Stephanie Daley

The only thing Dickie Bird did not plan for his funeral was the drizzle which beset the ceremony in Barnsley today.

It is a day which the volunteers have waited for for a long time – but now Knaresborough Heritage Centre is finally opening tomorrow after a four-year campaign.

Julia Carr, from Marrick Park farm in the north east of the Yorkshire Dales National Park, is working with the Tees-Swale: Naturally Connected programme, the Farming in Protected Landscapes programme, as well as a new woodland creation scheme called Grow Back Greener. Through Tees-Swale hay meadows are being restored and several kilometres of hedgerows have been created, often by volunteers including refugees travelling into the National Park from Leeds. A 12-acre woodland was created last month…

The nation is to pause in remembrance of those who have died during the coronavirus pandemic, one year after the UK was first plunged into lockdown.