Summary

  • Batley woman who retweeted IS leader speech gets suspended sentence

  • Care home fined £50K after death of resident

  • Man in court over fatal dog attack in Huddersfield

  • Woman found dead in Leeds park lake identified

  • Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council says it needs to come up with hundreds of extra school places to cope with increasing demand

  • Further debate will be held in Parliament today by West Yorkshire MP Paula Sherriff about free sanitary products in all schools

  • Updates on Thursday 30 March 2017

  1. Leeds Rhinos 26-18 Wigan Warriorspublished at 22:30 British Summer Time 31 March 2017

    Kallum Watkins marks his 200th appearance for Leeds Rhinos with a try to help them overcome Wigan Warriors at Headingley.

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  2. Castleford 52-16 Huddersfieldpublished at 22:17 British Summer Time 31 March 2017

    Luke Gale and Joel Monaghan both score second-half hat-tricks as Super League leaders Castleford thump Huddersfield.

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  3. Flying Scotsman marks line reopeningpublished at 15:53 British Summer Time 31 March 2017

    The Settle-to-Carlisle line was closed for 13 months after a 500,000-tonne landslip.

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  4. Don't miss our live coverage on Fridaypublished at 06:38 British Summer Time 31 March 2017

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    If you want to follow our news, sport, weather and travel on Friday then please click here .

  5. Huddersfield chief on gardening leavepublished at 21:51 British Summer Time 30 March 2017

    Huddersfield Town place head of football operations Stuart Webber on gardening leave after he expressed his wish to leave.

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  6. Five things we learned todaypublished at 18:00 British Summer Time 30 March 2017

    Oli Woodcock
    BBC Local Live, Yorkshire

    That's all from the Yorkshire Live team for today. We'll be back tomorrow from 06:30 with all the latest news, sport, weather and travel for Yorkshire.

    Meanwhile, updates on breaking news, sport and travel stories will continue here throughout the night, but before we go, let's look back at some of our top stories from today:

    1. IS leader speech retweeter Mary Kaya from Batley sentenced

    2. A North Yorkshire care home has been fined £50,000 following the death of one of its residents 

    3. The woman found dead in the lake of a popular park in Leeds has been identified 

    4.  Police investigating the death  of Aseel Al-Essaie in Upperthorpe in Sheffield last month have arrested a 35-year-old man

    5. A member of the public's being praised for stopping the abduction of a toddler in Leeds

    Finally, if you spot something happening where you live, which you think we should know about, you can always get in touch with me  by email . Now enjoy the late evening sunshine!

  7. Work set to start on £37m holiday parkpublished at 17:52 British Summer Time 30 March 2017

    The attraction is being built on the site of a former coal mine near Rother Valley Park.

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  8. Yorkshire weather this eveningpublished at 17:44 British Summer Time 30 March 2017

    Oli Woodcock
    BBC Local Live, Yorkshire

    Very mild and mostly cloudy this evening and overnight with the risk of some patchy rain mainly in western areas. Minimum temperature overnight of about 10C (50F).

    Weather still

    Patchy rain possible in the west at first tomorrow, otherwise bright with sunny spells and a risk of one or two showers. Still very mild. Maximum temperature 16C (61F).

  9. Uber driver fined after council prosecutionpublished at 17:29 British Summer Time 30 March 2017

    The Press

    A taxi driver who was illegally working in York has been, external fined.

    City of York Council, responding to complaints by local taxi drivers, investigated Mohammed Nawaz, 25, of Cark Road Keighley.

    Uber mobile phone appImage source, Dan Bean
  10. Bradford campaigns to be part of proposed HS3 rail schemepublished at 17:22 British Summer Time 30 March 2017

    Oli Woodcock
    BBC Local Live, Yorkshire

    The Rail Minister has spoken positively about the campaign for a station in Bradford as part of the proposed HS3 rail scheme .

    HS3

    Bradford Council says it will be "pushing very hard" to be included in the Leeds to Manchester line.

    Speaking in the Commons, the Labour MP for Bradford South Judith Cummins urged it to be made a priority.

  11. IS leader speech retweeter Mary Kaya from Batley sentencedpublished at 17:13 British Summer Time 30 March 2017
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    Oli Woodcock
    BBC Local Live, Yorkshire

    A woman found guilty of encouraging terrorism after she retweeted a speech by the so-called Islamic State leader has been given a suspended jail sentence. 

    Mary KayaImage source, SWNS

    Mary Kaya, 57, from Batley, West Yorkshire, had denied posting a link to an audio clip by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

    She was found guilty after a trial of dissemination of a terrorist publication likely to encourage people to participate in terrorism.

