- The Hump pins hopes on Presley gift
- Ex-intelligence chief 'holds key'
- Doctor Who star Smith takes flame
- Probe as man dies in pub shooting
- Clary: Gay wedlock suffragette link
- 'Portas pilots' town centres named
- Anti-cuts 'street parties' planned
- UK plans for euro-immigrants surge
- Hunt's 'daddy' texts to lobbyist
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At a Glance
Exclusive: Taxpayers financing legal costs of police top brass
TAXPAYERS are providing three quarters of a million pounds to pay for the personal legal expenses of the country’s most senior police officers – including those involved in highly-costly misconduct cases, the Yorkshire Post can reveal today.
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Trailtrekker live: 800 set out on the great Dales adventure
MORE than 800 walkers set off through the Yorkshire Dales this morning as this year’s gruelling Trailtrekker challenge began.
Exclusive: Emails cast light on council’s ‘bobbing and weaving’ over Bradford Odeon
CAMPAIGNERS fighting to save the Bradford Odeon claim an email sent by an ex-regeneration chief implies he was acting for the developer behind the controversial scheme to demolish the iconic building while still employed by the council.
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Slapped wrists for filthy Doncaster vicar who posted ‘sin is fun’ on Facebook
A SENIOR vicar caught swearing and complaining about his ecclesiastical duties on Facebook has escaped with a slap on the wrist.
Jail for thieving Leeds Pc who used police computer to get dates
A lonely and debt-ridden police constable stole money seized in police raids and used the force computer to contact women after a relationship ended.
National News
The Hump pins hopes on Presley gift
Engelbert Humperdinck is flying the UK flag in the Eurovision Song Contest and hoping a prized gift from Elvis Presley will bring him luck.
Ex-intelligence chief 'holds key'
Libya's former head of intelligence holds the key to solving the murder of policewoman Yvonne Fletcher, the Libyan prime minister has claimed.
Doctor Who star Smith takes flame
Dr Who star Matt Smith hot footed it around Cardiff Bay carrying the Olympic flame on its latest leg in Wales.
Probe as man dies in pub shooting
A man has died and three others were wounded after a shooting in a pub, police said.
Clary: Gay wedlock suffragette link
Gay comic Julian Clary has likened the arguments over same-sex marriages to the suffragette struggle in the early 20th century, it has been reported.
Features
The people’s tenor painting the town red, white and blue
‘The people’s tenor’ is touring patriotic songs for the Queen’s Jubilee. Sheena Hastings talks to Russell Watson.
Eurovision in Harrogate lacked a certain je ne sais quoi
As Eurovision prepares to unleash itself on Azerbaijan, Sarah Freeman looks back 30 years to when the song contest came to Yorkshire.
Gold rush begins as sponsors eye up Yorkshire’s Olympic Games hopefuls
Some of Yorkshire’s most high-profile athletes stand to make a fortune from success at this summer’s London Olympics. Nick Westby reports.
Screen writer hits target with own tale of a boy’s rise from a Batley back street
The pitch for Hit and Miss didn’t sound like an instant hit.
Rain or shine, we need to come to terms with drought
AFTER one of the warmest Marches and a record wet April, at last something like summer weather.
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Around Yorkshire
Volunteer group unveils growth plans for struggling city economy
A VOLUNTEER group established to secure the economic future of one of England’s oldest cities has unveiled a host of new proposals to boost growth.
1 commentTransport revolution gathers pace in the Dales
THE biggest transport revolution in the Yorkshire Dales in living memory is gathering pace, with a new hub and extended bus services now announced across another area of the national park.
Ancient woods receive money from trust fund
WOODS which provided food and fuel for a Yorkshire castle for almost 1,000 years are to benefit from an £80,000 windfall.
Campaigners fighting fuel duty rise say enough is enough
Campaigners will be asking hard-pressed drivers to call on the Chancellor to scrap this summer’s 3p fuel duty rise.
International fans fly in to support Blades at Wembley in play-off clash
A FOOTBALL fan who usually has to follow his Yorkshire team from his home almost 3,500 miles away is planning to fly in to the UK to see them seal promotion to the Championship.
