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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.

Boris Johnson wants to relocate the House of Lords to a development in York that could grow the city's economic output by as much as 20 per cent.

THE COUNTRY’s longest running and biggest show of its kind featuring more than 2,500 small animals attracted huge audiences when it was staged in Yorkshire.

There is a rich history to Ripon Cathedral, in a tale founded on the fortunes of an English saint and to this day housing the nation's oldest known place of worship.

Whatever you think about the Victorians, they certainly knew how to build a decent mill.

The author of perhaps the first feminist novel in the English language would have enjoyed letting her hair down at her birthday party yesterday, its organisers thought.

When the rains had gone in Langthwaite – one of the few settlements in Arkengarthdale and a few miles north of Reeth – nothing was left of the bar Rowena Hutchinson had run, and her mother before her, for the last half-century.

As Bradford prepares to bid to become City of Culture in 2025, Laura Reid explores how the city has developed and its hopes for the future.

Ten years ago, Barnsley's night-time economy reached 'rock bottom'.

Several scenes from Sky Atlantic's new disaster thriller Cobra were shot in Yorkshire.

A Times columnist has likened Halifax to Venice in a comment piece for the newspaper.

Actress Dame Helen Mirren has been given free membership of Bradford Civic Society after her visit to the city.

Like Dracula before them, the winged beasts of the Yorkshire coast may find themselves having to succumb to the sun.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge held their first official engagement of the year yesterday when they visited Bradford.

Oscar-winning actress Dame Helen Mirren has been seen at a second Bradford location on the shoot for her new film The Duke.

A descendant of a locomotive pioneer has called on rail bosses to sort out a shabby plaque marking the building of a famous viaduct.