A North Yorkshire man has lost nearly £90,000 in an online fraud.

Police have started a new campaign to warn people about the dangers from criminals they describe as cold-hearted. The 65 year old, who doesn't want to be named, was approached through an online dating agency by a woman who said she was an art dealer.

Det Insp John Hodgeon from North Yorkshire Police says they're dealing with thousands of reports of online fraud every year:

Elly Fiorentini
BBC Yorkshire Live

A Yorkshire MEP is asking people in Bradford to give money to help hundreds of thousands of refugees in south Asia.

An estimated 600,000 Rohyingya Muslims have fled violence in Myanmar to travel to neighbouring Bangladesh. Many are living in terrible conditions.

Conservative MEP Amjad Bashir is holding a fundraising event in Bradford later. He thinks Britain and the UN should do more to help the refugees return home.

BBC News Travel

There are delays on the southbound A61 Sheaf Street as you head past the train station after an accident earlier on.

All lanes are now clear, but there are delays back to the Park Street roundabout.

Mick Lunney
BBC Local Live, Sheffield

A charity in Barnsley is expanding to cope with the growing problem of young people and mental health.

TADS offers help with anxiety, depression and stress. It's lifting its age-limit from 18 to 25.

It's moving to bigger premises as part of that change,

As a police officer you never know who you're going to meet.

But I doubt SC O'Halloran and SC Dobson thought they'd bump into Ross Kemp in McDonald's in Rotherham when dealing with a group of youths.

Elly Fiorentini
BBC Yorkshire Live

Worshippers at York Mosque have been spending this Christmas collecting for homeless people in the city.

Today they'll be handing over sleeping bags, gloves, scarves and hats to the Salvation Army who they're working with to support people with nowhere to live.

The initiative is organised through iCare which works with Mosques throughout England to help people in poverty. All the money raised is donated by worshippers.

This is the second year that York Mosque has taken part.

Image source, York Mosque

Elly Fiorentini
BBC Yorkshire Live

A group of MPs says coffee drinkers should be charged an extra twenty five pence per disposable cup.

The Environmental Audit Committee says a "latte levy" would raise money to spend on better recycling facilities.

The chair of the committee, Labour's Mary Creagh says the UK throws away an estimated two and a half billion cups a year and most end up as landfill.

Volunteers in the Calder Valley have been building dams to help prevent flooding.

It's two years since the big downpour on Boxing Day led to thousands of homes being flooded.

Since then, a project called Slow the Flow has recruited more than a hundred people, to help create natural defences on the hillside.

Abbie Dewhurst
Weather Presenter, BBC Look North

Showers, cloudy and a little bit of sunshine.

Here's my forecast for today.

Elly Fiorentini
BBC Yorkshire Live

York's former psychiatric hospital is to be sold.

It shut suddenly in 2015 when health inspectors described Bootham Park as unfit for purpose. The 7.2 hectare site is owned by NHS Property Services after the local health trust said they didn't need it.

Image source, NHS Property Services

The site owners says the money will be reinvested in the NHS centrally. They say they're working closely with heritage organisations and groups to preserve its heritage.

The former hospital is one of York's finest Georgian Grade I listed buildings. It was designed by John Carr and built by public subscription, as the York Lunatic Asylum, between 1774 and 1777.

A new seventy two bed hospital is due to open in 2019.

Image source, NHS Property Services

Elly Fiorentini
BBC Yorkshire Live

Trains across Yorkshire are running on time.

You can check the details here:

• York station, external
• Leeds station, external
• Wakefield station, external
• Sheffield station, external
• Doncaster station, external
• Bradford Interchange, external
• Bradford Forster Square, external

Elly Fiorentini
BBC Yorkshire Live

The chair of the House of Commons Home Affairs Committee Yvette Cooper has called on the Parole Board to publish its reasons for deciding to release serial sex attacker John Worboys.

Former black-cab driver Worboys is believed to have carried out more than 100 rapes and sexual assaults on women in London between 2002 and 2008.

Victims' groups and charities have condemned the decision to free him.

The Pontefract, Castleford, Normanton and Knottingley Labour MP said the ruling must be scrutinised before his release.

Image source, Metropolitan Police

Elly Fiorentini
BBC Yorkshire Live

Actress and model Lily Cole has spoken about facing "prejudice" in a row over her involvement in events to mark the bicentenary of Emily Bronte's birth.

Cole has been named "creative partner" for the celebrations by the Bronte Parsonage Museum in West Yorkshire.

Bronte expert Nick Holland has quit the Bronte Society, saying the Wuthering Heights author would not have approved of a supermodel getting the role.

But Cole said the writer would not have judged any work "on name alone".

Image source, Getty Images

Elly Fiorentini
BBC Yorkshire Live

Welcome to today's live coverage of what's happening across Yorkshire on Friday 5 January. I could hear some birds singing this morning. A lovely way to start the day. You may have to scrape the car windows.

We'll keep you up to date with the latest news,sport and weather.

There's been a lot of rain over the last week and as you can see on this photo from BBC Weather Watcher Gary Gimmick, the River Ouse through York has flooded the river paths between Skeldergate and Lendal Bridge.