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  • Fully funded PhD studentships

    LEEDS Trinity University is giving research opportunities through its funded PhD Studentships programme The programme will see four students embark on individual PhD theses at the university. Each PhD is fully funded by Leeds Trinity, and students

  • Brown bin collections to restart in Leeds

    BROWN bin collections will start again in Leeds later this month after the resumption was slightly delayed because of Covid 19. A Leeds City Council spokesman said: "Due to the continued impact of Covid19 and lockdown three on staffing levels,

  • Three of a kind is subject of photography competition

    ASKED to offer three takes on the same subject, Tim Sawyer from Bramhope offered three images that were artistic variations on the famous Gormley figures on Crosby Beach. They very much caught the eye of Ilkley Camera Club’s visiting judge, Kylie-Ann

  • Photography comes naturally to Ilkley Camera Club members

    ASKED to capture scenes of nature, it is not unusual for Ilkley Camera Club members to produce some top quality images. But last month’s nature competition saw a standard that particularly impressed visiting judge Monica Weller, a Fellow of the

  • Nature Notes

    by Steve Westerman Wharfedale Naturalists Society IN my last Nature Notes, at the beginning of February, I argued for the value to wildlife of having some undisturbed areas along the banks of the river Wharfe as it flows down to Ilkley, and

  • The men who made their fortunes in Aireborough's mills

    MILLS have dominated the landscape of Guiseley, Yeadon and Rawdon for many generations - creating employment for some and vast fortunes for others. These photographs from the online archive of Aireborough Historical Society show some of the people