Body found in river by Packhorse Bridge. The body of a local woman, possibly in her 30s, was found this morning around 9am. Parts of Bridge Gate and the bridge are currently sealed off. - 12 noon, 27th Oct Update: the body was pulled out of the river by Bill Deakin of Silly Billy's.

Radio Four comes to Hebden Bridge - to debate nuclear power. Participants sought.

Calderdale Friends of the Earth are urging people to send an email message to Chris McCafferty MP now asking her to support the Climate Change Bill amendments in Tuesday's vote. More info - 24th Oct Update: The Guardian announces that the Government has conceded to the FOE lobby to include aviation emissions (27th Oct)

Garden Street car park - short stay proposals before Calderdale Cabinet - see news - now updated with Parking Wizard response

Countryfile - John Craven was out and about around Hebden Bridge this week to record an edition of Countryfile for BBC1, Sunday 19th October.

Hebden Bridge: " the great unwashed" - see news

Important Railway Passenger Survey - with an online option - 14th Oct

Upper Valley Forum meetings - see events

HBOS Jobs - Gordon Brown offers to meet our MP, Chris McCafferty about worries over job losses. - 9th Oct

GARDEN STREET - Calderdale Council's Director of Regeneration & Development Ian Thompson, responsible for all aspects of the Garden Street development process inside the Council, attended Hebden Royd Town Council on Wednesday, 8th to answer questions from Town Councillors about issues to do with the area. - 8th Oct

KERBSIDE - talks with SITA didn't go well but are set to continue. Paul Brannigan of Kerbside says no decision will be made without real consultation with the community, via a public meeting. - 7th Oct

Archive - updated to include home pages from 2003

KERBSIDE - on the day that senior executives of Sita UK are flown into Manchester Airport for a summit with representatives of Kerbside, Hebden Bridge campaigner Barbara Green is urging people to write letters to Hazel Blears, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government. See Forum - 2nd Oct

"The Battle of Hebden Bridge" - article in Independent on Sunday - 28th Sept

The Keighley Road at Commercial Street with artist's drawing of the Garden Street development - click photo to enlarge - 25th Sept

GARDEN STREET: Action group call on the Planning Committee to reject officers' report, citing factual inaccuracies, misquotations and, above all, lack of balance. Read more - 23rd Sept

Hebden Bridge Trail on your iPod, with audio narration by local actor, Rob Garrett. See our audio-video section or the Hebden Bridge History Walks page - 19th Sept.

Time to mow the roof new eco-building course
- 19th Sept

GARDEN STREET - headline in Yorkshire Post: "Death threats and Nazi insults: The 'wonky skyscrapers' of Hebden Bridge" - see article 18th Sept.

Allotments and growing food Allotments meeting at Riverside School - see events - see also news item on Calder Food Hub Projects - 17th Sept.

Councils unite on Kerbside - all parish and town councils of the upper valley meet together for the first time - 12th Sept.

Town Hall Team seek help - the group seeking to transform the Town Hall have formed Hebden Bridge Community Association, and are lookiing for a Membership Secretary - 8th Sept.

Hebden Bridge Gap Year Student
Caught up in Armed Struggle
"Having just been evacuated in the aftermath of 3 bomb attacks on our town community we (the voluntary team) are reeling from the shock of the violence" - full story - 19 Aug

Bhopal challenge ride - in November Hebden Bridge's John Appleby will be taking part in a sponsored cycle challenge in India to raise money for the Bhopal Medical Appeal - 14 Aug

Frieda Hughes (daughter of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes) presented the poetry prize at the Ted Hughes Festival - 26th Oct TH Festival - photos and info

Hebden Royd and District Swimming Pool Association - questions still unanswered, once again being asked. See discussion thread - 25th Oct

The Seamy Side of Town - Hebweb discussion. Inspector Chris Norbury joins the debate, and reveals actions he and his colleagues have already taken. 23rd Oct

Bradford Interchange closes for 10 days - news

Station Road closure: all day Sunday, 26th October - for resurfacing of road and car park. This car needs to be moved. More info and larger photo

Hebden Bridge student Jemima Foxtrot stars in a powerful new BBC radio play about racism and poetry in the 21st century - see news - 19th Oct

Hebden Bridge student elected to Youth Parliament as MYP - 17th Oct

HB Partnership's celebration of community and activist groups showed what a truly remarkable town we live in - Read more - 8th Oct

Ted Hughes Festival - opens on 22nd October when Andrew Motion will present the Young Poets Award at the Ted Hughes Theatre in Mytholmroyd.

