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  • Last-minute penalty sees Otley earn first win of the season

    Hinckley 14 Otley 17 A JOE Rowntree penalty in the final minute saw Otley earn their first win of the National League Two North season on Saturday, and their first since March. Otley went to Leicester Road ground knowing they had beaten Hinckley

  • 'Overwhelming' community help for patient-support group

    AN OTLEY-BASED patient support group has thanked Good Samaritans for helping it bounce back from a theft. Hug on a Tray provides drinks, snacks and TV access for Haematology patients in St James' Hospital, Leeds. The scheme relies on public

  • Former Tory criticises Johnson

    THE FORMER Chairman of the Pudsey Conservative Association, has described Boris Johnson’s Conservative conference speech as “vacuous, irresponsible drivel.” Dr Jason Aldiss, who served in a succession of senior positions across the Party for almost

  • Pupils delighted with new 'forest' classroom

    A ‘forest classroom’ has been created for pupils at Horsforth Featherbank Primary School. A previously overgrown wooded area has been turned into a community garden by the Leeds and Yorkshire Housing Association - and the land has been adopted

  • Children’s art at GP practice

    OTLEY schoolchildren have produced thought-provoking artwork to raise awareness about mental health. Westgate Surgery, part of OnePrimaryCare, ran an art competition involving local schools as part of a campaign to support this year’s Mental Health

  • Tommy is next youth section production

    ILKLEY Amateur Operatic Society’s talented youth section is busy working toward their next production, the stage version of the hit album and film of The Who’s Tommy. The show, packed full of great music, the most well known song being Pinball Wizard

  • Ilkley Arts’ secret postcard auction

    A SELECTION of postcard-sized art with the theme of ‘Homeland ‘will be for sale by secret auction on Friday, October 11 6.30pm – 9pm, Saturday, October 12th 10am – 5pm and Sunday, October 13th from 10am – 4pm. The exhibition will be held in the

  • Big festival branches out

    WALKING, talking Dream Trees will appear on the streets of Leeds as part of a two-day festival this week. The trees will be among more than 60 artistic creations at the annual Light Night Leeds. Crowds of up to 80,000 are expected to attend the

  • PREVIEW: Big science festival to focus on the young

    DEEP sea exploration and a planetarium show will feature in the 2019 Otley Science Festival. The organisers of the annual event have just confirmed the full line-up of speakers who will be taking part at the Courthouse this year. The festival

  • The Lords of Skipton Castle

    THE CLIFFORDS: Lords of Skipton Castle will be the focus of an event in Rawdon this weekend. Leeds Waits and Friends will bring their anarchic take on history with a renaissance foray in words and music through three generations of the Clifford