A HOME care assistant was never asked for references or proof of her qualifications when given work looking after an elderly widow, a court heard today. Vanessa Ingham told Bradford Crown Court that there was also no request to see her Criminal
WAITING times have improved at Airedale Hospital's A&E department.Last week, 94.6 per cent of patients were seen within four hours.The figure had dipped as low as 85.3 per cent – nearly 10 per cent below the Government target level.Airedale NHS Foundation
STUDENTS at Parkside School in Cullingworth are staging a pantomime – oh yes they are!Pupils next week are performing their own version of the hit movie, Frozen.The show – which runs from Wednesday to Friday – stars Georgina Dawson, Jessica Leeming, Edward
A 16-YEAR-OLD boy has been locked up for two years and four months after showing no remorse for raping a trusting school friend. The teenager was told by a judge at Bradford Crown Court today that only a sentence of immediate detention met the
A HOST of measures aimed at improving passenger safety in taxis and private-hire vehicles across the district have been rubber-stamped by councillors.Reductions in advertising costs and vehicle fees were also approved, as was a tougher English-language
AN ARCTIC explorer's homemade defences against polar bears could have put him in a British prison for five years, a court heard. Survival skills expert Michael Armstrong, 49, was so moved by the death of a schoolboy on an expedition to Svalbard
A NEW parliamentary Bill giving councils the option to hold prayers at meetings has been backed by Keighley MP Kris Hopkins.During the committee stage debate for the Local Government (Religious etc Observances) Bill, he said it was important councils
A WARD councillor explained why she had wanted a decision about an application for wind turbines in Oxenhope to be decided by the Keighley and Shipley Area Planning Panel.Coun Rebecca Poulsen told Oxenhope Parish councillors last Wednesday (Jan 7) that
Keighley Shamrocks Crusaders u-14s 5 Bingley Juniors u-14s A 1 TOM Ormerod opened the scoring for Keighley when he floated a ball from near the touchline into the far corner of the net. Shammies continued to dominate and Harry Farnell burst
KEIGHLEY youngsters Joe Fox and Jacob Snowdon pushed Cliff Camfield all the way in round three of Bradford District Motor Club's Autowbars Championship at Rough Holden, Silsden. But the Barnoldswick adult novice managed to ride every one of the
A KEIGHLEY school's science club is celebrating after winning a Lego robot competition. The Oakbank pupils beat 15 other teams, from as far afield as Selby and Morecambe, to take the honours in the contest at Bradford University. They now go
Cowling Harlequins launch their first junior team on Saturday when training starts for a new under-eights side at Burgess Playing Fields in Keighley (10am). Boys and girls are welcome. Contact Daz Greenwood on 07905-519457 for more information.
KEIGHLEY welcome back Alex Brown on Saturday as they bid for a third straight victory and, even more unusually, a third straight clean sheet in SSE Yorkshire Division Two.Graeme Sheffield's side backed up their 28-0 triumph at Leeds Medics & Dentists
HOW MANY times can a child climb the same stairs before learning their tables? That’s the question being asked by Worth Valley Primary School after transforming their stairs into teaching tools. Multiplication tables are being painted onto
AS WE reflect on a very busy 2014, I want to start with a thank you to all my fellow volunteers, because it's been an incredibly challenging year. I'm very proud to say that we have been presented with a Significant Achievement Award by Keighley Town
AN EASY circuit of a lovely lake, returning via a fine old house.Winterburn is a farming community in an attractive fold of the hills. Start from the road junction in the hamlet after parking by the bridge on the Hetton-Airton road. From the T-junction
FIRSTLY I would like to wish all the Keighley News readers a Happy New Year, I hope you all enjoyed yourselves over the festive period. If you are anything like me I’m sure you all ate and drank to your heart’s content, thinking you would lose that extra
RECIPEDijon Crusted Salmon Salad with a Basil VinaigretteMethod for salmon • Firstly let’s get the oven on to pre-heat at 200’c• In a small bowl add the butter and microwave for one minute or until the butter has melted• Add the mustard and honey and
BEATLEMANIA is this month set to return to Keighley 50 years on.Tribute band Beatles For Sale promise to perform amazing harmonies from their catalogue of more than 100 hit songs. The band will perform at the Octagon club in Bradford Road, Sandbeds, on
