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John Grayson examines the factors behind UKIP’s recent successes in south Yorkshire. On Friday lunchtime 23 May, as the local government results flowed into the BBC TV studio, Nigel Farage nominated Rotherham in South Yorkshire as UKIP’s...

Exclusive extracts from Rachel Reeves’ book on the first woman MP for Leeds reveal Alice Bacon as a fiercely loyal reformist Alice [Bacon], a young woman, a miner’s daughter and teacher, was elected as a member of parliament at the age of 35. The first...

Each Friday in Points North, one of the North’s leading media personalities will be giving us their take on the news covered by Prolific North over the last seven days. This week it’s the turn of Jeremy Clifford, Editor of The Yorkshire...

Teenage boys are missing out on real life adventures according to our survey of 1,000 13-18-year-olds for the National Citizen Service. In fact, 22% of boys and 18% of girls believe they had never had a real life adventure. One-third of boys claimed...

Three Dickensian death tributes Published in the Yorkshire Post 23 Dec 2011 (revised 23 December 2016) Ebenezer Scrooge was a successful banker who survived early derision to earn recognition as a champion of sound finance and a pioneer of environmentally...