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Stray Ferret Christmas Appeal: 'It’s made a big difference to both our lives'

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Stray Ferret Christmas Appeal: 'Henshaws is where I feel happy, creative and Christmassy!'

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Knaresborough bed race adopts swinging sixties theme for 60th year

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Readers' Letters: More traffic in Harrogate town centre is not the answer to congestion

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Editor’s Pick of the Week: Ripon pips Harrogate in Tesco war and Killinghall Borehole Water, anyone?

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Will Harrogate’s Christmas lights switch-on event ever return?

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Police confirm missing Great Ouseburn man found

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5 things revealed last night about this year's Harrogate Christmas Fayre

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