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FOR anyone who remembers the hugely popular 1960s Cluff television series - which followed the trials and tribulations of gruff ‘Maigret of the…

A FESTIVAL celebrating the life of Walter Morrison, the ‘Grand Old Man of Craven’, is getting under way this weekend.

FLAGS and bunting have gone up across Skipton to mark the official launch of a £1.5 million scheme to improve the look of the town centre. Schoolchildren created the colourful flags which now decorate High Street, Otley Street and Coach Street to mark the town becoming just one of 60 across the country chosen to benefit from becoming a High Street Heritage Action Zone area. The Government funded, Historic England run scheme aims to secure long lasting improvements to historic high streets for the communities who use them. The town hall, which is due to re-open in June following a £4...

Officers held at Raikeswood camp in Skipton, North Yorkshire, did not have to work, so whiled away their days with group activities.

SECRET diaries kept by German soldiers in a prisoner-of-war in a camp near Skipton have been translated into English in a book launched this week. German Prisoners of the Great War: Life in a Yorkshire Camp by Anne Buckley is the first full English translation of the account of life in Raikeswood camp during the First World War. Described as a “rare view of a hitherto neglected part of WW1 history”, it's a vivid insight into the soldiers’ experiences, in their own words, alongside their drawings of the camp. It reveals work done with the Craven community to uncover the story of the ...