WALKING FESTIVAL: The Settle-Carlisle walking festival will take place from Tuesday, April 30 until Bank Holiday Monday, May 6.

A varied programme of walks, talks and music includes two walks in Wensleydale on Friday, May 3. Both walks to Hawes, one six miles and the other 10 miles, start from Garsdale station at 10.30.

For more information visit www.ride2stride.org.uk or call 01969-650349.

GHOST NIGHT: A ghost hunting evening with séances, Ouija boards and table-tipping experiments will take place on Saturday, May 11, from 9pm until 3am.

The event is led by Chris Conway, will take participants through Ripon Police and Prison Museum, where staff claim to be too afraid to go into alone at night.

The event costs £49, with refreshments and buffet included.

For more information call 0843-289-1215 or visit www.simplyghostnights.co.uk.

FOLK CONCERT: Singing and song-writing duo Fiona Lander and Paul Mason – Landermason – will perform at Reeth Memorial Hall on Friday, May 10 at 8pm.

Between them the duo, from Northumberland, play guitar, piano, whistles, sax, clarinet and recorder, and their style combines traditional and contemporary folk with jazz.

Support is by a young folk trio Horizontal Sunday on fiddles, melodeon and clarsach.

Tickets cost £8 in advance, £10 on the door, and under 16s half price. Contact John Little 01748-884759.

TREE COUNCIL: Scorton Parish Council has planted a horse chestnut tree in the village with funds from the Tree Council as part of its Jubilee Diamond Trees project.

The village selected a horse chestnut tree so children can collect their conkers in the future.

The 1st Brompton on Swale Scout Group helped to plant the tree along with some daffodils which they planted around the tree.

DANCE COMPETITION: Richmond School’s Breakin’ Point dance company came out on top of a dance competition in Liverpool for British Red Cross.

Dance teacher Nicola Holroyd said the group has been rehearsing since January and came first in the heats on Sunday, April 21 and will now go through to the semi-finals in Stoke-on-Trent on Saturday, June 29 with the hope of succeeding to the national finals at the o2 Arena in London.

Miss Holroyd said: “The group made me very proud and they communicated the refugee theme really well – I wish them the best of luck.”

LITTER PICK: Colburn councillors and residents collected 15 bags of rubbish after a litter-pick on Saturday, April 20.

Councillors Lynn Nassau, Kevin McCready, Angie Dale and Helen Grant, along with Juna O’Connor and youngsters Maddie Dale and Marcus Durkin, picked up litter from woodland on Catterick Road, Colburn.

They hope to continue litter picking on a more regular basis throughout the town with the help of residents.

Coun Grant said: “The number of bottles was astonishing.

“The whole area looks litter free now despite some ingrained ancient litter that just won’t budge.”