OTLEY’S first Cycling Family Fun Day takes place this weekend. The free event will see all kinds of cycling-related activities - from trying grass ‘skills’ circuits to sampling electric-assisted bikes - being held on Garnett’s Field from 10am to
OTLEY’S former town mayor has presented £1,000 to the town’s cubs and scouts. Councillor Mary Vickers (Lib Dem, Manor) made the Otley Parish Scouts and Cubs’ roof repair fund one of her 2018-2019 mayoral charities. Cllr Vickers, who handed over
STARS from the worlds of poetry, comedy, stage and screen will headline 2019’s Ilkley Literature Festival. Simon Armitage, the recently appointed Poet Laureate and creative collaborator of the Ilkley Literature Festival, opens the north’s famed
OUTSIDE the Box, Ilkley’s community café has launched OTB Kidstime, providing summer fun activities for younger children. “We have lots of families coming to the café, including parents and grandparents with young children and know that they love
A WHARFEDALE church has featured in a hit TV show. Weston Church and its hall were used in Gentleman Jack, the historical drama whose first season was recently broadcast on BBC One. Based on the diaries of landowner and industrialist Anne Lister
LOCAL charity Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust (YDMT) will be inspiring people to support the planting of new trees this week, as they bring a special Book Fair Tree to Ilkley Book Fair. The charity is inviting people to visit their stand at Ilkley
MOVES to create a South Pennines Park, which would include parts of the Ilkley area, have received a boost from the man charged with reviewing the nation’s designated landscapes. Last year the Government appointed writer and broadcaster Julian Glover
AN AIREBOROUGH councillor has criticised the tactics of local Extinction Rebellion protestors. The group blocked off a key access road to the city centre, Neville Street, by occupying Victoria Bridge from Monday, July 15 to Friday, July 19. Extinction
OTLEY residents have taken their environmental concerns to one of the town’s supermarkets. The Inglewood Drive Environment Action group (IDEA), formed by residents of one street, decided to target their first efforts on the issue of non-recyclable
AN OTLEY school has planted a tree in memory of Harry Buckley. Harry, who was a pupil at The Whartons Primary School, died in 2014 after being diagnosed with neuroblastoma cancer two and a half years earlier. He was six years old. Year 6, which
THE Ilkley Clean River campaign is continuing to pressure Yorkshire Water and the Environment Agency to clean up the river in Ilkley so that it is fit to play, paddle and swim in. Over 60 people met to review the Ilkley Clean River Group’s data
THIS year’s cohort of seven trainee teachers working with Ilkley All Saints’ Primary School and their partnership schools celebrated the end of their training with a graduation ceremony at Leeds Trinity University. The trainees have all successfully
WEETON Show is hoping to bounce back from last year’s ‘washout’ with a fun-packed day for all the family. The 2019 event takes place on Sunday, July 28 and will feature competitive classes for horses, sheep, dogs and poultry. There will also be
LIBRARIES and museums staff in the Bradford district could go on strike in the face of “swingeing cuts”. The Unite union has announced it is holding a consultative ballot of its 50-or-so library and museum members in Bradford district to see if
TWO teachers from the district have chalked-up a training stint in Parliament. May Whitaker and Keeley Lister took part in a three-day event at Westminster as part of the UK Parliament Teacher Ambassador programme. The initiative provides 70
Review: The Lady Vanishes THE Classic Thriller Theatre Company are back in Leeds with the never-before-seen adaption of the Hitchcock classic The Lady Vanishes at Leeds Grand Theatre this week. This Bill Kenwright Production is filled with classic
ON Saturday Hawksworth village held a show and garden party organised by the residents association. Villagers had been told about the event at the beginning of April when they had all received a sunflower seed to grow, to see who had the tallest sunflower
