Ralph Blackburn

Soil health is now “make-or-break” to help protect Yorkshire’s farmers from flooding and unpredictable weather, new research presented at Cop30 has found.

Yorkshire will experience even worse levels of drought next year if this winter is drier than usual, the Environment Agency has warned.

Wes Streeting has categorically denied orchestrating a plot to oust the Prime Minister, and called for Sir Keir Starmer to sack the people behind the “silly” and “juvenile” rumours about a Labour leadership challenge.

Tributes have been paid to the 70-year-old man who died in the Doncaster helicopter crash as a “beloved” family man who loved spending time with his grandchildren.

Corridor care is a “crisis in plain sight”, a leading charity has warned, as it described “truly shocking” incidents of poor care of elderly people waiting days on end for care.

The huge increase in home to school transport usage must be tackled by the Government as it pushes council finances to the brink, the public spending watchdog has found.

North Yorkshire care leaders have said a fresh report from the regulator is a “clear and urgent warning” about the fragility of the health and social care system.

The controversial “proppant squeezing” method of gas extraction that an energy company wants to test in North Yorkshire should be part of the fracking ban, a Labour MP will say today.

Yorkshire’s mayors have urged the Government not to forget about the east side of the Pennines ahead of the expected announcement on Northern Powerhouse Rail.

A Yorkshire mother - whose two sons were killed by their abusive father - has said she hopes the promised change in the law on parental contact will be named after them.

Yorkshire Water has once again been given a red rating by the Environment Agency for serious pollution incidents over the last year.

The chief executive of England’s hospital regulator has stepped down following the announcement of an independent inquiry into maternity care at the Leeds NHS trust he led for a decade.

Governments from both parties have “lost the focus” that farming should be about food production, Victorian Atkins has said, as she pledged to win back the trust of farmers and the agricultural community.

Mayor Tracy Brabin has joined Sir Keir Starmer on his trip to India, where she says she will be “banging the drum for West Yorkshire”.

Michael Gove has admitted for the first time that the Australia and New Zealand trade deals negotiated by the former Tory government did not protect Britain’s farmers.

The British steel industry is facing an “existential crisis” after the European Union announced it would hit the UK with 50 per cent tariffs, unions have said.

More police are being deployed to synagogues across Yorkshire after the fatal Manchester attack which was described by a rabbi as “every Jewish person’s worst nightmare”.

Ed Miliband has vowed to permanently ban fracking, as campaigners warned that dozens of Yorkshire constituencies could be affected if Reform UK lifted the moratorium.

Oliver Coppard has said that a reopened Doncaster Sheffield Airport is key to driving growth across South Yorkshire over the next decade.

A former Bradford Council official allegedly threatened to have a charity worker and former police officer arrested unless he stopped investigating grooming gangs, it is claimed.