Craven Herald

LETTER: Leeds/Bradford Airport expansion

IT WAS with great disappointment and frustration that I read the announcement that the proposed extension to Leeds/Bradford airport has been…

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Thousands of dead harbour porpoises found around North Sea since 1990

The research, led by Utrecht University in the Netherlands, also shows a significant rise in the annual number in southern areas since 2005.

USS Leviathan and Skipton PoW camp

THE periscope was spotted late one November afternoon when it was just a foot above the chilly waters just off the Irish coast, writes historian…

NOSTALGIA: Artist loved the River Wharfe - but it killed him

ON FRIDAY September 14, 1934, the watercolour artist Arthur Reginald Smith set out early from his home near Grassington to paint the River Wharf…

Film review: Get ready to snap your fingers with the Addams Family

IT was in 1938 that American cartoonist Charles Addams first put pen to paper to produce Gomez, Morticia, Wednesday and Pugsley Addams, not…

Community goes Dutch for annual 'holiday'

A COMMUNITY enjoyed a day trip to Amsterdam – without leaving the area!