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Motorist taken to hospital after Oakworth crash
A woman was taken to Airedale Hospital suffering from back and neck pain after a two-vehicle crash at Oakworth this afternoon. Firefighters from Keighley helped paramedics lift the woman from the vehicle and gave her oxygen. She was driving a Citroen
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News from Oakworth
Thursday: Oakworth Police and Community Contact Point is open every Thursday from 1.30-3.30pm in Holden Hall. For further information, ring 647574. or e-mail contactoakworth@yahoo.co.uk. Oakworth playgroup runs from 9.15-11.40am in Oakworth Methodist
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News from Laycock
Sunday: Keighley New Church, Braithwaite, service at 10.30am, led by the Rev Christine Bank. Tea and coffee will be served after the service in the church hall. There is also home-made produce on sale. Tuesday: A gentle exercise class to music
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Keighley teenager Hayley Remde has designs on a university future
Teenager Hayley Remde has designs on the future. The 18-year-old made a promotional display stand for a forthcoming Keighley Amateurs production. Hayley, who has been a member of the theatre group since she was eight, tackled the project as
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Members of exercise club display prowess
These young men of a Silsden Parish Church tug-of-war team pose proudly with their rope and a cup they have won a century or so ago. They are probably members of a Physical Culture Class formed late in 1910 in conjunction with the Young Men’s Society
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News from East Morton, Riddlesden
Sunday: 10.30am Morning Worship at Riddlesden United Reformed Church, led by the Rev T Porter. Monday: 10am, Elders Meeting at Riddlesden United Reformed Church Wednesday: noon, Beverley’s Seniors Lunch Club at Riddlesden United Reformed Church
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News from Silsden
Thursday: Citizens advice, Health Centre 9.30 to 11.30. Drop-in for advice on any subject. Monday: Ladies dance and exercise class at the Methodist Church between 11am and noon. Wear loose clothing and bring a drink of water. For more information
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News from Thwaites Brow, Long Lee, Park Wood
There is bingo on Tuesdays at the Dickie Bird at 8.30pm, and a quiz and Strike It Lucky on Wednesdays at 9pm. On alternate Tuesdays the Mobile Library is by the bus terminus at Thwaites Brow from 3.45 to 4.15pm and on Long Lee Lane, by the surgery
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News from Denholme
On the Bank Holiday Sunday, August 25, Denholme United is having a family fun day with a barbecue, disco and karaoke, from 2pm, followed by a race night starting at 5.30pm. The event is at the Conservative Club. Everyone is welcome. This Saturday
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News from Haworth, Stanbury
Saturday: Hall Green Church Book Point is open from 1-4pm. Zumba class at 10am at West Lane Methodist Church’s Grimshaw Centre. Sunday: Church services – Stanbury Church, morning worship at 9.30am. Haworth Parish Church, family worship at 10.45am
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News from Farnhill, Kildwick
St Andrew’s Church – On Sunday there will be a service of holy Communion at 8.15am and 10am. From 2.30-4.30pm tea and scones will be served in the Parish Rooms and the church will be open for visitors. The monthly coffee morning held last Saturday
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News from Exley Head
Sunday: Exley Head Methodist Church, service at 10.30am, with Sunday Gang for the children. Monday: An Ofsted-inspected playgroup operates every day, Monday to Friday in the room below the Exley Head Methodist Church, from 9.15-11.45, during term
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Brothers’ catch of the day
What seems to modern eyes an unexpected former sport was tunny-fishing, in which Scarborough featured prominently. In September 1934 Keighley brothers R Hattersley Smith and H Giffard Smith went deep sea fishing off Scarborough and caught five
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News from Cross Roads
This Sunday sees the traditional Haworth, Oxenhope, Lees & Cross Roads Allotment Holders Association 95th Annual Flower, Vegetable and Produce Show at Haworth Community Centre. The two themes in the Photography section are ‘Water’ or ‘Sky’. The
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News from Oxenhope
Friday: Worth Valley Contact Point, Changegate, Haworth, noon-4pm. Youth Club, 7-9pm Community Centre. Sunday: Oxenhope Methodist Church, service at 10.30am. Fitness Class (aerobics) with Sam Reeday, 9.30am Oxenhope Community Centre.
