Out in the former pit villages of Doncaster North, however, it’s less clear that they will be. In Bentley, former Tory voter Les Bennett, 70, is keen on Farage’s party. Others less so.

New Sharlston was a typical Yorkshire mining community located between Wakefield and Doncaster. The pit was sunk in 1865. In 1984 it employed 1,000 miners. The pithead gear dominated the skyline. The ...

The pit opened in 1911. A new public house ... Conisbrough, Sprotbrough, and Doncaster. The house was christened the Cecil and Battie-Wrightson Arms, taking the two surnames of land owner Lady ...

A pit bull dog mauled a seven-year-old boy in Thorne, Doncaster, on Friday evening, South Yorkshire Police said, with the child taken to hospital with puncture wounds. Five hours earlier ...