A jury at Hull Crown Court has been told that a Labour Hull City Councillor had thousands of pictures of adult pornography, as well as photos of himself in underwear, on a computer where indecent images of children were found.

Steven Bayes denies downloading indecent images of children and having illegal extreme pornography.

A police expert told the court there is no way to prove if the images on the computer had ever been viewed or if the defendant knew they were there.

The case continues.

Hull North Labour MP Diana Johnson has welcomed the appointment of Sir Brian Langstaff as chair of the Contaminated Blood Inquiry.

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In November last year the Government announced a "full statutory inquiry" would be carried out into the contaminated blood scandal that left at least 2,400 people dead.

About 7,500 people, many with an inherited bleeding disorder called haemophilia, were given blood products infected with hepatitis C and HIV in the 1970s and 80s.

Diana Johnson has campaigned for the inquiry and criticised the time it has taken. Today she welcomed the appointment of Sir Brian Langstaff to the role.

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BBC Look North

Figures out today reveal what percentage of patients were seen within the four hour waiting time target at accident and emergency units, across East Yorkshire and northern Lincolnshire, over January.

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More than three quarters of patients (76%) across hospitals in Hull and East Yorkshire were seen within the four hour target in January. That figure is down (81.3%) from December.

In northern Lincolnshire nearly 85 per cent of patients were seen within four hours and that figure was only slightly down from December (86.7%).

Nationally the four-hour A&E target was missed for the 30th month in a row with 85.3% of patients seen in four hours, marginally better than the 85.1% in December.

Coins, brooches and pottery are among the surprising finds during work to bury cables.

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BBC Look North, Business Correspondent

Trade unions representing steel workers in Scunthorpe say they want reassurances from the government over the future of the industry.

The unions have organised an event in Redcar to promote the steel industry.

They want assurances from the government that any post-Brexit laws will protect the UK's steel industry from cheap imports.

They also want big infrastructure projects such as the HS2 rail project to use British Steel.

A survey into the need for a public right of way connecting the KCOM Stadium with Argyle Street in Hull has been launched.

The Superstadium Management Company (SMC), which runs the KCOM Stadium, installed a gate on the Argyle Street entrance to the stadium area in October last year.

The gate is currently open only on stadium match days.

The survey closes at midnight on Sunday 15 April.

The proposed scheme is being developed by a Hull charity that works with ex-servicemen and women.

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The number of sexual offences recorded by the police in Yorkshire increased by 15% last year, according to the Office for National Statistics, external.

Between April 2016 and March 2017 there was 13,136 recorded sexual offences, which is up from 11,398 the year before - 6,071 of the offences were recorded in West Yorkshire.

The number has increased by 20% in the Humberside, 20% in North Yorkshire, 17% in South Yorkshire and 12% in West Yorkshire.

It increased by 14% nationally with 121,187 recorded offences.

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BBC Local Live

Here are the latest headlines for East Yorkshire and northern Lincolnshire:

• Plans to build a special 'veterans' village' for former service men and women in East Yorkshire have been revealed.
• Thousands of archaeological remains have been unearthed during the excavation of trenches in northern Lincolnshire.
• Hull City's owners have cancelled a planned meeting with supporters groups over comments made in the press.

The government's being accused of "mindless industrial vandalism" over claims it could have taken back control of a failing rail franchise.

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The RMT union says it further compounds what it calls the "shambles" over the future of the East Coast Mainline, which has its HQ in York.

The government announced on Monday that Stagecoach and Virgin would only continue running the East Coast Mainline for a few more months saying they'd "got their numbers wrong".

Labour and the RMT want the government to take over running the service as it has done previously.

But the government says it would have been a waste of money to do that, and says it "maintains a full capability to act as an operator of last resort".

Numerous archaeological remains have been found in North Lincolnshire and the surrounding area.

The artefacts have been unearthed as part of the onshore construction phase of the Hornsea Project One offshore wind farm.

Work has included excavation of two Iron Age settlement sites in North Killingholme, prehistoric farming activity, a Romano-British settlement in Stallingborough and medieval moated sites in Harborough and South Killingholme.

The Humber Bridge Board has said the popular farmers' market will go ahead as planned in March.

Earlier this month traders were sent letters saying the current team which runs it, A1 Events, would stop running the monthly market.

The Humber Bridge Board says it is in talks with a number of new market operators and will be looking to make an announcement next week.

Beverley and Holderness MP Graham Stuart has met with Transport Secretary Chris Grayling to lobby for road improvements to the Jock's Lodge Road junction in South Beverley.

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The East Riding of Yorkshire Council has submitted a bid to secure a £40m investment to reduce congestion in the area.

There have been 18 accidents and 25 injuries in the past five years at the junction.

The council are due to speak to Department for Transport officials to further discuss the viability of the scheme, with a final decision due to be made in May.

People living on Beverley's Swinemoor estate are being asked which crime problems they are most concerned about.

Humberside Police is delivering questionnaires to the estate where there have been persistent complaints over the years about low-level crime.

The police say they will prioritise the ones at the top of the list.

One person who lives on the Swinemoor estate has told the BBC there are problems with some young people intimidating residents.

UKIP is being taken to court today by Labour.

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It comes after Yorkshire UKIP MEP Jane Collins (pictured) was found to have libelled Rotherham's three Labour MPs in a speech in 2014 about child sexual exploitation in the town.

Ms Collins was ordered to pay £54,000 in damages plus legal costs, with a total bill estimated to be more than £650,000.

So far the MEP has not paid anything which has led to this case against UKIP as a party.

UKIP says it's not their bill to pay and will fight any judgement which says that it is.

Thousands of archaeological remains have been unearthed during the excavation of trenches in northern Lincolnshire.

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Contractors have been digging to allow cable installations for Orsted's new Hornsea offshore windfarm.

A team of 70 archaeologists has been working on the scheme and key finds so far include:

• Two human burials, one medieval and one Roman, near Killingholme
• Pottery, animal bone, coins, fragmented brooches and quernstones
• Shells, with oysters seeming to have been a particular favourite in Tetney during Roman times
• Bronze Age pottery at a site in Holton-le-Clay
• Late prehistoric Romano-British settlement activity in Tetney
• An "unexpected" Anglo-Saxon settlement in Laceby
• Two medieval salt production sites in North Coates

Mili Radjic, a project manager from Wessex Archaeology, says conditions have made it hard to excavate artefacts - but the team has battled on:

Hull City's owners have cancelled a planned meeting with supporters groups over comments made in the press.

The meeting was supposed to be held last night to help ease relations between the club and its supporters and reach agreement on issues like offering concessions to children and OAPs.

In a statement vice chairman Ehab Allam said they had ignored the action by a groups of fans during previous meetings, like being given 'Allam's Out' scarves as a Christmas present.

Ehab Allam says the club is still committed to continuing open dialogue with fans.

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Plans to build a special "veterans' village" for former service men and women in East Yorkshire have been revealed.

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The £8m scheme would have about 60 homes, rehabilitation and training facilities and a garden centre.

It's thought to be a world first and would be built between Hull and Cottingham.

The idea has come from the Hull4Heroes charity and is supported by local councils and businesses.