2010 will mark the 500th anniversary of the Packhorse Bridge. Click here to see projects planned or already underway

Permaculture and Transition Towns - on Sunday, 5th October at the Trades - see events

Small Ads - houses, flat, apartment, rooms and cottage to rent, Maths tuition, learn to draw, car for sale and much more

New station car park
works starts Monday 6th October

Free Radicals - next session on 28th September - see events for full details

Coffee Station wins award - Third Prize in the Best Station Retail Outlet, at the National Community Rail Awards held in Plymouth on Friday night (22 Sept).

Looking critically at the Rochdale Canal,
our "linear park" - more info 18th Sept.

Nearly 4 months after Under the Bridge was first posted on the Hebden Bridge Web, the Courier reports that "drugs film shocks town" - see our radio and video section for the video, click here for Courier report - 15th Sept.

Listed buildings were open to the public and information boards were scattered around town, as part of Heritage Day in Hebden Bridge - 13th Sept.

Hebden Bridge artists commissioned to create installations for Slow Art Trail opening in the Yorkshire Dales this month - more info - 12th Sept.

The West Yorkshire Forget Me Not Trust's Children's Hospice Day on Thursday 25th September at the old fire station - see events for more info

Above: the pack horse bridge over the Hebden Water on Friday, 5th September. (Photo: Jason Elliott). On Saturday, floods at Walsden delayed trains - bus replacement to Rochdale. 6th Sept.

Eastwood Festival cancelled - planned for Sunday 7th September 2008 -the site is waterlogged and more rain forecast for
Sunday

HebWeb News - see over a hundred pages of news items (mostly with photos) and dozens of shorter items from this year's news of Hebden Bridge. See also our archive section for previous home pages, older news and forum messages. Please help the Hebweb by supporting our advertisers.

HB History Group - winter dates now online
- see events

Next Area Forum for the Upper Valley to be held at Birchcliffe Centre - added 2nd Sept.

Asbestos, now banned in the EU, kills up to 4,000 people a year in the UK alone. This week's New Statesman reveals how the industry hid the truth for decades and why the death toll will certainly continue to rise." - Full article - see also Hebweb feature

Blackshawhead Village Fete - Saturday August 30 2008 - cancelled due to waterlogged field

Guardian on Hebden Bridge: "There probably isn't a more Guardian-y place in the universe. The arty class started coming here in the late 60s, attracted to its then ludicrously cheap stone mills and millhouses. Now you can't move for louche lesbians, academics, journalists, tortoiseshell spectacles and jazz musicians with questionable haircuts. Even the local brass band is so cool it plays ska." - 23 Aug

Tory candidate opposes wind farm - 23 Aug

BT phone boxes under threat - 20 Aug

Latest play from Hebden Bridge's Square Peg Productions, reviewed (with photos) by Geoff Tansey - 17 Aug

Boarding at a Pecket Well farm, Peter Kelly taught at Calder High from 1958 to 1961, and has sent the Hebden Bridge Web some of his memories. Read more on our History pages - 9 Aug

Time starts again - Carlton clock is working once more - for the moment. The picture to the right was taken at 2pm on 13th August. Update, time now out of sync again, but Hebden Royd to fund automatic system. - 19 Aug

HB Equestrian Centre sisters to display Spanish horses at Halifax Show - see news

KERBSIDE DEMO - more photos and video. See Forum for discussion and Look North item on Kerbside - 31 July

Vintage lorries and commercial vehicals travel through Hebden Bridge and the Calder Valley - more photos

On Yer Bike
Hebden Bridge station chosen for pilot scheme - 5 Aug

GARDEN STREET
Hebden Royd Town Council unanimously rejected the plans on Weds 30 July. - 1 Aug

Signing up to oppose Garden Street - 1 Aug

Another balmy summer evening in Hebden Bridge - suddenly, there are Morris dancers all over the square - more photos - 30 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 photographer Alice Longstaff
brought back to life - read more - 27 July

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

New Hebweb section - Archive

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