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  • Brave jethro is batting back

    A 15-year-old boy is back delivering aces at the table tennis table after undergoing operations in his fight to beat cancer. Within two weeks of surgeons removing his big toe and part of his foot, Jethro Rainford was back at Keighley Table Tennis Centre

  • MUSIC from December 2

    Snooty Fox, Oakworth: classic rock covers band Classique (Saturday); covers band Night Patrol (December 11). Old Silent Inn, Stanbury: acoustic performers Tim Moon, Paul Jermyn and Jonathan Taylor (Sunday 8pm). Cougar Park Hall of Fame: Keighley Blues

  • Bolta Lightning is the new children's heroine

    A Keighley-born writer has self-published a book featuring four children's stories. Mark Pennington's heroine in the £4.99 paperback is enterprising young girl Bolta Lighting. In the stories she visits a boatmaker, a prison, a haunted mansion and a

  • Bob Marley tribute in Skipton

    The sounds of Bob Marley and the Wailers plus bushrocker hi-fi DJ Cojowill bring a reggae style party to Skipton Town Hall. A huge dance floor is promised for the performance by top Marley tribute band Zion featuring singer Leroy Peters and top UK

  • Blues Club flagship duo

    Christmas has come early for Keighley blues fans with two flagship concerts this month. Keighley Blues Club said its gigs were by the undisputed top two blues outfits in the north-west of England. Smokehouse headline tomorrow while The Stumble return

  • WHAT'S ON from December 2

    Sutton Village Hall: Sutton Amateurs pantomime Alice in Wonderland (until Saturday 7.15pm, & Saturday 2.15pm). Phone 01535 632289. Keighley Playhouse: family play The Railway Children (Monday-Saturday 7.30pm). Phone 08451 267859. St Peter's Church

  • Kay Mellor plays upstairs!

    Two early one-act plays by Kay Mellor will be performed at Bingley Little Theatre's studio Upstairs. Mother of Mine and Paul will be staged on Saturday and Sunday by Farsley-based theatre company Just Happy to Be Here. One tells of the difficult relationship

  • Farcical doctors in Bingley

    A comedy by top farce writer Ray Cooney is presented by Bingley Little Theatre at the town's Arts Centre next week. It Runs on the Family is described as a fast and furious farce set in the doctors' common room at the hospital just before Christmas

  • GAME: Donkey Kong Country Returns

    Mario's already had an outing this year, in the brilliant Super Mario Galaxy 2, so Nintendo has given its Christmas headline slot to his long-time rival. The old monkey is well up to the task as he runs, jumps, rolls, climbs, clings, swings and bashes

  • Hairspray -- Bradford Alhambra

    This is the best show I have seen in a long time, from the moment the fringed curtain rose to what looked like an overhead shot into a bedroom with the heroine waking to the sounds of Baltimore The audience was captivated, swept into 1962, an era of

  • Nutcracker -- Leeds Grand

    Tchaikovsky's immortal Nutcracker is in Leeds once more for a two-week pre-Christmas season. Of course, it is the great Russian composer's glorious music which has kept the work to the forefront of world classical ballet, but Northern Ballet's imaginative

  • FILM: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1

    This new Harry potter film is magical with a scary twist. It is the first of two parts. Some of the audience would know both parts to the story but to others it would be new. All the usual historical characters are on view. There was lots of chase

  • GAME: Doctor Who -- Return to Earth

    Earth is the last place Wii owners will want to be if this botched attempt at a Who adventure is in store for them. The Doctor and Amy land on a spaceship and avoid thick robots while seeking crystals which enable them to shoot energy balls. Players

  • GAME: Epic Mickey

    Something refreshingly different from Disney, a major release for the Wii with engrossing gameplay to match its original ideas and distinctive look. The mouse finds himself in a world where forgotten Disney characters, many who never made the big

  • GAME: Doctor Who -- Evacuation Earth

    The Doctor's DS outing is far better than its Wii stablemate even if it's a blatant rip-off of the Professor Layton games. The Doc and Amy must solve dozens of puzzles as they try to find the Tardis after it goes missing in the Lake District. These

  • Taxi driver banned after admitting drink-driving

    A taxi driver on his way home after a night shift was over the drink-drive limit. Mohammed Yasin, 57, was stopped by police after he crossed a mini roundabout on the A629, at Cross Hills, without stopping, a court heard on Friday. Skipton magistrates

