PIZZA restaurant staff from Ilkley are preparing for a ‘slice’ of adventure. Nine employees from the town’s PizzaExpress business will be taking on the 25 mile long, 12 hour Yorkshire Three Peaks on June 18. Tom Scott, Amy Collins, Jez Richards
SAILING clubs in Otley and Yeadon will be inviting people to give the sport a try next month. The town’s clubs are joining others across Yorkshire to take part in Push the Boat Out during May. The Royal Yachting Association (RYA) scheme aims
ACTION is being taken to deal with flooding outside Guiseley Station after the issue was raised by the town’s MP. Stuart Andrew, the MP for Pudsey, Horsforth and Aireborough, met with the senior communications manager of Network Rail in Guiseley
POLICE are appealing for information about a motorhome that has been stolen from Ben Rhydding. West Yorkshire Police, who believe the vehicle was taken possibly during the weekend of April 6-7, are asking anyone who can help to call 101 and quote
ILKLEY Town beat Horsforth St Margaret's 4-1 in the Wharfedale FA Cup semi-final to set up a final against Pool later this month. Playing on the 3G at Leeds Trinity University, Town's first chance came from some fine work down the right between
RETIRED Rawdon celebrity publicist John Rimington has paid tribute to songwriting legend Les Reed who died on Monday at the age of 83. Mr Reed, who was famous for hits including Delilah, died in hospital from pneumonia following a fall which cracked
ILKLEY and District Riding Association is preparing for its first show of the season on Easter Sunday. The event, at Nell Bank on Denton Road, will feature some new classes this year. It will include a new clear round for junior and seniors, and
A COUPLE will run the London Marathon shackled together to raise money for The Brain Tumour Charity. Rebecca and Nuno César de Sá will attempt to break the Guinness World Record for running the race while handcuffed to each other. The couple
A FRENCH gospel choir has visited Ilkley as part of the town’s 50th anniversary twinning celebrations. The Yorkshire town has actually enjoyed a warm relationship with the people of Coutances, in Normandy, for more than 70 years. Those ties were
ALEX Beldon scored back to back Saturday and Sunday wins in a busy weekend of racing for Ilkley Cycling Club. On Saturday, Beldon was the fastest junior in the Otley CC 10-mile time trial and he followed this with a convincing victory in the Under
MOURNERS gathered to remember former teacher Barbara Barnes as her ashes were committed to the earth in an Ilkley memorial garden. Family travelled over from New Zealand to say their final goodbyes in a service which followed Palm Sunday Mass at
CHURCH bells in Otley will ring out this week in a show of solidarity with Notre Dame Cathedral. Otley All Saints Parish Church's bells will sound on the evening of Maundy Thursday, April 18 in a gesture of support for the Parisian cathedral which
AN oil tanker engineer for the merchant navy who was originally from Ilkley but spent some time in Eastby has died on shore leave in Barbados. Ben Burgess, 25, was reported in the Barbados Today paper to have been pulled from the water just off
