Today Julia Mulligan, Police and Crime Commissioner for North Yorkshire, has confirmed that she has accepted an offer for the former police station on North Park Road in Harrogate. The offer accepted by the Commissioner on behalf of North Yorkshire Police was for an unconditional £1,550,000, with a further £350,000 should planning permission be granted. [...]

Harrogate International Festivals is delivering a unique platform for one of the leading female jazz musicians of our time. Zoe Rahman, the Mercury nominated jazz pianist and composer and MOBO award winner, has been invited by the Festival to be a guest Curator to deliver an evening of jazz, celebrating the best female jazz musicians [...]
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150 young musicians from St Aidan’s Church of England High School will be heading for Birmingham to perform at Symphony Hall as part of the week-long National Festival of Music for Youth in Birmingham in July. On the strength of their performances at the Music for Youth Regional Festival in March all three of the [...]
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Harrogate and Wharfedale Friendly Football league Cup Final 2012/2013 Pannal Ash 2 – 1 Knaresborough Celtic Pannal Ash Under 9s achieved an historic victory in this year’s league cup final when they became the first and last holders of the Mathew Addyman Memorial Trophy. The trophy was donated to the Harrogate and Wharfedale friendly [...]
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Dj Trev’s guide to evenings of sophisticated cosmopolitan edification and necking bottles of WKD through a straw. BRIBE WATCH Last week I did try to blag some free tickets to see Noddy Holder at the Theater with Mark Radcliffe and as hoped, Mark “Dj Pieman” Pieman came through with the goods. So whilst this column [...]
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Ripon woman June Forsyth – who has amassed more than 20 years’ experience in customer service, sales and recruitment – has been appointed to head a pioneering new Foundation which will create 40 local jobs across the next 12 months. Spearheaded by Be Fuel Cards – which supplies BP fuel cards to UK businesses – [...]
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A new walking, cycling and horse riding route from Harrogate to Ripley will be formally opened on Saturday 25th May 2013. The new Nidderdale Greenway has been created by reopening the railway viaduct and part of the Harrogate to Ripon railway line for public use. At 11am a new portrait bench will be unveiled located [...]
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The 8th biannual Yorkshire Antiques and Art fair, organised by the Bowman family from Shipley arrives at the Yorkshire Event Centre, Great Yorkshire Showground, Harrogate this weekend 25th & 26th May. Coinciding with the release of the lush new film production of the classic F Scott Fitzgerald novel, The Great Gatsby. There are a number [...]
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Harrogate based dry stone waller Neil Beasley had the pleasure of working on the Arthritis Research UK garden designed by the extremely talented Chris Beardshaw for this years Chelsea Flower Show. The garden has received a Gold Award. Neil was one of three Yorkshire based dry stone wallers involved in building the dry stone wall [...]
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A pupil at Harrogate independent prep school Belmont Grosvenor is celebrating after beating off tough competition to take gold in a national diving competition. Novice divers from across the country converged on Plymouth for the ASA (Amateur Swimming Association) National Skills Final which saw 10-year-old Catherine Garnett taking top honours. This is the latest in [...]
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