The comments come days after pagers and other tech exploded across Lebanon, reportedly killing 37 people and injuring more ...

Greg Bateman and Kai Horstmann will be climbing Snowdon, Scafell Pike and Ben Nevis and cycling the 675 kilometres between them.

The first electric trains have successfully completed test runs along the recently electrified section of railway between York and Church Fenton.

The New Zealand pilot who has been held hostage for more than a year in the restive Papua region has been freed by separatist rebels, Indonesian authorities said on Saturday. Phillip Mark Mehrtens, ...

York Chocolate Story hopes this will be the first of several new tours. Cheers to that! York’s Chocolate Story’s Chocolate & Gin Tours take place every Friday, from 5pm until 6.30pm. Adults only.

FOR throwing a brick through a hotel window, attempting to overturn a police van, you end up in prison for two years. For exchanging horrific images of children being abused you receive a suspended ...

Cycle to School Week, which takes place between Monday, September 23 and Friday, September 27, will highlight the benefits of cycling for children.

For starters, as the Rebus play is visiting Yorkshire (at York Theatre Royal, October 15-19) he offers details of his Yorkshire connections. His mum grew up in Bradford and he still has family around ...

South Carolina put inmate Freddie Owens to death on Friday as the state restarted executions after an unintended 13-year pause because prison officials could not get the drugs needed for lethal ...

Discover why Whitby’s Magpie Café and Moon and Sixpence in North Yorkshire are among the best restaurants for oysters in the UK.

York councillors have called on the Government to look again at cutting pensioners’ winter fuel payments - but stopped short of opposing ...

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