Ilkley will once again this weekend be rolling out the red carpet to welcome visitors – for two distinctly different reasons – but both with the same aim. Saturday will see the third annual Summer Showcase, at the Kings Hall staged by the Ilkley Business
Monty Python legend and travel writer Michael Palin heads the list of big names coming to this year’s Ilkley Literature Festival. The comedian and screen writer turned travel documentary presenter will join BBC sports presenter Clare Balding, former
A building society has opened a new branch in Ilkley as it continues an expansion plan. The Yorkshire Building Society is planning to open 12 new branches in the next two years, following on from 16 agencies in the past year. The branch, on Station
Commemorative Diamond Jubilee mugs bought by Addingham Parish Council have been presented to children living in the village. Parish council chairman Councillor Catherine Coates visited Addingham Primary School’s jubilee assembly, which was also attended
Airedale Writers’ Circle has launched its adult open writing competition. Anyone aged 14 and over can take part. Entries are invited in three categories – short stories (maximum 2,000 words), poems of up to 40 lines and articles up to 1,000 words. Submissions
Organisers of a business showcase are warning visitors and exhibitors not to be caught “baht’at” this weekend. The third Ilkley Summer Showcase, which is being held at the King’s Hall on Saturday, will have a theme relating to the town’s famous anthem
A taste of a popular music event will hit the streets this weekend. With little more than a week to go until the Live at the Lido concert in Ilkley, some of the bands taking part will offer up an acoustic preview at Station Plaza on Saturday. Organisers
The manager of a jewellers has praised his staff for their reactions after an armed robbery was thwarted. Sam Brown, manager at Lister Horsfall in Brook Street, Ilkley, said staff quickly managed to get a metal shutter down to stop sledgehammer-wielding
A child star who disappeared from TV screens a decade ago is returning to his roots to get married. Chris Smith spent more than a decade in the public eye playing the part of Robert Sugden in Yorkshire TV soap Emmerdale, from 1989 to 2001. He left as
An MP has proved he is putting his back into life at Westminster by anchoring his team to victory in a tug of war. Keighley MP Kris Hopkins joined forces with colleagues from all parties, left, to help the House of Commons to a win against a team from
Crime levels stayed low in the Ilkley area through last month. A total of 30 incidents were recorded in Ilkley itself during May, plus nine in Burley-in-Wharfedale, four in Addingham and seven in Menston, according to new police statistics. There were
A teenager is tackling one of the country’s toughest cycling challenges in an effort to raise money for a life-changing trip to Africa. Next month Chris King, a 16-year-old student at Ilkley Grammar School, and his dad Steve, 50, will cycle about 1,000
Stately pine trees were the focus of Friends of Ilkley Moor activities to recognise the Diamond Jubilee. Using Diamond Jubilee funding, the Friends organised the planting of 25 pine saplings in one of the stands of trees on the moor. An FOIM project
Two doctors from Ilkley recently returned from volunteering at The Revival Centre in Matugga, Uganda. Dr Anita Porter, a GP at Ilkley Moor Medical Prac-tice, her husband Stephen, a consultant gynaecologist at Airedale Hospital, and their teenage children
A council has been warned if would not be doing the people of Ilkley “any favours” if it does not push ahead with a controversial plan for the future. And Councillor Paul Kitching told Ilkley Parish Council work needs to begin on a Neighbourhood Plan
Ilkley Golf Club members will have an additional interest in this year’s US Open Golf Championship, because one of their former professionals helped design the course. Sam Whiting, who was the professional at Ilkley from 1911 to 1921, left
Ilkley will open their Yorkshire Division One prorgamme with a trip to Huddersfield YMCA. Their first home game is against newly-promoted Wath a week later. ILKLEYSEPTEMBER01 Huddersfield YMCA Away08 Wath Home15 Driffield Away22 Heath Home29 Scarborough
One thousand cyclists from across the country are expected to descend on Ilkley this Sunday when Ilkley Cycle Club hosts one of Yorkshire’s Premier Cycle Sportives – The White Rose Classic. Cycle Sportives are becoming hugely popular as tough endurance
