KERBSIDE CALL FOR
MASS PROTEST
outside the full council meeting on Weds 30th at 5 pm. See Forum for messages from Cllr Janet Oosthuysen and Paul Brannigan of Kerbside - 25 July

Garden Street - go to Planning Watch to make your comments online

Situation Vacant: The Hebden Royd & District Co-operative Members’ Group is seeking a Secretary - 22 July

Hebden Bridge photographer Alice Longstaff
brought back to life - read more - 27 July

Space needed to store all the parade-making materials - ideally, it would be somewhere which is dry, secure and about the size of a single car garage. Email your suggestions

Hebden Bridge has never seen the like! More photos of the astounding Hebden Bridge Handmade Parade. Well done from the Hebden Bridge Web to everyone who made it possible.

LABOUR PARTY CHOOSE Janet Oosthuysen of Hebden Bridge to be their candidate for Calder Valley at the next general election - Christine McCafferty MP is standing down. Janet was the clear winner in the first round of voting.

Hebden Bridge Transition Town? A day of open discussion on 31st August. See events

Hebden Bridge Arts Festival’s fabulous fortnight - more info - 16 July

Cllr Janet Battye calls Public meeting on the Green Belt (15th July) - see Planning Watch for more info

From Darfur to the Calder Valley - Hebden Bridge residents support Darfur refugees - more info - 10 July

NEW PLANS FOR GARDEN STREET!
More info and discussion (updated) Calderdale apologises to Garden Street Action Group. Replies to the Action Group's ten questions posed in April. See Planning Watch to comment online - by 25th July.

ARTS FESTIVAL - Singing in the Streets - more photos of choirs from Hebden Bridge and beyond.

Volunteers give Calder Holmes
a coat of paint - more info

Huddersfield and Ripponden Brass Band march along Bridge Gate to compete in George's Square. More photos and info - 29 June

Local Councillor offers support to ethical businesses - more info - 23 June

Race for Life - Eight Hebden Bridge women run to raise over £1200 for Cancer Research

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

New Hebweb section - Archive - 18 May

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

Events: including Local History summer programme

Hebden Royd Town Council's Town Talk no 11

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

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