AN expert from the British Tinnitus Association is to give a talk at Airedale Hospital. Colette Bunker, the association’s volunteer and support group manager, is addressing the next meeting of Keighley Tinnitus Support Group. “I always look forward
KEIGHLEY Churches Together is again staging Lent lunches. People can enjoy a light lunch every Friday during Lent, from noon, at Keighley Salvation Army. The first is on Friday, February 28, at the High Street church. Teams of volunteers from
THE NATIONAL Trust is recruiting volunteers to help welcome visitors to East Riddlesden Hall. The volunteer guides will share the history of the hall and the work of the charity, which this year celebrates its 125th anniversary. The aim is to
START your walk from the Country Park car park on the on A61. From the car park turn right on the roadside footway across Newmiller Dam embankment then right along the shore, passing the Boathouse and a causeway to reach a major fork past the lake
A MAN who served on the Second World War battlefronts has celebrated his 100th birthday. Jim Hammond – a member of St Mark’s Church, at Utley – joined-up with the Royal Engineers when he was 20, seeing action in Tunisia and Italy. Before the
THE FRONTMAN with The Wombats is striking out with his other band on a tour calling at the Brudenell Social Club in Leeds on February 27. Matthew “Murph” Murphy and his solo project Love Fame Tragedy will be performing songs from his recent EP Five
STEETON have had to call off their North West Counties First Division North fixture with Daisy Hill at Cougar Park tonight. Roy Mason's men were aiming to pick up a vital three points to aid their bid for survival but the pitch was deemed to be
A MAJOR project aimed at cutting the number of people in the region affected by heart disease is starting to have an impact. Health chiefs say they are “delighted” at the results so far from the initiative, which was commissioned by West Yorkshire
BEAUTY isn’t even skin deep for these two ladies as they star in this year’s pantomime from Harden Players. Cyanide and Arsenic, the extremely poisonous Ugly Sisters, will be doing their utmost to stop Cinderella getting her happily ever after
A BUILDING society robber who leapt over the counter to snatch £500 from the till has been jailed for three years and nine months. Ben Green was “off his head” when he targeted the Keighley branch of Skipton Building Society in Cavendish Street
AN inquest into the death of a teenage boy who was struck by a train opened today. Tom Young, 16, an apprentice bricklayer from Cross Hills, died on Saturday, February 1, in the incident near Steeton and Silsden Station. The inquest heard he
HARDEN author Lisa Firth has been shortlisted in the Romantic Novel Awards for the second year in a row. Lisa, who writes as Mary Jayne Baker and Lisa Swift, has again been named in the Romantic Comedy of the Year category. Lisa was nominated
AN APPEAL has been launched for information about a 73 year-old Keighley man who died earlier this month. Coroners Officers this week asked members of the public for help in tracing the relatives of David Mortimer, who died on February 6 from natural
A MAN accused of murder told a jury he cried when he learned his alleged victim had died. Suleman Khan was giving evidence in his defence about the events surrounding the death of Mohammed Feazan Ayaz who was beaten and humiliated at the Denholme
BRADFORD & Bingley Sports Club are counting the cost of flooding for the second time in five years after Storm Ciara struck. The River Aire burst its banks under the weight of rainfall and the Wagon Lane ground quickly became a watery landscape.
STEETON brothers Will and Alex Thompson were a key part of the Ermysted’s Grammar School Cross-Country team that put in another fantastic performance to finish as runners-up at the Coventry Relays last Wednesday. It was the former's last event at
