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Yorkshire Customer Service Fail
Yorkshire folk like to pride themselves on their ‘plain speaking’ Sometimes, though, blunt talk is better left unsaid. It is generally not good business practice, for instance, to call a customer a...
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Educating Mushy
Yorkshire schoolboy Musharaf “Mushy” Asghar has a bad stammer. Because of this, he was bullied at school – so much so, that in year 7, he skipped school, attending only one day in three, on average...
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Lock Up Your Women (and Sheep)
tharull sort yon boogers !stout-hearted, ale-supping, pigeon fancying Yorkshiremen, armed with shovels and well-trained whippets are readying to repel foreign invaders intent on rape and pillage no,...
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French-Yorkshire Translation Guide
the Tour de France comes to Yorkshire this weekend to help communication between locals and cyclists, the Huffington Post has made available this handy wee translation guide to some common expressions...
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Hitler’s Trip to Lancashire
Hitler’s boozy weekend trip to Yorkshire re-routed to Lancashire – he is not amused!
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Flaw x flaw
When my brother and I began potholing as late teenagers, 40-odd years ago, we were dependent on others for transport, as neither of us drove. That the club we joined was based in our small coal-mining...
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I know that I’m from the county of the red rose, but . . .
. . . there are times when I really have to admire the spirit of that white rose lot from the other side of the pennines.
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They Don’t Dig the Coal Here Anymore
summer of 1979, my 1st wife and I decided to return to Scotland for 3-4 weeks to catch up with friends and family – (we were living in Canada at the time) it was a Saturday when we arrived hame in...
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Made for BBC4’s Listen to Britain, this hand drawn animated documentary captures the everyday sounds of Yorkshire (NOTL) .
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