Barnsley duo lead gruelling military exercise in Kenya as 2 Rifles battalion prepares for Afghanistan tour
Major Neil Watson and Sergeant Major Daniel Long are working together to lead a company of soldiers during an intense training operation in a remote area of African bush.
Domino’s sales rise as lockdown leads to households ordering record numbers of pizzas
Bosses said sales jumped 11.4% to £1.35 billion in the 12 months to December 27 with profits after tax soaring from £2.8 million to £39.7 million.
How a DIY broadband project has had a profound economic and social impact on the most isolated of the North York Moors
Yet a pioneering broadband network set by a group of disgruntled residents over a decade ago has now transformed the area into a beacon of connectivity that is increasingly attractive to digital natives – and which has come to the fore during the confinements of lockdown.
Bernard Ingham: This is our society and we shall all have to clean it up
It attracted much criticism, perhaps not surprisingly since idealistically it sought absolute honesty, purity, unselfishness and love.
Kenya travel review: Hemingways Watamu and Nairobi provide bountiful landscapes, beautiful wildlife and brilliant people
So the two-hour journey to our hotel allowed an initial, if unofficial, adventure – an opening glance at the country’s bountiful landscapes, beautiful wildlife and brilliant people.
Rural tsar who advised government during foot-and-mouth crisis reflects on learnings twenty years on
Lord Haskins claimed that the rapid nature of the outbreak could have been curtailed if Ministers had opted to rely on the expertise of authorities and vets in the communities that had been affected in 2001.
Calls to stop Brexit and hold People's Vote issued at Leeds MP's debate
Speaking at a People’s Vote event in Leeds yesterday evening, she said: “There are still reasons to hope that Labour’s position will move towards a people’s vote.”
Malton market leader reflects on foot-and-mouth as he prepares for food stalls to return
Stalls will once again be erected to offer some of the leading produce on offer in the Ryedale district, as the town’s monthly food market is staged for the first time this year.
Holiday plans in disarray as BA and easyJet abandon Sharm el-Sheikh until January
And Thomson Airways has said it will not use the Egyptian destination up to and including December 9, amid security concerns following the terrorist bombing of a Russian airliner.
Mental health implications of foot and mouth crisis still apparent in US farming communities twenty years on
A study by the University of Cambridge at the time of the crisis found just 1.5 per cent of farmers affected sought help from a mental health professional, choosing instead to rely on family and friendship networks, although diagnoses of anxiety and depression went up.
