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Short story competition winners!

It took us months of deliberation, but we finally picked our winners for the True Romance competition - click here to read the top three entries!

Explore our brand new Wedding Directory: everything you need and need to know to make your Big Day the best day of your life! Just click here.

In History read the story of an extra-terrestrial visitor in It Came From Outer Space...

Click here to read the winning and short-listed tales from our ghost story competition, and here to read the long-list. Thanks to everyone who entered.

Take a trip to Easingwold. Enjoy the splendour of Sutton Park. Explore Ilkley - and find out why it means so much to Alan Titchmarsh.

Learn more about Starship Trooper, Patrick Stewart... and about his fellow acting great, Avenging Angel Diana Rigg.

And you can look around another magnificent home for sale in Property of the Month.

You can savour the opinions of our controversial blogger, Walter Ego. Make a date with our new Gardeners' Calendar for September, and celebrate 100 years of hairdressing with Andrew Coll inge.

You can enjoy a brush with painting Yorkshire landscapes in Artbeat, and visit painttube.tv, our web TV channel for people who want to enjoy art and create art.

In Wildlife discover Yorkshire's Living Landscape, and enjoy some video memories of the late, great natural history film maker, Nick Gordon. In History you can take a tour of Prehistoric Yorkshire.

Picks of the Day from this and our other sites

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Watch a short movie made in Chester to mark the launch of Marco Pierre White's new restaurant. He began his career in Harrogate and the 'Hell's Kitchen' star reveals how he has not forgotten his northern roots and explains the philosophy behind the Steakhouse Bar & Grill and his other local venture, the Swan Inn at Aughton near Ormskirk, Lancashire. Click here to play the video and look out for this icon elsewhere on the site.

60 years ago the genius of two men turned the seaside town of Southport into the centre of the universe. On April 14 1950, from an old bakery in the Churchtown district, a vicar and an unknown artist launched Eagle comic and its front page hero, Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future. Read Future Perfect and watch video.

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News from Hollywood suggests that the film adaptation of 'The Hobbit', the prequel to 'The Lord of the Rings', has been put on ice for the time being. But Tolkien fans don't despair - we reveal how Lancashire played an important role in the creation of the author's fantastic landscapes. Watch The Real Middle-Earth.