Out For A Duck! Thanks to lots of local support and brilliant volunteers, this year’s duck race was a quack-

ing success. Our photo, by Jon Brook, shows one of the travellers being collected after he

had made his way from the Wenning Bridge down to the Wenning Oak. Well done to all

the winners, who included: 1st Prize of £200 to Irena Pritchard; 2nd Prize of £100 to Linda

Street; and £10 to each of the runners up - Andy Walls, Sue Smedley, Lynne Dimelow, Luke

Demot, Harry Thomas, S.Hewitt, Emma Collins, Pete Thistlethwaite, Ben, Linda Ellershaw,

Martyn Tait, Ruth Holden, Norah Armstrong, Barbara Harrison, John Bonus, Barb Askew,

Ken Proctor, Chris, Shaz and Joely. £10 prize money has also been donated to Bentham Pet

Rescue and We Are Bentham. All of the money raised will go towards We Are Bentham

events, which include late night shopping days—coming soon!

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Managing Director of Northern Rail Visits Bentham Line Bev Sim of Bloomin’ Bentham and Friends of Bentham Station, left, and Gerald Townson, centre, Chairman of FoBS, discussing the adoption of Bentham Station with Alex Hynes, Managing Director of Northern Rail Ltd., last month. Photograph © Simon Clarke.

Read more about local cabinet maker, Mike

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September Town Council By Jane Miller and Alice Ellwood

All Councillors were present except for Cllrs Bridgman, Cowling, Faichney and Hey. There were eight members of the pub-lic and DCllrs Barrington and Brockbank and CCllr Ireton.

During the comments and concerns sec-tion at the beginning of the meeting, a mem-ber of the public spoke to thank the council for their support and intervention regarding a derelict house in Bentham, which is now being improved.

There was no police report.

DCllr Barrington told the Council that a select committee were to meet on 10th Sep-tember to set a date to discuss Parking Charges in Bentham. She also explained that the local plan would soon be ready for its six week consultation period. (See page 41.)

DCllr Barrington also mentioned that The Punch Bowl pub in Burton-In-Lonsdale was discussing possible community ownership at a meeting in September.

Planning applications were discussed, with one application receiving the concern that car parking may be an issue.

There was a prolonged discussion about the proposed parking charges in Cleveland Square, with different options under discus-sion. It was noted that the highways and emergency services had objected the last time charges had been proposed, because of possible access issues. Additionally, the Council again discussed what it may in-volve to take responsibility for the car park, with possible costs and how these could be covered. At least three sets of figures had been suggested for what it may cost to run a parking charge machine and what the pre-dicted annual maintenance might be. The Council asked for a clear set of figures to be compiled before they discussed the matter again, if at all possible. Maintenance in-cluded aspects such as re-surfacing, white lining, drainage, insurance, and re-siting recycling bins.

Councillors also discussed how to obtain

further information about the car park us-ers, with regard to possible future parking charges.

A request for traffic calming measures in Low Bentham on Burton Road was dis-cussed, based around the fact that a speed limit sign is largely obscured by an over-grown hedge. It was agreed that the land-owner was responsible for cutting the hedges and ensuring sight lines were visi-ble.

The speed of traffic on Doctors Hill and Thickrash Brow was discussed. Both these roads represent a traffic hazard, particularly if parked cars add to the danger. This was to be discussed again at a later date.

Access near Crow Trees Yard appeared still to be an issue as parked cars had just moved further down the road towards the bend, where cars driving into Low Bentham now have a blind turn onto a row of parked cars. This was to be discussed again at a later date.

The next item on the agenda was the po-sitioning of Victoria Cross paving stones. Two men from Bentham were awarded the VC during WW1, Charles Robertson, who was born in the Millhouses, and Theodore Bailey Hardy, who was headmaster at Ben-tham Grammar School. Bentham would be eligible to receive a memorial for Charles Robertson as he was born in Bentham, but it was discussed whether one should also be bought for Theodore Hardy, who was born elsewhere. The positioning was discussed and the possibility of similar WW2 com-memorations was considered. There was to be another meeting to discuss the matter further and any living relatives of the men were to be contacted if possible.

Last but not least was the question of flag flying. A new Yorkshire flag was to be pur-chased to replace the torn one and the possi-bility of a Bentham flag was discussed. Cllr Townson was to suggest a rota for flag fly-ing. Possible flags to consider buying and flying also included the Forces flag, a Com-monwealth flag and a St George's flag. We didn't know there were so many options!

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Gardening Tips By Joyce Knapp Anyone who took a look around the horticulture section of Ben-tham Agricultural Show in early September will know that we have many talented growers liv-ing in and around the Bentham area. The standard of produce on display was very high, from the 2'+ long, tapered, winning carrots to the beautiful, deep pur-ple beetroot and the perfectly uniform set of 6 conical shallots. Also to be seen in this category were some stunning floral dis-plays and I found the small arrangements, each displayed in a tea cup, particularly charming. It is very encouraging to see so many people making great efforts not only to grow these items, but to display them so beautifully and with such attention to de-tail. I also know, from bitter experience, that we sometimes have to go to great lengths, maybe digging up as many as 30 carrots in the search for 3 that are both a reasonable match and completely free from damage and blemishes!

Now that the Show is behind us we can move on to other areas that are in need of attention, like moving any perennials or shrubs which need a new home. This is best done in early October before the ground cools down for winter, giving the plants time to establish any new roots and thereby providing a better chance of sur-vival. Just one word of warning, we will still need to water these plants in order to help them adjust, even if the ground ap-pears relatively moist at the time. Whilst we are on the subject of planting, October is the best month in which to plant many bulbs, including all daffodils and alliums, whereas tulips are better planted in No-vember in order to avoid certain dis-eases. Bulbs can be planted directly into prepared ground although we may wish to put them in pots as this allows us to move them to a position where they are in

full view e.g. outside a kitchen window or by a path. We can make the pots of bulbs more interesting by adding some plants that will provide winter interest such as dwarf conifers, trailing ivy and Heucheras. The bulbs, sitting deep in the pot through winter, will then work

their way up through the other plants early next year, giving an added burst of colour just in time for spring. ©

Nature Notes By David Fisher When I was above Shakey Bridge last month, a kingfisher flew past at an amaz-ing speed, faster than a dipper, down stream from where I was fishing. Whilst in the garden I saw an elephant hawk moth caterpillar, fully grown on a fuchsia plant, one of its favourite feeding plants, and blackbirds are waiting for the feeding sta-tion to be put out for them now. As winter approaches, they can be fed more often with a mixed seed.

Cormorants are on the River Wenning now and sea trout are in the river as well, moving up towards spawn-ing grounds.

Three Peaks for Palestine By Annie Neligan

At the September launch of the group we watched the film Five Broken Cameras, a very moving account of life in a Palestin-ian village as it is encroached on by settle-ments and the wall.

Our October film night is on Monday 20th October, 7:30pm at Bentham Town Hall. We will be watching 'A World Not Ours' about the effect on a young man of growing up in a refugee camp in Lebanon.

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Lune Valley Calendar By David Kenyon The 2015 Lune Valley calendar includes 14 early twentieth century photographs of Lune Valley villages from High Bentham to Lan-caster, including a photograph of ‘Going to Wednesday market, Lairgill’ circa 1913 is available now from High Bentham Post Of-fice price £5.50. All proceeds from the sale of this calendar will be donated to St John’s Hospice, Lancaster.

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Age Concern By Liz Tonge

Before I report on the events of August, I am going to appeal to the better nature of all the people of Bentham who have a little spare time on their hands.

We are in absolute need of volunteer drivers, escorts, kitchen volunteers and a transport co-ordinator. Let me explain a little of what the roles involve. Firstly it’s not every week or even every other week if you don’t want it to be. You tell us how much or how little time you can spare and we work around you.

Drivers………maybe you are only inter-ested in doing day trips out, or maybe you don’t want to do day trips but are inter-ested in ferrying people to and from the Friday drop-in or Monday lunch club or whatever! We will be grateful for whatever help you can give, no matter how much or how little. It all helps! Similarly with es-corts. This just involves helping people on and off the bus, making sure they are strapped in and helping them from the bus and into the venue. Kitchen helpers are required to serve coffee/tea, food, clear ta-bles and wash up. Again all on an ‘as and when’ you can basis. If you’re not sure, come and see us, see what we do and give us a try. If it’s not for you, no hard feelings, just walk away. Thanks for reading this whether you decide you can volunteer or not.

Anyway, now a short report about Au-gust. Friday 1st was a drop-in day and we were entertained royally by Dream Scheme

with Josh Yardy and his trumpet. Very much enjoyed by everyone.

The 5th was a supermarket shopping trip to Morecambe, with a little venture across to the market for those who wanted to.

Friday 8th drop-in was once again a lovely meal followed by a talk by Alan Tonge on the vagaries of the life of a police-man in “A Bobby’s Life”.

On the 15th we had a good sing-a-long and a bit of a dance to the wonderful coun-try and western sounds of Stan Gray.

The 19th saw us go on a mystery trip which turned out to be coffee at the Cross Keys at Sedbergh, followed by lunch and a wander round the delights of Appleby. On the way home we had a yummy visit to the chocolate factory. Marvelous!

On the 22nd we had a quiz, with a talk about adopting a railway station by Gerald Townson, which was very interesting and we rounded off the month with Sunday lunch at the Maypole in Long Preston which was absolutely splendiferous! An-other busy month. Thanks for reading!

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What Has Your Council Been Doing This Month? By Cllr John Vendy on behalf of Bentham Town Council

The Marketing Committee:

Discussed the future of this news article and considered ways to improve our web site www.benthamtowncouncil.co.uk. You should see updates from us more regularly!

The Buildings Committee:

Agenda included a review of the new cur-tains and floor varnish in the Ballroom. These improvements have made this into an even better venue to consider for your event. You can contact town-clerk@benthamtowncouncil.co.uk for hire costs and conditions.

The Town Hall heating system has an on-going problem. We are waiting for a report from heating specialists to help us decide the best way to correct this. Meanwhile, if you think the heating has failed when you are using the Ballroom, please contact the Clerk or Caretaker (details on the notice board outside the main entrance) to reset the boilers.

A quote for on-site training for people to rescue anyone unlucky enough to get stuck in the Town Hall lift (we have it regularly maintained!) was discussed. As the instruc-tions to do this are available within the Town Hall (and are not difficult to follow) it was agreed that the training was an un-necessary expense!

Progress on repairs to the porch of the Community Youth Café building was also discussed along with quotes for upgrading the heating system to alleviate an old prob-lem. Old buildings need their own kind of TLC!

