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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 04/02/2026
Uh-oh, we’ve been feeding the gremlins after midnight again! Our website is temporarily down. Please bear with us - we hope to be back with you all by this afternoon. Plenty of time to go outside and see if you can spot some early bees instead (pic from wildaboutgardens.org.uk)
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 01/12/2025
🎥 Hull showcases its growing artistic potential as the filming location for brand new Punjabi-language film, Dastaar By Angus Young @angusyoung61.bsky.social yorkshirebylines.co.uk/society/cult...
Street in Hull with sign saying "filming in progress"
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 18/08/2025
✍️ Summertime madness in the world of the ridiculous right Chaos and culture wars – the ridiculous right’s summertime madness spreads from the US to the UK By Ann Moody yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/sum... @annaubert.bsky.social
JD Vance with a microphone
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 07/08/2025
✍️ Wrongly threatened with deportation, artist turns ordeal into powerful solo show Tafadzwa Muchenje turns his three-year immigration battle into Ripples, a bold solo show debuting in Sheffield this September yorkshirebylines.co.uk/region/wrong...
A black man, Tafadzwa Muchenje, with his head tilted back, and his face and body covered with protected letters and numbers
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 06/08/2025
Follow our WhatsApp Channel to receive all our content direct to your phone (we still post to Bluesky and our other social media accounts, but our content can sometimes get lost here!): whatsapp.com/channel/0029...
Yorkshire rose
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 27/07/2025
This iconic view is not only stunning, and part of our heritage, but it's also primarily peat bog which is essential to carbon storage. This vital landscape could soon become the site of a massive industrial complex: Calderdale Energy Park.
Incredible view across the fields to Penistone Hill and a sea of red where the Mass Wuther is gathered
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 27/07/2025
Were you there today on Penistone Hill, Haworth (Brontë Country) for Actually the World's Most Wuthering Heights Day? Thanks to Julia Clarke from the Brontë Parsonage Museum for sharing this amazing video and images with us. Read the article in the thread for more info ⤵️
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 13/07/2025
As the Northern Hemisphere swelters through yet another blistering summer, when will governments act on the dire predictions from climate experts? And will it come too late to ensure all areas of the Earth remain suitable for human habitation? yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/environ...
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 04/07/2025
Much obliged!! 🎉 Thank you everyone for following us 🙏 As it says in our profile, to volunteer as a writer, editor or behind the scenes, email editor@yorkshirebylines.co.uk
Screenshot of profile showing 30k followers
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 14/06/2025
We're looking forward to this Bylines Network webinar on Monday! There are still spaces available if you want to join us. "Equality and diversity in media and journalism: where do we go from here?" Reserve your space here ⤵️ www.tickettailor.com/events/bylin...
Equality and diversity in media and journalism: where do we go from here?

Image of Shirish Kulkani with details of the webinar: 6pm 16 June 2025

Adjacent quote reads "We're at a critical turning point, where we have the opportunity to reconnect with the purpose of journalism in the service of everyone, not just the privileged few."
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 30/05/2025
Sorry, the link dropped off. We've added it back in, but there is the screenshot too:
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 25/05/2025
Very excited about our next webinar on 16 June. The topic is diversity in the media ~ featuring some great speakers! Book your place here ⤵️
A flyer that says "Bylines Network Webinar. Equality and diversity in media and journalism. Where do we go from here?

Join media professionals and everyday citizens working to make our media more inclusive. Find out about research, alternative media models, and tools to shape better journalism."

There is a QR code to swipe and a URL - https://bit.ly.mediaEDI - for booking.

On the other side of the flyer, the speakers are listed.

Diane Kemp, Director of the Sir Lenny Henry Centre for Media Diversity and Professor of Broadcast Journalism at Birmingham City University.

Jennie Kermode, journalist specialising in LGBTQ issues and film, Bylines Network EDI coordinator and Bylines Scotland writer. 

Mike Findlay-Agnew, CEO International Network of Street Papers, LGBTQ+ and EDI trainer, and freelance writer on equality. 

