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Youths urged to get active and fit
Youngsters in the district are being urged to b-active next week. Bradford Council is offering cut-price deals at its gyms and swimming pools during the school half-term holidays. A junior fitness programme and £1 swim will be available from Monday
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Search is on for this year’s gala queen
The search is on for this year’s Keighley Gala Queen. A selection contest will be held at Keighley Shared Church Hall, on February 28. Doors will open at 1.30pm. Any girl living in the Keighley area who will be 15 years old by July 4 — gala day — is
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Parsonage is set for busy week
Arts and crafts workshops and a display of costumes from an upcoming ITV adaptation of Wuthering Heights are among the half-term holiday attractions at the Brontë Parsonage Museum next week. Bafta award-winning costume designer Amy Roberts has worked
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Quireboys back to basics at Gassienda
Top rockers The Quireboys will go back to basics for their headline slot in Keighley on March 6. Spike, Paul Guerin and Guy Griffin will be playing an acoustic set at the New Variety Club. Keighley's own Cowboy Chords -- featuring promoter and singer
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MUSIC from February 12
New Variety Club, Russell Street, Keighley: Fifteen Stories, Royal Vendetta, Spike Island (Friday); Quireboys & Cowboy Chords (March 6). Baccapipes Folk Club: female harmony trio Grace Notes (Friday 8.30pm) and singers night (February 20) in Keighley
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Shape of sacred singing in Haworth
Sacred Harp singing will again be held in Haworth, as part of a 2009 programme spread across Yorkshire. Local people can join experts on November 14 from 10.30am-4pm at Haworth Methodist Church. Sacred Harp singing is a tradition of sacred choral
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Folk winner Tom still gets high from live shows
Two days after winning a folk music "Oscar" fiddler Tom McConville embarked on a mini-tour of the South. More people went along to these four concerts at little football clubs than Tom might normally expect. They were obviously attracted by news of
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Make your own Mughal miniature
Artists can learn how to paint Mughal miniatures in a short course at a Keighley art gallery. The Arts Factory is hosting three sessions on March 4 and 11 with specialist artist Farrah Mahmood Rana. Students will produce a delicate miniature of their
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WHAT'S ON from February 12
Harden Congregational Chapel: Harden Players in pantomime Aladdin (tonight-Saturday 7.30pm, Saturday 2pm). Tickets from Harden Post Office. Oakworth Methodist Church: Sunday School pantomime Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves (Saturday-February 21). Phone
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Freddie chuffed to be fit
Freddie Cougar is winning his own “Battle of the Bulge’. As he approaches the end of his six week “Freddie gets Fit” campaign fans can see the change in his physique. Freddie was given six weeks to get himself in shape by Cougars head
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Nurses told to commute or quit
Twelve nurses based at Airedale Hospital have been told they have to commute to Wakefield or resign, it has been claimed. It follows a shake-up in the way out-of-hours medical care is to be provided. As part of the changes the facility currently staffed
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Now it’s a real Bafta for Simon
Former Glusburn man Simon Beaufoy has won a British “Oscar” for writing hit movie Slumdog Millionaire. The film picked up seven prizes at the British Academy Film Awards in London. As well as Best Adapted Screenplay it won awards for
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Gaist has it all mapped out for local councils
A Cross Hills company which has designed technology to help local councils manage their services better has been awarded a £50,000 financial package. Gaist Ltd, based in Station Road, had to pass rigorous application hurdles to be awarded the cash boost
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Students in 80ft fall for charity
Thrill-seeking Malsis School pupils abseiled off a Sunderland museum for charity. Thirty-eight pupils, parents and staff abseiled 80 feet off the National Glass Centre to raise money for the Royal British Legion. And together with other fundraising
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Making science egg-citing
Children at St Andrew’s Primary School, in Keighley, found the formula for fun. Mad Science, an organisation that delivers scientific-based activities in schools, staged a special assembly. The whole of Key Stage Two — more than 200 children — attended
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Eco group planning hydro-electric plant
A group dedicated to introducing environmentally friendly sources of energy is exploring the prospect of developing a hydro-electricity scheme. Transition Keighley has arranged a public meeting for next Tuesday when people can discuss the proposals.
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Forum to discuss Muslim issues
An Islamic perspective on “identity and citizenship” will be the subject of a forum in Highfield on Sunday evening. The event is being organised by Keighley’s Abu Zahra Foundation. A spokesman for the group, which aims to teach Islamic practices in
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Adults are key to ‘b someone’ campaign year
A year-long campaign aimed at boosting youngsters’ learning and skills is now under way. A special launch event at City Hall in Bradford was attended by hundreds of children and adults from across the district. Pupils from St Anne’s School, in Keighley
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Walking two miles to doctors
Children at Glusburn Primary School put on their walking boots to experience what life is like for those living in Papua New Guinea. Twelve groups of pupils took it in turn to walk around the school perimeter until they had trekked collectively for two
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Pupils raise cash for a goat — and they’re not kidding
In for a penny, in for a goat — that’s the pupils of Lees Primary School. The youngsters donated coppers to raise money to buy a goat for an African family. The target was £25 but the students collected £65 in just one week — enough for extra items.
