STAFF at Leeds Bradford Airport have completed a lockdown challenge to mark Florence Nightingale’s 200th birthday. Employees were asked to mark the occasion - and raise funds for the Yorkshire Air Ambulance while doing so - by running, walking or
THE WORLD-famous City Varieties Music Hall this month turned 155 years old. The theatre in the centre of Leeds is a Guinness World Record holder for the longest-running music hall in the UK. On a day that should be marked with great occasion,
LISTENERS to Ilkley Talking Newspaper were deprived of their recordings from The Gazette for several weeks, due to the Covid-19 crisis. This was because of the necessary lockdown of Abbeyfield Grove House, where Ilkley Talking Newspaper’s studio
Mgr Kieran Heskin Sacred Heart Church, Ilkley THERE’S an apocryphal story of a spy who was captured and sentenced to death by a general of the Persian army. This general had the strange custom of giving condemned criminals a choice between the
THE Bradford district’s three BIDs have joined forces for the first time to launch a unique scheme to help businesses and their staff get ready to bounce back from the Covid-19 lockdown. The Business Improvement Districts in Bradford city centre
THIS family of swans at Otley have been having a testing time. The adults, currently looking after six cygnets, recently became separated from the chicks after they went over the lip of Otley Weir. A number of passersby in Wharfemeadows Park
THE FEEDBACK is in from a study that involved handing out 1,000 face visors in Otley. Retired NHS Consultant Dr Andrew Cobb gave out the visors - an alternative to wearing face masks to protect against COVID-19 - over a six day period in May.
Review: Lake District Low Level and Lake Walks by Vivienne Crow. Published by Cicerone. £9.99 A COUPLE of weeks ago a “memory” popped up on my Facebook page reminding me of a walk in the Lake District four years ago in May 2016 when I had climbed
By Rob Adamson, Restructuring, Recovery and Insolvency Partner, Armstrong Watson WITH the UK Government keen to get the economy moving again, what is the impact on businesses who are dealing with a cash crisis? Social distancing measures come
CAMPAIGNERS are claiming that thousands more people will hear flights if Leeds Bradford Airport's expansion plans proceed. The airport is currently seeking permission to create a new £150 million terminal which would enable it to increase annual
"PEOPLE say it was harsh after three years to be gone five matches into the season, but that's football." These are the words of former Guiseley number two Danny Boshell on him and Mark Bower being sacked at the start of the 2016/17 season. The
ILKLEY director of rugby, Rhys Morgan says it is an honour to represent his country after he was appointed as head coach of the England deaf team. Morgan, who had been the backs coach for the side since last July, takes the top job after Sean Fletcher
