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3 days ago
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Otley superstar confirms retirement after child announcement
REPORT: PA LIZZIE Deignan has announced her immediate retirement from professional cycling after sharing news that she and husband Phil are expecting their third child. The former world champion, 36, from Otley, had previously said 2025 would be her final season but has now called time on a career in which she recorded 43 professional wins, among them victories at Paris-Roubaix, Liege-Bastogne-Liege, Strade Bianche, the Tour of Flanders and the Women's Tour. Deignan took the world title in 2015, a Commonwealth Games gold medal in 2014 and Olympic silver at the London Games in 2012. After Deignan posted an image of a babygrow on social media, her Lidl-Trek team shared news of her retirement. Deignan took a career break in 2018 for the birth of daughter Orla, returning to win a second Women's Tour title in 2019 before her victories at Liege-Bastogne-Liege and La Course by Le Tour de France followed in 2020, and a brilliant solo win in the first Paris-Roubaix Femmes came in 2021. A second career break came in 2022 for the birth of her son Shea but, having previously considered retirement, Deignan said she wanted to race on in a support role for younger team-mates. 'Cycling is totally underestimated as a team sport, right?' Deignan said. 'I grew up in cycling and I've seen this massive shift that I'm so proud to be a part of, but the basics are the same. 'You start as a domestique, you work your way up, you become a leader. Often people say, 'Retire on the top.' But I have no ego or necessity to retire at the top. I'm really happy to go full circle and to have ended my career as somebody that helps other people win bike races again. 'I have this life outside of cycling that gives me so much fulfillment and so much love.' Deignan's last race was the Copenhagen Sprint last month, which came a couple of weeks after she competed in the Tour of Britain Women for the last time. Speaking to the PA news agency ahead of that race, Deignan said she was proud to have been part of an era of unprecedented growth in women's cycling. She said part of what had kept her racing on was the growth of new races that she wanted to be part of, having not had those opportunities earlier in her career. 'I think if I had retired any earlier than now I would have had regrets, definitely, sitting at home watching all these opportunities unfold,' Deignan said. 'I can be really proud and pleased with the last five, six years of my career where I've got to feel truly like a professional, to be respected and to have opportunities equal to the men.'
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4 days ago
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Council told to take action after woman died in crash on one of its roads
A COUNCIL has been told to take action after a woman died on one of its roads. Dorothy Wagstaff, 86, passed away on January 11 after her car collided with a post, plastic barriers, railings, and a lamp post on Leeds Road in Otley. An inquest into her death, conducted by Assistant Coroner John Hobson, concluded on June 26. The cause of her death was ruled as multiple traumatic injuries and multiple medical comorbidities. Prevention of Future Deaths Report sent to Leeds City Council A Prevention of Future Deaths Report, sent to Leeds City Council Highways, says it was found to be "more likely than not" that the car hit the obstacles after Mrs Wagstaff suffered a medical episode. The report adds that the plastic barriers were temporary and provided "little resistance" to prevent the car from leaving the road and colliding with railings and a lamp post. The car came to a rest and paramedics attended, but Mrs Wagstaff's death was confirmed at the scene at 10.57am. Coroner's concerns Assistant Coroner Hobson outlined four concerns in the report. These were as follows: The trajectory of Mrs Wagstaff's car after the initial collision with the concrete post involved passing through temporary plastic barriers which, on the evidence heard, offered no resistance such that the car then proceeded to leave the road and collide with a lamp post before coming to rest back on the road. Upon examining photographs of the scene, the road barrier/railings and sections of the road, it was noted that plastic barriers similar to those referred to in the record of inquest above were present in another section of the A660 Leeds Road. Within the evidence adduced at the inquest, it was noted that Leeds City Council Highways Department have indicated that a schedule of works will be created with a view to replacing the old concrete and metal pole barriers with metal pedestrian railings in this area of the A660. The concern that I raise is that photographs considered at the inquest indicated the ongoing presence of plastic barriers in a gap in the existing barrier/railings elsewhere along the stretch of road. Plastic barriers were a factor in the circumstances of the accident in which Mrs Langstaff sadly died. If that remains the case, I am of the view that action should be taken to prevent a risk of future deaths. Council currently reviewing report in detail A spokesperson for Leeds City Council, who has to respond to the report by October 12, said: 'Our sincere condolences go to Dorothy Wagstaff's family and friends at this difficult time. 'We have received the Coroner's report following the recent inquest and are currently reviewing its contents in detail. "We will provide a full response to the Coroner at the earliest opportunity.'
