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New £1bn trains signal bigger plans ahead for TransPennine rail network

A £1 billion order for 29 new battery-electric trains has been announced for the TransPennine Express network, with Hull and East Yorkshire's mayor hailing the region's inclusion in the investment.

September 14, 2026Hull, Leeds, Scarborough, York

Business Featured Yorkshire

Yorkshire Mafia’s Leeds Business Social returns to The Banksia this month

Yorkshire Mafia's next Leeds Business Social takes place at The Banksia, Hotel Indigo, on Thursday 24 September, as founder Geoff Shepherd sets out ambitions to significantly grow the organisation's membership through 2026.

September 15, 2026Leeds

Featured Life West Yorkshire

Lotherton unveils new Spellbound Halloween trail for half term

Lotherton launches 'Spellbound', a new Halloween trail where families help ten witches mend a broken spell across the estate, running from 24 October to 1 November alongside the return of Once Upon a Nightmare.

September 15, 2026

Featured History West Yorkshire

Volunteer archaeologists uncover lost building’s foundations at Temple Newsam

Volunteers from South Leeds Archaeology have uncovered the 280-year-old foundations of a mystery building at Temple Newsam, alongside finds spanning thousands of years of the estate's history.

September 15, 2026Leeds

Featured Music West Yorkshire

Leeds Conservatoire’s jazz department shortlisted for Parliamentary Jazz Award

Leeds Conservatoire's Jazz department has been shortlisted for the 2026 Parliamentary Jazz Education Award, alongside graduate Olivia Cuttill and long-time collaborator Nikki Iles, both up for individual honours.

September 15, 2026Leeds

Featured Society Yorkshire

Yorkshire’s Blue Badge Tourist Guide training returns after 12-year break

Official Blue Badge Tourist Guide training has returned to Yorkshire for the first time since 2014, with organisers seeking storytellers, local history enthusiasts and career-changers to train as the region's next professional tour guides.

September 14, 2026

East Yorkshire Featured Wellbeing

Hull Mayor confirms funding certainty as new community health model launches trial

Mayor Luke Campbell has confirmed continued funding for community organisations until March 2027, as Hull and East Yorkshire begins testing a new Neighbourhood Health and Prosperity model in East Hull and Bridlington this autumn.

September 14, 2026Bridlington, Hull

Business Featured North Yorkshire

Planning approved for £2bn York Central regeneration scheme’s first phase

The first phase of York Central, one of the UK's largest regeneration schemes, has been granted planning approval, paving the way for over 1,000 new homes, a hotel, a new station entrance and thousands of jobs.

September 14, 2026York

Crime Featured Yorkshire

From hare coursing to tractor heists: inside Yorkshire’s rural crime fight

Police forces across South Yorkshire, Humberside and North Yorkshire have marked National Rural Crime Week of Action, highlighting funding schemes, seasonal risks to farmers, and a rural crime picture officers say is increasingly linked to organised crime.

September 14, 2026

Crime Featured West Yorkshire

Leeds man jailed for 37 years following sexual and physical assault offences

Paul Benstock, 62, of East Ardsley, has been jailed for 37 years after being convicted of more than 40 sexual and physical assault offences against five victims, including 14 counts of rape, following a Leeds Safeguarding Unit investigation.

September 14, 2026Leeds