A strong and welcome feature of this concert season is the number of unusual programmes the artists are offering, and this one was a fine example. The works featured were all written within a span of 45 years and began with the eponymous Bridge Phantasie
The musical, Half a Sixpence, was a huge hit in the late 1960s and early 1970s, before the new genre of musicals by Lloyd Webber and his lyricists hit the West End and Broadway stages. The storyline is based on the novel Kipps by H G Wells
As befits a man intending to spend about £70 million at Leeds Bradford International Airport in the next few years, John Parkin is an optimist. That is the budget the boss of the Yeadon site has to play with to take the airport forward during
A golden cocker spaniel has been reunited with her family more than two years after going missing as a puppy. Rosie disappeared from a garden in Ilkley in October 2008, when she was just a few months old. Her owners advertised on lampposts, the then
125 years ago - 1886 Dramatic Weather: The heavy fall of snow at Ilkley has been unprecedented for many years. The steady snowfall which lasted at least 48 hours has resulted in a thorough block. The Local Board has got the snow plough to
The mother of a two-year-old Ilkley girl with an incurable heart defect says she is ‘terrified’ the heart surgery unit at Leeds General Infirmary could be closed. LGI is one of 11 hospitals under threat across England after a review by health chiefs
Councils throughout the area are unveiling their plans for the necessary cost-cutting measures. To date there are no big surprises — but we need to be aware of the devil in the detail. There’s a mixture of relief in some quarters and deep concern in
I live in Guiseley and every day walk my dogs around the area, I see lots of trees, big and small, some have been here for decades but not for much longer if we do not take care of them. A very simple step will give them a fighting chance. There are
In October 2010, I wrote to our MP Kris Hopkins about my now late husband’s cancelled appointment for an operation in an NHS hospital. Mr Hopkins’s reply was prompt. He promised to take the matter up with the Minister of Health. He did so and then wrote
Many pharmacies make up Dosset boxes to help patients take their medication at regular intervals during the day. As these boxes are mainly used by the elderly, it should be self-evident that they should be easy to use. The ‘improved’ boxes now issued
I have been trying to find out information on the Ilkley and Wharfedale orphanage which existed from 1885 to 1935 or later. Of all the sites visited which would normally hold some reference to such an establishment or records, the Ilkley Gazette
How heart-warming to read your article on the young family protesting against future threats to Otley Library (your edition of Thursday, February 10). My point is that an increasingly educated and healthy society is under threat of being dismantled by
Children in Horsforth have had plenty of fun while finding out about a very serious issue from the police. PCs Fran Brown and Steve Wright were given an enthusiastic welcome at Froebelian School after arriving in a huge police video van and
Tough older boys are needed to fill the more aggressive roles in a theatre group’s production of Billy Elliot. Ilkley’s Upstagers have successfully auditioned dozens of younger girls and boys for their production at the Alhambra Theatre in Bradford this
The developers behind the conversion of a historic hall should be “embarrassed” for building a block of flats a metre too high, a councillor has said. The re-development of Menston Hall hit a hitch when a member of the public pointed out a block of 30
Otley-based police officers are celebrating leading an investigation that has seen two men jailed for stealing £300,000 of agricultural machinery. North West Outer Neighbourhood Policing Team (NPT) officers began an investigation in December 2009, after
Plans to close Addingham library should be put on hold until alternatives can be explored, councillors say. The library is one of five run by Bradford Council facing the axe under cost-cutting measures and could be replaced by a mobile service subject
A cancer survivor from Guiseley received a rousing reception when she took the stage with West End actors in a mini-musical. Mother-of-two Nicola Wardle, who was diagnosed with a rare form of the disease four years ago, was the main attraction when Race
A man has been jailed for more than four years after smashing an opponent over the head with a pool cue in a row about the rules of the game. Bradford Crown Court yesterday heard that bricklayer Sonny Cooley was on a cocktail of illicit drugs
The police declared war on bogus scrap collectors yesterday in an operation designed to thwart metal thefts across Wharfedale and Aireborough. Officers working with Trading Standards, the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency and others searched
Controversial plans to shake-up the admissions policy for one of the district’s most oversubscribed secondary schools should be scrapped, according to a new report. A consultation had been carried out about the future of admissions at Ilkley Grammar
A plan to build a new visitor centre at a national landmark has been thrown out after councillors visited the site. They unanimously agreed the £500,000 project at Cow and Calf rocks, Ilkley, was inappropriate in a conservation area and at a site of
Guiseley skipper Simon Ainge proudly held on to the FA Trophy on Wednesday and now hopes he will be able to hold it aloft at Wembley on May 7. The former Bradford City defender was at a preview of Saturday’s quarter-final tie with Luton Town when the
A girls school cricket team is on course for an unprecedented fourth national crown after continuing an outstanding winning streak. The Ilkley Grammar School under-15s have now won 43 games in a row after booking their place in the regional finals of
Otley Town’s cup success and the bad weather have combined to create a big fixture backlog for them. Through to the final of the Wharfedale FA Challenge Cup where they are due to face Ilkley Town, and in the semi-finals of the West Riding County Challenge
Guiseley will be hoping that their deadly duo of James Walshaw and Joe O’Neill can fire them into the FA Trophy semi-finals for the second time. The two strikers have netted 31 goals for the Lions this season and the club’s supporters will be hoping
Ilkley may have won six of their last eight matches in Yorkshire Division One to rise to eighth but player-coach Hamish Pratt isn’t focusing on improving that sequence. The Kiwi, who has had other things on his mind this week with the earthquake back
Ben Rhydding 3 Doncaster 6 Ben Rhydding battled hard for no reward against National North Conference leaders, Doncaster as they suffered another defeat. They could and should have taken a commanding
York 7 Ilkley 18 York has never been a happy hunting ground but on Saturday the Dalesmen proved their doubters wrong as they secured their fifth win in six games to continue their climb up the Yorkshire One table. It is amazing what a good run can
