The staff at The Devonshire Arms Country House Hotel are raising money for Help 4 Heroes and The Boyle and Petyt School in Beamsley by taking part in the gruelling ‘Tough Mudder’ event this Saturday. Pupils in North Yorkshire are reaping the rewards
An Ilkley woman and her dad are set to climb Ben Nevis to raise £2,000 for Dogs for the Disabled. Jo Alexander, who works as an editorial manager for a publishing company, plans to do the trek on Saturday, October 5 and will have just eight hours
Sometimes our faith in human nature is restored in a most welcome manner, as evidenced by the actions of people on the banks of the River Wharfe in Ilkley. A five-year-old girl had got into trouble in the water and it was only thanks to the swift reactions
A 23-year-old man was seriously injured in a two-car crash in Ilkley on Monday. The accident happened at around 7.15pm on Cowpasture Road, on the Ilkley side of the junction with Maxwell Road. A silver Vauxhall Corsa, driven by the 23-year-old
Almost £1,800 has been raised to help a little boy to walk after seven friends took part in a tandem skydive. A total of £1,445 has been pledged online and cash donations totalling about £300 are being collected towards the Wesleys Wish fund.
Ilkley’s local council has resolved to oppose major housing development on green belt land in the area, ahead of Bradford Council finalising a key part of it Local Plan for the future of the district. Ilkley Parish Council agreed on Monday night
Members of Ilkley Playhouse have returned from a very successful trip to North Wales where they presented their fringe version of Conor McPherson's The Weir. Two performances took place over the last weekend of August at the John Andrew’s Theatre
Tackling Bradford’s housing problems now and in the future will be the principal aim of the forthcoming Bradford Housing Partnership Annual Conference. Geraldine Howley, Incommunities Group chief executive and chairman of the Bradford Housing Partnership
The father of a man murdered outside an Addingham pub has read an emotional statement at a parole board hearing in a bid to prevent the killer from returning to the Ilkley area. Twenty-three-year-old Mark Webster was stabbed to death by Leroy Griffith
The following planning applications have been received by Bradford Council. BURLEY-IN-WHARFEDALE: Construction of single-storey extension to rear and porch to front, 81 Holme Grove. BURLEY-IN-WHARFEDALE: Construction of single-storey extension
Councillors have agreed to look into a fact-finding exercise on the possibility of a town centre manager for Ilkley, amid reservations about the suggestion. Ilkley Parish Council is to draw up a list of people and organisations it can talk to for
A Wharfedale charity that supports older residents is celebrating receiving a £4,190 grant. The Big Lottery Fund award will help Otley Action for Older People kit out its new offices on Bay Horse Court and add a portable disabled ramp to make them
Unpopular plans to expand two Guiseley schools will not now go ahead after councillors agreed to go back to the drawing board. The proposals for Guiseley Infant and Nursery School and St Oswald’s C of E Junior School had prompted a campaign of
An Ilkley business is offering a “back to school” series of workshops and a public relations surgery this month. Approach PR, based on the Grove, has scheduled its three most popular Approachability training workshops, An Introduction to PR, An
Anyone who has ever toyed with the idea of becoming a barbershop singer is about to be given the chance – with a free six-week course. The Learn to Sing in Harmony course will take place in Rawdon and is open to men of all ages. It is being
The Ilkley Summer Festival finale Concert on the Grove had the best attendance of events in recent years, says Ilkley Parish Council chairman, Councillor Mike Gibbons. Coun Gibbons told the Council, which organised the open-air event on Saturday
A masked robber has been jailed for seven and a half years for a terrifying daylight sledgehammer raid on a jeweller’s shop. Darren Pallas was one of a gang wearing black balaclava masks who tried to smash their way into Rolex watch specialist
Tennis starlet Euan Wilson-Baig is setting his sights on Europe in 2014 after a successful summer. The 13-year-old Ilkley Lawn Tennis & Squash Club member not only won the Dacre, Son & Hartley under-14 boys’ singles at his own club’s open
The Lord Mayor of Bradford, Councillor Khadim Hussain, will tomorrow, Friday, officially open Martin House Children’s Hospice new charity shop in Brook Street, Ilkley. Coun Hussain will be joined by shop manager, Gill Newsome, and the hospice’s
Ilkley’s head of rugby Rhys Morgan has warned his players that there will be no easy games in Yorkshire Division One this season. They open their campaign against newly-promoted Doncaster Phoenix at Stacks Field on Saturday and it promises to be
