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  • Alexander is just great as he nets first tile

    ADDINGHAM nine year-old Alexander Finlayson (left) has netted his first Under-10 county title. The Addingham, Primary School pupil who is coached at Ilkley Tennis Club won the LTA Arial 10 and under County Tournament in Nottingham beating an opponent

  • Yeadon open campaign at Spen Victoria

    Yeadon will open their JCT 600 Bradford Cricket league Division Two programme with an away game against Spen Victoria on Saturday, April 21. Their first home match is against Hartshead Moor on Saturday, April 28. Yeadon have also learned this week that

  • Otley's rubbish collection problems pile up

    A FORMER mayor of Otley is threatening to dump his uncollected rubbish outside the city council's area office. Councillor Nigel Francis claims Leeds City Council's attempts to introduce recycling across the town is in chaos and has left many residents

  • There's no Hyde-ing Otley's disappointment

    Otley 14 Sedgley Park 25 There was bitter disappointment for Otley in this vital clash with Sedgley Park.This was epitomised when their No 8 Dan Hyde sank to the floor at the final whistle and had to be picked off the turf by Head Coach Peter Clegg

  • Skyrac's super ten make it into Leeds squad

    Skyrac Athletic Club's young middle distance athletes ran in the Leeds Schools Cross-Country trials bidding for places to represent Leeds at next month's West Yorkshire Schools' Championships. The Yeadon-based club's young athletes were running on their

  • Otley councillors welcome move by supermarket

    NETTO has confirmed it is to build a new store in Otley. The value supermarket said this week that it had bought the former Otley Motors site on Pool Road - as exclusively revealed in last week's Wharfedale. And although a spokesman was not able to

  • Fight to save Otley hospital ward taken to Westminster

    THE FIGHT to save a ward at Wharfedale Hospital has been taken to the Secretary of State for Health. Otley MP Greg Mulholland has also formally asked the Strategic Health Authority and the Leeds Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) in Health Leeds'

  • Pool school asks highways chiefs for new zebra crossing

    A NEW pedestrian crossing could be installed in Pool-in-Wharfedale at the request of the village's primary school. Road safety fear about the existing crossing on Main Street have been aired for years, but the situation reached a new low last year after

  • Guiseley ready for battle with league leaders

    GUISELEY manager Terry Dolan is looking forward to his side's visit to table topping AFC Telford United on Saturday. The former Bradford City manager said: "This is our biggest test of the season so far but having run them close in our home game (Guiseley

  • Great Scott gets place in World Championship squad

    Following strong rides at the UCI World Cup races in Italy and Belgium, where he finished 12th and 14th, and the European Championships at Huijbergen, Holland, where he finished 21st, 16 year-old Scott Thwaites has been selected to race in the Great Britain

  • Nethermoor thwarted in bid to stage United game

    TOP women's football star Sue Smith was all set to play at Guiseley AFC's Nethermoor Park ground on Sunday but fans of the top women's star have now been disappointed. Sue and her Leeds United team were to have played their top-of-the-table clash with

  • Rawdon knock-out County Cup holders

    Rawdon AFC4 Walkers Arms 3 TWO spectacular strikes from the in-form Danny Forrest saw Rawdon progress to the quarter-finals of the West Riding County Sunday Cup at the expense of trophy holders Walkers Arms. Walkers are a strong side mainly made up

  • The tries flow for Ilkley at rainswept York

    York A 0 Ilkley A 63 The journey to York last Saturday resembled an away day trip to the streets of Venice. If there had been a flotilla of gondolas gently meandering their way along the waterways surrounding the Minster city, it would not have come

  • Becky's Beauty set to tame the Beast

    Beauty and the Beast', the Ilkley Upstagers 2007 pantomime, is coming to the King's Hall, Ilkley, from Friday, January 26, to Saturday, February 3. Becky Cocker will be making her first principal girl appearance as Beauty in this fabulous pantomime