Harrogate Islamic Association wants to convert the former Home Guard club in Harrogate into a mosque. Police suggest its plans for the building include external lighting, iron railings, laminated glass, CCTV and intruder alarms due to the threat of racially or religiously aggravated attacks.
Religion
Police recommend extra security for Harrogate mosque
Police have told the Muslim organisation planning to open the Harrogate district's first mosque to include extra security measures due to safety fears. Harrogate Islamic Association has applied for planning permission to convert the former Home Guard club on the...
Harrogate Islamic Association hopes to see off anti-mosque campaign
Harrogate Islamic Association says Harrogate is a welcoming place and predicts the campaign against its plans to convert the former Home Guard club (pictured) into the town’s first mosque will backfire. Leaflets opposing the scheme have been posted through doors.
More than 1,500 attend New Year’s event in Ripon
Planned New year’s eve events across the world were cancelled because of covid fears, but in Ripon, a large crowd gathered to join in public celebrations.
Pilgrims brave the elements for Ripon’s Boxing Day walk
More than 100 people walked four miles from the cathedral to Fountains Abbey, where they sang carols, in a Boxing Day tradition that dates back 45 years.
Ripon’s Boxing Day pilgrimage takes place tomorrow
More than 1,000 people usually take part in the traditional Boxing Day pilgrimage from Ripon Cathedral to Fountains Abbey but last year’s four-mile walk was cancelled due to covid.
Christmas message from the Dean of Ripon
The Very Reverend John Dobson, Dean of Ripon, has compiled a Christmas message for the Stray Ferret in which he explains how faith creates hope in difficult times.
Vandals wreck outdoor nativity scene near Boroughbridge
The wise men and other items were left scattered around the churchyard at St John’s in Minskip in a ‘wanton and mindless’ act of vandalism this morning.
Ripon Cathedral’s 1350 programme receives £60,000 boost
A programme that will enable more people to engage with and enjoy the heritage of Ripon Cathedral in its 1350th anniversary year, has been awarded lottery funding.
200 people sign petition to save Harrogate M&S cafe
Signatories say the cafe is a meeting place for parents and children before and after school, as well as for older people, and urges the retailer to reconsider plans to close it as part of expansion plans for the site.
Academy status could lead to investment in Harrogate school, says head
Steve Mort, headteacher of St John Fisher Catholic High School, says pupils and parents would notice little immediate change but there were long-term benefits of being part of a multi-academy trust directly funded by government rather than through North Yorkshire County Council.
Harrogate district churches urge people to light up their windows for Christmas
The churches are urging people to decorate their windows and display them alongside the the words ’The Light Shines John 1:5′. The displays are plotted onto a Google map and shared online so people can see them between December 12 and 19.
More than 4,000 gather for Ripon’s Remembrance Sunday
Ripon residents gathered in large numbers this morning to join service men and women and civic dignitaries as the city remembered the dead of two world wars and other conflicts
