Updates on Wednesday 15 February 2017
The European Commission has sent a "final warning" to the UK for failing to address repeated breaches of legal air pollution limits in areas including Leeds, London, Birmingham and Glasgow.
Sarah Urwin
Political Reporter, BBC Radio York
Earlier we told you that councillors in North Yorkshire are expected to agree to a rise in council tax of almost 4% later today as they try to save around £17m by 2018.
We can now tell you that the authority will use 2% of the increase to try and fill a hole in their social care budget. Currently half of the council's total budget is spent on this.
Richard Flinton is their Chief Executive:
West Yorkshire has the third-highest level of hate crimes in the country according to new analysis, with the number of recorded incidents in England and Wales at their highest level since the EU referendum.
Image source, Ewa BabaszakMore than 14,000 hate crimes were recorded between July and September.
In 10 forces the number of suspected hate crimes increased by more than 50%, compared with the previous three months.
Police say monitoring suggests incidents have levelled out after the summer's spike.
Quote MessageThe triggering of Article 50 is the next major milestone and we must do all we can to discourage hate attacks and to support people who feel at risk."
David Isaac, Equality and Human Rights Commission
Police are looking for 17-year-old Daniel Santocki from South Elmsall, West Yorkshire.
Image source, FacebookHe was last seen at Barnsley College and was wearing jeans and a white coat.
Anyone with information about Daniel's whereabouts is being asked to contact the police.
Kevin Larkin
BBC Local Live, Yorkshire
The row over the likely high speed HS2 rail route through South Yorkshire could end up in court, with campaigners coming together to try and force a judicial review.
They say HS2 Ltd did not followed procedures correctly when deciding which route the line would take:
We did ask HS2 Ltd to comment and they said we needed to speak to the Department for Transport (DfT).
A DfT spokesman said they don't comment on potential or ongoing legal proceedings.
Rising prices coupled with stagnating incomes are putting millions of families on the verge of falling into poverty, according to a York-based charity.
The Joseph Rowntree Foundation says the number of people who can't afford a decent living standard has increased by four million in the past six years to 19 million.
The charity's chief executive, Campbell Robb, says the government needs to act:
Yorkshire's latest unemployment figures are out and the number of people out of work in our region has dropped by 14,000.
Image source, PAThe figures are from October and December last year, and show that nationally a record number of people are in work.
The employment rate now stands at 74.6%, while wage growth also picked up pace.
Other figures showed the number of non-UK nationals working in the UK increased by 233,000 to 3.48 million compared with the same period a year ago.
Oli Constable
BBC Local Live, Yorkshire
A mural celebrating Sheffield hosting the Special Olympics in the summer has been unveiled opposite the city's railway station.
The mural depicts some of Sheffield and South Yorkshire's most famous landmarks, with boxer Kell Brook helping to launch the event.
What else would you add?
Andrew Barton
BBC Local Live, Yorkshire
Legendary American showman Buffalo Bill's visit to West Yorkshire in 1904 comes under the spotlight in a new exhibition at Halifax's Bankfield Museum.
He was instrumental in creating the modern image of cowboys with his huge shows of sharp shooting and battle recreations including Native Americans and up to 500 horses.
His show toured Halifax, Bradford, Keighley, Wakefield, Leeds and Castleford, where writer Ian Clayton says people still have a connection to his visit:
Thousands of jobs could come to Sheffield after plans were given the go ahead yesterday to redevelop the West Bar Square area of the city around the law courts.
Image source, How PlanningThe £175m development will create 3,500 jobs and will see the area transformed into apartment blocks, a four-star hotel, restaurants, shops and offices.
People living in North Yorkshire are set to see their council tax rise by almost 4% from April.
Image source, PACounty Councillors are today expected to sign off the proposal.
The rise will cost the average Band D household in North Yorkshire an extra £45 a year.
Oli Constable
BBC Local Live, Yorkshire
Four Sheffield GP practices are offering evening and weekend appointments to try and take the pressure off walk-in services and A&E departments.
Practices in Sloan, Crookes, Palgrave and Woodhouse are now offering the service by appointment only:
Police have released more details about a heavily pregnant woman who's gone missing with her five-year-old daughter from Beeston in Leeds.
Image source, PAAlicja Dworakowska is 29-years-old with blonde-ginger shoulder-length hair and freckles.
Police say she was last seen wearing a black, waterproof coat.
Her daughter is white with blonde hair and was wearing a pink hat, with earflaps down the side, a beige coat and a pink dress.
Officers are urging Ms Dworakowska, or anyone who knows where she is, to contact them.
Yesterday we told you about the first timetabled steam-driven services to be run on the world famous Settle-Carlisle railway line in decades.
Tornado, the newest steam locomotive in Britain, is pulling 12 Northern services on the Settle-Carlisle line over three consecutive days this week.
Have a look at this beautiful film of the engine making its majestic progress over the iconic Ribblehead Viaduct:
BBC Travel
Here are the latest details of problems on Yorkshire's roads this morning:
People who have written offensive messages on social media about Syrian refugees being resettled on the North Yorkshire coast are being warned they could be prosecuted.
The borough of Scarborough has recently taken in five families under a government programme.
Scarborough councillor Bill Chatt is warning people about abusive messages posted on the internet:
Oli Constable
BBC Local Live, Yorkshire
A train's broken down train near Dore and Totley Station in South Yorkshire and is causing delays between Sheffield and Chesterfield this morning.
It's also affecting trains on the London St Pancras-Nottingham-Sheffield-Liverpool Lime Street-Nottingham-Norwich routes.
All trains on the route will be delayed in the Chesterfield direction only, with trains into Sheffield being able to run as normal.
Andrew Barton
BBC Local Live, Yorkshire
North Yorkshire's deputy Chief Constable says he has one "stand-out regret" as he prepares to retire later today.
Tim Madgwick has served with the force for the last 29 years.
However, he says he would dearly love to have been able to help solve the disappearance of York chef Claudia Lawrence:
Peg Alexander
Reporter, BBC Radio Leeds
I've been speaking to residents of Leafield Towers in Moortown, Leeds, which was the scene of a fire earlier this morning which at its height was tackled by about 50 firefighters.
No-one was seriously hurt during the blaze at the block of flats, according to West Yorkshire Fire Service, but I've been told the man who lives in the flat where the fire broke out has been taken to hospital suffering from the effects of breathing in smoke.
Residents tell me they were woken up in the early hours by firefighters banging on their doors.
Leafield Towers resident Trevor says: "I thought somebody was trying to break into my flat and break the door in, but the fire brigade were there.
"I couldn't see a thing in front of me. You couldn't seen in front of your face, the smoke was that dense."
Sarah Wakefield
BBC Radio Leeds News
Concerns are growing for the welfare of a pregnant Leeds woman who's gone missing with her five-year-old daughter.
Image source, PAAlicja Dworakowska and her daughter (pictured), from Beeston, were last heard from on Monday.
The force is urging Ms Dworakowska, or anyone who knows where she is, to contact them.