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  • Performing arts festival gets under way

    The 104th Wharfedale Festival of Performing Arts gets under way this weekend with competitive drama, speech and music classes coming to venues around Ilkley during the week-long event. The festival has proved to be a springboard for many young up-and-coming

  • Tremendous honour and a huge challenge - new MP

    I want to offer my most sincere thanks to the many Ilkley residents who took the time and trouble to support me at the ballot box at last week’s General Election. I also wish to make very clear my commitment to all the people of Keighley and Ilkley

  • Former mayor samples treats of centre he helped to create

    One of the key figures in the foundation of Ilkley’s Nell Bank outdoor education centre brought the youngest generation of his own family to an open day to see how the centre has developed. Former Lord Mayor of Bradford, Paul Hockney – the

  • Holiday romance leads to 60 years of marriage

    A couple who first met in Lancashire holiday resort Morecambe have toasted 60 years of married life. May and Geof Ridley, of Ghyll Mews, Ilkley, celebrated their diamond wedding anniversary with their family last Thursday, going out for a meal on the

  • Tools taken from locked vans

    Power tools and gas flue testing equipment were stolen from vans in Menston over the weekend. A Dewalt drill and a TESTO flue gas analyser were stolen from a securely locked Transit van parked in a pub car park on Bradford Road on Saturday afternoon.

  • Ilkley crimefighters want your help

    Residents are being urged to sign up for Ilkley’s Neighbourhood Watch as the scheme celebrates its silver anniversary. Police officers will be offering advice on setting up local networks at Ilkley’s South Hawkesworth Street car park today until 3pm,

  • 20mph speed limit bid turned down

    Bradford Council has been accused of waiting for an accident to happen after blocking pleas for 20mph limits around Ilkley’s schools. Parish councillors, students and parents are all calling for action to impose lower limits and pupils at Ilkley

  • Dialogue would be welcome regardless

    WHEN there clearly appears to be growing support from various quarters for safer go-slow zones around Ilkley’s schools, it has to be asked why there is such reluctance on the part of Bradford Council to implement this. True enough, local authority highways

  • Stories from our files

    1885 On Wednesday evening a rather singular accident again happened at the river near Low Mill. An oatcake baker from Silsden was supplying his customers at New Rouses, and for this purpose had left his horse and cart standing on the road

  • Girls' cricket team score three national wins in a row

    AN unbeaten Ilkley girls’ cricket team has achieved the unprecedented feat of winning three consecutive national titles. The U15 girls cricket squad at Ilkley Grammar School has successfully defended its national ECB Lady Taverners cricket

  • Share your crime concerns, says Ilkley police chief

    The new head of the police division responsible for fighting crime in Ilkley wants residents to keep in touch with officers about local issues, to help the force provide the highest standards of policing. Chief Superintendent Ian Kennedy recently took

  • Books galore for Addingham Primary thanks to fund

    Young bookworms are looking forward to discovering hundreds of new stories, thanks to a grant. Addingham Primary School’s library has been stocked with over 500 new books as part of Bradford Council’s Ward Investment Project Fund. A school spokesman

  • Increase in Ilkley's shoplifting figures

    Crime figures have shown a rise in shoplifting in Ilkley. Police officers received 13 reports of theft from stores in the town and arrested four people for stealing goods during April. A 43-year-old man from Leeds was charged with shoplifting at Boots