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A Yorkshire visitor attraction has been shortlisted in the Garden of the Year category for the BBC Countryfile Magazine Awards 2020.

Transport secretary Grant Shapps has promised £500million of funding to go towards reconnecting communities that lost their rail links in the 1960s.

An anonymous donor has gifted a York church almost £6million to go towards essential repairs.

Sheffield pals Ian Theasby and Henry Firth’s ideas for tasty vegan meals are a big hit, with 26 million watching their YouTube channel and their books selling well. Now they have their own ITV cookery show. Catherine Scott reports.

Lilian Black hands me a leaflet that bears a photograph of her late father, Eugene, on its front.

After almost 20 years Whitby’s iconic East Pier has finally got its bridge back.

A letter sent to The Guardian has referred to York as a 'chocolate box-lid town' which would not offer a significant departure from the House of Lords' current environs.

Boris Johnson and his Government reportedly want to relocate the House of Lords to a development in York. And if it goes ahead, it would not be the first time in York’s history that it has been a seat of power.

TO PLACE a value on Yorkshire’s heritage of £2bn a year actually does a disservice to the county’s historic buildings from York Minster to Fountains Abbey or the recently refurbished Piece Hall in Halifax to give three examples.

A distinctive legacy of York's railway heritage will be protected from adverse development after being listed by Historic England.

Residents of Skipsea have accepted the inevitable - their homes will fall into the sea.

IT WAS a visit to the cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris which inspired a blind photographer to take pictures of places of worship.

The British Rail project manager who was appointed to try to close Yorkshire's most scenic rail route has died.

It was water that, to use the words of poet Simon Armitage, sculpted the valleys of the Pennine region and was the power behind its industries.

“Oh my darling, oh my darling. Oh my darling, Clementine...” It’s a tune familiar to many but the traditional American folk song is perhaps not the first piece of music you’d expect to hear at the heart of a university campus - and a far cry from the records typically played at student union club nights.