- Tributes to 'jolly jester' Carson
- 'Sharp drop' in degree courses
- Travellers 'hit by rip-off charges'
- Probe into sex-selection abortions
- UK urged to support tar sands ban
- GPs 'overpaid for ghost patients'
- Action urged on hip fracture costs
- Clegg reveals £1bn jobs fund boost
- RBS set to unveil £400m bonus pot
- 'MP' held after Commons disturbance
- Fast-track asylum delays criticised
- Korean firm wins MoD tankers deal
- Mother and daughter given Asbos
- 'Exceptionally' mild weather on way
- Teenager 'repeatedly raped by gang'
- Man quizzed over women's murders
- Cherie Blair makes phone hack claim
- Man accused of murdering vicar
- Peacocks saved, but 3,000 jobs go
- Sex attacker was under surveillance
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Bradford takes Barbara Windsor to its bosom with a lifetime achievement award
Barbara Windsor, who played Britain’s most famous landlady, Peggy Mitchell, in EastEnders, is to be honoured at this year’s Bradford International Film Festival.
Ex-lover ‘regrets’ wrecking lives in knife attack
A PAINTER and decorator who tried to murder his former partner and her mother in a savage knife attack in their home which left them with devastating injuries has been given an indeterminate jail sentence for public protection.
‘Vicious attack’ on pensioner condemned
A PENSIONER was seriously injured after he was assaulted by three men while in York city centre with his mentally ill son.
Pilots warn European flight-time changes ‘are a danger to public safety’
New European pilot fatigue proposals are “a danger to public safety”, pilots’ union Balpa claims.
Private firm to run police station
A PRIVATE security firm has signed a contract to build, design and help run a police station.
Education
Yorkshire students miss out in race for Oxbridge
THE “unacceptable” extent to which Northern schools are eclipsed by their Southern counterparts in supplying students to Oxford and Cambridge has been revealed in data provided to MPs.
Yorkshire students miss out in race for Oxbridge
THE “unacceptable” extent to which Northern schools are eclipsed by their Southern counterparts in supplying students to Oxford and Cambridge has been revealed in data provided to MPs.
1 commentSecondary ‘minnow’ faces axe as just 40 seek place
York’s smallest secondary school is set to close because of falling school rolls and changing demographics.
Universities seen as key to opening doors for top jobs
FIVE times as many parents and students in Yorkshire believe the main reason to go to university is to get a good job rather than receiving a well-rounded education, new figures reveal.
Golden opportunity for Olympic volunteers
Volunteers at the Olympics will be able to achieve a national qualification to help them find work after the Games have finished, it has been announced.
Politics
MPs blow horn over London transport cash ‘bias’
MPs have expressed “real concerns” that transport spending continues to be skewed towards London and the South East at the expense of Yorkshire.
Osborne challenged over tax for married couples
GEORGE Osborne is being urged to consider introducing a tax break for married couples to help address the “unfairness” of plans to cut child benefit from higher rate tax payers.
‘No subsidy for floods insurance companies’
THE Government insists it will not give insurance firms a “taxpayer subsidy” to convince them to continue offering cover to homes at risk of flooding despite warnings it is running out of time to agree a new deal.
Gove warns of Press inquiry threat to freedom of speech
The Leveson Inquiry into Press standards has given rise to a “chilling atmosphere” which threatens freedom of speech in the UK, Education Secretary Michael Gove claimed yesterday.
Clegg pledge on ‘ticking time bomb’
Nick Clegg has pledged to deal with the “ticking time bomb” of teenagers who are not in work, school or training.
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- Boy of 7 accused of racism for asking classmate why he is brown
- Court told welfare fears for pupils led to sacking
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Thursday 23 February 2012
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