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New funds for Yorkshire landowners to plant more trees

Environment
Jamie Roberts, the great, great grandson of Sir James Roberts, has penned a joint objection to the Bradford Innovation Centre plans with Nick Salt, the great grandson of Sir Titus Salt.

High-profile opposition to plans to shut Aire Valley dairy farm

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The Holderness Threshermen at Paul Clappison's farm at Welwick near Hull. Picture: Tony Johnson.

Joy for all at Holderness’s festive thrash

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Paul Kitchen combines running an agricultural machinery business with being landlord of the Black Horse Inn, the village pub in Roos, East Yorkshire. Picture: Tony Johnson.

Paul’s pride at fixing any machine that moves

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Living the Dream: More floods hit our tearoom

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Yorkshire to be ‘among best in Europe’ for pig research

News

Wolds Diary: To the rescue in a week when hounds are abound

Environment

Birdwatch: A spectacle as the starlings are coming home to roost

Environment
Mark Horsley with son James and their winning Pietrain. Picture: Tim Scrivener.

Yorkshire winners at English Winter Fair

News
The NFU says that more than 1,000 hill farmers could be facing a very bleak winter.

Delayed payments turn hill farmers to food banks

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A target to increase woodland cover in the Yorkshire Dales National Park by 2,000 hectares is "on course" to be met by 2020. Picture: Tanya St. Pierre/Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust

New funds for Yorkshire landowners to plant more trees

Environment
Jamie Roberts, the great, great grandson of Sir James Roberts, has penned a joint objection to the Bradford Innovation Centre plans with Nick Salt, the great grandson of Sir Titus Salt.

High-profile opposition to plans to shut Aire Valley dairy farm

News
The Holderness Threshermen at Paul Clappison's farm at Welwick near Hull. Picture: Tony Johnson.

Joy for all at Holderness’s festive thrash

News
Paul Kitchen combines running an agricultural machinery business with being landlord of the Black Horse Inn, the village pub in Roos, East Yorkshire. Picture: Tony Johnson.

Paul’s pride at fixing any machine that moves

News
Shaun and Wendy McKenna. Pic: Lucy Oates.

Living the Dream: More floods hit our tearoom

News
Yorkshire could soon become one of the best places in Europe for pig research. Picture: Justin Slee

Yorkshire to be ‘among best in Europe’ for pig research

News
The woods are beautiful at the moment with a carpet of golden leaves.

Wolds Diary: To the rescue in a week when hounds are abound

Environment

Birdwatch: A spectacle as the starlings are coming home to roost

Environment

Yorkshire winners at English Winter Fair

News

Delayed payments turn hill farmers to food banks

News

Mixed bag from Chancellor for the rural sector

News
Cordings of Piccadilly in the fashion tent at the Great Yorkshire Show in Harrogate.

Piccadilly line: Clapton’s fashion brand makes Great Yorkshire Show debut

Fashion
Lisa Cutcliffe runs wild food cooking days and foraging courses for enthusiastic beginners, chefs, community groups, herbalists and adventurous home cooks. Picture: Joan Ransely

Witch’s egg and other food you can forage from larder at bottom of the street

News
Helen and Robs storyline has shocked fans of The Archers. See letter Picture: BBC

Everyday story of abused country folk: How The Archers became a touchstone for domestic violence

Theatre
Stewart Calligan needed the full waterproofs for a rough time at sea on his most recent fishing expedition.

Sea fishing: Slim pickings to show for braving the elements

Other Sports
Roger Beck pictured in action.

Fly fishing: Dried out riverbeds disrupt the season

Other Sports
Stock Image: Fox Hunting.

Will MPs succeed in getting fox hunting ban repealed?

Sport 2
Stewart Calligan wearing his Huddersfield Old Boys rugby shirt in tribute to Hull FCs Challenge Cup victory at Wembley.

Sea fishing: Sharp end to the day is a lesson learned

Other Sports
Jo Foster sorting out the tack at her stables at Menston near Leeds.

Over the stable door: Training challenge with all but written off Jonny

Equestrian
The pursuit of hounds across wild Yorkshire countryside is nature at its most breath-taking.

Over the stable door: Exhausted by the hunt in race season down time

Equestrian
Jo Foster sorting out the tack at her stables at Menston near Leeds.

Over the stable door: Female jockeys long overdue recognition

Equestrian