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THERESA May will, against the odds, reach one landmark next week. By Thursday, she will have become the 35th longest-serving premier, overtaking one Gordon Brown who survived in 10 Downing Street for two years and 319 days.

As if she hasn’t got enough trouble, Theresa May has just infuriated military veterans as well.

THIS NEWSPAPER made a promise to its readers more than three years ago that no favour would be given to either the remain nor the leave cause ahead of the referendum afforded to the British public regarding membership of the European Union on 23rd June, 2016.

It might be all over for Theresa May’s time in office but not for the more than 60 agricultural events that take place in Yorkshire each year - those shows must go on.

I haven’t made plans for mid-August yet, but I do know that they won’t involve going anywhere near north Leeds. It seems unlikely I would be able to get there even if I had to.

There are only two days left to apply for an exciting role at Channel 4’s new headquarters in Leeds.

When the UK was facing extremely uncertain times towards the end of the Second World War, Winston Churchill’s government founded the Council of Industrial Design.

The deregulation of bus services outside London in the 1980s was meant to address the steady decline in bus use since the 1950s and bring in a new era of bus travel.

The votes have been cast and the results won’t be known until Sunday, but already one thing is crystal clear about this election – it has been a resounding victory for Nigel Farage and the Brexit Party.

One of the greatest tributes that can be paid to children’s book author and illustrator Judith Kerr, who has died at the age of 95, is the way her work was enjoyed down the generations.

The Government’s continuing inaction on the country’s social care funding crisis – and its repeated delays to the publication of a strategy intended to tackle the issue – has caused consternation for those working in the sector and the families that have direct experience of the current problems besetting the system.

When Theresa May told Conservative MPs in March that she was willing to resign as Prime Minister earlier than she intended so the country could be led by someone else in the next phase of Brexit negotiations, she made clear her determination to pass her Withdrawal Agreement Bill in Parliament before her departure.

This May, elections seem to have come along with the frequency of Bank Holidays. Can it really only be three weeks since we weighed up our options in the local council polls?

It’s not my intention to shock or scandalise anyone by what I’m about to say, being a priest, and I’m certainly not for a moment suggesting that we shouldn’t support charities and charitable causes, but…

We stand at the edge of great change. Whatever your views on Brexit, there is no doubt that leaving the European Union will bring both challenges and opportunities. And that change will significantly impact upon those regions, including here in Yorkshire, which have benefited the most from European funding.

The benefits that parks and green spaces bring to communities have been documented time and again.

There have been many unexpected consequences from the country’s vote to leave the European Union back in 2016 - and now a boost in UK manufacturing output helping our region’s firms is among them in the short-term at least.

IT was perhaps the cruellest of ironies that as Theresa May stood at the Dispatch Box extolling the virtues of leadership just hours after her Government enacted one of the most shameful derelictions of leadership seen in recent times.

Never in the field of human conflict has so much drivel been written about so little of consequence. I refer to tomorrow’s European elections which most of us do not want and none of us needs.