Nindy Purba
@nindypurba.bsky.social
Writer
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Founder/editor of The Ilkley Journal
https://www.theilkleyjournal.co.uk
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Founder/editor of The Ilkley Journal
https://www.theilkleyjournal.co.uk
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Commission me ✍🏽
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Hello!
Okay, so it’s Tuesday 23 December – and that means two more sleeps before Christmas Day!
If you’re still looking for last-minute ideas, then allow us to kindly suggest what we think is a very good idea …
The Ilkley Journal.
Okay, so it’s Tuesday 23 December – and that means two more sleeps before Christmas Day!
If you’re still looking for last-minute ideas, then allow us to kindly suggest what we think is a very good idea …
The Ilkley Journal.
December 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Hello!
Okay, so it’s Tuesday 23 December – and that means two more sleeps before Christmas Day!
If you’re still looking for last-minute ideas, then allow us to kindly suggest what we think is a very good idea …
The Ilkley Journal.
Okay, so it’s Tuesday 23 December – and that means two more sleeps before Christmas Day!
If you’re still looking for last-minute ideas, then allow us to kindly suggest what we think is a very good idea …
The Ilkley Journal.
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Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas 🎄
December 24, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas 🎄
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We're keen to know what our readers and residents in West Yorkshire more generally think about the BBC Charter Review. Please add your comments below. Thank you 📺
📸 Image credit: GOV.UK
📸 Image credit: GOV.UK
December 17, 2025 at 12:02 PM
We're keen to know what our readers and residents in West Yorkshire more generally think about the BBC Charter Review. Please add your comments below. Thank you 📺
📸 Image credit: GOV.UK
📸 Image credit: GOV.UK
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The grooming gang survivor and advocate for CSE victims, Fiona Goddard, on her past, her present and her future. Link below ↓
#FionaGoddard #CSESurvivor #NationalGroomingGangsInquiry #GroomingGangsInquiry #ChildSexualExploitation #CSE #GroomingGangs
#FionaGoddard #CSESurvivor #NationalGroomingGangsInquiry #GroomingGangsInquiry #ChildSexualExploitation #CSE #GroomingGangs
December 16, 2025 at 9:29 AM
The grooming gang survivor and advocate for CSE victims, Fiona Goddard, on her past, her present and her future. Link below ↓
#FionaGoddard #CSESurvivor #NationalGroomingGangsInquiry #GroomingGangsInquiry #ChildSexualExploitation #CSE #GroomingGangs
#FionaGoddard #CSESurvivor #NationalGroomingGangsInquiry #GroomingGangsInquiry #ChildSexualExploitation #CSE #GroomingGangs
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Get up to speed with the latest in #WestYorkshire, including the appointment of a local figure as the chair of the independent inquiry into #groominggangs, the thoughts of the local MP on #digitalIDs and #YorkshireWater ending the #hosepipeban. Link below ↓
📸 Image credit: House of Commons
📸 Image credit: House of Commons
December 12, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Get up to speed with the latest in #WestYorkshire, including the appointment of a local figure as the chair of the independent inquiry into #groominggangs, the thoughts of the local MP on #digitalIDs and #YorkshireWater ending the #hosepipeban. Link below ↓
📸 Image credit: House of Commons
📸 Image credit: House of Commons
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Bradford Council wants to save £60.6 million in the next financial year. Here’s how it plans on doing that. Link below ↓
#BradfordCouncil #BradfordBudget #CouncilCuts #£60MillionSavings #LocalGovFinance #CouncilTax #BCFT #BradfordSavings #LocalElections2026 #WestYorkshire #BradfordPolitics
#BradfordCouncil #BradfordBudget #CouncilCuts #£60MillionSavings #LocalGovFinance #CouncilTax #BCFT #BradfordSavings #LocalElections2026 #WestYorkshire #BradfordPolitics
December 5, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Bradford Council wants to save £60.6 million in the next financial year. Here’s how it plans on doing that. Link below ↓
#BradfordCouncil #BradfordBudget #CouncilCuts #£60MillionSavings #LocalGovFinance #CouncilTax #BCFT #BradfordSavings #LocalElections2026 #WestYorkshire #BradfordPolitics
#BradfordCouncil #BradfordBudget #CouncilCuts #£60MillionSavings #LocalGovFinance #CouncilTax #BCFT #BradfordSavings #LocalElections2026 #WestYorkshire #BradfordPolitics
"Lesson" number #242 on getting paid supporters to your local newspaper ...
1. Publish high-quality, long-form story
2. Paywall said story
3. Lose free supporters
4. Send sorry to see you go email
5. Receive one response for sorry to see you go email from non-paid member
1. Publish high-quality, long-form story
2. Paywall said story
3. Lose free supporters
4. Send sorry to see you go email
5. Receive one response for sorry to see you go email from non-paid member
December 7, 2025 at 10:12 PM
"Lesson" number #242 on getting paid supporters to your local newspaper ...
1. Publish high-quality, long-form story
2. Paywall said story
3. Lose free supporters
4. Send sorry to see you go email
5. Receive one response for sorry to see you go email from non-paid member
1. Publish high-quality, long-form story
2. Paywall said story
3. Lose free supporters
4. Send sorry to see you go email
5. Receive one response for sorry to see you go email from non-paid member
If you can help, please do 🗞️
Yes, there are lots of cool and useful things you can buy this #BlackFriday, some satisfying tat even, but how about investing some of November's hard-earned cash that has lit up your bank account paycheque in something that will leave your mind a little richer, the world a little better?
