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David Porter, Financial Planning Consultant, Armstrong Watson LLP

BUSINESS COLUMN: Avoiding child benefit trap
By David Porter, Financial Planning Consultant, Armstrong Watson LLP

A puss moth

NATURE NOTES: Monitoring moths in spring

Channel 4’s Brendan Sheerin will be on stage this July at Ghyll Royd School

Coach Trip star to make a stop in Ilkley!

Ready to roll - Gordons’ Philip Paget (second from right) is urging riders to sign up for the Wharfedale Ton

Return of Wharfedale Ton cycling challenge to raise vital funds for Bradford hospice

Taken by Julie Addyman, seen around Low Snowdon

Reader Photographs Magical scenery and beautiful birds

Sculptures at the Himalayan Gardens, Grewelthorpe, near, Ripon, by Janet Kitching

Reader Photographs

Wharfedale Amnesty Group meets to mark 60 years of Amnesty International at the Amnesty plot in Darwin Gardens, Ilkley

Wharfedale Amnesty Group meets to mark 60 years of Amnesty International

Askwith's phone box

New lease of life for Askwith phone box

Mackienzie Erichs took this photograph at the river in Otley

Reader Photographs Serene swans and stunning sunsets

Crown green bowls.

Bowls open weekend

Liberal Democrat candidate Steve Spoerry is pictured with Mayor of Ilkley Mark Stidworthy near one of the threatened fields

Liberal Democrat candidate for Ilkley Town Council by-election

Medics in India with one of the donated pieces of equipment

Aireborough Rotary appeal

Walk around the village of Long Preston

WALK: ‘Stile’ challenge on river walk

Cricketers in a West Yorkshire village making their selection. Picture: Jill Mead

Tell us about your club's cricket teas

Ormsgill Green Lime kiln by Martin and Diane Hirst

GALLERY: Your great photographs from around the area

Gold bullion. File photo. PA

Victims lose £500,000 in North Yorkshire gold bullion scam

An image of what the helipad would like

Helipad plan for hospital

Cllr Susan Hinchcliffe

Covid testing stepped-up in district amid fears over Indian variant

Bradford District and Craven has delivered its 500,000th dose of the vaccine

500,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine delivered across Bradford district and Craven

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Bradford pushes ahead with enhanced testing for Covid variant

MP Robbie Moore

Ilkley's MP welcomes discounted homes scheme

Wensleydale Creameries is looking for staff

Jobs in famous creamery

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9 to 5 comes to the Alhambra

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Leeds premiere for six plays

Moorfield summer fun

Summer fun for children in Ilkley area

Charlotte McGuinness Leeds Sports Awards

Leeds Trinity student wins sports award

A baby sleeping peacefully. Picture: Pixabay

Tell us about your new baby

One of the men sought after £800 of Chamnpagne and spirits was stolen

Thieves with Champagne taste sought by police

Ilkley Literature Festival.

Ilkley Literature Festival confirms autumn return

David Richmond, Accounting Partner, Armstrong Watson LLP

COLUMN: Firms urged to comply with MTD scheme

Return of the swallows

NATURE NOTES: Return of the swallows and swifts

Grimwith Reservoir

Don't be tempted to cool off in reservoirs says Yorkshire Water

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Ilkley Clean River Group

Galba - Young people with their banner

Airport protestors call on MP to back inquiry

Action from Otley and Wharfedale at Cross Green. Picture: John Ashton.

Retirement complex plans for Otley Rugby Club site

Yorkshire Water is warning against entering its reservoirs

Warning over cooling off in reservoirs

A planning notice on a footpath

Exemplar scheme for Otley

PALs Patient Liaison Volunteers

Volunteers sought for mental health roles

Otliensians Colts Team Pic - 2018-19

Otley event for young rugby players

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Greener travel campaign in Leeds

Nidderdale Rambler bus

Val McKenzie, of the Alzheimer's Society, collecting the proceeds from Sally Hughes and members of the school council

Pupils become dementia friends

Cllr Ros brown, left, and Soroptimist President Margaret Cook, right

Ilkley Soroptimists meet

The stuck sheep. Picture Bentham Fire Station

Fire crews successfully rescue sheep stuck in a hole near Gaping Gill

Cllr Ros Brown and Cllr Mark Stidworthy last year

Ilkley's mayor and deputy re-elected

Michael Pidd ran 10k a day in May for charity

Raising funds for charity

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Otley Squash Club to re-open

Volunteer Sylvia Tilford (left), founder of the Burley Summer Festival, and the Grove Bookshop's Nikki Ford (right), holding the winning books from each award. Also pictured is Nikki's young daughter.

Grove Bookshop donates to Burley Library

Graduation ceremonies for the class of 2020

Ceremonies for the class of 2020

Skipton canal basin. Picture Andrew Fitzgibbon

Drifting by the Leeds and Liverpool - a tapestry of life along the canal

Malham Tarn south bank

WALK: Rich rewards on a ‘Great’ walk

The River Wharfe, in Ilkley, on Thursday, June 25, last year just a day after a Dispersal Order was put in place. There was a significant police presence

New powers approved for bad behaviour fines in Ilkley Riverside

Alice Davis, trainee firefighter, Ilkley

West Yorkshire Fire & Rescue Service launch recruitment drive for rural Yorkshire towns

Volunteer Sue Lister with Helen Hawney

Ilkley Manor House achieves volunteering quality mark