Ted Evans

For the record Bronte Media, or Voice of the Valleys, has never been personally critical of Mr Ted Evans and his car park on Changegate.
However, we did place a link to an internationally available video on YouTube. It was a song which was not complimentary to his operation. We made no comment upon it.
Recently we attended, by invitation, a public meeting to discuss the promotion of Haworth as a tourist attraction. At the meeting Mr Evans said he was suing us for publishing the link.
Previous to that we had had civil conversations with Mr Evans and never criticised him. His outburst was totally uncalled for, unwarranted and discourteous.
As the publisher of the local newspaper, a resident (permanently) of the village and a respected media company we say, "Shame on you". You have been given the opportunity to use our columns to reply to criticism on more than one occasion and ignored it. To choose to issue a threat to sue at a meeting designed to help the village is perhaps indicative of the high opinion you have of yourself. It doesn't seem to be shared Ted, however much within the law you claim to operate.
The comments section below is open to you to use. Say what you like, we won't sue.
Oh, by the way, here's the link. It's public domain Ted, HERE or there's this one HERE . Or try THIS

Emily Sargant

Well done to Haworth singer 16-year-old Emily Sargant who is off to sing in a Texas music festival in March.
Her story, and her song, feature on Bronte Radio
We wish her luck.

Bronte Radio

Bronte Media has launched the online radio station Bronte Radio to complement our Voice of the Valleys site and newspaper.
Together they offer an unrivalled service to readers and advertisers across the Aire and Worth Valleys and we look forward to our community becoming involved in all aspects of this media first.
Listen to Bronte Radio's opening feature about the plaque dedication to Private Martin Bell G.M. at www.bronteradio.com . This was a fitting community occasion at the Worth Valley Contact Point in Haworth. Online you can hear speeches from Martin's mother, Elaine, and senior councillors and clergy who attended the poignant occasion at the Contact Point where Martin worked as a Police Community Support Officer.

Haworth 1940's weekend

It is sad to read that the mainstay volunteers behind the Haworth 1940's weekend are pulling out, primarily due to the constraints imposed by Bradford Council.
This blog has been critical of both parties in the past. Because of the shambolic traffic management chaos of 2011 and because of the council's demand for a feasibility study as to whether the World War aircraft may crash on the crowds, a touch of Health and Safety gone mad.
We take our hat off to anyone who can attract 20,000 visitors to Haworth. They should be encouraged and supported by the local authority, and others, to do what they have done under such constraints.
Linda Presley and Pamela Howarth have been the mainstays but countless others have done their bit. So what happens now?
The event is advertised for the weekend of May 19th and 20th and you can bet your life that thousands will turn up whether or not there is an organising body. Without proper management there will be chaos on an unbelievable scale, almost as much as if an aeroplane dropped out of the sky.
Let us hope that someone comes forward to take over what is after all the village's most successful event in the calendar.
They will still have to tussle with the Home Guard of Bradford Council, but surely a little bit of Dunkirk spirit will get them through that.

Housing concerns

Major concern is now mounting over proposals to build a huge number of houses in and around Haworth. The story is attracting major media attention, much of which can be seen on www.votv.co.uk

Haworth Church

A massive effort is needed to support the Haworth Church match funding bid and here at Bronte Media and Voice of the Valleys we will be right behind them.
Your fund-raising ideas immediately please to us at voiceofthevalleys@gmail.com
See www.votv.co.uk for the full story.

Oxenhope

There did appear here a link to a national newspaper story involving a person from Oxenhope.
During the last few days the person has conducted a personal attack on Voice of the Valleys and other media sources to an extent that we have removed the story, which was initially supportive of the person. We quite simply do not need the aggravation.
We did not write the story, we did not instigate the writing of the story, but the abuse, insinuation and threats which have followed have led to our course of action.
We are sure that many newsworthy and pleasant events and people emanate from Oxenhope. We look forward to supporting them.
www.votv.co.uk