David Behrens
The Yorkshire Post
United Kingdom
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Remembering when Yorkshire hosted the Eurovision Song Contest in 1982
It was a party unlike any other - Harrogate was handed the honour of hosting the Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest in 1982. → Read More
Remembering the highs and lows in Queen’s 70-year reign
EXACTLY 40 years separated the high and low points in the life of our present Sovereign. → Read More
Caution in the air as BBC and Channel Four mark their big anniversaries
Half a century ago, the BBC chose a satirist to deliver a history of its first 50 years. John Bird called his talk ‘We Seem to Have Lost the Picture’ and began it with a recording of the first television transmission from Alexandra Palace. → Read More
Best bargains on TVs, laptops and iPhones this Black Friday
Like it or not, the American phenomenon of Black Friday – the anticlimactic day after the excess of Thanksgiving in late November – has become ingrained in our own retail calendar. It’s even more of an event than the Boxing Day sales, which were our home-grown equivalent. → Read More
The £170 set-top box that lets you ‘record’ from the iPlayer
With more of us bypassing our TV aerials and satellite dishes these days in favour of streaming programmes directly from the internet, interest in traditional video recorders has started to decline. But there are still sound reasons to own one. → Read More
Your email is spying on you. Here’s how it’s done
Emails are less interactive than text messages; you don’t usually know if someone has read them unless or until you get a reply. At least, that’s the case for personal correspondence, but what of the mountain of commercial mail that clogs up your inbox? → Read More
Nostalgia: Remembering 1951 Festival of Britain in Leeds, York and Hull
It was a national exhibition in the heart of London which the Labour Government promoted as a beacon of change for a postwar Britain. But the optimism of the Festival of Britain 70 years ago was felt far beyond the capital. → Read More
Two features of the iPhone 13 that other handsets will copy
The level of obsolescence that manufacturers build into their phones these days is getting ridiculous. It’s only eight months since the release of the £700 iPhone 12 – claimed by Apple to be its best ever – yet it’s already been rendered obsolete by a tide of speculation about its successor. → Read More
Nostalgia: Lost age of pomp and ceremony on docks of the Humber
It remains the largest cargo port in England by tonnage, so Grimsby’s great days can hardly be said to be behind it – but these seldom-seen pictures from the archive reveal a lost age of pomp and ceremony along the banks of the Humber. → Read More
30 years on, Sheffield astronaut Helen Sharman is still a role model
Helen Sharman had already been to Mars when she was selected, three decades ago, to be Britain’s first astronaut and the first West European woman in space. → Read More
Grumbleweed Robin Colvill spends his lockdown time restoring old jukeboxes
Nearly 60 years have passed since Robin Colvill was interrupted as he tried to fix the Rock-Ola jukebox at the Delmonico Cafe in Leeds. → Read More
Knaresborough’s Pancake Bell sounds again – 82 years after vicar locked out the ringers
It last rang out across Knaresborough in 1938, but it wasn’t the imminent war that silenced the pancake bell as the traditional Lenten call to prayer – it was the vicar who locked out the bell ringers. → Read More
Cheers to 10 years of the York pub that beat Thatcher’s ‘beer orders’
Regulars will gather at a pub by the River Ouse this evening to celebrate its 10th anniversary in independent hands, amid calls for an end to the system which its owner says is threatening thousands of other community locals. → Read More
The huge telescope in the Yorkshire Dales that everyone is watching right now
The concrete bunker in a farmer’s field in the Yorkshire Dales is about as far as it’s possible to get from the Royal Observatory at Greenwich, architecturally speaking. → Read More
15 years after the ban, what’s the state of hunting in Yorkshire?
It was a piece of parliamentary horse-trading, exactly 15 years ago, that forever changed the landscape of the countryside. → Read More
Rail firms ‘stay silent on payouts for journey hold-ups’
TRAIN Operators fail to tell most passengers they can claim compensation when their journeys are delayed, a survey suggests. → Read More
How Anne Brontë is being reinvented in Haworth on her 200th birthday
The author of perhaps the first feminist novel in the English language would have enjoyed letting her hair down at her birthday party yesterday, its organisers thought. → Read More
Cameron makes rare appearance in Harrogate to promote book
David Cameron will make his only public appearance in the North of England, in Conservative-skewing Harrogate, next month to discuss his controversial memoirs. → Read More
Reflections of a Yorkshire brass band born from temperance roots
It began as a temperance movement, open only to townsfolk who had “signed the pledge” not to drink alcohol. → Read More
The tooth is out there – key to evolution is on the tip of our tongue, York scientists discover
The key to unlocking the secrets of human evolution may have been on the tip of our tongue all along, it emerged last night. → Read More