AN OTLEY-BASED dog sport team is celebrating a victorious start to its new season. Wharfedale Woofs Flyball Club were in action for the first time in the 2019 Outdoor Season recently when they travelled to Epworth, North Lincolnshire. The club entered
MORE Lancastrian guests are coming to Ilkley Soul Club with Garry Place and Shaun Callon set to join resident DJs Keith Hudson, Trevor Lofthouse, Danny Steel and Ian Smith on the decks. Last month’s special guest was Glenn Walker Foster, who hails
AN ARTISAN sausage maker from Burley in Wharfedale has been given the seal of approval by Coeliac UK for his gluten free sausages. Michael Oliver, who owns Primal Cuts, is now licensed by Coeliac UK to carry the crossed grain symbol on his sausages
Nature Notes By Jenny Dixon Wharfedale Naturalists Society (wharfedale-nats.org.uk) Sometimes our most familiar creatures set us puzzles. Dunnocks are regular visitors to our feeders: three of them have been in a state of high excitement
By Rev Richard Walker – Vicar of St. John’s Church, Yeadon EASTER Sunday in our home requires a toy hammer. It has become a tradition in our family since my children were small. The hammer is the only item remaining from a long discarded toy
HAUNTING images taken by an amateur photographer show life in a Yeadon mill as the Victorian era drew to an end. Day to day life in Manor Mill was captured by manager Ernest Ethelbert Slater - a prolific photographer who has left behind a remarkable
OTLEY-BASED photographer Steve Davey captured this striking view of Arthington Viaduct. Mr Davey, who is inspired by the local landscape and its landmarks, took the shot under blue skies on April 10. In a recent interview he said: “My advice
THE savage avenger-thriller You Were Never Really Here is Ilkley Film Society’s next screening on Sunday, April 28 (8pm at Ilkley Playhouse). Joaquin Phoenix, who won Best Actor at Cannes for his performance, plays Joe, a professional retriever
Review: Mary Coughlan at King’s Hall, Ilkley The end of a triumphant but gruelling tour of several continents saw Mary Coughlan needing infusions of lemon and honey ‘and stuff’ at King’s Hall on Tuesday, April 16. But the voice held up and she
AN AWARD-WINNING teenage singer from Otley has reached the final of a major talent contest. Emeli Mumford made it through an audition, heat and semi-final to reach the ultimate stage of West End Calling, the UK’s national musical theatre singing
TWO walks in Otley have raised more than £500. Student Maisie Dixon organised the Sunday, April 14 events to generate funds for her volunteering trip to the Fijian islands this summer. Some 35 people turned out to take part in one of the two
JESSICA Lee Morgan is to play a free show at Ilkley the day before her headline performance at this year’s Carnival. The singer - the daughter of Welsh musician Mary Hopkin who achieved fame in the 1970s with Those Were the Days - will perform at
TWO Otley choirs will be joining forces to perform for a good cause next month. Otley Courthouse Choir and Otley Singers are teaming up under the banner of Voices Together in support of Singing for the Brain. Singing for the Brain is a fun-focused
A ‘STUNNING celebration’ of the music and life of Whitney Houston is coming to Bradford. The award-winning Whitney - Queen of the Night will be presented at St George’s Hall on Friday, May 10. The show’s line-up of musicians and artists take
THOSE who saw 2017’s Loving Vicent or who recently watched Exhibition on Screen’s Van Gogh & Japan will know a little about how fragile Vincent van Gogh was as he came to his later years. At Eternity’s Gate is an experimental biographical drama
A PIONEERING campaign to create a town of lifesavers is set to be rolled out across the country after huge success in Ilkley. A total of 250 people signed up for the Prepared to Safe a Life campaign which was launched by Ilkley's Virtual College
By Andrew Mitchell, Tax Partner, Armstrong Watson What’s the difference between BBC and ITV? No, it’s nothing to do with commercial advertising versus a licence fee but rather a story of two TV presenters in similar circumstances who came away
THE Aire-Wharfe Cricket League season starts this weekend and champions Otley will be looking to defend their title. The Otley club open their season at Horsforth CC, the team they beat on the final game of last season to secure the title. |"
WITH three games of the season remaining, Guiseley joint-manager Russ O'Neill says his side are ready to take points over Easter to boost their survival hopes. The Lions travel to the North East to face eighth-placed Blyth Spartans tomorrow before
AN OTLEY man is in training to take on one of the world's highest mountains. Simon Birkby will ascend Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania next autumn in memory of his father, Howard, who died of cancer last year after being diagnosed 14 months before.
