THE shocking discovery of discarded glue bags at an Ilkley beauty spot raises the frightening spectre of youngsters hazarding their lives in search of cheap thrills. Volatile substance sniffing really is the bottom end of the substance abuse scale, carrying
Avenue 0, Worksop Town 1: A 13th-minute penalty proved unlucky for Avenue as visitors Worksop Town netted the goal that separated the sides from the spot and bagged all three points from a dour game. It was supposed to be a contest between two of the
Bobby Vanzie has cut his losses with boxing guru Frank Warren. Bradford's former British lightweight champion is ready to link up with BBC-based promoter Dennis Hobson after Warren agreed to terminate his contract two years early. Vanzie linked up with
Matthew Hoggard yesterday sent a blunt message to the England selectors that he is back to full fitness and form by recording career-best figures of seven for 49 in Yorkshire's championship match against Somerset at Headingley. Playing first-class cricket
We've had the last summer Bank Holiday, soon it will be autumn, back to work, back to school. But there is plenty to look forward to in Wharfedale as the festival season gets under way. The 12th Otley Folk Festival, which starts Thursday September 18,
CONTROVERSIAL speed bumps on a moorland road conform to national regulations and could help cut accidents, it has been claimed. Dozens of residents complained after the road humps appeared in a new 20 miles per hour zone at Burley Woodhead, and a parish
Despite a murky start to the day, threatening weather finally lifted for a glorious 58th annual show in the village of Bramhope. Guiseley Band entertained throughout the afternoon, and Billy Treewinkle with Rocky the Old English Sheepdog was a hit, as
BATTLING residents are going to the ombudsman in their fight to keep Aireborough together. More than 70 angry people attended another meeting in Yeadon to discuss the proposed carve up of the area under proposals by the Boundary Committee. And now, they
SUE Wharton was a mother of two and a part-time sales rep when she realised her vocation lay within the church. Now she is the new vicar of Askwith and priest in charge of the Washburn Valley and mid-Wharfe churches. With responsibility for the parishes
Otley, Hawksworth and Guiseley have all picked up top prizes in this year's Yorkshire in Bloom competition. Hawksworth residents will be delighted that the village came first in the competition's trophy for small villages. Judges said that they never
A RAWDON school governor claims the community is in danger of losing out on a new school. Cyril Snell, a governor of Rawdon Littlemoor Primary School, believes if planning permission is not given by the end of this month funding will be withdrawn. The
ANGRY councillors have called for greater police presence in Otley after yet another devastating fire in the town. Calls are also being made for those responsible to be named - even if their ages protect their anonymity. For the second time in just five
In 1530, Russian Tsar Ivan "The Terrible" was born. In 1791, amid the French Revolution, France's King Louis XVI was forced to approve a constitution making him a civil servant. In 1888, the name "Kodak" was registered by George Eastman. From the Telegraph
A businessman who was so frustrated he couldn't find Chinese furniture for his new home has set up his own firm to import it from the Far East. Former marketing manager James Cottrell, 34, decided to set up his own web-based business after being made
Plans for a major redevelopment of the former High Royds Hospital site have been branded an over development by a councillor. Menston councillor Audrey Brand - chairman of Ilkley Parish Council's Planning Committ - is strongly opposed to the package of
BERMUDA shorts were the fashion accessory of choice in Burley-in-Wharfedale last weekend as the village underwent a Caribbean-flavoured transformation. Sunny skies and the rhythmic sounds of a live Steel Band greeted visitors to Burley Hall Nursing Home
SUE Wharton was a mother of two and a part-time sales rep when she realised her vocation lay within the church. Now she is the new vicar of Askwith and priest in charge of the Washburn Valley and mid-Wharfe churches. With responsibility for the parishes
IT has been revealed that a nurse at Airedale General Hospital has been arrested on suspicion of killing an elderly patient. Police said the nurse, who has not been named, had been arrested over the suspected manslaughter of a 96-year-old female patient
A FAMILY run Ilkley dental practice will celebrate its 100th anniversary tomorrow - and could be joined by a guest from the other side of the grave. The ghost of an 'Edwardian lady' has been seen by several members of staff at Acorn Villas, on The Grove
A NEW head teacher has taken over at an independent preparatory school in Ilkley. David Morse began his appointment at Clevedon House School on Monday, ahead of the new academic year. Following on from the Reverend Alex Munro, who stepped down earlier
PROUD Ilkley ex-pats living in the Antipodes could drive off with a unique personalised car registration plate. A former Addingham resident who has lived in New Zealand for years is moving on to Australia - but wants to offer those with an Ilkley connection
