THEIR reputation for raping and pillaging may not have set them out as the ideal role-models for an environmentally-friendly way of life. But it seems that lessons could perhaps be learnt from the Vikings after the intriguing discovery in Yorkshire of what is believed to be a me …

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Rishi Baveja survived a fall after his bungee cord harness came loose from his feet during a bungee jump.

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It's certainly one way of dealing with pitch invasions - though arguably a little too ruthless for general use. Here, caught on camera and on film, is the moment a cricketer's powerful throw felled a stray pigeon as it flew into the path of the ball.

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After his brain operation, Chris Gregory woke up a new man. An Irishman actually. And just to be sure, to be sure, the 30-year-old Yorkshire man sat up in his hospital bed and sang a stirring rendition of Danny Boy to his astonished fiancee.

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The old village of Flamborough, buttressed against the elements by high chalk cliffs that crumble perilously towards the North Sea below, is justifiably proud of its wildlife heritage.

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The pits have disappeared, the towns have changed beyond recognition - but those who witnessed the miners' strike will never forget the brutal clashes, bitter divisions and desperate sacrifices. Twenty-five years on, Donald Macintyre recalls the turmoil

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A Yorkshire pudding isn't a Yorkshire pudding if it is less than four inches tall, says the Royal Society of Chemistry. The Society has ruled on the acceptable dimensions of the Yorkshire pudding and is now issuing the definitive recipe.

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It's not a statistic I will remember with particular fondness, but I was Darren Gough's final first-class wicket. At the end of Somerset's game against Yorkshire at Scarborough, he smiled and goaded me by saying: "I am happy to finish with an Aussie in my pocket."

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Unique rock art and unprecedentedly clear bronze age field boundaries have emerged from the soot and cinders which were all that was left of two-and-a-half square miles of the North York Moors national park when fire crews and heavy rain finally swamped the area in September 2003 …

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The pitfalls of online shopping at the Evil Empire were revealed in their full horror to a monogamous South Yorkshire couple, who found 12 Mates condoms added to their Tesco.com shopping list.

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A Nazi sympathiser who kept nail bombs under his bed has been convicted of three terrorism offences. Martyn Gilleard, 31, of Goole, East Yorkshire, kept four home-made nail bombs, as well as bullets, swords, axes and knives in his flat.

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Tiffany is a lovable five-pound Yorkie who smiles (yes, "smiles") at everyone she greets! Tiffany is very much like a child. She will ignore you if she is more interested in what she is currently doing, like smelling around the yard when you want her to come in.

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This is our little "ray of Sunshine" and she has brought nothing but happiness to our family since we got her at the age of eight weeks. At the age of five she weighs around eight to nine pounds. Her mother was a purebred Maltese and her father was a purebred Yorkshire Terrier.

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The body of a badly-beaten Asian teenager has been discovered in a park, police said today. Officers are appealing for witnesses after the 16-year-old boy, who has not been named, was found in Crow Nest park, in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire, at 7.30pm yesterday.

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The headlines were uncompromising. "Estate is like a nastier Beirut" and "A real-life version of TV's Shameless" the tabloids screamed.

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Five people have been injured in an explosion at a disused pub in Leeds. The blast happened at the Florence Nightingale on Beckett Street, close to St James' Hospital, in the Burmantofts area of the city at 1338 BST.

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A NIGHT out to see a psychic at a Leeds pub led to two women reporting 'buried' sex abuse they suffered as young girls in the 1990s at the hands of the same man, a jury heard.

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Supermarket giant Tesco has taken a step closer to complete retail conquest of the country after buying stores on several remote Scottish isles. The move means the retailer now has branches in every Scottish postcode area

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In the weeks leading up to her death Sabia Rani, 19, was beaten so badly a pathologist described her injuries as similar to those sustained by being hit by a train.

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Churches in parts of Yorkshire could be told not to apply for National Lottery funding because it promotes gambling. Canon Tony Shepherd of St Peter's Church in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, said: "The church shouldn't benefit from other people's misery."

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The happiest day of a devoted couple's life wouldn't normally involve one of them turning up outside church in a hearse.

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There has been a call to ban all replica guns at a town's Second World War re-inactment weekend in October.

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A group of amateur film-makers believe they may have proof that ghosts really do exist after one of them caught something strange on camera.

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Almost 2,000 people in South Yorkshire have signed a petition objecting to gay couples adopting children. The petition, drawn up by the Christian People's Alliance (CPA), is being presented to Sheffield City Council to lobby against homosexuals adopting.

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The last time that God was said to have condemned a city was in the water-borne devastation of New Orleans, but it was eventually noticed that Hurricane Katrina had spared the rather louche streets of the French Quarter and flooded the more re­spectable districts, so opinions on …

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