Stories to make you smile from across Yorkshire

The news can sometimes make us feel like life is all doom and gloom, but there are good things happening - and we want to highlight them.

Across Yorkshire this week we met Jane McDonald superfans, the vast Coast to Coast path becoming England's latest national trail and the Last of The Summer Wine creator Roy Clarke becoming a 'Sir'.

Take a look at some of our positive news stories from across Yorkshire.

The Coast to Coast path has officially become England's latest national trail.

The path, which was first imagined in 1973 by author Alfred Wainwright, is a 190-mile (305.7km) route starting at St Bees in Cumbria and ending at Robin Hood's Bay in North Yorkshire.

A £5.5m maintenance project has made the path more accessible and improved signage.

Dinner lady Pauline Maud is set to retire after clocking up 37 years of service at a school in York.

Pauline has worked at Acomb Primary School since the late 1980s and is now ladling baked beans to the children of children she once served.

"I'm really going to miss her, she's really nice," says Kenan, 11.

"If you're having a bad day, you see her smile and it makes you way better," adds 10-year-old Edie.

Jane McDonald came home to West Yorkshire this week, with BBC Radio Leeds meeting some of the singer's most devoted fans.

McDonald, who rose to fame through BBC documentary The Cruise, signed copies of her new album at the Wakefield HMV shop.

One of the fans queuing to meet her showed off a tattoo featuring a line of the singer's handwritten lyrics: "Picture me beside you, I'll be there."

Last of The Summer Wine creator Roy Clarke became a 'Sir' after being knighted by the Prince of Wales.

The 96-year-old, who grew up in Doncaster and devised the show set in Holmfirth, was awarded the title during a ceremony at Windsor Castle on Tuesday.

Clarke's favourite character was Clegg, played by Peter Sallis.

"He used to get all the best lines and he was my mouthpiece in many ways," he said.

"He used to say the things I would say and the things that I believed."

Former newspaper photographer Bob Smith is showcasing his work offering a "sideways view" of life in Keighley.

Smith worked for the Keighley News for 31 years and began photographing for the exhibition in May last year as part of Bradford's tenure as UK City of Culture.

K-Town People features two MBE recipients - England rugby player Ellie Kildunne and Charles Morris, who owns the Picture House Cinema and received the MBE in the New Year Honours.

Plenty of people have been smiling in Hull this week after six years of work on the city's main road, the A63, came to an end.

Among them is landlady Gill Ralph, whose pub the Whittington and Cat has been effectively cut off from the city centre since 2020.

A split-level junction has now opened at Mytongate, giving pedestrians easy access to be pub again.

"They can just walk across, so it really is a massive thing for us," Ralph says.

"I'm going to have my own little party."

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