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Bingley,Bradford,Shipley,Spen Valley News
Priest looks forward to his new job
The Canon pastor at Bradford Cathedral is to take the helm at a Bingley church. more...
Bradford,Bingley,Shipley,Spen Valley Business
Down at heel after long hot summer
Chairman Michael Ziff today admitted his shoe retail firm Stylo had been caught out by the long summer - after failing to stock enough sandals. more...
Bradford,Bingley,Shipley,Spen Valley News
Letters to the Editor
SIR - Alsops Architects with the Urban Regeneration Company and Bradford Council have presented a bold, creative, imaginative and, yes, aspirational picture of what our city could look like in the future. more...
Speeding 999 driver's case dropped
A charge of speeding against a Bradford ambulance driver who was travelling at more than 100mph while delivering a liver for a transplant patient has been dropped. more...
'Bullfight' for Rugby League friends
One started going to matches with her dad when she was five. The other worships the ground prop forward Stuart Fielden runs on. more...
Labour Liz triumphs over Tories
Labour snatched Great Horton ward from the Tories in last night's by-election to become the largest party on Bradford Council. more...
Anti-drugs campaign scores a century
People in Bradford have helped police score a century and charge 100 people thanks to their Dob in a Dealer drugs hotline. more...
Judge's dismay over addict policy
A senior Bradford judge has spoken of his frustration over the consistent failure of court orders aimed at weaning addicts off drugs. more...
'Schools underfunded' claim
A Bradford secondary school would be £300,000 a year richer if it was in Birmingham, a head teacher told an inquiry into education finances. more...
City masterplan attracts public interest
Public interest in the future regeneration of Bradford city has far exceeded expectations, according to regeneration organisers. more...
End of an era for patients' watchdog
Members of a patients' watchdog reached the end of an era when they met for the final time yesterday. more...
Walker dies after fall from crag
A 33-year-old-year-old Skipton man has died after he fell 100ft down a crag in the Dales. more...
Mosque leader 'wouldn't hurt a fly'
A jury has heard how a mosque leader accused of hitting a young boy was a respected man who would not hurt a fly. more...
The road to city's future starts here
Work has started on a £6 million scheme to breathe new life into the "gateway into Bradford". more...
Firefighter strippers are hot stuff!
Firefighters from Bradford have stripped off and lined up for some red-hot dates to raise cash for charity. more...
MP calls for action on prison overcrowding
A Bradford MP is calling for more imaginative solutions to overcrowding in prisons, following a report that Armley jail has 60 per cent more prisoners than there should be. more...
'Why did you kill my brother?'
The sister of a murdered Bradford man is to write to his killer to ask: "Why did you do it?" more...
Endeavour is the word for success
Naming a narrowboat Endeavour reflected the determination of a disability group to succeed against the odds, said disability minister Maria Eagle. more...
Traders furious at street market plan
Keighley market traders are angry that Bradford Council plans to hold a street market in adjacent Low Street. more...
'Scooters make our lives a misery'
Residents in a Bradford village say their lives are being made a misery by youngsters who tear up and down the streets on power scooters. more...
Man, 24, guilty of sex with girl, 12
A 24-year-old man has been remanded in custody to await sentence after a jury found him guilty of having sex with a girl half his age. more...
Party time as work starts on mill's new life
Hundreds of jubilant people will take to the streets of Manningham on Sunday marching behind the first bulldozers to roll into historic Lister's Mill. more...
Hunt for park sex attacker
Police are investigating an alleged serious sex attack in Hall Park, Horsforth. more...
Niamh's family say thanks!
The family of a three-year-old girl battling a rare form of cancer have raised £5,500 for the Candlelighters Trust - and hope that it is just the start. more...
On This Day
In 1880, cheese company co-founder Charles H. Kraft was born. more...
Patients must have a voice
The chairman of the axed Bradford Community Health Council, Mr Les Vasey, has every right to be proud of its work over the last 29 years. more...
Bradford,Bingley,Shipley,Spen Valley Sport
Volcano is keeping cool for Bulls
If Lesley Vainikolo was any more laid back heading into tomorrow's Grand Final the Bulls coaching staff would send for a doctor to check his pulse. more...
Nicky's apology to Bantams fans
Nicky Summerbee has said sorry for swearing at City fans. more...
Bulls: Big Joe heading for Grand Final showdown
Big Joe Vagana will be carrying on his massive shoulders the hopes of a city, as well as hosts of Wigan tacklers, when he bashes his way down the middle of the Old Trafford pitch tomorrow. more...
