Laura Reid

1 week ago | yorkshirepost.co.uk | Laura Reid

There’s a certain type of music that Hannah Peel can guarantee will send shivers down her spine. It’s not the electronic, synthesiser style with which the 40-year-old musician and composer has come to be associated. Rather, it’s a genre that defined much of her childhood, after moving from Northern Ireland to Barnsley at the age of eight. “I was given a cornet and free brass lessons at primary school,” she remembers.

1 week ago | yorkshirepost.co.uk | Laura Reid

Charlotte Bradman can change the view out of her window any time she likes. “It’s completely liberating,” she says. “And you have so much more capacity for opportunities - if someone says can you come and work herding sheep in The Outer Hebrides, and you want to, you could. You aren’t tied down to bricks and mortar or a mortgage or rent. You’re fully flexible.”For the last six years, Charlotte has lived a nomadic lifestyle in her dearly beloved campervan.

1 week ago | yorkshirepost.co.uk | Laura Reid

The organisation, which gives grants to families on a low income who are raising a disabled or seriously ill child, has recently released its The Cost of Caring 2025 report, which draws on responses from more than 2,300 families. It says that many families struggle day-to-day, “not due to poor budgeting or lack of effort, but because of the unavoidable pressures of caring and the additional costs associated with disability”.

1 week ago | yorkshirepost.co.uk | Laura Reid

Last year, the museum and visitor attraction launched gin and chocolate tours. Now it has turned to rum, promising to bring together two flavours which share their origins in some of the warmest and most idyllic parts of the world. The new fortnightly tours are a collaboration between the King’s Square attraction and Hooting Owl Distillery – the only distillery located within York’s historic walls.

2 weeks ago | yorkshirepost.co.uk | Laura Reid

When heavy rain falls, when river levels rise, when flood alerts ping on phones, there’s a jitter in Fishlake, a quiet unease that wasn’t present just six years ago. Many villagers, by their own admission, never thought that the water would come. But in November 2019, catastrophic floods engulfed 90 per cent of the South Yorkshire community overnight. Fields vanished, homes were lost and lives were uprooted for months on end. When your safe space has previously been taken away, it’s hard to relax.