ILKLEY MP Ann Cryer will marry her long-term fiance, John Hammersley, at a low-key ceremony in Westminster this weekend. Mrs Cryer and Mr Hammersley, a retired vicar, were originally due to marry at St Mary's Undercroft Crypt Chapel, at the House of Commons
FOUR public consultation meetings to debate the future of Ilkley's Coronation Hospital have been unveiled. Hospital owner Airedale Prim-ary Care Trust (PCT) has announ-ced the dates and venues of meetings which will finally give residents their chance
TOWN leaders are calling for a crusade against television programmes they claim are eroding moral values. Ilkley parish councillor Audrey Brand is warning parents of planned new programmes on Channel 4 about teenage sexuality, and calling for fellow councillors
ILKLEY has blossomed over the rest of the region to take two coveted Yorkshire in Bloom first prizes. Voluntary members of the hard-working Ilkley in Bloom group were told at an official presentation lunch in Doncaster yesterday that the town had won
Commission has not followed guidelines SIR, - Having followed reports in your paper and others about the boundary changes in Aireborough and Otley areas, I believe that we have been dealt a great injustice by the leaders of Leeds City Council and the
Eldwick's Craig Noble has won the European Fire Fighters' Triathlon Championship. The 33-year-old, who is based at Harrogate Fire Station, won a gruelling race at Duisberg in Germany in a swift 58min 57sec, a full minute ahead of his nearest rival. Noble
Burley Trojans 6, Addingham 1 BURLEY Trojans' fortunes continued to improve with a comprehensive demolition of neighbours Addingham. Their opponents, who had boasted impressive wins over Kirkby Malzeard and Harold Styans in their opening games, took the
Angry elderly residents in a Shipley housing complex say they are being terrorised by rowdy gangs. Pensioners at Northcliffe View, in Cragg Road, said they have been woken late at night by young people drinking and shouting outside their flats. And widow
MP Ann Cryer will marry her long-term fiance John Hammersley, pictured above, in a low-key ceremony at Westminster this weekend. Mrs Cryer, 63, and Mr Hammersley, 68, a retired vicar, were originally due to marry at St Mary's Undercroft Crypt Chapel,
A councillor is calling on people in the district to spearhead a nationwide campaign to stop the closure of small post offices. Andrew Carter (Con, Pudsey North) claims people living in areas where post offices are closing will be inconvenienced, particularly
A veteran fundraiser hopes to help scores of homeless children with her 20th mercy mission to Bosnia. Bradford grandmother Nora Kilcoyne has returned from an aid trip to the country where she helped to build an old people's home complete with health clinic
The first parking meters are expected to be installed in historic Little Germany on streets originally designed for horse-drawn transport. The former Victorian German wool merchants quarter is now bustling with modern life as listed buildings are converted
A greedy businessman who cheated the benefits system out of £18,000 was today beginning a 21-month prison sentence. A judge at Bradford Crown Court was told that 37-year-old father-of-three Shabir Ahmed claimed for income support, invalid care allowance
Awards have been scooped across the district in this year's Yorkshire in Bloom Competition. Today children from Haworth Primary School were celebrating after their gardening club won the Sir Richard Graham Youth Enterprise Award. Displays in Ilkley, Bradford
A drunken 28-year-old who racially abused a takeaway driver and then trashed the car he was using has been jailed for a total of 15 months. Delivery man Mohammed Saleem had been helping a colleague to find Nigel Brannan's home in Milner Ing, Delph Hill
A teenager who was shot in the face as he played in a park faces an agonising wait while doctors decide how the air gun pellet can be removed. Thirteen-year-old Matthew Light, pictured here but not wishing to reveal his face, who suffers from cystic fibrosis
If you like warm, feel-good Sunday evening TV you'll love Calendar Girls. Often moving, nearly always good-humoured, this film will fill your heart. It's beautifully shot in breath-taking Dales locations and, with a hugely impressive cast bringing to
Detectives hunting the killer of Bradford cabbie Mohammed Basharat have traced to Jamaica a man they want to interview. The man has been detained by the Jamaican authorities and will shortly be extradited to the USA to face charges relating to offences
Baildon residents have rallied round to boost a community garden project fund-raising appeal which has now reached its half-way mark of £6,600. The Hall Cliffe Community Garden project faced losing its £66,000 countryside Agency grant if volunteers failed
A police motorcyclist died when he came off his machine on the Chain Bar roundabout off the M62 yesterday. The officer, believed to be in his forties and based at Wakefield force HQ, appeared to have come off his bike and suffered serious injuries. He
