Controversial Fustian knife unveiled by the mayors of Calderdale and Hebden Royd. More photos and info.

Sculptor Mike Williams

Ted Hughes' Mytholmroyd home is re-opened as a writers' retreat and holiday home, by poet Simon Armitage - See Mytholmroyd Net report - 22 June

Police step up "high visibility patrols" - more info and details of local police officers and contacts

Rail trees - Network Rail apologise for failing to liaise over felling. See Yorkshire Post

Fustian Knife - being installed on Tuesday, 17th - to be unveiled on 20th June - more info

Artists needed - for proposed centre for visual and creative arts - 16 June

Commons vote on 42 days - Halifax MP Linda Riordan votes with rebels; Calder Valley MP Chris McCafferty doesn't.

Festival sells out first big event - and the Box Office doesn't open till Saturday - more info - 11 June

Death of Lord Savile, local landowner, keen grouse shooter and opponent of windfarms. A member of the House of Lords for 60 years, his family home was Walshaw Lodge, just beyond Hardcastle Crags - 7 June

Fire Horses - a new novel from Mark Piggott, who grew up in Hebden Bridge

International festival loves local too - See 12 items of Festival news - 6 June

A Fair Trade Wine Tasting and social evening, organised by the Coop Members' group - see events

The future of the Green Belt - 3 June

Hebden Bridge as a Transition Town?
Find out more

Rail changes for Hebden Bridge - three (faster) trains an hour to Manchester and three carriages at peak time - 27 May

2008 HB Arts Festival programme - 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 6th June

Handmade Parade - more info

Town Council Cut Festival Grant - read more
Thursday, 22 May 2008

Hebden Bridge MP Chris McCafferty made an impressive contribution to last night's abortion debate: "If women have no access to legal abortion, they resort to illegal means. Women will go to any lengths and will take any risk to end an unwanted pregnancy" - read transcript and how she fends off, among others, Ann Widdecombe

World On Your Doorstep - Hebden prepares
- Volunteers needed! - updated 19 May

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

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

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

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

Solstice with cider - 2nd International Cider Festival, at the Stubbing Wharf

Friends of the Earth battle for tough Climate Change Bill – Chris McCafferty MP gives her support - more info - 14 June

Luddenden Music Festival
21st June - see events

Salem Fields Fun Day 2008
More photos and info

Strawbale Building workshops
come to Hebden Bridge

Big Green Weekend
Above: Big Green Market on the Marina. More photos and a selection of the highlights. Suggestions sought for next year - see forum

Small ads - homes sought or wanted, or more offbeat items, eg: help wanted "maintaining dreads" added 20 May.

New Hebweb section - Archive - 18 May

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

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

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

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