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  • A superb September at Yeadon Town Hall

    YEADON Town Hall is gearing up for a “superb September” with a line-up of live music, tribute shows, theatre, cinema screenings and community events. The month gets off to a stirring start as Mr Montgomery’s Circus Spectacular completes its run

  • Music for Mental Health is coming to Ilkley on Saturday

    Music for Mental Health featuring three local bands takes place at St Margaret’s Church, Queens Road, Ilkley on Saturday, August 17. Organiser and former Ilkley resident, David McLennan is combining his love of music with the desire to raise money

  • Tribute to Everley Brothers - ‘Foreverley’

    OTLEY Courthouse little theatre is the venue to stage a nostalgic evening on September 8 as father and son duo Terry Webster and Terry jnr pay tribute to The Everly Brothers. Veteran entertainer Terry recalls the days he formed a Skiffle group in 1957

  • BRADFORD COUNCIL: Bluebells to be ‘trans-located’

    CONTROVERSIAL plans to build a striking home in Ilkley have been approved, despite opposition from numerous neighbours. Over two dozen people had objected to the plans for a three-storey house built in a large garden at 9 Oaklands in Ilkley.

  • Nature Notes

    by Ian Brand Wharfedale Naturalists Society www.wharfedale-nats.org.uk HAVE you read “A Buzz in the Meadow” by Dave Goulson, the sequel to his equally excellent “A Sting in the Tale”? Both are well worth finding space for in your suitcase

  • Celebrations for VJ Day

    THERE was jubilation around the world when Japan was defeated by the Allies in the Second World War. August 15, 1945, was declared Victory in Japan day after the war was brought to an end with the horror of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

  • Seventh annual Wharfedale Chamber Ensemble concert

    ON Saturday, August 17 at 7.30pm in Burley-in-Wharfedale Methodist Church, the Wharfedale Chamber Ensemble will return to perform its seventh annual concert as part of the Burley Summer Festival, offering an exciting programme of classical pieces.

  • Hemmingway shines in European Trials test

    THE weather halted Yorkshire trials on Saturday and Sunday but not the West Leeds club's fifth novice and beginner's trial at Post Hill on Saturday where 41 competitors, in three classes, braved heavy conditions on the hillside woodlands. Chris

  • Guiseley sign striker Sam Scrivens

    DESPITE scoring eight goals in first two games, Guiseley AFC added to their firepower by signing Sam Scrivens from Penistone Church FC. The 22-year-old signed a one-year deal with the Lions after joint managers Marcus Bignot and Russ O'Neill kept