Striking refuse workers will consider an offer tomorrow that could lead to the end of a six-week dispute in Leeds. The offer was made on Wednesday at the end of a long series of negotiations, and will be put to GMB and Unison shop stewards and members
STRIKING refuse workers will consider an offer tomorrow (Friday) that could lead to the end of a six week dispute in Leeds. The offer was made on Wednesday at the end of a long series of negotiations, and will be put to GMB and Unison shop stewards
Under-threat domestic violence charity Behind Closed Doors could be thrown a £150,000 lifeline. The Otley-based group, which helped more than 500 women last year and is the only one of its kind in north-west Leeds, is facing closure in 2010
As Ken Creek (Letters, Wharfedale Observer, October 8) and everyone in this area knows, if they can be honest just for one moment instead of all this early cynical electioneering: we have a first-class MP who has shown himself to stand up for the area
Trains on the Wharfedale Line are not split into first and second class, but the next train arriving at the local station could soon be of a lower standard. There was always a nagging suspicion that ‘new’ carriages promised for the Wharfedale Line might
A passenger group is calling on all commuters to lobby their MPs over outdated carriages being sent by the Government to ease overcrowding. Wharfedale Rail Users’ Group is urging Wharfedale Line passengers to tackle their elected representatives, calling
Otley 36 Sedgley Park 29 Another exciting performance from Otley’s youngsters has the side now firmly settled in mid-table, two points above their opponents who gained two bonus points from this encounter. The way they started a bonus point looked
Ciaran Miller, one of Otley Karate Centre’s 14-year-old black belt stars, returned home with a cherished bronze medal from the World Union of Karate Federation’s Cadet European Championships. The championships, held for the first time in Constanta,
Kendal Town 1 Guiseley 0 GUISELEY went out of the FA Cup on Tuesday night when their re-play at Kendal saw the home side triumph by a solitary goal after Guiseley had hit a post and then failed from the penalty spot. Steve Kittrick’s
The children at Froebelian School in Horsforth welcomed a special ‘bear’ who attended a charity assembly. The bear – aka pupil Millen Singh-Olak – was holding a large cheque for Browning House, a Leeds-based charity that helps children and their families
Theatregoers will get a taste of the workhouse when gruel is served up to them during a production about Victorian England. Audiences at Guiseley Theatre will have the dubious pleasure of sampling the dish before the opening gala night of a show about
It has been described by one of the country’s leading authors as an ‘inhuman condition’, reducing the final years of sufferers to a long, bad dream. Alzheimer’s disease affects more than 400,000 Britons – all of whom face years battling a degenerative
1884 ON Thursday afternoon in last week, about half-past four o’clock an accident happened at the Long Row Quarry, Horsforth, which belongs to Messrs Whitaker Brothers, stone merchants and contractors, Horsforth. A large heap of soil was being removed
A ROAD closure in Otley has so far failed to result in any major disruption. Improvement works to East Chevin Road began on Monday and is due to continue until at least the end of next week. But despite ongoing roadworks to repair a gas leak also taking
MPs for Wharfedale and Aireborough are not being asked to repay expenses claims, as scrutiny of MPs’ claims goes on nationally. The MPs for the Keighley, Leeds North West, Pudsey and Shipley constituencies have received letters from Sir Thomas Legg,
He may be 103 but that doesn’t stop Frank Bagshaw travelling the world. The Horsforth resident and former RAF squadron leader, has recently returned from a Baltic cruise. And today he is celebrating his birthday with his 103-year-old
AN appearance by the Gurkhas and an anonymous donation has helped fundraiser Irene Willis hold her most successful ever Poppy Appeal concert. The sell-out show at Prince Henry’s Grammar School in Otley on Saturday, featuring music from Drighlington Brass