Bulls: Withers returns at perfect time
Bradford's hat-trick hero from the 2001 Grand Final drubbing of Wigan, Michael Withers says he feared for his career when his rehabilitation from a third operation on a persistent abductor muscle problem was failing. more...
Ilkley,Otley News
Letters to the Editor
The EU certainties that are worrying more...
Cash ruling has band on the run
A TWENTY-five year long tradition of inter-generation music making in Ilkley will come to an end because of new funding rules. more...
Public makes its views known on future of hospital
PATIENTS are continuing to ask questions about a future replacement for Ilkley's Coronation Hospital in the final stages of public consultation. more...
Soccer star's wife makes marathon charity run
A FORMER professional footballer from Menston has literally given the shirt off his back to support his wife's New York Marathon run. more...
Council criticised for lack of cultural facilities in Ilkley
COUNCIL-run cultural services in Ilkley have been heavily criticised in a report by a Government watchdog. more...
`Worse than my worst nightmare'
It was the stuff of her worst nightmares and most wonderful dreams. more...
Burley is left £25,000 in generous villager's will
A wealthy benefactor has left £25,000 in her will to benefit the people of Burley in Wharfedale. more...
Bradford Council presses for changes in High Royds plans
BRADFORD Council is to ask for several major changes to plans for a controversial housing scheme at Menston's old High Royds Hospital site. more...
Events bring wider canvas to artists
ARTOLICANA, the Ilkley based Art Organisation headed by Geoff Benson, has established an important initiative for artists and it is proving highly successful. more...
TV couple take time out from Tuscany
THEY ARE glad to be here but the Wharfedale couple who have famously made their home in Tuscany are certainly going back. more...
No joke, Alexei shows he is `proper and serious'
AROUND 200 people were at the Ilkley Playhouse on Saturday night to hear Alexei Sayle read from and discuss his `first proper serious' novel, Overtaken. more...
Veteran reporters share experiences and attract crowds
TWO distinguished television news reporters were the latest authors to pass on their wisdom at the Ilkley Literature Festival. more...
Silver-haired Jacqueline is our fairy godmother, not a witch!
With her silver hair and black clothes Jacqueline Wilson jokes she could be mistaken for a wicked witch. more...
No wind farms in beauty spots, demands CPRE
A national campaign has issued a challenge to the Government to prevent the building of wind farms in areas of natural beauty, such as Ilkley Moor. more...
Not impressive reading
THE report by the Audit Commission on Bradford's cultural services, although not wholly damning, does not make impressive reading for Ilkley residents. more...
Ilkley,Otley Sport
Ilkley beat Ripon with blistering try spree
Ilkley 59, Ripon 13 more...
Hard-fought victory for Ilkley FC
Ilkley 2 , Boroughbridge 1 more...
Double from versatile Dibb eases the nerves for the Trojans
Burley Trojans 4, Harold Styans 2 more...
Reserves let result slip away
Clifford & Bramham 1, Ilkley Reserves 1 more...
First National League point for Rhydding
Ben Rhydding 1 , Bedford 1 more...
Ilkley Harriers compete over the country and fells
On Saturday the cross-country season continued with the first event in the West Yorkshire Cross-Country League at Halifax. more...
Cash ruling has band on the run
A TWENTY-five year long tradition of inter-generation music making in Ilkley will come to an end because of new funding rules. more...
Council criticised for lack of cultural facilities in Ilkley
COUNCIL-run cultural services in Ilkley have been heavily criticised in a report by a Government watchdog. more...
`Worse than my worst nightmare'
It was the stuff of her worst nightmares and most wonderful dreams. more...
Keighley,Bronte Country Features
Lionel is a real Horror story
Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera Ruddigore concerns the ghostly past of the Murgatroyd family of East Riddlesden Hall. more...
All aboard for music and beer
You'd think folk fans would be among the least likely music lovers to get steamed up. more...
Keighley,Bronte Country News
Fight to stop business closure
Some you win, some you lose. That could be a cynical view looking at the two business issues this week. more...
Down Memory Lane
A recent "Down Memory Lane" photograph of local Volunteers returning from the Boer War in 1901 has prompted Mrs Elsie Steele, of Fairway Crescent, Haworth, to seek out these family heirlooms in the shape of a menu and invitation to a banquet the following year. more...
Letters to the Editor
SIR - Re the story headlines `Autistic Boy, 6, is turned away from chosen school'. more...
Police slammed by pensioner
A 73-year-old pensioner has slammed police for time wasting after she was threatened with being arrested for refusing to return a training shoe to a five-year-old boy. more...