THE EXCHANGE is playing host to Aire Valley’s own rootin’ tootin’ hillbilly country rock pop combo.The arts centre in Russell Street, Keighley, will feature the headline band DownReno on Saturday (Jan 17) from 7.30pm.Fans can expect jangly acoustic guitar
A FOLK singer known for his quirky humour will perform on January 23 at the Baccapipes Folk Club.Chris Manners’s performance at the Keighley club is likely to involve both traditional songs and his own material featuring lyrical humour.Chris first got
ALTERNATIVE rockers Indianic will tomorrow (Jan 16) open the year’s gig programme at the Delius Lived Next Door.Indianic can be seen at the Bradford venue with support from fellow Keighley band Kath And The Kicks. Indianic recently launched five-song
BLUE SUEDE Dudes have become victims of their own success.The Keighley-based rock ‘n’ roll revivalists don’t have time to play all the gigs that have been requested.The trio of long-time musicians, Dale Kitson, Roger Kirby and Lee Kitson, play classic
IT’S OFF to Nursery-rhyme Land for audiences at this year’s Oakworth Methodist Church pantomime.The church is presenting the tale of Humpty Dumpty with eight performances between February 14 and 21.As usual the title is simply the starting point for a
LEADING folk singer Martha Tilston will bring the winter to an end with a national tour.Martha, a member of the Tilston-Boyle folk dynasty which has roots in Keighley, plans to build on success of her last album The Sea.BBC Folk Award-nominated Martha
KEIGHLEY Film Club will this Sunday screen a film about famous politician Tony Benn.Will And Testament is a documentary about the life of the late Tony Benn before, during and after his parliamentary career. The film, directed by Skip Kite, sets out to
THE FOX On The Fairway is the first production this year from Keighley Playhouse.The theatre group presents Ken Ludwig’s comedy about intrigues at a golf club from January 26 to 31.Bingham, president of the Quail Valley Country Club, is beset by problems
ENGLISH poet Les Barker begins the year at Lothersdale Live with a headline performance on Saturday. (January 17)Laughter will be in store for anyone who goes along to Lothersdale Village Hall for the latest in the series of folk, roots and acoustic nights.Les
KEIGHLEY Amateurs have unveiled the cast of their newest version of family-favourite pantomime Cinderella.There will be several new faces in principal roles when they “fresh and fun” show hits the Victoria Hall stage on January 24.Some have been plucked
OAKWORTH’S Eleanor Robinson has bounced back from injury in style by winning the under-17 women’s race in the Yorkshire Cross-Country Championships at Lightwater Valley.Having clinched the county track and field 1500 metre title in the same age group
THERE was no double for either Alfie Moses (Paul Milnes Cycles-Bradford Olympic RC) or Ian Taylor at the National Cyclo-Cross Championships at Abergavenny.Both the Keighley youngster and the Cononley veteran had won their respective season-long National
A BUSY Keighley street is to be closed for resurfacing work. Alice Street is due to be shut to traffic for three days. The scheme is scheduled for today (Jan 15) and next Tuesday and Wednesday, but is dependent on weather conditions. The
HOW MANY times can a child climb the same stairs before learning their tables?That’s the question being asked by Worth Valley Primary School after transforming their stairs into teaching tools.Multiplication tables are being painted onto all the stairs
A CARETAKER has retired after more than three decades at a school.Kath Bell started work at the then Long Lee First School, as a cleaner, 32 years ago.She was later appointed caretaker and continued in the role when the school became a primary and relocated
A KEIGHLEY school's science club is celebrating after winning a Lego robot competition.The Oakbank pupils beat 15 other teams, from as far afield as Selby and Morecambe, to take the honours in the contest at Bradford University.They now go forward to
MAISY Chattoe (Crossflatts) was a triple winner at the West Yorkshire Sportshall Athletics Trials last Saturday at the Richard Dunn Sports Centre.She won the one-lap time trial, over-under trial and vertical jump in the under-11 girls' category at the
FOUR pupils at a Keighley school are in the swim.Oakbank students Seth Berry, Ellen Woodger and Amelia and Agata Polisk took part in a swimathon at the John Charles Aquatic Centre, Leeds.Together they raised over £300 for their house charities – the NSPCC
