CLAPHAM community Newby Parish Council invites you to their Clapham Hyperfast, B4RN Fifth Anniversary Birthday Celebration Supper on Saturday March 21 beginning at 7pm in the Village Hall.

Bring your own puddings, bar will be run by the Young Farmers and there will be awards for special achievements.

There will be a Clapham Hyperfast Quiz and the After Dinner speaker will be John Dawson. Free tickets available from the Village Store.

BENTHAM and District Pet Rescue will be holding a Coffee Morning in Clapham Village Hall on Saturday March 21, between 10am-12pm.

They invite you to join them for coffee, toasted teacakes, scones, cake and a natter. There will be the usual raffle, tombola and cake stall.

A UNIQUE record dating back to early Victorian times about cave exploration in the Ingleborough area has recently been rediscovered. In 1837, members of the Farrer family instigated the exploration of what is now called Ingleborough Cave.

From that date until 1855 they recorded their progress, surveys and experiments within a Cave Book. Over the years this handwritten tome had gone missing but it has recently been found at the Ingleborough Estate.

Now in a fragile state, it is being deposited with the North Yorkshire County Council Archives in North Allerton.

Recognising the books importance to Speleology, the estate has given permission for twenty copies to be reproduced. Each will feature a new and complete text transcription and will be printed and hand-bound on archive paper in a buckram-covered hard binding.

The work will be led by Kevin Dixon, a member of Bradford Pothole Club and a fellow of the Royal Geographic Society. The materials and printing costs will be paid for by a Nation Lottery Heritage Fund grant and is part of Stories in Stone, a scheme of conservation and community projects concentrated on the Ingleborough area.

Copies of the book will be deposited at Ingleborough Estate, NYCC archives, Skipton Library, The British Geographical Survey Library and the six National Libraries. The remaining copies will be available for caving clubs to buy for their libraries.