Shirish Kulkani, journalist, researcher and community organiser. Currently News Innovation Research Fellow at Media Cymru/Cardiff University School of Journalism and founder of Inclusive Journalism Cymru.
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 19/05/2025
🍌 Going bananas for …. mango buttercream This banana bread with silky mango buttercream will make you fall back in love with lockdown’s favourite bake – fresh, warm, and irresistible By Meryl White @grandmaabson.bsky.social yorkshirebylines.co.uk/society/food...
Slice of banana bread with mango buttercream
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 22/04/2025
Top Withens: unique protected Yorkshire peat bog under threat As we celebrate #EarthDay, will the government let short-term cash trump the long-term conservation of our carbon-storing blanket peat bogs? By Nick MacKinnon yorkshirebylines.co.uk/region/top-w...
Top Withens in the winter
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 14/04/2025
Hmm, well that was a fun half hour, and I got this, but it's still not an emoji!
White flower!
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 14/04/2025
Much obliged! But we were after something a little smaller and cuter ;)
Yorkshire White Rose
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 29/03/2025
We're chuffed to announce that we've just sailed through 8 million visits to our website!! In just over 2 weeks we'll be celebrating our 5th anniversary. We're really proud of what we've done in this time. Thank you to all our contributors, our editors & uploaders, and our readers & supporters 🙏🎉
Banner in red and gold showing 8 million+ views thank you
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 01/03/2025
Yes 😅
Close up of the design at the top of Huddersfield Town Hall organ
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 01/03/2025
Proud to be Yorkshire! #HuddersfieldTownHall #BrassBand
The pipes of the magnificent organ in Huddersfield Town Hall, with the Yorkshire flag in front
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 01/03/2025
It's the Yorkshire area brass band finals today and tomorrow! Just warming up now 😉 Good luck to all the bands competing!
Close up of the bell of an Eb tuba resting
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 19/02/2025
Oh good grief, what fresh hell is this? Keep out!
Screenshot from Wallace and Gromit showing "Yorkshire Border Keep Out"
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 02/02/2025
✍️ An overview of the myriad disappointments of the Starmer Labour government, 2024-25 "You wanted hope and change and what did you get? Austerity, repackaged with a red rosette." © Steve Pottinger 2 Feb 2025 @bigstevepoet.bsky.social with cartoon by @sdupp.bsky.social
Cartoon of a Labour-brandee ticket machine showing "promises" and "no change given"
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 29/01/2025
Each article has a share button for Bluesky already. Immediately below the image, look for the two cute (too cute) butterflies!
Screenshot of article image of Trump waving, showing social media share buttons below
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 22/01/2025
Statement from IMPRESS: How can the public trust an industry where invasions of privacy and coverups remain commonplace? yorkshirebylines.co.uk/letters/lett...
Prince Harry
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 16/01/2025
Apologies, we posted an article earlier from the Yorkshire Post that said Wensleydale Creamery was shutting down, ending more than a century of cheese making in the Yorkshire village This was incorrect, it's only the packaging factory they're shutting. Teach us to trust other newspapers' headlines!
Screenshot of original post
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 15/01/2025
Dear editor | If Zuckerberg truly believes in free speech, he must balance it with accountability and transparency. Free speech without responsibility is not a principle to celebrate – it’s a recipe for chaos | Malik Takreem Ahmad, Bradford yorkshirebylines.co.uk/letters/lett...
Mark Zuckerberg in front of a Meta sign
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 14/01/2025
Would you look like this??
Screenshot of Mad Max Road Warrior
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 14/01/2025
Dear editor | On 15 January, local adoption charity and voluntary adoption agency, Adoption Matters, will be supporting Big Adoption Day. Learn more about it here! | Jennie Macquire yorkshirebylines.co.uk/letters/lett...
Close up of two children wearing pink winter clothes
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 10/01/2025
For anyone concerned about Phillip the Elf, and those of us still digging our cars out of the snow, you'll be pleased to see he's found a friend to help him!
Two tiny elves moving a massive block of snow
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 05/01/2025
Oh no! Thankfully someone offered him a home for the weekend 🥰
