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  • Lido should be part of free swimming scheme

    I am 15 years old, an Ilkley Grammar School pupil, and a regular visitor to the Ilkley Pool and Lido. A few weeks back, I was going to the pool with the form for the Swim 4 Free campaign, and I could see that others were doing likewise. I was standing

  • Only one meeting to determine Tesco's Ilkley application

    Controversial Tesco supermarket plans will be determined at just one meeting in Ilkley next month, planners have announced. Bradford Council says the fate of plans for a bigger new store off Rail-way Road, and to redevelop the existing supermarket site

  • Lad chases horse after collision

    1884 A lad was driving down Cunliffe Road at rather a brisk pace, and when he turned into Church Street came into collision with a trap coming from the direction of Brook Street, containing about half-a-dozen persons, mostly ladies. The lad was thrown

  • Carousel cleans up at Wharfedale Oscars

    Ilkley Amateur Operatic Society’s production of Carousel swept the board at the Wharfedale Festival of Theatre’s awards ceremony this week by winning no less than seven categories – including the prestigious title of best overall production. The show

  • Leeds Symphony Orchestra at the King's Hall, Ilkley

    Conductor Martin Binks and the LSO returned to Ilkley for their traditional annual fundraiser for the NSPCC with a typically Binksian programme. The evening comprised a Verdi overture, some Massenet ballet music, excerpts from Mendelssohn’s music for

  • Ilkley Moor rock fall victim named

    A man who died in a fall from the highest point at Ilkley’s Cow and Calf rocks on Friday has been identified. An inquest was opened at Bradford Coroner’s Court yesterday on Graeme Pykett, 42, of Abbeydale Grove, Kirkstall, Leeds. Mr

  • Moorfield pupils shine in Alice production

    Talented pupils at Moorfield School for Girls took their audience to a whole new world last week during a performance of the Lewis Carroll classic Alice in Wonderland. The girls, who are all in Years 5 and 6, worked tirelessly to give a convin-cing production

  • Swine flu experts say: Stay at home

    Health experts in Leeds and Bradford are urging anyone in Wharfedale, Aireborough and Horsforth who thinks they may have swine flu to stay at home. GP surgeries and accident and emergency departments at hospitals across the region are reporting increasing