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Christian Aid groups in the Calder Valley are ready to take part in Christian Aid Week from next weekend.Christian Aid is 70 years old this year, and came about a result of some of the horrors of the...
View ArticleCook serves up a treat
Illingworth maintained their promising start after promotion to the middle section of the Aire/Wharfe League with a 19-run home win over Green Lane yesterday.They were struggling to post a decent total...
View ArticleTime for folk to face the music
The Hebden Bridge folk roots festival will be back again on May 15,16 and 17 with a variety of local and international acts.Opening the festival on Friday, May 15, are The Last Chance Saloon Ceilidh at...
View ArticleEar to the Ground - nature notes with Steve Blacksmith: The temperature...
You might tend to believe all you read in print, which could be a mistake if you read in the Yorkshire Post the piece (April 11) about amphibians and the phenomenon of the toad migration.Sam Moore, on...
View ArticlePoetry night verses cancer
On April 30 poet Stephen ‘Manifold’ Anderson appeared at the Bookcase, Market Street, Hebden bridge to raise money for Macmillan Cancer Support.An enjoyable night saw £100 raised and a cheque for £300...
View ArticleProperty of the week: Superb period charm
Overlooking the lower reaches of the Luddenden Valley with magnificent panoramic views, Roebucks comprises a magnificent listed period property mentioned in the Grieve list of 1491, being a detached...
View ArticleCampaigners warn over surge in strokes in working age people
NUMBERS OF strokes in middle-aged men in Yorkshire have rocketed by more than a fifth in eight years, campaigners warn today.The Stroke Association said numbers of hospital admissions for strokes among...
View ArticleReporter, runner and fundraiser
I have been running on and off all my life. As a child and teenager I was a member of my local athletics club, excelling in both sprinting and long distance, as well as field events too. When...
View ArticleYour health with Physio & Therapies: How can physiotherapy help me?
Many people lump physiotherapy into the same category as less proven “alternative treatments” and it’s also confused with massage or chiropractic therapy.But physiotherapy is different and this is the...
View ArticlePennine Spring Music celebrating 30 years
Amateur musicians from Southampton to Scotland, Lincolnshire to Bristol will all come together to make music in Heptonstall for the Pennine Spring Music festival during late Spring bank holiday week...
View ArticlePicture of the week
This lovely picture was snapped in Jerusalem Farm by Richard Porter. Email your pictures to hbtimes@hebdenbridgetimes.co.uk/todnews@todmordennews.co.ukEmail your pictures to...
View ArticleChoral choices from Italy for Cantorelli
There will be a concert of choral music in Heptonstall Parish Church on Friday, May 15, performed by the local vocal octet Cantorelli. The programme features choral music from Italy.Cantorelli was...
View ArticleOak styles - and a busy summer
Around 70 people attended Mytholmroyd Historical Society when Peter Thornbarrow gave an illustrated talk on “17th Century Oak Furniture in the Calder Valley”.Mr Thornbarrow has been Architectural...
View ArticleTop show selection
Vocalist Jo Gerard will be joining Antony Brannick to perform at the next ‘Antony and Friends’ concert on Saturday, May 16, at the Central Methodist Church in Todmorden. The concert had been planned...
View ArticleGillespie’s exit not viewed as inevitable by Moxon
YORKSHIRE boss Martyn Moxon last night insisted he has not resigned himself to losing first-team coach Jason Gillespie to England, despite the former Australia fast bowler being the overwhelming...
View ArticleYorkshire ensure no repeat as Rashid leads way
HAMPSHIRE are one of only two teams to have chased 400-plus to win a match at Headingley.They knocked off 404 against Yorkshire in 2006 – the same total which Bradman’s Invincibles managed in the 1948...
View ArticleMidgley complete quick cup double
Midgley’s marathon men stole off with the Shay silverware for the second night running with a 2-1 Challenge Cup success over Warley Rangers on Wednesday.Their reserves had needed penalties to get the...
View ArticleDiscussions underway for 2016 Tour de Yorkshire
Organisers of the first ever Tour de Yorkshire international cycle race have started discussions with councils across the county to plan the 2016 edition of the race.Following the success of the event...
View ArticleCalderdale gets ready for the Big Clean
Spring is in the air and Calderdale Council is preparing for a week of spring cleaning to make the borough sparkle.The third annual, Big Clean week will start on Monday 18 May, when Council teams will...
View ArticlePlunkett restored as Yorkshire plot aggressive T20 approach
Liam Plunkett is back in the Yorkshire squad for tomorrow’s Twenty20 opener with Derbyshire after missing the County Championship win over Hampshire due to a disciplinary issue.Plunkett, who returned...
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