KEIGHLEY firefighters are due to walk out again in an ongoing dispute over planned pension changes. The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has announced a further four consecutive days of strike action. Members will walk out between 6pm next Friday,
Haworth, Stanbury Jens Hislop Tel 644444 jensandrea@blueyonder.co.uk Today: Coffee morning at Hall Green Baptist Church, 10am to noon. A beer and music festival begins on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway running to Sunday.
Cullingworth, Harden, Wilsden Angela Holmes Tel 273265 angela9haven@hotmail.com Friends of The Dell have organised a working party on Saturday, between 10am and 11.30am. Please go along and volunteer to help clear the beck, cut back
Laycock Jackie McGinnis Tel 643849 jacquelinemcginnis@hotmail.com Sunday: Children’s praise service at Keighley New Church, Braithwaite, at 10.30am will be led by the Rev Christine Bank. Gifts to decorate the church should be taken
Oakworth Jackie McGinnis Tel 643849 jacquelinemcginnis@hotmail.com Today: Oakworth playgroup is held in Oakworth Methodist Church on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday mornings from 9.15am to 11.40am. Call 07748 425182 for more details
Silsden Linda Berry Tel 654643 linda-berry@sky.com Today: Citizens advice, Health Centre, 9.30am to11.30am. Drop in for advice on any subject. Monday: Ladies dance and exercise class at the Methodist Church between 11am and noon
Fell Lane Trinity Church Baptist and United Reformed Today: Trinity 30-minute prayer time, 9.30am Tomorrow: Trinity coffee morning, 10.30am to noon Sunday: Trinity Family Worship led by Valerie Jenkins, 10.30am, followed by refreshments Wednesday
Ingrow St John’s Church holds a single service of all-age praise on Sunday at 11am, with refreshments afterwards. Holy Communion using the 1662 Book of Common Prayer is celebrated at 10am on Wednesdays. Contact the vicar, the Rev Clive
Oxenhope Dr Cathy Tebb showed slides of Romania to Oxenhope Methodist Ladies Fellowship. She runs a charity shop in Bingley, which raises money for young people in Romania. She was grateful for non-perishable items from members that she could take
Farnhill and Kildwick Joyce Wood Tel 01535 635880 There will be a service of Holy Communion at St Andrew’s Church at 8.15am and 10am on Sunday. A recent harvest festival celebration raised more than £500 for the Church Mission Society and
Steeton The St Stephen’s harvest supper and auction of produce resulted in a £500 donation for Water Aid. Gillian Wilson led a walk around Steeton on October 12, which was much enjoyed, as was an excellent afternoon tea served in the church
Cowling Moonrakers – Cowling Local History Group – has begun the indexing of archives for easier retrieval of information. It is anticipated a few months’ meetings will be taken up with the task. News was received of some old Wainman family letters
Denholme Sunday: Morning service at Denholme Shared Church, including Holy Communion, led by the Rev Liz May. Denholme History Group will host an event on November 1 to commemorate the start of the First World War. There will be displays of
Exley Head Jackie McGinnis Tel 643849 jacquelinemcginnis@hotmail.com Today: Line dancing classes at Exley Head Methodist Church – beginners/intermediates from 6.30pm to 7.30pm, £1.50; intermediates/advanced from 7.30pm to 9.30pm, £3
Thwaites Brow, Long Lee, Parkwood Desmond Jackson Tel 607234 deslonglee@gmail.com There will be Parish Communion (spoken) at St Barnabas Parish Church at 10am on Sunday. Holy Communion will be led by the Rev Kenneth Beardsley in Long
Cross Roads Kathryn Gower Tel 642965 kathgower@btinternet.com On Saturday, St James’ Church hosts a choral concert with guests The Rhymney Silurian Male Voice Choir, from South Wales. The choir has a high reputation in international competitions
A SCUBA diving club led by a Keighley man has scooped a national award for the first time in its 58-year history. Bradford Sub Aqua Club won the British Sub-Aqua Club’s (BSAC) premier award, the prestigious Heinke Trophy. The chairman and diving
THE FAMILY Learning Festival continues next week with half term holiday events at venues including Cliffe Castle Museum.Thousands of adults and children are expected to attend a series of events across Bradford district during the festival.The theme of
A THREATENED village gala has been saved.Around a dozen people turned up at a meeting called in a last-ditch attempt to keep Cowling Gala going.The future of the annual event, first held over 75 years ago, was thrown into jeopardy when the former committee
THE HERITAGE Boys from the Washburn Valley are playing a concert with supper at the Clarke Foley Centre, Ilkley, on Saturday.The band started out playing songs remembered from the three boys’ youth in the 1960s and 1970s.They played for one night
OTLEY Courthouse is looking forward to next month’s highlights.The popular venue will welcome stand-up poet, armchair revolutionary and recumbent rocker Elvis McGonagall on November 1.The poet, a regular guest on BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live
A MOSQUE in Highfield will open its doors to the wider public next month.The Madinah Mosque, in Spencer Street, will stage an open day from late morning to mid-afternoon on Sunday November 16.Adnan Mehmood, head of community relations for the mosque,
