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Cast upon a desert island where he spent 28 years, two months and 19 days one of the most famous fictional characters ever created reflected: “Had I the sense to return to Hull, I had been happy.”

THE National Trust will seek a temporary ban on disposable barbecues after one was blamed for starting the second serious fire in hours on moorland in West Yorkshire.

A man seen jumping from the Humber Bridge, sparking a huge emergency response, was taking part in an "extreme sport", emergency services said.

A teenage gatecrasher who stabbed a partygoer in the stomach has been jailed for 10 years after a judge warned courts had a duty to pass deterrent sentences amid heightened public concern over knife crime.

A man who took photographs of himself raping a two-year-old girl and was planning to attack another child has been jailed for life.

Campaigners fighting the “temporary” closure of a North Yorkshire general hospital’s accident and emergency department and intensive care beds have instructed solicitors to challenge the “unsafe” proposals, amid concerns patients’ lives may be put at risk.

The company building two massive new solar farms in Yorkshire has revealed plans to install the first of a new UK-wide network of forecourts which aim to charge electric cars in super-fast time.

One of Yorkshire’s best-known steam engines could be brought back out of a second retirement to the delight of its many fans.

A rural road in North Yorkshire is closed after a serious accident on Saturday afternoon.