VC Memorial:

Meeting with Craven District Council to decide on a location for memorial stones for holders of the Victoria Cross during WW1 who have a link to Bentham. Hopefully two stones will be installed near the War Memo-rial on School Hill. Charles Graham Robert-son VC was born at 17 Millhouses, High Bentham (Wenning Avenue) and as such

we are “entitled” to the memorial. We also hope to have a replica memorial for Rev Theodore Bayley Hardy VC MC DSO who was Headmaster of Bentham Grammar School (1907 – 1913) but born in Exeter.

20mph Speed Limit:

A visit from Ken Martin of North Yorkshire County Council Highways to discuss the possibility of a 20mph speed limit for parts of Bentham. He stated that 20mph limits do not work without traffic calming measures. Unfortunately there is no budget available for traffic calming in the near future. He agreed that “repeater” 30mph signs may help. Unfortunately, roads with street lights do not qualify for repeater signs, so the area we hoped to improve will remain the same!

The Green Dog Walker Scheme:

The Craven Dog Warden, Mary Vickers, came to introduce us to this scheme, ex-plaining what the offence of fouling is, how to report it and how the scheme works. A more detailed article of why fouling is a problem will appear in Bentham News soon.

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Footpath Matters By Kate Rowe

I have looked back to a year ago and Mau-reen mentioned the unwater-logged ground. I think this summer has even surpassed last year, so let’s hope the dry weather contin-ues for the October walks.

All walks meet at Lairgill at 9:30am this month. The first, Whitewell 8.5 miles on Tuesday 7th, starts from Neton village car park, then crosses over the river Hodder. It then crosses Hodder Bank Fell. We then walk by paths and some roads to Whitewell, passing The Inn at Whitewell. From Whitewell we return to Newton via Crimpton, Marl Hill and High Birkett.

Fountains Fell Ridge Walk on Sunday 12th is 8 miles. We park near Malham Tarn and walk across Chapel Fell before climb-ing steeply up onto the ridge. Our route then takes us along the ridge with fine views. We continue past Fountains Fell Tarn and some old mine workings to meet the Pennine Way which we follow back down to Malham Tarn. Here we take the boardwalk through the nature reserve on our way back to the cars.

Wednesday 22nd is a shorter walk of 5 miles so no lunch is needed. We set off from Thornton-in-Lonsdale church and head across the fields to Bank House, Fell Side and Masongill, then across the A65 to Gale Green and Low Westhouse. We cross back over the A65 and on to the Marton Arms. It is mostly field walking with vari-ous but numerous stiles (29 in all).

Thursday 30th is the second part of “The Ribble Way”, 6.5 miles from Gearstones to Horton in Ribblesdale. We head to the derelict farmstead of Thorns then cross the moor (which may be boggy in places) to

Nether Lodge Farm. From there we head gradually uphill before levelling out, with good views including our first glimpse of the Ribble. We join the Pennine Way downhill to Horton in time to catch the 13:57 train costing £2.70 or £1.80 with a railcard. Transport will be arranged so drivers can collect cars from Gearstones.

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The Panto Returns! By Iain Henshaw It is with very great pleasure and delight that Bentham Theatre Group can announce the formation of a production team to pro-duce next year’s panto, Robinson Crusoe. Oh yes we have! - Enough now! It's early days and there is a lot still to sort out but the Panto will be at the usual time (Feb half term show dates 17 - 21st).

Now it's up to you, the public, to offer your support either by offering your ser-vices as cast and band members. There are a few other roles like make up for instance. So, the first opportunity will be to sign up to be a member of the cast or band. Later we will be asking you to stump up a small amount of cash to buy tickets for the shows.

Please be under no illusion that this is an easy event to put together as it will take hundreds of hours of effort and the best part of 80 people or so to make it happen. We really are trying to court your support! We really do believe the town does not want to lose this event.

Signing on and auditions will take place on 19th October 2 - 4pm at Sole to Soul, Grasmere Drive, Bentham - behind the Post Office. Looking forward to seeing you there. To keep in touch you can email

benthamtheatregroup@gmail.com or search Facebook for Bentham Theatre Group.

Please help us to make a great comeback for the panto.

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Your Letters

Dear Bentham News, .

Yes, we have one banana, we have one banana today.

To complain about the behaviour of charities is decidedly uncool. It seems pee-vish and mean and it offends against a deep sense of British generosity and our frequent wish to help others in need or who are less fortunate than ourselves. The char-ity sector or more accurately its offshoot, the fundraising industry, seems to play upon our decency and wish to do more than ever we can by encouraging us to be-lieve that we only ever complain about its behaviour because we feel guilty about not giving. This is nonsense of course but there is a deeply ingrained worry for many of us that others will think less of us if we com-plain about any fundraising for a good cause. Worried or not, here goes!

The behaviour of fundraisers in our area is becoming increasingly intrusive as they are now content to disturb householders until at least eight-thirty in the evening and possibly beyond that. They seem to think it their right and do not even bother to apolo-gise for disturbing us or get quickly to the point of their uninvited presence on our doorstep or driveway.

In 1628, the influential lawyer and politi-cian, Sir Edward Coke wrote that “each man’s home is his safest refuge” and, like many others, he might be rolling in his grave if he could see this happening today.

At least one leading supermarket chain has banned paid fundraisers from their stores as customers find their behaviour “aggressive and pushy”, local councils all try and limit their presence in town centres and government ministers talk of deeply unpleasant sales techniques. Yet here, in Bentham, this same sort of person is com-ing to our front doors not caring one jot what we want or have to do with our lim-ited time in our own homes.

It is only 10 per cent of chari-ties who use targeted door to door fundraising in this way. Estimates even by those who support this highly intrusive behaviour suggest that it takes

more than two years for a charity to recoup the costs of a fundraising campaign of this type, but there are many other reasons why some of us find this growing practice objec-tionable.

These include the fact that the old and the vulnerable are certainly at risk from fundraisers paid by results. Some brilliant local fundraising groups have disbanded as volunteers have become disillusioned by the aggressive fundraising practices their charity has decided to adopt. Agreements on acceptable behaviour at our front doors are cooked up by an unelected Local Gov-ernment Association and the Public Fund-raising Regulatory Association, little more than a self-interested trade body. To bor-row the phraseology of Ian Hislop, if this is democracy, “then I’m a banana.”! Appar-ently this banana is the only complainant to Craven District Council.

Not all of us will agree, but if there are more of us who have strong reservations about the behaviour of the fundraising in-dustry in our area, perhaps we should do more than just tell our closest friends. Per-haps we should spare a moment to email our local and national democratic represen-tatives to tell them of our dislike of increas-ingly intrusive fundraising practices. As ever, matters are complicated, but if enough of us want it perhaps we can make a difference quickly. A lone banana can achieve nothing . . . he needs a hand!

T h e e - m a i l a d d r e s s e s a r e : julian.smith.mp@parliament.uk,Cllr.david.ireton@northyorks.gov.uk, Cllr.LBarrington@cravendc.gov.uk, Cllr.LBrockbank @cravendc.gov.uk,

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Your Letters Continued

Dear Bentham News,

Blind In Bentham? I would be interested in joining a blind club in Bentham, but feel powerless to start one. Does anyone feel they would be able and willing to do this? I feel there would be plenty of support for such a venture in our town.

Thank you,

Margaret Green-Hughes, 61258.

Think Local, Support Local Craftspeople By Shirley Brown

Bentham News is keen to support local traders and local craftspeople whenever it can, and this interview with Mike Barron is part of an occasional series focussing on local people, why they live here and the work they do in Bentham. Other traders who would like to be featured should con-tact BN, as Mike Barron did.

Mike Barron is a kitchen and cabinet-maker based at Wenning Wood Works, Pyes Mill, High Bentham. It’s a bit tucked away, but you can see the steps leading up to his workshop from the station platform. We wondered what had led him to set up in business here, and he explained that he’d been interested in woodworking from an early age.

This had led him to explore and work in woodland crafts and coppice management in the South Lakes in the early 1990s. This in turn led on to his studying for a com-bined City and Guild and NVQ course in advanced furniture crafts at Camborne Technical College in Cornwall, which he passed with distinction getting a 98% pass mark.

Mike says that “doing a full time course in furniture allowed me to discover just how many aspects there are to the craft,

from history to design and much of the technical know-how of understanding wood and applying the correct techniques to a project.”

After completing the course he returned to Bentham but struggled to find work for his skills, so found himself again living in the South Lakes working in Kendal for Kirkland Kitchens. He did this for 2 years before moving to Silverdale to work at English Hardwood Design for another 10 years.

However it had always been his ambi-tion to be self-employed before his fortieth birthday, and in September 2011 an oppor-tunity to share a workshop with Kevin and Sam Watt presented itself. Kevin and Sam are also kitchen and cabinetmakers, indeed Kevin is a master craftsman, so this al-lowed them to pool their resources.

Mike says “there’s a lot more to being self-employed than just making and fitting stuff, it’s been a steep learning curve but I now feel that things are taking off.”

We hope that Mike will stay to live and work in Bentham for many years to come. He has become firmly stitched into the local community. He is an active member of Friends of Bentham Library and volun-teers at the library, which is handy as he lives next door, in the Old School House at the bottom of Robin Lane.

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If you are interested in visiting the Western Front and the battlefields of the Somme and the Salient, Allan Hartley is organising a short tour in May 2015 with Bibby's Coaches in Ingleton. For details email Allan at HartleyAlmal@aol.com or tele-phone 015242 61173.

Theodore Bayley Hardy By Paul Hypher One of the greatest heroes of the First World War lived and worked in Ben-tham; he was a public figure here for six years. Yet Bentham has no permanent me-morial to him.

There are memorials in Exeter where he was born, in Pinner and the City of London where he went to school, in Nottingham where he taught, in Hutton Roof where he was Vicar and in Carlisle Cathedral, but nothing in Bentham, not even a mention on our local War Memorials. On 17th and 23rd July this year the Lancaster Guardian even carried two full-page articles about him.

The hero I am referring to was the Rev-erend Theodore Bayley Hardy, VC, DSO, MC, Chaplain to the King, the most highly decorated non-combatant of the First World War. From 1907-1913 Hardy was the Head Teacher at Bentham Grammar School which in his time was at Moonsa-cre. Hardy, with his wife and two children, William and Elizabeth lived with the boarding pupils in what are now Moon’s Acre House and Moon’s Acre Cottage.

