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At Energising Britain North East & Yorkshire 2026, the climate transition wasn't an abstract policy debate. It was a cathedral roof, a football club, a chip shop, a housing charity - and a group of Bradford schoolkids showing the grown-ups what agency looks like

From Riot To Reconciliation: The Sunderland Residents Telling Britain's Most Important Story

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After the riots, they wrote letters to their city. Now Britain is being invited to hear them

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Boots On, Future Ahead: Eight Paid Countryside Apprenticeships Open Across the Dales

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Eight young people are being offered the chance to earn, learn and begin a career caring for some of the North’s most important landscapes.

The Future of Jazz Is Coming to Harrogate - and It Didn’t Happen by Accident

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Camilla George brings a new generation of extraordinary musicians to Harrogate’s Spiegeltent this summer. Behind the programme lies the story of Tomorrow’s Warriors: an organisation that has spent 35 years changing who gets heard, who gets supported — and, ultimately, the sound of British jazz itself

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Be Like The Sun

At Energising Britain North East & Yorkshire 2026, the climate transition wasn't an abstract policy debate. It was a cathedral roof, a football club, a chip shop, a housing charity - and a group of Bradford schoolkids showing the grown-ups what agency looks like

From Riot To Reconciliation: The Sunderland Residents Telling Britain's Most Important Story

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After the riots, they wrote letters to their city. Now Britain is being invited to hear them

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No Soggy Bottoms: Ilkley Musical Theatre Society Is Looking for Its Next Star Bakers

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Can you sing, act and maintain your composure when somebody mentions an underproved focaccia? Ilkley Musical Theatre Society is holding auditions for its spring 2027 production of The Great British Bake Off Musical

Youth Mental Health Concerns Highlight Need For Stronger Support Networks, Says Local Charity

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There's never been a more important moment to positively impact a young person's life

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Our Generation Is Green: Young Filmmaker Returns To The Yorkshire Dales

Former Green Futures participant Willow Driscoll-Duke returns as a filmmaker with a documentary about nature, belonging and young people’s environmental hopes

Boots On, Future Ahead: Eight Paid Countryside Apprenticeships Open Across the Dales

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Eight young people are being offered the chance to earn, learn and begin a career caring for some of the North’s most important landscapes.

Knowing What Shouldn’t Be There: Nidderdale Calls On Its Communities To Help Protect Its Rivers

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The people who know Nidderdale’s rivers, becks and footpaths best are being asked to help identify invasive species before they spread further. A few minutes spent recording what we see could contribute to years of better-informed conservation work

The Return Of The Red Kite To The Yorkshire Wolds

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Milvus milvus: The formerly endangered migrant - that is now one of the North's most successful breeders

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A Button, A Prison Cell And The Weight Of History

At Aviva Studios, Ai Weiwei has built an exhibition from empire, industry, migration, war and personal captivity. Monumental in scale, Button Up! asks Manchester to look again at the forces that made the modern world — but its most powerful object may be the button that once fell from a prisoner’s trousers

The Future of Jazz Is Coming to Harrogate - and It Didn’t Happen by Accident

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Camilla George brings a new generation of extraordinary musicians to Harrogate’s Spiegeltent this summer. Behind the programme lies the story of Tomorrow’s Warriors: an organisation that has spent 35 years changing who gets heard, who gets supported — and, ultimately, the sound of British jazz itself

Doing Time Together: Christine And Lois Mackie Enter The Emotional Lockdown Of Iron

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Real-life mother and daughter Christine and Lois Mackie will appear together on stage for the first time in a new northern production of Rona Munro’s prison drama Iron. But behind the irresistible casting story is a much darker examination of motherhood, memory and the price of a truth withheld for fifteen years

Fringe Festival Reviving Morecambe’s Performance Heritage Has ‘Art for Everyone’

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Morecambe Bay Fringe Festival has everything from cabaret and comedy to live music and spoken word for a landmark 10th anniversary edition of the festival that has underpinned a cultural renewal in the seaside town

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