Tin Tab being demolished - plea for help with windows - 12 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

Four women candidates
for May 2008 elections - 8 April

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

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

Channel Four documentary on Hebden Bridge - added 29 March

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

Handmade Parade Planning meeting See events

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

BIG GREEN WEEKEND planned for Spring Bank holiday weekend - more info - added 26 March

Celebrating Linda Smith Picture House, 1st May Order tickets online now an Arts Festival event

GOOD FRIDAY PACE EGG PLAY - more info

Ian Coates latest - see news

Easter in the Park - including tea and scones at the newly smartened up pavilion

Iraq war five years on - above: school students walk out and protest in the centre of Hebden Bridge on the day of the Iraq invasion. See HebWeb news from March 2003

A 30 year old Rowan tree fell right across Windsor Road this morning at 6 am, blocking traffic. One car was flattened and another damaged. Thanks to Rhiannon B for this photo - 16 March

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

Calder High closed - explosive chemical missing from laboratory - see news - 11 March

St Pol election result - see news - 11 March.

Junior Band feature in the Guardian
Monday, 10 March 2008

Hebden Bridge MP urges Calderdale to bid for Extra Funding for Play Areas
- more info - 3 March

"Where Hebden Bridge leads, the supermarkets follow" - Yorkshire Post credit our Bag Ladies for influencing M & S to charge for bags. Read article - 29th Feb

Tremor wakes Hebden Bridge - see Forum

People's Millions award - parents and children have a day out looking at possible equipment for Calder Holmes Park. More info - 26th Feb

Are wheelie bins coming to Hebden Bridge? See news and forum - 12th January

Hebden Bridge firm seeks eco trades people - more info - 17 March

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

Fair wages for a Fair Trade Town - Hebden Bridge campaigners launch a ‘Fair Wage’ campaign to try to increase the wages of workers under twenty-two. more info - 3rd Feb

At last, some snow! All around Hebden Bridge, children, some who had hardly ever seen the white stuff before, were out in sledges or throwing snowballs. - 2nd Feb

Land next to Victoria Road Children's Playground - third attempt by Mango for planning permission - see Planning Watch - for more information - updated 18th Feb

Rail-users give thumbs up for increased parking, and more bike lockers at the station - More info - 13th Feb

Missing Mytholmroyd gorilla - see forum

Labour proposes a Calderdale Freedom Pass for over-60s combining access to sport and travel - More info - 19th Feb

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

SECONDARY SCHOOL RESULTS
Results from local schools, including Calder High - 10th January

Lord Dales closes - one of the few remaining "real" shops, according to our forum correspondents. HB now has no electircal shop.

2007 Hebweb News highlights

See History for info about the recently added Prehistoric section of the HB Local History Society

For latest news about transferring the Council offices building to community management see the Bridge Centre website - 4th January

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