| As well as swimming, ten pin bowling and football, Simon is a keen actor with the Mind the Gap drama group and attends Craven College in Skipton. |
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| During the surfacing work, temporary traffic lights and contraflows will be used to keep vehicles moving on North Street and Skipton Road. |
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| Christ Church in Skipton read out the banns of marriage and no less than 12 couples were contemplating getting wed. |
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| The first boxing event of the new season organised by Skipton Boxing Club was staged in the town hall. |
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| Meanwhile Skipton and North Ribblesdale ended disappointing league seasons with defeat. |
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| After moving to Skipton, the former barrow boy realised there was sales potential in the then unknown continental duvet. |
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| The Herald's editorial thundered against the hot-headed motorists who had caused immense danger in Skipton over the Easter holiday. |
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| Skipton was given to Robert de Romille, the mesne lord of de Lacy, and there he built his castle. |
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| A short service to commemorate the 50th anniversary of D-Day was held in Skipton and Settle. |
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| Another has just opened this week at Hawes which is what set me thinking about this stretch between Colne and Skipton. |
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| Traders, tourists and townsfolk packed into Skipton to enjoy the town's tenth Medieval Festival. |
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| A huge boiler drawn on a traction engine passed through Skipton on its way to Slingsby's Mill in Gargrave. |
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| It calls for traffic calming measures to be introduced to slow down speeding drivers on the Skipton estate. |
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| Karen was born in Barlick 47 years ago, the daughter of a millwright, and delighted her family by gaining a place at Skipton Girls' High School. |
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| Meanwhile, visitors to Skipton were treated to a weekend of entertainment at the town's second Waterways Festival. |
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| The accident happened near a turn-off for Halton East and the village of Embsay, near Skipton, where the family lives. |
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| Let us start with Skipton Woods, this I know belongs to The Woodland Trust. |
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| A slater from Skipton was tried at the town hall on a charge of wilful damage to a confectionery stall. |
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| Further details were also revealed yesterday about a culling incident at Niffany Farm, Skipton, where two cows escaped from slaughtermen. |
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| A similar exercise is being undertaken in Skipton, although the two projects are unrelated. |
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| He bought six calves at market in Skipton and sold them in York before his cheque bounced. |
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| A BUSINESSWOMAN, who runs a roadside snack bar near Skipton, was fighting for permission to stay in business this week. |
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| After the funeral, Cpt Guy's body was interred in Skipton cemetery at a private ceremony. |
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| Plans were unveiled for a new food store and 13 shopping units in Victoria Street, Skipton. |
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| The line would drive north from Barnoldswick railway station, extending the branch line from Earby off the main Skipton to Colne route. |
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| Our journey back home to Doncaster from the Lakes is broken at Skipton to do our weekend shopping. |
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| The proposal for public motor ambulance services stretching from Skipton to Guiseley was discussed at a meeting of the urban district council. |
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| Skipton finally broke their duck after 48 minutes when Mark Davison burst free and fed winger Matthew Wilson, who scored an unconverted try. |
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| It was indicated that if Skipton was to survive as a vibrant market town in the future the car parking facilities needed to change. |
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| Today the prosperity of Skipton depends on the car parks for tourists, visitors and shoppers. |
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| The Skipton burgages, by now Clitheroe School land, are well seen on a recently rediscovered map of 1757 in the Skipton Castle Papers. |
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| Now, only private or state run day care nurseries are available to parents of pre-school children in Skipton. |
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| Among the victims was the Skipton to Ilkley line and about 80 stations and halts in the Aire and Wharfe valleys and in the Bradford area. |
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| The celebrations to mark the silver jubilee of the Odeon cinema in Skipton was held. |
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| The reported evidence is that Skipton sewage works was not a contributory factor in this case. |
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| This was the second application for the vicarage, situated off Skipton Road and Haw Grove. |
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| The owner of Skipton business Pottery and Pine was previously one of Ducal's main stockists and a past Ducal Retailer of the Year. |
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| A larger than usual number of Irish labourers presented themselves at Skipton market for the annual haymaking engagement. |
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| An emergency meeting of Skipton school headmasters and managers met to discuss an outbreak of measles in the town. |
