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Ex-bankers' risk pays off as Rawdon pub is up for awards
The Princess at Rawdon has reached the finals of the Best British Pub Awards 2007 in two categories - for having the best beer garden and landlords David and Claire Smith as being best newcomers to the trade in the Yorkshire and North East region. Next
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St Mary's students build up funds to repair African school
A GROUP of Ilkley teenagers and their friends have already raised more than £1,000 for a charity they founded to help a school in Kenya. The pupils at St Mary's School, Menston, set out to raise £750 to rebuild the school at Kilimani, Mombasa, by setting
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St Joseph's pupils toy with Victorian times
CHILDREN at Otley's St Jospeph's RC Primary School have been learning all about toys from the past. As part of their science and technology studies, the children were visited by historian Kirstie Garside. She produced Victorian clothes for the children
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It's yo-ho-ho and a bottle of run for Whartons pirates
YO-ho-ho and a bottle of rum echoed through the classrooms at The Whartons Primary School, Otley. Year two, six and seven-year-olds, were treated to a couple of weeks of pirate based lessons and ended the project with a day devoted to the high seas.
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Rawdon Littlemoor pupils win £100
GREEN minded children at Rawdon Littlemoor Primary School have won £100 for their school by collecting telephone directories. Along with more than 40 other schools across Leeds, the Rawdon school collected old Yellow Pages directories in a recycling
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Ilkley Grammar School pupils part of the big picture
ART students at Ilkley Grammar School have taken part in a unique project at the National Railway Museum in York. Members of the school's year 7 Art Club contributed to the Big Picture - a 4.5 metre by 6.6 metre piece of work made up of 345 individual
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Ghyll Royd boys win praise for cleaning up lay-by
Pupils from Ghyll Royd have won praise from Burley-in-Wharfedale's Chamber of Trade after helping to clear rubbish from a lay-by near their school. The youngsters donned protective gloves to clear away litter from the lay-by on the Burley by-pass. Now
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60 passengers unhurt as plane's tyres burst at Yeadon
SIXTY people escaped uninjured, and flights were diverted from Leeds Bradford after a plane's tyres burst on landing this afternoon. The pilot managed to bring the Airbus A319 to a safe standstill despite the sudden damage to four of its six tyres as