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A woman has won an eight-year battle for one-off compensatory payment for losing her war widow’s pension when she remarried.
FIFTY years ago in July 1972 a meeting was held at Yeadon Town Hall at 8pm to propose the setting up of a Civic Society for Aireborough.
JANUARY 2021 has got off to an icy start across many parts of the UK. But the snowfall we have seen pales into insignificance besides the notoriously hard winter of 1947. Said to have been the harshest in living memory, it is also viewed by many as being the worst of the 20th century. Described at the time in The Wharfedale and Airedale Observer as the ‘Great Snow’ the fiercely cold conditions saw the River Wharfe freeze over for seven long weeks. Many rural areas were completely cut off by deep snow for more than a month with drifts of up to15ft.
JANUARY 2021 has got off to an icy start across many parts of the UK. But the snowfall we have seen pales into insignificance besides the notoriously hard winter of 1947. Said to have been the harshest in living memory, it is also viewed by many as being the worst of the 20th century. Described at the time in The Wharfedale and Airedale Observer as the ‘Great Snow’ the fiercely cold conditions saw the River Wharfe freeze over for seven long weeks. Many rural areas were completely cut off by deep snow for more than a month with drifts of up to15ft.