Politics

Only two things prevented me from batting for Yorkshire: I was born on the wrong side of the Pennines and I was no good at cricket.

There was an eclectic mixture of speakers at the Crown Hotel in Harrogate as a full house assembled for the latest leg of the spa town's international festivals series.

New Briggate in Leeds is among 10 Yorkshire high streets that will benefit from a £95 million fund to revive historic shopping areas.

David Cameron has said a second Brexit referendum cannot be ruled out as he accused Boris Johnson and Michael Gove of effectively "trashing" the government during the 2016 campaign.

Boris Johnson purchased a “cob” loaf and English fruit during a trip to a busy marketplace, joking with one lobster seller: “We’ve got to take a few claws out of that Withdrawal Agreement."

Northern leaders have warned the “devil will be in the detail” after Boris Johnson announced plans to give more power over the railways to the North.

Boris Johnson has promised to open up negotiations with Leeds and West Yorkshire to finally end the long-running devolution deadlock, while leaving the door open for a transfer of powers to cover the entire region.

Broadcaster Steph McGovern has outlined how out of touch London was with the North in a story about her first days at the BBC.

Boris Johnson is due to speak today in front of northern business and political leaders at the Convention of the North event in Rotherham.

Political will and "transformational" levels of investment are needed to unlock the potential of the North and deliver a huge prize for the whole country, according to Yorkshire's only metro mayor.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is today urged by business leaders to commit in full to the controversial HS2 project or risk a "lost opportunity" for Yorkshire which will be felt for generations to come.

Boris Johnson’s controversial decision to suspend Parliament will be examined by the Supreme Court tomorrow. Chris Burn looks at the Week Ahead.

A leading northern metro mayor has claimed that the British railway system "all falls over the minute there is bad weather" as rail bosses admitted the summer had been "terrible" for passengers in the North.

Rural homelessness has risen 85 per cent in the last year after a “long-term failure” to provide suitable housing by successive governments.

Conservatives in the Greater London Assembly (GLA) are set to propose scrapping phase one of HS2.

Devolution in the North would let Yorkshire take more control over its response to climate change, the Liberal Democrats have claimed.