- Towns regeneration contest launched
- Lottery couple defend benefit claim
- Fire crews tackle Mayfair blaze
- Navy 'sends submarine to Falklands'
- 1,000 people expected in marches
- Search on for 'cruise-fall' Briton
- New cancer cases 'up 30% by 2030'
- House price confidence 'improves'
- Britain braced for widespread snow
- Five held in Syria embassy protest
- Court martial for WikiLeaks soldier
- Rhyming plea over library closures
- Widespread snow looms for weekend
- PM picks up shopping on way home
- Met and FBI call 'taped by hackers'
- PM accepts White House invitation
- I feel fantastic, says Robin Gibb
- Paedophile jailed over porn seizure
- Three die in Legionnaires' outbreak
- John Terry loses England captaincy
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Leeds and Yorkshire braced for a winter whiteout
Leeds was wrapping up warm today after weather experts warned: “It’s going to be all white on the night!”
£112,000 insurance shock for West Yorkshire mum
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Visitors soar at Leeds museums
Leeds has been named one of the UK’s cultural capitals after a transformation which has seen visitor numbers to its museums and galleries more than treble to a million.
‘Reopen A&E’ at Pontefract Hospital call as trust boss steps down
Calls for the A&E department at Pontefract hospital to reopen full time have been renewed in the wake of fresh turmoil at a troubled West Yorkshire health trust.
Singer Jane McDonald asks Leeds runners to brave cold
Runners will don their scarves and gloves along with their trainers for a new fundraising event at Harewood House.
Leeds fire crews back op fund for girl
Firefighters turned fundraisers to boost a schoolgirl’s hopes of one day being able to walk.
Wakefield Cathedral verger cleared of groping woman UPDATED
A verger was today found not guilty of groping a woman in a cathedral.
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Future sports stars find new home
A Doncaster-based charity and educator has teamed up with an internationally renowned football academy to give budding sport stars a place to call home.
Tanker strike suspended for talks
A planned strike by fuel tanker drivers in Yorkshire has been postponed to allow fresh talks in a bid to resolve a dispute over pay and conditions.
United stars turn teacher for a day
South Yorkshire school pupils learned lessons with a difference after Sheffield United players and coaches attended classes to raise awareness of job opportunities in sport - and encourage respect for others.
Pair murdered 'over love affair'
Two men were murdered and then dumped in a quiet Yorkshire country lane because one of them was having an affair with a married woman, a court has heard.
A 'weld' done for girl power
Two female Rotherham college students have shown true girl power in the world of welding by securing full-time jobs after their apprenticeships.
National News
Towns regeneration contest launched
The Government has launched a competition to find 12 areas to share £1 million under a drive to regenerate town centres.
Lottery couple defend benefit claim
A couple who scooped a £10.2 million lottery jackpot have defended their right to claim benefits more than six years later.
Fire crews tackle Mayfair blaze
One hundred firefighters are tackling a blaze in one of London's most exclusive streets.
Navy 'sends submarine to Falklands'
The Royal Navy is sending a nuclear submarine to the Falkland Islands amid heightened tensions between Britain and Argentina over the disputed islands, it has been reported.
1,000 people expected in marches
More than 1,000 protesters are expected to take part in marches by two opposing campaign groups.
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Walliams overcomes BGT buzzer fear
David Walliams has overcome his reluctance to buzz contestants on Britain's Got Talent - and is now happy to put them out of their misery.
Tulisa to tell life story in book
X Factor judge Tulisa Contostavlos has promised fans there is "lots to tell" after it was revealed she is releasing her autobiography later this year.
Griffin O'Neal jailed over crash
The son of actor Ryan O'Neal has been sentenced to 16 months in prison for his involvement in a drug-fuelled, head-on car crash that injured another driver.
Rape trial shock for Corrie viewers
Viewers were left stunned tonight as they saw Coronation Street's scheming Frank Foster walk free from court after he was found not guilty of raping Carla Connor.
'Upbeat' Holden set for BGT return
Amanda Holden is expected to return to Britain's Got Talent next week.
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Education: Uni softens the blow for students hit by fees rises
Susan Press looks at the latest statistics on tuition fees.
Letter: Being PM is not a popularity contest
The “Iron Lady hate brigade” who sent so many critical letters recently all suffer from a convenient memory loss.
Health: Latest exercise DVDs tested
Given up on your post-Christmas fitness regime yet? If you’ve lost motivation, don’t despair – Katie Baldwin has been test-driving the latest exercise DVDs to find out which will get you back on track.
Consumer: Fuel bill fight is hotting up
Help is at hand for people battling rising fuel bills. Aisha Iqbal reports
Education: Saving our planet for years to come
Susan Press reports on an academic initiative to find new ways for future generations to live sustainably.
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Search is on to find the finance winners
NOMINATIONS have opened for this year’s Yorkshire Rising Star Awards.
It’s the business for women
A YORKSHIRE organisation determined to help more women achieve top business jobs has vowed to expand nationally.
Banks need to lend, says TUC
BANK lending to firms outside the finance and real estate sectors must more than double, claims a new TUC report.
Customer numbers boost proves a Christmas joy
CASINO Alea in Leeds saw a 51 per cent increase in footfall in December, the company says.
YEP Letters
Letter: The victims of an unequal society
MAY I thank D Birch for drawing attention to the effect the North/South divide has on benefit capping and how this is being exploited by the Tories for political and ideological reasons rather than economic.
Letter: Better site for incinerator
I AM writing to you concerning the proposed site for the incinerator that the council is proposing at Cross Green (‘We don’t want this “dumped” on our doorstep’, YEP, January 25), on the former site of the market off Pontefract Lane.
3 commentsLetter: Decent singer, dreadful song
RICHARD Kimble may be correct, when he states in his letter to the YEP (January 25) that Etta James, who died last week at the age of 73, was a decent singer but I have always thought that the lyrics of her song I Would Rather Go Blind were dreadful.
Letter: Don’t fuel animal killers’ blook lust
COULD I please urge the YEP to stop publicising the recent sightings of dead rabbits, foxes etc hung in trees in local woodland.
Letter: Fred’s still in the money
AS, fortunately, only a small shareholder in the RBS, how delighted I am to hear that Fred “the shred” Goodwin has been stripped of his knighthood. It is a shame he cannot be stripped of his massive pension.
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