Breaking news, sport, travel and weather updates from across North, South, East and West Yorkshire.

League 1 club Doncaster are the lowest-ranked side left in the Challenge Cup as they join 11 Super League teams in the sixth round.

Marc Sneyd's drop-goal gives Hull FC a dramatic golden-point extra time victory against Catalans Dragons in Perpignan.

In-form Burton continue their climb up the League One table with a comprehensive victory at relegation-threatened Scunthorpe.

Morecambe and Grimsby share the spoils in a drab draw as Charles Vernam's late goal secures a point for the Mariners.

Britt Assombalonga's winner against Hull City moves Middlesbrough back to within a point of the Championship play-off places.

A trade union has described the redundancies as "a body-blow to the workforce".

Dexter's Surf School and Desapline Martial Arts School in Scarborough are set to benefit from £62,000.

A Hull art gallery is offering haircuts with the leftover shavings shaped into a sculpture.

Pippa said signing petitions and joining marches was not enough to make her voice heard.

A dog has been taken in by Hull City Council after being spotted tied to a lamp-post in the city.

Image source, Hull City Council

Max the boxer was reported to council dog wardens by a concerned resident who found him on Scott Street yesterday.

Hull City Council says his owner "acknowledged they were no longer able to look after the animal and took the difficult decision to sign the dog over into our care".

Max was assessed by vets and has now been transferred to a specialist boxer rescue centre which will try and find him a permanent home.

Tourism organisation Welcome to Yorkshire has been accused of dragging its feet over the investigation into claims against former boss Sir Gary Verity.

Image source, PA/Anna Gowthorpe

West Yorkshire council leaders have said events like the Tour de Yorkshire could be at risk if the tourism body doesn't change how it works.

Sir Gary (pictured) resigned on health grounds on 22 March but since his departure concerns have been raised about his expenses and behaviour.

Council leaders say the investigations aren't moving fast enough and also say they want immediate changes to make the organisation more transparent or future funding could be at risk.

Welcome to Yorkshire says it expects to have appointed those who will carry out the investigations within the next week.

A museum in Hull is to reopen tomorrow after work on a new heating system was completed earlier than expected.

Not sure how that'll go down with Hull and East Riding Museum's woolly mammoth...:

The speed limit signs were installed before a public consultation on the new restriction had ended.

A teenager has been taken to hospital in a serious condition after being taken ill at Beverley railway station this morning.

Image source, Geograph/Ian S

Paramedics and British Transport Police officers were called to the station at about 10:00 to deal with a 16-year-old boy.

The incident isn't being treated as suspicious.

The life and work of a writer who was educated in Hull and Barton upon Humber is to be celebrated ahead of the 50th anniversary of Get Carter, the classic film based on one of his books.

Ted Lewis, who has been described as an "amazing artistic polymath" and who also worked as an artist on the Beatles' Yellow Submarine film, died in 1982 but would have been 80 next year.

A national year-long celebration is planned, but there are also calls for an exhibition of his art at Baysgarth House where he was educated as a pupil of Barton Grammar School.

Biographer Monty Martin (pictured) said: "He was an innovator, he was a polymath, he loved Barton and he wrote so beautifully about Barton."

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The Manchester-born writer, who attended Hull Art School, is best known for writing the 1970 book which was famously turned into a Michael Caine film (pictured) the following year.

Schoolchildren in Yorkshire are expected to continue their protest against climate change later today.

It comes after a number of recent demonstrations by pupils at local schools and by members of Youth Strike 4 Climate.

Young people say they want world leaders to take action on global warming.

A 15-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of the theft of a motor vehicle, criminal damage and dangerous driving in Hull.

The teenager was seized by police in connection with a string of incidents in Hull city centre yesterday.

Humberside Police say he remains in custody as the investigation continues.

A woman from East Yorkshire is calling for a change in the law requiring drivers to slow down when they pass a horse.

Image source, Geograph/Chris Downer

A petition, calling for legislation forcing drivers to slow down to 15mph and leave a gap of two metres when passing horses, has been signed more than 140,000 times.

On Sunday riders across the UK will head out at 11:00 to raise awareness of the campaign to force drivers to 'Make it law to pass by a horse wide and slow'.

Ally Senior, from Brandesburton, is one of those involved, she said: "You wouldn't pass a child on a bike at 60mph so why would you pass a live animal at 60mph?"

BBC Weather

This morning will be cool with a mixture of sunny spells and cloud.

Tonight will be dry with lengthy clear periods and only a little patchy cloud: