Descent 295: Coming Soon
The next issue of Descent magazine is due out shortly. If you haven’t got a subscription, go to the link at the end of this ...
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Descent 294: A New Look
Cover: Geoff Yeadon in Frake’s Passage, Kingsdale, Yorkshire Dales. Photo: Mark Burkey Descent has a smart new cover style, with a new logo first spotted ...
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The 2023 BCRA Cave Science Symposium – 21st – 22nd October
The BCRA Cave Science Symposium and AGM is taking place on 21st and 22nd October 2023 in Leeds ...
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Save The Date: JRat Digging Award November 25th 2023
The 2023 JRat Digging Award presentation will take place in the Long Room of the Hunter’s Lodge Inn, Priddy, Somerset on Saturday 25th November. The ...
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Tratman Award for 2021: Rick Stanton takes the prize.
The publications of 2021 were particularly fine, both in quality and quantity, causing the shortlist for the Tratman Award to be much longer than ...
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Access restored to Singing River Mine, Shipham, Mendip
Access has been restored to a popular Mendip mine. The Council of Southern Caving Clubs (CSCC) has negotiated a new access agreement to Singing River ...
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Otter Hole – A Unique Cave Controlled by the Moon and Tide.
Paul Taylor's Otter Hole Film is now available on a USB Memory Stick. This comes complete with the "short version" of the film which has ...
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Cave and Karst Science Vol 50 No 2: Caves, Karst, Archaeology and a Great Scientist
There are five main papers, two short Forum pieces and a Photo Feature in the latest edition of the BCRA's Cave and Karst Science, but ...
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Charterhouse goes Paperless.
The Charterhouse Caving Co. Ltd. has gone paperless, exchanging the old paper permits for new electronic ones. And they're free. Since the Dawn of Time ...
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The latest edition of the BCA newsletter is now available (October 2015). This is the first electronic only newsletter - paper copies will no longer ...
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Eurospeleo are tempting us to the Dales next year with Gavin Newman's film titled Eurospeleo'1. Does the "1" in the title suggest more films may follow? ...
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CRO attended Malham Cove to assist with the rescue of a twenty year old male climber with lower leg injuries, providing safety cover for paramedics and ...
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The team was called out by North Yorkshire Police after a dog was reported down one of the rock crevasses on Guisecliff. Paddy the spaniel ...
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NAMHO have released more details of their 2016 Conference. The 2016 NAMHO Conference is being hosted by the Mining Heritage Trust of Ireland on the ...
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Hosted by the Mining Heritage Trust of Ireland and (to be confirmed) takes place in Dublin 17th 19th June 2016 ...
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Andrew Hinde, the BCA Conservation Officer, has asked that attention is drawn to the CNCC’s new Digging Guidelines - How to get permission to dig ...
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From 13-20 August 2016 the European Speleological Federation meeting (‘Eurospeleo’) is coming to the Yorkshire Dales. The event is being jointly organised by BCA and ...
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