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Gazette News

Six Ilkley streets to be resurfaced

7:00am Tuesday 7th February 2012

Gas pipe replacement work will not affect Swanley market

Resurfacing work on six residential streets and unclassified roads in Ilkley has been included in a Bradford Council highway maintenance programme for the coming financial year.

£11,000 shared between Ilkley organisations

7:00am Monday 6th February 2012

Jim Horsley in the King's Hall, Ilkley.

Three cricket clubs and the ongoing refurbishment of a historic public hall have been awarded £11,000 by ward councillors.

Family reunited with boy saved from Holocaust

9:00am Sunday 5th February 2012

Memories: Arnold Vanderhorst (far right)

A member of an Ilkley family who played host to a holocaust survivor in the 1940s has been reunited with the boy they helped after reading about him in the Gazette.

Ben Rhydding parking decision rests on charges verdict

7:00am Saturday 4th February 2012

Parking restrictions are planned at Wheatley Lane, Ben Rhydding, on the Post Office side of the road.

A decision on proposed parking restrictions in Ben Rhydding has been put on hold awaiting a Bradford Council verdict on possible parking charges in Ilkley town centre.

Ilkley precept rise for jubilee celebrations criticised

9:00am Friday 3rd February 2012

Parish councillor Heathcliffe Bowen wants to set up an organisation to help Ilkley Library

Dozens of organisations from across Ilkley shared their ideas for celebrations to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and the Olympics at a meeting called by Ilkley Parish Council last week.

Charity’s world record quiz challenge comes to Ilkley

7:00am Friday 3rd February 2012

Quiz fans are being asked to play their part in a bid to set a new world record – and possibly be part of the answer to a future question.

Emmerdale bosses say they'll donate £2,000 to FIOM

1:53pm Thursday 2nd February 2012

One of Barry Wilkinson's pictures of the damage on Ilkley Moor

Emmerdale bosses have pledged £2,000 to an Ilkley Moor volunteer group in a dispute over damage caused by filming.

RAF jet exercise sounded like an ‘empty skip falling from the sky’

1:27pm Thursday 2nd February 2012

An RAF Typhoon jet fighter pilot takes off from the Italian Airforce base of Gioia del Colle near Bari in southern Italy from where the RAF are stationed to patrol the no-fly-zone over Libya

Exercises by RAF fighter jets got people scratching their heads – and jumping in shock – across Wharfedale last week.

Fraudster told to sell house to repay his mother

12:30pm Thursday 2nd February 2012

A convicted fraudster who fleeced his 86-year-old mother of £4,000 has been told by a judge to sell his house and car if necessary to pay her back.

Vic’s dream for Olympic athletes

11:30am Thursday 2nd February 2012

Vic Ferguson with Hurmija Mujic and her sister Ramija

A former soldier who dedicated himself to helping victims of war is working to make the Olympic dreams of disabled Bosnian athletes come true.

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