Tinsel tractor run returns to Ripon and Boroughbridge

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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 and Brian Chandler.

Eighteen tractors took part in last year’s event, which raised £1,640 for charity.

The Ripon tinsel tractor group expects 35 tractors to participate this year and hopes to generate £2,000 for Harrogate-based Yorkshire Cancer Research.

The tractors, decorated in tinsel, will start to arrive at garden centre and café F Tate & Sons on Studley Road, near Ripon, from 1pm on Saturday, December 7 and leave at 3pm.

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 passing Ripon racecourse and heading up Allhallowgate and doing a couple of loops of the Market Square before parking on the square at 6.15pm.

There will be a prize for the best-dressed tractor.