Harden parish council meets tonight at 7.15pm, Memorial Hall, Harden There have been a number of thefts in the area of bicycles and the police have advised to keep bikes in a locked shed, or if left outside, out of view and secured to an immovable object with both wheels locked. The police also recommend making a note of the serial number, make and model to assist identifying a bike should it be stolen. A limited number of kits are available to mark a bike with postcode/name from Bingley Neighbourhood Policing Team on (01274) 475331.

At this month’s village council meeting councillors approved plans to extend The George public house to provide additional dining and kitchen facilities and conversion of upstairs function room and store into three bedrooms and provision for a spiral escape staircase. It also approved plans at Cullingworth & District Conservative Club to replace the conservatory with an orangery and stone patio, new entrance lobby and bottle store including an external staircase to first-floor living accommodation and a timber pergola. An application to convert High Mill, Mill Street, into apartments and the construction of four houses to the rear of the building was refused. The apartments would be a good use of the mill building but the additional housing was considered to be inappropriate in the conversion area and would add to traffic congestion on Mill Street. A further application for four houses to be built on the land to the front of the Old School House was also refused.

A public consultation has been arranged by Commercial Estates Group on Friday, September 20 at Cullingworth Village Hall to display revised plans to develop the Manywells Industrial Estate.

The Harvest Festival service at Cullingworth Methodist Church will take place on Sunday at 10.30am when the service will be led by Mrs Ann Fox. Donations of tins for the Salvation Army will be much appreciated.

The planned visit from Bishop Ismail from the link diocese in the Sudan, to the service next Sunday at St John’s Church has been cancelled owing to his not receiving a visa to travel. A representative from Joy will now speak about the work of the charity.

Cullingworth Garden Club meets next Wednesday 7.30pm at the Methodist Church when Bob Sanderson of Cath’s Garden Plants – The Walled Garden, Heaves Hotel, Levens, Cumbria, will talk on “30 plants you didn’t know you needed”.

Cullingworth Supper Club meets next Thursday at 7.30pm, Methodist Church, when Pat Asquith and Hilary Greaves will give a talk on “Russia, a country of contrasts”.

St John’s Church, Cullingworth, has organised a ceilidh on Saturday, September 21. Tickets to include a pie and peas supper, £10 adults, £6 for children. Contact parish priest, the Rev Suzy McCarter, on 270687.

Cullingworth Methodist Church is hosting a fashion show by Complete Clothing Company on Thursday, September 26 at 7pm, admission £2 including refreshments, by ticket or pay on the door.