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Remembering our loved ones at a ‘Celebration of Life’

Thu, 09 May 2013 08:51:50 GMT

A special service for people to remember loved ones who have passed away is being held in Hebden Bridge next week.

Tha Gallipoli Oak: ‘Oh, the shells did fairly scream and bang’

Wed, 08 May 2013 16:20:48 GMT

There is an old saying that “cometh the hour, cometh the man”, and the Todmorden contingent of the East Lancashire Territorial Army was quick to be tested at Gallipoli in 1915.

Trip’s a cruise for Let’s Go group

Wed, 08 May 2013 16:14:26 GMT

Fifty three members of Todmorden U3A’s Let’s Go group are pictured enjoying a sunny trip to the Ellesmere Port Canal museum.

Trimming change which will cause problems for elderly or disabled tenants

Wed, 08 May 2013 16:09:32 GMT

Well, Pennine Housing has done it again, especially to pensioners and disabled people.

Political defector really has a nerve

Wed, 08 May 2013 16:09:21 GMT

Nader Fekri really takes the biscuit by criticising the decision of the Calder Valley Labour Party (May 2).

Hoping to install wind turbine

Wed, 08 May 2013 15:40:13 GMT

Proposals to install one micro scale wind turbine (14.97m to hub, 5.6m diameter blades) to provide renewable energy for use at Stavely Cote Farm, Eastwood Road, Todmorden, have been submitted to Calderdale Council planners by Ms Marilyn Brown.

More on the floating nightclub...

Thu, 02 May 2013 08:51:23 GMT

A reader contacted us with more information about the “floating nightclub”, a photograph of which we ran some weeks ago.

The generation game...Robert told us his tale of two families

Thu, 02 May 2013 08:48:21 GMT

Dr Robert Stansfield presented “A Tale of Two Families: The Stansfields of Walsden and the Cudworths of Spotland” at Todmorden Antiquarian Society’s last speaker meeting of the season.

No justification for a quasi-state funeral

Wed, 01 May 2013 15:49:57 GMT

Having lost my own mother just over a year ago, following a steady deterioration due to dementia, my sympathy goes to the family of Margaret Thatcher.

A lovely day for ducks raises a superb sum for Lions’ charities

Wed, 01 May 2013 15:39:12 GMT

It was perfect weather for plastic ducks as thousands of them floated down the River Calder.

Change relates to garage business

Wed, 01 May 2013 15:27:36 GMT

A Todmorden business has applied to Calderdale Council planners for a change use (part retrospective).

Change to dog grooming salon

Wed, 01 May 2013 15:26:00 GMT

Miss Michelle Duxbury has applied to Calderdale Council planners for permission to change the use of retail premises at 35 Burnley Road, Todmorden, from retail premises to a dog grooming salon.

Of matters religious and secular

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 21:35:52 GMT

It is tiresome to be again reproached by Michael Taylor for “lack of Christian charity” when I simply uphold the unique honour of Holy Matrimony as a setting for a miracle of procreation whereby he, and I, and all of us were brought into being.

Lancashire oak that marks where they fell

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 16:58:44 GMT

In March 1922 a 58-year-old local businessman called James Duckworth stepped from a cruise ship onto the shore of Gallipoli.

Collection for Daffodil Appeal

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:43:39 GMT

A street collection held for Marie Curie Cancer Care’s Great Daffodil Appeal in Hebden Bridge on March 9 raised £333.92.

Festival was a memorable success from the first note

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 14:39:30 GMT

The first Hebden Bridge Piano Festival has just concluded in triumph.

Ready to launch 3,000 racers - and last duck home wins too!

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 20:27:46 GMT

Picking the winning duck in Todmorden Lions’ Duck Race isn’t all about luck - the weather might have something to do with it as well!

Patti’s life in showbusiness

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:46:34 GMT

“My life with laughs” was the title of the talk and slide show given by Patti Gold at the April meeting of Todmorden Ladies Probus Club.

Easy or hard, it was fun!

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 11:23:58 GMT

More than £530 was raised when Todmorden Cancer Research UK held it’s annual fun quiz at Walsden Cricket and Bowling Club.

Celebrating a special day

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 11:23:54 GMT

Birthday Club members celebrating their special day this week include the following.