A COMMUNITY gardener will help to keep Horsforth, Guiseley and Rawdon looking good after councillors agreed funding for the role. The money, granted through the Outer North West Community Committee’s wellbeing fund, will pay for gardening maintenance
A YEAR 8 Ilkley Grammar School student has organised and presented his own piano recital at Christchurch on the Grove. Twelve-year-old Callum Whitton attracted an audience of over120 people for the recital on Saturday, March 9. Callum had been
HUNDREDS of people have signed a petition calling for a volunteer-run cafe at Wharfedale Hospital to stay open. WRVS - now called RVS - has been providing hot drinks and snacks from the coffee/tea bar at the modern hospital, and the previous building
AN equipment amnesty is being launched at Airedale Hospital. Volunteers and staff begin the initiative on Thursday (Mar 21) in a bid to recover ‘lost’ wheelchairs and walking aids. People who still have equipment from the Steeton hospital, which
A WHISTLE-STOP tour of the 1950s and 1980s is promising to get audiences dancing along at Yeadon Town Hall. Through The Decades with Roy Orbison and Buddy Holly, and The Wildboys 80s tribute band arrive in the town in April. A spokeswoman for
THE JOYS of spring will be showcased in song at Horsforth Choral Society’s March concert. The choir will perform excerpts from oratorios from across the ages in St Margaret’s Church, Horsforth, at 7.30pm on Friday, March 22. The concert promises
by Ian Brand FAVOURITE spring flower? It has to be Lesser Celandine (Ficaria verna). I am in good company; it was also William Wordsworth’s, who wrote three poems about this spring messenger. These yellow star-like flowers can often be seen carpeting
ILKLEY Town Football club will be able to go ahead with two major projects thanks to being chosen as the 2019 Ilkley Carnival primary beneficiary. The club will receive half the profits of the annual event and use it to help build new all-weather
A BRASS band’s work for the community where it is based was recognised with a Mayoral invitation. Guiseley Brass Band visited Leeds Lord Mayor Cllr Graham Latty at the city’s Civic Hall. The invitation was to recognise the efforts the band had
Review: Kammerphilharmonie Europa at the King’s Hall, March 13 ON Wednesday Ilkley Concert Club members gave a warm welcome to a return visit from the Kammerphilharmonie Europa. Although these talented players are in the middle of a tour embracing
ILKLEY based Two Rivers Concert Band will be teaming up with the Chris Irvin Concert Orchestra for a joint concert at Otley Parish Church on Saturday,April 6. The concert starts at 7.30pm, with doors opening from 7pm. The Orchestra will play
THE GREAT and the good gathered together in Yeadon in March 1905 for the opening of the town’s Temperance Hall. The ceremony was performed by Robert Armitage, Lord Mayor of Leeds and Liberal MP for Central Leeds, and the event was attended by more
LEEDS is offering condolences and support to the city's Muslim community after the deaths of 49 people in shootings at two mosques in New Zealand. The city council's leader Judith Blake issued a statement after the killings in Christchurch.
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Leeds Town Hall, Saturday 8th March 2019 A CAPACITY audience warmly applauded the nearly ninety musicians of the Oslo Philharmonic as they filed on to the stage of Leeds Town Hall. Eighteen years have passed since their
A BRAMHOPE based rugby team is celebrating reaching the semi-finals of a national competition. West Park Leeds under 18 girls (the Kites) became one of the top six teams in the country by defeating Castleford in the the Area 6 Final of the National
A FUNDRAISING teenage singer from Otley has been named a Star Student. Emeli Mumford’s most recent charitable work saw her release a single for Save the Children, Dear Santa, before Christmas. The 17 year old Prince Henry’s Grammar School student
A LARGE group of French students have been enjoying a visit to Otley. Forty eight students from the Lycée André Malraux, in Otley’s twin town of Montereau, were given a tour of Prince Henry’s Grammar School on Thursday, March 14. They also held
OTLEY'S Friday market has been cancelled due to high winds. Leeds City Council made the decision to call of the event - on Friday, March 15 - due to health and safety risks. The town's Saturday, March 16 market, meanwhile, is expected to run
