John Healey

HS2 's Yorkshire leg was scrapped in 2021

Labour calls for end to HS2 land uncertainty in South Yorkshire

Sarah Nowell, Chair of the Manvers Residents Association. Picture By Yorkshire Post Photographer, James Hardisty.

The Yorkshire community that came together to remember without a war memorial

Labour shadow defence secretary John Healey speaks at the Institute of Directors, hosted by RUSI in London.

Labour will renew nation's moral contract with our armed forces - John Healey

Alexander Stafford, MP for Rother Valley. Picture by London Portrait Photoqrapher-DAV

Afghan refugees given deadline to move out of hotels or 'face eviction'

Shadow Defence Secretary John Healey

Yorkshire MoD accomodation attacked by Labour as unfit for serving personnel

The Boundary Commission for England has proposed changing 50 of the 54 constituencies in Yorkshire and the Humber

Boundary changes divide opinion as some Yorkshire MPs object

Doncaster Sheffield Airport

Mayor Ros Jones says Minister is 'washing hands' of Doncaster Sheffield Airport

Shadow defence secretary John Healey

Yorkshire MP meets with Ukrainian officials to discuss threat of invasion

Boris Johnson's Conservative Party won a raft of seats in former Labour strongholds in the 2019 General Election - but new polling suggests the Tories are on course to lose many of them at the next GE.

Yorkshire's 'Red Wall' seats poised to return to Labour, polling claims

The debate was led by Hull MP Emma Hardy

'Incomprehensible' £3m cut to face-to-face debt advice services 'risks lives'

People queue for fuel at a petrol station in Barton, Cambridgeshire, during the national fuel crisis

Fuel crisis: Government's decision to bring in Army is 'an admission of failure'

Michael Gove is being urged to visit Barnsley after being handed responsibility for levelling up.

Why Barnsley is key to Michael Gove’s levelling up plan – Jayne Dowle

Cody Jones says puppies Major and Dexter started displaying parvovirus symptoms shortly after being bought from the Barnsley-based dog breeder Romany Road Dalmatians

Yorkshire dog breeder 'under active investigation' by council

The documents are said to contain details about HMS Defender and the military (Photo: Getty Images)

Sensitive Ministry of Defence documents found by member of public at a bus stop

Newly elected Liberal Democrat MP for Chesham and Amersham, Sarah Green is welcomed to the House of Commons by party leader, Sir Ed Davey in Westminster

The only thing neglected south of Rotherham is taste – David Behrens

Education should be integral to Boris Johnson's levelling up strategy - but where's the evidence? Columnist Jayne Dowle poses the question.

Levelling up must mean equality for all; now get on with it – Jayne Dowle

The birds usually complete the 500-mile trip in just a few hours, returning home on the same day they are released

Calls for Brexit rules stopping pigeon racing across the Channel to be changed

Whitby was preferred for Towns Fund cash despite being more affluent than the Dearne Valley

Wentworth and Dearne MP asks why constituency is lower priority for levelling up

A miner walks to the showers after his last shift as UK deep coal mining comes to an end in 2015 at Kellingley Colliery. Image: Bruce Rollinson.

Damning report reveals government pocketed £4bn from miners’ pensions so far

Prime Minister Boris Johnson speaks during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons, London. Photo: PA

Boris Johnson admits concern over Whitehall 'boundaries'

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer pictured recently in Doncaster

Yorkshire councillor quits Labour in protest at Keir Starmer's leadership
A Labour councillor in South Yorkshire has resigned from the party in protest at Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership.

Boris Johnson has been accused of betraying former miners.

Boris Johnson has broken his promise to Yorkshire’s retired miners: John Healey

The Pfizer vaccine

450 doses of Covid-19 vaccine wasted after fridge was accidentally turned off

The UK will invest an extra £16.5bn in military defence spending - here's why

Wentworth and Dearne MP John Healey. Photo: JPI Media

Flooding cash given to South Yorkshire 'wholly inadequate'

Barnsley East MP Stephanie Peacock. Photo: PA

Yorkshire MP calls to for abolishment of 'appaling' health and safety watchdog

Labour MP for Wentworth and Dearne John Healey. Photo: JPI Media

MP fears funding cuts led safety inspectors not visiting Yorkshire food factory

Dave Baxter, 55, died from Covid-19 and worked at a meat factory in Barnsley

Health and Safety Executive slammed after death of Barnsley meat factory worker ...

