A NEW local contact tracing system has been launched in Leeds today to boost efforts to fight COVID-19. The Leeds COVID-19 Connect and Support Service is being launched by Leeds City Council in partnership with Public Health England, enhancing ongoing
A CELEBRITY scientist from Otley has broadcast his Zap! show to thousands of pupils across Yorkshire. Dr Marty Jopson held the Otley Science Festival event, focusing on electricity, from The Grammar School at Leeds (GSAL). More than 2,000 children
THE FAMILY of a young woman whose body was allowed to decompose in a mortuary will have to wait up to three weeks for the outcome of a court hearing. Emily Whelan, 25, was found unresponsive in her bedroom in Yeadon in November 2016 and later died
TO mark National Tree Week and to commemorate its 90th birthday pupils at Moorfield School in Ilkley decided it would be lovely to plant a tree in the grounds of the school in Ben Rhydding Road. Mrs Tina Herbert, Head of Moorfield School and Nursery
THREE friends have set themselves a Christmas Challenge to raise essential funds for the Sue Ryder Manorlands Hospice. Sue Wood, of Denton, Janet Sharpe, of Ilkley and Jill Riley, of Addingham, plan to walk 100km by Christmas and are looking for
WHARFEDALE German Circle has used the lockdown period to create a user-friendly new website. The site, www.germancircle.ilkley.org, is hosted by ilkley.org and replaces the group’s previous site which was produced - from scratch - by a WGC member
GUISELEY'S fantastic run away from home of 11 matches unbeaten in the Vanarama National League North finally came to an end at the same venue they suffered their last defeat more than a year ago. AFC Telford United again the victors but in less
A WEEKEND closure of Otley Bridge has passed without major problems. The bridge was shut on Saturday, November 28 and Sunday, November 29 - when a diversion to Pool Bridge was in place - so resurfacing work could be carried out on a section of Bridge
Burley in Wharfedale’s Christmas Lights have been officially switched on. Despite having to cancel this year’s switch on ceremony together with all the usual festivities, due to the pandemic, the village’s lights display remains undimmed. Tom
THE OTLEY-BASED support group for Macmillan Cancer Support is urging people to consider an online donation this Christmas. The charity’s Otley and Wharfedale fundraising group has been unable to hold its usual events this year due to the Covid-19
THE OTLEY Snowman Trail has been cancelled. The annual fundraiser has fallen victim, like fellow festive events including Otley Victorian Fayre and the town’s Christmas Tree Festival, to the impact of the coronavirus. Organiser and Town Councillor
AT the beginning of October Wharfedale Naturalists (WNS) reached its 75th Anniversary. This was celebrated by a major article in this newspaper that highlighted the origins of the Society’s beginnings at the end of the Second World War, its ongoing
by Steve Westerman Wharfedale Naturalists Society CORVIDS are a common sight. This family of birds includes Crows, Rooks, Jackdaws, and Ravens, and also, perhaps less obviously, Magpies and Jays. Corvids are unpopular with many people because
ANYONE passing The Rombalds on Wells Road could be forgiven for thinking it was just another elegant building close to the edge of Ilkley Moor. But with its long history stretching back to the 1830s the Georgian property has had important connections