Burley Trojans 6, Addingham 1 BURLEY Trojans' fortunes continued to improve with a comprehensive demolition of neighbours Addingham. Their opponents took the game to Trojans in the early stages. However, it was four goal Chris Connolly who created the
Trojans Reserves share goal feast Trojans Reserves 5, Pool Reserves 5 These two local rivals played their full part in a pulsating mid-week fixture where defences most definitely came off second best. Proof that football is a funny old game came in the
IT was perhaps fitting that Bilton's Australian overseas player Stephen Phillips took top billing as the side was crowned Airedale and Whardedale League champions on Saturday. He hammered a superb 71 as Bilton notched 265-6 against Otley and then took
Ilkley's preparations for the new season were tested to the full on Saturday when they entertained Harrogate's reserve squad, many of whom will be pushing for first team places in the National League Two side. The game was of three sessions giving both
THERE were two taxing away games in three days for the Booth's sponsored Ilkley AFC who remain unbeaten in the long quest to retain the Harrogate Premier League title. On Thursday, Ilkley faced an Otley Town team boosted by the presence of several first
SIR - Travelling down Oak Lane from Listers Mill to the park gates, I was appalled by the litter and rubbish lying around. When I was a child in the Thornbury district, shopkeepers took pride in their own shop frontage and it was a morning ritual for
Cleckheaton know they probably won't have former England international scrum half Scott Benton all season. But they hope the ex-Morley, Gloucester and Leeds Tykes half-back, pictured, can stay long enough to give their bid for promotion from North Division
Gateshead 1, Guiseley 5: Guiseley had to come from a goal down but ran out easy winners as the problems mount for the Tynesiders, who were knocked out of the FA Cup at minnows Liversedge on Saturday. The fall from grace of one-time Football League outfit
Eccleshill United 0, Sheffield 0: A competitive and enjoyable encounter that produced no goals will not have the floating supporters turning up in their droves for Eccleshill United's next home game but it did earn them a point. It was United's first
City are set to rip it up and start again with a second pre-season. Nicky Law and chairman Gordon Gibb have decided that the best way to forget their current slump is to take the players away for a few days. They hope a change of scenery will lift the
City this afternoon signed winger Nicky Summerbee on a two-year deal. The former Sunderland and Bolton forward, who has been training with Burnley, was happy to agree a move to a club he has been linked with twice before. Boss Nicky Law said: "We are
Plans for a major redevelopment of the former High Royds Hospital site have been branded an over development by a councillor. Menston councillor Audrey Brand - chairman of Ilkley Parish Council's Planning Committ - is strongly opposed to the package of
The simple gravestone at Yeadon Methodist Cemetery could easily go unnoticed. The sad epitaph for James Myers notes that he died at the age of 22 "by an accident in the Bramhope Tunnel on the 14th day of April 1848. Buries next to his three-year-old daughter
A Bramhope hotel could soon be using an historic chapel as part of elaborate wedding packages. Parish councillors have formed a group to look at the possibility of letting the Holiday Inn use the 17th century Puritan Chapel for weddings. Chairman Colin
HUNDREDS of people watched one of Otley's last remaining industrial buildings go up in flames last week. At the second fire at the derelict Gay Lane tannery in just five months more than 60 firefighters and eight fire engines and a turntable from Otley
MEMBERS of the area's newest fitness club will step back in time to the building's industrial past. Many features, including stone work and steel girders, have either been newly exposed or preserved at the new £2.2 million Cannons Health Club at White
THE death of Dr David Kelly might have been avoided if the BBC had apologised at the outset, according to a friend of the weapons inspector. Professor Alastair Hay, of Arthington, was in contact with Dr Kelly just hours before the scientist disappeared
A MULTI-MILLION pound strategy to repair roads in and around Leeds is being hailed as 'too little too late'. The £14.3m funding package, concentrating mainly on outlying areas, including Otley, Horsforth and Aireborough, was expected to be approved by
At last it seems that Home Secretary David Blunkett has hit on an imaginative approach to the issue of the integration of immigrants into the wider community. The recommendations in Sir Bernard Crick's report to the Home Office should be widely welcomed
A CLASSICALLY trained Ilkley artist is enjoying a new wave of success with a completely different breed of paintings. Leslie Simpson's cartoon-style WhimseyCollies), all based on his pet dogs, have proved to be an instant hit with art-lovers - and now
