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  Businesses in Harrogate have voted against plans to introduce a new Accommodation Business Improvement District, known as an ABID.

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  A Northern conductor who once painted for the King has opened an art gallery at Knaresborough station.

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• Council chiefs deny claims of conspiracy to remove committee chair

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