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| They were preparing a report on traffic in Skipton and held an open session in Skipton Town Hall. |
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| In Skipton a straight fight was expected between sitting MP Burnaby Drayson and Labour candidate Vincent Richardson. |
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| The team returned to Skipton and travelled by charabanc past cheering crowds to a reception at the town hall. |
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| There was a feeling of real community spirit in Skipton at the weekend as local people pulled out all the stops to provide a gala procession. |
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| The line could be extended to Skipton, and beyond, by the simple addition of a set of points at Embsay Junction. |
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| In the end the flippant attitude to the lack of car parking will have disastrous consequences for businesses in Skipton. |
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| They agreed to ask the district council to convene a meeting with Skipton Chamber of Trade, the High Street frontagers and the town council. |
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| In a case heard at Skipton County Court, a railway worker earning 23 shillings a week was being pressed for non-payment of a debt. |
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| The whole of Skipton Castle and its estate was to be sold to pay off death duties. |
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| Just after midnight the man was returning home via a ginnel running from Skipton Road to Main Street when it appears he was attacked. |
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| This is part of the issue in that the people, with all their groans and grumbles, are by and large happy with Skipton as it is. |
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| But it was sad that we didn't catch a sight of the duck-billed platypus in Skipton. |
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| He runs an Aberdeen Angus herd near Skipton and sits on the West Riding National Farmers' Union's livestock committee. |
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| Skipton Police have received three complaints of parked cars, delivery wagons and trailers, causing problems for pedestrians and other motorists. |
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| One new project on show this year is the walled garden at Broughton Hall, Skipton. |
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| A meeting of Skipton Rural Council decided to cease offering council houses for the time being. |
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| A controversial solution has been put forward that could finally end the washday blues for people in Thornton Street, Skipton. |
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| Having a chat over the washing line is somehow an image of Skipton we'd like to keep. |
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| Second-bottom Ilkley are a point behind Calverley and a further two adrift of Knaresborough, who claimed a crucial win at bottom club Skipton. |
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| Skipton are seven points adrift of safety after going down to a Knaresborough side in which Mike Baxendall continued his wicket taking. |
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| Roadworks on three of the routes in and out of Skipton are having an adverse effect on local businesses. |
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| As yet there is no release date, and while having the first showing in Skipton is not beyond the realms of possibility, it remains a hope. |
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| And he revealed the emergency services were hoping to hold an event on Skipton High Street to re-emphasise the road safety message. |
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| Plans to alter a pub in the oldest area of Skipton have failed to find favour with local councillors. |
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| A Skipton pilot was commended by the Royal Air Force for successfully landing a burning aircraft at Portsmouth airport. |
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| The affection felt for Skipton Hospital may yet prevent its closure, but its future remains far from certain. |
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| Claire, a student radiographer who commutes regularly between Skipton and Bradford, found the trains to be very unreliable. |
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| Victoria Mill chimney in Skipton is a landmark easily visible for miles around. |
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| Replacement buses will run between Skipton and Carlisle, calling at limited stops. |
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| On all major roads leading into this town are signs boldly identifying Skipton as an historic market town. |
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| There, we found all trains were terminating at Skipton and having burned our boats behind us so to speak we took a chance. |
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| He said it was a scandal that the party in Skipton should give such meagre aid to the organisation's funds. |
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| I believed that as Skipton is an historic market town, any new buildings or changes had to blend into the existing environment. |
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| If anyone has ever seen the brightly coloured narrowboats sailing through towns like Lancaster and Skipton, they will know that the restoration scheme should go ahead. |
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| A self-made man, he started life in a small cottage in Skipton before going on to serve as a councillor, alderman and then Lord Mayor of Bradford. |
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| Instead of leaving when their initial terms are over, many of the temporary visitors are extending their stays and even making Skipton their permanent home. |
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| Despite an inauspicious damp start to the day, the sun came out as the 1,400 participants gathered for the event, which was held at Broughton Hall, near Skipton. |
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| It was officially launched at a ceremony at Skipton Castle on Tuesday. |
