A popular American loco will be among the stars of the show when the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway stages its Winter Steam Spectacular this weekend. But for the USA S160 engine – affectionately known as Big Jim – it’s not its first foray
A council chairman is anxious about whether there will be enough toilets for the thousands of Tour de France spectators expected to descend on Haworth. Councillor John Huxley, of Haworth, Cross Roads and Stanbury Parish Council, said he understood
One of the government’s most senior ministers visited Keighley this afternoon to find out what can be done nationally to help in the local fight against child sexual exploitation. Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice Chris Grayling
A drummer who has sold more than 100 million records will be playing at Pennington’s Octagon Live this month. Bev Bevan, drummer with The Electric Light Orchestra, Ozzy Osbourne’s Black Sabbath, Denny Laine and The Move – who recorded the first
A community worker is being sought to drive Keighley’s Big Local regeneration project. He or she will encourage residents to take part in the lottery-funded £1 million plan to revitalise rundown neighbourhoods. The involvement of local people
Patients at Airedale Hospital’s A&E department heard a 25-year-old threaten his pregnant girlfriend. Aaron Moran, from Bradley, who was suffering from the after-effects of wisdom teeth surgery, was also verbally abusive to police officers,
A Silsden mum is among carers from across the district whose craftwork is on sale this week at a pop-up shop in Bradford. Ann Roberts is showing a range of everyday homeware items, from greetings cards to door hangers. “This is a great opportunity
Keighley residents will be shown how to influence key decisions affecting their neighbourhoods. A workshop will help people get involved in the work of Parliament, local government, voluntary organisations and other community forums. The event
The Theatre school GTS is holding workshop auditions this coming weekend. It is inviting young people to go along to Farnhill and Kildwick Village Institute from noon to 3pm on Sunday to take part in a workshop, with a view to auditioning for a
Bradford Council has confirmed the elaborate mausoleum of one of Keighley’s grandest families was among the Utley Cemetery memorials attacked by stone thieves. The full extent of the harm recently committed on tombs in the graveyard comprises a
Graves are being put at risk by an infestation of moles at a moorland cemetery, it is claimed. Stanbury Cemetery is littered with molehills. And it is feared the burrowing could lead to subsidence at the plots. Oldfield resident John Collinson
The innings of one of the truly great servants of local sport – Clifford Gill – has ended shortly before his 90th birthday. Clifford’s mighty contributions included more than 75 years’ service at his beloved Sutton Cricket Club, where he had figured
Silsden with Skipton Young Farmers were victorious in the organisation’s district quiz. It was their first win in the contest for 12 years. The club’s next meeting, on Monday, will feature dairy cow judging.
Householders were left in shock as a car ploughed through gardens in Braithwaite on Tuesday morning. People in Coronation Mount had a rude awakening as the Renault Clio careered off the road just after 4am. Police found the vehicle perched
A concert organised by the club will raise money for Yorkshire Air Ambulance. It will take place at St Andrew’s Church, on Newmarket Street, Skipton, on Saturday, March 22, and will feature Airedale Male Voice Choir, conducted by Steeton man John Smith
The Camino de Santiago was the title of a talk with slides of a charity walk by Ian Nichol when he visited the forum last Thursday. The fantastic views in colour were indicative of the terrain on this long walk. Some of the roads went in a straight
Brownies from the 2nd Wilsden pack turned on the style to celebrate their section’s centenary. They used drama, song and rap to trace the history of the Brownies. And they put on a performance for parents in the final meeting before the half-term
There is bingo on Tuesdays at the Dickie Bird at 8pm and on Wednesdays a quiz and Strike It Lucky at 9pm, free supper at both events. The local art group meets in the Village Hall on Tuesday and Friday afternoons from 1.30-3.30pm. Contact Barbara
There will be a coffee morning on Saturday from 10am at the community centre, which will include stalls and a raffle. Also on Saturday, Sutton Ramblers meet at 9am in Church Road for a walk at Hebden and Grassington. Contact (01535) 634200.
Trinity Church (Baptist and United Reformed) – There will be no Fellowship Group tonight. Friday: 10.30-noon, Trinity coffee morning. Sunday: 10.30am, Trinity family worship will be led by Mr Bernard Thompson, followed by refreshments.
