IF campaigners get their way, this may not be the case for much longer – but as it stands, the South Pennines is the only upland landscape in England not to be protected by national park or similar status.
The North York Moors bucked the trend in a disastrous grouse shooting season that saw rural businesses in other parts of the region losing an estimated £11m in revenue, according to new figures.
Business leaders in the Dales are taking the first steps to see MPs debate the issue of local bank closures following confirmation that the ‘last bank in Nidderdale’ is to close.
Schools, community groups, businesses, landowners and farmers are being encouraged to think big and get creative to showcase Yorkshire to the world with huge pieces of land art to celebrate this year’s Tour de Yorkshire.
YOUNG people are the lifeblood of any community but especially those of the Yorkshire Dales, where traditional jobs are often harder to find and affordable houses thinner on the ground.
Sheffield Council is to apologise for misleading residents over the city’s street tree-felling saga in a case a local government investigator said had “undermined trust in the effectiveness of its complaint procedures”.
Echoes of Orgreave will reverberate around South Yorkshire as this newspaper reveals that a ‘lurid’ smear formed part of the backbone of South Yorkshire Police’s controversial dealings with protesters objecting to the mass felling of street trees in Sheffield.
How did a peaceful protest about rare butterflies get wrongly linked to ‘lurid’ – but totally unsubstantiated – allegations about attempts to injure council contractors? Chris Burn reports.
Drax Power Station has begun a scheme to capture carbon dioxide from its energy generation processes, a move which could see it become the first negative emissions power station in the world.
The doors to the last bank in Pateley Bridge are set to close, with business leaders and town councillors warning it will leave ‘a hole in the community.’
They are the last word in workplace uniforms, and at around £1,000 apiece, a cut above the more familiar luminous yellow jacket with a logo sewn on the front.
A conservation project spanning five decades started by a Yorkshire academic will be able to continue after hundreds of donors raised £100,000. Chris Burn reports.
