Buried Alive? Past Funeral Customs in Calderdale: David Glover, local historian and writer, indulged a fascination with the macabre with his talk to Hebden Bridge Local History Society with an eclectic mix of tales of deaths and burials. Read more. (19 Oct)

Hebden Bridge Partnership report: holding the Environment Agency to account while shaping the future of Hebden Bridge. Chair Bob Deacon looks back on a successful year. AGM Monday 24th Oct Town Hall 7pm - all welcome. Read more (12 Oct)

Festive Fandango is back: The popular Festive Fandango encouraging shoppers in Hebden Bridge to spend locally is back after last year's scheme was washed out by the Boxing Day flood. Read more (14 Oct)

Hebden Bridge on YouTube

• Squeeze moves into Valet stores
• Hebden Bridge School on BBC Look North
• Market Street shopowners speak

Serious flood incident - training exercise - Sirens were sounded and the community hub opened on Friday, 14 October. Read more

Rethinking Human Security: report of public meeting. About 60 people gathered round tables at the Town Hall on Sunday Oct 9th to discuss what human security meant for them - as individuals, in our community, country and globally.

Police vehicle sprayed silver, opposite market. Inspector John Simpson said, "Some people might find this funny but the extent of the damage means that this vital emergency vehicle will be off the road whilst it is repaired at a cost." 　11 Oct

The Wiz from Calder Valley Youth Theatre, who are based in Hebden Bridge. They're preparing for their next major production The Wiz which will be performed at the Halifax Playhouse from 2nd to 5th Nov. Read more (9 Oct)

Calder Valley welcomes refugees: The Welcome Festival is on Sat 29th Oct at the Birchcliffe Centre, 1.30-4pm. Refugees from several towns will come together for an afternoon of performance and other activities. Read more (5 Oct)

Hebden Bridge Annual: Egg Heads from the Egg Factory have spent the last year making a massive omelette - a new book called the Hebden Bridge Annual. Read more to find out how to pre-order. (28 Sept)

Mark Steel's in Town - the BBC Radio 4 programme featured the comedian at the Trades Club, Hebden Bridge. Now on iPlayer here. HebWeb had a couple of mentions as did View from the Bridge. And of course "That was So Hebden Bridge"

A new chapter for flood-hit library: Hebden Bridge Library is fully reopening on Thursday 29 September, after refurbishment following the flooding at the end of last year. Read more (16 Sept)

Cragg Vale School under threat of closure again. Have your say on its future, as Calderdale Council outlines options and is seeking people's views. Read more (14 Sept)

Making Hebden Bridge Accessible For All: apply now for free survey to show how your shop or cafe can be made accessible Read more (15 Sept)

Hebden Bridge Camera Club winners. More info and larger photos

Government Flood Review: "Disappointing" - says Leader of Calderdale Council. The review found that a 20% heavier extreme rainfall event would lead to 400 more homes flooding in Mytholmroyd and a similar number in Hebden Bridge. Read more (9 Sept)

The Rainy Season: earlier this year, the HebWeb featured this book by Berringden Brow writer, Jill Robinson. Today, Owen Jones' Guardian article on men and domestic violence retells episodes of abuse from Jill's book. (8 Sept)

Breathing new life into the Hebden Vale Centre: a home for the Environment Agency and a future car park are options Calderdale are discussing for the future of the site which was badly damaged in the 2015 floods. Read more (5 Sept)

Hebden Royd Town Council support Andys Man Club: The single biggest killer of men aged under 45 is suicide! At the council meeting on 31st August, members showed their support to the #Andysmanclub campaign by wearing the slogan t-shirts for the whole meeting. Read more (1 Sept)

Grants will help to make Hebden Bridge for all A new grants scheme from the Community Foundation for Calderdale will help make Hebden Bridge's businesses and public buildings more accessible for local people and visitors with disabilities. Read more (26 Aug)

£50,000 fund launched for events and festivals. Local community groups can apply for a share of a new £50,000 fund set up by Calderdale to help put on events and festivals. Alternative Christmas and Handmade Parade have been helped previously. Apply by 1 Sept. Read more (23 Aug)

Small Ads: "House successfully rented through Hebweb. Fantastic posting wall!" From message received 23 Aug.