    Kaya received a two-year term.

  12. Sheffield woman sentenced after pleading guilty to terrorist offence published at 17:07 British Summer Time 30 March 2017

    Oli Woodcock
    BBC Local Live, Yorkshire

    A 22-year-old woman from Sheffield has today been sentenced to 20 months imprisonment after pleading guilty to disseminating terrorist material online.

    Fatimah Peer-MohdImage source, North East Counter Terrorism Unit

    Fatimah Peer-Mohd (also known as Fatimah Peer-Mohamed) of Earl Marshall Road in Sheffield admitted to one count of disseminating terrorist publications, contrary to Section 2 of the Terrorism Act 2006 at Sheffield Crown Court.

    Peer-Mohd was arrested in May 2015 by officers from the North East Counter Terrorism Unit after postings were made on social media that were pro ISIS and anti-Western.

  13. Sheffield's rum o'clockpublished at 16:51 British Summer Time 30 March 2017

    Rony Robinson
    Presenter, BBC Radio Sheffield

    Sheffield's first Rum Festival, external gets underway at Trafalgar Warehouse tomorrow night.

    Lucy Douglas has been in to tell me about it and bought with her a sample or two.

    (Not a drop was drunk though, promise)

  14. Assel Al-Essaie death: Arrest madepublished at 16:21 British Summer Time 30 March 2017

    Oli Woodcock
    BBC Local Live, Yorkshire

    Police investigating the death of Aseel Al-Essaie in Upperthorpe in Sheffield last month have arrested a 35-year-old man.

    Aseel Al-EssaieImage source, SYP

    He's in police custody on suspicion of assisting offenders. 

    Mr Al-Essaie was shot at about 13:35 on Saturday 18 Febraury in Daniel Hill. He later died in hospital.

  15. Yorkshire's Stephanie Hirst to be the voice of Channel 4published at 16:18 British Summer Time 30 March 2017

    Oli Woodcock
    BBC Local Live, Yorkshire

    Barnsley's Stephaine Hirst has taken to social media to announce she'll be the voice of Channel 4 tomorrow night to mark International Transgender Day of Visibility, external .

    "Hirsty" who was a voice on commerical radio in Yorkshire for many years made the transition from male to female in 2014 .

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    You can hear her from 18:00 tomorrow night on Channel 4.

  16. Power cut hits 2,400 propertiespublished at 16:07 British Summer Time 30 March 2017

    The Press

    More than 2,000 properties, external in York and the surrounding area were left without electricity today after a major power cut.

    About 2,400 properties in the YO10, YO18,YO19,YO23,YO24,YO32,YO60 areas were affected.

    An electricity cableImage source, Daniel Willers
  17. Toddler snatched before being rescued by passer-by in Leedspublished at 15:57 British Summer Time 30 March 2017

    Oli Woodcock
    BBC Local Live, Yorkshire

    A member of the public's being praised for stopping the abduction of a toddler in Leeds.

    Tunstall Road, LeedsImage source, Google maps

    The attempted abduction, which took place at 16:30 on Wednesday on Tunstall Road, Beeston, was prevented by the "public-spirited" passer-by, who also detained the woman until the police arrived. 

    As a result one woman's been arrested, and a police investigation's underway after the incident.

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    This was clearly a very distressing incident for the little girl and her mother."

    Detective Inspector Charlotte Hails , West Yorkshire Police

  18. Removal man with a difference!published at 15:45 British Summer Time 30 March 2017

    Ronan Sully
    BBC Radio Sheffield

    What do you do when you need to move large amounts of furniture and books to a new reading room at Sheffield Central Library?

    Easy, call England's strongest man to lend a hand.

    He's Paul Smith from Sheffield and I've been to meet him.

  19. Travel news: Pedestrian on the M62published at 15:36 British Summer Time 30 March 2017

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    We're hearing reports that a pedestrian is on the M62 eastbound near junction 30 at Lofthouse.

    Please do approach with care.

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  20. Dog survives being 'thrown into River' in Thirskpublished at 15:34 British Summer Time 30 March 2017

    The RSPCA is investigating claims that a dog was thrown into a river in North Yorkshire.

    RoxyImage source, RSPCA

    The charity was called on 19 March by someone who claimed to have seen the animal being deliberately hurled into Cod Beck river in Thirsk. 

    Seven-year-old bitch Roxy wasn't hurt, and she was reunited with her owners. 

    Yesterday it was announced that North Yorkshire had the second highest number of convictions for animal cruelty across England and Wales last year.