On Sunday the service at the shared church will be led by the Rev Paul Severs, and will begin at 10.30am. There is now a Christian Club at the primary school led by the Rev Suzy McCarter. For more details, please ring the school on (01274) 832123
Last night the guild held a social evening. Winners of a quiz arranged by Mrs Webster were Mrs Hartley and Mrs Pinder. A bee drive followed with the winners being Mrs Bottomley and Mrs Steele. The annual general meeting will be held on Monday.
Monday, February 24 – Evening North/South 1 Alan & Diane Dean, 2 Mike Rattenbury & Paul Davies, 3 David Ambler & Michael Cluett; Evening East/West 1 John Spencer & Freda Conquest, 2 David & Nicky Green, 3 Patrick Gray & Judith
Silsden Moor farmer Simon Bennett enjoyed double success at this month’s prime cattle show at Skipton Auction Mart. His first-prize 555kg Limousin-cross heifer was crowned champion and went on to achieve the day’s leading price of £1,451, when
Silsden mayor Chris Atkinson has given his support to a children’s centre which was threatened with the axe. Bradford Council had proposed to withdraw funding from Daisy Chain, and several other children’s centres in the district, as part of its
Toddler Praise at St Stephen’s Church is today at 9.30am. On Tuesday St Stephen’s Ladies’ Fellowship meets at 7.30pm in the small hall for a talk on East Riddlesden Hall. There will be a Lent lunch at the Methodist Church on Tuesday at noon
Silsden Local History Group is launching a new project to support villagers interested in researching their family or local heritage in more depth. An informal afternoon session, open to all, will be held once a month at Silsden Town Hall, when resources
Today: Tea & Chat at Riddlesden United Reformed Church. Please drop in between 2.30pm and 4pm. Saturday: Coffee morning with stalls and raffle at Riddlesden United Reformed Church, 10am-noon. Sunday: Morning worship at Riddlesden United
Thursday: Oakworth Police and Community Contact Point is open every Thursday, from 1.30-3.30pm at Holden Hall. For further information, contact telephone number 647574 or e-mail contactoakworth@yahoo.co.uk. Oakworth old people’s welfare group meets
Sunday: Service, 10.30am, Keighley New Church, Braithwaite, led by the Rev Christine Bank, followed by tea and coffee in the church hall. Tuesday: Yoga class, Laycock Village Hall from 11am-12.30pm. Suitable for people of all abilities, if you
Sunday: There will be a service at Exley Head Methodist Church at 10.30am, with Sunday Gang for the children. Monday: An Ofsted-inspected pre-school playgroup operates every day, Monday to Friday in the room below the Exley Head Methodist Church
The Women’s World Day of Prayer local service will be held on Friday at 7pm, at Cullingworth Methodist Church, Dellside Fold, when the theme will be “Streams in the Desert”, prepared by Christian women in Egypt. Cullingworth Conservative Club welcomes
The KWVR is holding its Winter Steam Spectacular from Friday to Sunday. Home locomotive ‘Big Jim’ will make its official debut after years of work and visiting engines will include BR Black 5 No. 95820 and LNER K4 ‘The Great Marquess’. For more information
Sunday church services: Stanbury Church, holy communion at 9.30am and Haworth Parish Church, holy communion at 10.45am. West Lane Baptist Church, family service at 10.30am led by the young people followed by a church meeting and at 6pm. The Lent group
Cowling Companions will meet on Wednesday in the village hall, at 2pm, when Eric Waddington will talk about “The History of 25 Years of Fairground Life”. The price is £2.50, including homemade refreshments.
If you’re new to bread making, soda bread is a great place to start, as it’s far less temperamental than yeast-risen breads. Soda bread is quick, simple and delicious, and ideal for any baking novice who thinks their can’t make bread or thinks
Public Events Today: Morton Meet, conversation, refreshments, £1, East Morton Memorial Institute, 2-4pm. Tomorrow: Coffee morning, Keighley Shared Church Hall, 10am-noon, shoppers’ service, 10.30-10.50am. Saturday: Coffee morning, Keighley
If you are one of those people who want to write non-fiction but can’t think what to write about, the answer is at your fingertips. History has already been written, so why not simply draw your reader’s attention to it? Magazine editors are
Bruce Mulcahy travelled from his Dewsbury studio to demonstrate techniques and behaviour of gouache painting. He is a member of the Royal Society of Marine Artists and the Fylingdale Group of Artists, and conducts workshops and demonstrations.
