VILLAGERS hope they have thwarted an attempt to set up an unlicensed music festival this weekend.

A SECOND-hand car salesman has agreed to forfeit a property portfolio and money worth a total of £1.14million following a Civil Recovery and Tax investigation into his acquisition of a portfolio of ten properties.

ILKLEY and Cleckheaton-based menswear retailer Joshua Adams has reached the finals in the London-based Drapers awards.

MEMBERS of the Washburn Heritage Centre, at Fewston, were treated to an uplifting performance of Baroque music last week, courtesy of Ad Hoc Baroque, a small-scale chamber ensemble specialising in music from the 16th and 17th centuries and played on period instruments.

AS every gardener knows, robins are confiding companions, hopping around upturned earth ready to pounce on any insects, larvae and worms revealed. This is thought to be an extension of their natural behaviour during millennia in following large animals like wild boar which root around in the earth.

A CELEBRATORY garden party to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Briery Retreat and Conference Centre is planned to be held at The Briery, 38 Victoria Avenue, in Ilkley, on Sunday, August 14. Celebrations get underway at 2pm and continue until 4pm.

A HIT and run driver who failed to stop after a road accident has been disqualified from driving for six months and must pay over £2,220 in fines and court costs.

AN Ilkley woman must pay over £500 and has had four penalty points added to her licence after admitting speeding at over 90mph on the motorway.

AN exhibition of artwork by the artist Dorothy Bradford is being held this autumn at Ilkley Manor House.

ILKLEY-based butchers and charcutiers, Lishman’s, has been named among the top food and drink producers globally this year, picking up a highly prized two-star Great Taste award for its Coppa.