Campaigners work will live on
CHARITY campaigner Jackie Dennis has died just 12 weeks after taking part in a `Race for Life' to raise money for cancer charities. more...
Heathcliffe is 'top of the snogs'
Hunky hero Heathcliff has been voted the literary figure women would most like to snog. more...
Fight is on to save jobs
A battle has begun to save a long-established Keighley engineering firm from closure. more...
Art of a successful open day
Members of an art class which meets at Keighley Disabled People's Centre displayed their work to the public on Tuesday. more...
Tribute to sporting stalwart
A DOUBLE funeral service was held for brothers-in-law Bill Spencer and Harry Carr after they died within two days of each other last week. more...
Super shopper opens new-look store
Stalwart shopper Kathleen Smith had more reasons to call at Morrisons on Monday -- because she was opening it! more...
Jobs scheme set to clean up
A new scheme has been launched in Keighley to help unemployed 16 to 25-year-olds find work. more...
Tractor run pulls in cash
Vintage tractors took to the streets of Brontë country at the weekend. more...
Firework sales crackdown
A crack down has been launched against shopkeepers who flout firework laws. more...
Airman's rail crash escape
A Steeton man who was on the train that crashed at Steeton railway station in 1943 has died just two weeks short of the 60th anniversary of the crash. more...
Smoking ban for bus station
Smoking is to be stubbed out in Keighley bus station following a growing number of complaints from passengers. more...
Now fowl play!
Children at Glusburn Primary School were greeted by an oversized chicken to celebrate the end of a football course. more...
Playground pupil power
Pupil power will have its say in how a new £40,000 village playground is set up. more...
Budding stars go through their paces
Possible future England international footballers were put through their paces at a Keighley school this week. more...
End this booze culture
By Bethan Davies, (pictured) who recently graduated in English literature from Lancaster University and spent time on work experience at the Keighley News more...
Wedding: Hitchcocks - Proctor
Married at St Mary's Parish Church, Oxenhope, were David Hitchcocks and Charlotte Proctor. more...
Wedding: Ettenfield - Grange
Married at Keighley register office were Derek John Ettenfield and Susan Grange. more...
Wedding: Price - Gillson
Married at Kirkpatrick Fleming in Scotland were Mark Price and Joanne Gillson. more...
Wedding: Boden-Johnson - Rowe
Married at Hagerstown in the USA were Jamie Matthew Boden-Johnson and Kristi Leigh Rowe. more...
Keighley,Bronte Country Sport
Cougars: Rammy's last goodbye
COUGARS are to hold a bumper party night to celebrate their Grand Final victory - when New Zealand A play National League 2 on Wednesday. more...
Soccer: Silsden hit FA Vase trail
SILSDEN take their FA Vase campaign to Alsager tomorrow -- when they compete in the first round proper of the competition. more...
Soccer: City snap up young stars
SCHOOLBOY footballers Thomas Allmark and Ryan Cox have been snapped up by Bradford City. more...
Motorsport: Matt takes 600cc title
SILSDEN Formula 600 rider, Matt Horne, finished the 2003 championship in fine style at Snetterton. more...
Soccer: County Amateur League
Silsden entertained Littletown in the WR County Amateur League on Saturday for only their second home league game of the season -- and pulled off a 2-1 win. more...
Soccer: Sunday Alliance
Keighley Athletic 14 Fleece 2 - Despite being under strength Athletic were too strong for a nine-man Fleece outfit. Fleece were without their regular keeper and also had players out of action with injuries and due to holiday commitments and attempted a damage-limitation exerciseAthletic made five changes from the previous week, but still ran out 14-2 winners with Steve Kernan and Alex Familio scoring four goals each. more...
Soccer: Junior round-up
Silsden Under-7s A went 1-0 down in a tight first half at home against Wyke before Patrick Lee brought them level just after the break. Callum Hey scored the first of his two goals but the away side came back before finally going down 3-2. Dominic Mortimer was man of the match. more...
Soccer: Ladies round-up
Silsden Ladies continued their great start to the season with a 9-0 victory over Farsley Celtic Ladies in the new West Riding County Womens League. more...
Soccer: Wharfedale Sunday
Sandy Lane ran riot with a 12-goal rout of Esholt Victoria in the Wharfedale Sunday League. more...
Rugby Union - Tough battle at Utley
Keighley 23 Malton & Northon 27 - In another improved display Keighley narrowly failed to overcome an efficient and unbeaten Malton & Norton side in an exciting match at Utley. The home side enjoyed territorial advantage for much of the game before conceding defeat to a late try when, for once, their resolute tackling let them down. more...