As a Head Teacher there was probably not anything particularly remarkable about Hardy: he was fair-minded, conscientious, liked, had high principles, a firm religious faith, and he was notoriously short sighted. He also covered for the clergy at St. John’s and St. Margaret’s when they were away, taking services and preach-ing. He was popular in the town.

In 1913 tragedy struck when Hardy’s wife, Florence developed terminal cancer. Hardy retired from Bentham Grammar and went as Vicar to Hutton Roof (near Kirkby Lonsdale). Here he nursed Florence until she died in June 1914.

Hardy then applied to join the army. But he was turned down as he was over 51, regarded as quite elderly in those days. Eventually in August 1915, Hardy

was accepted and arrived on the front in the December.

From then until October 1918 when he was killed, Hardy hardly left the front, staying in the trenches with the men, get-ting to know them, chatting or praying with them according to what they wanted, encouraging them, writing letters for them, going ‘over the top’ with them (although, as a chaplain, he carried no weapons), and above all staying with them if they were wounded and rescuing them when they were trapped. It was these rescues of wounded soldiers that earned Theodore Bayley Hardy his awards for outstanding and heroic bravery under fire.

That there is no memorial in Bentham is a bit of an accident. There was one once - Hardy Hall was part of the old Bentham Grammar School at Moonsacre. But Hardy Hall was demolished in the late 1990s to make room for Moonsacre estate.

Bentham’s new Community Primary is being built immediately opposite Moonsa-cre on what were the Playing Fields of the old Bentham Grammar School; opened in 1927, they were part of the expansion of the school which itself was in part a memorial to Theodore Hardy and to William and Richard Carr, who were former pupils.

It is here perhaps that Hardy’s heroic story could be kept vivid for future genera-tions. The original memorial plaque to Hardy has been recovered to be placed in the new school. Perhaps a hall or class-room, or (dare I say it) the whole school could be dedicated to the Rev. Theodore Bayley Hardy VC, DSO, MC and contain an exhibition of his life and courage.

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Lest We Forget - Edward Magoolagan

Words by Allan Hartley

Research by Marilyn Hartley

Edward is named on the memorial plaque on Sta-tion Road centre row right column toward the top of the list of names on the Roll of Honour, he is also listed on the memorial plaque at St Margaret’s Church. Edward has the sad distinction of being the third Bentham man to be killed in the War on 23rd August 1915.

Edward was born in Ireland in 1891, the son of William and Annie Magoolagan, who by the time of the 1901 census had moved to England and had settled at Pine-wood Cottages HB. Edward worked as a cotton weaver at Messrs Pickup’s weaving shed in HB. In his spare time Edward was a keen sportsman being a prominent member of Bentham Cricket Club and playing out-side right for Bentham Football Club. He was a member of the Liberal Club on Sta-tion Road and regularly attended church at St Boniface RC Church on Robin Lane.

When war broke out he joined up early on in the war in September 1914, enlisting in the Kings Own Royal Lancaster Regi-ment 6th Battalion 13th Western Division as Private 14404, undertaking his training at Tidsworth in the South West of England.

For Great Britain at the time, the war was going badly wrong in the East with the risk of Russia being isolated and cut off, being effectively placed under siege. Edward found himself part of a task force being sent east on 12th June to rout the Turks in the Dardanelles, better known as the Gallipoli Campaign, arriving almost one month later on 4th July. As the British, French and AN-ZAC forces struggled to establish a beach-head, Edward was soon in the thick of the fighting, so much so that he suffered a terri-ble wound to his face on 12th August, possi-bly from a shell fragment, as his companion at the time was said to have been blown to

pieces. Despite putting up a brave fight Edward died of his wounds on the 23rd Au-gust.

A memorial service was held at St Boni-face RC church on the 17th September headed by Edwards’ best friend Fred Smith. There was no formal funeral service as such but tributes were paid by Edwards’ friends and the Rev Father Morgan, and the chapel was packed to capacity with the congrega-tion spilling out into the street.

A second memorial service took place on 24th September at St Margaret’s Church HB for Teddy, as he was known, for this well liked Irish lad who had made Bentham his home. Edward is buried at Helles Point Cemetery on the Gallipoli Peninsula Tur-key. He was 24. Acknowledgements

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Low Bentham WI By Jennifer Watkinson and Christine Jennings Garden Visit. Due to the inclement weather our planned monthly programme had to be revised at the last minute. The outdoor visits to Gerald Townson's and Brian Jackson's gardens were cancelled but hopefully these visits can be re-arranged for next year. In place of the cancellations some members went to Bentham's Little Gym where they tried out the equipment before having coffee and ginger biscuits made by the president.

Walk. A few members enjoyed a circu-lar walk starting at the old school, Tatham Fells. We ambled through the fields to Lowgill village, picking blackberries en-route, then we road walked for a while before diverting to the lanes back to the School. We ate our picnic just before the rains came!!

Fashion Show. Some of our members travelled to Cracoe village hall to a fashion show which was organised by our federa-tion. We had wine and canapés on arri-val before the models took to the catwalk and showed the autumn collection of Ahern's of Hellifield and Settle. The enjoy-able evening concluded with a raffle which was won by one of us.

Bentham Show. We entered the co-operative class at the show, the theme be-ing "The Seaside" All the displays were very good. We were delighted to see first prize on our display. Low Bentham W.I. won two trophies, one for the co-operative and one for the most points in the handi-craft section. Sylvia Brennand our vice president also won two trophies. Well done to all who participated.

The next meeting will be on 16th Octo-ber and will be "A Touch of Nostalgia" with Mr. M Steel. The competition is for something old.

High Bentham WI By Sue Camacho

Wendy welcomed 21 members and one visitor to our September meeting. The meal at Café Culture on the High Street was enjoyed by all who went. Jam jars were there for the taking to fill up for a stall at our coffee morning in November.

Everyone was reminded to get to the Bentham Show early with all the show entries. We were all invited to a Macmillan coffee morning at Looking Well on 25th September. These are being held at different venues all over the country.

The speaker was Ruth Gibbons with a talk on "Eating well---feeling great". Carol Elsworth won the competition and the raffle winner was Margaret Hayton.

Next month’s meeting is our A.G.M. There will be a flower arranging demon-stration by Margaret Hayton followed by a finger buffet supper.

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Early Bird Christmas Shop By Claire Weir

On Friday October 24th from 7pm, lots of local businesses will be gathered at the Youth Café with a variety of stalls for you all to visit. Pigtails, B&CE Armstrongs, Temptations, Bodyshop, Avon, TrulyMad-lyBaby&Kid, Pampered Chef, LM Fashions, Handbags by Ingrid, Kimberly Elizabeth Jewellery, BlackwellBakesWell, Inspired Hampers, Visions for Colour in your life by Greg, and more will be there. Also mani-cures and hand massages will be available on the night.

It is £1 on the door, with free nibbles, so why not come along and see what there!

Indoor bowling By Sue Park

At Bentham Town Hall, starting 6th Oc-tober on Mondays from 1pm till 4pm.

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Settle College World Challenge By Kim Shutes

Eighteen months of dedicated fundraising culminated in an enormously successful World Challenge trip to Sri Lanka by eight-een Settle College students in the summer.

The aim of the trip was to develop team building and organisational skills. Many of the students embarking on taking up their places at University are now furnished with money management talents, having juggled a budget of £5,000. Students were required to organise all accommodation and food requirements on site.

During the three week trip, tasks ranged from teaching school children extracts of Oliver Twist, painting a 4m high world map including the naming of 162 countries, and plastering and painting an education centre at a Buddhist monastery.

Students also undertook their own

physical challenge, which involved climb-ing Adam’s Peak, the 4th highest mountain in Sri Lanka. At 2,243m high it is higher than of all 3 Yorkshire peaks on top of each other.

‘For most students it was their first ven-ture beyond Europe and it was great to see how much they embraced the culture and gained confidence throughout the trip’ , Ms Doyle, Assistant Principal said, who had accompanied the students.

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Craven Concerns By DCllr Linda Brockbank, Bentham ward E m a i l : c l l r . l b r o c k b a n k @cravendc.gov.uk Telephone: 015242 61598

The Local Plan—Have Your Say Craven District Council is seeking feed-

back from residents, businesses, local groups and other agencies on the latest draft of the Local Plan over six weeks start-ing from Monday 22nd September 2014. See page 41 for more information.

Door to Door fundraising for charity organisations must be licensed before they are allowed to collect for charity on your doorstep. Craven District Council is the licensing authority so should you experi-ence any problems with the doorstep callers please contact Craven District Council li-censing officers on 01756-700600.

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Free taster & then 9 classes

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Pioneer Projects at the Looking Well By Sean Sanderson

Harmony Singing Workshop

“Even if you don’t think you

can sing, you find you can!” Come and spend a Saturday afternoon singing. Back by popular demand, Noelle Thompson will run a special workshop upstairs at Looking Well from 1.00 to 4.00 pm on 11th October. She will teach you songs by ear so there’s no need to read music. You just need enthusiasm for singing, regardless of your level of ability. Funky chants and riffs, upbeat tunes and beautiful harmonies - all simple to master.

“You’ll go away singing and smiling!”

Noelle has 15 years of experience of working with community choirs and leading singing groups of all ages. £15/12/£8 (sliding scale concessions). Children to be accompanied by an adult. For further details and to book place just turn up on the day, or please email thistlethompson@hotmail.com

It’s Lantern Time Again Come and make a lantern and join the pro-cession to the Community Bonfire on 1st November. The theme this year will be ‘Our changing landscape’’. We will be run-ning workshops through half term every day from 2.30 to 4.30 pm at Looking Well Studios from Saturday 25th to Friday 31st October. No booking is required with places available on a first come first served basis. Children under 12 must be accompa-nied by an adult. Lanterns cost £7 to make. You are also welcome to make a small lan-tern at the Warm Weekend sessions on Sat-urday afternoons in October or, if you fancy having a go at helping to make a large scale lantern, come along to Nikki’s Art Shed session from 1.30 to 4.30 every Thursday.

Exhibition “Here & Now” See picture above

An exhibition of the work produced by participants in our Pioneer Projects "OWN NOW" memory loss groups. Each artwork is individually made and reflects the choices and interests of each participant. The methods of making vary enormously. Viewing time: Saturday 11am-4pm, Mon-day, Wednesday, Thursday, 9am-5pm, Fri-day 9am-1pm.

For all enquiries about Pioneer Projects at the Looking Well please ring Sean 015242 62672 or email sean@pioneerpro jects.org.com.

