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One freezing January night nearly five years ago, Laura McClure found herself back onstage with her husband Jon and their band Reverend and The Makers just two months after giving birth to the couple’s first son.

Thousands of desperate families have been helped by a Yorkshire ‘baby bank’ set up by two sisters after they heard of new mothers being forced into crime. Chris Burn reports.

Former Leeds United legend Vinnie Jones broke down in tears in his first TV appearance since the death of his wife Tanya, as he revealed how she told him not to grieve for her in a letter.

York Minster has appointed a former cancer research scientist as its new Canon Precentor.

A self-confessed gym addict from Leeds has been giving the devastating news that she has incurable cancer, after unknowingly climbing Mount Snowdon with a collapsed spine.

It was over in a heartbeat, and it was doubtful that anyone in church even noticed it.

What’s your first Yorkshire memory? We moved to Yorkshire when I was five and many of my first memories are domestic ones. The house we bought in Rothwell had a lovely big back garden. We’d never had anything like it before, but it was really overgrown and wild because it had been empty for over a year. It felt like a jungle to me, it was very exciting to 
explore. One of the first things we did as a family was to take a trip to the Yorkshire coast. I remember sitting in the back of 
the car and my dad saying he could see the sea, and me and my two older brothers craning our necks to see it too, full of excitement.

Highly regarded sheepdog handler Harry Hutchinson watches his Border collies dash across the desolate fellside of Baugh Fell through the driving rain.

Gerald Wilkinson, who has died after a short illness, was a long-serving Wetherby and Leeds councillor.