Public transport: have your say: local people are being asked to have their say on public transport in West Yorkshire, with a number of drop-in events being held in Calderdale. Read more (17 Aug)

Recycling complaints: HebWeb readers are reporting problems throughout the area with Calderdale's Recycling. " . . . the danger of rats and vermin, due to weeks-old rotting food piled up outside our houses in the height of summer" See HebWeb Forum (17 Aug)

Vintage Car Weekend: report of the two day event which drew record crowds and helped raise over £25k for local charities and good causes. Read report (18 Aug)

Calder Valley Labour Party overwhelmingly backs Corbyn. Victoria Theatre was hired for this evening's meeting. Jeremy Corbyn received 141 votes and Owen Smith 28. Hebden Bridge and all towns and villages of the Upper Valley are in the Calder Valley parliamentary constituency. (9 Aug)

Grouse Moors and flooding: follow the HebWeb Forum discussion and watch Chris Packham's video urging people to sign the Parliamentary petition to ban grouse shooting.

Chilcot Report: On the day the Iraq War started, Hebden Bridge was full of demonstrating students from Calder High School, 13 of whom were suspended. See HebWeb News from 20 March 2003: Calder High Students organise Peace in the Park (6 July)

Rotary Club: just what is it? Members are constantly asked just what is the Rotary Club and what does it do. In this article for the HebWeb, some of their wide ranges of activities and support are described. Read more (20 Oct)

Wainsgate Concert: Sklonište The final concert of the season is a provocative and moving work combining new music for live classical accordion, poetry, photography and film commemorating the spirit of the Sarajevans who lived through the longest siege in modern history. On Sun 23, Oct. Read more

Calder Valley Heritage Day this Saturday, 22 Oct: Hebden Bridge, Cragg Vale and Mytholmroyd Historical Societies are coming together to organise a joint venture, the proceeds of which are to go to the Flood Relief Fund. Read more

Walshaw Moor Estate resumes burning – despite flood risk to Hebden Bridge. See report on Upper Calder Valley Plain Speaker (14 Oct)

Hebden Bridge Arts Festival is looking for a Treasurer. Someone with experience of financial management and who could also help develop its programme and community activity. Read more (10 Oct)

£750,000 repairs complete at flood-hit A646 Hebden Bridge to Mytholmroyd road. Now fully open to two-way traffic, as works to repair the road and retaining wall are complete and temporary traffic lights removed. Read more and see time-lapse video.

Selling my house on HebWeb was "extremely successful - I hope to complete on the sale in 2 weeks time, and I think I could have sold it a few times over."

Local musicians play for Todmorden Foodbank Local musicians are giving their time playing gigs to raise money for Todmorden Food Drop In which provides support to hundreds of families along the valley. Read more about the We Shall Overcome Weekend (28 Sept)

Trades Club nominated for national live music award. Music industry insiders have nominated Hebden Bridge Trades Club for the Live Music Business Awards where they will join the likes of London's 02 Arena and the Glastonbury Festival. Read more (26 Sept)

Moonlight and Magnolias: Legendary film producer David O. Selznick is five weeks into shooting Gone With the Wind when he realizes the script is awful, and the director doesn't have a clue. Currently in rehearsal at the Little Theatre. Photos: Bruce Cutts. Read more (25 Sept)

Mytholmroyd celebrates its young artists: The opening event of this year's Mytholmroyd Arts Festival celebrates the creativity of our young people with a Schools' Art Exhibition and Competition at the Ted Hughes Theatre, Calder High School. Read more (25 Sept)

'Calder' goes on tour: The short film 'Calder', commissioned by Mytholmroyd Arts Festival in 2015, will shortly be touring Calderdale with screenings in Blackshaw Head, Midgley, Todmorden and Mytholmroyd. Read more (15 Sept)

Work on A646 nears completion Work to resurface the A646 Falling Royd in Hebden Bridge is taking place on Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 September, allowing the road to reopen to two-way traffic. Read more (12 Sept)

Cycling up the Buttress - Photo: Craig Shaw

Don't Leave Me Now explores with humour and insight the impact on two very different Yorkshire families, before and after, an early onset dementia diagnosis. Performed by New End Theatre Beyond and written by Yorkshire playwright Brian Daniels Read more (7 Sept)

Proposed increases in parking charges - up to £1: more in this HebWeb Forum contribution (5 Sept)

Work on Scout Road progresses: Work to allow flood affected Scout Road in Mytholmroyd to reopen is now in its final stages as a safety fence is being installed. Read more. (1 Sept)