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Rotary Club Of Lunesdale Meets Freddie Flintoff By Lillian Barton

Firstly a huge thank you to everyone in Bentham who has responded so gener-ously to our District Governor's appeal for good, used or new baby (up to 12 months) clothes. They will be used to fill any space in Aquabox kits, much needed for water purification, and dispatched to disaster areas around the world.

It is an ongoing appeal over the next few months. If you wish to donate please ring 015242 73166.

On Thursday 4th September 13 mem-bers and one visitor travelled to Tata Steel Shapfell for a guided Tour. We were met by Chris Queen, Manager and Alistair Dunn, Quarry Manager. The plant operates 24 hours and 365 days. Chris and Alistair

gave us a potted history of the plant and talked about the operational side of its pro-duction. We learned that the company is keen to maintain a good relationship within the local community. Chris and Alistair attend bi-monthly meetings with the local Parish Council. Their lorries travel at an agreed 25 miles per hour through the village of Shap and are suspended from travelling for 20 minutes at the start and close of Primary School each day.

500,000 tonnes of limestone are used in the 4 huge kilns a year. 6,000 tonnes of lime is produced every week of which 4,000 leaves by rail and 2,000 by lorries. The Tata Steel plants at Scunthorpe and Port Talbot take most of the lime and limestone prod-ucts but there is a substantial demand in other UK industries.

Those who wished were invited to climb to a height of 150 feet almost to the top of the kilns. It was a beautiful summer eve-ning and the views from that height were excellent. For those of us who are not too keen on heights it was a bit scary!

Next we walked from the works across to the quarry and it was impressive to see the extent of this area which is not visible from the M6. Finally a vote of thanks was given to Chris and Alistair for their hospi-tality, for sharing their considerable exper-tise, for their patience in answering all the questions and for a truly unique experi-ence.

We travelled on to Tebay Services for an evening meal. A Sky television crew came into the restaurant and were there to film a new series for Sky of Freddie Flintoff tour-ing in his mobile fish and chip bar. The cricket fans in our group were delighted to see him. Freddie was quite happy to come and meet us and to have his photo taken with the members. Overall it was quite an evening.

For more information about us please google our website—the Rotary Club of Lunesdale.

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The Singing Playgroup By Lydia Francis The Singing Playgroup is new group at the Looking Well. We meet on Wednesdays from 10.00 to 11.30am, to learn and share songs and lullabies from around the world. £2 a session.

Come along with your little ones or if you want more information phone me on 07463 133617.

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Managing Director Visits The Bentham Line By Gerald Townson, Chairman of FoBS Following a invitation from the Friends of Bentham Station, Alex Hynes, Managing Director of Northern Rail Ltd., visited Ben-tham and the Bentham Line on Friday 15th August. He was accompanied on his return journey between Leeds and Lancaster by Simon Clarke, Community Rail Develop-ment Officer for the Bentham Line and Ge-rald Townson, Chairman of FoBS.

On his outward journey Alex stopped off for the first time at Bentham, to view the 'new look' station and meet members of FoBS. He was extremely impressed by the projects undertaken and amazed at the amount of volunteer effort put into them. Having spent time talking with the members, Alex warmly thanked them for their time, skill and determination in en-hancing the station. The visit concluded with the presentation of a framed photo-graph to Alex to mark the occasion.

Members of the Leeds-Lancaster-Morecambe Community Rail Partnership and the Lancaster and Skipton Rail User Group were invited along to the event to raise current issues relating to the Bentham Line and its services, and the forthcoming new Northern and TransPennine Express

franchises for which the bidding process has started.

Throughout the visit, Northern staff immediately recognised Alex and he was readily prepared to stop and talk with them listening carefully to their comments and

suggestions. This was something which impressed us, as did his knowledge of the line and the local communities. He was keen to raise questions about the line and the current opinions on Northern Rail ser-vices, whilst being willing to share his ideas for the future.

Alex returned to the Bentham Line on 12th September, the same day that the FoBS volunteers were celebrating their third birthday with the official opening of the extension of the Heritage Trail to the station and the unveiling of a commemorative plaque to mark the 60th anniversary of the completion of the 'new' station building.

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Craven Citizens' Advice Bureau From The Manager of Skipton CAB

On 1st October the organisation will be merging with Harrogate and Ripon CABs to form a single charity. With reduced funding from local authorities and less funding available from other sources for small charities, Craven Citizens Advice Bureau has spent the last eighteen months reviewing various options to ensure the continued delivery of a fully functioning CAB service to the people of Craven.

Craven people will still be served from our offices at St Andrew’s Church Hall in Skipton, and we do not anticipate any changes to our advice service as a result of the merger. Craven's manager, Erica Cad-bury, is to become CEO of the new organi-sation.

Independent of the merger, we have recently had a considerable reduction in people visiting our Bentham outreach sessions and so have decided to bal-ance out the service with Ingleton and to return to the fortnightly service in Bentham which we had until 5 or 6 years ago. We will be in the area every week and are happy to see Ingleton and Bentham clients at either service.

There will be a drop in sessions at:

Bentham Medical Practice, Grasmere Drive, Bentham, LA2 7JP on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday in the month from 1 – 3.00 p.m.

October 1st and 15th, November 5th and 19th, December 3rd and 17th.

Ingleborough Community Centre, Main Street, Ingleton LA6 3HG on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday in the month from 10 – 12.00 noon, October 8th and 22nd, Novem-ber 12th and 26th and December 10th.

The bureau can also be contacted by ringing our advice line on 03444 111 444 or leaving a message on 01756 701371 or by email – advice@skiptoncab.cabnet.org.uk or through our website www.advice guide.org.uk.

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Budget Pension Changes Affect Everyone By Ken Durkin

In the last five minutes of his Budget speech on 19th March Mr Osborne announced revolutionary changes to pensions that af-fect everyone. Ostensibly the changes refer to those people who have direct contribu-tion rather than final salary pension schemes.

The most important point about the pro-posed changes is that there will no longer be any restrictions on the amount it is pos-sible to withdraw from a pension fund. From April 6th, 2015 all those who have invested pension funds will be able to ac-cess the whole of their money from the higher of age 55 or 10 years below the State retirement age.

A pension investment has therefore be-come a tax-efficient investment that can be accessed at 55, with more tax relief than an ISA for example. People approaching retire-ment in final salary (defined benefit) schemes should request a cash equivalent quotation before a decision is made about which pension option to choose.

Promise Of Free Advice Mr Osborne promised in his speech that

face-to-face free advice would be offered for all those who had reached retirement age and wanted to know their options with their money purchase pension schemes. In practice this could prove difficult.

The industry is still not sure how this can be delivered. In March 2013 there were 21,696 registered and fully qualified inde-pendent financial advisers in the UK so the cheapest way for the government to deliver this promise would be to draw on this re-source.

Everyone Affected Including

Children These changes affect everyone from chil-

dren to those people already in retirement. This is because everyone is entitled to con-tribute to a pension plan and obtain tax

rebates even if they are not paying any in-come tax. The maximum contribution for someone with no relevant earnings is £2,880 net which is grossed up to £3,600 with a tax rebate (even if no tax has been paid).

Tax Loophole While not on the scale of some celebrities

in the news recently, everyone can partici-pate in a tax loophole. Assuming no change in tax rates and allowances, here’s an exam-ple of how it works: Invest £2,880. This be-comes £3,600 after the tax rebate of £720 is added to the investment.

When benefits are taken, 25% of £3,600 (or whatever it has grown to) is tax free, that is, £900. Then for a basic rate taxpayer £2,700 is liable to 20% tax, so after deduct-ing tax of £540 this leaves £2,160. So the return, £2,160 plus £900, is £3,060, which is £180 more than the net contribution of £2,880. So you get £180 courtesy of HMRC!

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Events In October Wed 1st Looking Well, 2-4pm, Art for All. Quiet art group with mutual support. And every Wed.

Bentham Methodist Church, 10- 11:30am, Coffee Morning. Donations to local charities. And every Wed.

Victoria Institute, 10am- 12noon, Post Office Services. And every Wed.

11:30am-2:15pm, Community Link Cafe. And every Wed.

2-3pm, Line Dancing. And every Wed.

3:45-8pm, Helen Howard School of

Dance. And every Wed.

Town Hall, 6:30-7:30pm, Jordan Armstrong Fitness. And every Mon.

Victoria Hall, Settle. 7:30pm, a play - "Five kinds of silence". 18+ audience only. Proceeds to the NSPCC. Thur 2nd Looking Well, 1:30-4:30pm, Community Art Shed. And every Thur. Bentham Methodist Church, 2-4pm, Welcome-In, dominoes and tea for all ages. For transport, contact Liz 61230. Also 16th and 30th. Victoria Institute, 9:30am-12:30pm, Art Group. And every Thurs. 1-3:30pm, Pipers Painters. And every Thurs. 10am-12noon, Bat ‘N’ Chat. And every Thur. 4:15-8:15pm, Helen Howard School of Dance. And every Thur. Town Hall, 7-10pm, High Bentham WI. See page 14. Town Hall Ballroom, 7-8pm, TNT fitness. And every Thur. Fri 3rd Looking Well, 10:30am- 1pm, Art Skills Development. And every Fri. Victoria Institute, 10am-12noon, Post Office Services. And every Fri. 1-3pm, Helen Howard School of Dance. And every Fri. 4-7pm, Helen Howard School of Dance. And every Fri. Town Hall, 9:30-11am, Little Stars

toddler group. And every Mon. See page 38. 11am-12:30pm, Craven Customer

Services. And 17th.

6:30-7:30pm, Yoga. And every Fri. Masonic Lodge, Age Concern. Cheese making with Ester Davis. Hornby Institute, 7:30pm, Hornby Drama Group The BFG. Also 2pm and 7:30pm on Sat 4th. Sat 4th Looking Well, 11am—4pm, Welcome Weekends - Drop in and see what’s happening. And every Sat. Town Hall, 10am-12noon,

Bowling Club Coffee Morning.

Mon 6th Lairgill, 9:30am, Walks For Women. And every Mon.

Bentham Methodist Church, 10-11:30am, Toddle-in for parents and carers with children 0-4. £1 per family. And every Mon.

3:45-4:45pm, Adventurers for

children aged 4-6. And every Mon.

6:15-7:30pm, Springboard for children

aged 7-11 years. And every Mon.

Victoria Institute, 10am-12noon,

Office Open. And every Mon.

12:15-2:15pm, Community Link Cafe. And every Mon.

6:15-7:45pm, Tai Chi. And every Mon.

