COVID rates in Leeds have increased sharply - up to 157.3 per 100,000 compared to 82.2 per 100,000 last Friday. Positivity rates have also gone up to 5.8 per cent, compared to 3.4 per cent last week. In a tweet today the CEO of Leeds City Council
MEMBERS of Ilkley based charity, Give a Child a Hope (GACAH ), which supports the education of approximately 150 of the most disadvantaged children in Matugga, Uganda, were moved and inspired by the efforts of the team at the Revival Centre Schools
A WIDE range of goods will be on sale at Otley Courthouse’s monthly craft fair. The event on Sunday, June 27, will feature a variety of local hand-made crafts for sale. Admission is free and everyone is welcome to attend the fair, which will
AT last Monday’s Town Council meeting Ilkley’s Mayor, Cllr Mark Stidworthy, drew the winners of Ilkley & District u3a’s prize draw. All those who visited the u3a’s online Photographic Exhibition and voted for their favourite photo were automatically
LEEDS Trinity University has collaborated with Unity Homes and Enterprise to create the ‘Voices of Windrush’ broadcast, a series of films profiling Windrush reformers and their stories of resilience. The series includes interviews with influential
By Revd Caroline Brown, Curate of St John’s Church, Yeadon I WONDER if you recall a song called ‘It’s Not Easy Bein’ Green’, sung by ‘Kermit the Frog’ on the television series Sesame Street and the Muppet Show. It was originally published in
ILKLEY historian, Professor Mike Dixon, has recently published a biography of his local hero, Robert Collyer. Collyer was a blacksmith in Ilkley who emigrated to America in 1850 and became a famous preacher in Chicago and New York. His story captured
KEIGHLEY Pride’s season of celebration opens with drag show Doll’s Haus. Keighley drag artist Doll’s Nest will host the evening of comedy cabaret and camp, which will feature an array of diverse local acts including Smashby and Skipton’s favourite
ILKLEY Manor House opens to visitors again from Saturday, July 3 with a small exhibition ‘Super at 60’ looking back over the last ten years of the Manor House’s development as well as revisiting the exhibition ‘Fantastic at 50’ from 2011. The Solar
FOUR Guiseley School students have been selected as the region winners of a census competition. Pia Hutchinson, April Fletcher, Sophie Hamilton and Lauren Papworth, from Year 8, were successful in the Census 2021: It's Our Story competition.
A NEW rockery at the entrance to Rawdon village has been planted up. The attractive new feature is already proving a hit with local people and passers-by. Phil Gomersall from Rawdon in Bloom said: "Volunteers were out on Saturday planting up
A report examining security at Manchester Arena where 22 people were murdered and hundreds were injured in a suicide bombing at the end of an Ariana Grande concert in May 2017 is set to be published. With the Arena being just a short hop over the
BUDGET supermarket Aldi wants to open new stores in Burley-in-Wharfedale, Otley and Horsforth. It comes as the firm has announced it is on the lookout for 20 new store location across West Yorkshire. The UK’s fifth largest supermarket has been
GUISELEY joint boss Russ O’Neill admits that his side need to add a more “ruthless edge” to their performances next season. Prior to the 2020/21 campaign being declared null and void, the Nethermoor side found themselves just above the drop zone
