Yorkshire – Reader

Martin House hosts first children’s palliative care conference for more than 70 professionals

Healthcare professionals from across the region gathered at Martin House's newly redeveloped Boston Spa hospice this week for its first dedicated conference on children's palliative care, taking in case studies, hands-on workshops and a tour of the transformed building.

September 18, 2026

Business Featured Yorkshire

Xscape Yorkshire rolls out abuse-prevention training as retail staff face 1,600 attacks a day nationally

Landsec has expanded its partnership with the Retail Trust to Xscape Yorkshire and 12 other UK sites, offering free de-escalation and resilience training to shop-floor, security and cleaning staff, as new figures show retail workers nationally face more than 1,600 incidents of abuse or violence every day.

September 17, 2026

Environment Featured Yorkshire

Yorkshire Dales reports progress on 21 of 40 National Park objectives

The Yorkshire Dales National Park's first annual progress report shows good progress on 21 of 40 objectives in its 2025-30 Management Plan, including £1.5m in farm grants and peatland restoration across 2,275 hectares.

September 17, 2026

Featured Theatre Yorkshire

Northern Ballet announces new children’s ballet Robin Hood, touring 2027

Northern Ballet has announced a new children's production, Robin Hood, opening at Leeds's Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre in February 2027 before touring 13 UK venues and London.

September 17, 2026Bradford, Doncaster, Goole, Harrogate, Huddersfield, Hull, Leeds, Middlesbrough, Sheffield

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 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

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

Featured Transport Yorkshire

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

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

Featured Society Yorkshire

The Russian ‘attack robot’ clip is unconfirmed – Yorkshire’s actual AI problems are already here

A viral video shows a humanoid robot apparently retaliating in a Russian shop – but nobody has verified what really happened, unlike three genuine AI stories already playing out across Yorkshire.

September 2, 2026Huddersfield, Rotherham, Sheffield