# Stories to make you smile from across Yorkshire

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/stories-to-make-you-smile-from-across-yorkshire-9/
- Published: 2026-11-15T06:55:58+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-15T11:52:40+00:00
- Original publisher: feeds.bbci.co.uk (publisher lean: Centre)
- Original article: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr9d71qw2z32o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss
- Topics: Sheffield, Sport, Tennis

## Key points

- A Yorkshire sofa-pulling challenge raised almost £100,000 for good causes.
- A veteran researched 134 war graves in Pontefract.
- Music and sport are helping people connect across the region.

## Summary

BBC Look North presenters Amy Garcia and Lindsey Burrow completed an 80-mile journey around Yorkshire, pulling the programme’s red sofa for Children in Need. Their “Push for Pudsey” challenge raised almost £100,000 for good causes, while the region’s weekly uplifting stories also highlighted people bringing communities together through music, local history, sport and play.

In Pontefract, Army veteran Paul Bushnell has spent two years researching all 134 war graves in the town’s cemetery, helping families discover relatives buried there. Seventeen-year-old Keira from Thorne, who has been blind since birth, performed with the BBC Children in Need Choir after learning its song using Braille; in Harrogate, a Parkinson’s table tennis group has helped inspire a national partnership to establish more sessions. Hull City captain Lewie Coyle has also launched a street football programme encouraging children to play outdoors.

---
Summarised by TalkFuse (https://talkfuse.com/). Quote the original publisher for the reporting and link this page for the summary and discussion.