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David Pointon’s Gambian adventures
David teaching a blind student at the GOVI school in Serrekunda, The Gambia, in January 2010 David Pointon, who died in May 2019 made several overland journeys to the Gambia between 2003 and 2010 to...
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Health of the River Ure
Above: Charlotte Simons of Yorkshire Dales River Trust addressing the meeting Some key points from the meeting at Leyburn Methodist Church Hall on Tuesday April 30. We need to set...
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YDNPA, Aysgarth Falls Hotel and river pollution
Above: People bathing at Aysgarth Falls just below the sewerage treatment works that serves Aysgarth Falls Hotel. An ARC News Service report on the debate at the YDNPA planning...
View ArticleOh for a clean River Ure!
My editorial in the March 2024 edition of the Upper Wensleydale Newsletter, as the administrative officer of the Association of Rural Communities What do the Wharfe, the Nidd and the Swale have that...
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Surfers Against Sewage at Aysgarth Falls
A Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) team paid a visit to Aysgarth Falls on the morning of Thursday June 20 2024 to find out about pollution in the River Ure. (Above from left: Ann...
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Stop Ure Pollution (SUP)
Stop Ure Pollution (SUP) was unanimously voted into existence at a meeting at Leyburn Methodist Church Hall on June 25 2024. Over 70 attended the meeting as they were so concerned about the pollution...
View ArticleLetter to Ofwat
Here is the template provided by the Ilkley Clean River group for a letter to Ofwat concerning its consultation on PR24 draft determinations. You can replace Yorkshire Water and Yorkshire if you...
View ArticleYDNPA – planning committee July 2024
ARC News Service reports on the meeting of the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority (YDNPA) planning committee on July 16 2024. Items discussed included: a slurry bag for Arches Farm at Bolton...
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Water testing on River Ure
Paul Markie and Nick Gaskell at Aysgarth Middle Falls The water along the length of the River Ure was sampled at 45 sites on August 21, from the top of Wensleydale to beyond...
View ArticleYDNPA – Planning committee meeting October 2024
ARC News Service reports on the meeting of the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority‘s ( YDNPA ) planning meeting on October 15 2024, at which planning applications were approved regarding Aysgarth...
View ArticleYDNPA – Kidstones Gill Bridge
An ARC News Service report Without the evidence of livestock on the Howesyke Estate the application for a rural worker’s dwelling at Kidstones Gill Bridge in Bishopdale was a sham, Alastair Dinsdale,...
View ArticleYDNPA – Planning committee November 2024
An ARC News Service report on the meeting of the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority ‘s (YDNPA) planning committee on November 26 2024. There are two reports here regarding the applications for...
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Hard Banks Barn Ice Cream Parlour
Left to right: Andy Singleton and Gillian and Adrian Harrison outside Hard Banks Barn A beautifully restored barn in lovely countryside with an ice cream parlour hidden inside has proved to be a...
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Aysgarth Church Harvest Festival 2019
by Juliet Barker The harvest was well and truly celebrated at St Andrew’s! We gave thanks to God for the beauty of our natural world and for the social ties that bring us together as friends and...
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Waterfall of Poppies at Aysgarth church
A waterfall of poppies is once again cascading over the reredos at Aysgarth church ready for the Remembrance service on Sunday. The waterfall and a large exhibition were created last year as part of...
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Remembrance stories
Pte William Thomas ‘Tot’ Dinsdale; Pte Thomas Spence; Major Donald Herbert Rose MC and Sgt Ernest Moore; Col John William Lodge; and Pte John Percival. Plus Aysgarth Parish and WWI Pte William Thomas...
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New vicar for Penhill Benefice
Above left to right: The Rev Tom Ringland, Bishop Nick, and the Rev Penny Yeadon There was a party atmosphere at St Andrew’s Church, Aysgarth, on Monday (November 4) as members of the Penhill Benefice...
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