A NEW orchid has been named after the Silsden street where it was grown. Paul Redshaw has been cultivating the hybrid orchid in his Westerley Crescent garden for the past decade. Now Dactylorhiza x grandis Westerley Charm is going through the
A KEIGHLEY firefighter has been given a rare award for saving a teenage boy from drowning. Keighley White Watch crew manager Adam Dykes has been presented with a commendation by the Chief Fire Officer of West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service.
A POPULAR Haworth show which hasn't been held for two years due to the pandemic returns this month. The 102nd annual flower, vegetable and produce show will take place at the village hall – in Butt Lane – on Sunday, August 28. Attractions will
A PUB landlady is raising funds for the neonatal unit which saved her baby daughter's life. Jodie Driver's daughter Layney-Mae weighed just 2lb 13oz when she was born nine weeks premature in January. She spent around six weeks on the neonatal
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I WRITE regarding Malcolm Balmforth’s letter in the Keighley News – which questioned whether Keighley Central electoral ward had high levels of deprivation, and also suggested that the reason Keighley Central got more funds was because the population
Robin Longbottom examines how a long-forgotten trade was pivotal to Keighley’s birth as a manufacturing centre IN 1789 Richard Hattersley, his wife and family arrived in Keighley from Ecclesfield, near Sheffield. Although history records him
OMAR Anjum has had worse weeks. The Steeton defender, who made a summer move from Eccleshill United, netted twice in their 6-1 opening day win over Cleator Moor Celtic in the North West Counties Football League First Division North. And now
KEIGHLEY Cougars head coach Rhys Lovegrove has named his 21-man squad for tomorrow’s away fixture against the Swinton Lions. Lovegrove has named an unchanged squad from the one that defeated the Midlands Hurricanes in Cougars’ last outing a fortnight
