Category: Features

The disappearance of high street banks is not something unique to Settle, but the town has been hard hit by…

As we start the new year there is a slight glimmer of improvement in the services on our local railways….

(what shall I do? I want a ticket to Birmingham, but I can’t buy one from you!) It’s quite difficult…

In the last year several of us have been preparing Visitor Guides for the three parish churches of the Castleberg…

Thanks to the seemingly endless succession of wet days in late Autumn and early Winter, team members turned out only…

Nearly three years ago, the Settle and District Community News was kind enough to publish an article I wrote on…

Tom closed the door behind him and stood his stick next to the brolly. ‘Only me’, he called and headed…

I was delighted to be asked to create a painting for the front cover of the Settle Community News. The theme…

“Learn, laugh, live” is the strapline of the Settle District u3a which was founded over 20 years ago and remains…

Do you remember when we all lived in proper counties, before politicians and bureaucrats started messing about with unitary authorities…