Author Archive for: Martin Wainwright

National parks get extra funds to bury power lines

Do you know of any unsightly ones? The Yorkshire Dales would like to hear from you. And archaeologists will be pleased as wellYou may not feel that the landscape of the north could be improved, at least in our five national parks, but you would be wron…

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An imposing future for Middlesbrough’s bees

This year’s honey on Teesside will be made in hives modelled on the town’s wealth of modern architectureLife can be good if you are a bee living in Middlesbrough; the climate is mild and the rolling miles of heather on the North York Moors are only a s…

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Yorkshire Dales win film gold from one end of the US to the other

The prizes have been dished out at Houston and Anchorage, but we can see the film in Settle, Keighley, Bowness, Hexham and other points northAlright, I come clean. This is a bit of an excuse to use some more pictures of the grim north, in the form of t…

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Farewell to the north

Looking back on 25 years covering the north of England for the Guardian, Martin Wainwright celebrates a land of toil, innovation – and brilliant motorway services”Sssh!” is the likeliest epitaph for my quarter of a century’s work for the Guardian in …

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Snow blows spring back as icy weather returns to UK

Watch out, daffodils, house martins and commuters: freezing conditions, Met Office warnings and rail chaos are here againSnow and icily low temperatures have returned to the UK in force, with blizzards in southern parts of England and the freezing weat…

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Peregrine falcons in Sheffield – now you can spy on them at home

Sheffield University webcam starts tracking the nest life of Yorkshire pioneering urban birdsSorry to be shamelessly county-ist about this, but let’s hear it for Yorkshire’s first urban breeding pair of peregrine falcons.Yes, I know that Manchester has…

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Anti-fracking protesters set up drilling rig in George Osborne’s constituency

Greenpeace’s rush hour stunt aimed to highlight fact that licences for gas exploration have been issued in areaGreenpeace protesters have launched an ambush over fracking for gas in the Cheshire constituency of George Osborne.A score of demonstrators s…

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Bracken spray on moors gets temporary reprieve

Landowners and farmers win another season to make their case for keeping the lovely but invasive plant within limits on our northern hillsI like bracken and always have since childhood games of hide-and-seek on the Deer Hill above Bolton Abbey. The gam…

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Sunderland student plots the Arctic’s melting ice

Voices from the past add years of detail to Polar research – once you’ve mastered Geordie and Yorkshire slang for different types of snow and iceSir Ranulph Fiennes’ prudent withdrawal from Antarctica comes in the same week as the successful return fro…

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Cockermouth poets tell a watery tale

More than 80 ways of looking in verse at floods, torrents, waterspouts, seas, rain – and a faraway desertThe Cumbrian town of Cockermouth has been a model of how to revive a community following a disaster. It was helped in the early days after the deva…

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