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A tinsel tractor run around Ripon and Boroughbridge is to be held once again this year.
The event, which ends in Ripon Market Place, was organised for the first time last year by window cleaner and vintage tractor enthusiast Simon Dickinson.
Eighteen tractors took part in last year’s event, which raised £1,640 for charity.
Mr Dickinson expects 35 tractors to participate this year and hopes to generate £3,000 for Yorkshire Air Ambulance and Harrogate-based Yorkshire Cancer Research.
The tractors, decorated in tinsel, will leave garden centre and café F Tate & Sons on Studley Road, near Ripon, at 3pm on Saturday, December 7.
The plan is to arrive at Morrisons in Ripon at 3.15pm, Bishop Monkton at 3.50pm, Roecliffe at 4.20pm, Morrisons in Boroughbridge at 4.35pm, Boroughbridge at 5pm, Langthorpe at 5.20pm and Skelton at 5.35pm before passing Ripon Races at about 6.15pm and parking in the market.
Mr Dickinson, who also organises the Nidderdale Charity Tractor Run, which will set off from Kirkby Malzeard on June 29 next year, said:
My brother-in-law has cancer and many of my customers have cancer. I’m just passionate about helping cancer research and the air ambulance. They are two services we might all need one day.
The start of last year's tinsel tractor run at Tate's.
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