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Helen is pictured hedge trimming around the grave of Sidney William Cairns with Nicola Lees cutting the grass Picture taken by Yorkshire Post Photographer Simon Hulme

Tribute to airman who died when his Halifax bomber crashed in Yorkshire

The Bronte birthplace cottage in Market Street, Thornton, Bradford. Image Bruce Rollinson

Bronte Birthplace: Open day at Bradford home where literary sisters were born

Sailing is an expensive sport

Sailing club launches 'Pay as You Can' membership to break down barriers

Owner Keith Wildman, with his partner Pullmayra Bazilio Dos Santos. Picture By Yorkshire Post Photographer, James Hardisty

The record shop and pub in Yorkshire which encourages 'grazing with music'

Lord David Blunkett.

How former MP David Blunkett become the first in his family to go to university

The event is organised by the West Yorkshire group of the National Vintage Tractor and Engine Club (NVTEC), which serves an area covering the former West Riding.The third Brian Chester Road Run around villages near Ripon organised by the West Yorkshire group of the National Vintage Tractor and Engine Club (NVTEC) in memory of local farmer, founding Tractor Fest member and former NVTEC chairman Brian Chester in anticipation of Tractor Fest at Newby Hall in June. 13th April 2024Picture Jonathan Gawthorpe

The Brian Chester Road Run: Incredible pictures

Inside the Bronte BirthplaceAll credit Mark Davis Photography

Your chance to see inside birthplace of famed Brontë sisters for the first time

British Wool sheep shearing courses.

Sheep shearing courses launch: 'It's like a dance - all about the footwork'

The church is located in the grounds of Newby Hall at Skelton-on-Ure

Campaigners bid to breathe life into historic Yorkshire estate church

Wentworth Woodhouse heads gardener Scott Jamieson in the restored Camellia House on the estate, photographed by Tony Johnson for The Yorkshire Post. 22nd March 2024

Wentworth Woodhouse: Transforming a near derelict ruin into a global tea house

Bradford 2025: How City of Culture could propel district to a global stage

First established in 1519 the Kiplingcotes Derby is run on the third Thursday in March along roadside verges in the small hamlet near Market Weighton in the East Riding.Julie Campbell aboard Merlin winner of the 505th Kiplingcotes Derby run on the Yorkshire Wolds near Market Weighton, the oldest horse race the world, photographed by Tony Johnson for The Yorkshire Post. 21th March 2024

Kiplingcotes Derby: Best pictures from famous race in its 505th year

Volunteers get ready to reopen the Scarborough Fair Collection. Pictured Graham Taylor.Picture Jonathan Gawthorpe

Behind the scenes at the Scarborough Fair Collection as it reopens for summer

Daisy Lyons has launched new ghost tours exploring the stories of the old market town Otley. Picture taken by Yorkshire Post Photographer Simon Hulme

New ghost tour to reveal dark history from Yorkshire market town's past

People suffering from 'red flag' bowel cancer symptoms in South Yorkshire could soon be fast-tracked to hospital for diagnostic tests without the need to see a GP.

Study could speed up access to bowel cancer tests in South Yorkshire

Protesters outside the Houses of Parliament as MPs voted on the Assisted Dying Bill in 2015.

Assisted dying: 30 people from Yorkshire travelled to Dignitas, report suggests

A new exhibition at the Scarborough Maritime Heritage Centre entitled 'Women at Sea'Pictured Lindy Rowley, who started the museum 20 years ago.Picture Jonathan Gawthorpe

Saluting Yorkshire's pioneering women who sailed at sea with new exhibition

Bradford University archivist Julie Parry with prototype sketches of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament's (CND) iconic peace symbol made in 1958 by artist Gerald Holtom. The drawings were later bequeathed by his widow to the Commonweal (CORR) Collection, a peace-themed library of more than 4,000 books within the JB Priestley Library at Bradford University, whose Peace Studies department celebrates its 50th anniversary this year.Writing in the New Statesman on 2 November 1957, Bradford-born Priestley argued Britain should renounce nuclear weapons. The article generated a huge response, culminating in the launch of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament at a mass meeting in Central Hall Westminster on 17 February 1957. Image: Asadour Guzelian

How sketches in Bradford University archives came to create the peace sign

Christa Ackroyd, journalist and former broadcaster and committee member of the Bronte Birthplace in Thornton, Bradford, holding a copy of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë whilst visiting John Atkinson Fine & Rare Books on Royal Parade, Harrogate.Picture By Yorkshire Post Photographer, James Hardisty.

Antique books to bring tales of the past, present and future at book fair

Police outside the Beckside branch of Legacy Independent Funeral Directors in Hull after after reports of "concern for care of the deceased". Police cordoned off three branches of the funeral director in Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire. Picture date: Saturday March 9, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story POLICE Funeral. Photo credit should read: Danny Lawson/PA Wire

Bodies moved from funeral parlours as police probe 'care of deceased'

Eva Metzger.

