THE RFL has released a new update on the latest guidance in community rugby league. Following government advice published on June 1, the following rugby league activity is permitted: Practising of individual skills and fitness activities
DEVELOPERS are appealing against a refusal of planning permission for 57 homes at Pool-in-Wharfedale. The Taylor Wimpey application had been granted outline planning permission at appeal. But last year Leeds City Council rejected the company’s detailed
ILKLEY Town and Otley Town have both shown their support for South Shields’ legal battle for promotion. The north east outfit believe they should be in the National League North next season after they were 12 points clear at the top of the Northern
THIS footbridge at Otley was dislodged by flooding back in February. The bridge normally helps people cross a stream on the north bank of the River Wharfe, at Wharfemeadows Park, but was swept away. Leeds City Council had intended to place it
THE many friends of a well-known Ilkley man lined The Grove on Tuesday morning to pay their respects as his funeral cortege passed The Bandstand. Paul Anning sadly passed away on 17th May 2020 aged 76. Paul was born in Ilkley in 1943 is survived
THE Institute of Physics has donated funds to an Otley campaign to make PPE The £500 donation was given to Otley Maker Space which is producing vital equipment for frontline NHS workers. The institute’s Yorkshire Branch Chairman Mark Wrigley
THE WASHBURN Heritage Centre is to receive the highest award for voluntary groups in the UK. The Fewston based venue, which puts on a varied programme of artistic and social events plus exhibitions, will be presented with the Queen’s Award for Voluntary
A BEAUTY and hair salon owner is putting lockdown to good use by running a marathon for the NHS. Charlotte Hawkins, 31, will run the 26 miles route from Rawdon, where she is staying with her boyfriend, to Skipton on Sunday, June 14. Charlotte
A POLICE inspector has admitted they could have been better-prepared for huge masses of day-trippers who descended on Ilkley at the weekend. In the latest town council meeting for Ilkley, Inspector Khalid Khan heard from a number of residents who