Town Hall, 10-11am, Zanna’s Adult

Ballet. And every Mon.

1-4pm, Indoor Bowls. And every

Mon.

Ballroom, 7-8pm, TNT Fitness. And every Mon.

7:30pm, Council Meeting, with drop in from 7pm. All welcome.

Tue 7th Victoria Institute, 10am- 12noon, Office open. And every Tue.

3:45-9pm, Helen Howard School of

Dance. And every Tue.

Wenningdale Room, 10am-12noon, Craft Club. And every Tue.

Bentham Footpath Group, Whitewell, 8.5 mls, Leader George Sheridan 51779. Meet at Lairgill 9:30am.

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Tue 7th Looking Well, 9:30-11:30am, Light Leg Stretchers—walking group

for men and women.

10:30am-12:45pm, Community

Tuesday@Looking Well. Coffee, newspapers and chat. And every Tue.

11am-1pm, Creative Writing

Group. And every Tue.

12:45-1:30pm, Community Shared

Lunch. Homemade soup and bread. And every Tue.

Town Hall, 10-11am, Mature Movers. And every Tue.

6-7pm, Yoga. And every Tue. 7-8pm, Aerobics. And every Tue. Wed 8th Town Hall, 7-9:30pm, LASRUG.

NSPCC meeting, 7:30pm, Lingfield, Robin Lane. Thur 9th, Old School, Lowgill 7:30- 9pm, Dancing in the Fells. Informal ceilidh dancing (usually to live music) Come on your own or with a partner, all dances are called so no experience needed. Everyone welcome, £1.50. Anne Wilson 63399. Also 23rd. Fri 10th Deadline for BN Colour cover pages. Masonic Lodge, Age Concern, Wild flowers—Maurice Walters. Sat 11th Town Hall, 10am-12noon,

Conservative Association Coffee Morning.

Victoria Institute, 10am-12pm, Book Swap.

Bring your items for the Trash and Treasure sale, 11am-2pm. Or call 63162 for collection.

Looking Well, 1-4pm, Harmony Singing group. See page 18. Sun 12th Bentham Footpath Group, Fountain Fell Ridge, 8 mls, Leaders David and Sheila Longton 61838.

Meet at Lairgill 9:30am. Victoria Institute, 10am-2pm, Trash and Treasure sale.

Tue 14th Methodist Church, 2:15pm,

Bright Hour. Also 28th.

Wed 15th Deadline for BN Main Pages.

Looking Well, Bentham First Responders meeting.

Thur 16th Victoria Institute, 7.30pm, Low Bentham WI, "A Touch of Nostalgia" with Mr. M Steel. See page 14.

Looking Well, Bentham Footpath Group, 7:30pm, AGM and Jacob’s Join Supper.

Fri 17th Town Hall, 7pm, Bentham Film Group.

Masonic Lodge, Age Concern, Betsy III with Joanne Halliwell.

Lairgill, waste paper collection in aid of NSPCC.

Sat 18th Town Hall, 10am-

12noon, Age Concern Coffee Morning.

Victoria Institute, 7:30pm, Low Bentham WI. All Welcome.

Mon 20th Town Hall, 7:30pm, Three Peaks For Palestine Film ‘A World Not Ours’. See page 4. Tue 21st Looking Well, 8pm, Green Café. See page 40. Wed 22nd Bentham Footpath Group, T hornton (no lunch), 5 mls, Leader Cath Ramwell 41499. Meet at Lairgill 9:30am. Fri 24th Masonic Lodge, Age Concern.

Sat 25th Town Hall, 10am- 12noon, Homing Soc. Coffee Morning.

Thur 30th Bentham Footpath Group, Gearstones / Horton, 6.5 mls, Leader Kate Rowe 51402. Meet at Lairgill 9:30am. Fri 31st Bentham News Distributed

Masonic Lodge, Age Concern, Crafts with Faith Wilson.

Bentham News Distributed.

Sat 1st Nov Town Hall, 10am-

12noon, High Bentham WI Coffee Morning.

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Saturday 1st November 2014

At Bentham Auction Mart

Bentham Community Bonfire And Fireworks By Bentham Bonfire Committee

Bentham Bonfire will return again this year on Saturday 1st November so don’t miss this year’s spectacular lantern procession, bonfire and fireworks. The procession, ac-companied by samba/reggae group ‘Drum Machine’, who hail from Hebden Bridge, will set off from Cleveland Square car park at 6:20pm, reaching the Auction Yard around 6:45pm.

Grasmere Drive and Goodenber Road will be closed for 10 minutes and the Main Street for approximately 20 minutes. This year’s stunning fireworks display will again be provided by Manchester based company ‘Walk the Plank’ who produce amazing award winning displays both na-tionally and internationally. As in previous years a range of food and hot drinks will be available.

Lantern Making Workshops Don’t forget you can join in the proces-

sion by making a lantern at Looking Well Studios during half term – see Pioneer Pro-ject’s article on page 18 for more details.

Bonfire Suitable material can be added to help

build the bonfire at the auction mart from Friday 31st October. Garden cuttings or wood are ideal but please do not dump tyres, builders’ waste, grass or mattresses.

Entrance Fees The entrance fee into the bonfire and

fireworks this year remains the same as last year at £3.50 for an adult and £1.50 for a child. This fee applies to lantern bearers as well so please be ready to buy tickets from ticket sellers on the street to avoid a hold up at the Auction entrance. Tickets will also be available from Total Wellbeing, Flower-fields, The Newsagents (Main Street), Temptations and Riverside Caravan Park

from Wednesday 1st October during nor-mal business hours, and Looking Well Stu-dios the week before the bonfire during the lantern workshops.

Stewards Needed We always need stewards and ticket

sellers and would be grateful if anyone willing to help would contact Anna Miller (015242 61907), Lewis Yuill (015242 63190) or email benthambonfire@gmail.com or via our Facebook page (search for Bentham Bonfire).

One Final Mention… As with last year we have raised vital

funds from the red donation pots found in local businesses. The committee would like the thank everyone who has generously donated their spare change, it really does make a difference to us.

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Cookery Page: By John-Francis Read, from 3 Borders Pantry

Deciding to make decisions easier: What to eat? This can be a tough question to answer. Sometimes choosing what to make is more difficult than the making itself. For me, this predicament usually happens mid-week, in the evening, when I am tired and hungry and my decision making ability is already drastically impaired.

Inspiration can come in many forms though, and for me, looking into the cup-board is quite a useful way of deciding what to make. It occurred to me then that a list of cupboard 'essentials' might be an interesting thing to cover in this month’s food page.

What follows is an ingredients list. Hav-ing some or all of these in as standard will allow you to take your meals in many differ-ent directions.

Buy a few that you don't already have with a view to accumulating more as time goes on. Don't let the cost of buying all of these things at once put you off. Buy a few at a time and remember that many of these things will last you a while. The investment is not just in the ingredient but in all of the amazing eating you'll be doing when you have them at your disposal.

These ingredients will help you make more than ever out of your meat, fish, eggs, cheese, vegetables, pulses, nuts and seeds so let’s get cracking.

Sea salt - flakes, crystals or fine - the one true seasoning. ESSENTIAL, Cooking salt – to season pasta and potato water etc, Extra virgin olive oil – for dressings and cooking (some say not to cook with it but if you are only going to have one olive oil, go for this), Sunflower oil – cooking and dressings, Toasted sesame oil – essential for Chinese food, white wine / red wine / cider vinegar – dressings, sauces, generally balancing your food through acidity, Rice vinegar / rice wine vinegar – again, important for most East Asian cuisine, Malt vinegar – chips and roasties and great with onions both cooked and raw, Worcester sauce – meat and cheese dishes, adding general depth of flavour,

Tomato purée – wonderful for adding colour and depth to countless dishes. Often misun-derstood and misused., Tomato Ketchup - obviously, Brown Sauce - obviously again, Stock powder / cubes – good quality, no added MSG. I like vegetable for most things other than rich meat dishes, English and/or Dijon mustard – all meat dishes, cheese sauces, dressings, marinades, Hot chilli sauce – soups, stews, chilli, eggs the list goes on, Sweet chilli sauce – ubiquitous these days, would just about make cardboard pal-atable, Light soy sauce – adding savoury saltiness to Asian dishes, Dark soy sauce – adds colour and richness to Asian dishes, Fish sauce – smells like Poseidon's under-crackers in the bottle but when cooked adds a lovely depth of salty flavour to Asian dishes. Essential to Chinese, Thai, Malay and Vietnamese cuisine, Oyster sauce, Hoi sin sauce, White sugar, Light brown sugar, Palm sugar – another Asian essential. Rich but mellow sweetness reminiscent of toffee ap-ples or caramel. Comes in differing shades of brown and absolutely heavenly. Great for making cocktails like Mojitos too

Dried chilli – flakes, whole, ground, whatever,

Cumin seeds, Coriander seeds, Star anise, Turmeric, Sweet Paprika, Smoked paprika, Curry powder / Garam Masala, Fennel seeds, Cinnamon, Cloves, Black pepper, White pepper, Thyme (all herbs from here on are dried), Rosemary, Oregano / marjo-ram, Basil, Mint, Bay leaves.

Just two words on spices. Particularly ground ones – use them! Keep them in clean empty jars and use them. That’s what you bought them for. If you don't, they will lose their flavour and you may as well add saw-dust to your food. Also, dried herbs are different to fresh ones, not better, or worse just different. They are good to have.

This list is not exhaustive. I've left lots out but it’s not a bad start. Get accumulating and we might add to it in a future issue.

Incidentally, if anybody has any thoughts about topics you would like us to cover then please email us at benthamnews@outlook.com. We will see what we can do.

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Bentham Show By John Dawson (Bentham Show Chairman)

Bentham Agricultural Society held its 142nd annual show on Saturday 6th September. The show was held in the auction mart and the Society would like to place on record our sincere thanks to the directors and staff of the mart, who are very generous and good humoured, as we dismantle gates and pens which are designed to hold sheep and calves, in order to make room for dahlias and decorated doyleys.

Our president this year was Mr Frank Brennand, who is well known in our com-munity as a farmer and top quality stock-man. Frank and his family have a long asso-ciation with the show and he carried out his duties in his usual unique style and added to the general enjoyment of the day.

It was entirely appropriate that Frank fought off stiff competition to win the brand new Herdwick sheep class and collect the

trophy given by Bob Ervine in memory of his late wife Joanne. Well done Frank.

