The latest bid to give a helping hand and spread a little happiness among local causes and organisations being affected by the hard financial times has begun. Businesswoman Kimm Fearnley, founder of the Happiness Centre in Ilkley, decided to focus the
25 years ago- 1986 Cinemas Close – Rumours that Yeadon’s cinema complex in High Street is to close were confirmed last week with an announcement by Cannon that the two cinemas are no longer a viable proposition and are to be put on the market.
As a resident and member of the public living in the Ilkley community for more than 30 years, I am concerned at an item on the agenda of the Ilkley Parish Council meeting, on October 3. The important issue of concern to me is that new councillors were
Following the decision taken by the governing body of Prince Henry’s Grammar School to convert to academy status, as reported in your paper last week, I wanted to respond to some of the comments and mis-information still being circulated by those parties
Following the Loch Ness Marathon, which I ran on October 2 for the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF UK), I would like to say a big thank you to Mel and Wayne, the Whittakers, Mia and staff at The Red Pepper for help with organising the fundraising race
Councillor is out of touch on industry Councillor Anne Hawkesworth is out of touch on plans for jobs and industry in Ilkley Can I register how disappointed I was to read that Coun Hawkesworth has dismissed out of hand the proposal to create a ten
May I please make an appeal through your letters page to the good readers to ask them to help a local charity in a practical way? Ilkley and District Good Neighbours Community Transport provides safe and accessible transport for residents in the LS29
The celebrated Black Dyke Band will play a celebrator concert on Thursday, October 27 to mark the tenth anniversary of the Ilkley Bandstand. Under conductor Nicholas Childs, the band will perform a special programme of music at the Kings Hall
Halle music director Mark Elder, introducing the evening's music from the conductor's podium, asserted that Stravinsky would have been influenced by Rimsky-Korsakov’s music for the theatre; a sound reason then for opening with the enchanting Suite from
Lunchime organ recitals at St Margaret’s are given by the church’s respected director of music Christopher Rathbone on the first Friday of the month. The recitals start at 12.30pm and last for half an hour; long enough to accommodate one of the 19th Century
A full and enthusiastic house greeted the Steeton Male Voice Choir and their special guests, the Hammonds Saltaire Band. Sound an Alarm, from Handel’s oratorio Judas Maccabeus, is a good work-out for any choir and from the outset showed the agility
A-level students from three West Yorkshire grammar schools were the guests of leading Yorkshire accountants and business advisers Garbutt & Elliott at the Ilkley Literature Festival. Garbutt & Elliot invited 60 students from Ilkley Grammar School, Bradford
Concerned councillors want Ilkley organisations and knowledgeable professionals to join forces in response to proposals which could bring 1,300 new homes to the area. Ilkley Parish Council’s Planning Committee wants to take the lead in setting up a
Ilkley are looking forward to another tough test after returning to winning ways with a 23-19 win at Castleford. They tackle second-placed Bridlington at Stacks Field on Saturday in what looks like being another examination of their ability to challenge
Ilkley Dynamo 1 Otley Town 3 (aet) Otley Town avenged two earlier defeats by Dynamo as they progressed to the second round of the Wharfedale FA Sunday Cup with an extra-time triumph. Dynamo had previously beaten them in both Wharfedale
Castleford 19 Ilkley 23 Ilkley returned from a tricky trip to Castleford on Saturday with their first away win of the season. Castleford, like Ilkley, had come into the game off the back of two straight defeats, and there was a determination and intensity
Ben Rhydding 7 Chester 1 Ben Rhydding extended their 100 per cent North Premier League record with an emphatic win over lowly Chester on Saturday. The league leaders made a slow start and the sides appeared to be evenly matched in the opening
Sheffield Bankers 4 Ben Rhydding 1 Crippled by injury, illness and unavailability, Rhydding’s unified and gutsy fight was not enough against a slick and dynamic Bankers side. Playing on the reserve pitch at Sheffield which was sandy
Harvest produce has been donated to the Salvation Army by pupils at an Ilkley school. Every child at Westville House School took part in the harvest celebration which included topical readings and poems as well as lots of songs and music.. Harvest
A body, believed to be a missing 79-year-old man, has been discovered near a bus stop. Officers from West Yorkshire Police discovered the body along Coutances Way, Ilkley, next to the Denton bridge across the River Wharfe at about 3.45pm on Sunday.
Detectives investigating unidentified human remains found on remote moorland are holding on to hope that advances in DNA will one day reveal who the mystery man is. An inquest in Bradford on Tuesday heard how eight years of trawling through missing persons
An Ilkley butcher is confident of getting a healthy cut of the local market for luxury meats. Lishman’s of Ilkley are stocking for the first time Pata Negra Bellota ham which sells at £495. The speciality Pata Negra ham is produced in Huelva, southern
Independent retailers in Ilkley are fighting for their futures with a new scheme designed to help save the town centre. Today the Ilkley Gazette is backing the Local Ilkley Shopping Trail and Long Live Local website which are being set up by traders
