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  • Vertigo's Gaunt scales new heights for Trophy Trial win

    THE Yeadon-Guiseley club's annual Dave Curry Trophy Trial eventually occurred after an 11th hour venue move from Upper Nidderdale, where land conditions brought a no-go situation, and a quick move to Dob Park. A dozen sections in a soggy Dob Park

  • New hopper bus announced for Otley-Menston

    A NEW ‘hopper bus’ is to run from Otley to Menston. Residents at Garnett Wharfe had hoped a bus service to the nearest railway station would be included as part of the redevelopment of the former Garnett paper mill site by David Wilson Homes.

  • History event at Rawdon library

    A SPECIAL history event will take place at Rawdon Library this weekend. Visitors are being invited to bring along old photographs and documents for immediate scanning for Aireborough Historical Society’s online archive. They will also get the

  • Votes needed for Ilkley market

    THE Great British Market Awards hosted by Love Your Local Market has added Real Food Ilkley as a candidate for Britain’s Favourite Market. People who love Ilkley’s monthly Sunday market are now encouraged to visit the website to vote for Real Food

  • Concert in memory of founder member

    PINSUTI’S next concert showcases some of the music included in Monteverdi’s famous 1610 vespers and his later 1641 vespers. Accompanied by a small ensemble and selected soloists, the choir will be singing a range of this joyous and challenging music

  • A night of rock n’ roll at Queens Hall

    LOCAL group The Jon Palmer Acoustic Band play at Queens Hall November 2. Join popular Otley-based The Jon Palmer Acoustic Band for a night of rock ‘n’ roll at Queens Hall, Burley-in-Wharfedale, with guests Plumhall. The Jon Palmer Acoustic Band

  • Bus fares changing for Wharfedale and Aireborough passengers

    BUS fares on services in Aireborough, Horsforth and Wharfedale will change this weekend. First West Yorkshire’s annual fares review will take effect from Sunday, October 27 and see the cost of most adult single, day and weekly tickets rise.

  • Ilkley new homes development is sold out before completion

    EVERY home is now sold at a new apartment development, occupying an idyllic location on Ilkley’s West View – close to the edge of Ilkley Moor – with physical completion of the scheme due in November. The multi-million-pound conversion of Ilkley

  • Otley Carnival beneficiaries named

    OTLEY Carnival Committee has named the groups that will benefit from next year’s event. Otley Community Allotment, Otley Maker Space and Otley Old People’s Welfare Centre will all receive a share of the proceeds from the 2020 carnival. Otley

  • Spilt Milk at Guiseley Theatre

    A NEW theatre company will perform its first original play in Guiseley next month. By The Play Theatre Productions will present Spilt Milk at 7.30pm on November 16 at Guiseley Theatre. Spilt Milk is a comedy based in a fictional supermarket,

  • Fundraising runner completes top European marathon

    AN OTLEY runner who has raised thousands for charity has completed his latest overseas race. Danny Cooney finished the Munich Marathon on Sunday, October 13. The challenge was part of his latest fundraising push - this time to raise money for

  • Nature Notes

    Jenny Dixon Wharfedale Naturalists Society wharfedale-nats.org.uk LAST week saw a change of duvet for us – as the first frosts began to nip. Out in the garden preparations were also going on: coal tits hurrying to cache seed from the feeder

  • Theatre Review: There Are No Beginnings at The Leeds Playhouse

    Theatre Review: There Are No Beginnings at The Leeds Playhouse, in the new Bramall Rock Void Theatre SPANNING the Yorkshire Ripper’s active years (1975-80), Charley Miles’ BSL accompanied new play, There Are No Beginnings, focuses on how the lives

  • Theatre review: Kinky Boots at the Alhambra Theatre

    Theatre Review: Kinky Boots at The Alhambra Theatre THE interior and exterior of Price & Sons’ fictional shoe factory is where much of the action takes place. Here the show opens with Price Senior (Andy Watkins) singing “the most beautiful thing