This percussive accompaniment to the Weather Girls from BBC Look North weatherman Owain Wyn Evans will leave you in no doubt as to the meteorological state of play:

Mike Kemp
Reporter, BBC Radio York

Drivers of older diesel vehicles in North Yorkshire could be encouraged to park outside the towns of Malton and Norton, to help cut air pollution.

It's one of the recommendations in a report looking at ways to improve air quality.

More houses will be built in Malton and Norton over the coming years and with it will come more traffic - adding to air pollution.

To tackle this, consultants for Ryedale District Council suggest more take-up of electric car and encouraging drivers of older diesel cars to park out of town and then walk in.

Adam Pinder-Smith
BBC Local Live, Yorkshire

I'm keeping an eye across any updates that come through regarding an earlier signal fault near Luton, which is affecting train services between Sheffield and London St Pancras.

The good news from operator East Midlands Trains is that services are leaving Sheffield on-time; it's further south where issues remain and that you're likely to experience delays:

The problem now is that staff and trains are not quite where they should be, so their best guess currently is that it will be around midday before a 'normal' service resumes.

Until then you're best option for travelling to London from Sheffield by train is to travel to Doncaster and connect with Virgin Trains East Coast services to London Kings Cross.

Children at a school in York have made a film that takes a unique look at dementia.

Created especially for Dementia Awareness Week, the short feature shows pupils from Carr Junior school. talking about how their mothers help them remember things.

But the film says this is not the same for older people with dementia:

Homeless people in Leeds are being urged to register to vote, with three days to go now until the deadline.

People with no fixed address can fill out a special form called a Declaration of Local Connection and put an address where they mostly spend their time.

Normally, people must state a home address when applying to join the electoral register - an obvious problem for homeless people.

Chris Fields from St Georges Crypt is encouraging people to use their services and address on the form:

Adam Pinder-Smith
BBC Local Live, Yorkshire

If you're planning on taking a train between London St Pancras and Sheffield this morning, you're going to be suffering delays.

East Midlands Trains have released this update:

Although an earlier signalling fault near Luton has been fixed by Network Rail, the knock-on effect to services is still on-going, with a normal service not expected to be in operation for several hours.

According to the live departure boards, trains are leaving Sheffield on-time, but there are delays further south.

The advice for passengers heading to London from South Yorkshire is to travel to Doncaster where tickets can be used on Virgin Trains East Coast services to London Kings Cross.

Sara Thornton
BBC Weather

There's quite a lot of the damp stuff about this morning.

It's cooler too, with some brisk winds.

Here's my full forecast:

Adam Pinder-Smith
BBC Local Live, Yorkshire

National Rail Enquiries, external have released an update for an alternative route if you're heading to or from London St Pancras International from Sheffield this morning.

A signalling fault between Luton and London means trains aren't running in that stretch.

Image source, National Rail Enquiries

The advice if you're heading to the capital by train from Sheffield is to take TransPennine Express, Northern or CrossCountry services to Doncaster to connect with Virgin Trains East Coast services to London Kings Cross.

These services will accept East Midlands Trains tickets until the incident is fixed.

The Yorkshire and Humber Regional Cyber Crime Unit will be talking to businesses and other organisations today about protecting themselves against ransomware.

The event in Leeds follows last weekend's cyber attacks, where several NHS hospitals and surgeries across our region, including the York Teaching Hospital, had their computers hacked.

Staff were unable to access patient records, appointments and prescriptions.

There remains some mystery as to how the campaign was first launched.

Experts are looking for what they call "patient zero" - the first computer to be infected - to understand the method of delivery.

From that point on, the malware spread virulently, because it looked for computers to spread to within an organisation, but also looked across the internet for other computers it could connect to and infect.

Trains between Sheffield and London are being affected by a signalling fault which is causing major disruption between Luton and London St Pancras.

Image source, PA

Network Rail says its' expecting the Thameslink service between Brighton and Bedford to be disrupted until at least 13:00.

Here's the departure and arrivals board at Sheffield, external so you can keep an eye on things.

Jonathan Cowap
Presenter, BBC Radio York

I've been trying to imagine myself as a Viking - I've got the facial hair at least - as a major new exhibition opens at the Yorkshire Museum called "Rediscover the Legend".

I've had a close look at some of the exhibits and spoken to Natalie Buy, the exhibition's curator.

She told me about the "York Helmet," one of the best preserved examples of a helmet of its type:

BBC News Travel

If you're planning on heading to the station this morning, everything seems to be running smoothly with no major delays to services across Yorkshire so far.

Of course this could change, so if you are getting the train to work, click on the links below to keep up-to-date with the live departure boards for:

• Leeds Railway Station, external
• Wakefield Westgate, external
• Bradford Interchange, external
• Bradford Forster Square, external
• York Railway Station, external
• Sheffield Station, external
• Doncaster Station, external

A survivor of child sexual exploitation in Rotherham says she's pleased the television drama Three Girls, showed the brutal reality of child sexual exploitation (CSE).

The programme tells the story of three children who were victims in the grooming and sex trafficking case in Rochdale in 2012, with strong echoes of what happened in Rotherham.

The final episode went out last night.

This victim says portraying the subject in a drama also means more people will watch the programme:

BBC Weather

Cloudy with persistent rain this morning, perhaps locally heavy, more especially the east. A bit brighter in the south later. Feeling cool with some brisk coastal winds.

Tonight cloudy and damp conditions will persist, although the rain should become lighter and more patchy later.

The brisk coastal winds should also ease.

BBC Sport

Bradford City are in London looking to win promotion to the Championship at Wembley.

The City players’ coach left the Cedar Court Hotel in Bradford for London yesterday afternoon as the club builds up for the clash.

If the Bantams can overcome Millwall, it'll be their first time in the second tier since 2004.

These fans in Manningham are confident their team can perform on the big day:

Thousands of York City supporters are hoping despair will turn to delight at Wembley this weekend, in the final of the FA Trophy.

It's City's fifth trip to Wembley in the last eight years, but it comes at the end of a a disappointing season.

City are playing Macclesfield. Winning the Trophy would be a huge boost after the heartbreak of relegation last month.

Manager, Gary Mills, says he's hoping to reward the fans support with a win:

Three people have been charged in connection with the death of a woman found dead in woodland near Leeds.

The body of Sinead Wooding, 26, was discovered by joggers near Alwoodley Crags car park in Stairfoot Lane on Sunday.

Image source, West Yorkshire Police

Police said Akshar Ali, 26, of Kings Road, Leeds, and Yasmin Ahmed, 27, of Reginald Mount, Leeds, have been charged with her murder. 　

Asim Ali, 20, of Kings Road, has been charged with assisting an offender. 　

All three are due to appear at Leeds Magistrates' Court on Friday.

Andrew Barton
BBC Local Live, Yorkshire

Hello and welcome to BBC Local Live in Yorkshire on Friday 19 May 2017.

We'll be with you throughout the day with all the latest news, sport, weather and travel updates.

You're welcome to join in as always.

Like BBC Weather Watcher, Watergypsyrach, who sent in a pic which combines two of my favourite meteorological phenomenon in one - a red sky and a rainbow.

If you snap anything interesting, which you'd like to show off to the rest of Yorkshire, you can send it in by simply clicking here.