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  • Street cleaning in Yeadon

    KEEPING the street clean was a communal activity when these women were pictured back in 1910. The Aireborough Historical Society photographs on South View Terrace were originally taken onto glass slides by E E Slater of Hopeville House, Yeadon.

  • Welcoming book sent to Otley schools

    SCHOOLS across Otley are being sent copies of a book that celebrates diversity. Otley Welcomes is taking the action to help spread the message that the local community is an inclusive one. The group’s new sponsor-a-book scheme aims to buy and

  • Choir to bring romantic era to Leeds

    HORSFORTH Choral Society is bringing the music of Paris to Leeds in their autumn concert, featuring Fauré’s Requiem and other French choral works. ‘Maîtres de Paris’, on Friday, November 15 at St Margaret’s Church in Horsforth, will showcase French

  • Angry Wharfedale Poets are fuming

    THE Wharfedale Poets – a group of award-winning writers based in and around the Ilkley area – will be breaking new ground on Thursday, November 21st at Ilkley Manor House at 8pm with their presentation Fuming - a sequence of poems designed to express

  • Sounds from a golden era of music

    FOR 50 years the Pasadena Roof Orchestra has been re-creating the sounds of a golden era of music from the 1920s and 1930s to widespread acclaim. At King’s Hall, Ilkley on Thursday, November 28 (7.30pm), the audience will be treated to songs from

  • Brexit Party candidate announced for Leeds North West

    THE BREXIT Party has announced details about its Parliamentary candidate for Leeds North West. Graeme Webber is standing for the seat in the Thursday, December 12 General Election. The 60 year old, who is married with a daughter, is a former

  • Boat painting raises funds for Filey Lifeboat

    A BOAT painting ‘Rusty Coble’ donated by Addingham artist Tony Dexter has raised more than £500 for the RNLI Lifeboat in Filey. The painting of a Filey fishing boat was won by James and Kim Hodgson of the White Lodge Hotel in Filey after an auction

  • School supports Guide Dogs

    STUDENTS at Ilkley Grammar School had a non uniform day recently to raise money for Guide Dogs. The Year 8 students started with a diversity day, following which the whole school took part in a dress down day. They were charged £1 for for being

  • Green candidate announced for Leeds North West

    THE GREEN Party has announced its election candidate for Leeds North West. Dr Martin Hemingway, currently the party’s Co-ordinator for the Yorkshire and Humber region, is an experienced politician. He was a Leeds City Councillor for 12 years up

  • Election candidate visits bone marrow charity

    ONE of the Parliamentary candidates for Leeds North West has been showing his support for a health charity. Kamran Hussain, who is standing for the Liberal Democrats in the constituency, visited Leeds Marrow during its donor recruitment day.

  • Nature Notes

    By Denis O’Connor Wharfedale Naturalists Society ON an October visit to southern Spain my wife was confronted by a large green insect clinging to the back of her chair, a predatory looking creature with front legs raised as though about to pounce

  • New twist to alien abduction on Ilkley Moor

    125 Years Ago - 1894 At about half part four o’clock yesterday afternoon, an accident befell Mrs. H. Ickringill, of Brook Street, Ilkley, she being run over by a trap belonging to Mr. T. Grunwell. It appears that Mrs. Ickringill, in company with

  • Wonderful concert

    STEETON Male Voice Choir performed its annual concert at King’s Hall in Ilkley under the baton of musical director Catherine Sweet. They were joined on the stage by the City of Bradford Brass Band under their musical director Lee Skipsey Choir spokesman

  • Driver freed after Apperley Bridge collision

    THE driver of a hatchback had to be cut free from his car in Apperley Bridge last night after his vehicle was in collision with a HGV. The motorist in his late teens suffered minor injuries in the road traffic collision at about 10pm on Harrogate

  • Muddy Myrtle Park provides a test for local riders

    JENSON Young, son of former Ilkley resident Mike Young, won the men’s race at the fourth round of the Yorkshire Points Cyclo-Cross Series at Myrtle Park in Bingley on Sunday. The Garden Shed UK-Scott RT racer won by almost five minutes from Shibden

  • Fire cover concerns raised after Ilkley blaze tragedy

    ILKLEY'S outgoing MP John Grogan is pressing West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service for answers on the level of cover in the town following a fatal fire last week. An 89-year-old woman died in the blaze at a flat on Cowpasture Road on the morning

  • Ilkley survive scare to beat Salts in cup

    ILKLEY Town survive a scare to win a West Yorkshire Challenge Cup tie 3-2 at Salts FC on a cold and wet Saturday afternoon. Ilkley started the game brightly and broke the deadlock early on when Joe Garside’s drilled shot on the edge of the box from