Rugby League: Albion fly county flag
Albion are through to the last 16 in the Yorkshire Cup after beating fellow premier league side Westgate Redoubt . more...
Table Tennis: Keighley & District League
The start of the season for the Keighley & District Table Tennis League brings with it the most fundamental change to the game of its entire history. more...
Cycling: Tim springs surprise
TIM GILL of Aire Valley Cycles won Yorkshire Road Club's hillclimb event at Weardley Bank, near Poole in Wharfedale. more...
Otley,Ilkley News
How does Otley see the future of the riverside?
OTLEY'S Partnership Group has brought in consultants to look at an almost two-mile stretch of the town's riverside. The feeling is that not enough is made of the riverside and that there is potential for so much more. more...
Letters to the Editor
Public's views on riverside are needed more...
Hundreds march as lorry protest gets MP's support
HAROLD Best MP is pressing ahead with a total lorry ban for Otley. more...
School offers olive branch
A RAWDON school seeking to move to a new site is holding out an olive branch to those who fiercely opposed the move. more...
Riverside masterplan offers vision of future
A FAR REACHING £36,000 study has been commissioned into the future of Otley's riverside. more...
Police accused by ex-officer
A former scenes of crime officer is criticising the police for its investigation into a fire at one of Burley-in-Wharfedale's most well-known landmarks. more...
John gives shirt off his back for Big Apple bid
A FORMER professional footballer from Menston has literally given the shirt off his back to support his wife's New York Marathon run. more...
Protesters make their point loud and clear
MORE than 300 people marched through Otley at the weekend to protest against gravel lorries using the town centre's roads. more...
Scrap metal wagon overturns and causes traffic chaos
TRAFFIC was diverted thro-ugh Pool in Wharfedale and Otley last week after a 38-tonne lorry overturned at Old Pool Bank. more...
Charity set to end its long wait
A GUISELEY charity is celebrating winning a seven-year fight to find more land to build homes on for the elderly. more...
Burley is left £25,000 in generous villager's will
A wealthy benefactor has left £25,000 in her will to benefit the people of Burley in Wharfedale. more...
Eyesore fear for disused school
CONCERNED residents are calling for urgent action to stop a closed Otley school from becoming an eyesore. more...
TV couple take time out from Tuscany
THEY ARE glad to be here but the Wharfedale couple who have famously made their home in Tuscany are certainly going back. more...
No joke, Alexei shows he is `proper and serious'
AROUND 200 people were at the Ilkley Playhouse on Saturday night to hear Alexei Sayle read from and discuss his `first proper serious' novel, Overtaken. more...
Veteran reporters share experiences and attract crowds
TWO distinguished television news reporters were the latest authors to pass on their wisdom at the Ilkley Literature Festival. more...
Pirates are scuppered by battling Otley crew
Otley 33 more...
Otley,Ilkley Sport
Guiseley have a striking problem
Prescot Cables 1, Guiseley 0 more...
Pirates are scuppered by battling Otley crew
Otley 33, Penzance/Newlyn 6 more...
Otliensians get big boost from fine victory
Old Otliensians 23, Wakefield Cougars 13 more...
Injury-hit Otley Town unable to convert host of chances
Otley Town 1 ,Brighouse 2 more...
Double from versatile Dibb eases the nerves for the Trojans
Burley Trojans 4, Harold Styans 2 more...
Skyrac athletes tackle the Langdale Horseshoe fells
The Langdale Horseshoe last Saturday (14 miles, 4000 feet) attracted the cream of fellrunning as the final counter in both the English Championship and the Lakeland Classics series, the latter co-sponsored by Skyrac's Graham Breeze. more...
Skipton,The Dales Features
The Curmudgeon
THE Great Beggarsdale Blackout Party (GBBOP) took place last weekend and what a gas it was. It was helped in that particular area because some of the wrinklier guests turned up in gas masks. more...
Skipton,The Dales News
Craven through the years
100 years ago more...
Resident pleads for forum attendance
SIR - Community forum meetings are once more happening, and this is the public's chance to make their views known on such issues as rate increases, crime and education. more...
Urgent action taken after headstones fail safety test
EIGHTY per cent of the headstones inspected at Skipton's Waltonwrays Cemetery have failed safety tests, Craven District Council has revealed. more...
Axe hovers over High Street trees
TREES on the High Street are withering away and were probably doomed since the day they were planted. more...
