Around 400 million people would be exposed to coastal flooding every year by the end of the century if Greenland continues to lose ice at its current rate, Yorkshire scientists have warned.
Councillors in Harrogate will next week be asked to confirm the council’s commitment to taking in more than 50 refugees as part of a Government-led resettlement scheme.
An amatuer rugby player who drowned in a pool hours after arriving in Ibiza could have been asleep or passed out before falling into the pool, a coroner has said.
So-called ‘dark tourism’ sites (for example, the sites of tragedies) are drawing in more and more visitors each year, with holidaymakers looking to learn more about the more mysterious or even harrowing parts of history.
In a year that will see Harrogate taking centre stage for the ‘Olympics of cycling,’ the UCI Road World Championships, our town has welcomed another major global event for the tourism industry this week.
Ex-businessman Tim Brear drew on his military background to travel to Mozambique so he could help the victims of a devastating cyclone. Chris Burn reports.
The Star Wars actor Peter Mayhew has been remembered as a “kind and gentle man” and the “gentlest of giants” by his co-stars Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill following his death aged 74.
