Lucy Ashton
Reporting from Doncaster

Verification has started at Doncaster Racecourse for the mayoral count. This is for the directly-elected mayor of Doncaster, who has the same powers as a council leader.

Indications are that verification will take at least two hours, so the actual counting of votes will not begin until at least midnight, if not later.

A result is expected between 03:00 and 04:00.

Doncaster has had a directly-elected mayor since 2002.

Services between Hull and London King's Cross are affected by the walkout.

Abtisam Mohamed and Yuan Yang were barred entering from the country over the weekend.

Jake Richards, Labour MP for Rother Valley, says many men are "suffering in silence".

Aslef has called the strike in a row over safety following the alleged sacking of a driver.

The reptile was living in a tank in the back garden of an address in Rotherham, a court hears.

The parents are worried as access to the drug to slow the progress of Batten disease is set to end.

Seven activity centres run by Kingswood close with immediate effect as it calls in administrators.

The Goldthorpe branch will close after the postmaster resigned, Post Office says.

The Year Over Yorkshire campaign will see hundreds of names carried on the tail of the helicopters.

Sheffield Wednesday boss Danny Rohl calls for more clean sheets from his side despite their 4-2 victory over Derby County.

MP Marie Tidball revisits the hospital in Sheffield whose staff helped her to walk 40 years ago.

Carl Huxley, of Ward Green, Barnsley met his victim in Gainsborough and took him to Lincoln.

Louise Haigh MP has been MP for a slice of Sheffield since being elected in 2015.

Jake Richards tables a bill aimed at keeping children in care within 20 miles of their home.

The site would be located in Rotherham and help to "harness renewable energy", the applicant says.

Yorkshire and the Humber has just 4.4 bank branches left per 100,000 people, a Which? report says.

Demonstrators say they fear the impact of losing the winter fuel payment.

Michael Donaldson said he would attack the former Labour leader with a knife in Doncaster, court hears.

Kenzie Roughley, 18, was part of a violent mob which targeted the van in Rotherham, a court hears.