Archive

  • Ilkley and Otley preparing to host annual cycle races

    IT seems that Yorkshire is the centre of British cycle sport this summer, particularly for town centre racing. These events are great for spectators as the racing takes place around street circuits, with riders lapping every couple of minutes. There

  • Final production of the season at Ilkley Playhouse

    OPENING on Thursday 7th July is our final production of the 2021-22 Season, Peter Gill’s overwhelmingly beautiful play The York Realist. Written and first performed in 2001, the play had successful West End runs both then and when revived in 2018.

  • Hundreds turnout for Ilkley Lido summer solstice swim

    HUNDREDS of people started the longest day of the year with a splash - by turning out for a solstice sunrise swim in an out door poor. Around 400 early risers enjoyed a bracing early morning dip in the outdoor pool of the Ilkley Lido to celebrate

  • Ilkley house could be flattened to make way for apartments

    A LARGE Ilkley home could be flattened to make way for a development of apartments. A new planning application submitted to Bradford Council calls for the demolition of Robin Hood, a house on Clifford Road, and sitting within the Middleton Conservation

  • Firefighters prevent a major incident on Ilkley Moor

    THE quick reporting of a smouldering barbecue by a member of the public - and the response of Ilkley firefighters - prevented a major incident on Ilkley Moor. Firefighters from Ilkley Station were called at around 7pm on Sunday, June 19 to a barbecue