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GetFaked: how a star baker confected his enemies
Rich Myers went viral for airing his haters online. Turns out they weren’t real
‘I’ve been perplexed by Samuel Smith’s for the best part of 20 years’
Humphrey Smith ran – and closed - dozens of pubs, always doing it his way. What happens now he’s gone?
Channel 4’s move to Leeds was meant to be a “game changer”. Has it worked out that way?
‘It just seems to me the worst kind of TV window dressing’
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Mia Jankowicz
Mia became a journalist when revolution broke out in Cairo, the city she was living at the time. She has since covered international stories for Business Insider including Covid disinformation and stranded sailors on abandoned container ships.
Brad Deas
Brad has reported on the region for eight years at the Telegraph & Argus in Bradford. His work exposed the dire state of Evri's Bradford depot and revealed how a council data leak led a man in his late 40s to discover he had been adopted.
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Leeds buried its tram network. Did it shrink the city?
We crunched the numbers: Leeds' population is much bigger than in 1957, but it's far harder to actually get into the centre
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Kirklees Tories handed Reform power. They’re already regretting it
'I’ll be doing my damnedest to remove them next year'
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Skelton Grange data centre pushback grows but council stays firm
Plus: the American water company extracting West Yorkshire water for less than £10k a year
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