The Yorkshire Post

The Yorkshire Post is a daily broadsheet newspaper based in Leeds, Yorkshire, England. While it mainly focuses on news from Yorkshire, it proudly promotes itself as "Yorkshire's National Newspaper." Originally owned by Johnston Press, it is currently part of National World. Established in 1754, it ranks among the oldest newspapers in the UK.

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Fast-rising Yorkshire band prepare for Glastonbury

18 hours ago | yorkshirepost.co.uk | Steve Teale

Members of a fast rising band from Yorkshire are gearing up to perform at one of the world’s best-known festivals. English Teacher, which launched their first album in 2024, will play at Glastonbury at 4.30pm on Friday (Jun 27) having first emerged at the 2022 Glastonbury emerging talent contest. Now, with a Mercury Prize under their belt, the band will perform at The Park Stage which is seen as more prestigious than the Left Field slot last summer. This time the band will be on the BBC.
MD of Sheffield business appointed to new Construction Skills Mission Board

1 day ago | yorkshirepost.co.uk | Adam Dale

A leading businesswoman has been appointed to a new government-supported board to help nurture the UK’s next generation of construction workers. Julie White, managing director of D-Drill & Sawing, which has branches across the UK including an office in Sheffield, has joined the new Construction Skills Mission Board, which is being co-chaired by government and Mark Reynolds, Executive Chairman of Mace.
Children's charity receives £3000 donation from West Yorkshire homebuilder

1 day ago | yorkshirepost.co.uk | Adam Jeffs

Bradford Baby Bank, a charity that supports families with young children has received a £3,000 donation from Barratt and David Wilson Homes to support its vital work. Established in 2017, the charity provides essential items like clothes, hygiene products and equipment to families who need it most. Vickie Jubb, Chair of Trusties at Bradford Baby Bank, said: “It felt great to hear we had been chosen for this donation.
Watch shocking moment suspected faulty battery causes electric car to explode

1 day ago | yorkshirepost.co.uk | Jake Meeus-Jones

Shocking footage captured the moment a suspected faulty battery caused an electric car to explode - destroying two vehicles around it. James Musonda, 33, was woken by loud explosion outside of his house. He initially thought a tree had fallen on his home until he looked outside to see flames rising from his Mercedes EQA. After checking on his wife and daughter, James rushed downstairs and was unable to exit his house because of the fierce flames on March 5.
In humid conditions, with the temperature up in the mid-20s, the cricket was as sedate as the match situation

2 days ago | yorkshirepost.co.uk | Chris Waters

Spectators - not that there were many - slapped on the suncream and saw this game drift into dreary obscurity. Not every fixture can have the thrills and spills of a Headingley Test. This one saw Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire each take 12 points from a stalemate that had felt inevitable for quite some while.
It's cuckoo to use the Kookaburra says Yorkshire CCC boss McGrath

2 days ago | yorkshirepost.co.uk | Chris Waters

McGrath pulled no punches after his side were involved in a tedious draw against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge, where 1,145 runs were scored for the loss of 21 wickets across the four days. The ECB introduced the Kookaburra - the machine-stitched Australian ball - in 2023 in an effort to counter the threat of medium-pacers and encourage faster bowlers and spinners with the skills required to play Test cricket.
The belief was always there and then it was just about when I get in I capitalise and go big

3 days ago | yorkshirepost.co.uk | Chris Waters

It was a London bus job for Fin Bean in Nottingham, the Yorkshire batsman making a magnificent, career-best 224 that steered his side towards safety against the Championship leaders. It was in the corresponding week last season that Bean, 23, scored the last of his previous five first-class hundreds: 164 against Gloucestershire at Scarborough, a game that sparked Yorkshire’s surge towards promotion in the season’s second half.
Amazon’s £40bn expansion brings thousands of jobs - what it means for the UK economy

3 days ago | yorkshirepost.co.uk | Alex Nelson

Amazon’s investment will bring cutting-edge tech, better wages, and fresh career opportunities to the UK 🌍 Amazon is investing £40 billion in the UK over the next three years, boosting regional growth New fulfilment centres in Hull and Northampton will create at least 4,000 jobs by 2026 Two more warehouses planned for the East Midlands in 2027 will add thousands more roles Investment also includes upgrades to data centres, tech like drones, and Amazon’s London HQ The move supports the...
We need him to play a couple of second-team games, get used to bowling red-ball.

3 days ago | yorkshirepost.co.uk | Chris Waters

Mick Lewis, the club’s bowling coach, said that they had to carefully manage the player’s development. Earlier this month, Chohan, the 22-year-old leg-spinner, said that he was determined to break into the Championship team. He has been an important player in the Vitality Blast and his potential was reflected by call-ups last winter for England’s white-ball squad and the England Lions.
Only once previously this season had Bean passed 19, the sort of statistic that eats at a batsman

4 days ago | yorkshirepost.co.uk | Chris Waters

Bean’s quadruple hundred at the Lady Bay venue - a record for second XI cricket, eclipsing the 322 of one Marcus Trescothick - catapulted the young left-hander to national attention. A rookie deal at Headingley was followed by a first professional contract in 2023, along with plenty of runs as Adam Lyth’s partner at the top of the order.