Senior Journalist
Tim Flanagan is an experienced journalist and communications professional, who has lived in the Harrogate district for all his working life. He was employed by the Ackrill Newspapers Group from 1977 until 1988 and in that time became chief reporter for the Harrogate Advertiser. Tim will have specific responsibility for covering Ripon where he now lives.
Ripon’s last remaining high street bank has closed until December 13 for “essential maintenance”. Diane Whelan (pictured), 86, was one of many disgruntled customers who arrived at the branch on the corner of High Skellgate and Westgate today to find it closed. A sign...
There's only a small distance between their old and new Ripon stores, but for Sam Huby and Theo Hiley it's a very big move. The joint owners of Bikemonger, which stocks Surly and Salsa off-road fat bikes and gravel bikes, set up business in 2019 in a retail unit...
North Yorkshire Council highway engineers and other workmen have been out in force in Ripon city centre today. Engineers started three days of trial works to discover what exactly lies beneath the surface of the Market Place East and West roads. Meanwhile, a council...
Campaigners fighting to save a veteran beech and 10 other mature trees from being felled on a public open green space in Ripon have received support from the Woodland Trust — the UK's largest woodland conservation charity. Between 12 noon and 1pm today, more than 60...
Summerbridge Players are going 'cuckoo' in a pantomime that promises to provide pre-Christmas fun for all the family. Four performances of Alice in Cuckoo Land will be staged at Dacre and Hartwith Village Hall in Dacre Banks, starting from November 30. Rev Alastair...
The owner of one of Ripon's smallest cafes, has been dealt a devastating blow caused by an act of mindless vandalism. Helen Slater, who has run the Cathedral View Cafe for six years, arrived at work this morning to discover that one of the windows at her Bedern Bank...
North Yorkshire Council highway engineers will be carrying out trial roadworks along both Market Place East and Market Place West in Ripon next week. When ongoing, between Monday and Wednesday, each road will be kept open but reduced to a single lane, meaning traffic...
The Ripon YMCA charity shop, which closed at short notice in September, will reopen in time for the Christmas trading period, Courtney Addison, the newly-appointed manager at the Marshall Way retail park store, told the Stray Ferret this morning: "We are working hard...
Campaigners fighting the proposed felling of a veteran beech and 10 other mature trees to make way for Ripon Cathedral's planned £6m annex will hold a peaceful protest at Minster Gardens on Saturday. The proposed development would include a song school, community...
There was laughter and tears at St Michael and all Angels' Church in Littlethorpe near Ripon this morning, as family and friends gathered to celebrate the remarkable life of Sylvia Grice, who died last month at the age of 90. Every seat in the village church, where...
Readers of two national newspapers along with Ripon residents and visitors have been reassured that the city's Market Square is not going to be ripped up and replaced with tarmac. On Saturday, in the wake of news North Yorkshire Council is going to spend £630,000 on...
