Just got pulled up by the police at a checkpoint at the M62 summit on the Yorkshire border. They asked for my driving licence and then turned me back because I have a Greater Manchester postcode.

Apparently there are gangs of 'coyotes' in Littleborough and Bacup offering to smuggle people across the border for £1000 per person.

The mayor of Mytholmroyd is appealing for funds to build a wall. Sales of hang-gliders and parasails have increased 100 fold in villages near the border.

Local garden centres are putting a 1000% markup on tunnelling shovels.
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If you're not carrying I.D, they're performing an accent test by asking people to say "Wind thi neck in lad, afore I gis thee a slap". If you can't prove you're Yorkshire born and bred, you don't get in.

There's a bloke on the pub car park selling fake Wakefield and Barnsley driving licences for 50 quid a pop.

I've been hearing reports of people having to be rescued by emergency services after trying to swim across the Rochdale canal near Hebden Bridge. Those seemingly still waters hide many dangers: shopping trolleys, old bicycles and even the odd washing machine.

There's bartering going on at secret sites along the fenceline. Apparently a single Bury black pudding will fetch up to 3 boxes of Yorkshire tea bags.

An anonymous blogger has reported a Vietnam war era motor torpedo boat patrolling the waters of Scammonden Dam, which has one shore in Greater Manchester and the other in Yorkshire.

The farm in the middle of the M62 has declared itself neutral and has opened its outbuildings to house refugees.