BINGLEY Jazz Club will pay tribute to John Pashley, one of the North's most popular musicians, at a special evening on Thursday February 20 at the town's Mavericks club. The extrovert jazzman, who died last autumn played regularly at Bingley mainly
A CHARITY walk with a difference is being offered to fearless Keighley people. Over-18s are being urged to walk across burning embers to raise money for Hope for Tomorrow. The charity works with Airedale NHS Trust to run a mobile cancer care
MORE apprentices are being taken on board by Transdev – which runs Keighley Bus Company. The firm this year will be operating five apprenticeship programmes. And to coincide with National Apprenticeship Week, it spotlighted the achievements
FORMER Brookside neighbours Eithne Browne and John McArdle will star in a new play about love, hope, and the realities of living with dementia. The actors from the old Channel 4 soap will be at Leeds Playhouse to appear in Frances Poet's "extraordinary
A CULLINGWORTH couple are celebrating two decades at the helm of a bike business. Paul and Sandra Corcoran took over Pennine Cycles when its founder and former owner, Johnny Mapplebeck, retired and emigrated to Canada. At that time Paul managed
INCOMMUNITIES workers saw red – and they’re delighted! Employees of the Keighley social housing group took part in a charity Wear Red Day. And their efforts – plus a bun sale and raffle at the Farish House retirement living scheme in Keighley
PLANS to create a housing development along the Leeds Liverpool Canal have hit a major hurdle. A site off Hainsworth Road in Silsden has previously been earmarked for housing – and if the scheme went ahead around 30 homes would be built on the field
SILSDEN'S Toolstation Northern Counties East League League Cup clash at home to Nostell Miners Welfare tonight has been called off, meaning Danny Forrest's men are set to have a fortnight's break between games. The game at the Cobbydale Construction
IDEAS are being sought for a second Keighley Arts and Film Festival. The extravaganza is being planned following the hugely-successful inaugural festival last October. A huge range of activities was staged over four days. There were live
A 15-YEAR-old boy plans to walk the Yorkshire Three Peaks to raise money for Candlelighters. Charlie Pyrah is embarking on the trek in memory of fellow Keighley teen Kieran Duffy who died in December after a short illness. Army cadet
RAINBREAKERS will showcase their nationally-renowned blues, rock and soul sound this month at Silsden Town Hall. The band, known for gritty guitars and soulful vocals, will perform on Saturday February 22 during the latest music night at the
PROP James Whitcombe had to be at his best as England U20s pulled off a somewhat backs to the wall job to beat Scotland U20s 21-17 in Edinburgh and earn a second successive Six Nations win. The Keighley prospect was in the starting XV at Myreside
THE CRUCK Barn in Appletreewick will welcome back one of its favourite performers on March 20 to share the bill with Plumhall. Ian Prowse, who performed with Amsterdam and Pele, is touring on the back of his career retrospective album the Story
KEIGHLEY lost 32-17 at Selby on Saturday, and were left counting the cost of more than just a defeat which left them stuck in the Yorkshire One relegation zone. They lost influential centre Sean Kelly through illness on the morning of the match
THE Bradford Motor Club’s Yorkshire Centre Championship at Yarnbury near Grassington was cancelled at the eleventh hour after a top level emergency meeting by the organisers. The remote former lead mines high on the moors was not the place to be