FAULTY boilers which forced the closure of a primary school just before Christmas failed to take the steam out of Nativity plans.The Key Stage One and reception Nativities couldn't go ahead as scheduled when Oxenhope Primary School shut for four days
A VILLAGE school has received a glowing report from Ofsted inspectors.Oxenhope Primary has been graded 'good' by the inspection team, which visited for two days last month.The inspectors – leader Christine Millett and her colleague Steve Rigby – described
POLICE were called out to schools across the district 1,192 times in the past year – the equivalent of three call-outs a day.The reasons ranged from sexual assault to fraud to “animal related problems”.The number is up from the previous year, when police
SCHOOL children across the Keighley district are being urged by the RSPB to take part in a major wildlife survey.The charity is staging its annual Big Schools' Birdwatch between now and February 13.Pupils and their teachers are asked to make a note of
WAYS of helping young people into employment will be the subject of the district's next public forum for education.The event – at Leeds City College Keighley Campus on January 28, 4.30pm – will examine how schools and higher and further education institutions
Keighley Angling Club’s opening match of 2015 turned into a real icebreaker in more ways than one as anglers braved sub-zero temperatures on the canal at Silsden. The freeze proved too much for some competitors who headed home after finding a veneer
COUGARS chairman Gary Fawcett admits the extra travelling this season will hit the club in the pocket as they head far and wide in the quest for promotion. Following their controversial relegation last term, Paul March’s men will spend the 2015
Worth Village 12 Victoria Rangers 0WORTH Village must wait to find out if they have to replay this match after it was abandoned due to a neck injury suffered by a Victoria Rangers player while attempting a tackle.The incident took place three minutes
FAULTY boilers which forced the closure of a primary school just before Christmas failed to take the steam out of Nativity plans. The Key Stage One and reception Nativities couldn't go ahead as scheduled when Oxenhope Primary School shut for four
STEETON Male Voice Choir members were yesterday (January 14) due to sing their farewells to two long-serving members.The singers were invited to perform at the funerals of Silsden man Frank Place and Ilkley man Gordon Sugden.Choir spokesman Eric Parker
ONE OF Keighley’s best-known foundry men has died at the age of 93.Thomas Swain rose from teenage apprentice at a Keighley company to become one of the town’s finest moulders and manager of three Yorkshire foundries.Thomas, who for three decades lived
BOLDLY announcing Hey’s Gold Cup and Victory Ales, the Hare and Hounds down Low Street is seen here in the 1960s shortly before falling victim to the creation of Worth Way.Keighley lost several other public houses around this period, most notably the
PHOTOGRAPHING the new Cavendish Hotel in the early 1900s was obviously an event which attracted patrons and passers-by into the picture. There was then a door on the corner, above which a window is advertising the availability of billiards. On the right
LOCAL photographs dating back as far as the 1860s tend to be rare, making this old view of the Marquis of Granby at Riddlesden doubly interesting.The then unusual activities of the photographer have attracted a few bystanders on the left. The landlord
Methley Royals 12 Keighley Albion 18 A FANTASTIC display saw Albion through to the next round of the BARLA National Cup after dispatching a Methley Royals side four divisions above them in the Pennine League. Defence was certainly a major facet
DISCOUNT retailer Poundstretcher – which has a store at Keighley Retail Park, in Hard Ings Road – has reported record Christmas trading.The company, which has 409 UK outlets, saw total sales growth of 14.8 per cent in the five weeks to December 30, driven
A COWLING restaurant with a chequered past has new faces at the helm.And they have taken over the Harlequin with a pledge to restore the strong reputation of the Keighley Road premises.Dominique Marshall and her partner Dean Marren took the lease on the
A CROSS HILLS company which produces innovative medical equipment is to attend the biggest healthcare exhibition in the Middle East.Viamed will display a range of its groundbreaking products at the Arab Health Exhibition, in Dubai, from January 26-29.
