Betsy Everett

A RESIDENT who was knocked down by a car in the main street of Askrigg asked Askrigg and Low Abbotside Parish Council to take seriously the problem of “illegal” pavement parking in the village at a meeting conducted via Zoom. Tony Hutchinson of Brecon Bar said in an email that “sooner or later someone will get killed. No more procrastinating; this illegal parking on the pavement throughout the village has to be taken more seriously and addressed as a matter of urgency,” he wrote.

WITH a plastic baby Jesus, a YouTube Christingle service and an internet call with Santa, children of Hawes primary school celebrated Christmas with a modern take on an age-old story.

A SILENT art auction, with bids offered in sealed envelopes, will replace the lively community event that was planned pre-Covid in a Wensleydale village to raise money for the 16th Century parish church.

AN artisan Christmas craft fair in Redmire, due to take place this weekend until lockdown intervened, is now being staged at a later date but with strict anti-Covid measures in place.

RULES and regulations designed to combat the coronavirus have been turned to positive use by a small Dales school.

HUNGRY rabbits and an anguished letter have forced a u-turn by parish councillors on banning plastic flowers from a village cemetery.

STAFF at a small Dales primary school are planning an open day with a difference for parents of prospective nursery and reception pupils to beat the pandemic.

THE meat for the class I’m about to attend at Elizabeth Fawcett’s cookery school in Hawes is from the local butcher. The veg and spices come mainly from the Spar shop down the road. And the filo pastry came to town on the Little White Bus the night before.

A COMMEMORATIVE stone to the late John Blackie has been installed without ceremony on the site of the war memorial in Hawes, next to the Dale Head garage which he saved from closure.

THE Low Mill outdoor centre in Askrigg, which has given thousands of young people the chance to explore the challenges of the Yorkshire Dales for more than 40 years, is facing closure because of the Covid-19 pandemic.