Amidst the hustle and bustle of Leeds Kirkgate Market, cookery tutor Simon Chappelow gets ready to demonstrate how to make chicken fajitas.
Everyone in the class stands poised by a work station supplied with neatly arranged ingredients: tortillas, chicken, red onion, herbs and spices, peppers, tomatoes, lime juice, sour cream and cheese, in a slick new kitchen unit - home to Jamie Oliver’s third Ministry of Food.
Yorkshire has been leading the way. Three of the food celebrity’s four national cooking schools are based in the county. The challenge is to keep these centres going amidst the deepest council funding cuts in generations.
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Menston campaigners are restoring a derelict burial ground. Around 2,861 people lie beneath a field off Buckle Lane.
They are mostly former psychiatric patients of High Royds Hospital, Menston, West Yorkshire, placed three deep in paupers’ graves without headstones.
Their families were too poor to afford a burial. Or the stigma of mental illness meant many were forgotten or unclaimed by their families. They were not given a formal funeral.
Now the Friends of High Royds Memorial Garden campaign group is restoring the chapel and grounds, and dignity to all those buried there from 1905 to 1969 and helping some families unearth crucial information about long lost relatives.