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Why our park is really an open-air gymnasium
Councillors are urging people in Horsforth to get fit in their park with an ‘outdoor gym.’ Ward councillors for the area Brian Cleasby and Chris Townsley have organised for thousands of leaflets to be printed and distributed across Horsforth and Rawdon
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Moor Friends’ programme for the coming year
The Friends of Ilkley Moor group has published its sixth annual Events and Learning Programme of special events on the moor this year. The programme has proved very popular since the formation of the Friends in 2009. It contains more than 20 events
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Yarnbury clinch Twickenham final place
Yarnbury 21 Stewarts & Lloyds 11 Yarnbury delighted a bumper crowd of 1,200 by clinching a place in the final of the RFU Senior Vase at Brownberrie Lane on Saturday. They will now play the holders Newent from Gloucestershire at Twickenham
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Donation boost to door appeal
An anonymous £2,000 donation has moved the fundraising ‘bunometer’ up another level for Ilkley’s Clarke Foley Centre. Manager of the over-50’s centre, Judith Ellis, discovered the cheque when she opened the mail last week. The Centre is raising
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Tax allowance rise
A new tax cut has been welcomed by Ilkley MP Kris Hopkins. He said the rise in personal allowance to £10,000 would take an estimated 396 people in his constituency, which includes Ilkley, out of income tax. And he added that taxes would be cut
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Pupils use their new pens to create poetry
The owner of a stationery business went back to his old school to present pupils with some new pens as part of a national handwriting initiative. Addingham resident Richard Mashiter, owner of Craven Stationery in Skipton, went back to the school
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Premiere of MacMillan’s composition
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra & Leeds Festival Chorus Leeds Town Hall James MacMillan is recognised as one of the foremost composers of our time; a world premiere of one of his compositions is by definition a major event. Leeds Festival
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Apprentice offer is made by company
Craftsman Tools are once again inviting applications from youngsters to join their award winning apprentice training scheme at their facilities based in Otley. They have recently received national recognition for the training programme, winning
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Meeting is called over future of the Manor House
A meeting of organisations working towards the future of Ilkley’s Manor House Museum has been called, amid new concerns that plans are not moving ahead quickly enough. Ilkley Parish Council committed £13,000 in a last-minute deal to prevent Bradford
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Cookie monster film wins youngsters a Golden Owl
A story about a Cookie Dragon has won a young film-makers award for pupils from Tranmere Park School in Guiseley. The Leeds Young Film-makers Golden Owl Awards Key Stage 2 Animation prize has gone to Tranmere Park ICT club. A spokesman for
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Vatican astronomer to speak at Leeds Trinity
A leading papal astronomer is to speak in Horsforth this Easter about the importance of the science to the Vatican. Brother Guy Consolmagno is a Jesuit and acclaimed astronomer. Based at the Vatican Observatory headquarters in Castel Gandolfo,
