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  • Addingham residents urged to use their post office

    PEOPLE in Addingham are being urged to use their village post office as national bosses continue to debate the closure of 2,500 rural sub post offices. Chairman of Addingham Civic Society Pete Severs has joined the village's sub postmaster, Andrew Dufton

  • Landing gear fault sparks Yeadon airport emergency alert

    The emergency services were put on alert when a plane developed a technical problem on approach to Leeds Bradford airport. The alarm was raised when the landing gear did not fully lower on the BE643 morning flight from Exeter shortly before midday on

  • Airedale Hospital aims for Japanese efficiency

    Hospital chiefs are pioneering management methods used in car manufacturing to improve the lot of patients. They call on staff at Airedale Hospital to be more alert to possible faults, to tackle waste and to flag up areas of improvement, especially in

  • Free church organ offer to help clear off debt

    125 years ago At a meeting of the Ilkley Primitive Methodist Church, Mr Jas Rhodes referred to a visit which had been made to him by two members respecting the purchase of an organ he had for sale. His object in mentioning this was to say that, providing

  • 'Route across moor is a county road and not a track'

    SIR, - How many more times do I have to write this? Keighley Road is NOT , as some would have you believe, a rough moorland track. The route across Ilkley Moor is A COUNTY ROAD, part of the Queen's Highway. If you don't believe me contact Mr John Robinson