Live updates for Leeds and West Yorkshire have finished for the day, but we'll be back from 08:00 on Thursday with the latest news, sport, weather and travel updates from across the county.  

BBC Look North, Yorkshire

Join us on BBC One at 18:30 for Look North as we take a closer look at what the Chancellor's Autumn Statement means for us here in Yorkshire.

We'll be looking at the reaction of low-paid workers to the news that plans to cut tax credits have been scrapped. 

We're also going to look at Council Tax as bills could be set to rise.

BBC Travel

Drivers are being warned to expect delays as the M1 is partially blocked and there's queuing traffic southbound between J42, M62 (Lofthouse) and J41, A650 (Carr Gate), because of an accident.

Paul Hudson
Weather presenter, BBC Look North

Tonight will bemostly dry with clear intervals. Temperatures could hit a low of about 3C (37F) with a touch of ground frost in places.

Tomorrow will be mostly dry with variable amounts of cloud. Pennine areas may see a little drizzle at times with the best of the brighter spells further east. 

The maximum temperature will be about 10C (50F).

Castleford's new bus station has won a silver award at the UK Bus Awards just nine months after opening.

Image source, WY Metro

It received the Local Authority Bus Project of the Year award at an annual ceremony.

The site, which opened in February, external, is used by 12,000 people every day.

Bradford's schools are facing a crisis as a result of changes to the way they're funded, according to one of the city's MPs.

Image source, Imran Hussain

The Chancellor George Osborne is promising to bring in a national funding formula for schools to remove regional differences in funding, but the NUT claims inner-city schools will lose out under the proposals.

Speaking during Prime Minister's Questions, external, Imran Hussain, the Labour MP for Bradford East, has demanded extra help for the city's schools:

Winter might be setting in, but if you're in Leeds and have any last minute gardening to do then now's the time to get it done.

Leeds City Council's garden waste bin service finishes at the end of the week and won't resume again for three months.

Larry Budd
Political reporter, BBC Radio Leeds

Welcome to Yorkshire boss Gary Verity has been appointed to lead a new £15m "Great Exhibition Legacy Fund", external.

It's hoped the fund will pave the way for cultural investment in the so-called "Northern Powerhouse".

The news about the man who secured the Tour de France's Grand Depart for Yorkshire last year was part of the Chancellor's Autumn Statement, but wasn't announced in the commons.

Liam Ward
BBC Local Live, Leeds

The top stories in Leeds and West Yorkshire this afternoon include:

• Two-year-old boy suffers life-changing injuries in Wakefield quad bike accident, external
• Transpennine rail electrification on track and HS2 to go ahead, Chancellor confirms in Autumn Statement
• Inquest into death of a Leeds transgender prisoner is adjourned

Police are appealing for information about a quad bike accident in Wakefield, external which has left a two-year-old boy with life-changing injuries.

A 23-year-old man, who's believed to be the father of the child, was carrying the boy on his blue quad bike at about 15:00 yesterday afternoon when it hit a divot in land on the edge of the Peacock Estate, causing the child to fall.

Emergency crews were called to the scene and the boy was treated by paramedics for serious injuries to his feet.

Jono Lancaster, who has rare genetic condition Treacher Collins Syndrome, has just returned from a five-week tour of America where he's been raising awareness of the condition.

The 30-year-old, from Featherstone, met families who live with the genetic disorder which can cause facial disfigurements. He's been telling BBC Radio Leeds' Liz Green about the experience.

Jamie Coulson, BBC Look North's Health Correspondent, has been looking at the health implications of the Chancellor's Autumn Statement.

A two-year-old boy has been seriously injured in a quad bike accident in Wakefield, external.

He was being carried by a 23-year-old man who was riding the vehicle on wasteland near Silcotes Street on Tuesday afternoon when it hit rough ground and the toddler fell. 

The boy's now in hospital with what police are describing as serious and life-changing injuries.

BBC West Yorkshire Sport

Leeds boxer Josh Warrington's opponent has been announced for his WBC Featherweight title defence in London next month.

Image source, Getty Images

Warrington will face Panama's unbeaten Jorge Sanchez at London's O2 Arena on 12 December.

It'll be Warrington's second defence of the title he won in April having defeated Australian Joel Brunker in September.

An 18-year-old male is being treated in hospital for serious head and leg injuries after the car he was travelling in collided with a tree in Wakefield.

The incident happened at about 21:20 on Tuesday, external, when the red MG ZR, travelling along Flanshaw Way towards Flanshaw Lane, left the road and crashed.

Two males, aged 26 and 27, who are also believed to have been travelling in the vehicle, have been arrested on suspicion of road traffic offences and remain in custody.

Batley and Birstall News

Members of a masked gang forced their way into an elderly couple’s home in Dewsbury, external and threatened them with guns before making off with cash.

Larry Budd, BBC Radio Leeds' Political Reporter, has been crunching the numbers on the Chancellor's Autumn Statement and it doesn't look good for anybody who was hoping for any Yorkshire-related announcements.

Open University (OU) staff in Leeds have walked out as part of a national strike after the OU said it would press ahead with plans to close seven regional centres, including one in Leeds.

Image source, Mtaylor848

Members of the University and College Union (UCU) are staging a one-day strike today, with a further walkout planned at the Oxford regional centre on 2 December.  

The centres set to shut are in Leeds, Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Gateshead, London and Oxford, with the UCU saying the closures will put about 500 jobs at risk.

Liam Ward
BBC Local Live, Leeds

The top stories in Leeds and West Yorkshire this afternoon include:

• Transpennine rail electrification on track and HS2 to go ahead, the Chancellor confirms in his Autumn Statement
• Thomas Cook says it has "confronted its mistakes" following deaths of two West Yorkshire children 
• Inquest into death of a Leeds transgender prisoner is adjourned

Thomas Cook says it has "confronted its mistakes" following the deaths for Bobby and Christi Shepherd from Horbury who died from carbon monoxide poisoning while on one of its holidays in Corfu.

Image source, PA

The group was heavily criticised in a report into the deaths published earlier this month, and Thomas Cook chief executive Peter Fankhauser said he was clear it "had to learn from the tragedy and do things differently in the future". 

Mr Fankhauser made the comments while reporting the firm's £50m pre-tax profit for the year to September - its first full-year profit since 2010.