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MEMBERS of the Skipton East Lancashire Rail Action Partnership (SELRAP) are due to meet next week when they will hear an update on the campaign to…

The latest moves from across the region

ANDREW Knight will again contest Craven ward for Labour at the Bradford Council elections.

THE housing market. What is that? For some, it’s a place to try and make money; for large house builders, it’s an economy.

SKIPTON businesses have been urged to vote ‘yes’ to secure £1million of investment for the town over the next five years.

It’s not just the Bank of Mum and Dad. First-time buyers are turning to siblings, grandparents and even children to get on the property ladder

Tenants who have not owned a home in the past three years can borrow up to 100% of a property value to help them back onto the property ladder.

Britain’s “demonised” landlords are dealing with a triple blow of crippling taxes, rising mortgage costs and increased red tape that has made the housing crisis worse, according to the chief executive of Skipton Building Society.

They may not have shared their pocket money growing up but now brothers and sisters are helping each other to buy their first homes.Almost a third (32 per cent

1 Almost a third of first-time buyers in Britain have had financial help from family this year to buy property, with support from siblings double that of six years ago. Brothers and sisters now help a record 11 per cent of family-funded first-time purchases, according to research supplied by Hampton