GUISELEY have confirmed a pitch inspection has been scheduled ahead of their Vanarama National League North clash at Kettering Town this weekend, following heavy rain and the poor forecast ahead. The Lions will be keen for the game to go ahead.
LEEDS City Council has been named one of the most inclusive employers in Britain by the equality charity Stonewall. The ‘Top 100’ list showcases employers who have demonstrated their commitment to LGBT workplace inclusion and Leeds City Council
AN ACCIDENT between a lorry and a car has partially blocked the A65 through Ilkley. The accident is believed to have happened just past the junction with Victoria Avenue on the road towards Addingham and Skipton. People posting on social media
POOL in Bloom is aiming to improve spots around the village this year - and is keen to recruit more volunteers. The group’s long-term aim is to enter Pool-in-Wharfedale into Britain in Bloom but for 2020 it is focused on simply making more areas
A Leeds Trinity University student has been selected for the England Students Women’s Rugby Football League squad. Secondary education, physical education and sport undergraduate Megan Price has been selected to train in the squad as they prepare
A NEW walking group has been specifically created to meet the needs of older walkers living in the Otley and Ilkley area. The Lower Wharfedale Ramblers (LWR) already has four groups catering for different levels of fitness and distance. However,
MEMBERS of Clarke Foley’s Thursday Lunch Club have been enjoying eating their food with new cutlery, which complements their new table clothes, thanks to a donation from Boyes and a private donation. Every Tuesday and Thursday, Clarke Foley volunteers
CHRISTCHURCH Café on The Grove Ilkley, has donated £2,333 to nine different charities in the past 15 months. The money has come from tips given by customers, along with money raised by selling homemade jam and second hand books. The most recent donation
GROVE House craft group, led by volunteer Cath Birch, in the Community Hub, Ilkley, spent the first week of February crafting giant Valentine’s Cards. A loving gesture they wished to send to residents living at their sister home Fern House, Bingley
THE FROEBELIAN School in Horsforth has raised an unprecedented amount for its designated charity in the first five months of the academic year. The independent preparatory school for children aged between three and eleven is off to a flying start
A MASTERPIECE of modern theatre is performed by Bingley Little Theatre next month. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? was written by American playwright Edward Albee as an exploration of the complexities of marriage. The play was described by the Washington
AS THE spring equinox heralds warmer days and lighter nights in March, Phoenix Concert Band returns to St Margaret’s Church in Ilkley with tunes to take the audience away from it all. The band’s concert Music To Escape To promises to evoke dreams
AIREDALE Symphony Orchestra and Leeds Philharmonic Chorus will be joining forces to perform a gala concert on Saturday, February 29 at 7.30pm in Leeds Town Hall. This programme celebrates the very best of American choral and orchestral music and
AN ‘EXPLOSIVE’ play about the suffragette movement will be performed in Otley next month. Woman on Fire tells the story of one of the movement’s lesser known figures, Edith Rigby. The Certain Curtain Theatre production, written by John Woudberg
ADVENTURER and author, Alastair Humphreys, patron of Friends of the Dales, has thrown his weight behind a campaign by walking charity, The Ramblers to restore thousands of miles of lost historic rights of way before it is too late. The Don’t Lose
OVER two weekends volunteer teams from Addingham Civic Society’s Environment Group have planted 1,520 trees on Addingham Moorside. The trees are all native species suited to the soils and climate of the local area. The scheme is the initiative
By David Cousins, Accounting Director, Armstrong Watson MAKING Tax Digital came into force in March 2019 for UK VAT registered businesses with turnover in excess of £85,000. Since then, the vast majority have signed up and are submitting their VAT
by Anila Baig FOR businesswoman Suzanne Watson, the town of Ilkley is pretty much perfect for work, rest and play and an ideal place to bring up a family. The mum-of-two started her career as a journalist in 1989 before moving into PR in 1993
ILKLEY Bowling Club will vote next month on whether to allow women to join as full members for the first time in its history. The crown green bowls club on Skipton Road, which was founded in 1924, has around 1,700 full members who are eligible to
A YOUNG Ilkley man died in Cambodia last week while swimming underwater in a pool at his local gym. Former Ilkley Grammar School (IGS) student, Luke Walley, aged 27, was found dead on Wednesday night in the pool near his home in the Cambodian capital
OTLEY'S MP is demanding assurances that the town's Flood Alleviation Scheme will be delivered on time. Alex Sobel (Lab, Leeds North West) has taken the step following flooding in the town on Sunday, February 9 when the River Wharfe burst its banks
THERE was not much for Guiseley's joint-manager Russ O'Neill and his team to cheer in last weekend's disappointing 2-1 home defeat to AFC Telford United, but he hopes Kennedy Digie's first Lions goal will see him become a deadly defender. Digie
IT was a miserable weekend for Ilkley with matters both on and off the pitch causing problems. Storm Ciara caused havoc up and down the country and the effect on Stacks Field was no different. Heavy winds and rains left the pitch submerged in
