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• BGT finalist to headline Your Skipton stage at Christmas lights event

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• Warning over taxi drivers with criminal records getting licences from other authorities

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• Sales income means council-owned house builder is back in black

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• Anger as council refuses to issue key home-to-school transport maps

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• ‘Buzzing Skipton’ workshop to improve town centre

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