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Two of the best
Pupils from two local schools have demonstrated their economic flair at enterprise challenge days. Parkside School, in Cullingworth, and Parkwood Primary School, in Keighley, were both victorious in their sections of the Children’s University Enterprise
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Youths and drivers causing concern
Councillor John Weller reported to PC Peter Merrifield and PCSO Andrew Blood that a car had recently been travelling at speed down Elmsley Street and doing handbrake turns at the bottom. He also told Steeton-with-Eastburn Parish Council a group of youngsters
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Gritting levels ‘simply wrong’
A district councillor faced tough questioning over the lack of gritting on Steeton’s roads. Steeton with Eastburn parish councillor John Hargreaves told Craven Ward councillor Adrian Naylor that the main road running through Steeton had been left icy
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Town’s part of council tax reduced by £5 for average homes
Silsden Town Council has brought the precept for an average band D property down from £13 to £8 with the overall precept for 2009/10 to be set at £24,000. This was decided following a recommendation from the general purpose committee, which was unanimous
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Police drop-in plan for youths backed
A new drop-in centre for young people will be established in Silsden by April, a police inspector has announced. Insp Sue Sanderson from Craven neighbourhood policing team told a meeting of Silsden Town Council that she was close to securing
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All-female short-list to replace Cryer
Labour Party members have selected an all-female short-list of candidates to fight the Keighley seat at the next general election. Five women have been chosen as possible contenders following sitting MP Ann Cryer’s decision to stand down at the end of
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Artificial solution to cold snap
The Craven, Aire & Wharfe Junior League are using artificial pitches to try and catch up with their fixture backlog. They played four matches at Sandylands Sports Centre at Skipton last Sunday and plan to play another four there this weekend if the weather
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Death of Roman is big shock
The local bowling scene has been stunned by the sudden death of Myrtle Park’s Roman Hrabar at the age of just 45. Tributes have flowed in following the loss of one of the area’s greatest and most colourful players, who died at home last week
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Cemetery kidnapper jailed for 18 months
A father-of-two who violently kidnapped a teenager from a Keighley graveyard has been jailed for 18 months. Faisal Sarwar, 24, was one of a gang of men who marched the 17-year-old from the cemetery at Ingrow. The teenager had told Bradford Crown Court
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Ali storms into national semi-finals
Yorkshire schoolboy boxing champion Muhammad Ali, of Keighley, won through to the semi-finals of the national stages in fine style. Boxing in the Yorkshire v Midlands quarter-final of the Royal Navy ABA England Schools’ Championships, the 12-year-old
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Eaton: Let's keep on track for Rail success
Go out and finish the job – that’s the message from Keighley Cougars boss Barry Eaton after his side’s stunning victory over Gateshead Thunder. They kicked off their season with an impressive 40-20 Northern Rail Cup triumph against the Championship outfit
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Dog owner wins appeal against jail sentence
A dog owner, whose pet starved to death after he gave it to a 16-year-old boy to look after, has had his jail sentence quashed. Wajid Hussain, 24, had been sentenced to four months’ imprisonment by Bradford Magistrates last November after he was convicted
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Roofing pair face courts
Two men have appeared before magistrates in connection with alleged incidents of bogus officials in the Oxenhope area. Jason Pilkington, 36, of Thames Avenue, Burnley, and Stuart Leeming, 28, of Smith Street, Nelson, have been charged with fraud by false
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Couple take over their local
A couple loved their local so much that they became landlord and landlady. Nigel Matthews and Janet Grainger took on the Airedale Heifer, in Bradford Road, Sandbeds. They had drunk in the pub for the past 13 years and wanted to return it to its former
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Rail graffiti vandals face jail sentences
Two vandals who carried out graffiti ‘tag’ attacks on heritage railways have been warned by a judge to expect prison. Jake Gardiner, 21, and Joe Layfield, 19, pleaded guilty to criminal damage at the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway and the Yorkshire
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Student facing jail following assault
An 18-year-old student who failed to turn up in court to face an accusation of head butting a man was arrested by police and kept in the cells. Vincent Narey, of Braithwaite Avenue, Keighley, appeared in Bingley Court on Monday having been arrested on
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Valentine's Day launch for re-branding of Keighley
Budding Romeo and Juliets are being called upon to prove that romance isn’t dead in Keighley. Those with a passion for the town and each other are being invited to make a little love and get down to the town’s Church Green this Valentine’s Day, for the
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Hoax 999 caller became abusive, court told
A drunken man threatened to kill and sexually abuse police officers during a string of hoax 999 calls, a court was told. Nigel Geoffrey Brown, 39, bombarded emergency telephone operators with nuisance calls while in a “drunken rage”, it was alleged in
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Supermarket duo to walk down aisle
A set of special dates cooked up a recipe for love for two Sainsbury’s colleagues. The eyes of Keith Ingham, 48, and Linda Kelly, 41, met over the cigarette counter in the Keighley Sainsbury’s store three years ago. Linda worked behind the kiosk and
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All the town needs is love
Budding Romeo and Juliets are being called upon to prove that romance isn’t dead in Keighley. Those with a passion for the town and each other are being invited to make a little love and get down to the town’s Church Green this Valentine’s
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Shame on KN and capping parish precepts - you say what you think
Be positive when reporting facts It is always disappointing when a reputable local weekly newspaper stoops to use tabloid sensationalistic techniques. Your front-page story on the inspectorate’s report on the performance of The Holy
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So much to learn from the children
Kathleen Miller Long Lee Methodist Church writesIsaiah ch 11 v.6 - “And a little child shall lead them.” What this tells us is that we all — whatever our age or condition — are equal in the sight of God. Some years ago, at the Seattle Special Olympics
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Tell us how precept money will be spent
This country is in a recession! Everyone is aware of this fact — that is apart from the majority of members of Keighley Town Council. As most other parish councils in the area tighten their belts keeping the local precept the same, or indeed
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Nursery rhymes helped buy Keighley's Spitfire and Hurricane
Photographs of Keighley’s Second World War Spitfire and Hurricane appearing in this column several weeks ago prompted Miss Dilys Wigglesworth, of Grange Road, to seek out her snapshot of this group of children who helped raise the necessary funds
