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Emmerdale’s Olivia Bromley joins Middlesbrough Theatre panto Aladdin

Emmerdale actress Olivia Bromley has joined the cast of Middlesbrough Theatre's Christmas pantomime Aladdin as The Fairy of the Ring, running from 5 to 31 December.

September 16, 2026Middlesbrough

Crime Featured South Yorkshire

Sheffield residents evacuated as bomb squad searches High Green property

A police cordon remains in place on Mapplebeck Road in Sheffield's High Green area, after nearby households were evacuated on Tuesday while specialists search a property linked to an explosives investigation.

September 16, 2026Sheffield

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