Alexandra Wood

Much of Britain’s most northerly chalk landscape, beloved of walkers and artists, is now just a step away from being confirmed as the country’s first new area of outstanding natural beauty in 30 years.

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

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

A businessman who put up a stone circle by a Scottish castle claims council officials have taken a dislike to it because the stones were brought in from Yorkshire.

Brussels’ popular Flower Carpet is coming to Bradford – and is taking inspiration from the city’s textiles industry. Alex Wood reports.

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

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.

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.

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 20-year-old who had been scrolling through songs on his mobile phone ploughed into a car at 67mph, killing the driver.