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Huddersfield launches AI-Ready Yorkshire to connect small business with AI expertise

A new University of Huddersfield programme, AI-Ready Yorkshire, will connect small and medium-sized businesses with AI students and graduates through at least 60 placements and traineeships over three years, launching on 23 September.

September 7, 2026Huddersfield

Featured Theatre West Yorkshire

Leeds show The Easy Way Out turns personal crisis into gig theatre

Musician Eli Yim brings gig-theatre show The Easy Way Out to Leeds Carriageworks on 18 September, a piece built from autobiographical songs written before, during and after a serious mental health crisis.

September 7, 2026Leeds

Aji, co-founder of the Globally Trained Nurses Forum.

Featured Wellbeing West Yorkshire

Leeds nurse honoured for work supporting internationally trained NHS staff

Aji, co-founder of Leeds Teaching Hospitals' Globally Trained Nurses Forum, has won the trust's Leadership in Practice Award 2026, recognising a career that began in Kerala, India and now spans bereavement care and staff advocacy in Leeds.

September 3, 2026Leeds

‘Where Magic Grows’, a new exhibition at the Thackray Museum of Medicine.

Art Featured West Yorkshire

Leeds Arts graduates curate new plant folklore exhibition at Thackray Museum

Three recent Leeds Arts University graduates helped curate 'Where Magic Grows', a new interactive exhibition on plant folklore and healing at the Thackray Museum of Medicine, running until January 2027.

September 3, 2026Leeds

Dr Tamayo Gomez (left) with Alirio Gonzales (at front) from the T4TJ project in the field

Featured Science West Yorkshire

Huddersfield research helps locate suspected mass graves in Colombia

A University of Huddersfield research project is helping Colombian communities in the Caquetá region search for relatives who disappeared during the country's decades-long armed conflict, after identifying two suspected mass grave sites.

September 3, 2026Leeds

Tracking the drilling rig's voyage aboard the BBC Bangkok

Business Environment Featured

Powerful drilling rig sails towards York for four-kilometre geothermal well

A specialist drilling rig is sailing from Turkey to North East Lincolnshire ahead of a four-kilometre geothermal well at the University of York, part of the FutureSource project aimed at cutting the university's fossil fuel use.

September 3, 2026York

Featured Food & Drink Yorkshire

Yorkshire primary school meals system ‘fragmented’ with no central oversight, study finds

A University of York study of 1,771 Yorkshire primary schools has found school meal provision so fragmented that nutritional standards are effectively unmonitored, with just five commercial companies controlling most commercially catered schools.

September 3, 2026

Matthew Kapust/Sanford Underground Research Facility

Featured Science South Yorkshire

Sheffield scientists among those probing unexplained dark matter signal

An unexplained signal picked up by the world's most sensitive dark matter experiment could mark a major breakthrough, according to analysis involving University of Sheffield researchers — though the result falls short of the statistical threshold needed to confirm a discovery.

September 3, 2026Sheffield

The free-to-attend Rope Women exhibition

Featured History South Yorkshire

Sheffield exhibition tells story of UK’s first all-women outdoor circus troupe

A free University of Sheffield exhibition, Rope Women, tells the story of Skinning the Cat, the UK's first all-women outdoor aerial circus company, co-curated by founder Rebecca Truman and running until 13 December.

September 3, 2026Sheffield

Featured Society West Yorkshire

West Yorkshire firefighters head to Atlanta for 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb

Five West Yorkshire firefighters are travelling to Atlanta to take on the Terry Farrell Firefighters' Fund Memorial Stair Climb, joining a 343-strong UK and Ireland contingent honouring the 343 firefighters who died on 9/11.

September 3, 2026