Music Exchange Arts Centre Russell Street, Keighley 01535 661591 exchangearts.co.uk Be A Marvel singer/songwriter competition (tomorrow); tribute Guns Or Roses (March 15); Canadian noise rockers Your Favourite Enemies (March 16); comedy
The Wizard Of Oz – Cullingworth Amateurs The Judy Garland film musical is seen as the definitive version of L Frank Baum’s famous book. So no wonder that, when presenting a play adaptation, Cullingworth’s amateur theatre group incorporated
Vienna Tonkunstler Orchestra – St George’s Hall Bradford welcomed the fifth orchestra for its International Orchestral Concert Season from faraway Vienna. Not quite the illustrious Philharmonic, but its near neighbour of 75 players: the Tonkunstler
With every man wearing or carrying a raincoat or overcoat, staff of J S Ramsbottom and Co Ltd – ‘the Complete Electricians’ – line up outside their own Bow Street premises prior to an outing. Founded in 1924, Ramsbottoms pioneered such 1930 innovations
Older readers who remember when sweet shops displayed their wares in labelled glass jars will affectionately recall Keighley-made Bottomley’s Mint Rock and other delicacies. Founder of the firm, Jonas Bottomley, pictured on this old advertisement
The timeless wit, class and elegance of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance Of Being Earnest will be on show in Keighley from next week. This enduringly popular play is being staged by Keighley Playhouse from March 10 to 15. It will be directed by Kevin
Eileen Short – formerly of Keighley and now living at Muir-of-Ord near Inverness – has sent a cutting from her local paper describing how a demand for hand-made cloth like Harris Tweed has “secured incomes for crofters in the Western Isles”. There
Keighley parish’s annual town meeting is to take place later this month. The event, which is open to the public, will be staged at Keighley Civic Centre in North Street at 7.30pm on March 19. The meeting is designed to give people a chance
Regarding Joyce Newton’s letter – ‘There's a covenant on centre which severely restricts its use’ (Keighley News, February 27). In 2010, KTC negotiated to obtain a licence from the Devonshire Estate to ease the restrictive covenant on the building
Prayer is a sacred task entrusted to all the faith communities which profess that God exists and is worthy of worship. The various praying communities exercise their responsibility in different ways. Islam says that prayer is so important that
I am writing to you to voice my disgust at the council’s recent repairs to my little street – ‘Sett-to over road repair’ (Keighley News, February 20). As the street is steep and cobbled, some of the setts have become loose, very uneven, rutted
Here is an opportunity not to be missed – ‘Speed humps row ‘splits’ residents’ (Keighley News, February 27). Instead of speed humps, use my idea of a bolt-down chicane system. This will slow traffic down, no damage to cars, no further injury to
Regarding the comments made by Councillor Simon Cooke – ‘Fears for future of green belt’ (Keighley News, February 20) – if he did truly fear for the future of the green belt, he would have championed our district with his Conservative-led national
At long last, the ex-Keighley councillor and ex-deputy chairman of the finance committee of Keighley Town Council has admitted she was fully aware the Civic Centre was to be financially encumbered when she was part of a team at KTC that bought the
As a frequent walker on the moors around our Keighley district, I cannot help noticing the wind turbines above Oxenhope, and have some sympathy with the residents of an area close to Denholme, who have campaigned against a further additional site,
I was pleased to read in my local paper that Silsden Town Council has responded in a positive way to the recently published report of the residents’ survey – ‘Survey is completed’ (Keighley News, February 13). I was a member of the group of volunteers
It is well documented that pubs are disappearing from our cities, towns and villages at an alarming rate. Several factors, chiefly the availability of cheap booze elsewhere, are sounding the death knell for many ‘locals’. Keighley district
There have been many stories recently regarding confiscations under the Proceeds of Crime Act and how satisfying it is to see that a court has recently ordered more than £170,000 to be paid back by a criminal who was part of a drugs operation, which
Silsden has waited a long time for its own supermarket. Now two companies – Aldi and Tesco – are both vying to build in the town. With this week’s slightly undignified exchange of words between the applicants, the bid to develop a store in Silsden
