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
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
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
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
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.
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,
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
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
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
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
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
ILKLEY Grammer School students went for the red carpet treatment on Friday night at the annual school May Ball. More than 230 Year 11 students, who will be sitting their GCSEs this year, dressed up and arrived in style at the Craiglands Hotel in the
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
A ‘formibable’ character and one of the best-known members of the Ilkley community has died at the age of 81. Helen Lela Kyriacopoulou Avis, or Madame Avis as she liked to be addressed, died in hospital on Thursday, May 6, after a short illness
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
Ben Rhydding’s Sam French and Harrogate Hockey Club’s David Swarbrick were desperately unlucky not to return from Hanover, Germany as Under-16 Four Nations Hockey Tournament champions. Between them, the two Yorkshire lads scored in every match, with
May marks another significant milestone in the history of Bracken Ghyll Golf Club with the official opening of the new 12th green. The new green at the Addingham club was meant to open in 2009, but the poor weather last year delayed bringing it into
Ben Rhydding’s under-tens have become the first girls’ team from the club ever to win a North championship. They followed up their triumph in the Yorkshire tournament by coming through their group against Alderley Edge and Kirkby Lonsdale. Alderley
Pontefract Girls' Under-15s 0, Ilkley Town Girls' Under-15s 7 Ilkley Town made their longest trip of the season in the West Riding Girls’ League Division Two in their last match of the season. With only one or two girls missing, the visitors were
