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  • Hospital ward will be shut

    Hospital bosses in Airedale are closing a ward with the loss of 16 beds in a plan to care for more patients closer to their homes. Ward three at Airedale General Hospital, Steeton, which takes acute admissions, is closing on March 1. No staff will be

  • Arthur celebrates hitting his 100th

    A Long Lee man who takes weekly bus trips to the Yorkshire Dales celebrated his 100th birthday on Monday. Arthur Bailey rides around the limestone areas where for many years he went on regular walks. Arthur, of Long Lee Lane, has lived in the village

  • Keighley turn on the style to beat York

    Keighley 32 York 7 What a difference a week makes. After a dire performance against Bridlington, Keighley were back on form to demolish a strong York team. From the first whistle, Keighley powered into the visiting defence, knocking them out of their

  • Demetriou wants Northern heights

    Cougars chief Jason Demetriou has challenged his players to go the distance in their pursuit of Northern Rail Cup success. Despite a comfortable 24-6 win against Rochdale in his first competitive game as player-coach, the performance didn’t quite meet

  • Another match goes down the drain for Silsden

    Silsden’s wait to play their first home game of the year goes on after their 11th game in 14 was postponed last Saturday. The Cobbydalers – who have played just once at home since October 23 – suffered their fifth successive call-off when their

  • National acclaim again for Hawks supremo Bray

    Keighley’s Andy Bray has been named National Young Coach of the Year by the English Table Tennis Association (ETTA). The prestigious award comes after he was named Young Volunteer of the Year just over 12 months ago. His commitment to coaching players

  • Cougars appeal for a new club doctor

    Cougars are launching an urgent appeal for a new club doctor. Matches are not allowed to take place without one and previous incumbent Richard Lawrence has left the area. Keighley are away to Dewsbury this Sunday but the search is on

  • Rival football chants prompted youth to steal computer game

    Football fans upset by chants from rival supporters forced their way into a flat and stole an X-box from a teenager, a court heard. Bradford Crown Court was told yesterday that the 17-year-old victim and two friends had shouted their support for Tottenham

  • Protester is sent to jail

    A peace campaigner and grandmother was sent to prison for two weeks after failing to pay fines imposed for taking action at two spy bases. Sylvia Boyes, of Wimborne Drive, Keighley, was fined a total of £700 in 2009, at court in Dumbarton, for entering

  • Photography club raises £300 for hospice

    A calendar featuring the photographic efforts of school pupils raised hundreds of pounds for charity. The £300 proceeds from the 2011 calendar were presented to a representative from Manorlands hospice at University Academy Keighley. The calendar was

  • Tip spending to untidy tarn - your views

    Why waste taxpayers money on tip work?I feel the need to write to yourselves to vent my disgust at the so called improved Sugden End Tip . Having not used the facility since before Christmas I needed to dispose of some rubbish, I was absolutely amazed

  • Choir tunes up for finals of competition

    Children from St Anne’s Primary School, in Keighley, are on song. They have reached the finals of the Bradford and District Schools Choir Competition. The St Anne’s youngsters will contest the BD1 Live Goes Choral final against five other schools, at

  • Driving ban for road-crash doctor

    A suspended Keighley doctor, convicted of drink-driving, has been banned from driving for two years. Jane Hornsey had denied the offence, which happened in Kilnsey on October 18, 2009, but was found guilty by Skipton magistrates last month. The mother-of-four

  • WHAT'S ON from February 10

    Queensway, Airedale Shopping centre, Keighley: Love Keighley art exhibition in empty shop (until February 23). Oakworth Methodist Church: pantomime Cinderella (February 19-26). Phone 01535 642625. Glusburn Institute: pantomime Cinderella (February

  • Corrie! recreates life on cobbles

    Coronation Street legend Roy Barraclough, one-time Rovers Return landlord, will be the narrator when new comedy Corrie! comes to Bradford Alhambra. Jonathan Hardy's play condenses five decades of much-loved storylines and characters into one two-hour

  • BOOK: Tick Tock -- James Patterson

    Bomb blasts in Manhattan are followed by several brutal murders in the latest hardback outing for widowed detective Michael Bennett. The top cop notices connections and realises someone is recreating crimes from across the decades by the city's most

  • Rapid improvement after an unsettled period

    Ingrow Primary School is improving rapidly and will continue its upward rise, say Ofsted inspectors. They say the school has successfully emerged from an unsettled period affected by staff and leadership changes. Following a two-day inspection the school

  • Glusburn panto promises return to past glories

    A return to past glories is promised as Glusburn Institute stages its annual family pantomime. Leading local director Steven Clark is returning after four years to take the helm of Cinderella. The cast of 35 seven to 25-year-olds includes both regular

  • Royal musical for Cullingworth CADS' 40th

    Cullingworth theatre group CADS is to stage the second musical in his 40-year history. The group will perform Rodgers and Hammerstein classic The King and I on February 23-26. The show tells the true story of a governess who brings Western ways to Siam

  • BOOK: The Leopard Unleashed -- Elizabeth Chadwick

    As a young man on crusade in medieval times Renard falls for feisty dancing girl Olwen and brings her back to England. He sets her up in a cottage as his mistress because he must marry Elene, the girl he was betrothed to as a child. As he finds himself

  • Father vows to seek justice for his dead son

    The father of a 12-year-old boy killed in an arson attack has condemned a report into how his vulnerable son’s care was managed before his death. And David Clough has vowed he will continue fighting to seek justice for his child. Damian

  • Lollipop lady marks 25 years

    A woman from Cross Hills has been recognised for her 25 years of service as a lollipop lady. Margaret Lund, pictured, has been helping youngsters from Glusburn Community Primary School to cross Colne Road since January 13, 1986. Mrs Lund, who lives

  • Jewels used in cancer battle

    A business is selling jewellery designed to help people protect themselves against the sun’s potentially harmful rays. UV Angel specialises in unique handmade accessories using beads which change colour when exposed to dangerous levels of ultra violet

  • BOOK: Beyond Reach -- Graham Hurley

    Det Insp Faraday became my new best friend last year after I exhausted other cop series like Serailler, Resnick and Rebus. I devoured the first nine in a few months, and discovered there's no one better than Hurley at capturing the grittiness of urban

  • Crackdown on animal cruelty

    Three people were arrested in a major police and RSPCA operation to crack down on animal cruelty in Keighley. Officers swooped on five addresses in the area early yesterday, following a long-running investigation. Several animals, including

  • The Portrait -- Opera North

    Opera North last week gave the British premiere of The Portrait, an opera written thirty years ago by the little-known Russian composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg. Adapted from a Gogol short story, it tells of Chartkov, a talented but impecunious young artist

  • Students hold debate on changing climate

    Secondary school students followed the example of world leaders who met to discuss climate change last December. The year nine pupils at South Craven School took part in a project inspired by the international political gathering staged at Cancun, in

  • Justice still needs to be done after Damian's death

    The serious case review into the death of 12-year-old autistic boy Damian Clough makes tough reading. In brief it says “there is no evidence at any point that any professionals thought about the family as a whole. This means there has been wholesale

  • Question of culture and religious beliefs

    Canon Bruce GraingerwritesThis week I’ve found myself reflecting on Christian religious culture, perhaps sparked off by a debate taken up by the Prime Minister about national culture and multiculturalism in our society. Historically, churches went out

  • Chequered history of inn

    On this old postcard showing a building in Hob Lane, Stanbury, somebody — probably Jonas Bradley, Edwardian headmaster of Stanbury Board School — has written both the names by which it has been known, Eagle Inn and Silent Inn. This hostelry has had a