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  • Second half comeback not enough as 'Ensians lose at Wetherby

    A SPIRITED second half performance was not enough for Old Otliensians as they lost 52-33 at Wetherby in a Yorkshire Division Two encounter on Saturday. On a dry but chilly afternoon, 'Ensians were hoping for a win to help avoid relegation. The

  • Great British Food Festival returns to Harewood

    THE GREAT British Food Festival is back for its fifth year at Harewood House in May. The three-day event will take place over the bank holiday weekend, opening from 10am to 5pm from May 25 to May 27. The line-up includes more than eighty Best

  • Wagstaff hits four as Pool win local derby

    FOUR goals by Josh Wagstaff helped Pool beat Otley Town 7-4 in a classic local derby at Pool on Saturday. Otley Town opened the scoring against the run of play, Kyle Jeffrey beating the advancing keeper from the edge of the area. Josh Wagstaff

  • Ilkley Town stay fourth with win at Hunslet

    ILKLEY Town remained in fourth place in the West Yorkshire League's Premier Division with a 2-0 win at fifth placed Hunslet on Saturday. Both teams started at a frantic pace with Town having the first opening after only a couple of minutes. A

  • Hands Up - creative welcoming event at Otley

    OTLEY residents are being invited to create a ‘visual petition of welcome’. Community group Otley Welcomes is holding its second Hands Up event under the Buttercross on Saturday, March 30. Participants will be encouraged to decorate their hands

  • Ancient religious service takes place in Ilkley

    THE Stations of the Cross is an ancient Lenten religious service which entails pilgrims following a route of 14 halts depicting images of Jesus Christ on the day of his crucifixion. And last Friday found members of Ilkley’s Sacred Heart RC Church and

  • 'Stunning' - Ubunye at Otley Labour Rooms

    Ubunye at Otley Labour Rooms. Review by Helen Toft. The world was Upstairs at Otley Labour Rooms on Saturday, March 16 - and it sounded pretty brilliant. Thandanani Gumede and Dave Evans treated us to a set from their band Ubunye (meaning One Unity

  • Love Brownies secures six-figure investment

    ILKLEY-based company Love Brownies has secured a £150,000 investment as part of the Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund (NPIF). The business, which manufactures award-winning, hand-baked brownies, was originally founded in 2009 by Lee and Chantal

  • Round Table cash will improve facilities at Ilkley Town FC

    ILKLEY Round Table has donated £10,000 to Ilkley Town Football Club to improve the facilities around the 4G pitch for parents, spectators and players. The project will improve the changing rooms, provide a basic kitchen so drinks and refreshments

  • Theme of Burley scarecrow festival revealed

    THE theme for this year’s Burley Summer Festival’s scarecrow festival has been announced as ‘heroes and villans’. Members of Burley Festival Committee made the announcement at Grange Park where they danced along to Superman by Black Lace. The

  • From memories of flooding comes community action

    BOXING Day 2015 will be remembered by many people as a day of floods. Villagers from Addingham were amongst those most affected as water came up through basements, flowed along the roads and down the fields and the becks burst out of their banks

  • Airedale Hospital maternity staff to deliver open day

    AIREDALE Hospital’s maternity department is delivering its second annual open day. The free event takes place in the Steeton hospital’s education centre on Saturday, April 6. There will be a variety of information stalls, a raffle, tombola and

  • Toy amnesty to help fight heart disease

    A “Toy Amnesty” is being launched across Yorkshire this Easter by the British Heart Foundation. Parents are being encouraged to declutter their homes to help fund the fight against heart disease. The charity’s vans will collect toys free of charge

  • Life as a health visitor revealed in new book

    AN AUTHOR who spent 28 years working as a health visitor in Burley-in-Wharfedale before retiring in 2012 has published a book about her experiences. Entitled Cradle to Grave: Memoirs of a Health Visitor, the book by Molly Brearley, is a sequel to

  • Singing links celebrated in Ilkley

    FOR over 70 years, the people of Ilkley have enjoyed a happy and fruitful relationship with the citizens of Coutances in Normandy, thanks to two enthusiastic schoolmasters from either side of the Channel, who set up the IGS-Lycée Prévert exchange just

  • Ilkley Soul Club returns on Sunday

    ILKLEY Soul Club returns this Sunday, March 31 March, to the Hollygarth Social Club on Leeds Road between 3pm and 8pm (Admission £5 OTD). This month’s special guest is a famous face on the scene Blackpool’s Glenn Walker Foster, who is both a club and

  • Vintage Fair returns to Ilkley Playhouse next month

    ILKLEY Playhouse plays host to another of its ever-popular vintage fairs on Saturday, April 13. It is the ninth time the venue on Weston Road will throw open its doors and welcome in fans of all things classic, retro, kitsch and all points in between