November 28, 2025 at 9:58 AM
If you can help, please do 🗞️
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A grumpy-looking toad in a #MakeAmericaGreatAgain style hat and a cheery-looking duck dressed in a sailor’s outfit feature in a local campaign that has been making its presence felt in Ilkley. And at the heart of it lies one of the town’s most iconic beauty spots: Ilkley Tarn.
November 25, 2025 at 8:32 AM
A grumpy-looking toad in a #MakeAmericaGreatAgain style hat and a cheery-looking duck dressed in a sailor’s outfit feature in a local campaign that has been making its presence felt in Ilkley. And at the heart of it lies one of the town’s most iconic beauty spots: Ilkley Tarn.
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Discover more below 👇🏼
#RiverWharfe #WorldWaterWedding #WaterBlitz #ProtectOurRivers #SewageScandal #ExtinctionRebellion #Ilkley #Otley #YorkshireDales #WaterActivism #ClimateEmergency #WaterIsLife
#RiverWharfe #WorldWaterWedding #WaterBlitz #ProtectOurRivers #SewageScandal #ExtinctionRebellion #Ilkley #Otley #YorkshireDales #WaterActivism #ClimateEmergency #WaterIsLife
November 18, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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It's a duckin' good life ... new feature in the works. Sign up below to get it first 🦆
November 17, 2025 at 4:24 PM
It's a duckin' good life ... new feature in the works. Sign up below to get it first 🦆
Absolutely awful from @teamlabouruk.bsky.social. The party has lost all sense of propriety and humanity in a desperate act of self preservation in the face of a right wing threat. It’ll leave countless people with a sort of vague, othered status. And what of the …
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Absolutely awful from @teamlabouruk.bsky.social. The party has lost all sense of propriety and humanity in a desperate act of self preservation in the face of a right wing threat. It’ll leave countless people with a sort of vague, othered status. And what of the …
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
“What we experience online is swiftly mutating from something that was driven by humans – content that humans would generate, good, bad, lovely, ugly – to content that is synthetically generated and algorithmically recommended to you ...
November 14, 2025 at 2:43 PM
“What we experience online is swiftly mutating from something that was driven by humans – content that humans would generate, good, bad, lovely, ugly – to content that is synthetically generated and algorithmically recommended to you ...
Had a little play around on #Twitter today responding to a controversial post. The response to it was quite deranged. Though this is business as usual it was novel to experience it directly. It’s a proper Wild West of rage, conspiracy and untruths - a cesspit of hellish nightmares.
November 13, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Had a little play around on #Twitter today responding to a controversial post. The response to it was quite deranged. Though this is business as usual it was novel to experience it directly. It’s a proper Wild West of rage, conspiracy and untruths - a cesspit of hellish nightmares.
“We have seen, the world over, that populist and authoritarian leaders move swiftly to diminish or kill off public service media. It suits them to (in the words of Steve Bannon) “flood the zone with shit”, so no one knows who or what to believe …”
November 12, 2025 at 3:57 PM
“We have seen, the world over, that populist and authoritarian leaders move swiftly to diminish or kill off public service media. It suits them to (in the words of Steve Bannon) “flood the zone with shit”, so no one knows who or what to believe …”
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“Our natural world, like the planet earth, is one of our kind. Everything it consists of, from the complex, delicate and harmonious balance of animals, plants, rivers and trees to all the phenomenon that takes place beneath the thin kármán line, is exceptional ..."
November 12, 2025 at 9:00 AM
“Our natural world, like the planet earth, is one of our kind. Everything it consists of, from the complex, delicate and harmonious balance of animals, plants, rivers and trees to all the phenomenon that takes place beneath the thin kármán line, is exceptional ..."
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“As a survivor of grooming gangs and now an advocate working to expose what went wrong, I’m constantly asked: why do we need a specific inquiry into grooming gangs? Here’s my response.”
November 8, 2025 at 9:52 AM
“As a survivor of grooming gangs and now an advocate working to expose what went wrong, I’m constantly asked: why do we need a specific inquiry into grooming gangs? Here’s my response.”
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It's #JournalismMatters Week. If you believe in the work we're doing, please sign up today to as a paid member. We really need your support to offer an alternative to local news in #WestYorkshire. Link below.
November 6, 2025 at 4:34 PM
It's #JournalismMatters Week. If you believe in the work we're doing, please sign up today to as a paid member. We really need your support to offer an alternative to local news in #WestYorkshire. Link below.
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"I often think about what I’d fund in Keighley and Ilkley if someone offered me a million pounds to spend, no strings attached ..."
November 4, 2025 at 9:36 AM
"I often think about what I’d fund in Keighley and Ilkley if someone offered me a million pounds to spend, no strings attached ..."
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Living as we do in the long aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis and a post-meaningful world of growth – coupled with the anti-worker agenda of AI ...
October 31, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Living as we do in the long aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis and a post-meaningful world of growth – coupled with the anti-worker agenda of AI ...
@iandunt.bsky.social in case you haven’t seen already …
October 28, 2025 at 4:43 PM
@iandunt.bsky.social in case you haven’t seen already …