Yorkshire Day highlights the brilliance of our region, Boris Johnson: Yorkshire can seize the moment on Yorkshire Day, Ten of the best pubs to visit for Yorkshire Day. Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type. So we asked you what new emoji would you like to see. 1999. Emoji Meaning A stylized white flower. What better way to celebrate Yorkshire Day than for Yorkshire to get its own emoji? The white rose emoji would showcase Yorkshire's proud heritage (Image: Cavendish Press) A Gannett Company. The Original Yorkshire County Cricket Discussion Group | Est. The official Yorkshire flag depicts the white rose on a blue background, but it's only been officially flown since the 1960s. As a subscriber, you are shown 80% less display advertising when reading our articles. These adverts enable local businesses to get in front of their target audience – the local community. 1999 ... My last sentence was very much tongue in cheek, but I unfortunately omitted the "joke emoji". Newsquest Media Group Ltd, Loudwater Mill, Station Road, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. Thursday, 1st August 2019, 1:00 pm. Get our superfast unlimited fibre broadband, Flexible and affordable sim only deals with no contract, Our network reaches over 99% of the UK, so we've got you covered, Low on minutes, data or texts? cob?) and we’ll then launch a petition with Unicode to get the winner included on the official emoji keyboards for iPhone and Android, along with the likes of the following: Plusnet’s most senior Yorkshireman, CIO Stew Welbourne said: “Yorkshire Day is a time for us to celebrate our distinctive identity, and what better way to do this than to launch our very own set of emoji based on Yorkshire’s most famous traditions. Lancashire and Yorkshire fought a war. Many prominent Yorkshire landowners supported the House of Lancaster, and the battles were not contested on geographical lines. We’ll be sending out posts on Social asking people to send in their snaps to our Twitter account @plusnet (make sure you use the #Plusnetdoesyorkshireday hashtag!). Or if you’d prefer to vote on Facebook, simply like or comment on your favourite. But which is the true White Rose of Yorkshire? Come and join us on Social! If you are dissatisfied with the response provided you can contact IPSO here. The wars ended when King Henry VII took the throne and created the Tudor rose, uniting both symbols. Victorian novelist Sir Walter Scott coined the term Wars of the Roses in a book - there were plenty of other York motifs in use, including a falcon and a white boar. T20 Blast | Derbyshire vs Yorkshire at Headingley (Match Thread), Derbyshire v Yorkshire T20 20/9 Headingley 1pm- pre-match thread, 2020 Batting and Bowling Averages (Information only Locked), Fixing Yorkshire White ball cricket...one ‘over’ at a time, T20 Blast | Leicestershire vs Yorkshire at Grace Road (Match Thread). They can choose from a Yorkshire terrier dog, a white rose, a flat cap, a Yorkshire pudding or a teapot. The battle took place on August 1, 1759 - and Yorkshire Day is held on its anniversary to commemorate them. Monkey emoji debate and other online questions, Take a look at some of the top internet debates. To mark the day, people living there are being asked to choose a new emoji that they think represents Yorkshire.