Letters and Columnists
DLA loss will take away our independence
From: Paul Ambler, Rydall Terrace, Holbeck, Leeds.
1 commentSelling off civic building will be sad loss to town’s heritage
From: Mrs Brenda Towler, John Marshall, Eric Waight, Richard Whitfield, Bob O’Neill, Philip Broadbank, Shirley Fawcett, Ruth Timmis, George Crowther, Pat Marsh, Bob Nash, Margaret-Ann de Courcey-Bayley, Geoff Webber, John Fox, Bill Hoult, Les Ellington.
David Cameron: Why Yorkshire needs an elected police chief
WHAT’S the best way to get crime down in Yorkshire and keep our streets safe? The answer should be obvious: dedicated police working with local communities, responding to what people want.
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Country View
Help communities rid their beauty spot of rubbish today
Black bags are mingled with bluebells, worn tyres are liberally sprinkled around. Unsavoury sights are easy to find in what has been described as South Yorkshire’s loveliest dale, which also lies within the worst fly-tipping blackspot in the country.
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Showbiz
Lady Gaga 'will not tone down show'
Lady Gaga's manager has said the pop diva has no plans to tone down her act, even if that prevents her from performing in some countries on her Asian tour.
Norton: Moonrise kids were great
Edward Norton has revealed the children he starred alongside in new film Moonrise Kingdom were more professional than some of the big names he has worked with.
Griff: I'm OK with growing older
Griff Rhys Jones has confessed he's not happy about having to wear his glasses on screen.
Goldblum granted restraining order
A judge has granted Jeff Goldblum a temporary restraining order against a woman who has been repeatedly ordered to stay away from the actor in recent years.
Judge Britney's got the X Factor
Britney Spears has been on the job just two days and she's already proving to be a popular judge on The X Factor.
International
Suicide bombers attack police station in Turkey
A car bomb driven by two suicide attackers exploded outside a police station in central Turkey yesterday, killing at least one policeman and wounding 11 people.
Private spaceship in historic docking
The privately bankrolled Dragon capsule arrived at the International Space Station yesterday, making history as the first commercial delivery ship in orbit.
Islamist takes lead in first vote to lead Egypt after revolt
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood candidate has won a spot in a run-off election, according to partial results from the country’s first genuinely competitive presidential election.
Iran rejects nuclear curb proposals
Iranian negotiators have rejected proposals by six world powers to curb Tehran’s nuclear programme.
Poland gets set to jail Euro match hooligans
Poland is putting hundreds of judges on stand-by and moving some 600 inmates out of prisons in cities hosting European championship games next month to make room for law-breaking football fans.
Community
Ian McMillan: Become England manager? I could do that.
Now that all the media noise about the appointment of Roy Hodgson as England manager has died to a low hum rather like that of an old fridge in a quiet kitchen, and now that Euro 2012 is looming over the horizon like a promise ( a promise tinged with disappointment and despair, but a promise nevertheless) I think it’s time that I came clean: I wanted that England job. I wanted it badly, really badly. I typed out my CV and I applied for it because, as a football fan and, specifically, a Barnsley fan and a fan of the Brierley Cubs under-eights, I knew I was qualified.
Constance Barstow
CONSTANCE Mary Barstow, who has died aged 84, was a gifted woman in many fields including being a talented artist and expert charity fund raiser, and a major influence behind the writing of her novelist husband Stan Barstow.
Dave Wickett
DAVE WICKETT, one of Sheffield United’s best-known fans, has died after a long illness.
Henry Swarbrick
HENRY Joseph Bleasdale Swarbrick, a former primary school headteacher in Yorkshire who as a keen rugby player and coach inspired young people to take up the sport, has died aged 81.
Ian McMillan: Snooze and sport on a Saturday afternoon
Ah, the deep-flowing and endlessly variable humiliations of middle age! You know the kind of thing I mean: you’re sitting on your comfy settee in mid-afternoon watching the drama of the football fixtures rolling across the screen like an epic film made of end-of-the-first-half goals and yellow cards and penalties skied over the stands into a back garden where someone is hanging out washing.
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- Police turning blind eye to Asian voter fraud, says MP
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