One of the things we try to do at Bentham Show is encourage the next generation of farmers, and this is reflected in the good level of entries we receive both in the cattle and sheep sections. To add to this Burton YFC have introduced a judging competition which this year involved tups, finished lambs, photos and cakes. I think only the young farmers could organise such a diverse range of exhibits and make it work so well.

The handicraft section continues to be well supported by exhibitors both near and far, including decorated bunting and the ever popular men only baking class to name just a couple.

Walking round the show it was obvious the rainy start to the day did not dampen the mood of exhibitors or visitors alike. As much of the show is now under cover and weatherproof. The atmosphere was superb and was much commented on.

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from 18th Oct to 1st Nov

HORROR FANCY DRESS - SAT 25TH

OCTOBER

Music from Heather Dee & music quiz

Prizes for scariest costumes!

Kids judged at 3.30pm, adults at 10.45pm

Quiz night every Wed from 9.20pm

Live music every Sat from 9.30pm

Like us on Facebook for updates

every week on what’s coming up!

Community Dance @ High Bentham Town Hall

Contemporary Ballet Mon, 10:00-11:00am (Adults)

A great way to exercise: tone, stretch & im-prove posture. £5

Mature Movers –Tues,10:00-11:00am A fun & friendly Contemporary Dance class

(55yrs+) £5

In Partnership with

@ Wray Institute - Tuesdays Move Breakers – 8-12yrs – 5-6pm - £4 Contemporary, Creative & Urban styles

Dance Fit! – Adults – 7-8pm - £5 A fun & energetic way to keep fit!

For further details, T: 07896133716 E: zanna_dennis@hotmail.com

www.zannasdance.org No classes in school holidays

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As usual our secretary, Val, keeps the show on the road. She does a huge amount of work, much of which is unseen by most of us. Thank you Val.

So, if you were visiting

the show or showing live-

stock, vintage machin-

ery, or involved in any of

the huge numbers of

handicrafts and horticul-

ture. Or if you were good

enough to lend your ex-

pertise in the judging

department, give your

time to help steward, col-

lect subscriptions, subscribe to the show,

sponsor classes, be a gatekeeper or if you

were one of the many volunteers involved

in moving tables and chairs into the mart

and then back out again after the show. –

Thank you all very much!

The photograph above, by Val Lawson, shows the overall champion sheep at Bentham Show, Dalebred Ewe with David Wilson of Crimple Head Farm, Beckwithshaw.

2 Tons Good Sound

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£500 per Ton, Crated

Surplus to requirements,

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Ask for Frank or Paul

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Learn useful movements and techniques

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October 16, 23, 30, Nov 6 2014

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Churches Together: Being Connected By Revd. Bryan Yardy (Bentham Methodist Church, and Chair of Churches Together in Bentham) Unless you live on a different planet you will have noticed a new craze that’s cap-tured the imagination of our children and young people. I’m talking about loom bands of course. With so much high-tech gadgetry at their fingertips, it's hard to be-lieve children born in the digital era can be so captivated by such a simple toy. In case you don’t know, hundreds of tiny coloured elastic bands are woven over your fingers or a loom to make bracelets or other inven-tive creations. Although each elastic band is only the size of a 5p piece they are ingen-iously linked together to create something bigger and of worth – the only limitation being your imagination. Mind you, I bet some parents may be fed up vacuuming the little blighters from under the sofa.

Well, I think that this latest craze can give inspiration for other areas of our lives. When you think about living in a rural community like Bentham we are all made up of different individuals with different outlooks on life. But there are many things we do together that create a unique web of connections to form an integrated commu-nity. University boffins call this ‘community cohesion,’ and we have it in abundance in Bentham. The Bowling Club, WI, Age Concern, Churches Together, Ben-tham Youth Café, Friends of Bentham Sta-tion, We Are Bentham, Goodenber Road Play Area, Bentham Agricultural Society… all help to create stronger links and com-munity cohesion. Communities are not made up of one person but many individu-als who are prepared to contribute to some-thing bigger than themselves, thus creating something of value and worth – just like those clever loom bands.

On Sunday 5th October, 6pm there will be a special Community Celebration

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B & C. E. ARMSTRONG 17 Main Street, Bentham 64871 Visit us online at: www.bcearmstrong.co.uk

Special offers on shed & fence paint

Keys cut in store while you wait

Leyland Paint mixed

Great offers on compost

FREE LOCAL DELIVERY

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backs, necks and acupuncture. AXA, AVIVA, BUPA authorised clinic

established 1998

Phone 015242 62216 www.benthamphysio.co.uk

Service at Bentham Methodist Church. Children from the primary school will be taking part in the service and the theme will be ‘Being Connected.’ Using all-age interaction we will be celebrating our com-munity life together, exploring how links become stronger and also praying for the various community groups in Bentham. Whether you represent yourself or a local organisation – a warm welcome will be extended to all.

TEMPTATIONS CRAFT BOUTIQUE 31 Main Street, Bentham

Tel: 015242 61868 www.temptationsbentham.co.uk

Knitting and Crochet Classes Have started again

Every Tuesday 6.30 – 8.30 £4 per session –

no need to book just come along to the shop.

All levels welcome including beginners

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Time Out Just For You By Sarah Wiltshire How often do you create time just for you? The demands upon us often make it difficult to do just that. Yet being able to take some time out to relax, de-stress, and focus upon what really matters, can be just as important as rushing about and ‘doing’.

As a holistic therapist I know the impor-tance of bringing balance into all aspects of our lives. For myself, I’ve been accessing alternative approaches for many years and feel more energised, calm and able to live a richer life as a consequence. That’s why I have created a nine week class covering how to relax your body, calm your mind and create more choice for yourself.

Running on Tuesdays from the 7th Oc-tober (10.00-11.00am) - at Sole to Soul. Grasmere Drive, High Bentham - the classes will give you simple ways to re-lease tension in your body, relax your mind and focus on what really matters, supporting you into greater balance and helping you to stay there.

With a maximum of 8 people per class, there will be an opportunity to focus on your own issues and receive support, if you wish to share with the class. Although sharing is not obligatory, previous partici-pants have found this helpful, and it aids in tailoring classes to the needs of those attending.

Join me for a free introductory session

on 7th October and then a further 9 weekly sessions. Classes will run through until 16th December, with a break for half-term (28th October). £50 for all 9 classes or £7.50 pay as you go.

I look forward to seeing you.

Find out more by contacting me on 07794 112172, by email sarah@pathways tochange.co.uk, or via www.pathwaysto change.co.uk.

Tasty Harvest By Gillian Cowburn

Country Harvest at Ingleton will host a special pre-Christmas tasting evening – The 12 Plates of Christmas - on Thursday, November 6th, from 7pm, when guests will eat and drink their way through a feast of festive goodies.

There will be an opportunity to sample a delicious selection of cheeses, for exam-ple, indulgent chocolates, traditional fes-tive meats, chutneys, cutting pies and party puds, plus wine and local ales.

Each tasting plate will also be accompa-nied by a set of tasting notes as a shopping aide-memoire.

“At Christmas, we do ‘choice’ with a capital C,” said PR and Marketing Man-ager Gillian Cowburn. “We thought cus-tomers would simply jump at the chance to try some of it beforehand.”

Tickets for the event cost £20 each; book a table for four and save £5 (ie: £75 for four people).

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Attack On Titan By Hajime Isayama Teen Book Review By Imogen Henshaw

“Attack on Titan” is an ongoing manga series by artist Hajime Isayama. For those of you that have no idea what 'manga' means, it is the Japanese style of comic book, which is mostly read from back-to-front and right-to-left. Although it can be quite confusing at first, once you get used to it it's quite easy to read. Most mangas have quite a few volumes and Attack on Titan is no exception with 11 volumes so far and an estimated 20 in total before the series is finished. Also, just to confuse you even more, Attack on Titan is also an anime, which is an animated style of manga (e.g. a TV series or a movie). The Attack on Titan anime only has one series so far, which follows the manga from vol-umes 1-8 (although there are some differ-ences). Attack on Titan follows the series

protagonist Eren Yeager as he struggles to survive in a world dominated by Titans.

'And on that day the human race remem-bered the terror of being dominated by them and the shame of being held captive in a bird-cage.'

For years what has remained of human-ity has lived safe inside walls protected from the threat of the Titans, gigantic hu-manoid creatures whose only purpose is to consume humanity. But one day a Titan appears taller then any before. In that one instant the wall is destroyed along with humanity’s only chance of safety. In that one moment Eren's peaceful life is turned upside down and he must fight to stay alive. In order to stay alive Eren, along with his sister Mikasa and his friend Armin, join the Survey Corps, an elite group of personnel whose mission is to go outside the walls to find out more about the Titans and how to wipe them out. The path ahead has never been more danger-ous and Eren is about to discover things he though could never happen...

I really love the books so far and I would definitely recommend them (and the anime) to everyone. It does get pretty gory at times though (which is probably why I really like it!) but it can be quite off-putting for some people. If you liked this book, and could work out how to read it, then some other good mangas I would recommend are: Death Note by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata; Fullmetal Alche-mist by Hiromu Arakawa; and Blue Exor-sist by Kazue Katō.

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Dales Diary By Nick Oldham

Radio Feature The Yorkshire Dales National Park will

be highlighted in a new series on national radio later this month. Celebrity presenter Clare Balding spent a day with Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority staff as she walked a section of the Dales Way from Bolton Abbey to Burnsall Bridge for the BBC Radio 4 series ‘Ramblings’.

Thanks To Volunteers Volunteers are lending a huge helping

hand to the job of keeping the Yorkshire Dales National Park in tip top condition. This year marks the 50th anniversary of vol-unteering here. In the past year alone, vol-unteers have done an amazing 6,129 days of work. Dales Volunteer Nick Berry said: “Volunteering with the Yorkshire Dales National Park is fun and rewarding. After 15 years or so of being a Dales Volunteer, I still enjoy the activities – everything from patrol duties of popular walking routes and

upland landscaping of footpaths to replac-ing stiles and talking to visitors and resi-dents. “

Access Forum Needs New Members There are eight vacancies on the inde-

pendent Yorkshire Dales Access Forum, which provides guidance and advice on ways to improve and manage public access and opportunities for open-air recreation in this beautiful landscape. The deadline for applications is November 7th. If you are interested, contact us on 01969 652363.

