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Pedestrians struggle in windy conditions near the Bridgewater Place building, Leeds.

Killer lorry ‘floated like hot air balloon’ in Leeds city centre gale

A MAN was crushed to death after a lorry “floated through the air like a hot air balloon” in gale-force winds and landed on him in the centre of leeds, an inquest heard today.

The pupils were suspended from South Leeds Academy

Leeds school suspends six pupils for throwing snowballs

SCHOOL bosses in Leeds today defended a decision to suspend six pupils for throwing snowballs.

A view over the frozen lake to Castle Howard Stately Home, in North Yorkshire

Three-inch blanket of snow heading our way today

AREAS of Yorkshire could be blanketed by up to 3in (8cm) of snow today as the country continues to shiver in the Arctic freeze.

Newlyweds Ian and Lynsey Morris

Burglars ransack couple’s home on their wedding night

A PAIR of newlyweds have spoken of their devastation after they were forced to cancel their honeymoon following a break-in at their West Yorkshire home on their wedding night.

Darren Upton

Six years for accountant who swindled clients out of tax money to finance luxuries

A CROOKED accountant who financed a luxurious lifestyle, including a secret mistress and a box at Leeds United, by fleecing clients of thousands of pounds intended for the taxman, has been jailed for six years.

Sport rss

Keith Hill: 'Manuel - I know nothing'

Barnsley’s Keith Hill invokes Fawlty Towers over link with Leeds job

BARNSLEY manager Keith Hill has expressed an interest in the Leeds United job.

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Start Super League season earlier: Rhinos’ McDermott

LEEDS Rhinos’ Grand Final-winning coach Brian McDermott has called for a later start to the Super League campaign in future as the weather threatens to cause more early-season disruption.

Who will succeed Fabio Capello?

Alan Shearer in list of favourites for Leeds and England jobs: Latest odds

ALAN Shearer features in the list of favourites to take over the vacant manager’s jobs at both Elland Road and Wembley. These are the rest of SkyBet’s latest odds...

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Redknapp clear favourite if FA can sway Spurs

THE FOOTBALL Association will have to persuade Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy that Harry Redknapp will not find it too taxing doing two jobs if, as expected, they turn to him as their new England manager.

England's Steven Finn

Finn feels ready to make up for all his frustration

Steven Finn is out to prove a point once more in Abu Dhabi – where he first showed himself to be an England fast bowler of the future.

Video

In the running: Businesses are urged to take up the 10K Corporate Challenge video

IT takes dedication to pound the icy streets of Leeds, when most people are curled up on their sofas.

Business rss

Mike Tomlinson, right, launches the Leeds 10k Corporate Challenge with Roger Hutton, senior partner at law firm Clarion and his staff

In the running: Businesses are urged to take up the 10K Corporate Challenge video

IT takes dedication to pound the icy streets of Leeds, when most people are curled up on their sofas.

British Land could sell half stake in Meadowhall

British Land is thought to have put half its 50 per cent stake in the Meadowhall shopping centre in Sheffield up for sale.

Fusion IP backs keyhole surgery investment

Fusion IP, the group that turns University research into business, said its investment Asalus Medical Instruments has raised £300,000 in funding following a successful pre-clinical study of its electrosurgical smoke clearance device Innervision.

Peter Wilkinson

Let’s not talk our way into recession, says boss

A YORKSHIRE-based entrepreneur has warned that Britain could be talking itself into a recession, after his business sealed a $2.1m (£1.33m) order to round off a record month.

Reckitt targets emerging markets

DETTOL to Nurofen maker Reckitt Benckiser is ramping up its expansion in emerging markets to counter sluggish growth in Europe and the United States.

Lifestyle rss

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Recipes: Celebrating and sharing life together at the table

Jean Brillat-Savarin, the 18th century politician, lawyer and gastronome wrote that a mutual enjoyment of the pleasures of the table has an enormous influence on the happiness that can and should be found in a marriage.

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Choose carefully and a great evening is bound to follow

Worried that your special romantic Valentine meal might go wrong? Daniel Gill gives his top tips on making it right.

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Pub Of The Week: The Orchard, Husthwaite

Sad is the country village without a cosy pub. Everyone needs a local and those living in remote rural outposts need it more than most.

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Pic options for gadget column Feb 4
Pic of Apple TV + set top box and remote
Caption: For �92, Apple TV lets you access the internet on your telly

Tech Talk: A new set of options

OPINIONS are divided on whether seven or 10-inch screens are best suited to tablets, but here’s a third option... one with no screen at all. Evolve, a little gadget from the radio and loudspeaker company Intempo, does away with the need for an LCD display by using your TV set instead. The omission of such an expensive component means they can flog it for as little as £150.

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Restaurant Review: Drewton’s Supper Club, East Yorkshire

A couple of years ago, not many people would have bet on the A1034 between South Cave and Market Weighton becoming a key culinary route through East Yorkshire. Yet today this pleasant but unremarkable eight-mile stretch of minor road can boast a multiple award winning gastropub in the shape of the Star at Sancton. There has also been the relocation of Hull’s popular Boar’s Nest to the Rudston Walk hotel and now the arrival of Drewton’s at the Drewton Estate. If this pattern continues the A1034 may well soon find itself renamed Restaurant Row or possibly Gastronaut Gulch.

Audio & Video rss

Mike Tomlinson, right, launches the Leeds 10k Corporate Challenge with Roger Hutton, senior partner at law firm Clarion and his staff

In the running: Businesses are urged to take up the 10K Corporate Challenge video

IT takes dedication to pound the icy streets of Leeds, when most people are curled up on their sofas.

The LNWR 1054 'Coal Tank' locomotive makes its way along the Keighley and Worth Valley en route to Oxenhope

Stunning steam train video as new life begins for an icon of Victorian age video

A SURVIVOR of Britain’s railway past that has travelled many miles in its working life has been restored – to become a national treasure for many keen to see a glimpse of its Victorian origins.

A PCSO talking to protestors outside Dogs 4 Us

Video: ‘Turn that camera off - these puppy protesters may be terrorists’ video

A POLICE force has apologised to an animal rights campaigner after a community support officer said a protest group had links to “known terrorists”.

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Actress Gillian Anderson reads a Charles Dickens book to the Prince of Wales

Video: A Tale of two Charleses and a Dickens of a quiz video

LUMINARIES from the literature world joined the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall at Westminster Abbey yesterday to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens.

Actress Gillian Anderson reads a Charles Dickens book to the Prince of Wales

BusinessTalk: Jobs and branches under threat at Yorkshire Bank

NATIONAL Australia Bank Is about to restructure its UK operation – including the Yorkshire bank – after a rise in bad debts and sluggish growth. What will it mean for jobs? Listen to informed debate in your weekly business programme from the Yorkshire Post.

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Thursday 09 February 2012

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