HERE are the latest announcements from our community news correspondent Alec Deary for Austwick.

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With the government’s national ‘Step’ Regulations progressively enabling more activities to restart, we are now gradually reintroducing services of worship in our churches.

Initially these are combined services to include everyone in the parishes of Clapham, Keasden, Austwick and Eldroth:

Sunday 27th June 7.00pm Lambing Service at Keasden New Burial Ground.

A celebration of lambing and of the beautiful new burial ground being created next to Keasden Church.

Austwick PTA: We are putting together a recipe book to raise much needed funds for our school. Full details are on the village website www.austwick.org.

Submissions are invited until June 18.

Austwick WI* At the first meeting since lockdown March 2020 Hester Cox, local artist from Hortin in Ribblesdale, gave an illustrated talk about her work as a print maker. Her inspiration for her work comes from her love of fell running and the Yorkshire Dales.

Throughout 2019 and 2020 she worked on a project with the Dales Countryside Museum in Hawes printing their extensive collection of wood engraving blocks created by Marie Hartley MBE founder of the museum.

The next meeting will be on July 8th and will be a garden party at Battle Hill. Please note the earlier start of 6pm.

Austwick Parish News: The current edition can be found on the link below or from the village website: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lLD4YaMwMxFiXWKeqE_O8NVJIZ8xsv8I/view?usp=sharing.

Cross Leigh Stores & Post Office & Austwick's village shop & Post Office will continue to support our wonderful local community in any way we can and deliver to the village and surrounding areas as quickly as possible, we are grateful for those who have chosen our services, enabling us to continue operating during such challenging times.

The shop and post office will maintain regular opening times with the two people at one time policy and urge customers to wear masks and use the hand sanitizers provided.

We are continuing to coordinate deliveries of prescriptions from Settle and Bentham surgeries. Thank you for all your continued support.

Our contact details for orders are - 01524251415 or email crossleighstores@outlook.com.

Thank you, stay safe and look forward to seeing you soon.

Government Guidelines* for national restrictions Craven: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/national-lockdown-stay-at-home.

We would hope and expect everyone to adhere to this information and help avoid Coronavirus19 spreading even though businesses and activities are being resumed.

We look forward to welcoming visitors to our village by the residents who are generally aware of their vulnerabilities.

As visitors arrive, we expect the “country code” to be observed, take your litter home, keep dogs on leads and do not allow them to wander into fields.

Car parking in the village is limited so please park with consideration including not parking vehicles on grass areas. Remember emergency services may need to gain entry throughout the village.