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  • Ashlands choir strike the right note to reach finals

    PUPILS from Ashlands Primary School are hitting the right notes and singing their way to success. The Ilkley school choir was the only one from Wharfedale to win a place in the finals of a district-wide singing competition organised by Bradford Theatres

  • Guiseley pupils aim for blanket coverage

    Whoever said knitting was going out of fashion hadn’t bargained for staff and students at Guiseley School who are working away at the traditional craft to help African Aids orphans. The school’s very own knitting circle meets at lunchtime to create squares

  • Moorfield's hat trick for Haiti

    FUNDRAISING efforts for the devastated island of Haiti are still taking place as the death toll continues to rise. Pupils and staff at Moorfield School for Girls in Ilkley chose an array of colourful, crazy hats to wear for a day and baked

  • Producer of Guiseley production was in original Bugsy Malone

    He was 13 when he left his Yorkshire home to figure in one of the landmark movies of the 1970s. Michael Kirkby spent 14 months filming Bugsy Malone at Pinewood Studios in London. Now, 34 years after the film was released, the song and dance man has

  • Opera North’s Ruddigore at Leeds Grand Theatre

    The picturesque Cornish village of Rederring is surely the only place on earth to have its own troupe of professional bridesmaids. Add to this delightful piece of nonsense the simpering Rose Maybud, a village maiden inseparable from her little book

  • Irregular attendance is discussed by Ilkley School Board

    1885 AT the Ilkley School Board meeting, attention was drawn to irregular attendance at the national schools and on the names of parents whose children attended irregularly coming up, it transpired that in more cases than one the children had presented

  • School has no Plan B if its current scheme is rejected

    Congratulations are due to the parish council officers for the excellent way in which they conducted Last Thurday’s public meeting on the IGS rebuild proposals. The students from the school who spoke (not always in favour of the new scheme) are

  • The big planning divide

    The new year has brought a peculiar form of planning blight to Ilkley. A flurry of applications regarding large developments in the town has brought uncertainty to the future of its landscape and divided public opinion. Parents, teachers and residents

  • Parish Council rejects IGS rebuild plan

    A vision to build a £30 million superschool on green belt land in Ben Rhydding has stumbled at the first planning hurdle. Ilkley Parish Council’s plans committee has recommended that outline planning permission for a new £30 million Ilkley Grammar School

  • Parish Council leader under fire

    Parish council leader Alan Morrell has been accused of damaging good working relationships between Brad-ford and Ilkley. The swift reaction follows the councillor’s decision to switch from Conservative to Independent for the remaining months

  • Ilkley church gives its heart to the public

    Church-goers will be giving their hearts away to shoppers in the run-up to Valentine’s Day as part of an ongoing Love Ilkley campaign. Visitors to the town centre on Saturday will receive a red, foil-covered chocolate heart, tagged with a message of

  • Leeds GymFest success for Ilkley girls

    Fourteen gymnasts from Ilkley Gym Club made an impressive debut at the City of Leeds GymFest. Groups travelled from as far as London, Ireland and Scotland to take part in the display, which was held at Dewsbury Sports Centre. The Ilkley girls performed

  • Rhydding beat students to stay top

    Newcastle University 2 Ben Rhydding 4 BEN Rhydding survived a scare at Newcastle as they found themselves two goals down at half- time but a remarkable turn around in the second -half, aided to a degree by Newcastle pressing the self destruct button

  • Morpeth power to victory over Ilkley

    Morpeth 21 Ilkley 0 Ilkley made the long trek north to Morpeth for a game they must have harboured hopes of winning. After a 13-13 draw at Stack’s Field early in the season Ilkley knew they were capable of beating their North-East opponents but sadly

  • Tesco to appeal

    Tesco has lodged an appeal against the decision to block plans for a new supermarket in Ilkley – six months after proposals were unanimously thrown out. A public inquiry will now be held into the decision by Bradford planners, who turned down

  • Rhydding Ladies dedicate win to their former captain

    Leeds University 0 Ben Rhydding Ladies 2nds 1 Ben Rhydding Ladies Hockey Club were stunned last week with the tragic and sudden passing of Dot Mainwaring, club stalwart for many years and a recent captain of Ben Rhydding Seconds. Her clubmates dedicated