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since 2025 › Jan › 20 (Mon) @ 06:46 UTC

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17 hours ago

‘A natural storyteller’: Jane Gardam remembered by Tessa Hadley

found 2025 › May › 02 (Fri) @ 10:49 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

The author of Late in the Day pays tribute to the exuberantly inventive Yorkshire-born novelist who has died aged 96

Jane Gardam, who has died aged 96, was such an exuberant, inventive writer. It’s th…

21 days ago

NHS anaesthetist who 'played God' and almost killed shop owner by injecting him with powerful paralysing drug in 'motiveless' attack is jailed for 15 years

found 2025 › Apr › 11 (Fri) @ 16:45 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Gary Lewis, 65, collapsed to the floor in Northallerton, North Yorkshire, on July 2 last year after Darren Harris, 58, plunged a a syringe loaded with a muscle-paralysing drug into his thigh.

24 days ago

Major supermarket announces it will shut 17 stores in days

found 2025 › Apr › 08 (Tue) @ 16:50 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

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Of those set to be shuttered, 16 will be closed on Wednesday 16 April, with one branch in North Yorkshire, to be closed on 14 May.

25 days ago

Twisted killer who refuses to reveal where he hid teenage girl's body becomes one of first murderers denied parole under Helen's Law

found 2025 › Apr › 08 (Tue) @ 00:35 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Twisted David Hodgson, 47, was convicted of murdering 19-year-old Jenny Nicholl, when she disappeared without trace after leaving her home in Richmond, North Yorkshire in 2005.

27 days ago

The quaint market town rocked by a 'drugs crisis': How gangs are flooding crack cocaine and heroin on to the streets of Keighley... and locals are left to pick up the pieces

found 2025 › Apr › 05 (Sat) @ 09:20 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

On the face of it, Keighley is a picture postcard market town, just as attractive as historic Skipton, a few miles down the road across the North Yorkshire border.

29 days ago

Speedboat driver who hit and killed British millionairess with his propeller as she swam off Greek island avoids prison

found 2025 › Apr › 03 (Thu) @ 12:20 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Claire Glatman, 60, from North Yorkshire, was fatally struck by the propellors of the motorboat 20 metres off the shoreline of Corfu in August 2020.

30 days ago

British taxpayers subsidised power firm Drax to the tune of £869million last year - the equivalent of £2m a day - despite concerns about pollution and the cost of burning imported woody biomass, thinktank report claims

found 2025 › Apr › 03 (Thu) @ 00:50 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

The controversial Drax wood-burning plant in North Yorkshire has received billions of pounds from the Government in recent years due to imported biomass being treated as renewable fuel.

34 days ago

What links Hound Tor, Wharram Percy and Gainsthorpe? The Saturday quiz

found 2025 › Mar › 29 (Sat) @ 08:31 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

From Brazilian wandering and giant huntsman to Margaret, Maid of Norway and Richard II, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz

1 Which continent has the highest ratio of coastline to total area?
2 …

38 days ago

Iron age hoard found in North Yorkshire could change Britain’s history

found 2025 › Mar › 25 (Tue) @ 07:00 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

More than 800 objects unearthed near Melsonby show the north was ‘definitely not a backwater’ 2,000 years ago

One of the biggest and most important iron age hoards ever found in the UK has been reveal…

Huge Iron Age hoard is discovered in North Yorkshire: Archaeologists uncover over 800 ancient cauldrons, spears, chariots and horse harnesses thought to be worth £254,000

found 2025 › Mar › 25 (Tue) @ 07:00 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

A discovery in rural North Yorkshire provides an archaeological time capsule from around 2,000 years ago - and experts say the find is 'exceptional' for Europe.

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