Celebrating a special day
Birthday Club members who are celebrating their special day this week include the following.Thursday: Casper James Hird (2), 4 Joshua Street, Todmorden.
View ArticleWalsden bid for a big finish to first football campaign
Walsden C & FC bid to round off an excellent first season in the Rochdale Online Alliance with victory at Whitworth Valley on Saturday (2.0).It is a big ask, as Valley are third and have only lost...
View ArticleCourtney too fast for Leeds rivals
Courtney Beier led her rivals a merry dance in the year four cross county race at the Winter School Games at Leeds Metropolitan University.The nine-year-old Cornholme J & I School pupil from...
View ArticleRoboCop keeps order on a worldwide scale
Gary Oldman and Samuel L Jackson star in futuristic crime thriller ‘RoboCop’ at Hebden Bridge Picture House next week.Set in 2028, multinational conglomerate OmniCorp is at the centre of robot...
View ArticleClarets Corner by John Greenwood: I’m still fretting, but the team isn’t
Like most football supporters, I am superstitious, fretful, a worrier and watch-that-half-full-glass-getting-emptier type.Thank goodness, Sean Dyche nor his team are, and this week there is a clear...
View ArticleFirst female president for Centre Vale club
Elizabeth Whittaker has earned herself a unique place in the 176-year history of Todmorden Cricket Club - by becoming its first female president.She will guide the Lancashire League club for the next...
View ArticleTod Curve among topics of rail debate in Parliament
The situation regarding the re-instatement of the Todmorden Curve and a lack of trains for Northern England was the subject of a Parliamentary debate last week. The Westminster debate was called by...
View ArticleTalking Newspaper for Todmorden - edition no. 245, March 2014
Welcome to the 245th edition of the Talking Newspaper for Todmorden.It brings together a mix of news, features, a quiz and other items of interest, for your enjoyment, covering the period up to March 6.
View ArticleCowens header ends Hollins’ long wait for glory
Hollins Holme won the first major trophy of their 46-year existence with a dramatic success in the Eddie Hebblethwaite Halifax FA Sunday Cup final.The Calder Valley side, one of the founder members of...
View ArticleHarriers and Valley at Hobble
Calder Valley’s ultra-distance running exemplar Ian Symington finished a magnificent third in Saturday’s annual Haworth Hobble race.The legendary slog takes in 32 miles of the region’s finest scenery...
View ArticleTake flight and to enjoy freedom of great outdoors
Inspired by the great outdoors - of which there is plenty in the Calder Valley - and the desire to encourage people to push themselves, a new project took cameras up into the hills recently to make a...
View ArticleAnger at flood defence fund ‘delay’for Valley
A Calderdale councillor has slammed the Government for ignoring the flood-hit residents of the upper Calder Valley.The comments from Coun Barry Collins, Calderdale Council’s Cabinet Member for Economy...
View ArticleReview by Rob Barnett: Sibelius’s Second was show-stealing performance
Todmorden again experienced a fine concert on Saturday night when the full Todmorden Town Hall was treated to nothing short of a great performance of Sibelius’s most popular symphony at the end of a...
View ArticleAfternoon IT and biscuits sessions
Age UK Todmorden volunteers are inviting people to join them for IT and biscuits next week. The charity has organised two free workshops at Central Methodist Church on Wednesday, March 26, from 2-3pm...
View ArticleSky dive friends make leap in Bob’s memory
An upper Calder Valley man and three friends will leap into the wide blue yonder later this month in memory of his father.Bobby Shanks, and friends Jonny Kerr and brothers Tom Barker and Sam Poulton,...
View ArticleGetting out more information to you
All residents in Calderdale will shortly be receiving an information leaflet with practical advice about the Tour de France weekend. The leaflet also highlights the planning that is going into the Tour...
View ArticleWhen steam made valley an industrial powerhouse. . .
Steam power spawned the Industrial Revolution, and the steam railway locomotive fired it, asserted David Taylor in his talk to Todmorden Antiquarians.When more power available meant more production,...
View ArticleThe Old Grumpies: The English language is a wonderful thing...
At a recent meeting, and after a general conversation, one of our members remarked that all of us make statements which when analysed make little sense at all.Examples were suddenly coming thick and...
View ArticleA celebration of music from France
As part of The Yorkshire Festival, 100 days of world-class music, dance, theatre, film, art and sculpture welcoming the Grand Départ of the Tour de France to Yorkshire, Cantorelli, a small chamber...
View ArticleTreasure it, don’t denigrate it
These days our National Health Service seems to be subjected to relentless criticism in some quarters and in the national press in particular.Supposed horror stories are pounced upon with unholy glee...
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