The parched state of the Ladybower Reservoir outside Sheffield – where water levels are seriously low and the lost Derwent village has surfaced again, hitting the national headlines by attracting vandals – is a stark reminder of just how dry this year's scorching summer was.
Countryside campaigners welcome a new plan for greater public access to the great outdoors Reporter Charlie Bullough looks at proposals to improve access for walkers and other outdoor enthusiasts.
Doncaster waste bosses have said lorries regularly breaking down, a snow storm, new routes and IT systems all contributed to swathes of missed bin collections earlier this year.
New research released today by Leeds Building Society, reveals just how much Yorkshire residents value their local community spaces, and the impact they have on our wellbeing.
Memorial trees planted in memory of fallen World War One soldiers are to be saved after Sheffield Council cancelled plans to chop them down, according to the city’s Green Party.
A revamped former cutlery works, a bar in a disused public toilet and a bird hide on the Chatsworth estate are among the winners of this year's Sheffield Design Awards.
Forty-five years ago Philip Eastwood and his wife Margaret stumped up £500 to buy a tearoom beside a stop on the Hope Valley railway line in the Peak District - establishing a family business and a countryside institution that survives to this day.
“We’ve got the whole story, from the modern period right back to the medieval,” says Dinah Saich of the South Yorkshire Archaeology Service, standing near one of 11 deep trenches that have been dug at the site of Sheffield’s lost castle.
A group of anti-fracking activists on the edge of Sheffield say they are going to ‘build an army’ of residents to stop the controversial industry in its tracks.
The imprisonment of a Sheffield man who took part in an anti-fracking protest has starkly illustrated the depth of feeling against the controversial practice in the city - proving that opponents are prepared to risk jail for their beliefs.
The partner of a Sheffield scientist who was jailed for protesting against fracking has made an impassioned appeal for funds to help challenge his sentence.
Bert Ward was a determined sort. The engineer, keen walker and founder of the Sheffield Clarion Ramblers – claimed to be the first active club of its kind in 1900 – thought the countryside should be free for all to enjoy lawfully, and he knew the forces he was up against.
As a Birkdale schoolboy fond of scouring the bookshelves at Sheffield's Central Library, Michael Palin always made a beeline for a certain type of story - heroic seafaring tales like CS Forester's Horatio Hornblower novels and The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat.
