An 89-year-old local billiards legend played his last ever league match last night. Peter Chadwick, from Pateley Bridge, has played billiards for over 70 years. He started in 1951 aged 16 when a...
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Pateley man, 89, plays final billiards match after 73 years
An 89-year-old local billiards legend played his last ever league match last night. Peter Chadwick, from Pateley Bridge, has played billiards for over 70 years. He started in 1951 aged 16 when a local player took him under his wing. A few years later Mr Chadwick began...
Last call for entries to Knaresborough Bed Race
Entries to Knaresborough’s biggest annual spectacle are set to close soon. The Great Knaresborough Bed Race is a highlight of the town’s summer. It sees 630 people in 90 teams, each with six runners and a passenger, complete a 2.4-mile course through Knaresborough's...
The pub entrepreneur putting Boroughbridge on the map
Standing in one of his Boroughbridge pubs after the first covid lockdown had been announced, Simon Wade had a fleeting moment of negativity. He recalls thinking, ‘What’s going to happen now?’, before he rallied and told himself to change his mindset. “I thought,...
Ripon para swimmer, 12, wins 20 medals in a year
A 12-year-old Harrogate district para swimmer won an impressive 20 medals last year and has just competed in a world class swimming series. Sid Roskilly, who is from Marton-le-Moor, between Boroughbridge and Ripon, has achondroplasia, which is a form or dwarfism. He...
‘It’s just mind over matter’ — meet the Harrogate ice swimming champions
Two ice swimming champions from Harrogate have talked about what drives them to succeed after plunging into one degree waters in Romania for the first ever European Ice Swimming Championship. More than 300 athletes from 27 countries competed, including Harrogate...
Relief for Ripon teenagers as access to skatepark remains open
Teenagers in Ripon have said they are glad they can continue using the city's skatepark during the summer holidays. While large areas of the Camp Close site on Knaresborough Road have been fenced off for safety reasons, access to the skatepark and basketball court...
Harrogate Spa Tennis Club unveils new pavilion and padel courts
Harrogate Spa Tennis Club has unveiled brand-new facilities that it says bring it a major step closer to achieving its aim of becoming a centre of excellence for sport. The club already had six tennis courts, but now has a larger pavilion with shop, Break Point café,...
Harrogate man to skateboard 300 miles to support seriously ill mother
A Harrogate plasterer is set to skateboard to his former home in Barry Island to raise money to help his mother. Daniel Katchi's mum, who is 50, was diagnosed with motor neurone disease last October after experiencing speech problems and loss of mobility in her arm....
Last chance for Knaresborough Golf Club’s incredible taster offer
This story is sponsored by Knaresborough Golf Club. One of the Harrogate district’s best golf clubs is urging newcomers to take up its winter taster membership before an expected influx of new members in the spring. Throughout the winter, Knaresborough Golf Club has...
Popularity of Harrogate’s premium indoor padel tennis centre continues to ‘surge’
This story is sponsored by Surge Padel. The UK's largest premium indoor padel tennis centre has 'surged' in popularity, with players travelling from across the country for games. Based at Harrogate's Hornbeam Park, Surge Padel has grown to 1,400 members, with its six...
Harrogate’s affordable boutique gym goes from strength-to-strength
This story is sponsored by Coach. Harrogate's £1.5m Coach gym is continuing to go from strength-to-strength following its launch in the town a year ago. The affordable boutique gym boasts more than 200 pieces of state-of-the art equipment, as well as over 200...
Why Harrogate’s Stuart Perrin set up the UK’s first affordable boutique gym
This story is sponsored by Coach. Join the Fitness Revolution with Coach Gyms Harrogate After operating a health and fitness setting in Harrogate years ago, Stuart Perrin spotted a gap in the market for a luxury gym that doesn't cost the earth. The former resident of...
