Steve Teale

1 month ago | yorkshirepost.co.uk | Steve Teale

Hundreds of people, it seems, love the Grade II-listed baths in a suburb of Leeds. The community-run facility in Bramley has long been praised for its style and importance to the community. Now some 531 “investors” have demonstrated the importance of community social enterprise by donating £374,360 to fund vital repairs to the roof. A spokesman praised the people for “surpassing a massive target to enable the Baths to progress with its vision of preserving their heritage treasure”.

1 month ago | yorkshirepost.co.uk | Steve Teale

Huddersfield Town’s American owner Kevin Nagle has always been a motoring enthusiast and he began his driving career in style with a Pontiac Firebird which he still recalls with great fondness. The 70-year-old businessman says it was about three years old and he was 19 or 20 and at college. “I saved up for it,” he said. “It cost $3,000 which was quite a lot for me to save up and I bought it from a guy at the gas station. It was a great car for a first car and I was very fortunate.

1 month ago | dewsburyreporter.co.uk | Steve Teale

A former Dewsbury and Halifax man well known in rugby league circles has sadly passed away aged 88. Brian Lawton, who was born in Dewsbury Moor, later lived in Roberttown and Greetland. He was born on Pilgrim Avenue, Dewsbury Moor, to Frank and Dorothy (Dolly) Lawton on August 7, 1936. He grew up playing on the fields with his friends over the river close by taking anything they could find from the nearby tip to make go-karts and boats.

2 months ago | yorkshirepost.co.uk | Steve Teale

It is fitting in a way that the new MINI is still a pioneer. Just like the original BMC version in 1959, the new model is leading the way in new developments. The original Mini became a symbol of its era, proving that small cars could be successful and it paved the way for a flood of compact cuties,Now here’s a new version of the BMW-built modern MINI, the Aceman which is electric. Now, there’s a feeling that all electrics are the same.

2 months ago | yorkshirepost.co.uk | Steve Teale

He came to Yorkshire late in life but Brian Murphy admitted he had a soft spot for the county. He signed up for Last of the Summer Wine as Alvin Smedley in 2003, supposedly as a one-off but ended up staying for seven years. "It was a great time,” he told The Yorkshire Post in January 2024. “I loved in Huddersfield, where we stayed in a hotel, and were driven out to Holmfirth, Marsden and other places for filming.