World Championship cycling comes to Yorkshire
Calls for 'Hillsborough Law' by families of 96 killed football fans
More police in Sheffield after gang fights
People in parts of York to do more to prevent flooding
Sheffield man jailed after gun found in rabbit hutch
Police officers nominated for bravery award
Updates on Thursday 29 June 2017
Policing in part of Sheffield has been stepped up to reassure the public after two stabbings and a shooting last week.
South Yorkshire Police says five extra officers have been drafted in to the Burngreave area to deal with community tensions and crime.
They'd already been given more powers to stop and search people, after a fight between Somali and Kurdish gangs there last Wednesday.
BBC News Travel
On the rails across Yorkshire so far today, most services seem to be running pretty much to time except for the 07:23 from Bradford Interchange to Leeds, which is posted as delayed.
Meanwhile, you can click on the links below to keep up-to-date with the live departure boards for:
A multi-million pound new hospital wing has been officially opened by Princess Anne.
Image source, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustThe wing at Bradford Royal Infirmary has two children's wards, a 16-bed intensive care unit and dementia wards.
The Princess Royal met patients and staff as she toured the building.
The £28m wing is part of a £75m investment by Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to improve patient care.
The new wing provides 104 beds across the two elderly and two children's wards. It also has improved facilities for the family and carers of patients.
Rather cloudy, cool and damp, with a northerly breeze, extensive low cloud and spells of rain.
The rain will be heaviest first thing, gradually becoming lighter and more intermittent as the day goes on, with winds falling light.
Tonight it'll remain generally cloudy and damp, with a little further rain.
Kate Linderholm
BBC Radio Sheffield
Two South Yorkshire police officers, who were injured in a confrontation with a man wielding an axe have been nominated today for a national Police Bravery Award.
PC Lisa Bates and PC Mark Garrett had responded to a report of an ongoing domestic incident in Sheffield in April 2016, where a man had been heard making threats to kill a woman.
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They'll find out if they've won the award in July.
After months of waiting, its finally been confirmed, Yorkshire is to host one of the worlds most prestigious cycling events, the International Cycling Union Road World Championships.
Image source, UCIHarrogate has been named as the main competition town and finish location for each race and race start locations have been proposed in Beverley, Doncaster, Leeds, Northallerton, Ripon, and York.
This is a huge event, second only to the Tour de France in the terms of profile and importance.
Yorkshire will probably need to brace itself for world-wide coverage, hundreds of journalists and tens of thousands of spectators.
The UCI Road World Championships will see about 1,000 riders from 75 countries competing for the coveted rainbow jersey, organisers said.
Andrew Barton
BBC Local Live, Yorkshire
Hello and welcome to BBC Local Live in Yorkshire on Thursday 29 June 2017.
We'll be with you throughout the day with all the latest news, sport, travel and weather updates.
There's a bit more of the damp stuff due to fall from the sky today, but it's not just us humans that try to dodge it and stay dry.
Thanks to BBC Weather Watcher, Dazzler, for this pic of a bedraggled blue tit.
If you snap anything interesting which you'd like to share with the rest of Yorkshire, you can send it in by simply clicking here.