A GROWING Keighley company has secured its future in the town.SEBA Developments has bought the base it previously rented at Keighley Industrial Park, in Royd Ings Avenue.Now the firm is looking to pursue further expansion plans and create extra jobs.SEBA
A NEW beer being sold in aid of chronically ill babies is on sale in the House of Commons.Blistered Feet beer is being produced by the Bridgehouse brewery in Keighley and has been made to help fundraise for Shipley-based Little Heroes – a charity which
A NEW organisation has been set up to try and bring Haworth's recently closed fire station back into use. The Friends of Haworth Fire Station group was founded at a meeting last night (Jan 14) in the Old Sun pub, in West Lane, Haworth. The
A TOTAL of 520,000 cubic metres of stone will be removed from Buck Lane quarry in Denholme after plans for its extraction were approved by Bradford Council.The four-year operation will lead to up to 90 extra journeys a day by HGVs to and from the quarry
LONDON mayor Boris Johnson visited Keighley to meet staff at a booming business that makes high-tech clamps for engine exhausts – including those for his own ‘Boris Buses’.Global success Teconnex has doubled its workforce to 400 in the past six years,
FOUR pupils at a Keighley school are in the swim. Oakbank students Seth Berry, Ellen Woodger and Amelia and Agata Polisk took part in a swimathon at the John Charles Aquatic Centre, Leeds. Together they raised over £300 for their house charities
THE ORGANISATION buying one of the two former Keighley College buildings is hoping to complete the purchase within the next month. Bradford Council revealed last October that it had accepted an offer of an undisclosed sum for the property from
THE HISTORIC Red Pig pub in Keighley has been restored to its original state with lottery cash.The pub is among buildings in Church Street recently refurbished through the Townscape Heritage Initiative (THI). Specialist builder Paul Whitehead removed
BRADFORD Council has confirmed it is asking bowling clubs in Keighley, Steeton and Silsden to take on the upkeep of greens.Council sports boss Cllr Andrew Thornton revealed the extent of proposed changes after local councillors raised concerns about the
THIS WEEK once again we have all witnessed the painful sickening scenes on our television screens when man regresses to his base animal instincts and becomes a wild barbarian, murdering indiscriminately.The evil terrorists in Paris not only murdered in
PLANS for a cemetery near one of Keighley’s most popular beauty spots were always likely to spark controversy – and so it has proved.Councillors have this week spoken out against the proposal for a privately-run graveyard close to Keighley Tarn.You can
by Eileen Jackson, Airedale ChurchAlmost ready: tickets, visa, travel insurance, the lot! The case selected, I’ve started laying out items in the spare bedroom. If you haven’t guessed yet, the big adventure is on the horizon – the exotic holiday. Are
LITTLE Connor Wrighton is jetting out to India with his mother and grandmother for a second course of treatment which could give him some eyesight.The tot, who is just over 13 months old, is having more stem cell therapy at a clinic in New Delhi, following
THE SECOND phase of expansion work at Victoria Primary School in Keighley is expected to begin this spring. The project will see a two-storey extension to provide a new classroom, along with a single-storey extension to the main school hall.There will
DEVELOPERS behind plans to build a new supermarket in Silsden are due to meet town councillors this month.Silvermantle representatives will outline their proposals to councillors before the planning committee meeting on January 22.Silvermantle’s plan
CONCERNS have been raised after planners approved a new access road to future housing off Silsden’s busy main road.The new route will run from Keighley Road across wasteland that lies between two unadopted side streets. It would allow vehicle access to
A KEIGHLEY couple who had four of their border terriers stolen one year ago have issued a renewed appeal for the return of the three dogs who are still missing.Andrew Jones and Mark Jones had the dogs taken from their kennels in Riddlesden in mid-January
RENEWED investigations into what needs to be done to stop water cascading down two streets in Haworth have now begun, according to a Bradford Council officer.Tony Poole, principal engineer for drainage for the district council, was responding to concerns
