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John Blow
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Sting performing at the City Varieties Music Hall in Leeds in 2018 Richard Fleeshman, Charlie Hardwick and Joe McGann. Picture: Tony Johnson.

Radio 2 in the Park and Mr Bates vs the Post Office: The Impact - TV highlights

Zara Mohammed, leader of the Muslim Council of Britain. Picture: Andrew Cawley/Muslim Council of Britain.

'The disproportionate impact of this issue must be addressed'

Leeds Festival 2024. he Last Dinner Party on the Main Stage. Picture: Mark Bickerdike.

Two decades on from my first Leeds Festival, here's what I thought of 2024

Colin From Accounts,Key Art,Gordon (PATRICK BRAMMALL), Ashley (HARRIET DYER),© 2022 CBS Studios Inc., Easy Tiger Productions Pty Ltd, Foxtel Management Pty Ltd, Create NSW,Billy Plumber

The Voice, Mercury Prize 2024 and Colin from Accounts: TV highlights this week

Pictureville Cinema in Bradford is reopening after a 10-month closure.

'We’re really looking forward to welcoming you back after unexpectedly closing'

Co-authors of the book Over The Fence, Karen Haase (right) and Julie Martin-Jones (left) photographed in Julie's garden. Picture: Ernesto Rogata.

'It was a healing process for us - but there was real fun in it too'

Leeds Festival 2024 day one at Bramham Park. Picture: Mark Bickerdike.

Leeds Fest: Alien mosh pit and 'something special' expected from headliners

High Fearnley-Whittingstall at River Cottage. Picture: Matt Austin.

'Eating 30 plants a week can be achievable and delicious'

Thomas Pidcock of Team Great Britain celebrates at finish line as gold medal winner during the Men's Cross-Country on day three of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 at Elancourt Hill on July 29, 2024 in Elancourt, France. (Photo by Alex Broadway/Getty Images).

Olympics finale and Freddie Flintoff's return - TV highlights this week

Jessica Knappett.

'I'm delighted to have found a way to make a career in TV work from Yorkshire'

Widescreen Weekend at Pictureville Cinema. Picture: Andy Garbutt, Science Museum Group.

'Back in the beautiful auditorium': Region's biggest indie cinema to reopen

Leeds band Ultimate Thunder. From left to right: James Heselwood, Alex Sykes, Scott Anderson, Matthew Watson, Kenneth Stainburn and John Densley.

Ultimate Thunder: Yorkshire band on supporting Yard Act and the need for funding

Head of Collections, Dr Tracy Craggs, at the Holocaust Centre North. Picture: Tony Johnson.

Holocaust Centre North: Museum puts on 'gentler' family education days

Ian celebrating his birthday with a Leeds cake.

Meet the Leeds United fan spreading word of the Whites in Brazil

Tom Daley and Matty Lee of Team Great Britain compete during the Men's Synchronised 10m Platform Final on day three of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Daley will be in action against at Paris 2024. Picture: Jean Catuffe/Getty Images

The Great British Sewing Bee and Olympics opening ceremony - TV highlights

Marsden Mechanics.

'It's a birthright to have as many cultural experiences as you can'

The O'Leary-Hall family (from left to right) Will, Sue, Rose and Katie.

'Rose was a teeny, tiny powerhouse and a twinkly mischief maker'

England's Harry Kane celebrates in the arms of team-mate Ollie Watkins at the end of a semifinal match between the Netherlands and England. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner).

Euro 2024 final, The Jetty and BBC Proms: TV highlights this week

The panel in Bradford.

'We'll do it very well': Bradford UK City of Culture 2025 is half a year away

Ash during his travels.

'Some of my most fulfilling trips certainly were not holidays'

Karen Eckstein, from Esholt, has benefitted from pioneering ankle surgery.

'I cried tears of joy when I was back in the serenity of the wilds'

Humaira Bham, Olivia Wright, and Irene Kaali, winners of BBC New Voices Bradford.

Here's what the BBC has planned for the Bradford 2025 UK City of Culture year

Maisie Adam.

