2026 – Page 5

York and North Yorkshire gains ‘established status’ to unlock new powers and funding

The York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority has been confirmed as an Established Mayoral Strategic Authority, becoming the first rural mayoral area to receive the designation. The status gives the Combined…

August 3, 2026York

Featured Theatre West Yorkshire

Sir David Jason joins Leeds Grand Theatre’s August line-up

Leeds Heritage Theatres are closed for essential maintenance this August. Somebody forgot to tell the programme, though, which carries on regardless and is headlined by an evening with Sir David Jason.

August 3, 2026Leeds

East Yorkshire Featured Society

After two years, the full story of Hull’s funeral home investigation can be told

A five-day sentencing hearing at Hull Crown Court ended on Friday 31 July 2026 with Robert Bush jailed for 20 years and disqualified as a company director for 14 years, bringing…

August 2, 2026Hull

Featured History West Yorkshire

Half a millennium in the making: the charity older than Leeds’ own charter

In 1530, Thomas Wade left money in his will to mend roads in Leeds. At the time, this was for the benefit of a market town of fewer than 3,000 people…

August 2, 2026Leeds

Music North Yorkshire

Musinc’s music sessions reach record numbers in Middlesbrough

Hundreds more people are being given the chance to express their creativity and discover the power of music across Middlesbrough. Musinc brings people of all ages and abilities together through community…

August 1, 2026Middlesbrough

North Yorkshire Society

New signs warn of wildfire risk across North Yorkshire countryside

People visiting North Yorkshire's countryside are being warned of the extreme risk of further wildfires linked to campfires and disposable barbecues being lit in remote, tinder-dry rural locations across the county.…

August 1, 2026

East Yorkshire History

New bronze arch to replace Whitby’s whale bones

Whitby's famous whale bone arch is set to enter a new chapter, with a bronze replica replacing the current bones to safeguard one of the town's best-known landmarks for future generations.…

August 1, 2026Whitby

Art Featured West Yorkshire

Final month to see Jim Moir’s Neo Fauna at Cartwright Hall

Jim Moir, better known to most as Vic Reeves, closes his exhibition of watercolours, pencils and charcoals on 31 August. There's nowhere else lined up to see it.

August 1, 2026Bradford

Art Featured West Yorkshire

Harewood acquires Lela Harris’s portrait of Miss Lambe

Exactly a year after contemporary artist Lela Harris unveiled her portrait of Miss Lambe, Jane Austen's only character of African descent, Harewood House Trust has acquired the work into its permanent…

July 31, 2026

Featured Society South Yorkshire

PM’s Sheffield nursery visit came with a devolution announcement attached

Prime Minister Andy Burnham, Chancellor John Healey MP and First Secretary of State Louise Haigh MP visited Sheffield Hallam University's nursery and early years research centre, The Meadows, today where they…

July 31, 2026Leeds