PEOPLE in Leeds are being urged to help shape the city’s climate action plan. The Big Leeds Climate Conversation ends on October 31 and residents are being invited to give their views in an online questionnaire www.leeds.gov.uk/climateconversation
By Andrew Mitchell, Tax Partner, Armstrong Watson Skipton WHAT do Abraham Lincoln, Howard Hughes, Pablo Picasso and Jimi Hendrix all have in common? Apart from being famous, they all died without making a will. However it’s not just the rich and
OTLEY Courthouse is inviting feedback from anyone who has used its Maker Space facility. The community workspace, created for ‘avid tinkerers’, was officially opened earlier this year by MP Alex Sobel (Lab, Leeds North West). Based in the Courthouse
A POLICING apprenticeship is being launched at Leeds Trinity University. Recruitment is now open to join West Yorkshire Police, and for the first time officers will study towards a three-year degree at Leeds Trinity as part of their training.
PEOPLE interested in learning more about wills and a lasting power of attorney (LPA) are invited to attend a talk at Burley-in-Wharfedale Library. On Friday, September 27 at 2pm Alice Leslie and Megan Boldison, two lawyers from Gordons LLP, who
YEADON Town Hall will stage a “festive bonanza” in its Autumn and Winter season. The Community Interest Company in charge of the town hall is promising live music, tribute acts, variety shows and classic Christmassy entertainment. Its new what
OTLEY is preparing to resound to the sound of Oyez, Oyez, Oyez! The town’s second Open Town Crier Competition will be held on Sunday, September 22. The event has been arranged to tie in with Otley Folk Festival and takes place when part of Boroughgate
THIS September, Marie Curie is offering volunteers and supporters the opportunity to have their will written or updated free of charge by a qualified solicitor. The offer coincides with Remember a Charity Week (September 9-15th) when a group of
AN Ilkley-based legal team is celebrating one year since expanding to Ilkley by taking part in Macmillan Cancer Support’s World’s Biggest Coffee Morning. Eatons Solicitors, which has 150 years’ legal experience and offers services including powers
A HORSFORTH opticians has its sights on raising funds and awareness for Alzheimer’s Society. Staff at Scrivens Opticians and Hearing Care on Town Street will be in fancy dress to hold a bun and cake sale on Thursday, September 19 to mark World Alzheimer
ABBEYFIELD the Dales Ltd is extending their Community Hub at Grove House Ilkley by giving over the Victorian summerhouse in the car park as a retail/display space for local crafters and artisans. The Craft Hut In The Car Park, supported by a grant
THE 44th Menston Village show took place on Saturday, September 7 at Kirkland’s Community Centre, Menston. “The beautiful summer weather has seen over 400 contestants enter over 600 different entries. That makes this our biggest year yet” said Sue
CLIMATE Justice will be the subject of a Pizza and Politics night at Otley. Members of Otley 2030 - which is working towards making Otley a carbon-neutral town - will give the presentation at the Philip Coyne Labour Rooms on Monday, September 16
A HOST of beautiful, illuminated angels will be winging its way to Leeds for the city’s Light Night. Five iridescent figures will land on Victoria Gardens for the event in October. Entitled Angels of Freedom, the interactive display will also
Mgr Kieran Heskin Sacred Heart Church, Ilkley UP to the 1930’s hiring fairs were not uncommon in this island and in Ireland. Once or twice a year poor people, seeking employment on farms, came along to the hiring fair. The tall and well-built
THE WHARFEDALE and Aireborough Observer would like to apologise to Wharfedale German Circle for an unfortunate error, introduced during editing, in a recent article about their summer party. Below is their unedited article in full: 'Schwarzwälder
by Ian Brand WHILE out for a cycle ride on a glorious autumn day, sunny but with a slight coolness, I stop to consult the map and am immediately aware of the musical hum of insects. Parking up, I go and investigate…. There is an old stone wall
THE acclaimed American drama Leave No Trace is Ilkley Film Society’s next screening on Sunday September 15 (8pm at Ilkley Playhouse). Will is a traumatised army veteran who can no longer cope with the modern world and is living, survivalist-style
Review Intimate Exchanges at Ilkley Playhouse AS this September has commenced rather damp and chill, there is a certain pleasure to be had from being invited into a sunny garden, as revealed when the curtains draw back on Alan Ayckbourn’s Intimate
