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It had lost its school, post office and chapel, but Lucy Oates finds how one Yorkshire village regained its community spirit thanks to a neglected area of meadow.

They are visible reminders of an earlier age. Roger Protz tells Phil Penfold why he took a tour of Britain via its historic coaching inns.

Tom Marsh sometimes goes by another name. Owing to his choice of headwear when he leads groups on photographic walks around the county, he has become known as the Flat Capped Photographer and the nickname also reflects his love of the county where he was born and bred. He’s been photographing the place for years, but having just completed an 18-month project to capture every square kilometre of the Yorkshire Dales National Park, he now knows it even better.

If you see a man with a pan on top of a mountain it could be Paul Robinson. Sharon Dale meets the Yorkshire Gourmet.

Inspired by Swallows and Amazons, Lucy Oates meet the couple who have turned a corner of their Yorkshire farm into a massive adventure playground.

Seventy-year-old Lin Sunderland calls herself the Lighthouse Witch. Helen Leavey travels to Spurn Point to meet one of the volunteers who are a beacon of hope for seafarers.

From gun-obsessed Ukrainians to a Filipino mother desperate for a daughter-in-law, Alfred Hickling on the unexpected joys of owning a walking tour company.

Who said there’s no such thing as a money tree? Sarah Freeman meets a kinetic artist building one right now in his Huddersfield studio.

Like dominoes and darts, pigeon racing is a Great British pastime. But with fanciers claiming the historic sport is under threat Sarah Freeman finds feathers are flying. Pictures by Bruce Rollinson.

Historian and author JPG “Sam” Taylor was a teacher for almost half a century. Educated at Cambridge and now nearly 90, he is currently researching material for a new book, based on family diaries.

Desperate for some za’atar or kaffir lime leaves? Cult Saltaire chef and baker Jez Belston takes Joan Ransley on an epicurean tour of his favourite Bradford food shops.

As Northern Broadsides marks its 25th anniversary, Nick Ahad takes a walk down memory lane with founder Barrie Rutter and finds the future is far from certain.

Railways, chocolate and the Vikings are already covered, but now York is set to welcome a new museum that will be a shrine to the oddball. Sarah Freeman reports.

Leeds-born Khadijah Ibrahiim is artistic director of Sema Roots Theatre and executive director of Voices of a New Generation youth slam festival. She is also creative associate of Ode to Leeds at the West Yorkshire Playhouse.

Abandoned as a baby, Carol Cavendish grew up escaping through fairytales. Now she tells Lucy Oates how she has built her own land of make-believe in North Yorkshire.

Sheffield-born garden designer Tracy Foster has been chosen to create the Welcome to Yorkshire plot at the this year’s Chelsea Flower Show.

Dave Zdanowicz picked up a camera only four years ago, but his latest collection shows the Yorkshire coast in new light.

Politics may never have been more unpredictable. Bad news for the rest of us, perhaps, but good news for satirist Rory Bremner. He talks to Yvette Huddleston.

The Processed Pea is one of the oldest folk clubs in Britain. Sharon Dale reports on the why the music plays on and sew-on patches are back.