Posts by yorkshire reporter

Historic England has published its annual Heritage at Risk Register for 2021. The Register is the yearly health-check of England’s most valued historic places and those most at risk of being lost forever as a result of neglect, decay or inappropriate development. Over the last year, 17 historic buildings sites…

Coram Shakespeare Schools Foundation (CSSF) is bringing an exciting two-year theatre project to rural schools in the North Yorkshire Moors and Yorkshire Dales. Four schools in the area will have the opportunity to take part in “Off-Grid” and collaborate with the award-winning team that produces the world’s largest youth drama…

Pupils from Marton cum Grafton Primary School enjoyed a maths lesson with a difference after they were offered the chance to put their knowledge to the test on a building site. A group of 15 year six children were invited for a tour of a new housing site called Yew…

Seven million trees, the equivalent of 4900 football pitches or 3500 hectares, could be planted in North and West Yorkshire over the next four years as part of an Action Plan launched by the White Rose Forest partnership. The White Rose Forest Action Plan 2021-25 sets out how tree planting…

Octopus Energy Group announced it will raise and create £4 billion of global people-led renewable energy projects through ‘Fan Club – The Collective’ by 2030. The initiative will be world leading in combining institutional and retail money to grow green energy projects at scale.   To kick the pledge off…

Knowing what height of tree you’ll fit into your living room is a challenge many of us face, but what happens when the space you’re filling includes a large floorspace with a huge galleried dome up above?  You go for the largest tree you can – and this year’s Christmas…