A MENSTON art group is staging its first exhibition this month. The Chevin Watercolour Group is displaying paintings in a basement exhibition at the Bramble Bakehouse in Guiseley. The friends who meet every week, are all enthusiastic amateurs
A SHORTLIST of entries for this year’s Yorkshire Village of the Year has been announced. Fifteen villages will vying for the title. They are Addingham, Boston Spa, Brompton by Sawdon, Clapham, Draughton, Grosmont, Hudswell, Ingleton, Keld, Langcliffe
GENERATIONS in Yeadon have grown up enjoying fun at the tarn - or Moor Dam, as it used to be know. These photographs, from Aireborough Historical Society, were all taken in the 1920s. They show a quite different looking tarn - but one which was
MP for Keighley and Ilkley John Grogan gave a talk to the weekly lunch meeting of Ilkley Rotary Club and presented a light-hearted view of life as an MP . He explained the selection processes, the role of the whips office,the regular travelling between
A PUB company is seeking a new licensee to take over a popular Otley inn. Star Pubs and Bars have put a ‘for lease’ sign up outside The Junction Inn, on Bondgate. The company’s website listing - at www.starpubs.co.uk - for the pub says: “The Junction
APPROACH PR is expanding its Ilkley-based team with the addition of business management undergraduate, Finley Howell. Finley, 20, has been appointed as junior account executive while on his placement year at Leeds Beckett University. Before joining
2019 is shaping up to be another busy year for Sarah Siddons Financial Planning and its owner Sarah Siddons, who, due to rapid practice expansion, has welcomed a new financial adviser, Dan Riley, to her team. As a chartered accountant and former
THE new season of meetings for the ladies of Addingham Wednesday Club is now well underway with a lively and varied programme of events which goes through until May 2020. The next meeting will be on Wednesday, October 16. It will feature Chris
A TRAVEL agency with branches in Wharfedale is celebrating winning an industry award. Althams Travel, which has shops on Kirkgate, Otley and The Grove, Ilkley has been named the Best High Street Agency: North West England & North Wales at the Association
ILKLEY’S very own vintage fair celebrates its tenth event in the town with another day-long celebration of all things retro on Saturday, October 26. The Ilkley Vintage Fair has run twice a year at Ilkley Playhouse since April 2015 and this highlight
A LONG established Otley church is seeking to establish its first permanent base in the town. Bethel Church is hoping to turn what used to be James Barber’s tobacconists and gift shop, on Westgate, into a place of worship. The church’s plans
IMAGINE it’s the late 1940s when Britain’s dance halls were reverberating to the big band sound and the latest dance crazy sweeping the land was jive. Middle class Britain looked on with disdain at this new dance sensation that had been brought
THE Harrogate Convention Centre is opening its doors for the return of the Country Living Christmas Fair. From December 5 to 9 the pages of the Country Living magazine will be brought to life as visitors can enjoy the full Christmas experience with
TWENTY mile per hour road markings are to be added to several roads in Bramhope. Although a 20mph limit - with speed limit signs - has already been introduced on a number of residential streets residents are reporting that many drivers are ignoring
NEW information boards have been installed at an Otley wildlife site. The display panels, along with new fingerposts, have been introduced to help guide visitors to Gallows Hill Nature Area. Designed by a member of the Friends of Gallows Hill, the
MENTION Ilkley and people will immediately think of the famous moor, White Wells spa bath and Betty’s café. They won’t speak of the characterful Ilkley Cinema, the quirky Swastika Stone or the landmark tower that once graced a Victorian fire station
IN 1984, Janet Ellis broke her pelvis training to make a free fall jump from a Hercules aircraft at 12,000 feet. Back in training, in 1986, she jumped 2,000 feet. But her biggest leap of faith was starting her path as a published author. “I was
LARA Prescott’s debut novel, The Secrets We Kept, a thrilling tale of secretaries turned spies, is in production with the Oscar-nominated producer of La La Land and has been translated into 29 languages. What’s more it was picked by Hollywood star
POET Laureate Simon Armitage launches Ilkley Literature Festival tomorrow. Armitage is a long standing friend and creative collaborator of Ilkley. He will be opening the 2019 festival with a reading of poems from his new collection, Sandettie Light
POLICE have dealt with a youth, who mooned them, as part of an anti-social behaviour (ASB) crackdown. Officers were responding to reports in Shipley, Baildon, Menston and Burley-in-Wharfedale over the past two weeks. One individual received a
NHS organisations across the district are uniting to promote inclusivity. Six health bodies are joining forces in a scheme which aims to tackle healthcare inequalities for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT+) people. The Rainbow Badge
A VITAL step in securing a clean river in Ilkley will be taken this month. The Ilkley Clean River Group is ready to submit an application for designated bathing status for the River Wharfe in Ilkley. The application will be made to The Department
AIREBOROUGH Leisure Centre’s swimming pool has re-opened after major refurbishments. The pool, which has been closed for more than two years, was officially unveiled at the weekend as part of “significant” work at the centre. Improvements at
By Mike Kienlen, Head of Restructuring, Recovery and Insolvency, Armstrong Watson I WAS very sad to hear last week the news of the liquidation of Thomas Cook with the mammoth loss of thousands of jobs and the continuing disruption, cancellation
AN OTLEY opticians has been given a major revamp. Specsavers, which has had a presence in the town centre for 14 years, has had extensive renovations carried out at its Kirkgate base. The work has updated the shop’s entire retail area and increased
A GRANDFATHER of four has made an emotional appeal to find out how he contracted mesothelioma. Former demolition worker Barry Nelson, 74, is searching for answers after being diagnosed with the disease - a form of cancer usually linked to asbestos
A NEW Urgent Treatment Centre is set to open at Wharfedale Hospital in the New Year. The news follows a consultation by NHS Leeds Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) about its proposals to run five centres (UTC) across the city - including one at
ILKLEY Badminton Club have resumed play for the 2019/20 season at Westville House School in Ilkley. Club nights run from 7.45pm to 9.45pm each Monday until next April and four courts provide opportunity for both social and more competitive games
GUISELEY'S joint-manager Marcus Bignot is feeling ambitious ahead of this weekend’s FA Cup clash at Peterborough Sports, saying that he hopes his side can do even better than last year’s memorable run. In 2018/19, they beat Staveley Miners Welfare
MENSTON Cricket Club paid tribute to Ronnie C Beer, vice-president of the club, who died on September 18. Ronnie played an active part at Menston CC from 1970, after being recruited from the then recently built Brooklands estate. In his first
