A free platform connecting artists with affordable, properly registered studios is expanding beyond London into Yorkshire and the North of England

Across the Dales and North York Moors, more than 180 businesses are asking visitors to put down their phones, pick up a pen and send somebody a little piece of their holiday

No auditions, no experience and no need to read music. Bolton Cancer Voices is inviting more people to discover friendship, confidence and the joy of singing together

That pebble fits perfectly in the palm. The shell would look lovely on a bathroom shelf. But on coastlines already being remade by tides, storms and millions of summer visitors, when does a harmless souvenir become something we should leave behind?

A Yorkshire Dales charity has helped build a national recycling network for redundant tree shelters. But with millions of plastic guards still scattered across Britain’s woodlands, campaigners say their eventual removal must be planned - and paid for - before the first tree goes into the ground

The curlew’s cry remains one of the defining sounds of the Yorkshire uplands. Keeping it there will require communities, conservationists and farmers to begin working together long before next year’s mowing starts

From Michael Rosen and Len Pennie to political poetry, local voices and the return of The Ballad of Blea Wyke, Say Owt’s autumn season shows what can happen when artists are given a room - and audiences are trusted to listen

The Royal Exchange has assembled an outstanding cast for Shakespeare’s great family catastrophe, with David Threlfall returning to the theatre after 27 years and Nadine Shah taking on both Goneril and the music

Liverpool Artists’ Network has rebuilt its digital home - but behind the new website is a decade-long attempt to make artistic life in the city less isolated and more visible