Chris Burn

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Have set up a Yorkshire Post FPL league again for this season for anyone who’d like to join:
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What a Test Match series. India deserved to draw it over the course of the five games to be honest.

One year on from the Manvers riot, many just want to forget. But it’s not that simple ‘A lot of these places haven’t recovered since the miners’ strike’

“Like everyone we just want to move on.”

A year ago The Tribune reported from Wath-upon-Dearne as the small South Yorkshire town experienced some of the worst racial violence this country has ever seen.

This week we went back to find out how the community views the riot that shocked the country.

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GREETINGS SPORTS FANS

The Official Hindu Monkey Bluesky Charity Knees Up FPL league is now open for business.

Completely free to enter. £200 cash pot that all goes to charity.

Winners pick where it goes. Full rules below.

Join now. Cry later.

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Ian Hislop calls arrest of man holding Private Eye cartoon at Gaza protest ‘mind-boggling’ Jon Farley arrested under Terrorism Act at Leeds demonstration for holding sign making joke about Palestine Action ban

I mean,
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Hortor collapse: Workers owed thousands by failed Yorkshire firm reveal £2.3m LinkedIn posts legal threat, secret recordings and bank statement evidence A recruitment firm owned by a Yorkshire businessman under a court order barring the sale of his house, car and racehorses has collapsed - leaving self-employed IT workers tens of thousands out of pock...

“We don’t want this to happen to anyone else”:The story of the collapse of Leeds firm Hortor - involving a businessman under a court order preventing the sale of his house, Porsche and racehorses; secret recordings and a £2.3m legal threat for LinkedIn posting
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Look at inflation on quarterly rather than headline monthly figure (& with housing included) and its resurgence looks clearer www.ons.gov.uk/economy/infl...

Definitely NOT a return to 2022, but - if data right - not necessarily a blip that can be safely ignored

Best Test match since Edgbaston 2005, best series since the Ashes 2005 IMO.

Yorkshire Dales Food and Drink Festival organisers had no premises licence for event Organisers of the cancelled Yorkshire Dales Food and Drink Festival had not secured a premises licence to put on the event – and had run out of time to get one, North Yorkshire Council has revealed.

Organisers of a major food and drink festival in Skipton which was called off at short notice had not secured a premises licence for the event, North Yorkshire Council has revealed
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/yor...

😬😬😬

Rosemary Shrager joins James Martin in withdrawing from Yorkshire Dales Food and Drink Festival Celebrity chef Rosemary Shrager has followed James Martin in withdrawing from the forthcoming Yorkshire Dales Food and Drink Festival.

New: Rosemary Shrager joins James Martin in withdrawing from the Yorkshire Dales Food and Drink Festival. Two other acts have also left the bill, with one citing 'non-payment' as their reason:
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/ros...

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Live scenes of Kemi Badenoch patting herself on the back as Labour implode..

Asda records near-£600m loss for 2024 as reasons revealed Supermarket chain Asda made a near-£600m loss last year during a period of struggle, the company’s new accounts have revealed.

Asda records £599m pre-tax loss for 2024 and admits to problems with pricing, product availability and customer experience last year - but says it is now turning a corner:
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/asd...

This is really excellent.

Rory Stewart on the new The Rest Is Politics notes that unless there's pushback - from European leaders especially - this will be pointed to in the future as "The Fordow Case", cited as a legitimate precedent whenever anyone wants to preemptively attack another country.

Trump has opened a Pandora’s box The US president hopes that his display of power in Iran will stop the war — but that is not his decision to make

"They say with Trump accusation is confession. Having warned during the 2024 campaign that Joe Biden, then Kamala Harris, would trigger “world war three”, Trump is now offering a perilous test of that proposition." My take. www.ft.com/content/c689...

NEW: Keir Starmer reacts supportively to the US strikes on Iran.

“Iran’s nuclear programme is a grave threat to international security. Iran can never be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon and the US has taken action to alleviate that threat.”

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Yeah definitely an amazing venue! They have a few plans from the sounds of it to increase revenue (such as charging to use the toilets) but inevitably big costs associated with operating such a huge site.

Halifax's Piece Hall reveals £700,000 loss after lower than expected gig profits and 'extraordinary increase' in bills The trust behind Halifax’s Piece Hall has recorded a £700,000 loss in its latest accounts – with lower than expected profits from gigs and an "extraordinary increase” in energy costs and inflation bla...

Halifax’s Piece Hall records £700,000 loss after disappointing gig profits - more public money likely to be needed for site from next year when current deal with Calderdale Council comes to an end:
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/hal...

British decline in one story.

Any state which finds itself incapable of managing a project as basic as rolling out a 20th century tech between its biggest cities needs to ask itself some profound questions about what hope it has of managing the technologies of the 21st.

Introducing The Yorkshire ISA Experiment! It is a little idea I’ve had to see if Yorkshire’s listed companies can outperform the wider market and cash savings rates. More details to come in tomorrow’s @yorkshirepost.co.uk business newsletter

“Delay, Interfere, Undermine” President Donald Trump has praised Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele as a crime fighter, but new reporting based on interviews and documents reveals how senior Salvadoran officials have impeded a U.S....

Breaking @propublica.org: Bukele of El Salvador has become one of Trump’s favorite authoritarians, and Trump touts him as a foe of MS-13. But a US investigation has found evidence he has colluded with the gang, even paying it for votes.
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Ha, lot to pick through!

SWFC News: Chansiri’s plummeting shares could partly explain Owls' financial crisis Sheffield Wednesday owner, Dejphon Chansiri, is yet to pay the money owed to players and staff – has a big valuation drop been the root cause of the Owls’ issues?

Excellent reporting from @yeswecrann.bsky.social on Sheffield Wednesday’s financial crisis, how ticket prices have risen as Dejphon Chansiri’s wealth has dropped and why administration may now be the best option for the club:
www.thestar.co.uk/sport/footba...

K.E.T

Yes… Hahaha… Yes!

Everyone has been scoffing at Reform’s DOGE plans but they’ve already delivered an impressive 100 per cent efficiency saving through the removal of their only staff member before he actually started doing anything.

Judi Dench-backed rebels seized a nature site 250 miles north of the capital today.

Drax of Drax Hall: New book reveals how Yorkshire-landowning family built wealth and influence through slavery ​A new book explores how a Yorkshire-landowning family built wealth and influence through slavery – and what their story says about Britain. Chris Burn reports.

The Tory MP, the slavery plantation and what their combination says about Britain:
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