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News from Fell Lane
Trinity Church (Baptist and United Reformed) – today: 7.45pm, The Fellowship Group meet for Bible study, prayer and song at ‘Catsville’ Friday: 10-noon, Trinity coffee morning. Sunday: 10.30am, Trinity family worship will be led by the Rev Fred
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News from Cullingworth, Harden, Wilsden
Members of the Cullingworth Gardening Club will visit a garden in Guiseley next Wednesday. The trip costs £4 to include tea and cake. For more details, ring (01535) 957905 or 646998. Play in the Park, noon-4pm today and Friday in Cullingworth Recreation
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Diary Dates August 16 2013
Saturday: Coffee morning, Keighley Shared Church Hall, 10am-noon. Saturday: Coffee morning and second hand books, Buddha Land Centre, 10.30am-2pm. Sunday: Sunday worship, 10.30am, plus Sunday evening service on first and third Sundays of the
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News from Sutton
St Thomas’s Church summer fete will be held on Saturday in the vicarage garden, Main Street, from 2pm. It will include afternoon teas, stalls and activities for everyone. On Tuesday, the Mothers’ Union will meet at 2pm in the community centre
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Fun at Airedale Hospital open day
An insight into how wounds in films look so realistic will be one of the attractions on offer at Airedale Hospital’s open day. Freelance make-up artist, Serena Gunpath, has already visited Airedale’s Nightingales Day Nursery to make some children
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New opportunities to join Dog Watch in Craven
More opportunities have been made available for people to sign up to Craven’s Dog Watch scheme. The initiative operates on a similar basis to Neighbourhood Watch, but with the onus on dog owners to report suspicious behaviour while out walking.
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A group of amputees will tackle a 16-mile trek from Bradford to Keighley this weekend
A group of amputees will tackle a 16-mile trek from Bradford to Keighley this weekend. Sunday’s walk, mostly on the Leeds-Liverpool Canal towpath, aims to raise more than £5,300 for the Airedale & Bradford Out On A Limb support group. Family
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Ethnic minority votes warning to Keighley MP
Keighley Tory MP Kris Hopkins has been warned he faces defeat at the next general election if he fails to listen to the concerns of ethnic minority voters. Cross-party group Operation Black Vote (OBV) has found the number of seats where black and
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Unions demand fire chiefs ‘spying’ talks following surveillance of Denholme Gate mum
Union leaders have demanded a meeting with West Yorkshire fire chiefs to get reassurances “covert surveillance” of its employees does not overstep the mark. West Yorkshire Fire & Rescue has been embroiled in controversy since it was revealed
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MEP in foreign aid quotes row apologises
A UK Independence Party Euro MP whose constituency includes Keighley has voiced his regret after a comment he made during a speech caused a storm of protest. Godfrey Bloom, an MEP for Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire, came under fire when it emerged
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Former pen pals meet due to Keighley News
Former pen pals who lost touch with each other decades ago met face-to-face for the first time thanks to the Keighley News. Stella Caldow, from Australia, wrote to the paper to try and contact mother and daughter Margaret Sayer and Catherine Hall
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Keighley's top curry chefs in bid for national title
Renowned Keighley curry chefs are hoping to cook up a storm as Bradford bids to retain its Curry Capital title for the third year running. Among the restaurants representing the district is Keighley’s Shimla Spice, whose head chef, Nazakat Ali,
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Woman taken to hospital after Keighley house fire
A woman was taken to hospital following a fire at her home early this morning. She was given oxygen by firefighters before being taken by ambulance to Airedale Hospital. A fire service spokesman said the woman, who is in her 20s, suffers from a medical
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Steeton foster mum 'saves' pony
Time was running out for miniature spotted pony Ralph after his mother rejected him when he was just two days old. His owner, Christine Jackson, from Steeton, tried to rear him by hand, but after ten days of refusing to eat, the tiny 18in-high
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Keighley former school chums reunited after 40 years in friendship case study
Two former best buddies who met at school in Keighley before drifting apart only to be reunited again 40 years later have been used as a case study on the dynamics of friendship. Mollie Johnston and Jeanette Haughton, both 59, met in secondary
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Keighley taxi boss blasts moves to relax cab licensing conditions in the district
A Keighley taxi boss has blasted moves to relax cab licensing conditions in the district. Councillors have backed various changes, including slashing the minimum age for drivers from 21 to 18. The measures would also allow the use of vehicles
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Keighley MP joins community leaders to back campaign against forced marriages
An organisation representing Keighley Muslims has welcomed a government awareness campaign meant to alert people to the abusive practice of forced marriages. Keighley Muslim Association spokesman, Mohammed Saleem, said he supported the ‘Marriage
