Editing Wetherby (section)

==Culture and media==
[[File:Wetherby Cinema.jpg|thumb|right|Wetherby Cinema]]

In 1989, the ''Wetherby in Bloom'' committee was founded and has charitable status. The town won the ''Entente Florale'' gold award in 1999 and an ''International Communities in Bloom'' award in 2005. It achieved success in the [[Royal Horticultural Society|RHS]] [[Britain in Bloom]] competition in 1998, 2002 and 2010, along with numerous regional gold awards over the last 15 years.

The annual Wetherby Arts Festival<ref>{{cite web |title = Wetherby Festival |publisher=Wetherby Festival |url=http://www.wetherbyfestival.co.uk }}</ref> is sponsored by [[Leeds City Council]] and Wetherby Town Council.<ref>{{cite web |title=Wetherby Festival sponsors |publisher=Wetherby Festival |url=http://www.wetherbyfestival.co.uk/sponsors.php}}</ref> It promotes the arts by providing a platform for local groups to perform and to bring in other performers and art forms.

On 2 July 2011 a [[geocache]] caused a [[bomb scare]] in the town, attracting news coverage by the BBC, the geocache was then involved in a [[controlled explosion]] leading to its destruction.<ref>{{cite news |date=2 July 2011 |title=Wetherby security alert caused by treasure hunt |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-14001576 |access-date=30 April 2025 |work=BBC News }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=6 July 2011 |title=Geocaching: the unintended results |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-14039229 |access-date=30 April 2025 |work=BBC News}}</ref>

The local newspaper is the ''Wetherby News''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.wetherbynews.co.uk/ |title=Wetherby News |website=www.wetherbynews.co.uk |access-date=13 December 2018}}</ref> and the lifestyle magazine is the ''Excelle''.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.excellemagazine.co.uk/ |title=Excelle Magazine – advertising, Leeds, Wetherby, Harrogate, Wakefield |magazine=Excelle Magazine |access-date=13 December 2018}}</ref> 

Local radio stations are [[BBC Radio Leeds]], [[Heart Yorkshire]], [[Greatest Hits Radio Yorkshire]] and [[Capital Yorkshire]]. [[Tempo FM]] is Wetherby's very own 100% volunteer-run community radio station, with studios located in the old council offices in Westgate.  

Local news and television programmes are provided by [[BBC Yorkshire]] and [[ITV Yorkshire]], from the [[Emley Moor transmitting station|Emley Moor]] TV transmitter.

[[Wetherby Film Theatre]] is an independently-owned, traditional single screen cinema on Caxton Street. Although it opened in 1915 as a cinema, it had been used for some time as a bingo and social club, before being reopened as a cinema in 1994.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://cinematreasures.org/theater/3507/ |title=Wetherby Film Theatre |publisher=Cinema Treasures |access-date=27 February 2017}}</ref>