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The latest news and comment on the North of England

January 2025

  • Cars parked along two side of a road.

    Gritters stopped by 200 cars double parked on Peak District road, says council

    Derbyshire council says crews blocked from gritting roads on Saturday due to double parking at walking spots near Edale
  • Two Highland cows in a snow-covered field.

    UK records -17.3C in chilliest January night in 15 years

    Altnaharra, in Sutherland, the most northern region of the Highlands, had reached the low by 9pm on Friday
    • Look to the past to revive the north-east

    • New weather warnings as snow and ice cause travel havoc and school closures in UK

    • ‘Everything is destroyed, nothing could be saved:’ anger and despair in communities devastated by North West floods

December 2024

  • Composite image of terrace houses and area map

    ‘Take this house or you’re homeless’: families sent to a Durham town from London

  • Campaigners protest in Parliament Square against the building of a waste incinerator in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire

    Labour under fire over plans for 40 more ‘greenwashing’ waste incinerators

  • Smiling children standing in a classroom

    State of disrepair: the crisis in England’s public buildings
    ‘Our school has been homeless for two years’: a rotting Cumbria school counts the cost

  • James Claxton stands by the counter in his cocktail bar, which has a colourful mural of a woman sipping a drink; he is a young man with long brown hair and a beard, and wears a grey apron

    ‘A cultural shift’: drinkers hit Hull’s Low Ale Trail for alcohol-free options

  • Small aircraft took off by itself and flew out to sea, accident report reveals

  • Man, 88, passes grade 8 piano with distinction, 67 years after taking grade 7

  • Yorkshire chef rues ‘so much waste’ after thieves write off van and 2,500 pies inside

  • ‘Substantial’ increase in grey squirrels in England is concerning, campaigners say

  • Lucy Letby inquiry: parents expressed ‘intolerable anguish’ at police investigation

  • People are angry about the floods – but turning to Reform endangers us all

November 2024

  • Brick building with 'neonatal unit' in white letters on the side, with a grey and glass entrance door

    Lucy Letby inquiry: hospital boss ‘sincerely regrets’ not calling police sooner

    Former medical director of Countess of Chester hospital says he is ‘truly sorry’ if he failed bereaved families
  • John Prescott in 2008

    ‘He was for us’: everyone has anecdotes about John Prescott in his village

    Residents of Sutton in Hull remember the former MP and deputy prime minister who became ‘a proper Hully’
    • UK weather: Storm Bert to cause disruption with snow, winds and rain

    • More snow forecast for weekend after UK’s ‘first taste of winter’

    • UK braces for ‘disruptive snow’ as weather warnings cover swaths of country

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