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Postal Dispute
Saturday 07 November 2009

During the industrial action by Postal Workers, we arranged to send all orders by courier. We hope that this service was helpful to our loyal customers. Both sides in the dispute seem to have at last seen sense, and have called off any further industrial action at least until after the festive season, so as of Monday 9th November our delivery system will revert to normal. Standard delivery of orders up to 5kg in weight will be sent by Royal Mail's Tracked Service (2-4 day delivery) Orders over 5kg or larger packages under 5kg, and urgent orders will be dispatched by courier. (Either APC or ParcelForce.) next day delivery.

REDUCTION IN VAT RATE
Sunday 30 November 2008

Our benevolent Chancellor has decided to reduce the standard rate of VAT from 17.5% to 15% from Monday 1st December. We will pass this saving on to our customers in full, and are currently working hard to alter prices on our websites. We anticipate that we will have completed this work within a few days. Please note that to give us sensible price points, we are rounding some prices up and some prices down, but overall the savings will be yours to take. Make the most of the next 13 months. VAT may never be so low again!

POSTING DATES FOR CHRISTMAS
Friday 07 November 2008

We will do our very best to get your Christmas orders to you on time, but please help us by ordering in plenty of time.

The last dates for postage for the UK are as follows:

Royal Mail Tracked Service (Standard postal delivery): Thursday 18th December.
First Class Post: Saturday 20th December. Next Day Special Delivery: Monday 22nd December.
Courier Delivery: Monday 22nd December.

For International deliveries

Airsure up to 2kg: Friday 12th. December.

If the info you need is not here, then please email us at info@three-peaks.co.uk

All the best for the festive season from all the team at Three-Peaks.co.uk

VIRTUAL GUIDE FOR DALES WALKERS
Monday 01 January 2007

Guided tour for Ribblehead walkers
Photo: settle-carlisle.co.uk

VISITORS wanting to blow off the cobwebs with a post Christmas walk can now explore the stunning scenery around a Yorkshire Dales attraction with their own personal tour guide - thanks to the latest technology.

The Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority (YDNPA) has teamed up with the Friends of the Settle-Carlisle Line to launch an audio trail around one of the most famous of Dales attractions - the Ribblehead Viaduct.

The Authority has funded the production of the trail while the Friends of the Settle-Carlisle Line have devised the route and contributed to the historical information about the building of the viaduct.

Karen Griffiths, the YDNPA's Interpretation Officer, said: "The Authority decided earlier this year to try to reduce the number of new interpretation panels - boards placed on site explaining the immediate surroundings - being installed in the National Park because of the visual impact they have on the environment.

"Instead, we were looking at other ways of helping visitors understand what they see around them and we decided to try virtual interpretation.

Friends of the Settle-Carlisle Line Walks Coordinator Ruth Evans added: "We were very keen to embrace this technology and Ribblehead is the ideal location - full of interest, spectacular scenery and a clear need for interpretation. The next logical step for us is to try to devise an i-pod commentary on the actual train journey between Settle and Carlisle."

The audio trail is part of a wider project to encourage people to come to the Ribblehead area by train or, if they have to use a car, to park in the designated parking areas and not damage the roadside verges.

The virtual tour can be downloaded free of charge on to an ipod or MP3 player from the Friends of the Settle-Carlisle Line website at http://www.settle-carlisle.com/ribbleheadtour/

FANTASTIC NEW PRODUCT FROM 'MEMORY MAP'
Saturday 06 May 2006

Memory Map have recently brought out this excellent value for money mapping software. It includes all the UK National Parks areas at Landranger scale of 1:50,000 plus 150 walking routes from Britain's most popular outdoor magazines: 'Country Walking' and 'Trail'

You can use this mapping software to plot routes, print out the map area you need. Print route cards, download routes to a compatible GPS unit, fly through the route in 3D, and much more

All this will cost you only £24.95 plus a very small postage charge. Easy to order on-line.

Please follow this link to view.

http://www.three-peaks.co.uk/acatalog/Memory_Map_Discoverer.html

DALES BRIDLEWAY OPENS - AT LAST
Thursday 18 August 2005

AFTER more than a decade of controversy, walkers, mountain bikers and horse riders will have a new, designated route to explore through the Yorkshire Dales from today (18 August, 2005) as the latest phase of the Pennine Bridleway National Trail is opened.

The trail will eventually cover about 350 miles from Derbyshire almost to the Scottish border, a riders' equivalent of the Pennine Way, and parts of it have already been completed in Derbyshire and Lancashire.

The Dales section, however, was held up by planning squabbles which started over ten years ago when a small number of residents in Upper Ribblesdale complained that an invasion of horses and their riders would spoil their peace and quiet.

Today will see the opening of the first ten miles of the Dales section of the trail, the so-called Settle Loop, which runs from Settle eastwards towards Malham. Eventually, the Dales section will cover 52 miles from Long Preston to Hell Gill Bridge on the Yorkshire/Cumbria border.

Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority (YDNPA) Chairman Carl Lis said: "This is a fantastic achievement. Today is the culmination of months of extremely hard work by the Countryside Agency and the national park authority.

"It is a major project that will eventually see the Pennine Bridleway stretching from north to south through the Yorkshire Dales National Park. The Loop will provide a boost to the local economy and another chance for people to explore the beautiful Dales."

RIGHT TO ROAM ACCESS ARRIVES IN THE DALES.
Thursday 02 June 2005

THE CONTROVERSIAL "right to roam" Act comes to the Yorkshire Dales National Park this weekend, throwing open large areas of land which previously were forbidden to walkers.

Although the new legislation has been bitterly opposed by some landowners and farmers who fear damage to walls, stiles and footpaths, the national park authority is throwing a party to inaugurate the new system.

Walkers will be able to step off the hundreds of miles of footpaths and bridleways and explore nearly 400 sq miles (1,022 sq kms) more access land which will be opened up when the Countryside and Rights of Way (CRoW) Act 2000 comes into force in the Upper North West and North East England on Saturday (May 28).

The new right of open access will be launched by the YDNPA in partnership with the Countryside Agency, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and English Nature at Ribblehead in the shadow of Yorkshire's famous Three Peaks - Ingleborough, Pen-y-ghent and Whernside.

Guests will include Rural Affairs, Landscape and Biodiversity Minister Jim Knight and mountaineer Doug Scott CBE, who was one of the first Britons to climb Everest.

They will be invited to experience the new right first-hand by taking part in a series of guided walks around the Ribblehead area, which includes the wonderful Ingleborough National Nature Reserve, famous for its special limestone geology and associated flora.

(With kind permission form Daelnet )

CLIMBERS BEWARE!
Saturday 12 February 2005

A major rockfall has occured on the main gritstone buttress of Penyghent, and has de-stabilised a large area of rock. The bottom half of the route 'Brass Monkey' (HVS) has disintegrated.

Please take great care if planning to climb in this area.