THE wonders of the night sky will be brought into the nation’s living rooms during this half term (February 12-28). It s all courtesy of a virtual Dark Skies Festival programme created by the Yorkshire Dales and North York Moors National Parks together with Go Stargazing. With lockdown hampering people’s ability to travel to Yorkshire for the popular annual Festival, the National Parks, which were both awarded International Dark Sky Reserve status in December, have turned to the power of webinars and zoom meet-ups for a virtual event. The programme will be a mix of free and paid-for events.
YORKSHIRE in all its glory is revealed in a new four-part series starting on TV on Monday. The Yorkshire Dales and The Lakes: Season by Season, was filmed over a calendar year and will air on More4 on successive Mondays from 9pm-10-pm. It is the fourth series of the popular programme and film makers have returned to the picturesque Dales and Lakes to follow a range of remarkable characters who live and work in England’s biggest expanse of protected countryside. This series celebrates life in the Lake District and the Yorkshire Dales National Parks across the four seasons, meeting real and engaging Yorkshire and Cumbrian folk.