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  • Brushing up on planting and painting

    Pupils raised more than £400 in a week to support the efforts of a former member of staff who is serving as a volunteer in central Africa. The year six children at Haworth Primary School worked together to assist Jane Czornowol, who is working

  • Carrying the torch for the end of term

    End-of-term activities at Holy Family Catholic School in Keighley featured a day of Olympics-themed events. The occasion was organised in conjunction with development agency CAFOD. A spokesman for Holy Family said: “Every curriculum area contributed

  • Barratt has Vision to share message about site safety

    Pupils of two schools in Braithwaite have been taught the importance of building site safety by a company constructing houses nearby. Staff from Barratt Yorkshire West, which is building the Vision estate off North Dean Avenue, visited Merlin Top

  • Glowing report for all at Malsis School

    Malsis School in Cross Hills has been given a glowing report by the Independent Schools Inspectorate. The Inspectorate, which monitors all the independent schools in the country, described achievement by pupils at the boarding school as excellent

  • Pupils learn to stay safe

    School pupils learned how they can avoid being hurt in a range of potentially dangerous situations. Around 380 children from 11 primary schools took part in a ‘Stay Safe’ event at Keighley Campus Leeds City College. Among them were year six

  • Ringing in the Olympic Games in fine style...

    Oakworth Primary School pupils gather in their playground in an Olympic rings formation, marking the spectacular culmination of an action-packed fortnight of activities on a Games theme. The children were joined at their closing ceremony by Margaret

  • Sixty new jobs being planned

    A Keighley-based firm specialising in internet technology has announced it will create dozens of new jobs. Webanywhere is based in the Aire Valley Business Centre, in Lawkholme Lane, and was founded by Sean Gilligan. The firm employs a total

  • Firm is celebrating ‘notable landmark’

    A Keighley company is celebrating 15 years of trading since an employee/ management buyout. NSF Controls at Ingrow Bridge was rescued on July 4, 1997, following its exclusion from future business plans in the wake of a merger between then owners

  • Finance boost is paying dividends

    A Silsden office refurbishment business has secured new orders worth almost £250,000 thanks to support from an organisation which helps smaller enterprises. Ultimate Office Solutions was established eight years ago by business partners Mark Hickey

  • Alter egos now in residence

    A terraced house in Haworth has been transformed into an “artistic hub” with an art gallery, tattoo parlour and printers. Four businessmen are operating from Alter Ego in Bridgehouse Lane. One of them is Tony Wright, singer with Terrorvision

  • Warning issued over computer scam

    Trading Standards have warned people to be on their guard against computer hackers following a string of complaints about suspicious calls from overseas. Officers say hundreds of people across the district, including Keighley, could have been targeted

  • Appeal for witness to come forward

    Police are trying to track down a man who may have witnessed an assault on a 14-year-old girl in Harden. The incident took place on July 14 at about 11am in or around the Harden cricket ground at St Ives. Police say the girl was walking with

  • Town praised for peaceful EDL rally

    Action by police and other agencies helped stop groups clashing during last Saturday’s demonstration by the English Defence League. Dozens of police including mounted officers kept members of the far-right campaign group confined to Church Green

  • Devon link to cricket picture

    This Keighley Trade and Grammar School cricket team, taken between 1906 and 1908, has come all the way from Chillington in Devon, sent by Mrs Frances Earle, whose father, John Holt Lister, sits on the left of the front row. Any hopes Mrs Earle

  • Flats evacuated during takeaway blaze

    Flats in Keighley town centre had to be evacuated due to a fire at a takeaway restaurant. Staff at Raja’s Pizza Bar, at the bottom of Cavendish Street, also fled the building after a grill burst into flames. Firefighters, who were called at

  • Allotment lots in hands of gardeners

    A group of Silsden gardeners has taken over the running of one of the town’s allotment sites. Silsden Town Council formally agreed to hand over the management to Woodside Road Allotments Assoc-iation. The association has appointed a management

  • Little Chloe ready for the off in Race for Life

    Pint-sized cancer-care fundraiser Chloe Hewitt will have a busy two days during the first weekend in September. She will spend the Saturday running in Huddersfield’s Race for Life, which was postponed from July due to bad weather. And the following

  • Hi-tech village ‘hub’ revealed

    An architect’s impression of Steeton’s planned community building has been released by the parish council. Work began recently on the £200,000 community hub on land next to the village’s bowling green off Skipton Road. Steeton with Eastburn

  • Couple flee house blaze

    Smoke detectors probably saved a couple’s lives in a house blaze this morning, claims a fire chief. The alarms activated and woke the occupants of the semi-detached property in Hainworth Wood Road, Keighley. They escaped as fire raged through

  • Foreign patient bills’ dilemma

    More than £24,000 is owed to Airedale NHS Foundation Trust by foreign patients who have failed to pay their bills after treatment, it has been revealed. And almost £600,000 is owed to Bradford Hospitals Trust, a Freedom of Information request has

  • New homes ‘will stretch emergency service’

    Thousands of new homes planned for rural areas of the Bradford district will put even greater pressure on a stretched fire service, a Bradford councillor has warned. Councillor Adrian Naylor (Ind, Craven) has written to Jim Butters, Bradford district