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ANDY Burnham yesterday pledged to give control back to communities after he was crowned unopposed as Labour’s leader just weeks after his spectacular return to Westminster following the Makerfield by-election. It makes him the seventh...
A new photograph of the Queen was released to mark her 79th birthday yesterday. The image, which shows Camilla in a blue dress and sporting a brooch presented by Queen Elizabeth II, was taken in the State Drawing Room of Hillsborough...
THE architects redeveloping Sheffield’s Crucible Theatre to help secure the long-term future of the World Snooker Championship have shown councillors what their design would look like. The £45m scheme would see the capacity of the main...
A MAN widely regarded as one of the finest cricketers in history has died, aged 89. Barbados-born Sir Garfield Sobers played for the West Indies for 20 years, making both his first and last Test appearances in 1954 and 1974 respectively...
FOR those walking in the countryside around Rievaulx, a glimpse of the village’s Terrace might bring to mind something from a Jane Austen novel. It was created in the 1750s for Thomas Duncombe II for views of the ruins of Rievaulx Abbey.
BURBERRY has said its turnaround strategy is working, on the back of growth in North America and China, but spending in Europe is under pressure amid the conflict in the Middle East. CEO Joshua Schulman said he was pleased with the firm’s...
A MAN has been jailed after a road-rage attack near Skipton in which an 82-year-old grandfather suffered life-changing injuries. Lee Symonds, 42, punched John Knowles and slammed his head in a car door after trying to barge him off the road.
IT is “striking” that prisons are legally required to have libraries but schools are not, MPs have said as they urged the Government to put school libraries on a statutory footing. The recommendation is one of a raft of suggestions put...