OXENHOPE Community Centre's main hall has now been redecorated, as part of the final stages of a major refurbishment project.Oxenhope Community Association chairman, Tony Maw, delivered the good news to fellow members of Oxenhope Parish Council last Wednesday
A COUNCILLOR has warned of the poor condition of a section of main road in Oxenhope.Coun Derrick Hopkinson drew fellow Oxenhope Parish councillors' attention to part of Hebden Road, above the village's parish church."Part of the wall has fallen into
PLANS to build 62 houses on the edge of Silsden have prompted renewed calls for a bypass and school.Proposals for a new estate off Bolton Road have already attracted several objections.Campaigners claim existing traffic problems in Bolton Road would be
FAMILY of a 91-year-old man who had to wait nearly two hours for an ambulance after falling and breaking his hip are still seeking answers.Good Samaritans who went to the aid of Ernest Clewer as he lay outside his Hillworth Village, Keighley, home rang
TYRES have been dumped at an Oxenhope car park, according to a parish councillor.Oxenhope parish councillor Tony Jones said the flytipping has been taking place at the car park at the end of Heights Lane.He added more tyres were ditched at the site after
PARISH councillors have been warned of a spike in the number of dog fouling complaints reported in and around their village.Worth Valley ward councillor Rebecca Poulsen informed Oxenhope councillors of the problem last Wednesday. (January 7)"The
APPROVAL has been granted for an eyesore former Keighley pub to be turned into a day nursery.Bradford Council has given Chartback Limited planning permission to convert the Braithwaite Tavern, derelict for around nine years, into a nursery with a flat
THE ORGANISATION buying one of the two former Keighley College buildings is hoping to complete the purchase within the next month.Bradford Council revealed last October that it had accepted an offer of an undisclosed sum for the property from a charitable
SOUTH Craven MP Julian Smith is demanding answers over delayed payments to farmers for their milk.He said dairy co-operative First Milk had announced this week it was deferring payments by a fortnight and also seeking more future capital investment from
A HAWORTH man who organised street protests against cuts to public services in Haworth has appeared on national television.Professional gardener Steve Thorpe was interviewed for the BBC's Sunday Politics programme, which was broadcast last weekend. (Jan
CONTROVERSIAL plans for a privately-run cemetery near Keighley Tarn have been heavily criticised.Proposals for a site near the beauty spot off Black Hill Lane were publicised for consultation last September, and are this week the subject of a planning
A DESPERATE plea for donors has been issued following a fall in blood stocks. Fewer donations due to the festive holidays and increased demand has led a shortage. Nadine Eaton, for NHS Blood and Transplant, said: "It is vital we increase our
A GROUP formed to help take pilgrims to Lourdes will benefit from a fundraising event this month. Airedale Male Voice Choir will perform at Holy Family Catholic School in Keighley at 7.30pm on January 24 in aid of the Massabielle group. Tickets
CHILD sex grooming is an issue that simply refuses to go away. The hugely emotive and shocking subject regularly grabs the headlines, both locally and nationally. Once again this week, so-called CSE – or child sexual exploitation – is at the
A POLICE watchdog has urged the West Yorkshire force to urgently act on concerns about its handling of child protection cases. The HM Inspectorate of Constabulary found West Yorkshire Police is “clearly committed to improving child protection services
MORE than 500 children in the district could find themselves without a place at a secondary school within five years as a growing population piles on the pressure. Projected figures from Bradford Council suggest there will be a shortfall of 504
KEIGHLEY people are being urged to have their say on how future council services could be run. A further series of consultation events is planned at venues across the district, including Central Hall in Keighley. Bradford Council leader, Councillor
UKIP members have lashed out at Keighley councillor Khadim Hussain for publishing a video on his Facebook page that suggested the Paris terrorist shootings were a hoax. But Cllr Hussain has angrily hit back saying the offensive video, which appeared
