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'Incredibly lucky to survive' - Nurse remembers horror fire which killed 56 and maimed 265

It was one of the worst disasters in football history

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The Yorkshire battalions who bravely fought in the Second World War

Soldiers from across Yorkshire served throughout the Second World War

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The Huddersfield village nearly wiped out months before VE day

A huge blast damaged more than 100 properties and people were thrown from their beds

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Incredible pictures tell history of WWII from home, abroad and the frontline

The Mirror has commissioned a special edition magazine to commemorate the 80th anniversary of VE Day. World War Two: A History in 50 Photographs is a must have for anyone who wants to remember the war and the brave soldiers and citizens who lived through it

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The lost Yorkshire horror museum which upset townsfolk and vicars

The museum was accused of being in bad taste

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Ancient haunted pub in the shadow of a 21st-century Yorkshire city

The city’s oldest tavern stands in stark contrast to the glass office blocks surrounding it

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The 'forgotten' Huddersfield tragedy that killed eight but was 'hushed up' for years

Fierce blaze left several factory workers dead and many others injured

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The maps and plans behind the North Yorkshire town that never happened

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It became a tourist site in its own way - but not how developers had hoped

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Inside creepy abandoned mortuary in Yorkshire where Jimmy Savile once prowled

High Royds Hospital is set to be transformed into residential housing if plans go ahead

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31 fascinating photos capture city life in Liverpool 70 years ago

So much has changed since these photographs were taken

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The confusing M62 Yorkshire junction irritating drivers for decades

But the 'half junction' isn't about lazy engineering

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The mysterious magical stones taller than Stonehenge hidden next to the A1 in Yorkshire

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Yorkshire is full of historical sites, but none are more mysterious than the Devil's Arrows

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The underrated Yorkshire city with an unfair bad reputation

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‘Have people who write off this city actually been?’

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The chilling story of Yorkshire serial killer who dabbled in witchcraft

The fortune-teller and poisoner cheated her victims through elaborate scams and pseudo witchcraft.

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Mystery surrounds Huddersfield church dig as shells, bottles and bones discovered

Treasure trove found alongside human bones in Huddersfield town centre

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Yorkshire's surprisingly attractive ex-mining village where ‘nothing of note has happened’

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Stuff has happened in this supremely affordable place – if you care to dig deeper

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The shops we miss from Yorkshire's high streets and highways

From kids’ clothes vendors to fine wine purveyors, these are the stores we remember fondly

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The beautiful but fringey attractions 'not in Yorkshire anymore'

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They’re in County Durham, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Teesside and even Lancashire

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We visit Yorkshire's medieval ghost village now abandoned to sheep

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The remains of the abandoned settlement of Wharram Percy are fully explorable

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When Yorkshire lost 120 years of history after 150ft tumble down a cliff

The Holbeck Hall Hotel in Scarborough had stood on the top of a cliff for over a century

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The huge and ancient Yorkshire abbey with a very strange name

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It’s a pity Henry VIII had to ruin it

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Yorkshire's dark side: Disturbing places still haunted by murders and executions

Historic horrors you won't feel ashamed to visit

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Huddersfield hero killed aged 24 on D-Day 'left off local war memorials'

Sergeant Eric Lightower was co-pilot of a glider on June 6, 1944

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Huddersfield waves of nostalgia in '12 things we no longer see' as times change

Disappearing shops, pubs, restaurants, cinemas and well-known characters

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South Yorkshire Police

PC Josh Brett leaped into action

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