Calder Valley Voices welcomes new singers. The community choir for people living in the upper Calder Valley, is kicking off a new year with lots of new songs and hopefully some enthusiastic new members. Read more. (29 Aug)

Steam Punk weekend in Hebden Bridge. Photo from the After Alice Project. CC BY-NC. Click photo to enlarge

The King's Troupe: Shakespeare without Borders - "Our work is about widening participation, theatre-making in non-traditional ways in non-traditional venues nationally and internationally, through the wonderful medium of Shakespeare and his plays". Mary & Richard Coaten. Read more (20 June)

Making Hebden Bridge accessible for all: new initiative to ensure shops, premises and public buildings are accessible for those with disabilities. To be launched at the Town Hall on 3 Sept. Read more (10 Aug)

We:cycle electric bike scheme cuts prices this summer for renting the new electric Raleigh bikes, stationed in hilltop villages around Hebden Bridge Read more (9 Aug)

Ted Hughes' brother dies aged 95. "Gerald Hughes was a hugely influential figure in Ted's youth, particularly during the poet's first seven years whilst living in Mytholmroyd" - see ITV news report

Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Saturday, 6 August, 71 years after atomic bombs fell on these cities in Japan. Those present pledged to create a world without nuclear weapons.

Smll Ads: "I had so many wonderful responses to my ad for someone to help me re-organize my house post-flood, I wanted to employ everyone! Thank you." - Susan

No place for young men: Alex Kostyakov has written a moving piece on work chances for young men in Hebden Bridge. Why do you never get served a latte by a young man, and is there a connection with break-ins at the park and station cafes? Read more. (13 July)

HebWeb Small Ads - jobs offered, accommodation, cleaning, tax books, summer school, venues, plumbing, services and other quirky Hebden Bridge stuff.

Vigil in memory of Jo Cox on Monday, 20 June 2016 at 6pm. Click here to see video from Jason Elliott

Questions re police raid on Calder Valley Conservatives. The journal which broke the original story has now published an update, raising serious questions of public concern. Read more. (10 June)

Police seize documents at Calder Valley MP's HQ. On Wednesday, police seized the accounts of the Calder Valley Conservative Association in connection with enquiries they are currently undertaking. The Party Chair has resigned. Read more (27 May)

Labour win Hebden Bridge's Calder ward. Josh Fenton-Glynn won 2310 votes, against 1424 votes for the current councillor, Janet Battye (Liberal Democrats). Jane Scullion (Labour) won the Luddendenfoot ward which covers Mytholmroyd. More results and figures (Updated 8 May)

2016 Hebden Bridge Tourist leaflet.
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From Steve Farrell, now living in Mysore, India: "As someone who lives abroad, the Hebweb site has always been critical for keeping in touch 'back home' in Hebden. I've just needed to re-advertise my home for rent, so where to turn to? The Hebweb, of course. The Ad was up within minutes and there were 10 enquiries within 24 hours. Superb!" See Small Ads.

Small Ads: "Amazing but my house in Tod got rented out within 30 minutes after putting the house on Hebweb." From message received, Thursday, 26 May 2016

The Manchester and Leeds Railway: 175th Anniversary - 1st March 2016. Read story (PDF) from Friends of Hebden Bridge Station.

HebWeb Quirky Small Ads:
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Camera Club Annual Exhibition winning pictures: visitors were asked to vote for their 3 favourite images in order of merit. Read more and see the 3 winning photos.

Guardian Northerner: What the UK can learn from Hebden Bridge? The BBC's Mind the Gap asks how London's success can be replicated elsewhere: Claire Donnelly argues that our small town could have the answer. Read more

Hebden Bridge, the UK's second city, BBC article by Evan Davis. "Hebden Bridge is an inverted city with a greenbelt centre and suburbs called Manchester, Leeds and Liverpool." Read the article

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Hebden Bridge: more plaudits - Last year's Valley of Lights won APSE's best community and neighbourhood initiative, and the Old Gate pub restaurant is Yorkshire Post's "Pub of the Week".

Britain's favourite market town? Hebden Bridge has been shortlisted in the 'Britain's favourite market town' category in the BBC Countryfile Magazine Awards 2013. Read more

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Guardian Northerner: Hebden Bridge the UK's coolest place? The Yorkshire Paradise has won its fourth accolade in a decade. Born, brought up and living here, Rachel Pickering is loyal, but has one or two cautionary thoughts.

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