So many Yorkshire 'Catters I thought you might like to see this! Start of a story from BBC ONline:

'Sophistication? I've been to Leeds!'

It's the 26th annual Yorkshire Day, by 'eck. But what is it that makes the county worth celebrating, asks Yorkshireman Matt Bennett. Why are people so proud to be from Yorkshire?

Why when a bureaucrat's pen robbed Hull of its Yorkshire status - placing it instead in Humberside - did everyone from the city council down stubbornly defy the boundary makers until their birthright was finally restored?

It seems the rest of the UK sees Yorkshire folk, and their antics, through a series of stereotypes. From James Herriot caricatures to Harry Enfield, Yorkshire people are seen as tight-fisted, straight-talking, whippet-breeding, flat-cap-wearing dour types... (article continues)Wednesday, 1 August, 2001, 11:27 GMT 12:27 UK

RtS (but we had flat caps and whippets in Brum, too!)