Parish councillors Harold Linley, 85, and Richard Watson 74, have stepped down from Allerston and Wilton council near Pickering after each serving 40 years.
Mr Linley was Allerston's village joiner, undertaker and builder, for four decades while Mr Watson spent his working years in farming. Both are renowned as breeders of collies. Mr Linley bred and showed rough collies, and had successes at Crufts, while Mr Watson still breeds border collies and trains them for sheep dog trials
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