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Latest local news
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Top marks for Ilkley Carnival Creative Competition!
Three local school children have got top marks for creating artwork which depicts Ilkley Carnival’s Mardi Gras theme!
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Family fun at Bradford Libraries this Easter
Bradford Council’s Libraries Service is offering a host of fun family friendly activities to encourage book-sharing and reading during the Easter School Holiday.
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Free Easter activities in Keighley for all ages
Try Something Spring is a programme of free activities over the Easter holidays for people who live in the Keighley parish area.
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Westville House Ilkley celebrates exam success
Year 6 children are celebrating their outstanding exam success at Westville House School in Ilkley.
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Ilkley Gift Card joins national gifting platform
The Ilkley Gift Card is one of the first local gift cards available to buy in the GiftRound store as part of a drive to encourage local shopping.
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Ilkley Town AFC to celebrate 75 years of football in town
Ilkley Town AFC is planning a celebration event at the Craiglands Hotel in May to mark the club's 75th anniversary.
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Skipton features in Best Places to Live guide for 2024
Skipton is among a handful of places across Yorkshire and the North East identified this year by the Sunday Times Best Places to Live guide.
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Yorkshire Water announced more projects to improve River Wharfe water quality
Yorkshire Water has announced this week it is planning to invest £1.4m in Ilkley and Ben Rhydding to further reduce the number of discharges into the river, helping to improve water quality.
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Retro fair returns to Ilkley Playhouse
Easter Saturday, Ilkley Playhouse sees the return of the Ilkley Vintage Fair with 20 retro specialists from across the north of England, each bringing a host of nostalgic items for shoppers to peruse and buy.
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West Yorkshire bus plans are 'biggest shake up of sector in 40 years'
The decision to bring West Yorkshire’s bus services under public control has been described as the biggest change to bus services for four decades.
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Singer turned environmental campaigner in Ilkley on Sunday
Feargal Sharkey will visit Ilkley on Sunday (17 March) to support the Ilkley Clean River Group's campaign to stop residents paying more money to for Yorkshire Water to treat sewage.
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Local schoolkids take part in climate change event
Children from Cowling Community Primary School, Kildwick C of E Primary and Thornton-in-Craven Community Primary have taken part in a special day of activities to help create a greener future.
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Labour candidate wants Ilkley tip 'mothballed' and deals to use nearby facilities
Labour's candidate to be the next MP for Ilkley and Keighley has called for a deal to be done that would allow Ilkley and Addingham residents to use the tips in Otley and Skipton when Ilkley's closes.
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Council to give financially stricken schools £972,000 lifeline
North Yorkshire Council - which has one of the country’s highest number of schools failing to balance their books - has set out how it intends to distribute a £1m government grant to ease pressures over the coming year.
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Play awarded Best New Comedy Award in 2014 continues at Ilkley Playhouse
Jeeves and Wooster in ‘Perfect Nonsense’ runs until Saturday at Ilkley Playhouse.
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20mph Parish Poll costs Ilkley over £40k
Ilkley Town Council has learnt that the cost of the Parish Poll to challenge the 20mph scheme will cost the council over £40,000, money that will come out of the ‘local pot’.
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Ilkley’s oldest and newest business unite to say “Yes” to the BID
Ilkley’s oldest and newest businesses are uniting to encourage their peers to vote “Yes” as the ballot deadline approaches for a second term of Ilkley Business Improvement District.
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Ilkley to Bradford trains to remain suspended for several more weeks
Network Rail says train services through Baildon on the Ilkley to Bradford line won't return for several more weeks, as work following a landslip progresses more slowly than anticipated.
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Airedale Hospital to host military connections coffee morning
Patients, hospital visitors and staff with a military connection or who are ex-armed forces are being invited to a special coffee morning event at Airedale Hospital next week.
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Limiting flying and driving: The key to achieving net zero?
The second event in the Climate Action Ilkley (CAI) series ‘Your World, Your Vote’ takes place on Wednesday 20 March and will cover a potentially highly controversial topic: ‘To meet Net Zero do we need policies to limit flying and driving?’
Today's weather
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Skipton
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Ilkley
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Keighley
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