Heritage

IT IS one of Yorkshire’s most significant abbeys yet also, perhaps, its most secluded. But an injection of nearly £3m from the national lottery could soon change that.

AS the miners’ strike entered its 10th month, the National Coal Board described as “inaccurate” a report claiming that Cortonwood Colliery, one of the major Yorkshire pits earmarked for closure, could have been profitable.

One young man’s sobriety may have led to Beningbrough Hall’s 300th anniversary being marked this year.

The World-famous Flying Scotsman is to make an appearance at the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway next year.

Boy with a nervous reaction to sound

From our Ossett correspondent

Two tugs put out last night to the aid of a trawler in which an explosion was reported to have occurred 10 miles east-north-east of Blyth.

After almost 30 years at the helm of Leeds Civic Trust Dr Kevin Grady is stepping down. He tells Chris Bond about how the city has changed during that time and the challenges it still faces.

The Yorkshire Post’s weekly delve into our picture archives includes Ray Illingworth easing his back into a special chair in 1983 following his final season as Yorkshire cricket captain. And there is also a young champion in chess player 10-year-old Chris Bennett.

THE region’s MPs were urging the government to save the coal industry this week after a devastating forecast of future coalfield job losses suggested the business could be dead before the millennium.

An essential section of Yorkshire’s railway infrastructure has been in and out of the news since 1841. The railway bridge at Selby spanning the River Ouse has only changed in appearance once during this long period and still provides an important east west link on the railway network.

Help for traders after air raids

“When you see the figures stood up, you get the feeling that the spirits of the men are coming home.”

LOVE them or hate them, penalty shoot-outs are now an established part of the footballing landscape.

A Leeds fireman was lowered on ropes into a disused pit shaft near Brown Lane, Leeds, yesterday to rescue a black cross-bred dog believed to have been thrown into the shaft.

In Sheffield schools there is a shortage of 250 teachers, says Dr. W. P. Alexander (Director of Education) in his report to the Education Committee.

All the aniseed balls in Bedford were bought up just before the war because they were that time the only things that could set off underwater limpet bombs.

For more than a century Yorkshire has played a central role in creating and shaping the history of British art. In particular, it has enabled the remarkable development of sculpture in this country.