SOME tickets are still available for a performance of The Sword in the Stone in Otley tomorrow. Puppetry and some dazzling costumes will feature in the Image Musical Theatre production, which takes place at Otley Courthouse from 2pm. Tickets
NEW dance classes have started up at Pool-in-Wharfedale. The weekly Strictly Ballroom and Latin classes take place in the Village Hall at 8.30pm on Thursdays.
WASHBURN Valley residents are being asked to join a mass litter-pick this weekend. Organised by Washburn Parish Council, the clean-up will take place in Timble, Norwood and Fewston from 9.45am to noon on Saturday, April 11. The Fewston event
LOCAL band Time Warp will be playing classic hits from the 50s, 60s, 70s and later at the Dalesway Hotel, Leeds Road, Ilkley, on Saturday, April 18, from 9.15pm.
ADDINGHAM Cinema Club has two film screenings coming up this month and next. Before I Go To Sleep will be shown at Addingham Memorial Hall, Main Street, on Friday, April 17. On Friday, May 15, the club will screen Theory of Everything.
OTLEY Ukulele Orchestra performed to millions this week when Channel 4 News came to town. Krishnan Guru-Murthy cycled into Otley on Tuesday to gauge local political feeling ahead of May’s General Election. The presenter, with TV film crew,
BURLEY-in-Wharfedale milliner Beth Hughes, of By Betty, was chosen as just one of nine finalists in a recent hat design competition, run by James Lock & Co, whose hats regularly adorn the heads of the royal family. “I was thrilled to be chosen
BEREAVED Ilkley residents and new parents now have to travel to Keighley or Bradford city centre to register a birth or a death, as Bradford Council has withdrawn its weekly local registrar sessions. Ward councillor Anne Hawkesworth (Ind, Ilkley
A COMMUNITY has paid tribute to a long-serving parish councillor and magistrate who continued with his duties while facing illness. Members of village organisations including Addingham Parish Council were among the congregation who paid their respects
THE FOLLOWING planning applications have been received by Bradford Council: Addingham: Extension to approved agricultural worker’s dwelling, Brighton House Farm, Intake Lane. Addingham: Construction of single-storey extension, 10 Nursery Lane.
SINGER-SONGWRITER Colin Vearncombe will perform in Otley next week. The musician enjoyed widespread success in the 1980s as Black, with hits like Wonderful Life. He will take the stage at Korks Wine Bar from 8pm on Thursday. Tickets cost £12
A FAMILY fun day in Horsforth this weekend will raise money for Epilepsy Action. The national charity is joining forces with online retailer Tiger Sheds at the launch of its new show site at Woodlands DIY store in Horsforth. The launch, from 10am
POLICE are appealing for the driver of a red car to come forward to help their investigation into the death of an Otley cycling coach. Craig Armitage, 44, was taking part in the Otley Reliability Ride on Sunday, February 15, when he was in a collision
A WHARFEDALE head teacher has been hailed as “an inspiration” by a national leader of education. Dame Alison Peacock in a Times Educational Supplement article named Sally Fox, the head teacher of Pool-in-Wharfedale C of E Primary School, as one
OTLEY’S Business Improvement District has recorded a major underspend in its first year. The scheme (Bid) uses money, provided by businesses within its area giving one per cent of their rateable value annually, to invest in town centre improvements
LABOUR’S Leeds North West branch has had to send out 15,000 leaflets of apology for making a false claim about a rival election candidate. Parliamentary candidate Alex Sobel and the Leeds North West Labour Party have also been forced to pay costs
ANTI windfarm campaigners are celebrating the refusal of a scheme that would have seen four new turbines go up near the Washburn Valley. Tapar had applied to install the 110 metre high turbines on the edge of the Nidderdale Area of Outstanding
WORSHIPPERS on Ilkley Moor watched the sun rise above the mist of Easter Sunday morning at a Churches Together service at the Cow and Calf Rocks at 6.15am, to mark the resurrection of Christ. The Rev Dick Watson of All Saints Church, who led the
A FORMER nightclub is set to open its doors in November as Ilkley’s first commercial cinema for more than 40 years. Work is underway at the former Il Trovatore nightclub in Leeds Road after Bradford Council officers granted permission for the 56
A BIT of good fortune never goes amiss, and Guiseley manager Mark Bower reckons his team are due a change of luck with four games left in their Vanarama Conference North season, starting with a derby at Bradford Park Avenue on Saturday.Sandwiched between
TICKETS are to go on sale for the Ilkley AEGON Trophy – the highest-ranking tournament to be played in Yorkshire – next Tuesday. The men's and women's events, which take place at Ilkley Lawn Tennis & Squash Club (ILTSC) from Saturday, June
By his lofty standards, Jonathan Brownlee's 2014 was quieter than usual. Despite a brilliant Commonwealth Games campaign and one World Triathlon Series win in Stockholm, he fell off the podium in a few races, breaking his consecutive run of WTS medals
OTLEY’S Frank Beresford continued his build up for the London Marathon with victory in the 20th Guiseley Gallop 10k trail race. He covered the course in 36min 8sec to hold off the challenge of Chris Miller from Harrogate Harriers. The race,
Kippax 2 Pool 2LEADERS Pool surrendered a two-goal lead as they were held to their second draw in three games on an afternoon when their Division One tittle rivals Carlton won to reduce their lead to ten points.Carlton have three games in hand as well
