BOLTON Priory Church will celebrate All Saints Day this Sunday. All Saints Day is also known as All Hallows Day, Halloween, and celebrates all the Saints of the Church, whether known or unknown. The church is now open every Sunday for the 10.30
OTLEY Players performed The Last Memory by Alan Stockdill at the Philip Coyne Labour Rooms to sell out audiences in October. This is the second time Otley Players has produced this poignant play about Alzheimer’s and all profits have been donated
RAWDON-IN-BLOOM members were out and about last weekend beautifying the village with winter planting. The rockeries at Layton Road and the Emmott Arms have been partially cleared and planted up with winter bedding plants. Rawdon-in-Bloom Vice
A grand sale will be held at Otley Methodist Church next month. A spokesman said: "Book the date of Saturday, 20 November, to come along to the Wesley Hall at the Methodist Church on Boroughgate / Walkergate in Otley to pick up a bargain prior
NEW recycling bins are being installed in Otley this week as part of an initiative by Leeds City Council. The new recycling "on the go" bins are designed for cans, plastic bottles and coffee cups. Otley and Yeadon councillor Colin Campbell
LEEDS Trinity University has announced a "significant" expansion in its academic leadership and investment in its structures to support its new Strategic Plan. Following a wider consultation exercise with academic colleagues, the university’s two
Our roads and ditches were once our sewers. Then the Victorians built a sewage system across the country, a monumental achievement which benefits us to this day. But almost everywhere, including here, there is just one system of pipes, that collectively
ILKLEY'S MP is defending a government vote which will allow raw sewage to be pumped into rivers and the sea. Robbie Moore spoke out amid an angry public backlash across the country after MPs voted against an amendment to stop the discharge of raw
ILKLEY Playhouse is stressing its commitment to audience safety as it gets back into the swing of life after lockdown. Chair of Trustees Geraldine Woodhouse said: "We have been delighted with our audiences’ responses for our productions and events
THE OUTDOOR Writers and Photographers Guild has awarded its prestigious Golden Eagle Award to Colin Speakman in recognition of “outstanding services to the outdoors”. More than half a century of passionate promotion of car-free access to the countryside
BURLEY Probus club has been forced to close after 44 years and 1,000 meetings. The decision was taken against a background off falling membership and the abandonment of meetings during the pandemic. The club was formally wound up at a lunch which
The front page picture in the Ilkley Gazette to reduce the flood risk from Backstone Beck is an important step for the moor. However the exit of the beck into the River Wharfe also needs some attention to reduce the flood risk. I met a representative
AN MP is calling for a parliamentary debate to tackle the 'rising epidemic of spiking by injection'. Keighley and Ilkley MP Robbie Moore has called for the government to hold a full debate on the matter. The topic has come to the forefront
