OUT-of-the-box thinking helped Keighley firefighters rescue an injured builder trapped on scaffolding. The crew used a JCB forklift at the building site to raise themselves to the first-floor where the man lay with a dislocated knee. During the
A STEETON-based motorbike club has raised £1,500 for charity with their annual Big Bike Sunday classic motorcycle event. Proceeds of the Girder Fork Classic Motorcycle Club's event at Skipton Auction Mart will support the Whiteknights Yorkshire
SOLOISTS, guest musicians, guest artists and the Children’s Chorus come together as the entire Opera North company presents a varied Christmas programme. Highlights will include Opera North’s first Relaxed Performance at Leeds Town Hall, a thrilling
STAFF at a Keighley law firm have found the ingredient for fundraising success. Employees at AWB Charlesworth Solicitors staged a seventh annual bake-off contest in support of Martin House children’s hospice, Boston Spa. The venture – which also
TWO players have left Keighley Cougars to join one of their rivals. Chris Cullimore and Alex Williams have left the Cougar Park club to join fellow Betfred League One side Coventry Bears. Cougars tweeted: "Everyone at the club would like to wish
A STEETON company is backing a national festive toy appeal for a third year. Acorn Stairlifts is asking employees to buy an extra gift and donate it to the Mission Christmas campaign. And the firm has opened a drop-off point at its premises so
SNOOKER champ Joe Johnson and Likely Lads actor Rodney Bewes share space with Keighley’s Skeletal Family and Jon Harvison on a new compilation album. Ten years ago music historians Gary Cavanagh and Matt Webster produced a book exploring Bradford
MORE than 40 people have now been charged by police in a major crackdown on the supply of Class A drugs in Keighley and across the Bradford district. Detectives say the operation should reassure people that information about suspected drug dealing
EAST Morton company Prestset have entered the digital book market with the launch of an espionage thriller. Transitions was written by Keighley Grammar School old boy John Gibb and is based on his experiences working as a photojournalist in Bosnia
BRADFORD theatre company Mind the Gap will preview its latest production at the Square Chapel in Halifax on Thursday November 21. The group, whose actors have learning disabilities, will perform their first co-production with innovative theatre
GREASY blues rock is promised by Glastonbury Festival veterans Crow Black Chicken when they play Keighley. The power trio will play recently-opened venue Studio 5 Live at the Jam on Top music studios in Dalton Lane on January 18. A spokesman
Steeton 0 Emley 5 STRUGGLING Steeton crashed to a heavy defeat to table-toppers Emley at Cougar Park in the North West Counties League Division One North. Although still bottom of the table, Steeton had put in some improved performances, and
TWO charities have been handed a huge boost by the former Lord Mayor of Bradford. Keighley councillor Zafar Ali wore the mayor’s robes for the 2018/19 civic year, and during that time chose to support the Sue Ryder Manorlands hospice at Oxenhope
