Keighley news

Keighley and Ilkley MP Robbie Moore has opened a petition for residents to sign if they back his calls for a full inquiry into child sexual exploitation across the Bradford district.

A Keighley businessman has been fined £10,000 for failing to put right unauthorised engineering works at a rural site that began in 2017.

Businesses have voted for a second five-year term of the Keighley Business Improvement District (BID), following a ballot of town centre firms.

North Yorkshire Council has recommended that councillors approve an application for a children’s role play and gymnastics centre on a farm in Cross Hills.

Taylored Dental Care in Keighley has announced the opening of a third surgery at its Cavendish Street practice this month to deal with increasing demand.

A local environment charity is set to  start work on improving an historic pathway to enable more people enjoy the River Worth, following a boost of almost £60k from the Keighley Towns Fund.

As a result of ASLEF strike action, Northern services will not operate on the Airedale and Wharfedale lines on Friday 8 December, with additional disruption expected between 1-9 December due to action short of strike.

Keighley Market is giving people the chance to get creative and crafty in free festive activities over the coming weeks.

Local bus operator The Keighley Bus Company invites new starters and career switchers to find out more about working for the company at the depot open day next month.

Airedale Hospital and Community Charity, the official charity of Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, is looking for donations of gifts for patients who are in hospital on Christmas Day.

A charity that works to support economically and socially disadvantaged people in Keighley is set to modernise its facilities after a £140,000 boost.

This December, theatre enthusiasts are in for a treat as Peter Whalley's compelling play, "Dead of Night," unfolds its gripping tale at Keighley Playhouse. 

Keighley has been awarded £19.8 million of government funding which will help the town become a national leader in advanced engineering, manufacturing and robotics.

Creative volunteers from Emerald Publishing Ltd have painted an eye-catching mural on Keighley’s Hainworth Wood Community Centre, as well as giving the interior a fresh coat of paint.

Airedale Hospital and Community Charity has received a total of £8,681 through the Co-op's Community Fund in the past year thanks to local shoppers.

Proposals for a new flood defence scheme for Keighley and Stockbridge are going on show at a community event this week.

Representatives of the Sangat Centre in Keighley have attended a Levelling Up Champions Reception at 10 Downing Street.

The public libraries in Ilkley and Keighley will only stay open past 5pm two nights a week as part of a shake-up of opening hours by Bradford Council.

Voices of Yorkshire has choirs in Bingley, Pudsey, Skipton, Menston, Oakworth and Silsden, with members from Ilkley, Skipton and Keighley.

A 25-home development on a former football pitch in Keighley has been approved.

The Winter Solstice Strider is set to return on the shortest day of the year in support of Sue Ryder Manorlands Hospice based in Oxenhope.

Laura Hughes has been appointed as Airedale NHS Foundation Trust's first 'Admiral Nurse' to deliver relationship-centred dementia care at the hospital.

Tributes have been paid to retired GP Dr William Thorburn, who was a partner at the Farfield Group Practice surgery on West Lane in Keighley for three decades.

Keighley's Airedale Shopping Centre is hosting the team from local GP surgeries Modality AWC as part of a celebration of Baby Week Bradford.

A team of staff from Airedale Hospital's children's ward have raised more than £7,500 to improve the ward's outdoor play area after completing a 46km trek through Machu Picchu.

Keighley and Ilkley MP Robbie Moore has been appointed as a minister in the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs as part of the latest government reshuffle.

Bradford Council’s former Chief Executive has been announced as the new chair of the team that will run Bradford’s City of Culture year.

MP Robbie Moore has asked the government to intervene following Bradford Council's decision to approve plans for another 138 houses in Silsden.

Airedale Hospital and Community Charity is bringing its annual Festive Fair to Skipton Town Hall later this month to raise money for the hospital's Emergency Department Appeal.

Rail operator Northern says the number of carriages on some of its local services will be reduced when a new timetable takes effect from 10th December.

Businesses across Keighley have received a total of £276,000 so far as part of a fund aimed at helping them to grow - and creating 44 new jobs.

Gemma Sayer, who works as a Bereavement Support Midwife at Airedale Hospital, has been named as the winner of a national award by baby loss charity Sands.