ONE of Otley's Maypoles has snapped and fallen The smaller Maypole on Manchester Square, opposite Otley Civic Centre, is believed to have fallen over at about 9am on Saturday, September 12. Witnesses report hearing a loud bang at the time and
THIS year, as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, the popular Yarndale festival is going digital and will be held online. Normally held at Skipton Auction Mart and attracting over 7,500 visitors over two days, this year’s Yarndale has been renamed Yarndale
OTLEY Pub Club is seeking new committee members. The group needs to fill the roles of treasurer and website engineer and also needs some general committee members to help with organisational and news gathering tasks. An appeal for new recruits
ILKLEY Town Ladies AFC are embarking on a ground-breaking new season as they aim to promote mental health awareness within the West Riding Ladies League. Each match day and at training the ladies will be wearing their new mental health matters t-shirts
MUSICAL character scarecrows in doorways, gardens and drives - Burley-in-Wharfedale residents and visitors were reminded of all the best in musical entertainment at the end of August during the week-long Festival. There were the well-known musicals
ILKLEY Town could not have wished for a better start to their 2020/21 West Yorkshire League Premier Division campaign as they convincingly beat a solid Huddersfield Amateur side 4-2. Goals from Darren Munday, Tom Fleming, Harry Brown and Tom Smith
THE YORKSHIRE Party is calling for the public to be consulted on different types of devolution, instead of just being asked their views on the Government’s proposals for mayors. The Party believes the public should be given the choice of OneYorkshire
THE SITE of a long-closed Otley pub has been put up for sale - more than a decade after permission was granted to turn it into a care home. Westward Care secured planning permission to convert the Summercross, which stands on East Busk Lane facing
BRADFORD District Care NHS Foundation Trust is celebrating being one of just a few NHS Trusts in the country to receive Cyber Essentials Plus accreditation to protect its IT systems from cyber-attacks. Secure IT systems are central to the delivery
MEMBERS of Olicanian Cricket Club are celebrating after planning permission for a new pavilion was granted, nine months after the club first submitted an application. The Ilkley-based club whose pavilion was destroyed in an arson attack just over
PEOPLE in Leeds are being asked to pull together to help keep the city out of further coronavirus restrictions - and students are being warned not to hold house parties. The appeal from the city council came after the government announcement that
TRANSPORT campaigners in Wharfedale are mourning the death, at the age of 89, of Mr Alan Sutcliffe of Ilkley, a former British Railways senior planner, who for many years was active in local rail and bus groups, and was a noted expert on timetables
AT this time, we are being urged to plant more trees for environmental reasons and to appreciate the value of trees for the nation’s health and well-being. It is therefore very disappointing indeed to witness the wanton destruction of about 20 hybrid
A COMMUNITY choir in Otley has performed together for the first time since March. The members of Otley Action for Older People’s Singing for Pleasure choir have not been able to meet up since the start of the coronavirus lockdown. Instead,
I WOULD like to add our condolences to the many which have been sent to Rachael Stirling on the sad death of her mother, Dame Diana Rigg, last week aged 82. A gifted and glamorous star of stage and screen, Diana Rigg first came to the attention
Review: Manchester Collective in performance at Leeds Town Hall, Friday 11th September 2020 “INTIMATE and intense human experiences built around live music”: this is the strapline of Manchester Collective. An MC performance is not so much
AS part of a district wide consultation on the development of a new cultural strategy for the Bradford District called ‘Culture is our Plan’ creative organisations in Ilkley are coming together to embark on a short public consultation process. "
