BUSY IN OTLEY!

They like to keep themselves busy in Otley. A scan of the posters in pubs and corner shop windows, and I needed to sit down. Where do they find the time? There are reading clubs and camera clubs, amateur radio clubs and science festivals, the film club at the Otley Courthouse and all the walking, of course. There's even a sailing club (not a Yorkshire joke – we're a splash or two from the sea – though Weston Water is hardly Chichester Harbour). Not to mention the rugby clubs, folk festivals and allotment societies. Nor the town's 17 pubs, the great markets, location spotting for Heartbeat fans and delicious shopping in the pretty Victorian lanes.

Their all off being busy this morning hence the absence of people on the market square!d