COMMUNITIES across the district are being urged to make a clean sweep. Bradford Council is spearheading an initiative aimed at bringing together groups, neighbourhoods and businesses to improve the environment. Litter in streets, parks and other
A KEIGHLEY man has co-founded a company designed to help people lead healthier lives while cutting down on damage to the environment. Nick Hird, of Westburn Avenue, is one of the founders of ViDrate, a flavoured health drink containing added vitamins
KEIGHLEY’S champion horse-riding duo James Reed-Griffiths and T-Jay Wilson have each bagged two gold medals in the Special Olympics World Games. The youngsters between them scooped six medals while representing their country in equestrian classes at
ICONIC Bradford comedy drama Rita, Sue and Bob Too is to be performed professionally for the first time at St George’s Hall. Out of Joint Productions is taking its acclaimed version of Andrea Dunbar’s semi-autobiographical play to the hall from
A PRIMARY school is celebrating more sporting success achieved by its year five and six children this month. (March) Youngsters from Oxenhope Primary excelled in both horse riding and cross country running. In horse riding year five pupil Amy
MANORLANDS has paid tribute to a boiler firm which leapt into action to help the hospice. Clever Energy Boilers came to the rescue when ageing equipment used by counselling services at the Oxenhope building packed-up. Within minutes of receiving
ALTERNATIVE rock band The Diesel Trees, whose singer Ryan Hanson lives in Keighley, is back on the live circuit. The band will play the 360 Club, Leeds, on April 19 along with Light Show, Young Amphibians and Greedy Souls. The band, formed in
PETER Rabbit bounds into Glusburn next month as the village’s latest big-screen presentation. The 2018 movie adaptation of Beatrix Potter’s famous story will be shown at the Glusburn Institute Community & Arts Centre on April 5 at 6.30pm.
SECONDS out as former Keighley man Nick Ahad’s play about wrestling returns to West Yorkshire. Glory delves into the larger-than-life world of British wrestling to grapple with identity and race in multicultural Britain. Nick, a BBC Radio Leeds
THE latest cakes and buns sale in Keighley to help a young girl with cerebral palsy raised £1,114. The charity sale was staged in the Airedale Shopping Centre earlier this month (March) to support 12-year-old Charlotte Wormald. Proceeds will
A BUILDING society has given a helping hand to Haworth Riding for the Disabled (RDA). The Yorkshire Building Society has handed-over £800, from its charitable foundation. The money will help pay for new riding equipment and helmets. Chloe
MYSTERY still surrounds the death of a teenager whose body was found at a beauty spot in 1995. Nobantu Zani, known as Mandy, was 15-years-old when her body was discovered by a walker at Druid's Altar, in St Ives, Bingley, crudely covered with branches
FUNDRAISING is set in stone for Manorlands. Keighley-based M & G Stone has presented a £300 cheque to the Oxenhope Sue Ryder hospice. The money was raised through a Valentine's Day initiative, in which the company carved messages into heart-shaped
A SUCCESSFUL community art project in Oxenhope held in advance of the previous Tour de Yorkshire will take place again this spring. Oxenhope Primary School will host the event between 9.30am and 3.30pm on Wednesday April 17. It will be in preparation
CONFUSION surrounds the status of surveillance cameras at a pub with links to the Bronte family. The Black Bull in the centre of Haworth is famous for being a favourite drinking hole of Branwell Bronte, the wayward brother of the Bronte sisters
