Yorkshire today, Friday 21 February 2025
Then!
Yorkshire in history:
- 21 February 1688: On Shrove-Tuesday, cock-throwing York apprentices break a Catholic window, and the militia intervenes, torturing citizens and violating their civic rights
- 21 February 1718: Elizabeth Hodgson and William Reeston are excommunicated in St. Augustine’s, Hedon for having an illegitimate child
- 21 February 1835: The Spectator summarises the respective preoccupations of Leeds’s Tory and Whig establishments – partying, and preventing implementation of the child labour provisions of the Factory Act
- 21 February 1853: Henry Warrass (14) dies like his fellow-Sheffielder, the infanticide Alfred Warrington
Proverbially:
Dean’t o’ Friday buy your ring,
O’ Friday dean’t put t’ spurrins [banns] in;
Dean’t wed o’ Friday. Think on o’ this,
Nowther blue nor green mun match her driss.
(Moorman 1916)
Now!
Hull, on earth and in heaven:
- Tonight: light cloud, temperature 9°C (47°F), wind southerly 19mph, visibility good, pressure 1005mb, humidity 87%, UV risk 0/11, pollution low
- Sun: 07:04-17:24, zenith 12:14
- Moon: rise 03:05 set 09:30, waning crescent
- Tides (King George Dock): low 05:06 (2.33m), high 11:21 (5.87m), low 17:23 (2.49m), high 23:48 (5.78m)
BBC local news for Hull and East Yorkshire:
- Train services to be disrupted by strike action
- Rugby club backs drive on men’s mental health
- Seven projects make architectural awards shortlist
- Rail disruption extended due to bridge works
- Domestic abuse 999 pilot launched after murders
- Your questions answered on immigration and migration
- Second dog survives 50ft fall from railway bridge
- Man of Steel Lewis suffers injury in Hull KR win
- Hull’s Crooks opens up on epilepsy diagnosis
- Hooker Balmforth extends contract at Hull FC
Leeds, on earth and in heaven:
- Tonight: partly cloudy, temperature 7°C (45°F), wind southerly 14mph, visibility good, pressure 1004mb, humidity 82%, UV risk 0/11, pollution low
- Water level in Meanwood Beck at Monk Bridge: 0.29m (within normal range, highest recorded level 1.93m on 6 May 2024) (EA)
- Sun: 07:09-17:29, zenith 12:19
- Moon: rise 03:11 set 09:35, waning crescent
BBC local news for West Yorkshire:
- Brothers jailed for historic sex offences
- Plans to demolish ‘at risk’ swimming pool mural
- Cool-headed conductor praised for helping baby
- Leisure centre and school get £5m to go green
- Boy seriously hurt in bypass crash
- ‘We need people through the museum door’
- Seven projects make architectural awards shortlist
- Rugby league pundit charged with sexual assault
- Uprooted child’s grave shows ‘lack of compassion’
- ‘Kind, warm and loving man’ dies after hit-and-run
Middlesbrough, on earth and in heaven:
- Tonight: clear sky, temperature 7°C (45°F), wind southerly 19mph, visibility good, pressure 1003mb, humidity 83%, UV risk 0/11, pollution low
- Sun: 07:10-17:26, zenith 12:18
- Moon: rise 03:16 set 09:27, waning crescent
- Tides (dock entrance): low 02:45 (2.20m), high 09:14 (4.29m), low 15:05 (2.44m), high 21:44 (4.25m)
BBC local news for Tees:
- Band caps ticket price to ‘make gigs accessible’
- Search for missing woman focuses on running trails
- ‘Brain injury after Covid-19 stole my daughter’
- Council told to improve adult social care
- Tutankhamun explorer suitcase found under bed
- Uni head helped by miners’ fund opens scholarship
- Forty-year-old chocolate wrapper found in river
- Police express caution over housing plan
- Absent mark for taking siblings to school ‘unfair’
- Old hospital ‘not a single penny’ investment claim
Sheffield, on earth and in heaven:
- Tonight: partly cloudy, temperature 8°C (46°F), wind south westerly 16mph, visibility good, pressure 1004mb, humidity 86%, UV risk 0/11, pollution low
- Sun: 07:08-17:30, zenith 12:19
- Moon: rise 03:07 set 09:38, waning crescent
BBC local news for South Yorkshire:
- Funeral held for school knife attack victim
- Rail disruption extended due to bridge works
- Hundreds caught speeding on stretch of M1 – police
- New funding for breast cancer recurrence research
- Seven projects make architectural awards shortlist
- Mum fears daughter’s rapid deterioration without drug
- Sheffield council wants maximum 4.99% tax rise
- Man fined £65,000 for cutting down trees
- Judge rules on future of famous city venue
- Special needs transport costs go £7m over budget
York, on earth and in heaven:
- Tonight: partly cloudy, temperature 7°C (44°F), wind southerly 16mph, visibility good, pressure 1004mb, humidity 86%, UV risk 0/11, pollution low
- Sun: 07:08-17:27, zenith 12:17
- Moon: rise 03:10 set 09:31, waning crescent
BBC local news for North Yorkshire:
- Teenager died after 50ft roof fall on night out
- Extensive searches for missing 91-year-old man
- Teen photographer’s bucket list appeal nears £100k
- More knife bins installed after trial success
- Hospital rebuild could cost up to £1.5bn
- Seven projects make architectural awards shortlist
- Woman, 74, dies after being hit by vehicle
- Replica Star Wars blaster pistols to be auctioned
- MP opposed to assisted dying bill to hold meeting
- Arrest made over graffiti damage at medieval abbey
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