Remarkable life of young woman who fled Nazis discovered in old box

Letty is the only female gritter driver in the country. Picture taken by Yorkshire Post Photographer Simon Hulme

Meet the Yorkshire showjumper who also helps grit the county's roads

One of the toads helped to safety by volunteers with Wildlife Friendly Otley

Toad patrol set up in Otley to help toads cross the road to spawn

Chief Executive Nicky Chance-Thompson with events programme manager Aaron Casserly Stewart from The Piece Hall Trust. Image: Simon Hulme

How The Piece Hall is inspiring creative futures with music masterclasses

River Swale in North Yorkshire

Penalties of £1.7m paid to 'make amends' for environmental offences in Yorkshire

Climate Campaign. Image: AngusMurray

GPs back calls for more trees to help ease NHS pressures

Sewerby Hall and Gardens have again teamed up with local award-winning wildlife photographer Steve Race to offer aspiring photographers an exclusive day of Wildlife Photography at Sewerby Hall and Gardens and on site at RSPB Bempton Cliffs in 2024. Steve Race © Yorkshire Coast Nature

Exploring true life through a lens with wildlife photography days in Yorkshire

Long Course Weekend’s founder and chief executive, Matthew Evans, North Yorkshire Council’s executive member for open to business, Cllr Derek Bastiman, Masham, Parish Council vice-chair, Ian Johnson, and Flo Grainger, owner of the Old Station Caravan Park, pictured in Masham. Image NYC

Triathlon weekend could 'drive £2m to North Yorkshire's tourism economy'

HS2

Rishi Sunak: Transport funding for Yorkshire will 'benefit more people than HS2'

English poet Philip Larkin (1922 - 1985) with his muse and mistress Monica Jones at the memorial service for Poet Laureate Sir John Betjeman at Westminster Abbey, London, 29th June 1984. (Photo by Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

New home for Larkin's letters from Hull alongside Underground poetry archive

Ukrainian refugee Viktoriia Prysiazhna who fled Odesa marks the second anniversary of the war with Russia among paper angels at the Ukrainian Community Centre in Bradford representing the children killed during the conflict. Photographed for The Yorkshire Post by Tony Johnson.

Ukraine War: For families settled in Yorkshire life will never be the same

Penistone Paramount Cinema, Penistone. Manager Brian Barnsley pictured at the Cinema Picture taken by Yorkshire Post Photographer Simon Hulme

The Yorkshire cinema where you can still buy ice cream during an intermission

The River Wharfe features in a new picture-led book about Britain's waterways

New book featuring Yorkshire river shows love affair with Britain's waterways

Brimham Rocks under the stars. Picture Bruce Rollinson

Dark Skies Festival: From stargazing to constellation trails and caving

Ugly Sisters Dan Smith and Paul Blakeley in rehearsals for Cinderella for the 75th anniversary of the Mirfield Team Parish Pantomime at St Mary's Parish Hall photographed for The Yorkshire Post by Tony Johnson.
Sir Patrick Stewart started treading the boards with the company before his acting career took him to Hollywood. 14th January 2024

Mirfield pantomime: How Patrick Stewart has inspired young generation

Mark Vesey

Calls for urgent action over Tinnitus support as devastating impact revealed

harbour seals pictured at Teesmouth

Seal hospital set up in old lifeboat station along the Tees Estuary

A volunteer at Tuel Lane Lock on the Rochdale Canal

Search for new lock keeper or swing bridge operator to help on Yorkshire canals

Lisa Dobbs set up Wee Woolly Wonderfuls when her son was born, taking a step back from her career as a mortgage advisor to create crochet kits part time. It has boomed - more than doubling its turnover in lockdown and with no sign of slowing since it was picked up by Amazon Handmade. Picture Bruce Rollinson

How one mum's hobby turned to business success with cute crochet kits

Sheffield based artist Maud Haya-Baviera, pictured at Graves Gallery, Sheffield. Picture taken by Yorkshire Post Photographer Simon Hulme 24th January 2024

Holocaust Memorial Day: Artists keep alive the stories of survivors in the North

Holocaust survivor Martin Kapel. Photo by John Steel Photography, courtesy of Holocaust Centre North

Holocaust Memorial Day: Leeds' survivor recalls the night the Nazis came for him

Bradford 2025 Youth Panel. Image Credit Nathan McGill

Bradford 2025: City of Culture legacy to resonate for 'generations to come'

Leeds University have a new exhibition Part of the Furniture: The Library of John Bedford which runs in Treasures of the Brotherton until 21st December. Pictured Dr Rachel Eckersley, exhibition co-curator / Rare Book Specialist (John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History), Special Collections and Galleries, Leeds University Library.
looking at a first edition of The Grammar of Ornament by Owen Jones (1856) part of the John Bedford Collection. Picture By Yorkshire Post Photographer, James Hardisty.

Hidden world of inventions uncovered in private book collection

New Show Director Rachel Coates who will take over after this year's GYS

Rachel Coates confirmed as Great Yorkshire Show's first female director

Rowland Winn, a motoring pioneer and founding member of the Automobile Association, bought the U1 number plate used by Lord Mayors of Leeds. Mr Winn is shown here in his stripped down Model T Ford, which he drove on Saltburn pier in 1911. Photographer unknown.

Lord Mayor looks to sell personalised plate to plug a hole in council budgets

The Old Queens Head -Sheffield's oldest domestic building circa 1510-1530 © Sheffield City Archives and Local Studies Library. All rights reserved

Sheffield Heritage Fair to be held this weekend