Councillor among seven arrested in stand-off after tree-felling contractors try to start work in Sheffield
Friend helps create Yorkshire voice for disabled Scarborough man
Handler calls for new law after Yorkshire police dog is stabbed
School evacuated in suspected gas leak
Grey squirrels in Wensleydale are being given contraceptives to control the population
Kaiser Chiefs to play Scarborough's Open Air Theatre
Live updates on Monday 6 February 2017
M1 Northbound lane closed on exit slip road due to roadworks at J34 A631 / A6178 (Meadowhall) .
A644 Wakefield Road, northbound, Brighouse , lane closed due to electricity work on A644 Wakefield Road Northbound near Coal Pit Lane.
A170 Hungate Eastbound in Pickering closed due to gas main work between The Ropery and A169 Malton Road.
People in Dewsbury say they hope a controversial drama about the hoax kidnap of Shannon Matthews will not portray the area in a bad light. In 2008, nine-year-old Shannon was drugged and hidden by her mum and her stepfather's uncle as part of a plot to claim reward money.
Tonight, the story of the community's campaign to find her will feature in a BBC One drama called "The Moorside".Writer Neil McKay says the area is portrayed positively.
League One strugglers Chesterfield are to be put up for sale by the club's majority shareholder Dave Allen.
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Nick Wilmshurst
BBC Local Live, Leeds
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The Leeds cycle superhighway could be getting bigger, if a £6.5m plan is approved, external.
Councillors will talk about the idea later this week and have called it "CityConnect2", it would see an extra 10km of separate cycle ways pop up in the city.
The cycleway would extend through the city centre along Wellington Street to City Square, from Queen Street to Westgate, from Leeds Bridge into the South Bank and from north to south along the line of St Peter’s Street.
Leeds City Council say the majority of the money will come from the Department for Transport and West Yorkshire Combined Authority.
UKIP's Jane Collins claimed the MPs knew about child exploitation in Rotherham but did not intervene.
Read MorePolice have now named a woman who was killed after being hit by a tipper truck in North Yorkshire.
Image source, GoogleIt happened near to Tesco in Northallerton last Tuesday.
Mildred Horner, who was 89-years-old and from Thirsk Road in the town, sustained serious injuries and died in hospital.
Police have spoken to the 51-year-old lorry driver.
Charlotte Rose
BBC Radio Sheffield Political Reporter
Thousands more families who were wrongly stripped of their tax credits by the US contractor Concentrix are to have their cases reviewed.
A committee of MPs that produced a scathing report on Concentrix said on Monday that HM Revenue & Customs had accepted its recommendations.
Sheffield Heeley MP, Louise Haigh, asked Theresa May to call time on the model.
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Do you recognise this man? Police have issued this e-fit picture and would like to speak to him about a burglary in Bradford.
Image source, West Yorkshire PoliceOn the afternoon of 27 January two men broke into a house in Geraldton Avenue and stole jewellery.
The burglars were driving a white Toyota Aygo, which drove off towards Perth Avenue.
UKIP's Jane Collins must pay a total of £162,000 in damages to Rotherham's three Labour MPs.
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Oli Constable
Police in Rotherham are asking for your help after jewellery was stolen in a reported burglary.
The jewellery includes ear rings, rings, and necklaces.
Image source, South Yorkshire PoliceThis looks like it should be a scene from some kind of sci-fi film, but it's more Last of the Summer Wine than Star Trek.
This was the view from Holmfirth of the fog below Castle Hill this morning, sent into BBC Weather Watchers.
Image source, Sandie's ValleyA 43-year-old woman has died after being hit by a car in Leeds at the weekend.
Image source, GoogleThe woman was walking along Tongue Lane in Moortown on Saturday morning, when a grey Vauxhall Corsa hit her.
The un-named woman was badly injured and was taken to Leeds General Infirmary but she died later that day.
The man who was driving the car stopped at the scene of the accident and spoke to police officers.
Mountain biker Tom Ryan said the device had the potential to "seriously injure" someone.
Read MoreKate Gibson
BBC York News
The trust running Scarborough Hospital says the A&E department isn't under threat.
The claim follows a report from the Health Service Journal labelling it as at risk of being downgraded.
Hospital bosses say some changes are taking place so patients can be seen more quickly, but there are no plans to change opening hours.
Rony Robinson
Presenter, BBC Radio Sheffield
People who use British Sign Language (BSL) have better reaction times in their peripheral vision, a new study from the University of Sheffield has found.
The findings show that hearing adults learning BSL had a positive impact on visual field response.
Image source, ReutersQuote MessageIt shows that becoming a BSL interpreter is not only an interesting job, but it also has benefits such as making you more alert to changes in your peripheral field that could help when driving, playing sport or refereeing a football match for example.”
Dr Charlotte Codina, Lead author of the study and lecturer in orthoptics
Forget multi million pound state sponsored space exploration. We can do it here in Yorkshire with a plastic bottle and pure physics.
Behold: The Bottle Rocket Challenge, BBC Look North's Amy Garcia and Paul Hudson are about to take part in the BBC's "Terrific Scientific:DIY".
The idea is you build a bottle rocket and see how far it goes, you can follow the experiment live below!
Elly Fiorentini
BBC Local Live, York
If you live close to Dalton Industrial Estate near Thirsk, you'll be relieved to hear that work to replace the bridge there is to begin in April.
Image source, GoogleDalton Bridge has been affected by flooding for years and this means . the stone hump-backed bridge is closed for significant periods.
There's restricted access to the estate and neighbouring community. Nearly 1,000 people work on the site.
Hambleton District Council says they've put the multi-million pound project out to tender. Work is due to begin in April.
Jenny Cork
BBC Sheffield news
A Sheffield councillor has said protesters in Chippinghouse Road put themselves and contractors in danger when they disrupted tree felling work.
Quote MessageWe have had the programme endorsed by the courts following legal action by the protest group but the disruption continues to cause unnecessary delay."
Bryan Lodge, Councillor for the Environment
He went on to say that as part of the Streets Ahead scheme, trees will be replaced on a one-for-one basis.
Oli Constable
If you were caught up in heavy traffic on the M18 this morning - this is why.
This is what's left of a BMW 1 series that collided with the back of a lorry between junction one and two of the M18.
The driver did not suffer any major injuries.
Image source, South Yorkshire Police