Laura Reid

3 days ago | yorkshirepost.co.uk | Laura Reid

In heavy downpours of February 2020, just weeks before the Covid lockdown began, a removal firm shuttled van after van of furniture and belongings down a narrow, bumpy track to the cottage that Polly Noakes was delighted to finally call her home. It was her husband’s birthday when the couple made the big move north from the New Forest to the corner of North Yorkshire that Polly had been visiting since before she could walk.

5 days ago | yorkshirepost.co.uk | Laura Reid

​Neil Anderson has spent 15 years researching the Sheffield Blitz. He speaks to Laura Reid as he releases a special collection in the run up to the 85th anniversary. Like many of her generation, Dorothy Glover never spoke about her experiences during the Second World War. But the discovery of an unpublished memoir following her death led her grandson Neil Anderson to dedicate 15 years of his life to exploring what happened in Sheffield when the country was in the grips of conflict.

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

Here are some of the television highlights from tomorrow, Saturday, May 31, including Death Valley, When Bruce Springsteen Came to Britain and The British Soap Awards 2025. When Bruce Springsteen Came to Britain (Saturday 31/05/25, BBC2, 9.35pm)Words by Rachael PopowEven though his fans will tell you (possibly at some length) that Born in the USA isn’t the flag-waving anthem you might think if you’d only listened to the chorus, few artists seem as quintessentially American as Bruce Springsteen.

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

Marriage was part of the plan, but it was through these tapes that a fondness blossomed. “Essentially they fell in love on these tapes,” explains sound artist Wajid Yaseen. “They sent tapes to each other every two or three weeks for about three years. It’s so lovely.”Asim and Asma’s story is captured in a temporary exhibition in Bradford as part of the area’s 2025 City of Culture programme.

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

The U2 frontman was highlighting the powerful influence that music can have on individuals and how that has the potential to lead to social change – and the sentiment resonates today, at least in part, with Jonathan Ainscough, a writer, director, and performer. "I’ve seen so many times how much it changes people's own worlds, in terms of opening them up to whole new avenues of creativity and connection, which is wonderful,” he says.