Walker dies in hospital after crag fall
A SKIPTON man has died after he fell 100ft down a crag. more...
"Unsung heroes" win special jubilee award
THE "unsung heroes" who rescue victims of accidents on the moors within a wide radius of Grassington received a rare accolade from the Queen. more...
Town manager could be appointed for Skipton
A TOWN manager could be appointed in Skipton to support the delivery of the renaissance plan. more...
Minister names SCAD boat
GOVERNMENT minister for the disabled Maria Eagle was at Skipton Canal Basin for the naming ceremony of a new barge, purchased by the Skipton and Craven Action for Disability. more...
New brewery celebrates festival win
REAL ale drinkers have raised their glasses to a new brew from the Dales by voting it the top tipple at a leading West Yorkshire beer festival. more...
Church says farewell to retiring rector
CANON Chris Hayward, rector at St Michael and All Angels' Church, Linton-in-Craven, is to retire. more...
Contractors start work on £1.6m refurbishment at Devonshire
WORK has begun on the £1.6 million refurbishment of Skipton's Devonshire Hotel to turn it into a JD Wetherspoon pub. more...
Oxfam moves to new shop
OXFAM has moved base to a bigger property at the corner of Skipton High Street. more...
Detectives praised for robbery investigation
TWO detectives from Skipton have been commended for their part in catching and convicting a team of robbers. more...
Town hall work will raise council tax bills
MEMBERS of the public crammed into Bentham Town Hall to voice their concerns about a proposal to refurbish the building. more...
Villagers hit out at 'abandoned' vehicles
INDISCRIMINATE parking at Horton-in-Ribblesdale during the recent Three Peaks Cyclo-Cross event led to a fire engine struggling to reach a property, the parish council heard. more...
Community's new bus link takes to the road
A NEW bus service linking villages and towns in North Craven will be free during its first week. more...
Choir seeks songs from the Dales
THE newly formed Settle Voices community choir wants to hunt out traditional and modern songs about life in the Dales. more...
Village looks at employing toilet warden
SUTTON Parish Council is looking at ways to stamp out vandalism in the revamped park. more...
Death knell sounds for post office proposals
SKIPTON MP David Curry does not hold out much hope that Glusburn will get its sub post office back. more...
Mill development will go-ahead despite fire
A MAJOR fire at a disused mill in Bradley will not alter plans for its conversion, according to developers Novo Homes. more...
Emotional moment as Love Tree is axed
THORNTON-in-Craven was brought to a standstill this week as its landmark Love Tree came under the axe. more...
Businesses damaged in separate blazes
FIREFIGHTERS were called to two separate blazes that took hold of businesses in Barnoldswick over the weekend. more...
Workmen plan to reveal all for OAP centre's calendar
A GROUP of men are planning to reveal all to raise money for a senior citizens' centre in Barnoldswick. more...
Respects paid to Bali bomb victims
WHILE the rugby world cup rages down under, Skipton Rugby Club was represented at one of the game's saddest moments on the tropical island of Bali on Sunday. more...
Safety is a price we have to pay
NEWS that 80 per cent of the headstones at Skipton's Waltonwray Cemetery are dangerous will come as a shock to many. more...
Skipton,The Dales Sport
Hodgson injury is body blow for Green
WHARFEDALE hopes of pulling off a shock win tomorrow in the Powergen Cup Round Four match against Pertemps Bees at The Avenue suffered a body blow when they lost their most potent attacking weapon, skipper Andy Hodgson. more...
Skipton, Ribb are cup favourites
WITH six Yorkshire teams having won the RFU Junior Vase currently sponsored by Powergen and Skipton having reached the semi-final stage last season, there is plenty of incentive for the Sandylands men when they entertain Whitby in the second round tomorrow. more...
Referee crisis reappears in Craven FA cup
THE refereeing crisis which is blighting all sections of local soccer at the moment bites as hard in the Craven District as anywhere, with matches regularly needing to be staffed by team officials to get them played. more...
Skipton swimmers set new standards
SKIPTON Dolphins squad swimmers were in action at the Yorkshire Amateur Swimming Association Age Group Championships at Pond's Forge, Sheffield last weekend and the cascade of personal best times posted in a tremendous team effort underlined the rapid progress made in recent weeks. more...
Pawson maintains proud tradition in Scotland
SKIPTON Athletics Club's ever growing list of title wins was further enhanced at the weekend thanks to a virtuoso performance from Jonathan Pawson, who won the British Isles Under 14 Fell Racing Championships. more...
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