This group of pupils from a Keighley school has had the opportunity to sample life in Sri Lanka thanks to a British Council-funded exchange link. Holy Family year 12 students Annie Howley, George Mitchell and Charlotte Melnis travelled to Matara, in
BOOK A Fear of Dark Water -- Craig Russell A welcome return for Hamburg cop Jan Fabel and it's every bit as engrossing as earlier outings Brother Grimm and Eternal. Fabel is thrust into the world of cyber-crime as the Network Killer, who stalks victims
School councillors from Keighley St Andrew’s CE Primary met Lord Mayor Councillor Naveeda Ikram during a visit to City Hall in Bradford. The children saw the silverware and other gifts donated to the city and learned that when the mayoral chain was stolen
Primary school pupils were recognised in Keighley Town Hall for their efforts to help desperately poor people in Africa. They had taken part in a project begun by a member of Keighley Town Council, which has raised more than £2,000. Councillor Amjid
Matthew Butterfield, senior salesman at the Keighley branch of car dealer Colin Appleyard, has been named salesman of the year by car maker Suzuki. He is one of two of the firm’s employees to scoop top awards. Mr Butterfield and senior technician Tony
Keybury Fire & Keighley firm Keybury Fire & Security has won contracts together worth £100,000. Among them was an upgrade of the CCTV system at Kadel Engineering. The managing director of Ingrow Bridge-based Kadel, Paul Rollins, can now remotely
A Worth Valley primary school used a visit from one of its Bradford counterparts to launch its Olympic Reading Challenge 2012. The initiative has been announced by Haworth Primary School. Literacy co-ordinator Caron Stone said: “This
A new business called in the muscle for an opening event at its premises in Keighley town centre. Top bodybuilders and a boxer displayed the results of their hard work to members of the public at Olympia Protein, in North Street. The bodybuilding and
Local solicitors’ practice AWB Charlesworth LLP has adopted Sue Ryder Manorlands as its charity for 2012. The law firm, which has offices in Keighley and Skipton, has 11 partners and specialises in commercial and private client matters.
A Keighley haulage and distribution business has been included in a list of the top 50 fastest-growing companies in Yorkshire. The accolade has gone to McDowell Distribution Ltd, which has a depot in Valley Road. Stephen Fry, from the
An Oakworth Road newsagents which sold the Keighley News for over a century before closing five years ago, is again selling the paper under its original business name. In was in March of 1899 that Amos Dewhirst, a former woolsorter from Oxenhope, opened
Keighley 29 Hunslet Old Boys 22 Keighley turned on the style on Saturday at Crossflatts to defeat Hunslet in the President’s Cup for the second season running. They were well worth their win over the visitors from the Pennine League Premier Division
Silsden 1 Glossop NE 0 Silsden notched another impressive win against one of the league’s high fliers, thanks to a goal from Steven Palfrey in the 35th minute. Glossop arrived as the in-form team in the division, with six victories and a draw in their
Ramsbottom United 3 Silsden 0 The Cobbydalers failed to find the net for the first time in eight games this year as the Rams went six points clear at the top on Tuesday night. Despite the hosts having always finished above Silsden, the Yorkshire side
Cross Hills 2 Silsden Reserves 1 Assistant Steve Newton led underdogs Cross Hills to a major cup shock against their neighbours which saw them book a place in the final against Oxenhope. With first-team coach Gary Greene otherwise engaged, Newton took
Keighley’s Lynn Williams opened her Olympic account at the birthplace of the Games last year – and she’ll unveil a new chapter this summer after being chosen to carry the London 2012 Torch. Lynn made her first-ever appearance at the Special
Although he knows there are no easy games in SSE Yorkshire Division One, Keighley’s director of rugby Graeme Sheffield sees no reason why his team cannot win their remaining four matches this season. With Pocklington (85 points) set to win the championship
Former Cougars winger Jason Lee will make an emotional return to Cougar Park on Sunday as Bradford Dudley Hill seek to write themselves into Challenge Cup folklore. The Dudley Hill coach spent four years with Cougars between 1998 and 2001,
A Keighley charity shop wants to dish out a donation to a group that organises meals or runs a dining club. The Fresh Waters Christian charity shop, in Bridge Street, has more than 100 oval dining plates which it would like to donate as a single batch