B & W FUNERALS

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Weekly: Victoria Institute, Low Bentham

Mondays 6.15-7.45pm

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Thursdays 9-10am

ALL WELCOME. FIRST SESSION FREE

Pop in and see if it is for you

Orders now being taken for

GALLABER LAMB Locally Bred and Reared

Half lambs available vac packed &

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Sedgwick at Gallaber Farm Burton in Lonsdale

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Bentham People Page

Personal Thanks

Clifford and Andrew Murphy would like to thank everyone who helped them while Eileen was in hospital, and gave their com-miserations, sent cards or attended the funeral. Their kindness and sympathy was greatly appreciated. Thanks also to Father Boylan for a beautiful service and to Jimmy Macdonald for his unfailing cour-tesy and efficiency.

The Bentham News Committee was sad-dened to hear of the death of Paul How-ard, a BN deliverer for many years, and we send our condolences to his family and friends.

Staveley. Phyllis and family would like to thank all relatives, friends and neighbours for their cards, messages of sympathy and kind thoughts received on the sad loss of George.

Charity Thanks

Our readers will have noticed the won-derful photograph of the flower arrange-ment on the back cover of the Septem-ber BN. Many people were involved in this very successful World War One presen-tation, including the ladies at the church who arranged the flowers, the people who bought the flowers, Flowerfields for the cut flowers, Low Bentham WI, High Ben-tham WI, all those who made tea and baked cakes, stewards on the door and in the car park, and finally David and Judith Johnson who presented the exhibition. We have also been asked to mention that Michael Marshall paid for the floral ar-rangement in memory of a family mem-ber. Thank you to all who contributed to this event.

Bentham and District Pet Rescue would like to thank all who came to the coffee morning in Bentham Town Hall, at which the generous sum of £376 was raised.

Settle and Bentham MS Society would like to thank the kind people of Bentham, Ingleton and Settle for all their support at their three fund raising events held in 2014. Ingleton Jumble sale raised £602, Booths Collection in Settle raised £352, Bentham Coffee morning raised £336. Monies raised are used to support people locally with MS and we also send £1,000 per year to headquarters towards re-searching a cure for this debilitating disease.

Medical Aid for Palestinians: Thanks to everyone who contributed to the £340 we collected in Bentham and Settle to help with drugs and equipment for those injured during the summer attack on Gaza.

Wanted

Volunteers wanted. Bentham Bonfire can only happen with the generous support of volunteers who help us steward and sell tickets on the evening of the event. If you are able to help out this year please contact Anna Miller on 61907 or Lewis Yuill on 63190 or email

benthambonfire@gmail.com. Thank you.

For Sale

21inch Dell Inspiron touch screen com-puter. Windows 7, Excel, Powerpoint, Mi-crosoft Office and other programmes. In very good condition. Purchased in June 2011. £200 Tel: 62251.

If you would like to put an announcement for a wedding, birthday or

thanks on our People Page, you can take it to Chris at The Gallery

on Station Road, email us on benthamnews@outlook.com

or call Alice on 61889. It’s a great way of getting your important

message out to the whole community. Eve-ryone reads the People Page. After all, you’re reading it now!

10p per word for announcements 20p per word for advertisements

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Square Dance Club By Peter Silvester We dance every Monday at The Cen-tre@Halton, at 7-30pm, and on 6th and 13th October we are offering free taster sessions for new dancers. We last recruited two years ago so don’t miss this opportu-nity to join in the fun.

For more information contact Peter on 01524 771415, Sheila on 01524 411439, or email us at oceanwavers@hotmail.co.uk.

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EXP.

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A 12 DAY COACH HOLIDAY

27th. July — 7th. August 2015 Based at the 4*Hotel Arlburg 3 min. from town

centre. Dover –Calais Ferry

2 Overnight stops each way.

4 Excursions included in the price.

£855.00 based on two sharing Single £955.00 We use an Executive Coach Supplied by Bibby’s

of Ingleton. There is no overnight travel.

For more information please contact

Susan Adams 015242 61182

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High Bentham School By Catherine Boocock, Head teacher I would like to extend a warm welcome to everyone in this new academic year, which will see the school move to our new single storey premises, incorporating a Commu-nity Room.

During the school holidays, Miss Denby, our Class Two teacher, married James, to become Mrs Harrison, whilst Miss Murphy married Kyle to become Mrs McGregor. Congratulations to both lovely cou-ples, and also welcome to Miss Pearson, our new class four teacher.

Additionally, Mr Norris, the former head-teacher of Richard Thornton’s School in Burton-in-Lonsdale, will be coming into High Bentham School on Tuesdays and Wednesdays for next term to help support teaching staff with intervention work, musi-cal productions, gifted and talented groups and much, much more. We look forward to having him here.

Mrs Steele, our Nursery Teacher, did what many would not even think about, let alone attempt, taking the Nursery Children on the rampage around Ingleton Play Park during the last week of term. Parents please be assured that all appropriate risk assess-ments were in place, and all children were returned safe and sound, although Mrs Steele and Caroline did appear to look a little bedraggled upon their return! There are places still available in our Nursery. If you are interested please call 015242 61412.

The start of the new academic year will see swimming lessons for Class Three and no doubt we will soon get ‘signed’ up for other inter-county and cluster sporting events over the forthcoming weeks.

Congratulations also go to our new Head Boy and Head Girl, Travis Taylor and Evie Slinger.

I hope that many of you managed to come along and watch last year’s end of year production “The Magic Telescope”. Thank you to our wonderful PTFA, who provided the refreshments – even though

the weather was threatening. Our PTFA are always busy organising events, and school would not be able to subsidise many trips without their continued support. As I am sure readers will recall, unfortunately we had to cancel our annual Summer Fair this year. However, we will be holding an Au-tumn Fair, the provisional date for which is Saturday 8th November. We would love the whole community to embrace what will become the final ‘Fair’ to be held at the old High Bentham School site. We hope to have a display ‘A Gallery through Time’, with photographs and memorable works of past and present children, not forgetting members of staff - a trip down memory lane for many. We want to celebrate our old school site, and awaken the memories the walls hold. If you have any old school pho-tographs (either individual or class), we would very much like to share these visual memories with the wider community and visitors to our Autumn Fair. Please contact Sally in the School Office on 015242 61412, who will arrange to take copies.

It is anticipated that we will be moving into the new school, which, following a Governors’ meeting and a subsequent unanimous vote by our Board, will be known as ‘Bentham Community Primary School’, during January 2015. Please come and see our wonderful new school and the modern educational facilities our commu-nity is lucky enough to benefit from at our ‘Spring Fair’, where everyone will be wel-come.

Finally, High Bentham School recently had a monitoring visit by the Local Author-ity. I am very pleased to be in the position to report that the outcome of this visit was more than positive, with teaching staff, school administration and Governors re-ceiving praise for their hard work, dedica-tion and excellent standards. Thank you to everyone for their continued support for their local school and of course our wonder-ful children, without whom there would be no school to celebrate.

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New Mother And Toddler Group By Jane Miller There is a new Mother and Toddler group starting up-stairs in Bentham Town Hall on Friday mornings between 9.30 and 11.00 called Little Stars.

It is a friendly group which aims to pro-vide a safe play environment for babies and toddlers whilst parents enjoy a chat with other parents. The children will be pro-vided with healthy snacks and the adults with tea, coffee and biscuits.

The cost will be £1.00 per family, so if you have small children why not give Lau-ren Green a ring on 015242 61152 to find out more information.

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Car Parking Charges By DCllr Lin Barrington As reported in the September edition of Bentham News, the topic of charging for parking at Grasmere Drive has been re-ferred to Craven District Council’s Select Committee. At its meeting on 10th Sep-tember, the Select Committee decided to consult North Yorkshire Highways and the Police before proceeding any further with its discussions.

LOGS LOGS LOGS

Firewood, Kindling Bags or Loads, Seasoned Logs.

Free Local Delivery Bentham Road, Ingleton.

Call David on Tel: 015242 41521

Mobile: 07713055404

Leonard Tyrer & Son Ltd

Joiners Established 1954

All types of joinery work undertaken

Grove Hill, Station Road, Bentham

Tel 015242 62333

07780788339

www.tyrersjoinery.co.uk

TOLL HOUSE COMPUTERS Repair, upgrades, servicing,

networking and security.

Virus & Spyware removal.

All work undertaken.

Reasonable prices.

No fix—No fee.

Call Martin on 015242 62605

Ruposhi Indian Restaurant & Take-Away, Fully Licensed

Taking Booking for Christmas now. Small and large parties accommodated for.

Open throughout Christmas and New Year. Christmas Day Booking Available.

Call in for further information. Opening hours:

Sun-Thurs 5:30pm—11pm, Fri & Sat 5:30pm—11:30pm

015242 63400

Tree Tops Forestry

Tree Surgeons & Arboricultural Consultants with over 40 years experience, we

undertake all aspects of tree surgery, surveys, planning advice and much more

In fact, all your tree care needs!

Contact Jonathan on:

01756 749626 / 07850 827322

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Shop Local – Why Not? By Richard Wilson I live in Lowgill, 3 miles from Bentham, but I do a lot of shopping here; it's friendly, quick and if you factor in travel costs, not expensive. If I could, I'd shop nowhere else; it would be a disaster if shops folded through lack of support, leaving us a deserted Main Street, and an unavoidable twenty-mile round trip to shop. But every 2 or 3 weeks I drive else-where to do a Big Shop. Why?

It boils down to the personal must-haves that I can't find in Bentham. To any-one else mine will seem ridiculous, but I expect we all have our own, so here goes! Trex; Clipper tea-bags; large packs of un-sweetened muesli; Green & Blacks plain cooking chocolate (not for cooking!); decaff fair-trade filter coffee; dog-food mixer; a favourite brand of oatcake. There are more, but you've sniggered enough al-ready.

Some of them are products that can be bought in Bentham in small packs, but I use so much that the price difference (4 small packs vs. 1 large pack) is enough to justify a trip to Bigsville to buy the big pack. I can't see the sense in stocking only small packs in a small town; it's not as if tea-bags have a short shelf-life.

As for shelf-space, I reckon that reduc-ing Bentham's choice of savoury snacks and fizzy drinks by 1% would free up enough for all my must-haves and more besides. Meanwhile it has to be the trips to Bigsville, and more carbon in the atmos-phere.

Speaking of which, we hear that there is now more than there has ever been since the Big Bang. The future isn't looking cool. Can we reduce greenhouse gas emissions in time to stop the Earth burning up? Nu-clear power is increasingly portrayed as part of the answer. It's zero-carbon, and capable of reliably generating huge amounts of electricity. But is it Green? Is it

safe?

BEST (Bentham Environmentally Sus-tainable Town) will be hosting a short presentation, then discussion of these questions at its first Green Café of the au-tumn, 8pm on Tuesday 21st October at Looking Well, King Street. Join us for cof-fee, cake and conversation! For more on BEST, greenbentham.org.uk or phone 63399.

