Yesterday evening, Cllr Susan Press was appointed Town Council Mayor, Stella Massey her Consort. John Beacroft Mitchell was appointed Deputy Mayor and his wife Joanna his Consort. (Photo thanks to Mytholmroyd Net) - 15 May

Hebden Bridge in Europe - "superb"
say twin town visitors - more photos
updated 14th May

2008 HB Arts Festival programme launched - highlights include Phill Jupitus, Ed Byrne, Blake Morrison, The Elephant Man and music evenings with Baghdad Lullabies, Martin Roscoe, Maria McKee and the Eduardo Niebla Experience - see also latest festival news - updated 13 May

COUNCIL ELECTIONS - Lib-Dems beat Labour by just 53 votes in Hebden Bridge. Lib-Dems hold Luddenden Foot ward. See results

Policing Hebden Bridge and the Upper Valley - public meeting report and links to police contact info - 30 April

Former mayor Stewart Brown has been arrested and questioned in connection with possession and distribution of indecent images of children - see Courier article

Annual Town Meeting for electors of Hebden Royd - see events

Dock Pudding: Doris Hurst wins again - see Mytholmroyd Net - 20 April

GARDEN STREET: 10 essential questions put to the Calderdale Chief Executive - 19 April

Hebden Bridge in The Times - "There's trouble in the Yorkshire mill town as locals oppose a radical new plan" - read article - 11 April

Eaves: MP demands meeting with First Bus - more info - 18 April

HEBDEN BRIDGE CO-OP
Extensive refit and other changes coming soon, the Co-op's regional manager told last night's meeting of local members - more info - 9 April

Anthony Rae explains why Friends of the Earth are campaigning for a much stronger Climate Change Bill - more info - added 2 April

Programme now online - 14 May

Chris McCafferty MP opens new office of White Ribbon Campaign at the Birchcliffe Centre - 9 May

Network Rail destruction - now postponed until the beginning of June - see forum - 8 May

Events: including Local History summer programme

BIG GREEN WEEKEND - latest info - updated 28 April

Hebden Royd Town Council's Town Talk no 11 - 23 April

The People's Millions Winning Play Design - the playground at Calder Holmes Park will be closed for about eight weeks commencing on Monday 28th of April whilst the work take place.

Acts and stallholders wanted for the next Eastwood Festival - see news in brief

Expanding local company, Aspire Technology, still has vacancies. Director, Chris Bingham tells the Hebden Bridge Web: "We offer a great working environment, no need to travel into the busy city centres." - more info - 4 April

Dog owners now have no excuse
- scoop it! - 4 April

South Pennines Rail Partnership’s Photographic Competition. A first prize of a free rail travel ticket for Northern Rail will be given to the winner in each age group, + runner up prizes. More info - 26 March

Sound off about Climate Change: What's that strange contraption lurking around Hebden Bridge? - added 5 April

GOOD FRIDAY PACE EGG PLAY - more info

Air quality in Hebden Bridge - public meeting report. See also, extensive forum discussion - 12 March

Both the Fustian Knife and Brown's site (the former Mytholm Mill - 58 "dwellings") were approved yesterday by Calderdale's planning committee - see Planning Watch for background. - 12 March

Eaves bus suspended - more info - 11 March

ACCOMMODATION - bed and breakfast choices as well as offbeat "Hebden Bridge" options, eg, self catering for groups on the tops, moorland bunkhouse at 1100 feet and futons in bohemian family house

Message from Hebden Bridge's Ron Taylor, helping out in a village in the Palestinian West Bank

Glyn Hughes - award winning Calder Valley writer has updated his website which now includes a blog (latest entry about his friendship with Ted Hughes) and audio samples of his readings. - 4 March

Mytholmroyd Swimming Pool - Calderdale made available details of plans for this small pool today, giving just three days for people to make representations - Tues, 19th Feb

No Justice for Eric Williams - suspended sentence for road death - updated 7th Feb

JOHN MORRISON

• VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE- all 98 episodes - first appeared on the Hebden Bridge Web and then published as the highly successfull Milltown Trilogy. Buy them online or read what Sir Bernard and others have said about the books.
  
  The perfect gift for the uncherished relative.


• A Kind of Love-in - scenes from life in a small South Pennine milltown.


• 'Milltown: an Unreliable History: 'Some samples - to either whet your appetite or leave a nasty taste in the mouth.
  
  
• Women are from Venus, Men are from Mytholmroyd

JILL ROBINSON

• BERRINGDEN BROW: Memoirs of Single Mother with a Crush- a novel by local author Jill Robinson published as a book by Pennine Pens. Read online samples

• Sylvia Plath Forum - hundreds of thousands of words discussing this US poet, buried in Heptonstall.



• Poems from Glyn Hughes
  - see features