  • School's out for Keighley's O'Neill

    Liam O’Neill was unable to sustain a promising start and bowed out of the European Tour Qualifying School at the second stage. The recently-turned professional from Oakworth was on course to make it to the final phase at the halfway mark in Spain after

  • Snow go for sport as cold snap bites

    Local sport is bracing itself for another whiteout this weekend. With many grounds blanketed in six inches of snow and with temperatures set to plunge as low as minus seven on Friday night, the outlook is bleak. The first snow of the winter led to widespread

  • Pupils enjoy an adapted play area

    Specially-designed rooms and an outdoor play area will help autistic children attend Denholme Primary School. The new facilities were provided so that a small number of children on the autistic spectrum could attend a mainstream school.

  • Young bags podium spot in new racing colours

    Keighley’s Chris Young earned his third veterans podium place of the National Trophy Series on a frozen Southampton course last Sunday. Young, riding in his new colours of Wheelbase.co.uk, finished second behind winner Darren Atkins (Coventry

  • From 'Duke's' delight to disabled parking - your views

    Tree decorated with dog poo bagsMeandering my way up Fell Lane on my Sunday morning constitutional, daintily side-stepping the several piles of dog poo along the way, I arrived at the top. Stopping to gain my breath, I then carried on some 50 yards to

  • Information ban is a gross insult to democracy

    Love them or hate them speed cameras — working or not — do act as a deterrent to controling the speed of cars. The question is the degree to which they do keep speeds down? That query is at the heart of the challenge by parish councillor Mark Pullen

  • Appeal for witnesses as man dies after collision

    A 59-year-old Haworth man died following a road collision in Bingley. Police are appealing for witnesses to the accident. Airedale and North Bradford Roads Policing unit said the incident took place at about 5.10pm, on Tuesday, at the junction of Chapel

  • 18 acts line up to do battle in School Idol contest

    Parkside School, in Cullingworth, has held its own final as part of the School Idol contest. Eighteen acts made up of students from across the school performed to a sell-out audience. The external judges were three people who work in the music industry

  • Waiting for a new world born in us

    Rev Dr Jonathan Pritchard Parish Priest, All Saints, Highfield, and St Barnabas, Thwaites Brow writes Waiting. Waiting for a baby to be born. My wife is nine months pregnant. And the days are ticking by. Waiting, waiting. Our Vicarage was about to have

  • Knife-wielding robber threatens three people in town

    A robber armed with a knife has targeted three people in Keighley. Airedale and North Bradford CID would like to speak to anyone who witnessed the incidents, which took place last Friday and on Monday. All the incidents took place at the bottom of Spring

  • School closures and travel latest

    Around 30 Keighley schools are closed again today due to the weather conditions. Although there was no further heavy accumulation of snow overnight and main roads are clear, minor routes are difficult to negotiate. Oakbank, Holy Family

  • Engine was derailed in secret test of new sleeper

    Ingrow East station — seen here from both directions — opened in 1884 on the Great Northern line, which provided Keighley with a railway link to Halifax and Bradford by way of Queensbury. Despite the engineering feats involved in its construction, this

  • Men’s hair-raising effort for cause

    Workers at a Keighley company have been showing off their new moustaches across the world. Customers of Harrison and Clough Ltd on several continents have learned about the men’s fundraising exploits. One member of the import team used interpreters

  • Governors start discussion on whether to become academy

    Governors of South Craven School, at Cross Hills, have decided to begin consultations on whether the school should become an academy. The Government passed an act last summer, which opened up academy status to all schools. Academies in England’s education

  • Council is refusing to release speed facts

    A councillor has had a Freedom of Information request to try to determine the effectiveness of a Cross Roads speed camera refused. A Bradford Council official has told him: “I believe that there is great potential for harm to be caused by the

  • Two see damage caused by volcanic eruption

    Staff from Holy Family Catholic School, in Keighley, witnessed some of the damage caused by the recent eruption of an Indonesian volcano. Maths teacher Jane Whittaker and learning mentor John Packer spent two weeks on the island of Java. They were visiting

  • Cougars keen to get off on right track in Rail Cup

    Cougars boss Barry Eaton believes next year’s Northern Rail Cup will provide the ideal test of his side’s Championship One title chances. Fixtures were released on Monday and Keighley have been drawn in a group with Championship trio Toul-ouse