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This week, a Ripon man has announced he'll be running 330 miles in six days for charity next year, Knaresborough's town crier won a crying competition in Lancashire, and a former mayor of Ripon reported the current mayor of Ripon to the police for alleged fraud.
But the Stray Ferret reported on lots of other things besides, so how closely have you been following what's been going on this week?

The Ultimate rollercoaster at Lightwater Valley.
1. Lightwater Valley Family Adventure Park is under offer after being listed for sale for £3 million. It was once home to Europe's longest rollercoaster called the Ultimate. How long was it?
a) 6,573 ft
Nicola Shaw and Yorkshire Water's water pumping station at Darley Low Green.
2. Yorkshire Water has advised people in one small area of Nidderdale not to drink the tapwater, and chief executive Nicola Shaw has ordered staff to send a pallet of bottled water. More than 1,000 homes have been told to boil their tapwater before drinking it, but how many addresses are affected by the Do Not Drink advice?
a) 4
The damaged nets had apparently been swung on.
3. Volunteers were appalled when vandals damaged Ripon's remembrance displays of knitted poppies. The displays have become a much-loved feature of the city's annual remembrance events, but how many knitted poppies are there?
a) 2,400
A volunteer taking a water sample from one of the outfalls. Photo: YDRT.
4. Volunteers for a project coordinated by the Yorkshire Dales Rivers Trust have surveyed Oak Beck and Bilton Beck in Harrogate. Of the 64 outfalls (drainage pipes) identified, how many have been classed as polluting?
a) 29How well do you think you've done? You can find the answers here.
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