Market stallholders have lost their battle with Boots over the rent on their plot on the High Street setts, which they have run for six years.
A County Court judge, in Skipton, has found in favour of Boots despite a 5,000-name petition backing the Wilkinsons, who ran a plant stall.
Vincent Wilkinson and his wife Kath had stopped paying rent to Boots in 2007 after the national company failed to issue a licence.
But the fight was not over said Mr Wilkinson who has written to Defra seeking clarification of the bylaws relating to the 800 year-old market.
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