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  • Keighley hosts Yorkshire Day celebrations: PHOTOS

    A HOST of activities – including a parade – has been held as Keighley took centre stage for Yorkshire Day. The town had been chosen to hold the official Yorkshire Day civic celebration for the first time since the annual event – which takes place

  • Major festivals part of busy year for Keighley rap star

    A KEIGHLEY rap star is enjoying huge success across the UK – and is set to feature at a festival in New York. Islam Hussain, aka Issy, has performed at over 20 events this year. He was approached – through his father and manager Saby Khan,

  • Own-goal secures Silsden opening day success at Bottesford

    SILSDEN began their 2022/23 Northern Counties East League Premier Division campaign with a 1-0 win away to Bottesford Town on Saturday. In a very end-to-end game, it was a first half own goal from home defender Hashlee Cranidge that settled the

  • Keighley rail open day is a model success

    AN open day staged by a Keighley model railway club has been hailed as a huge success. Visitors packed into the Aire Valley Railway Modellers Club premises for yesterday's event. “From the moment the doors opened in the morning the clubrooms

  • Tickets go on sale for Keighley Show

    TICKETS are now on sale for this year's Keighley Show. And they are available at the same price as in 2007! Thanks to funding from Keighley Town Council, everyone aged 16 and over will pay just £5. Under-16s accompanied by a paying adult

  • LETTER: Keighley vigil to remember atomic bomb victims

    THIS Saturday (August 6) in Keighley we will be remembering the dropping of the first atomic bombs on Hiroshima on August 6 and Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, when more than 200,000 people died – most of them civilians. We will be gathering in Town

  • Warning following fire at Riddlesden

    FIRE chiefs have issued a warning following an incident at Riddlesden. A crew from Keighley fire station was called out at about 8pm yesterday after a pile of plastic tree guards was set alight. The firefighters used a specialist wildfire unit