An appeal launched by the Ilkley Gazette three years ago to trace the crash site of a WWII bomber has been commemorated with the erection of a memorial plaque to one of the airmen.
John Reilly MBE, of Lanarkshire, has bought a plaque to place on Addingham Moorside where his friend, Felix Byrnes’s, Halifax bomber crashed at 5.30pm on January 31, 1944.

The Southampton Daily Echo is backing a community campaign to raise £25,000 to send a brain-damaged father-of-three to Germany for vital treatment.
Wayne Howard, 34, was a keen amateur motorcyclist who raced in the Isle of Man Manx GP before a horrific road traffic accident left him brain damaged and wheel chair-bound. So far £7,000 has been collected.

Observer readers from Sutton Coldfield are giving up their old foreign coins and notes so they can be changed into English pounds to help local sufferers of deafblindness.
The campaign, organised by the Observer, converted £456.58 from its first batch of donated cash.

Prince Charles has given his support to Macmillan Cancer Relief’s Roxburghe House Appeal.
The Aberdeen Independent-backed campaign aims to build a new £4m hospice for cancer sufferers in the northeast.

BBC weatherman Richard Angwin accused the Western Daily Press of “irresponsible” reporting after running an article warning readers of a wetter-than-usual summer.
But Richard has had to eat his words after weeks of appalling rainstorms, following his outburst.

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