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| A booby trap bomb was found outside the store in the centre of Skipton. |
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| Potential noise from a nearby industrial site was the main reason given for refusal of plans to build seven three-storey town houses on land at 42 Sackville Street, Skipton. |
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| Bags filled with rubbish, permanently fixed rat traps and mounds of dog dirt are not sights you would want to see just metres away from Skipton High Street. |
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| Meanwhile local farmers held a meeting at the Black Horse in Skipton to discuss the new regulations which had been met with universal disapprobation. |
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| Flasby Fell comprises the twin peaks of Rough Haw and Sharp Haw just north of Skipton and includes the forested area on the northern and western flanks. |
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| A prospectus was issued for shares in the new cattle mart in Skipton. |
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| But Coun Robert Heseltine said that earlier in the year the council had already agreed to repair and maintain the cenotaph and other war memorials in Skipton. |
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| For the children jugglers and clowns drew cheers and applause and the area was filled with the sounds of the Caribbean steel band and Skipton Brass. |
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| In 1502 the manor house was sold to Sir Henry Clifford, of Skipton Castle. |
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| Acting Sergeant Paul Evans from Skipton Police said that residents needed to be mindful about leaving their doors and windows open or insecure in the warm weather. |
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| Forensic experts were today combing through more than 100 items from a Skipton house where robbers escaped with a haul of thousands of pounds in cash and gems. |
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| Cars waiting to turn right on to Carleton Road from Skipton hold all the outgoing traffic up as cars coming into Skipton won't give way on a green light. |
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| In 2002 they led a spectacular parade through Skipton when Craven District Council conferred honorary citizenship of the district upon the regiment. |
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| Within three minutes West Leeds had their first meaningful attack and they had a chance to peg Skipton back with a penalty, but the kick went wide. |
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| The Prince of Wales got a warm welcome when he stepped on to the platform at Skipton Railway Station on Monday for his fourth visit to the area in as many years. |
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| This building was originally a pair of semi-detached houses, part of the first 50 houses contracted out by Skipton Urban Council to be built after the war. |
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| As Skipton is the nearest and largest town to most of the small towns and villages within the Dales it attracts numerous shoppers. |
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| Skipton Christmas Market All of Skipton's bustling event calendar can be found at Welcome To Skipton. |
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| The mill as it appears today is only half of what used to exist when two mills were in operation to produce corn for the whole of Skipton. |
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| Skipton Town Councillors elect a Town Mayor each year at its Annual General Meeting. |
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| The town's major local employer is Skipton Building Society, with its subsidiary companies. |
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| The Leeds and Liverpool Canal runs through Skipton and is a popular destination for tourists, with walking and boat hire. |
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| The route actually begins at Skipton, rather than Settle, since the latter is a junction. |
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| The main road through Settle is the B6480, which links to the A65, connecting Settle to Skipton and Kendal. |
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| It is to the immediate south, and across the River Wharfe, from Grassington, near Threshfield and eight miles north of the market town Skipton. |
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| It was only after a decade away from Skipton that I was finally able to garner the courage to return and testify against my abuser. |
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| Our valiant campaigner has also tried, so far in vain, to force the Skipton, Portman and Chelsea building societies to demutualise. |
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| At Apposing we are working with Skipton Building Society on a mobile strategy. |
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| These included Bowes Castle, Pickering Castle, Richmond Castle, Skipton Castle, York Castle and others. |
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| Since 1983, Ripon has been part of the Skipton and Ripon constituency, a Conservative Party stronghold. |
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| There are connecting lines from Preston to Ormskirk and Bolton, and from Lancaster to Morecambe, Heysham and Skipton. |
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| The Leeds and Liverpool Canal passes through Bingley and Keighley on route to Skipton. |
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| The Aire Gap is of considerable strategic importance and historically Skipton Castle controlled the area. |
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| Situated between Skipton and Harrogate, it is close to the 12th Century priory, the dramatic narrowing of the Wharfe at the Strid, and the ruined 16th Century hunting lodge. |
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| Skipton is now considered more central to the Aire Gap than terminal. |
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| Skipton Sheep Day Another main event on the annual calendar is Skipton Christmas Market which has been constantly voted in the top 10 of the UK's best Christmas Markets. |
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