Yorkshire Articles

With an economy larger than seven European Union countries, West Yorkshire and the Leeds city-region has the potential to be an economic powerhouse. But improving connectivity across the north of England would enable the region, and the north as a whole, to deliver...

This week’s Leeds council meeting heard from a deputation of Holbeck residents protesting at the decision by First, the city’s biggest bus company, to cut services to their inner-city suburb. This was a commercial decision made to a service that residents feel is...

The tide of history is against Tories hoping to rebuild in the north, says Lewis Baston Labour has been agonising over its ‘southern discomfort’ for over 20 years. Some Conservatives, such as David Skelton, have only just started to think seriously about their...

I don't think of myself as particularly cultural – I’m a working-class Yorkshire lad without much formal education, I’m not a regular theatregoer and there are more classics I haven't read than I have. Nevertheless, I’ve found myself drawn to the current campaigns to...