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Uh-oh, we’ve been feeding the gremlins after midnight again! Our website is temporarily down. Please bear with us - we hope to be back with you all by this afternoon. Plenty of time to go outside and see if you can spot some early bees instead (pic from wildaboutgardens.org.uk)
🎥 Hull showcases its growing artistic potential as the filming location for brand new Punjabi-language film, Dastaar By Angus Young @angusyoung61.bsky.social yorkshirebylines.co.uk/society/cult...
✍️ Summertime madness in the world of the ridiculous right Chaos and culture wars – the ridiculous right’s summertime madness spreads from the US to the UK By Ann Moody yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/sum... @annaubert.bsky.social
✍️ Wrongly threatened with deportation, artist turns ordeal into powerful solo show Tafadzwa Muchenje turns his three-year immigration battle into Ripples, a bold solo show debuting in Sheffield this September yorkshirebylines.co.uk/region/wrong...
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This iconic view is not only stunning, and part of our heritage, but it's also primarily peat bog which is essential to carbon storage. This vital landscape could soon become the site of a massive industrial complex: Calderdale Energy Park.
Were you there today on Penistone Hill, Haworth (Brontë Country) for Actually the World's Most Wuthering Heights Day? Thanks to Julia Clarke from the Brontë Parsonage Museum for sharing this amazing video and images with us. Read the article in the thread for more info ⤵️
As the Northern Hemisphere swelters through yet another blistering summer, when will governments act on the dire predictions from climate experts? And will it come too late to ensure all areas of the Earth remain suitable for human habitation? yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/environ...
Much obliged!! 🎉 Thank you everyone for following us 🙏 As it says in our profile, to volunteer as a writer, editor or behind the scenes, email editor@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
We're looking forward to this Bylines Network webinar on Monday! There are still spaces available if you want to join us. "Equality and diversity in media and journalism: where do we go from here?" Reserve your space here ⤵️ www.tickettailor.com/events/bylin...
Sorry, the link dropped off. We've added it back in, but there is the screenshot too:
Very excited about our next webinar on 16 June. The topic is diversity in the media ~ featuring some great speakers! Book your place here ⤵️
🍌 Going bananas for …. mango buttercream This banana bread with silky mango buttercream will make you fall back in love with lockdown’s favourite bake – fresh, warm, and irresistible By Meryl White @grandmaabson.bsky.social yorkshirebylines.co.uk/society/food...
Top Withens: unique protected Yorkshire peat bog under threat As we celebrate #EarthDay, will the government let short-term cash trump the long-term conservation of our carbon-storing blanket peat bogs? By Nick MacKinnon yorkshirebylines.co.uk/region/top-w...
Hmm, well that was a fun half hour, and I got this, but it's still not an emoji!
Much obliged! But we were after something a little smaller and cuter ;)
We're chuffed to announce that we've just sailed through 8 million visits to our website!! In just over 2 weeks we'll be celebrating our 5th anniversary. We're really proud of what we've done in this time. Thank you to all our contributors, our editors & uploaders, and our readers & supporters 🙏🎉
It's the Yorkshire area brass band finals today and tomorrow! Just warming up now 😉 Good luck to all the bands competing!
✍️ An overview of the myriad disappointments of the Starmer Labour government, 2024-25 "You wanted hope and change and what did you get? Austerity, repackaged with a red rosette." © Steve Pottinger 2 Feb 2025 @bigstevepoet.bsky.social with cartoon by @sdupp.bsky.social
Each article has a share button for Bluesky already. Immediately below the image, look for the two cute (too cute) butterflies!
Statement from IMPRESS: How can the public trust an industry where invasions of privacy and coverups remain commonplace? yorkshirebylines.co.uk/letters/lett...
Apologies, we posted an article earlier from the Yorkshire Post that said Wensleydale Creamery was shutting down, ending more than a century of cheese making in the Yorkshire village This was incorrect, it's only the packaging factory they're shutting. Teach us to trust other newspapers' headlines!
Dear editor | If Zuckerberg truly believes in free speech, he must balance it with accountability and transparency. Free speech without responsibility is not a principle to celebrate – it’s a recipe for chaos | Malik Takreem Ahmad, Bradford yorkshirebylines.co.uk/letters/lett...
Dear editor | On 15 January, local adoption charity and voluntary adoption agency, Adoption Matters, will be supporting Big Adoption Day. Learn more about it here! | Jennie Macquire yorkshirebylines.co.uk/letters/lett...
For anyone concerned about Phillip the Elf, and those of us still digging our cars out of the snow, you'll be pleased to see he's found a friend to help him!
Oh no! Thankfully someone offered him a home for the weekend 🥰