Steve Teale

Chinese manufacturers dominate the UK’s new car market, and BYD is one of the most successful on our shores. In just three years, the company has introduced eight new models to the market, featuring electric and plug-in hybrid setups with affordable price tags and bang-up-to-date technology.

Not everyone has a plot the size of Belvoir Castle but that should not be a problem, according to garden designer Brian Roberts of Huddersfield.

It will be a challenge when the bellringers at York Minster gather on a landmark day with a momumental task ahead.

A fierce late-summer heatwave may have disrupted his sightseeing plans, but Malta’s history, hospitality and island charms left Steve Teale eager to return – although he may just book it at a cooler time of year.

Honda has revived the Prelude after 25 years, transforming the once-overlooked coupé into a stylish and engaging hybrid. Steve Teale asks whether this familiar name can strike a chord with modern drivers.

An ancient bear which roamed the UK thousands of years ago is among the fearsome prehistoric predators whose remains are being conserved by experts in Leeds.

A man who says he lost 10 years of his life due to ketamine addiction has told why he hopes young people will think twice before taking the drug.

Sheffield’s new Master Cutler Ian Nicholls says his first car was a very memorable Volkswagen Beetle, but it did not seem as cool as it would today.

So, the UK car market is incredibly conservative. That’s what we have always been told by manufacturers who have tried and usually failed to gain a foothold in one of the world’s most competitive markets. Names such as Daewoo, Saab and, more recently, Infiniti launched with a flourish but eventually withdrew. SEAT, it was announced recently, will soon cease to be.

While I breathe, I hope, translated from a Latin phrase, is famously tied to West Yorkshire as an inscription on emergency siege coins minted at Pontefract Castle during the English Civil War.