DISTRICT staff from the Department for Work and Pensions have given another boost to Manorlands. They have presented £1,027 to the Oxenhope Sue Ryder hospice after staging a series of activities. Events culminated with a seventh annual football
PEOPLE can learn more about a care trust’s community health services at a meeting next Thursday (Nov 28). Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust is staging its final public board meeting of the year. The meeting – which is open to anyone
A KEIGHLEY construction company has earned acclaim for its renovation of a 17th-century Quaker meeting house. Lawkholme Lane-based RN Wooler & Co spent six weeks painstakingly restoring Farfield Meeting House, in Addingham. The 1689-built premises
PARKSIDE School students wrote a poem with award-winning writer Jamie Thrasivoulou and read it aloud at an arts festival. Students created the poems during the workshop at school at the Cullingworth school in advance of the Keighley Arts and Film
MORE than 1,000 people across the region have boosted their mental health in the past four years thanks to a groundbreaking scheme which sees patients prescribed cycling by healthcare professionals. The Cycle for Health project aims to tackle health
ELECTRIC Guest will play the Belgrave Music Hall in Leeds on December 5 after unveiling new single More and album Kin. The band’s guitarist Asa Taccone said: “We wrote More for anyone who feels like they’re searching for something different than
A CHARITY is urging Keighley people to press General Election candidates in the constituency for their support to end prescription charges for asthma sufferers. Asthma UK says research has shown that three quarters of people with the condition
A BODY which represents the district’s private care providers says the rates paid by Bradford Council fall below their break-even point. And it claims the system is unfair on Bradford district’s older, frail and disabled people. The Bradford
A KEIGHLEY befriending project has been spotlighted as part of National Lottery 25th-anniversary celebrations. The CarelinK programme, run by Keighley & District Volunteer Centre, is among schemes which have received lottery funding. Since the
A CHARITY has issued a plea for people to lend an ‘elfing’ hand this Christmas. The British Heart Foundation says the festive season is a particularly busy time in its shops – including the outlet in Keighley’s Airedale Shopping Centre – and it
A POTENT mix of farce and black comedy is promised by Bingley Little Theatre for its last production of the year. Alan Ayckbourn’s play absurd Person Singular is described as a comic masterpiece of social climbing in 1970s suburbia. When it was
A ‘SUPER group’ of GP practices which involves several across the Keighley district has won a coveted accolade. The Modality Partnership – in conjunction with Healthy.io – was a winner in the Primary Care Innovation of the Year category in the Health
AFC Liverpool 8 Steeton 0 STEETON suffered their second successive rout in the space of three days as they were beaten 8-0 by AFC Liverpool in the North West Counties League Division One North. Fresh from a 5-0 home defeat to Emley the previous
WHEN the first frost of the week hit the district it wasn’t long before police in Keighley stopped a car for having dangerously poor visibility. Officers came across the driver after stopping at a petrol station. The car’s frosted-up windows
A WOMAN who was involved in a horror crash that broke “almost every bone” in her body has vowed to continue on her remarkable path to recovery. Angela Menzies, of Sandbeds, was left fighting for her life after a head-on collision in which she broke
MUHAMMAD Ali is confident that he can put his two-year drug ban behind him to begin an assault on the professional boxing ranks before the end of the year. Keighley-born Ali had been on his way to Olympic stardom before he was suspended for a couple
THACKLEY had to settle for a point in a 3-3 thriller at home to Barton Town last night. The Dennyboys held the lead for much of their Northern Counties East League Premier Division clash. But the visitors came from 2-0 and 3-2 down to salvage
