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  • Trust celebrates 10 years

    IT has spent around £14 million and has been around for a decade, but the beauty of the Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust is that at first glance, no-one would know anything had changed. The whole concept of the Clapham-based trust, set up in 1997 and

  • Craven man helps earthquake victims

    TWELVE months ago a massive earthquake hit the Indonesian island of Java, killing 5,000 people and leaving more than one million homeless. But, now thanks to the efforts of former Grassington man Bill Marsden, most inhabitants now have temporary shelters

  • Firm's fourth bid to develop land

    FLAGGING Skipton firm Castle Acoustics has come back with a fourth attempt to sell its land on Shortbank Road for housing and offices. The speaker manufacturer, which went into administration earlier this year, wants to clear its Park Mill site and build

  • Majority back church refurbishment

    VILLAGERS have largely welcomed plans to redevelop the inside of Kildwick Church. At open evenings on Monday and Tuesday, people from Kildwick, Farnhill and Cross Hills took the opportunity to view the proposals for St Andrew's Church. The plans, which

  • Praise for young volunteers

    A GROUP of sixth form students from Ermysted's Grammar School, Skipton, have been recognised for completing a year's voluntary work in the local community. Sixteen pupils took part in the scheme, organised by the Craven Volunteer Centre, and undertook

  • Park to determine quarry plans

    TARMAC is pushing ahead with its proposals for Swinden and Threshfield Quarries. It is seeking planning permission to extract a further 24 million tonnes of limestone from Swinden Quarry. In return, it will not extract the 24 million tonnes of limestone