit in Skipton Tesco car park. A police officer went to the Craven Street car park at 8.40pm on May 23 after receiving information from a colleague about a car being
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Celebrating the life of Dales scientist Professor Nick Hitchon
THE life of a Dales-born scientist who became known to millions through a pioneering TV series is to be celebrated at a Craven church. Professor Nick Hitchon died in July at the age of 65 following a long illness. A funeral service was held
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Another cracker for CCM Skipton Christmas primestock highlight
THE climax of CCM Skipton Auction Mart’s primestock year, the high profile 16th annual Lingfield Christmas show and sale day on Sunday, November 26, will once again see leading traditional family-run retail butchers and meat wholesalers compete ringside
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Letter: Brahms concert gave such great, great pleasure.
SKIPTON must be one of the luckiest towns in the country to have such fine music making coming to our doorstep. The Brahms German Requiem performed on Saturday evening (November 18) at Christ Church was one of the most beautiful concerts heard
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Letter: Government blames immigrants for its failures
IT has taken four prime ministers, five home secretaries, £140m in bungs to the Rwanda Government, £2m in legal fees to send precisely nobody to Rwanda. Our government is obsessed with the idea of making immigrants a scapegoat for their failures