Barnsley East MP Steph Peacock. Photo: JPI Media

Fears coronavirus could mask miners' deaths caused by coal dust inhalation

Government rough sleeping figures are understated according to a BBC report (Getty Images)

Levels of homelessness in the UK are actually five times higher than official re...

Labour MP for Wentworth and Dearne and Shadow Housing Secretary John Healey. Photo: JPI Media

Money earmarked for Yorkshire councils to tackle rogue landlords dubbed 'puny' b...

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. Photo: PA

Grassroot fears over Labour's chances in Yorkshire in December poll
Grassroots activists for Labour in Yorkshire are predicting the party could lose up to 10 seats in the region, after a wide-ranging poll earlier this week seemed to confirm their fears.

John Healey launches the Labour party manifesto for Yorkshire and the Humber at Crookes Working Mens Club in Sheffield. Photo: JPI Media

'Yorkshire Labour manifesto will help win over seats which could go to the Torie...

John Healey, Labour candidate for Wentworth and Dearne. Picture: Tony Johnson.

New factories announced by Labour in manifesto specifically for Yorkshire

Bank customers use a cash machine. A committee of MPs has called for Minister to force banks to keep a branch open in every UK town.

Force banks to keep a branch open in every UK town, MPs urge government

A rough sleeper

Government pledges to end rough sleeping by 2027 with new homelessness strategy

The Grenfell Tower tragedy took place last June.

The Yorkshire Post says: A year of dither after Grenfell Tower fire. Ministers m...

Grenfell Tower inquiry: 'Race to the bottom' led to failures in building safety

Not enough social rent homes are being built in Yorkshire.

Yorkshire's councils build just 430 social rent homes in a year as families lang...

John Healey

John Healey interview: '˜Home is where we need to feel safe... taking that away ...

How HS2 could look

MPs to press for M18 station to serve HS2 line

John Healey

Social homes pledge comes under fire

Barnsley MP Michael Dugher is stepping down.

YP Comment: Dugher joins Labour exodus. Another one bites the dust

Houses of Parliament

Parliament expected to back PM's bid for snap election

Lloyds Bank is the latest to come under fire for branch closures.

YP Letters: Hold banks to account over the closure of local branches

Banking is changing

Mark Casci: Why we must accept branch closures as a modern reality

YP Comment: Making the most of libraries

John Healey

YP Comment: Time to challenge closure plans

Bnaks like HSBC have been accused of betraying local communities.

John Healey: Time for new checks and balances over bank branch closures

Jon Platt speaks to the media outside the Supreme Court in London, where he lost a court battle over taking his daughter on holiday to Disney World during school term-time.

YP Comment: Legal lesson on school holidays '“ education must take precedence

Gavin Barwell MP

Green belt pledge as minister lifts block on Bradford housing plan

Shadow Housing Secretary John Healey, the Wentworth and Dearne MP

Housing benefit cut defended as Yorkshire MP brands change 'cruel'

John Healey MP

Levels of home ownership falling

Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn

Jeremy Corbyn calls for '˜fair' and '˜reasonable' immigration rules

Thousands of Yorkshire families are spending more than a third of their income on mortgage payments.

Figures reveal scale of Yorkshire households at risk from rates increase

Wentworth and Dearne MP John Healey

Healey promises Labour would end rough sleeping

Ed Cox, director of IPPR North

Establishment must stop '˜sneering' at Northern voters, think tank warns

Wentworth Woodhouse

Autumn Statement: A Â£7.6m lifeline for a Yorkshire stately home

The Redfern Review is being heralded as the first 'major' review in over 10 years

Landmark housing review calls for a crack-down on short-termism

The former SSI Steelworks in Redcar.

Prime Minister misses '˜huge opportunity' to stand up for UK steel