Fruit & veg, wholefoods and eggs 20% off cheese on Tuesdays

Longley farm cream and yoghurts. English Lakes Ice cream

Big range of Hawkshead Relish Jars Flowers, plants & gifts

Tel: 015242 61904

John Parker

For All Your Agricultural Building And Groundwork Needs.

Gowbarrow, Low Bentham Road

07964239207 Jp_agriwok@outlook.com

All Concrete Aspects & Hard Landscaping

Bentham Balti Indian Take Away Open 7 Days A Week.

5pm – 11pm

015242 62445 www.benthambalti.co.uk

Quality Food,

Fast and efficient service.

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Learn to Drive with

Sally Moore Your local, friendly

Instructor

£58 for the first 5 lessons.

Gift vouchers available.

Tel: 07960381491

CDC Seeks Feedback On Draft Local Plan By DCllr Lin Barrington

Craven District Council is seeking feedback from residents, businesses, local groups and other agencies on the latest draft of the Lo-cal Plan over the next six weeks starting from Monday 22nd September.

Craven District Council is required by law to draw up a local plan that sets out how land is to be used for housing, busi-ness, recreation and conservation; how the right development is to be achieved in the right location at the right time; and how sustainable development can be achieved overall. Once approved by the Secretary of State, the council uses the Local Plan when considering planning applications. The draft Craven Local Plan covers the area of Craven that falls outside the Yorkshire Dales Na-tional Park. It sets out likely future require-ments and preferred locations for housing and employment up to the year 2030.

The draft plan has been tailor-made to suit the area and its communities. Last year, Craven District Council organised a series of drop-in meetings with residents, businesses and organisations in the area covered in the plan. The Council asked for information and views about possible sites for develop-ment. This feedback gathered during these meetings has helped shape the current draft of the Local Plan. The current six-week con-sultation on the draft Local Plan is a chance for residents, businesses and organisations to help further improve the plan.

Craven District Councillor Richard Fos-ter, Lead Member for Affordable Housing and the Chair of the Spatial Planning Sub Committee, says: “We want a Local Plan that is right for Craven, one that helps us make the best possible decisions in the fu-ture about the use of land. Last year’s com-ments from residents, businesses and or-ganisations provided us with valuable infor-mation and views about possible sites for development. The draft Local Plan reflects the input we received. Now we are asking

people to have a say on the entire draft Lo-cal Plan before it enters the formal process for adoption by the Council. We are inter-ested to hear what people like about it, what needs changing, why it needs to be changed, and how. Any suggestions are welcome.”

The consultation Draft Local Plan can be viewed from Monday 22nd September onl ine a t www.cravendc.gov.uk/article/4455/New-Local-Plan. Hard copies will be available at Craven District Council Offices, Belle Vue Square, Broughton Road, Skipton BD23 1FJ. The Council Offices are open 8.45am to 5.15pm Monday to Thurs-day and 8.45am to 4.45pm on a Fri-day. Copies of the draft plan can also be viewed in libraries at Skipton, Cross Hills, Embsay, Settle, Bentham and Ingleton; and via the mobile library service.

To give feedback, please use the Feed-back Form. This is available online at www.cravendc.gov.uk/article/4455/New-Local-Plan, while hard copies can be col-lected from the Craven District Council Of-fices and libraries. Completed feedback forms can be sent to

localplan@cravendc.gov.uk or posted to the Council using the address above. The clos-ing date for comments is Monday 3rd No-vember 2014.

For further information or to discuss the Draft Local Plan, please contact a member of the Planning Policy Team on 01756 706472 or by emailing localplan@cravendc.gov.uk.

If anyone has difficulty getting hold of the draft plan or feedback forms they can let me know by phoning 61034 and I'll do my best to help.

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Auction Mart’s Grand Two-Day Sale By Shirley Brown. Photo, below, by Yvonne Capstick, of Richard Turner and Son, shows a pen of first prize lambs from K. A. Brown and Son of Asby Hall near Appleby.

The photo inside the back cover was taken during the Great Annual Two Day Show and Sale of 14,244 Gimmer Lambs at Ben-tham Auction Mart on 12th and 13th Sep-tember. The event attracted buyers from all over the United Kingdom, from Cornwall to Aberdeen. (Maybe it won’t be a United Kingdom by the time you read this?). On the Saturday the first pen of lambs sold through the ring went to Messrs. Ross of Aberdeenshire, and the last in the evening went to David James of Herefordshire. Sheep pens were set up in the mart’s car

park, and Lairgill became an overflow car park for jeeps and trailers. During the two day event there was also a charity hog roast, a prize show of North of England Mule Lambs and an evening of stock judg-ing. The town saw lots of additional activity in the shops, pubs, B&Bs and cafes as many of the farmers brought their families with them.

Auctioneer Stephen Dennis gave me this additional information: The Friday after-noon sale saw 2,000 Masham Gimmer Lambs (these are female lambs born this Spring sired by a Teeswater Ram out of a Dalesbred Ewe). The prize-winning pen was from J. M. Wilson and Son of Harro-gate which sold for a top price of £260 to Mr. M. Allen of Whitby. The sale average for the Masham lambs was £90.11, up 52p on the year.

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Then came the fourth Annual Show and Sale of Dales Mule Lambs (these are female lambs born this Spring sired by the Blue-faced Leicester Ram out of a Dalesbred Ewe). The top price of £135 was paid for the prize-winning pen of Alec Lambert of Bain-bridge. It was sold to the sale day judge, John Wright from Norfolk. The sale average for the Dales Mules was £90.67, up £3.99 on the year.

The Saturday sale, which for most peo-ple was the highlight of the weekend, saw over 10,000 North Country Mule Gimmer Lambs (this year’s female lambs sired by a Bluefaced Leicester Ram out of a Swaledale Ewe). The average price was £100.35, which was £2.23 up on the year. The top price of £285 was paid to Messrs. Brown and Son of Kirkby Stephen who sold to the judge, James Winters of Appleby. Second, third, fourth and fifth prizes all went to local buy-ers who are likely to take one crop of lambs from them and then sell them at next year’s sale of shearlings to farmers for future breeding. Neil and Linda Allen of Killing-

ton who sold to Zoey Mackie from Bucking-hamshire took second prize. Third went to Will and Jill Sedgley of Barbon selling to Bentham’s Graham Jackson. Fourth went to John Whitfield from Wray who sold to Ben-tham’s Chris Hewitt and fifth went to Colin Wallaby of Leyburn selling to Bentham’s Raymond Heigh.

During the sale, there was a welcome guest appearance from auctioneer Russell Steer, who learned his skills from the time he worked in Bentham. He now works in Devon, but was able to help out when Stephen Dennis lost his voice! There’s a lot of talking to be done to sell the thousands of lambs that passed through Bentham and District Farmers’ Auction Mart during these two days. They travelled to purchasers in Cornwall, Devon and Somerset together with farmers from the Midlands and South-ern Counties. This is a vibrant part of the life of our market town, something that we value and appreciate, and long may it con-tinue.

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Welcome To Our New Anglican And Catholic Priests Reverend Anne Russell See photo, near right, from Christ Church, Ken-dal

We have been here just a couple of weeks now and have already experienced the warmth of a Bentham welcome. And hav-ing come from a small farming village we are enjoying walking to the great array of shops and businesses, whether for picture hooks or fresh fruit. Our youngest son Micah (Yr 4) has settled into Miss Pear-son's class really well, and Evie (Yr 12) and Solly (yr 9) are catching the bus to con-tinue their studies at QES. My husband Robert travels each day to work at the Coop HQ in Manchester (and is looking for the best way to do this daily commute - advice please!). Rosie (aged 18) has just signed up for a pottery course and is start-ing a part-time job at the Sun Dial pub.

We are really looking forward to getting to know the community so please let me know your views and needs. You are wel-come to call by, and of course, come to a service at St John's or one of our local churches.

Seeking to serve you and those you

love, Rev'd Anne Russell, 1 Moon's Acre, Bentham (07528 572072 or 015242 61609).

Team Rector of the Ingleborough Team of Bentham, Burton-in-Lonsdale, Chapel-le-Dale, Ingleton and Thornton-in-Lonsdale.

Father Francis Smith See photo, far right, by Matthew G Lloyd

Hello, my name is Father Francis Smith and I am the new Roman Catholic Parish Priest for Bentham, (I am also Parish Priest in Settle). I was born in the beautiful town of Killarney in Co. Kerry, Ireland and the family moved to England when I was very young. I spent most of my childhood in the south of England but eventually I ‘saw the light’ and moved north about 33 years ago.

I was ordained a Priest for the Diocese of Leeds in 1998 and then spent 5 years as an Assistant Priest in Wetherby followed by a 3 year period as Director of the Dioce-san Youth Retreat Centre in Ilkley. After this experience I was appointed as Parish Priest to a large parish in Bradford and now I am here in Bentham. I have had a wonderful welcome so far and am very much looking forward to discovering the area and getting to know the people more. I am very blessed to have been appointed to such a beautiful and picturesque part of the Diocese.

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A Local Christmas By We Are Bentham

No doubt some of you will be sat at home smugly with all of your Christmas presents already bought, but also no doubt there will be others part way through their list, or some who haven’t even started yet.

We appreciate you won’t be able to buy some items from your lists in Bentham, but there are plenty of great local shops here that need your support. We have shops full of beautiful gifts, children's clothes, cards and more. You can pick up wreaths to adorn your door, and fantastic food, meat and cheese for the festive table. Or, treat some-one you love to a bit of pampering, and pick up a voucher from the local hair and beauty salons?.

When you think about it, the range of gifts and services available in Bentham is amazing. So, why not save yourself the driv-ing, parking and crowds by trying Bentham first?

Late night shopping is on Wednesday 26th November, with special offers available on that night only. Late night shopping, and Santa is on Friday 5th December.

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Busy Month At Auction Mart With Annual Sales And Show

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It’s Show Time! Bentham Show was a brilliant success again this year as many people turned up to com-

pete, take part and watch. There were categories in cattle, sheep, poultry, horticulture,

and handicrafts, and lots of stalls and activities. Tyler Kelsall, above right, gave it all a big

thumbs up. Other happy visitors included R. Monk, above left, with his prize-winning

Apricot Call Duck. Whilst below, Kai and Lexi Harrison got hands-on with champion

Partridge Old English Game bird, pictured with owner, Craig Macdonald.

Photographs by Alice Ellwood.