RECKLESS youngsters in Ilkley are dicing with death in their quest for a cheap thrill, the Gazette can reveal. And at the same time as risking their lives, the youngsters are despoiling one of the area's beloved landscape features. For two weeks running
ILKLEY Summer Festival organiser Councillor Anne Hawkesworth has stood by her decision to hold an 'end of festival' firework display - a week after the event. Large crowds turned out on The Grove on Saturday to enjoy the delayed, free event (pictured
Broadband decision will benefit many SIR, - I was rather disappointed with the negative stance taken by your newspaper with regard to the broadband project announced last week. Whilst we understand the concerns of the LS29.NET group, this project is excellent
A big fire ripped through the top two floors of a warehouse in Liversedge early today. Flames and smokes engulfed the Amo Blinds premises on the BNK Industrial estate in Wakefield Road, just after 4am. Six engines attended the blaze on the second and
Four local young athletes helped their club, Leeds City AC, to a superb fifth place in the boys' national final of the UK Athletics Young Athletes League at Birmingham's Alexander Stadium. Competing against some of the best clubs in the country the four
Trojans Reserves share goal feast with Pool Trojans Reserves 5, Pool Reserves 5 These two local rivals played their full part in a pulsating mid-week fixture where defences most definitely came off second best. Proof that football is a funny old game
YEADON look to have blown any chance they had of retaining their Divisioin One status when they lost to basement rivals Idle on Saturday. However, Yeadon will be battling to the end with four games left to play including a double weekend this weekend
IT was perhaps fitting that Bilton's Australian overseas player Stephen Phillips took top billing as the side was crowned Airedale and Whardedale League champions on Saturday. He hammered a superb 71 as Bilton notched 265-6 against Otley and then took
OTLEY RUFC are all set to unleash some of their nine new signings when they take on National League Division One moneybags Worcester at Cross Green on Saturday (3 pm). Otley enter their third season in National League One with coach Peter Clegg sitting
A NEW karate club has been set up in Burley-in-Wharfedale by England and Great Britain international Paul Newby. Paul, who recently won a gold medal at the Commonwealth championships in Manchester, will run the club at Burley and Woodhead Primary School
Crook Town 2, Guiseley 3 A HAT-TRICK from rookie copper Ryan Senior arrested Crook Town's efforts to overcome the UniBond side in the FA Cup on Saturday. The pace and power of the big forward warmed the hearts of the Guiseley following on a day when there
An asylum seeker punched two prostitutes in a telephone box, a court heard. Yaya Ba attacked both women at the junction of Westgate and St Thomas's Road in Bradford in July. Prosecutor Jonathan Gibson told the city's Crown Court how one of the victims
Dozens of homes and businesses were raided as a new specialist police squad targeted West Yorkshire's £20 million underworld trade in stolen cars. In Bradford, officers swooped on car thieves as well as those suspected of buying and selling the stolen
Leading Bradford councillors have failed to reach a decision on whether to go ahead with the appointment of a chief executive who could end up earning more than Prime Minister Tony Blair. Interviews of candidates hoping to head Bradford's fourth biggest
Medical problems preyed on the mind of Philip Roger Dean so much that he decided to end it all, an inquest heard. Harrogate Coroner Geoff Fell heard that Mr Dean, 63, of School Lane, Addingham, drove to Askwith where he was found by farmer Geoff Church
The Archdeacon of Bradford, the Venerable Guy Wilkinson, is leaving the city after a double family tragedy. His brother-in-law, Jamie, has died ten days after a brain tumour was detected. The death leaves children aged 16, 15 and 11 without a parent as
Proposals to teach immigrants English on their arrival to the country have been hailed as a "celebration" of British citizenship - and likened to taking a driving test. The comments come as a report to the Government said lessons in English and citizenship
Campaigners have failed in a last-minute bid to save an asylum-seeking Russian family from deportation. Six immigration officers snatched the family of three from their Bradford Moor home without warning early on Tuesday morning and took them to a detention
A mixed team from Ilkley Harriers was 22nd overall, out of 35, in 9h03 for the 60-odd miles of the Leeds Country Way Relay last Sunday. Andy Wolfenden and Richard Gray handed over to John Bullock and Victoria Wright. The team organiser Ken Souyave and
FIVE players made their debuts for a new look Ilkley Dynamo team in the first league match of the season. They defeated Horsforth by 4-0 with Michael Bloom notching a hat-trick on his debut for the club. Both the captain Gordon Clasper and Shaun Bishop
THE people of Rawdon have to make a very difficult decision - whether to back the building of a new primary school on a controversial site, or to very possibly lose the chance of the school being built. With time running out for a decision to be made
