Richard Madden
BBC Radio Humberside

• Tributes are bring paid this evening to a five-year-old boy who died after choking at an East Yorkshire school
• The trust which looks after hospitals in Grimsby, Scunthorpe and Goole has spent the winter operating at unsafe bed occupancy levels, new figures obtained by the BBC show. 
• A Yorkshire and Humber MEP has been ordered to pay three MPs £54,000 in compensation over comments she made about the Rotherham abuse scandal
• Humberside Police say tests are ongoing to establish the cause of seven deaths in Hull

As it's national sexual abuse and sexual violence awareness week, Humberside Police are urging victims to come forward and report any offences.

Chris Arundel
BBC Radio Humberside

People living on a new housing development in Driffield are being urged to let local people use a path down their street. 

Quintor Homes, who built the new houses on Kirkwood Close, say the path isn't on the definitive right of way map, so they've fenced it off. 

But East Riding councillors are threatening to start a legal process which could show a public footpath runs right through people's homes.

Since 3 December 2016 there have been seven deaths in Hull involving known drug users with a history of heroin use.

Yesterday Humberside police issued a warning to heroin users urging them to be "cautious and vigilant" after a number of deaths in the area.

The cause of the deaths is still to be established, but the police issued the warning as a precautionary measure.

The appeal to help Theodore Silvester's family has already raised more than £13,000 in donations.

BBC Sport

East Yorkshire's Kyle Edmund (pictured), was leading Canada's Denis Shapovalov by two sets, and was a game up in the third when his opponent hit a ball into the stands in a rage. 

The ball hit the umpire in the face and Shapovalov was disqualified handing Kyle the win. 

Image source, Getty Images

Anne-Marie Tasker
BBC Look North

It's been a busy morning filming all the beautiful images of East Yorkshire by David Hockney at the Tate Britain.

A quarter of the rooms are showing paintings of East Yorkshire. Have a look for yourself:

Sir Kevin Barron, MP for Rother Valley, John Healey, who represents Wentworth and Dearne, and Sarah Champion, MP for Rotherham (pictured), sued Jane Collins, MEP for Yorkshire and Humber for libel and slander. 

The case was sparked by a speech she gave at Ukip's conference in September 2014 - a month after a report found about 1,400 children in the area had been abused between 1997 and 2013. 

Mr Justice Warby said she had alleged that each of the MPs knew many of the details of the exploitation yet deliberately chose not to intervene. 

Rotherham's three Labour MPs have each won £54,000 High Court libel damages from Ukip Yorkshire and Humber MEP Jane Collins over remarks she made about the town's child abuse scandal .  

Clare Crooks
BBC Local Live, Hull

Withernsea in East Yorkshire is now twinned with Newbiggin-by-the-Sea in Northumberland.

Image source, Google

The new coupling is part of a trial scheme to help economic growth.

It follows a search for towns to take part by the Carnegie UK Trust, external.

Train company TransPennine Express is investing over £1.4m in new facilities at Hull's Paragon station, with work starting today.  

Image source, TransPennine Express

The old Pumpkin Cafe will be converted into new customer toilets and a glass-fronted waiting room will be built, extending out from the front of the existing building. 

Both facilities are due to be completed in spring 2017.

Improvements to the ticket office will also be made in the spring, including the removal of the counter screens, and new retail units will also be installed in a bid to attract high street brands.

The rest of this afternoon will be dry with sunny spells before cloud starts to increase later, though it will feel rather chilly.

The top temperature will be about 6C (43F):

Richard Madden
BBC Radio Humberside News

The top stories across East Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire this lunchtime include:

• More than £12,000 has been raised to help pay for funeral of an East Yorkshire boy who choked to death
• A permanant memorial to Hull's 6,000 lost trawlermen is being put in place in the city today
• Hull's Paragon Railway Station is set to get a modern new look after work starts there today

Jo Makel
Reporter, BBC Look North

A man who has motor neurone disease has been given a computerised voice which sounds just like him - even though it contains more than 20 different donor voices.

Jason Liversidge (pictured), who lives in Rise in East Yorkshire, has been working with experts to create a personalised synthetic voice. 

A research clinic in Edinburgh blended his already weakened voice with the donors.

You can see more on this story on Inside Out on BBC One tonight at 19:30.

James Piekos
Reporter, BBC Hull and East Yorkshire

It's really taking shape now.

You can see what it will look like when this memorial to Hull's lost trawlermen is finally unveiled at the weekend.

A High Court Judge is due to give his decision later today on a libel action brought over remarks the Yorkshire and the Humber UKIP MEP Jane Collins (pictured) made about the Rotherham abuse scandal.

She wrongly claimed three MPs knew about child exploitation in the town but failed to intervene.

The MPs - Sir Kevin Barron, John Healey and Sarah Champion - sued for slander and libel and want compensation of £150,000 each.

BBC Look North
East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire

It'll be dry and bright through much of the daylight hours, turning cloudy from the west later on.

Watch my full forecast here:

Jill Archbold
BBC Look North

A permanent memorial to Hull's 6,000 lost trawlermen is being put in place in the city today. 

The memorial has been more than a decade in the making and will feature 14 silhouettes made out of steel.