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Giggleswick student wins engineering scholarship

Carolina Mondragon-Bayarri

8:00pm Thursday 17th January 2013

GIGGLESWICK School student Carolina Mondragon-Bayarri has been awarded a prestigious Arkwright Engineering Scholarship.

Thousands flock to Dales musical spectacular

Fireworks light up the sky as the Halle Orchestra concludes the concert (Picture by Victoria Middleton)

4:31pm Tuesday 3rd July 2012

AROUND 10,000 music lovers descended on a Dales village for an open-air concert featuring one of the world’s best known orchestras.

Were you affected by the Falklands Islands invasion?

11:00am Thursday 22nd March 2012

April 2 marks the thirtieth anniversary of the invasion of the Falkland Islands by Argentina, which sparked a two-month conflict.

Giggleswick School theatre students can take a bow

5:30pm Tuesday 20th March 2012

STUDENTS from Giggleswick School have been selected to feature as one of just 20 worldwide productions at the International Student Drama Festival in Sheffield in June.

How will you be celebrating the Queen's Diamond Jubilee?

9:01am Tuesday 13th March 2012

Are you planning a special event to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee in June?

Hundreds at funeral of Settle soldier Matthew Haseldin

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5:25pm Tuesday 22nd November 2011

THE haunting melody of the Last Post echoed round a Dales village today as Union Jack flags fluttered at half mast for the military funeral of a local hero.

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.

Dame Judi Dench to star in Dales school musical

CAST MEMBERS: Front, Sally Slater, 18, Alex Walters, 14. Back, Isobel Jones, 17, Jon Sharp, 17, Michael Portnell, 17, Angus Broadbent, 18, and Henry Fell, 18

9:00am Thursday 17th November 2011

DAME Judi Dench has amazed school pupils by agreeing to star in their school play.

Giggleswick School - GCSE Results

11:47am Thursday 25th August 2011

Year 11 - A* - E

Giggleswick School: A-Level results

4:44pm Thursday 18th August 2011

GIGGLESWICK School headmaster Geoffrey Boult has congratulated his top students for getting to their first choice universities following A Level successes.

Settle College students clean up riverside

Students clean up a bench

11:50am Sunday 14th August 2011

Maintenance work along the Settle and Giggleswick riverside has received a boost thanks to 80 technology students from Settle College.

Playgroup facing closure as numbers fall

Leader Lyndsey Jennings and playgroup youngsters, who are hoping the group can avoid closure

10:50am Saturday 26th February 2011

Giggleswick Playgroup and Pre-school could close unless it can find more children.

Police name victim of fatal Giggleswick crash

2:48pm Monday 13th December 2010

POLICE have named the 75-year-old victim of a fatal road traffic accident on a busy North Yorkshire road.

Rossendale woman. 75, dies in Giggleswick car crash

4:55pm Friday 10th December 2010

A 75-year-old woman from Rossendale has died in a car crash in North Yorkshire today.

Vulture returns to Giggleswick after 18 months in Borders

Assistant falconer Kieran Bathers of the Yorkshire Dales Falconry Centre with Georgie the vulture

7:00pm Saturday 16th October 2010

A griffon vulture which went missing from its home in Giggleswick has returned – after spending more than a year on the Scottish borders.

Student found dead in Yorkshire Dales quarry

9:18am Tuesday 5th October 2010

POLICE have named a man found dead in a Dales quarry as 20-year-old Henri David Lawson.

Giggleswick School - GCSE Results

1:34pm Tuesday 24th August 2010

Year 11 J. Bavington-Allen 9; N. Bondareva 9; A. Broadbent 10.5; H. Burkinshaw 9.5; C. Burns 7; O. Burrow 7; P. Byrne 8.5; Y-F. Chan 6; J. Cheung 3; J. Daggett 5; H. Edmiston 8.5; S. Edwards 10.5; N. Elliott 10.5; W. Ewbank 8; H. Fell 10.5; H. Field 10.5; M. Fillingham 8; J. Gould 9; N. Greenfield 8; J. Griffiths 7.5; W. Hall 8.5; M. Horne 8; A. Hornsey 9.5; A. Johnston 10; I. Jones 10.5; J. Jones 9; L. Kitchen 8.5; E. Lee 7.5; B. McQuade 10.5; C. Marsh 9; B. Maudsley 4; J. Maxfield 8.5; L. Milbourn 9.5; J. Mitchell 9; J. Mortimer 10.5; E. Moulding 8; R. Muller 10.5; S. Neal 6; C. O’Connell 8.5; C. Page 11.5; S. Patchett 8; R. Pope 5; M. Portnell 10.5; P. Reid 8.5; F. Robertson 9.5; G. Royds 7; J. Sharp 9.5; K. Sharp 8.5; O. Sherrell 10.5; S. Slater 10.5; A. Spensley 7; J. Taylor 3.5; A. Thompson 10; E. Warburton 7; J. Wells 9.

Body of a Settle man found

12:16pm Monday 11th January 2010

THE body of a 61-year-old man has been found in Settle after a search was launched by emergency services and rescue teams.

Avoid remote roads in North Yorkshire - police

8:44pm Saturday 9th January 2010

MOTORISTS in North Yorkshire are being warned to avoid moorlands and Dales roads as the arctic conditions continue.

Teen will swim Windermere for Giggleswick School

1:16pm Tuesday 15th September 2009

A 17-year-old from Hawkshead is swimming Windermere on Sunday to raise money for his school.


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