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Mini festival with music, food and a market at Skipton Town Hall
A FORMER pupil of Skipton Girls High School and now professional musician is staging a mini festival at Skipton Town Hall. Jen Armstrong, a touring musician whose stage name is Vegan Queen V is collaborating with some of her friends for the festival
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Skipton charity in fundraising restaurant takeover
PHOEBE'S Bar and Restaurant in Skipton will be taken over by a children and young people's charity for a fundraising evening next week. SELFA Springboard will be running the Coach Street restaurant on Thursday, October 24 to raise money for the
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Winter North exhibition coming to Ingleborough Cave in Clapham
AN exhibition of drawings, prints and paintings by Dales based artist Brian Hindmarch will take place in November in Clapham at The Old Sawmill Cafe, Ingleborough Cave. Brian's last exhibition was a year ago; this time, he will be showing a range
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Go ahead for 'de-registration' of Craven children's centres
CHILDREN'S centres in Skipton and Hellifield could become community hubs after North Yorkshire Council decided to go ahead with their 'de-registration'. The Sure Start centres at Skipton's Parish Church School in Brougham Street, which opened in
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COLUMN: We are pack animals and revel in positive reinforcement
This month’s health and lifestyle column from Corinne Yeadon, of the Being Better private therapy practice in Skipton HALLOWEEN is coming, spooks, spectres and spirits may strike fear into our core but this pales in comparison to not being liked
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Skipton-Colne rail campaigners get backing of Pendle MP
CAMPAIGNERS who want the government and rail industry to reopen a 12-mile link between Skipton and East Lancashire have met the new Labour MP for Pendle and Clitheroe for talks and a walk on the old route, which was shut in the 1970s. Members of
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Swaledales in ready demand at CCM Skipton third gimmer lamb sale
THE third seasonal sale of gimmer lambs at CCM Skipton attracted an increased entry of 3105 head and while the quality on offer was again solid, trade was, as expected - and in common with other centres - not just as sharp as previous sales, the overall
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Shaun Richards takes 6000gns top at CCM Autumn working sheep dog sale
SHAUN Richards, Pen-y-Borough Sheep Dogs, Eldroth, finished 6000gns (£6300) top dog on price with his October, 2022, black and white bitch, Gem, at CCM Skipton’s live Autumn field-run sale of working sheep dogs on Friday (October 11). The daughter
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Barlick's One Stop shop reopens after refreshing makeover
BARNOLDSWICK'S One Stop shop has reopened after getting a refreshing makeover. Customers of the store in Church Street can now shop for food, household essentials as well as on-the-go meal deals, in a much-improved store. The refreshed store
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Work starts on transformation of Bewerley Park outdoor centre
CHILDREN from across Craven are set to benefit from the multi-million pound modernisation of council-owned outdoor education centre Bewerley Park. The centre, near Pateley Bridge, visited by generations of children from Craven and across Yorkshire
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Church achieves gold award in recognition of 'green' credentials
SILSDEN Methodist Church has struck gold for its 'green' credentials. It has become only the 55th church across England and Wales to earn the Gold Eco Church Award. To qualify, the church had to meet a set of stringent standards covering several
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Delicious breakfasts on offer at Lothersdale fundraiser
TEENAGE friends are hosting a pop-up breakfast in Lothersdale next month to raise funds for Cancer Research. Isaac and Jason Chapman and George Kennedy, who all go to Ermysted's Grammar School in Skipton, and their friend, Aaron, who goes to Settle
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Film: The Wild Robot - wonderful, funny, family fun
THERE'S something of the WALL-E to Chris Sanders’s latest animation, which is DreamWorks’ best in over a decade. It’s not just the story that harkens to Pixar’s past. Recognisable too are an open-book approach to emotional intelligence and the startling
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Review: Rich contrasts at Skipton Music concert
SKIPTON Music’s 2024-25 season continued with another deeply impressive concert, offering the rich contrasts between the vocal consort “Gesualdo six” and the trumpeter Matilda Lloyd in a programme largely specially arranged or composed for this combination
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Residents outraged over future plans to build up to 135 homes in Dales village
RESIDENTS in the Yorkshire Dales National Park have spoken out about how their village is “under threat” over proposals to build up 135 new homes in the area. Threshfield residents met last week to consider their next move is what they say is a