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Community Correspondent, Carolyn Lobb met Tash Ward from Settle Pool to find out what has happened since the building of the fabulous new extension and frontage at the pool.
From fitness classes to tea and cake, there's many reasons to use Settle Pool in addition to enjoying a good swim!

Carolyn Lobb, Community Correspondent for Dales Radio meets Kate Wild from the RSPB to find out the latest on migrant birds in the Dales. She finds out about the Curlew, the breeding programme and what we can do to help with its success. And the Swift - how can we help with nesting at this time of year?

Hear all about T'ai Chi from Grassington teacher Julie Jones who runs Tai Chi Skipton.

This unique game hits the shops today and here we catch up with the UK's only world Monopoly Champion Jason Bunn with a few top tips to help you win the game!

Hill farming is a way of life and, although the hill farmer in the north of England has changed with the times, the traditions remain strong and the dramatic upland landscape is eternal. In Hill Farming in the North of England , photographer John Bentley has had access to the world of the hill farmer. Hill farming is round-the-clock work, season to season, still predominantly done on family farms. In this book farmers at work are shown through the seasons of the year, which dictate the farming calendar, from providing winter feed for the livestock – mostly sheep and cattle – to shearing, haymaking, lambing in the spring and ‘tupping’ in the autumn, and going to sales, shows and sheepdog trials. It is a visual portrait of a remarkable way of life and part of our farming heritage. Look through these photographs and you will quickly see the unique challenges of hill farming in the stunning but often harsh landscape of the north of England.

In the middle of its run at Skipton Town Hall, Julian catches up with Show Director Jay Cundell-Walker during the interval.
Special guests were the original Calendar Girls, who took seats in the audience and enjoyed the production. Everyone must know the story...Its a bitter sweet tale set in the Yorkshire Dales and follows the Knapely WI and their bid to create a nude calendar, after husband of one of the members, John, passed away from blood cancer.