Otley, England News

A charity that helps blind Wharfedale and Aireborough residents keep abreast of the news is appealing for people to spread the word.

A new race celebrating Saltaire and Shipley 's rich heritage is being launched this summer with hundreds expected to pound the historic route.

On site are David Wilson Homes Yorkshire West's Martin Purdy and Ian Ruthven with Andy Lowde, from Sirius Remediation, and David Wilson Homes Yorkshire West's Darren Johnson Work on a major riverside redevelopment in Otley is pushing ahead thanks to funding support from the Local Enterprise Partnership.

An Otley couple's work to help Romanian orphans will continue when it holds a fundraising afternoon of strawberry teas.

Large crowds lined the streets on Saturday to cheer on a parade packed with imaginative displays from schools, businesses, charities and community groups.

Residents are being urged to have their say on future housing plans that will lead to hundreds of new homes being built across the town.

A top actor will join schoolchildren from across Harrogate to perform an opera composed by Benjamin Britten at St Wilfrid's Church.

About 40 householders on Craven Street met up to share food and drinks and get to know each other better.

Stop, look and listen will be the order of the day as pupils test their brains at the annual Otley road safety quiz.

A campaign to secure a "fair deal" for pubs is urging Wharfedale residents to back it before the deadline runs out.

Inspector Richard Coldwell, from the Aireborough & Wharfedale Neighbourhood Policing Team, is making the appeal due to the high numbers of local burglaries which involve unsecured doors or windows.

Heebies owners Sarah Forbes and Adam Hebbron with their awards for winning the Otley Carnival window-dressing competition with their Harry Potter theme The annual fundraiser will begin at 1.15pm on Saturday when a parade featuring more than 30 flamboyantly decorated floats, walking tableaux and other entries sets off from Wharfedale Farmers Auction ... (more)

Guiseley: Listed Building application for internal and external alterations to Building 8, former High Royds Hospital site, Chevin Park, Bradford Road.

Chef at Otley's The Fleece pub, Simon Miller, right, and Alex Leishman, of Harrogate-based ice cream producers, Vanilli's, with the new Yorkshire Stout gelato sorbet A Wharfedale pub and brewery have teamed up with a local ice cream producer to create a beer-flavoured sorbet.

Otley residents are being urged to have their say on future housing plans that will lead to hundreds of new homes being built across the town.

The following planning applications have been lodged with Bradford Council: Addingham : replacement of windows and rear doors, 7 Old Lane.

Plastic ducks will race down the River Wharfe again on June 16 in the annual Village Duck Race organised by Burley-in-Wharfedale Community Trust, The race will start at 3pm on the field alongside the Burley bypass, just outside the village on the road to Otley.

A building society is celebrating its 160th birthday by inviting customers to celebrate and by giving away thousands of pounds to community groups.

There was standing room only in the village hall as residents crowded in to hear more about Leeds City Council's Sites Allocation Plan.

Ruby the King Charles spaniel had to be rescued after falling eight foot down rocks and landing on a ledge at Chevin Forest Park in Otley .