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TOP price of 2,000gns (£2,100) at Skipton Auction Mart’s annual Craven Native Day show and sale fell to a 13-month-old pedigree Aberdeen-Angus bull from Adrian and Penny Johnson’s Yearsley herd, based at Clarence House Farm in the village of the same name near Brandsby, in North Yorkshire’s Hambleton district. (Wed, May 5) The well-grown Yearsley Royal Lion, a Rawburn Jackson Eric son bred from Yearlsey Royal Lady, one of the herd’s best cow families – Lion’s grandmother made 11,000gns – found a new home in Calderdale with Robert Gemmell, of Bradshaw, Halifax. Hereford bu...

A MODELS and toys business will celebrate its 30th anniversary this summer. From humble beginnings on the kitchen table to a global exporter, Nick Metcalfe – once a printer’s apprentice living in a caravan in his parent’s garden – has built a business that brings joy to people around the world. That very garden is where the Metcalfe factory stands today and is now the epicentre of a card modelling phenomenon. Metcalfe Models, in Bell Busk, near Coniston Cold,  has become a popular choice for model railway hobbyists with a community of loyal fans, and it is now on a mission to ...

In February, 2001, footpaths were shut, events and sporting events stopped and sales of animals banned. Two decades ago the auction mart was stopped from opening. It would be 12 months before sales started again, causing huge anguish for farmers. For only the second time in its long history, the Craven Herald abandoned its traditional front page adverts and replaced it with the heartbreaking picture of Hellifield farmer Richard Barron standing among his herd of dairy cows which was slaughtered as a contiguous cull. The first occasion adverts were replaced was to commemorate the Silver...

In February, 2001, footpaths were shut, events and sporting events stopped and sales of animals banned. Two decades ago the auction mart was stopped from opening. It would be 12 months before sales started again, causing huge anguish for farmers. For only the second time in its long history, the Craven Herald abandoned its traditional front page adverts and replaced it with the heartbreaking picture of Hellifield farmer Richard Barron standing among his herd of dairy cows which was slaughtered as a contiguous cull. The first occasion adverts were replaced was to commemorate the Silver...

Councillors act against officer advice and turn down plans to enclose a domestic pool in an 'orangery' Raven Flatt barn,with pool, picture CDC CRAVEN planners went against officer advice and turned down proposals to enclose a therapy pool with an ‘orangery’ and build a single garage next to a converted barn in Bell Busk, near Gargrave. Joint applicant Sharon Bedford, in a statement read out at the online meeting of Craven District Council’s Planning Committee, criticised the authority for withdrawing the application at the last minute from last month’s meeting, and pointed out th...