News for the Yorkshire Dales: Austwick, Bentham, Clapham, Giggleswick, Hawes, Ingleton, Settle

Business is booming at Ingleton

10:40am Wednesday 1st February 2012

ENTREPRENEURS say a focus on niche markets has led to the expansion of several businesses in a Dales town.

Farmer, 83, found dead after house fire

8:10am Thursday 19th January 2012

A NEIGHBOUR has paid tribute to a ‘cheerful’ Dales farmer who died following a fire at his remote farmhouse.

Ideas sought on new use for Ingleton former school site

8:43am Wednesday 18th January 2012

INGLETON residents are being asked to come up with ‘viable’ new uses for the village’s middle school site.

£20,000 cheque joy for Ingleton Community Centre

3:10pm Wednesday 11th January 2012

A KIND-hearted anonymous donor has given £20,000 to to Ingleborough Community Centre, at Ingleton.

Good progress over Wainwright's Pennines walk

12:10pm Monday 9th January 2012

GOOD progress is being made on a long distance footpath to commemorate Alfred Wainwright’s Settle to Hadrian’s Wall walk.

Dales volunteer gritter calls it a day

10:30pm Wednesday 4th January 2012

A dedicated gritter who braved all weathers to keep the roads through remote Dales communities free of snow and ice has decided to call it a day.

£2m Lottery cash bid to boost Yorkshire Dales

10:30am Wednesday 4th January 2012

A BID has been launched to secure up to £2 million in funding for a major landscape and heritage conservation project in the Yorkshire Dales.

New secondary school plan for Ingleton

4:56pm Tuesday 31st January 2012

PLANS for a new state secondary school at Ingleton to ‘save a dying community’ are gathering mom-entum.

Settle Dugdales store to close after a century

11:23am Friday 9th December 2011

A BUSINESS that has been at the hub of a town’s commercial life for more than a century is to close.

Dent church organ gets protected status

5:07pm Wednesday 30th November 2011

A DALES church organ has hit the right note with historians, who have graded it as an instrument of national significance.

Great North Air Ambulance Service launches festive fundraiser

3:22pm Wednesday 30th November 2011

RESIDENTS of the region are being asked to help save 12 lives over 12 days in the run up to Christmas.

New Little Red Bus service from Clitheroe to the Dales

12:36pm Monday 28th November 2011

A NEW bus service has started operating between Ribble Valley and Yorkshire.

Awards created for pupils

11:34am Tuesday 22nd November 2011

NORTH Yorkshire’s Giggleswick School is celebrating its 500-year anniversary by creating two special scholarship awards.

Audio guide promotes Settle-Carlisle Railway

1:30pm Sunday 13th November 2011

Passengers on the Settle-Carlisle Railway are set to benefit from cutting-edge technology to enhance their enjoyment of England’s most scenic line.