25 years ago: TV bosses were thinking a turning the Bradford district's most famous pub - Emmerdale's Woolpack - dry to stop actors and extras becoming "half cut" during filming. The pub's location was the Commercial in Esholt.

50 years ago: A circus clown was jailed for a year after admitting stealing a vehicle from a farm in Burley in Wharfedale and driving whilst disqualified. A court in Otley heard that the 21-year-old man was a "travelling showman with the habits of a magpie".

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