BURLEY Library’s new children’s area has been completed with the delivery of the final piece of furniture. Over the past two years Burley Parish Council has overseen a major reinvestment in the building which houses the community library. Much of
A TRAINEE funeral director who was previously a Methodist minister, has won a top industry award in his first year in the job. Andrew Atkins joined Full Circle Funerals in Guiseley in 2019 and has now been named the UK’s ‘most promising trainee
LAND sales which helped transform the character of Ilkley are the focus of a new exhibition at the Manor House. Ilkley Land Sales has been put together by Alex Cockshott and her fellow Manor House trustees to help show how the town changed from
OTLEY has suffered a third successive weekend of flooding. Continuing stormy weather saw the River Wharfe burst its banks once again in the early hours of Saturday, February 22. By 5.30am the water had started to cover riverside roads and shortly
THE GOLDEN era of rock ‘n’ roll will be brought to Ilkley with a performance of Lipstick On Your Collar. As seen in the West End at The Leicester Square Theatre, the show is set to lift the roof off the King’s Hall with an array of classic hits.
THE OFFBEAT French comedy Jeune Femme is Ilkley Film Society’s next screening. The film will be shown at 8pm on Sunday, March 1 at Ilkley Playhouse. After being dumped by her boyfriend after ten years and locked out of their flat, 31-year-old
BOOTHS in Ilkley made a guest appearance in Sunday’s episode of the hit Northern drama The Last Tango in Halifax. The Bafta award winning series follows two widowed pensioners, Alan and Celia, played by Sir Derek Jacobi and Anne Reid, rekindling
AN ACTRESS from Ilkley is performing in The Sound of Music at Bradford this week. Nicole Farrar landed the role of Liesl in Ben Kenwright’s production of the evergreen musical in her first interview after graduating from drama school. The show
SOME of the biggest names in travel will be gathering in Ilkley this weekend. The inaugural Yorkshire Travel Expo takes place at the King’s Hall and Winter Garden from 10am to 2pm on Saturday, February 29. More than 20 established companies,
GUISELEY surrendered a two-goal half-time lead in a wind-affected game as Gateshead netted twice in the last five minutes to steal a point in a 2-2 draw in National League North. Both clubs dropped one place after the stalemate at Nethermoor with
Review: The Turn of the Screw, Opera North, Leeds Grand Theatre, Tuesday 18th February 2020 BENJAMIN Britten’s The Turn of the Screw is set to a libretto by Myfanwy Piper and adapted from a Victorian horror novella by Henry James. The opera premiered