Phillip the elf sat on a bridge
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 05/01/2025
Indeed! Yorkshire Tea to the rescue!
Yorkshire Tea lorry in the snow
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 05/01/2025
Here you are! Thankfully my neighbour's little boy isn't quite as nesh as me. Here's his snowman ☃️
Snowman
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 05/01/2025
Tiny elf (on a shelf) doing snow angels
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 05/01/2025
Indeed!
Screenshot from Wallace and Gromit film showing a bridge with police vans approaching from the Lancashire and Yorkshire sides, with a "no parkin" sign on the Lancashire side
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 05/01/2025
Meanwhile, here in Yorkshire...
Close up of a snowy branch of a bush, with a tiny Christmas elf straddling the branch
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 05/01/2025
Feels like this Met Office weather warning should be read in a Sean Connery accent. It's going to be "especailly" cold today Moneypenny! 🥶
Met Office weather warning for Monday 6 January about snow and ice, with the word "especially" spelled incorrectly
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 05/01/2025
Snap!
Snow on buildings and trees
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 05/01/2025
Good grief! Not quite what we have here, but it's very pretty!
Snow on trees
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 04/01/2025
Yay, we have snow! But it's all in the sky and none on the ground 😂
Snow falling in the light of a single lamp post, but a clear street
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 04/01/2025
I won Munchkin this Christmas!
Munchkin game board
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 04/01/2025
If you see someone sleeping rough this weekend, contact StreetLink by phone or by downloading its app. StreetLink enables the public to connect rough sleepers with local services that can help them into emergency accommodation. If it is an emergency, dial 999. thestreetlink.org.uk
Rough sleeper sat on the pavement in the snow
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 04/01/2025
Love this!
Map of UK showing snow locations, broadly across from London to South Wales
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 04/01/2025
England: North vs South right now! (No sign of any snow here on the border of West and South Yorkshire. Anyone else?)
Two images labelled "north" and "south". The north one has people queuing at an ice-cream van. The south one has a panic-stricken man laden with loads of bread and milk
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 04/01/2025
Just a bit 😉 www.london.gov.uk/media-centre...
Graph showing that ULEZ has reduced nitrogen dioxide levels in inner London by 21%, and central London by 48%
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 04/01/2025
Dear editor | When King Charles knights Sadiq Khan, the children of London should breathe deeply and applaud him | Justin Enthoven To write to Yorkshire Bylines, email editor@yorkshirebylines.co.uk yorkshirebylines.co.uk/letters/lett...
Laptop open on a wooden surface
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 02/01/2025
His next piece is going to be on Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu, looking at where this iteration sits among the mythos, history and existing cinema carved out by FW Murnau’s storied Symphony of Horror. I know, we're excited too!
Movie poster for Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu, showing a bald pale vampire with long fingers and pointed ears, dressed in black
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 02/01/2025
Our frenemies across the border are a tantalising 7 followers short of 12k! In the spirit of Christmas, W&G style, please don't follow them or they might start being even friendlier!! @nwbylines.bsky.social
Screenshot from Wallace and Gromit Vengeance Most Fowl, showing Feathers McGraw holding a bag of "loot" in front of a sign saying "Yorkshire Border | Keep Out!"
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 28/12/2024
Still from Vengeance Most Fowl showing Feathers McGraw next to a sign saying "Lancashire Border: NO YOU KEEP OUT"
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 28/12/2024
Checking copyright on this before uploading, but in the meantime here you are!
The 11.5 mile missing line between Skipton and Colne. Map also shows other lines in the area
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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 25/12/2024
So who just watched Wallace & Gromit ~ Vengeance Most Fowl? Absolutely cracking! No spoilers... but we loved the "No Parkin" sign on the Lancashire side of the border! If you didn't catch it live, watch it when you can on iPlayer. Enjoy!
Movie poster for Wallace&Gromit Vengeance Most Fowl showing the main characters
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