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Coffee morning to help Wheatfields
A FUNDRAISING coffee morning will be held at Otley Methodist Church next week. The event, for Sue Ryder Wheatfields Hospice, takes place from 9.30am to 11.30am on Friday, March 27, and will include a cake stall.
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Tickets available for bursary concert
TICKETS for the Denis Sharp Bursary Concert later this month are still available. The concert at the Craiglands Hotel, Cowpasture Road, Ilkley, on March 27, will feature the Clifton and Lightcliffe Brass Band with guest performers David Owen-Lewis
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Problems ahead for town road
OTLEY is set for more traffic disruption when a town centre road closes to allow resurfacing work. Burras Lane will be closed between 9.30am and 3.30pm on Monday, March 30 and Tuesday, March 31, to allow road improvements to be carried out in the
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Help to shape the future of economy
RESIDENTS in Pool-in-Wharfedale are being invited to share their views about the future of the local economy at a consultation event next week. The village’s Neighbourhood Planning Steering Group is holding a Business and Employment focused meeting
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Schools are urged to hold life saving classes
SCHOOLS across Yorkshire are being urged to register for a one-hour, online first aid lesson created by St John Ambulance. The charity hopes to teach vital skills to 50,000 UK students in its free Big First Aid Lesson, to be hosted by TV presenter
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‘Special attention’ for district to prevent fraud
A CLOSE eye will be kept on Bradford as the General Election approaches, to stamp out any attempts to rig the votes, a spokesman for the Electoral Commission has told a local MP. The district is one of 17 areas flagged as needing attention following
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Road closures for Tour weekend announced
LEEDS City Council has announced the local road closure plans for the final stage of the Tour de Yorkshire. The high-profile cycling race, set up following the Tour de France’s visit to the region last year, runs from Friday, May 1 to Sunday, May
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Firm retains its top spot on list
A HORSFORTH-BASED IT company, TPP, has been named number one for the second year in a row in The Sunday Times’s 100 Best Small Companies to Work For list. This is the sixth year the firm has been listed in the top 100 small companies. The company
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Regional airports hardest hit by ‘unfair tax regime’, claim MPs
LEEDS-BRADFORD and other smaller airports are punished by a tax regime more unfair than any country other than Chad, MPs warned yesterday. Air Passenger Duty (APD) is the “principal threat” to the success of regional airports which are vital for
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Young engineers build bridges in competition
EIGHTY students from schools in Wharfedale and North Yorkshire built bridges with the world of engineering when they took part in the 2015 Rotary Technology Tournament. The Rotary Clubs in the Dales Group recently held its tenth tournament for
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Keeping updated on outdoor changes
NOW that we are both meteorologically and astrologically in the season of Spring, with the longer days many people’s attention will be turning to getting out into the great outdoors. For many of us that means either walking in the Dales or a little
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Inspired by writers of the natural world
OVER the last few years we have seen a profusion of what could be termed rural writing, harking back to a supposed golden age between the wars. Robert MacFarlane is, if not the doyen, then at least the poster boy for this movement, and his new book
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Centre is music to MP hopeful’s ears
A LABOUR Parliamentary candidate has been banging the drum for Guiseley Music Centre. Jamie Hanley, who is hoping to replace Conservative Stuart Andrew as the Pudsey constituency’s next MP in May, had a go on the instruments during a recent visit
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Plans for green-belt homes condemned
A HORSFORTH councillor is vowing to keep up her fight against plans to build on local green-belt sites. Cllr Dawn Collins (Con, Horsforth) made the comments following well-attended public meetings at St Margaret’s Church and Greenacre Hall, where
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Council grants allocated to support community groups
MORE than £2,800 has been awarded to community organisations in the latest round of Ilkley Parish Council Awards and Projects spending. Three requests for awards were agreed by the town council’s awards and projects committee last week, including
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Professor to speak on ecology
A PROFESSOR of animal ecology and conservation who advises the BBC on natural history programming will give a talk at the annual general meeting of the Friends of Ilkley Moor next month. John Altringham, of Leeds University, will talk about the
