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Yorkshire's 'most haunted' pub with running monks and unsolved mysteries
Barnsley
The Mill of the Black Monks was originally built 900 years ago
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Memory Lane - Taking you back to the 80s - on sale now
Margaret Thatcher
Revisit some of the highlights and nostalgic aspects of the decade
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40 nostalgic photos capturing happy memories at Huddersfield's Greenhead Park from as early as 1948
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Take a look at how the park changed between 1948 and 2019
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Looking back at life in Huddersfield during the 1980s
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Huddersfield has changed a lot over the last few decades
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40 loved and lost Huddersfield pubs and clubs
Huddersfield
Long lost pubs and clubs that are now just a distant memory
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The strange and dangerous Yorkshire 'sport' invented by thieves
Fun Stuff
Watch a world champion come a cropper during a BBC interview
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Spot the real Yorkshire words among the gibberish in our Dialect or Drivel quiz
Fun Stuff
To the non-Tyke Yorkshire dialect sounds odd
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The tiny Huddersfield company that inspired one of the most ridiculous and ambitious US rock albums
Meltham
It's now a business with a cult worldwide following - thanks to a record that nearly ended up in the bin
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Huddersfield tyre garage in a listed building that hides a historical Georgian baths underneath
Lockwood
Lockwood Spa Baths, later Lockwood Public Baths, is a former baths and now a listed building
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Yorkshire dialect quiz: What do these near-extinct words and phrases mean?
Fun Stuff
Do you know your 'back end' from your 'bait'?
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The beautiful distant tropical island where everyone knows someone from Huddersfield
Black Communities
Many of Huddersfield's Black families have roots on this little 'paradise' island
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When Huddersfield was Britain's Black music capital attracting international stars
Black Communities
And the little club where the world's biggest reggae artists performed
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Confusing Yorkshire M62 junction which has irritated drivers for years
M62
The issue confounded engineers leaving half a junction near Huddersfield
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Yorkshire town at the centre of a 'forgotten massacre'
wakefield
Troops fired on stone-throwing miners, killing two men and injuring several more
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Yorkshire's most disturbing places still haunted by murders, executions and dark horrors
Explore Yorkshire
The site of murders, executions, dark magic and other unsavoury stuff
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Yorkshire Bull Sand Fort - the sea fortress that nearly became a drug rehab centre
First World War
A mile and a half from land this First World War defence is the most isolated place in Yorkshire
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Jervaulx vs Rievaulx: it's Yorkshire abbey Top Trumps
Explore Yorkshire
Which of these strangely named medieval abbey ruins will be Vaulx Victor?
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Private Yorkshire castle opens to public on rare open day
Explore Yorkshire
Visitors will be able to tour grade I-listed ruin dubbed 'Defender of the Dales'
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Incredible Yorkshire country house partly built with blood money
Doncaster
Elegant home's owner confront its barbaric origins
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The tiny undiscovered Yorkshire village with just 300 residents and a medieval fascination with death
Explore Yorkshire
This attractive village with a wealth of listed buildings likes to remind us of our mortality
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The 'lost' Yorkshire dales we're in danger of forgetting
Explore Yorkshire
'I can't remember anyone calling it [Yorkshire] for a long time'
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Annoyingly persistent Yorkshire myths from the house in the middle of the M62 to the war of the roses
Yorkshire Day
And the most irritating myth that won't go away
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Which Yorkshire mythological creature are you? Find out with our personality quiz
Yorkshire Day
You might be the Barghest, a Boggart, Old Stinker, Peg Powler or hopefully, none of them
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11 Yorkshire places that folk refuse to call by their official names
Explore Yorkshire
No matter what councils, marketers and sponsors call them, the old names stick
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HMRC giving £900 to workers with this code on pay slip from April
HMRC is handing money back to workers
Horrific true story of Channel 5's My Wife My Abuser: The Secret Footage
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Richard Spencer was subjected to 20 years of abuse at the hands of his wife
Inside Huddersfield house up for auction with guide price of £20,000
Huddersfield
Two-bed house off Leeds Road is to be sold at auction on April 25
M1 traffic live updates as drivers face delays in long Rotherham queues
Traffic and Travel
Drivers travelling on the stretch of motorway between Sheffield and Rotherham are facing long delays
Sobbing Channel 5 My Wife My Abuser viewers issue message to men over 'vile' woman
Channel 5
Channel 5 My Wife My Abuser viewers were left in tears tonight
Northern Rail
'No experience required' as Northern needs 300 new train drivers and conductors
Northern is urging people with no previous rail industry experience to apply for the roles
BBC Hairy Bikers star Dave Myers' final words on last episode
BBC
The TV chef sadly passed away last month at the age of 66 following a cancer diagnosis
M1 traffic live updates as drivers face delays in long Rotherham queues
Traffic and Travel
Drivers travelling on the stretch of motorway between Sheffield and Rotherham are facing long delays
UK weather maps show when snow flurries will hit as Polar blast arrives
Snow
Parts of Yorkshire to face a flurry of snow before the week is out
HMRC gives two week £2,000 sign up for help warning to parents
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At the start of next month the existing scheme will be expanded and people can sign up now and check eligibility
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Your Money
HMRC giving £900 to workers with this code on pay slip from April
HMRC is handing money back to workers
Horrific true story of Channel 5's My Wife My Abuser: The Secret Footage
Channel 5
Richard Spencer was subjected to 20 years of abuse at the hands of his wife
Inside Huddersfield house up for auction with guide price of £20,000
Huddersfield
Two-bed house off Leeds Road is to be sold at auction on April 25
M1 traffic live updates as drivers face delays in long Rotherham queues
Traffic and Travel
Drivers travelling on the stretch of motorway between Sheffield and Rotherham are facing long delays
Sobbing Channel 5 My Wife My Abuser viewers issue message to men over 'vile' woman
Channel 5
Channel 5 My Wife My Abuser viewers were left in tears tonight
BBC
BBC Hairy Bikers star Dave Myers' final words on last episode
The TV chef sadly passed away last month at the age of 66 following a cancer diagnosis
Kevin Nagle issues Huddersfield Town rallying cry and addresses Cartwright and Edwards criticism
Kevin M. Nagle
Huddersfield Town passed up the chance to move out of the bottom three after being held to a goalless draw at Rotherham United last weekend
M1 traffic live updates as drivers face delays in long Rotherham queues
Traffic and Travel
Drivers travelling on the stretch of motorway between Sheffield and Rotherham are facing long delays
UK weather maps show when snow flurries will hit as Polar blast arrives
Snow
Parts of Yorkshire to face a flurry of snow before the week is out
HMRC gives two week £2,000 sign up for help warning to parents
Twitter
At the start of next month the existing scheme will be expanded and people can sign up now and check eligibility