An Oakbank School student is one of the winners of this year’s Bradford Young Citizens Awards. Nathan Connelly was one of several youngsters from across the district honoured at a ceremony last week. He received the Health and Wellbeing award jointly
A Steeton man who ran a Keighley metal merchant and machine dismantling firm for many years has died following a short illness. Denis Calvert, who was 85, died at his home in Rivock Avenue last Sunday. He had managed Hector Moore Ltd, in Worth Village
An iconic picture of The Railway Children by the late Stanbury artist Ken Jackson is to be sold at auction. The oil painting shows the stars of the 1970s film mingling with villagers at the top of Main Street in Haworth. Several residents
Councillors will today decide whether to approve plans for a £30 million retail complex in Keighley. If the application is passed, the proposed Worth Valley Shopping Centre will be built on a former industrial site lying between East Parade, Coney Lane
Bradford Council officers have recommended approval for a scaled-down scheme to concrete over an area of green space bequeathed to Keighley by the Duke of Devonshire. The go-ahead is recommended despite more than 70 letters of objection to plans by Copperwaite
Keighley’s Lynn Williams opened her Olympic account at the birthplace of the Games last year – and she’ll unveil a new chapter this summer after being chosen to carry the London 2012 torch. Lynn, of Albert Road, made her first-ever appearance at the
The excitement and sense of occasion surrounding the Olympic Games will engulf Keighley from late afternoon on June 24. The organisers of the Olympic Torch Relay, the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games, have announced how people in the
A 30-year-old man broke a woman’s ankle as he tried to rape her after luring her into a dark children’s play area, a jury heard. Graham Butterfield had downed 20 bottles of Carlsberg Export when he attacked the 34-year-old mother he had just met at a
Plans for a £30m leisure, housing and business complex behind Keighley Fire Station have been shelved. Developers the Worthington Group hope instead to build houses on the Chatsworth Works site off Bradford Road. The company intends to submit an outline
Cold callers will be given the cold shoulder in areas of Silsden and Steeton thanks to council funding. The neighbourhoods will have signs warning off salesman and bogus callers, and residents will have window stickers. Neighbourhood Policing Team
A disabled single mother from Cross Hills has been banned from driving after colliding with another car while more than twice the legal limit. Debra-Jayne Slingsby, 28, was stopped by police because of the extensive damage to her car, Skipton magistrates
A West Morton woman won two first prizes in the same day with her dogs at Crufts. Diane Garratt entered her bull mastiff sisters Squishy and Darcy in the UK’s top dog competition. Darcy, officially known as Medjezelbab Grandma’s Girl at March Manor,
A former pupil and a former head teacher of a Keighley secondary school have joined forces to boost educational opportunities for bright youngsters – with a £1m fund. Scott Adams, a 50-year-old businessman who went to Holy Family Catholic School in the
How will a city-based mayor help this area? A recent BBC poll shows that although there will be a referendum on whether to have an elected mayor, almost 70 per cent of those asked did not know it was happening, and even more worryingly, only
The age of philanthropists from Keighley is alive and kicking. This area has a rich heritage of people from all walks of life, who for a variety of reasons, put fortunes back into Keighley, and help make it what it is today. A great
CANON BRUCE GRAINGER All Saints’ Church, Highfield writes “Only a fool would think he could do that job”, said Rowan Williams ten years ago when tipped by a newspaper as front-runner in the Archbishop-of-Canterbury stakes. There are lots of things
Black Bull, Main Street, Haworth: rock/blues band Monitor (Saturday); Soul Rebels (March 31). Ukrainian Club, Henry Street, Keighley: Baccapipes Folk Club hosts Hissyfit (tomorrow 8.30pm); singers night (March 30). Phone 01535 605310. Pop and Pasty
Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Ebor Lane, Haworth: Airedale Male Voice Choir (Saturday). Bingley Arts Centre: Bingley Little Theatre in comedy drama The End of the Food Chain (Monday-March 31, 7.30pm). Phone 01274 432000. Bradford Alhambra: Drama The
