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The Welcome to Yorkshire initiative are breathing new life into a Yorkshire classic with a new version of “On Ilkla Moor Baht ‘At”. It is hoped that the new recording will introduce the song to a younger, global audience. The song include a performance by the Grimethorpe Colliery Band and will feature a rap by Yorkshire born Brian Blessed.

The village of Great Ouseburn, near Boroughbridge is marking the 70th anniversary of a historic wartime plane crash by making a permanent memorial. The plaque will be unveiled during the village’s spring festival on Sunday 29th April. It will commemorate the 1942 crash where a flight carrying Russian military officials crashed into a field, killing all on board.