This is one from Yorkshire where, in fact, my nephew, I hope, will be able to attend it.

In this context The Welsh letter w is pronounced similarly to the Yorkshire English pronunciation of the letter u.

And why stop there? Why not devolution for Yorkshire, a region with a population equal to Scotland s and an active separatist movement, and for other English regions?

PRAGUE In late June, the British Geological Survey announced the world s largest shale gas field. The Bowland Shale, which lies beneath Lancashire and Yorkshire, contains 50 more gas than the combined reserves of two of the largest fields in the United States, the Barnett Shale and the Marcellus Shale.

True, some young European Muslims have traveled to Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq some went as far as Yemen and Somalia, and came back as hardened radicals, soldiers in a war against a West that, in their view, dishonors Islam. As the young Muslim Briton Mohammed Sidique Khan put it (speaking in a heavy Yorkshire accent), he participated in the London Underground bombings to avenge my Muslim brothers and sisters.