'I genuinely think this will be a Hollywood movie one day'

Lisa Parkinson with the Make-Up & Hair Design Award, sponsored by Screenskills High-end Television Fund, for 'The Long Shadow' during the BAFTA Television Craft Awards 2024 at The Brewery on April 28, 2024 in London, England. (Photo by Stuart C. Wilson/Getty Images).

BAFTA-winning makeup designer: 'It's a completely different ballgame now'

Shambles in York. Picture: James Hardisty.

'It was a no-brainer choosing York': Crime procedural perfect for city

Dipika Kaushal, Jodie Whittaker and Victoria Barraclough at Eastthorpe Hall, Mirfield, in April. Picture by Elspeth Mary Moore.

'It's in our blood to respond to what people need'

Aaron Mooy meeting Adam in 2017.

'Parents should ultimately be ideal role models to their children'

Toria Megginson, Nicola Webb, Donna Sanderson, Lyndsay Roberts and Angie Cliffe.

'I didn’t feel ill, but I had this aggressive cancer in my body'

Kyazike (Bellah) and Queenie (Dionne Brown) in Queenie. Picture: Channel 4 / Latoya Okuneye.

Queenie, D-Day and Live England International Football: TV highlights this week

BBC fans slam Romesh Ranganathan’s new documentary series about the death of Sex Pistol star’s girlfriend

'Insecurity is my creative engine': Romesh Ranganathan comes to Yorkshire

Clive Smith, chair of the Haemophilia Society, outside 10 Downing Street.

Yorkshire chair of the Haemophilia Society on Infected Blood Inquiry report

Henry Winkler accepts the award for outstanding supporting actor in a comedy series for "Barry" at the 70th Primetime Emmy Awards on Monday, Sept. 17, 2018, at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

Henry Winkler on Springsteen, Barry and his unlikely relationship with Yorkshire

Annie Macmanus, aka Annie Mac, DJs at a Before Midnight show in Finsbury Park.

Annie Mac: 'We're serving a whole swathe of people that clubbing hasn't served'

A Normandy veteran, Eric Barley, looks at grave stones before a memorial service in Ranville War Cemetery on June 5, 2013 near Caen, France. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

D-Day documentary and Hidden Treasures of the National Trust - TV highlights

William Cooke's daughter, Betty Longbottom, and his granddaughters Pam Hooper and Anna Buehring, looking through his clipping books from he worked as a sanitary inspector in Bingley in the 1930s-1950s. Picture: Bruce Rollinson.

How a Yorkshire sanitary inspector was an environmental pioneer

Yen Leong dressed in traditional Chinese dress is pict.ured amongst the Cherry Blossom on the Harrogate Stray, Harrogate. Picture taken by Yorkshire Post Photographer Simon Hulme

Blossom in Yorkshire: Brilliant pictures show Bradford, Leeds and Harrogate in s...

Jenna Greenwood holds up a banner included in the exhibition Because I Said So.

'Because I Said So': The Yorkshire artist celebrating no-nonsense remarks

Martin Freeman in The Responder (Image: Dancing Ledge/Rekha Garton).

The Responder and Hidden Treasures of the National Trust: TV highlights

Humaira Bham, Olivia Wright and Irene Kaali. Picture: Neil Sherwood.

'We won together as a team': Meet the new 'voices of Bradford'

Status Quo in 2023.

'Something magical about it': Status Quo's Francis Rossi on their Yorkshire gigs

Matt Baker with a Wensleydale Sheep at the Great Yorkshire Show in 2022. Picture: James Hardisty.

Our Dream Farm with Matt Baker and Jamie Oliver Cooks Spring: TV highlights

Eight of the 14 shortlisted for the BBC talent search.

Shortlist unveiled for the 'voice of Bradford' ahead of City of Culture 2025

Youngster Sophie-Marie at the 20th anniversary celebrations this month. Picture: Sarah Selwood.

'You are never alone': Yorkshire autism support group celebrates 20 years

Henry Normal.

Henry Normal: 'I didn’t write a poem for about 25 years'

Eastthorpe Hall.

Yorkshire's Doctor Who star Jodie Whittaker returns to support organisations

People at the Irish Centre in Leeds celebrating their Christmas dinner in 2019. Picture: Tony Johnson.

'We hope to bring people of Irish ancestry together'