CHANTRY Dance Company is bringing The Happy Prince and two other original ballets to Halifax.The performances on November 20 at the Square Chapel Arts Centre will commemorate the 160th anniversary of Oscar Wilde’s birth.Wilde’s magical story
A GARDENER at Airedale Hospital has taken a leap for charity – by jumping out of a plane.Steve Marshall joined the Jump for Love, a national skydiving event to raise vital funds to support the charity Saying Goodbye, which is part of the Mariposa
ELVIS Presley is in the building on October 31 as tribute artist Paul Thorpe returns to the Octagon.Paul first performed at the club on Bradford Road, Sandbeds, in May this year.Owner John Pennington said: “The audience stood up and gave applause
THE 1950S are alive and well this Saturday as Blue Suede Dudes hit the stage.The Silsden rock ‘n’ roll trio will make their regular appearance at the Hoggs and Heifer pub in Bentham.The guys came together to play 50s music for long-time Keighley
COUNCILLORS have welcomed a delay in controversial plans for new housing on an Oakworth greenfield site.The deadline for formal submission of a planning application for 140 homes in Occupation Lane, Oakworth, has been put back to October 31.The postponement
KEIGHLEY features heavily in a new book about Yorkshire people’s experiences of life during the First World War.Yorkshire’s War uses first-hand accounts to paint a comprehensive picture of life both on the frontline and back home.The £
MUSIC will raise the roof at Cononley Village Institute on Saturday.The village is holding a music marathon as a final push to pay for refurbishment work at the institute.Kicking off the event will be local youngsters who will showcase their talents from
A KEIGHLEY restaurateur has successfully completed the Chicago Marathon to help people struggling against Alzheimer's Disease.Syed Ahmed, who owns Moghuls Restaurant, in North Street, finished the race in four hours 34 minutes. He has already raised
PEOPLE campaigning against a proposed free trade agreement being negotiated between the United States and European Union took their fight to Keighley Town Centre this month.Locally-based members of the 38 Degrees group handed out leaflets outside Keighley
COWLING is one of three Craven villages to benefit from a new supermobile library that hit the road this month.North Yorkshire County Council’s new flagship vehicle replaces the previous supermobile library, which has been retired after travelling
VOLUNTEERS answered the call to help clean up one of Keighley's public open spaces. They responded to an appeal broadcast by the newly-formed Friends of Burgess Field group.The three-hour clean-up session took place at Burgess Field, in Highfield,
A PERSON killed after being struck by a train just outside Crossflatts Station yesterday was a 41-year-old Keighley man, say police. The death is not being treated as suspicious. Officers were called to the railway line near Morton Beck Underbridge
KEIGHLEY children can hone their football skills thanks to the return of the Striker 9 soccer courses.A 10-week series of the popular sessions, run by Bradford Council, are running on Tuesdays at Marley Sports Centre and Thursdays at Keighley campus Centre.Both
THE grounds of Cliffe Castle will play host to an RSPB "Falling Leaves" event this Saturday. (Oct 25)This event will run from 11am to 3pm and admission is free.Members of the RSPB Airedale and Bradford Local Group will stage the session, which
FAMILIES will be able to see exotic rescued pets during a holiday activity at Cross Hills Library on Tuesday. (October 28)The session, which runs from 2pm to 3.30pm, is part of this year’s Family Learning Festival.Volunteers from Morley Exotic Animal
A STEETON play area is to undergo a complete overhaul.Steeton-with-Eastburn Parish Council has been awarded a total of £67,000 by two landfill tax distribution organisations – Yorventure and Wren.Yorventure has awarded the council £25,000
A KEIGHLEY councillor is backing an appeal by the Woodland Trust to expand historic Holme House Woods.The charity is appealing for £15,000 from the public to help buy seven acres of land that border the existing woods.The Trust is covering some
ORGANISERS of the Haworth Steampunk Weekend are making their final preparations for this year's event which will take place from November 21 to 23. The weekend is returning for its second year after a successful inaugural event last November. It aims
TWO women who will participate in a trek in Nepal to raise cash for Manorlands have collected another £700 for the cause.The money was generated by a pop-up restaurant hosted by Laycock Village Hall. The event was organised by Jane Arnold and Maggie
MANORLANDS has this month received large donations from a bulk transport company and a Freemasons Lodge.Debra and Chris Hagar, who run CSH Bulk Transport Limited, presented the £5,481 proceeds of a party they organised at their Cross Hills home.And
MANORLANDS has received a £700 boost from Keighley Gala.The cash was raised at the annual extravaganza, held in June.Organisers hailed the event as a sizzling success.Andrew Jackson, who was recently re-elected as gala chairman, has handed over
A BRIEF but unmissable artistic era came to an end in the Worth Valley this month when the last of the Fields of Vision artworks were removed.Worth Valley Young Farmers and the team from Haworth-based firm Lawnorder took away the final coat of white line
