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Nick Clegg explains how £10m will be used to promote north of England to tourists – videoNick Clegg promises to inject £10m into a new strategy to promote tourism in the North of England
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Queen Coal review – raking the embers of Thatcher’s bonfire of the minesInjustices nursed by a Yorkshire pit community since the 1984-85 strike lurk beneath one woman’s homecoming in this powerful and evocative play, writes Alfred Hickling -
Bryony Lavery: ‘The miners’ strike is still lodged within our DNA’In researching my play Queen Coal I wanted to explore the vanishing of a once thriving industry. It all came into focus after Margaret Thatcher’s effigy was burned on a bonfire
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Why did Ukip lose the South Yorkshire PCC byelection?Labour’s Alan Billings won half the vote, Ukip less than a third though many predicted it would win. Here are five reasons why -
Orgreave, Hillsborough, Rotherham: is South Yorkshire police the worst public organisation in the country?As a million people in South Yorkshire go to the polls on Thursday to vote for a new police and crime commissioner, Kevin Meagher from Labour Uncut argues that the county’s police force is not fit for purpose
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How the Tour de France’s visit to Yorkshire left us standing