A Sheffield-based house builder has launched a partnership division, with projects in place to deliver 286 affordable homes.

The solar farm in Seaham, County Durham, was approved by Durham County Council's planning committee and will be built on land ...

AN eighty-seven-home project has been completed on brownfield land in Leigh as part of a £20 million housing scheme.

Now the council has said that the cost of the new building, a mile away from its current site, would be an estimated £59.4 ...

York Brass Against Cancer returns for its fourth instalment at The Grand Opera House in York on the February 23 this year. Featuring Hammonds Band from West Yorkshire as well as York’s own Shepherd ...

More than 100 new homes will be built on a former Derbyshire colliery, despite a plea that the “entire town does not need building over”. At a South Derbyshire District Council meeting last ...

Plans for 150 houses on a former Derbyshire colliery are set for approval after two years in limbo. The scheme, from Harworth Group, would see 150 houses built on the northern side of the former ...

A County Durham shop’s bid to sell alcohol faces opposition from 200 residents concerned about increased violent incidents and ...

At Banwen there were 1,300 men and 90 horses working. The stables were as good as anything you would see at Newmarket. They were immaculate. The horses were washed, and because it was a drift mine the ...

Tom Dobbin is 97, and his life stretches back to a time when coal was king, when journalists went in search of scoops, and men were hanged ...

Anthracite coal converted this region from agrarian to industrial. The discovery of hard coal — and the discovery by Jesse Fell of how to burn the stuff — spurred booms in the economy and population.

"I took a deep breath and fell in love." Ynysowen is a valley that has been living and changing over the years and for Sheila it's never lost its beauty. "The first time I saw the valley, it had been ...