THE RFU have announced the final standings for the 2019/20 season across the community game, using a formula based around home and away records to determine promotion and relegation. It affects several clubs across the district, with some more fortunate
BUSINESSES in the Leeds region are being urged to come forward to help supply vital equipment to the NHS. Companies are being asked to provide essential items including protective masks, gowns, hand sanitiser and medical testing equipment.
CAMPAIGNERS are calling on pub companies to stop charging rents during the COVID-19 lockdown. Otley Pub Club and the British Pub Confederation are among those demanding a cancellation of commercial rents while inns stay closed. Pubs across the
BURLEY-in-Wharfedale couple Alf and Betty Robinson, both aged 91, celebrated their platinum wedding anniversary on April 1. It’s been calculated that only 30 couples each year achieve the milestone of 70 years of marriage. Their family was going
ROCK Choir is the largest contemporary choir of the UK with over 32,000 members participating in approximately 400 local communities across the UK. With coronavirus gripping the country and with many of their members in isolation, Rock Choir founder
People are being urged not to give to beggars to help protect them from coronavirus. Leeds City Council is stressing that organised help is available to anyone in need and that no-one in the city needs to beg. It is warning that anyone giving money
THE well-known garden of Lyn and Phil Short at Hill Top, Ilkley will not be opening in 2020, due to the coronavirus restrictions. The garden was scheduled to open on June 3rd and 7th June this year, but following advice from the Chief Executive
AN apartment scheme is set to be built within one of Ilkley’s most prestigious settings, following one of this year’s largest development deals in the town, which was negotiated by estate agent, Patrick McCutcheon, from Dacre, Son & Hartley. Set
AN OTLEY parent has been talking about the challenges of home schooling during the coronavirus lockdown. Many parents across the country have found they are now in charge of their children’s day-to-day education following the closure of their schools
THE creative and arts sectors in the Bradford district have been devising a host of imaginative ways to help to reduce social isolation and improve the mental health and wellbeing of residents during the coronavirus outbreak. To support this, Bradford
BOTH of the Yorkshire Air Ambulance's (YAA) helicopters are unable to respond to emergencies due to the redeployment of all its critical care paramedics to the frontline. It comes just days after it was announced that the YAA’s critical care consultants
OTLEY Food Bank has received an ‘eggscellent’ donation from a local school. Prince Henry’s Grammar School has delivered a full bag of chocolate Easter eggs to the food bank. The eggs had been donated by staff at the school for its annual charity
OTLEY’S MP is encouraging people to support Otley Food Bank. The local food bank helps residents in the town and surrounding areas including Menston, Burley-in-Wharfedale, Guiseley, Leathley and Pool-in-Wharfedale. They are currently busier than
SWITCHED on teachers from Yeadon Westfield Infant School are making sure their pupils don’t miss out on valuable lessons during the Coronavirus lockdown. Dedicated teachers at the school have set up their own youtube channel and are producing fun
GLIMPSES of more than a century of life in Menston can be seen in these photographs. The images, from the archives of Aireborough Historical Society, date back as far as around 1900, and give an insight into the changing life of the area. The
A WHARFEDALE MP is urging the Government to push for more ambitious environmental targets - despite a key climate summit being postponed. Dozens of world leaders and some 26,000 people were set to attend the COP26 UN climate change conference in
THE team at Ilkley Manor House has been working together to put imaginative content on its social media platforms so as many people as possible will be able to enjoy it while the house is closed due to coronavirus. The team has called the programme
SHOPPERS in Wharfedale and Aireborough could soon be able to pick up a copy of The Big Issue at their local Sainsbury’s supermarket. The supermarket chain has started stocking the publication, which helps homeless people generate vital income, online
A WASHBURN Valley clergyman is fasting to raise funds for a farming charity. The Rector of the Benefice of Washburn and Mid-Wharfe, Reverend Stephen McCaulay, is sticking to a limit of just 800 calories a day during Lent. The money he raises
AIREDALE Hospital has taken delivery of a second mobile cancer care unit. It will help look after cancer patients during the coronavirus outbreak. The new so-called ‘cancer bus’ has arrived with a nursing support vehicle from the charity, Hope
THIS week’s Picture of the Week was taken by Mike Pratt. It shows lambs at Hag Farm, Burley-in-Wharfedale, with Almscliffe Crag in the background. If you have a photograph you would like to see published in the paper (they don’t need to have been
THE winner of theU3A Yorkshire Landscape Photo Competition has been announced. Ilkley & District U3A launched its landscape photograph competition last November in the members’ in-house magazine, the EYE. Members have been voting in an online
LOCAL Chartered Accountants Wilkinson and Partners are embracing technology to deliver free tax advice sessions to people in their own homes and offices. Branded as ‘free tax clinics’, these one-to-one sessions are designed to help local business
OTLEY Town chairman Kai Arter shares the sentiments of many lower non-league teams who feel disappointed in the Football Association's ruling of voiding the 2019/20 season for clubs playing in steps 3-7 of the football pyramid. The FA announced
