Alexandra Wood

Villagers face “major disruption” when a 300-year-old bridge closes next month for essential repairs.

People are being urged to get behind a campaign to raise £3m so a Yorkshire hospice can “help more people in a much more personal way”.

The pigeon racing season has started and for 78-year-old trainer Brian White it is a special time of year even if there are more sparrowhawks around. Alex Wood reports.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Pictures by Lorne Campbell of Guzelian.

Tributes have poured in following the death of Nicholas Hart, one of the country's leading plastic surgeons and a major founding force behind the Hessle-based international children's medical charity, the Overseas Plastic Surgery Appeal.

With a push of a button on July 15 1953, Sir John Hacking switched on the “supergrid” at Staythorpe substation in Nottinghamshire. Designed to carry electricity from coal-fired plants like Ferrybridge, Drax and Eggborough in Yorkshire, to London, and the southern counties, Manchester, Merseyside and Tyneside, it was a hugely ambitious achievement.

Campaigners have welcomed two more stretches of rivers in Yorkshire being designated official swimming spots in the largest ever rollout of sites.

A couple from North Yorkshire have been banned from keeping animals for seven years after their terrier starved to death and two other dogs were left emaciated after being deprived of food and water.

One of the UK's leading motorway service operators says plans for "significant investment" at a service station in Yorkshire could create around 50 jobs.

A mother from Leeds and a girlfriend of two Islamist terrorists have been found guilty of failing to disclose plans for a terror attack after two separate criminal trials.

At the former military museum at Fort Paull, near Hull, a group of volunteers, mainly ex RAF and Army, are beavering away to dismantle the world’s last Beverley Blackburn, ahead of a permanent move north.