A CAMPAIGN to eradicate polio will be marked with the screening of a biographical drama about a man who was left paralysed by the disease. The one-off screening in Horsforth will highlight the 30 year Rotary campaign which has come tantalisingly
AN ILKLEY entrepreneur is celebrating receiving an award from one of the ‘dragons’ of the business world. Sarah Turner uses pure British wool to make a range of laundry care products and ‘natural bathroom treats’ under her Little Beau Sheep brand
MORE than 2,500 people joined forces to raise £120,000 to fight heart disease. Runners flocked to the Harewood House Half Marathon, 10k and 2k event in February in aid of the British Heart Foundation. Now in its fifth year, the event raised funds
125 Years Ago - 1894 Few country people appreciate what luxuries to the city folk are cream, butter, milk, eggs and all the good things in which these so lavishly enter good country living. Cream cheese, for instance, is a dish seldom seen on an
OTLEY Players are preparing to perform a moving play about the impact of Alzheimer’s disease. The group will present Alan Stockdill’s The Last Memory at Otley Labour Rooms at 4pm and 7pm on Saturday, March 9 and at 7pm on Sunday, March `0. The
OTLEY’S residents are being invited to take part in the Great British Spring Clean 2019. The national campaign by Keep Britain Tidy - visit https://www.keepbritaintidy.org for full details - takes place from March 22 to April 23 and this year will
AUDIENCES in Ilkley will be transported to Munchkinland next month. The town’s Wright Theatre Arts (WTA) Dance Academy will stage the magical musical The Wizard of Oz at the Kings Hall from Thursday, March 28 to Saturday, March 30. Each day will
THE BRAZILIAN drama Aquarius is Ilkley Film Society’s next screening on Sunday, March 3 (8pm at Ilkley Playhouse). Clara, a 65 year-old widow, is the last resident of the Aquarius, an apartment building in an upper-class area of Recife, the large
A RENOWNED ‘mind reading’ duo are promising to amaze the audience when they visit Otley next month. DNA wowed the judges and audiences during the eleventh series of ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent in 2017. The pair - who go by their first names, Andrew
A BOWLING Club has defended itself after allegations that it turned down a funeral reception because of complaints about the presence of women on men only days. The family of a former Ilkley Bowling Club member had hoped to hold his wake there.
A COURAGEOUS schoolboy who is battling cancer for the second time has been nominated for an award. Twelve-year-old Seb Murphy, from Guiseley, has already fought leukaemia once after being diagnosed at the age of three. But he is fighting the disease
By David Porter, Armstrong Watson DEALING with the estate of someone who has died can be stressful, but it was generally not costly. Eighteen months ago, however, the government mooted the idea of increasing the fees in England and Wales - quite
RHYS Morgan says Ilkley will make the most of their cup distraction this weekend after suffering a one-point loss in their last league game. The Stacks Field side travel to Harrogate in the quarter-final of the Yorkshire Cup, the only one of the
CHANGES across the ATP Challenger Tour means that the 2019 Ilkley Trophy at Ilkley Lawn Tennis and Squash Club will receive more direct entries to the main draw than in previous years. The bigger field, and reduction in qualifying rounds, means
RUSS O'Neill says there will be no sentiment when he is reunited with Alfreton Town when they face Guiseley this weekend. The Lions joint-manager spent 10 years at Alfreton as assistant manager to Nicky Law between May 2007 and February 2017.
