EMERGENCY services are attending a road accident at Norwood. The incident, involving a car and a motorcycle, happened on the B6451 near The Sun Inn. North Yorkshire Police arrived at the scene at 2.30pm after the alarm had been raised. Yorkshire
GUISELEY’S Aldi store is donating supplies to two good causes as part of a new initiative to help vulnerable people. The shop will be giving surplus food to Green Meadows School and Caring for Life, which provides housing and daytime activities
AN OTLEY shop manager has won a major award for her work to support Pride parades and LGBT equality. Jemma Kameen, who manages the town’s Sainsbury’s supermarket, was presented with her British LGBT Award at a ceremony in London on Friday, May 17
AN “UNMISSABLE” line-up of shows will be staged at Yeadon Town Hall in June. The programme of events, including live music, quizzes and a world premiere, has been developed to appeal to all demographics. Music lovers will be able to experience
OTLEY’S Sainsbury’s store is re-uniting with one of its regular charity partners. The supermarket is teaming up with Otley Action for Older People (OAOP) as part of the company’s national, 150th anniversary celebrations. The store will be fundraising
TWO members of staff from an Ilkley dental practice are preparing to ‘Zip the Pepper Pot’ in aid of a local hospice. Stacy Slinger and Nicola Smith, who work at Taylored Dental Care, on The Grove, are taking on the daring challenge in aid of Sue
THE next Ilkley Soul Club takes place on Sunday, June 2 - a change from the last Sunday of the month slot. The club, which specialises in danceable northern soul and up tempo Tamla Motown played on the original vinyl 45 record release, is based
A FAMILY bereavement charity has thanked local Sainsbury’s stores for delivering a ‘fantastic’ funding boost. Elliot’s Footprint was founded in 2014 by Andrea and John Kerslake, from Leeds. The charity was named after the couple’s youngest son
A “REMARKABLE” statement by a Government minister is being held-up as evidence that the controversial waste-to-energy plant planned for Keighley isn’t needed. Dr Therese Coffey – Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural
ILKLEY Lawn Tennis & Squash Club was the venue for a presentation on inheritance tax and estate planning by Sarah Siddons from Sarah Siddons Financial Planning. Billed as a “myth-busting” session, Sarah was joined by Anne Slater-Brooks from the company
DOWN Syndrome Training and Support Service in Bingley has been chosen by Sovereign Healthcare to receive a grant of £5,000 towards the running costs of their Early Development Groups for 2019. The groups support children with Down Syndrome and their
THE NATION celebrated at the start of June in 1953 with the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. The occasion, on June 2, was marked up and down the land with gatherings and street parties - and Yeadon and Guiseley were no exceptions, as these photographs
FOUR local charities received donations totalling £1,700 from Ilkley Wharfedale Rotary Club at the club’s weekly meeting at the Riverside Hotel. The money has been raised at Rotary events and at recent supermarket and street collections. Rotarian
NINE local primary schools made a splash at Ilkley Pool for the Jubilee Trophy Swimming Gala at Ilkley Pool. On Tuesday, May 22 children from Ashlands, All Saints, Askwith, Ben Rhydding, Burley Oaks, Burley Woodhead, Ghyll Royd, Menston and Westville
TODDLERS took to the sky in their music sessions to raise £2,000 for children with autism. The sponsored flying challenge involved children from Ilkley, Otley, Burley in Wharfedale, Guiseley, Keighley, Skipton, Saltaire and Baildon. They dressed
SOME stall spaces are still available at this year’s Otley Carnival. The 2019 event takes place on Saturday, June 15 and as always will begin with a fun-packed parade through town, setting off from Wharfedale Farmers Auction Mart just after 1pm.
THE FAREWELL tour by controversial rock ‘n’ roller PJ Proby has been cancelled. The singer who famously split his trousers on stage will no longer play the concerts following public reaction to a recent interview in the national press. Venues
by Steve Westerman Wharfedale Naturalists Society AT this time of year many ground (and low) nesting birds have made their homes in the vegetation on Ilkley Moor, and are busy laying and incubating eggs and raising their young. Most people are
THE SECRETS that dirty teeth can tell about times gone by will be one of the subjects at the next Otley Science Cafe. The event takes place at the Courthouse on Thursday, June 13 and will feature three 15 minute presentations from guest speakers
AMERICAN Idiot, the musical based around songs from punk-pop band Green Day is coming to the Alhambra Theatre in Bradford next month. The ground-breaking, Tony award-winning rock musical with music by the Grammy award-winning band, can be seen from
