BRIGHOUSE and Rastrick Band will perform at Otley Parish Church next month. Conducted by Adam Cooke, the band will play from 7.30pm on Saturday, November 9. Tickets cost £15 or £12.50 and are available from Otley Courthouse, Ticketsource at www.ticketsource.co.uk
CHURCHGOERS from Guiseley and Esholt went to Rome for their parish’s annual pilgrimage. Twenty-six parishioners from St Oswald’s, Guiseley, and St Paul’s, Esholt, took part in the trip - visiting many of the holy sites as well as historical locations
A £3.3 million flood defence scheme for Otley has moved a step closer. Details about the project, which Leeds City Council began working on following repeat flooding in the town in 2015, were announced earlier this year. Designed to offer protection
SCHOOL life in the Victorian era can be seen in this series of images dating back more than 120 years. The photographs of the Friends School in Rawdon were all taken in 1897 and are from the archives of Aireborough Historical Society. Wonderful
THE planned new £40 million road to bypass the unstable section of the A59 at Kex Gill between Skipton and Harrogate will include an improved junction close to Fewston Reservoir. The current staggered junction, with a steep climb up Shepherd Hill
AN ILKLEY dare home highlighted the impact of music therapy for residents living with dementia during open group session MHA Glen Rosa care home, in Ilkley, held an open music therapy session to highlight the positive impact music therapy has on
‘ONE of the most important and exciting things the town can do’. That is how the new leader of Otley Town Council has described its aim of hitting a carbon-neutral target by 2030. The council made the ambitious commitment earlier this year at
AN MP has thrown his weight behind attempts by rail bosses to secure Government funding for improvements at Burley-in-Wharfdale station. Shipley MP Philip Davies has written to Transport Ministers setting out what changes are needed at the station
Review: Benyounes Quartet with Hélène Clément at the King’s Hall, October 8, 2019 THE new season of Ilkley Concert Club opened last Wednesday with a concert of string quintets. The Benyounes Quartet, who have forged a growing reputation over
A HORSFORTH-based company is helping a school in Zimbabwe to set up its first computer skills facility. Personal care ingredients manufacturer Stephenson has donated seven PCs and computer equipment to Pakati Secondary School in Murehwa South district
PROTESTERS braved wet conditions to hold a Keep Space for Peace Week demonstration outside RAF Menwith Hill. The event, part of a week of protests called for by the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, was held outside the
FOLLOWING this year’s Ilkley Half Marathon, event organisers, Ilkley and District Round Table, have applied for a premises licence to hold future public events at West Holmes Field. The inaugural Ilkley Half Marathon raised in excess of £30,000
A WHARFE valley primary school has been ranked the top small school in the north of England in a celebration of the Independent Schools sector. Ghyll Royd School and Pre-School in Burley-in-Wharfedale were finalists in the Independent Schools of
GUISELEY Art Club will raise money for the town’s In Bloom group when it stages an exhibition next month. A proportion of sales will be donated to Guiseley in Bloom when the event is held at the Methodist church on Oxford Road. The exhibition
THE next Wharfedale Naturalists talk will be a presentation on the impact of climate change being experienced on earth. The presentation will take place on Tuesday, October 22 at 7.30pm at Christchurch, The Grove, Ilkley. Visitors are welcome (£2.50