Glusburn Youth Theatre’s production of Peter Pan written by John Morley and directed by James Jennings was put on at Glusburn Institute. For another year running this was fun, energetic, colourful and entertaining for all the family, with full chorus
The Judy Garland film musical is seen as the definitive version of L Frank Baum’s famous book. So no wonder that, when presenting a play adaptation, Cullingworth’s amateur theatre group incorporated the film’s well-known songs. Numbers like Follow the
Bradford welcomed the fifth orchestra for its International Orchestral Concert Season from faraway Vienna. Not quite the illustrious Philharmonic but its near neighbour of 75 players: the Tonkunstler Orchestra. Especially renowned for work with younger
A change of tenant at an iconic Haworth pub this week prompted fears about its future. But owners Enterprise Inns acted to quash rumours the beloved watering hole in Main Street was in danger of closing. A spokesman said the Bull – a famous
Malsis School at Glusburn has re-submitted plans for a small development of houses. The ‘enabling’ development of five homes to the rear of the school in Colne Road, will provide the funds required to allow it to carry out repairs and conservation
Facing a trip to SSE Yorkshire Division One leaders Dinnington on Saturday, Keighley’s director of rugby Graeme Sheffield has admitted that their injury situation “has gone from bad to worse”. He said: “Stuart Inman’s looks like a long-term injury
Keighley Minors u-17s manager Charlie Wysocki believes his side are capable of upsetting Barkston Ash in Saturday’s semi-final at Woodlesford (2pm). Barkston are the current holders of the West Riding County FA Minor Cup and qualified as group
European youth weightlifting champion Rebekah Tiler fears that a lack of funding will hinder her bid for Olympic glory. The 15-year-old from Denholme is suffering because British Weight Lifting have had their money from UK Sport reduced. Rebekah
West Bowling 16 Keighley 22 Wingman Ryan Gaughan produced the killer blow with just five minutes to go to give Keighley the spoils in a nerve-jangling Pennine League Premier Division encounter against West Bowling at Emsleys Rec. Bowling, who
Cougars player-coach Paul March says his side are in buoyant mood heading into Sunday’s crunch showdown at home to Championship pacesetters Leigh. The Centurions are top of the table after three games but March’s team could draw level with them
A 19-year-old man has pleaded guilty to possession of heroin and crack cocaine with intent to supply. Mohammed Khaliq, of Broomfield Road in Keighley, will be sentenced on April 14. He was bailed until that date after admitting committing the
A Keighley tenant who suffers from severe breathing difficulties has been left without usable heating for at least seven weeks due to a delay in re-connecting his gas fire. Joseph Burke, of Newtown Close, said his condition means if he uses his
A greedy building society employee from Keighley abused her position of trust to play a central role in a fraud conspiracy which targeted more than £100,000 from customers’ accounts. Sarah Naheed, 25, a customer advisor at the Cross Hills branch
A Keighley man who was an employee of Skipton-based company Homeloan Management is to stand trial at Bradford Crown Court on May 12 charged with alleged illegal use of information. Farid Rafiq, 36, of View Road, pleaded not guilty on Friday to
Fire crews were called to the police station forecourt in Cross Hills after a van caught fire. Crews from Skipton and Silsden were called to the incident in Wheatlands Lane at 1.19pm on Monday. The fire caused damage to the passenger side of
Keighley schoolchildren had a flipping good time on Shrove Tuesday. Pupils at Merlin Top Primary School learned all about pancakes on the special occasion. Older children at the Braith-waite school were able to measure ingredients before tossing
A former Oakworth woman will Morris dance to Silsden as part of this weekend’s Team Honk fundraiser! Kirsty Smith is among bloggers and tweeters taking part in the 300-mile relay across the UK for Sport Relief. She will don the costume originally
One less illegal motorbike will be pestering Keighley residents after Neighbourhood Police seized a trial bike from a 13-year-old boy on the Woodhouse estate last week. The teenager was issued with a Section 59 warning for anti-social behaviour
A war of words has broken out as two supermarket giants go head-to-head to build in Silsden. Both Aldi and Tesco are seeking to open stores on sites at Keighley Road in the town. Now they have clashed over when their planning applications should
