A new band dedicated to the Vale has been created by a local man - with their album detailing his life growing up in the area in the 1960s and 1970s.
Ian Retson created the band, The Bank Street Martyrs, as a reflection on his life growing up in the Vale, recruiting his cousin Andrew Marsland and his friend Joe Watema to turn his poems into rock songs.
The 65-year-old had written a poem for his 60 birthday titled, ‘Leven the Vale’, about returning to the region to die, which was helped turned into a song by his now band mates.