BBC News
24-07-2025
- General
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Man to soundproof home over Leeds Bradford Airport night flight noise
A man living beneath an airport flightpath has said he is soundproofing his home due to being "woken during the night" by Hemmingway lives in Otley near Leeds Bradford Airport (LBA), which was told this week it must limit the number of night flights it Hemmingway said he was installing acoustic glass in his bedroom windows to reduce the noise from said it was working with Leeds City Council, which enforces night flight rules, to "determine the best path forward". Mr Hemmingway is a member of the Group for Action on Leeds Bradford Airport (GALBA), which claimed the airport had breached its night flights limit in each of the past three is currently permitted 2,920 take-offs and landings between 23:00 and 07:00 during the summer, and 1,200 in the bosses had wanted newer aircraft to be exempt from the cap, as well as smaller planes and flights which had been delayed.A public inquiry took place in March and April to determine the legal meaning of the night-time flying rules, after which Leeds City Council issued a Breach of Condition Notice against LBA. The airport then made three applications to the council to persuade it to reinterpret the meaning of the local night flight planning conditions, making a large number of its planes exempt from the council rejected the appeal on Hemmingway, who moved to his property with his wife two years ago, said the planes "wake us during the night and then we get a clutch of flights around about 6 in the morning, if we haven't been woken before then"."Usually there are flights through the night, around 2am as well."He said the disruption was worse than they had expected. "It can happen two or three times in the night, and sometimes you get back to sleep and sometimes you don't," he said the soundproofing measures would be installed next week."The windows are being replaced, the windows in the bedroom are going to be acoustic glass, which is much more expensive."It is a special glass that has a coating on it, that distorts the sound signal from the plane, so that you don't hear it through the window." Listen to highlights from West Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North.
BBC News
16-07-2025
- General
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Suffolk Rural college welcomes new baby wallaby and skunks
New baby animals, including a wallaby, have been welcomed at an agricultural Rural, based in Otley and part of Suffolk New College, said it was "delighted" to see one of its wallabies, Jessie, had given technician, Andrew Waddingham, said the team witnessed the joey's arrival last small skunks have also been born in recent weeks. "We first noticed a head pop out of Jessie's pouch about three weeks ago," Mr Waddingham said. "Although with Wallabies, it could be up to six months old as they crawl up into the pouch for nearly half a year."Hopefully within a couple of weeks it will hop out of the pouch." Two baby skunks, one of which is albino, were also born about nine weeks ago and have been at the college for the past fortnight. They have been named Winston and Ralph by the college's animal centre manager, Helen Pearson, who used the names of her childhood gerbils. The new additions were just some of the animals welcomed at the college after it unveiled new facilities earlier this animals given a home included meerkats, with the site hoping to introduce capybaras in the near future."We currently support over a hundred students who get to work with lots of different animals in some amazing new facilities - so it's a very exciting time for our department," Mr Waddingham added. Follow Suffolk news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
Yahoo
16-07-2025
- General
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New baby animals welcomed at rural college
New baby animals, including a wallaby, have been welcomed at an agricultural college. Suffolk Rural, based in Otley and part of Suffolk New College, said it was "delighted" to see one of its wallabies, Jessie, had given birth. Senior technician, Andrew Waddingham, said the team witnessed the joey's arrival last month. Two small skunks have also been born in recent weeks. "We first noticed a head pop out of Jessie's pouch about three weeks ago," Mr Waddingham said. "Although with Wallabies, it could be up to six months old as they crawl up into the pouch for nearly half a year. "Hopefully within a couple of weeks it will hop out of the pouch." Two baby skunks, one of which is albino, were also born about nine weeks ago and have been at the college for the past fortnight. They have been named Winston and Ralph by the college's animal centre manager, Helen Pearson, who used the names of her childhood gerbils. The new additions were just some of the animals welcomed at the college after it unveiled new facilities earlier this year. Other animals given a home included meerkats, with the site hoping to introduce capybaras in the near future. "We currently support over a hundred students who get to work with lots of different animals in some amazing new facilities - so it's a very exciting time for our department," Mr Waddingham added. Follow Suffolk news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X. First seal pups of season born at nature reserve Suffolk Punch foal gets timely Star Wars name One in a million sheep births five lambs Suffolk Rural
