Alexandra Wood

George Harrison just wants to get his watermill going again. But at 95 he can’t do it alone.

Britain's oldest funicular cliff lift “can’t be allowed to go the same way as Whitby”, campaigners say, following its sudden closure.

Archaeologists digging near Pocklington in East Yorkshire have uncovered “unexpected” evidence of large-scale iron production some 2,400 years ago.

The redevelopment of the former Pleasure Island theme park site in Cleethorpes will be back before councillors to decide on it “ideally as soon as possible”, a councillor has said – but only once due diligence checks have been completed.

It’s a far cry from Time Team days when archaeologists had no choice but to drag ground sensing equipment across rough ground to find out what lies beneath.

A FORMER private school in North Yorkshire has been sold to a property developer over a year after closing its doors to pupils for the last time, according to reports.

A passenger was injured and another suffered a medical emergency after a drone crashed into the vintage pleasure cruiser Yorkshire Belle as she sailed out of Bridlington Harbour.

A Yorkshire MP has expressed alarm at an escalating outbreak of a midge-borne disease affecting sheep and cattle, which is spreading rapidly through the West Country.

An “obsessed” man who drove his car into his ex-wife and attacked her with a baseball bat as she lay on the ground has been jailed for 24 years.

Step into the courtyard of St William’s College, a few footsteps away from the hustle and bustle outside York Minster, and it is so quiet.