Armed police on patrol at Great Yorkshire Show
Halloween 'ride-out' participants jailed for at least a year
Leeds mum of sick child defends parents of terminally ill baby
Woman charged with attempted murder over Dewsbury stabbing
Organ transplants save 945 in South Yorkshire
Live updates on Tuesday 11 July 2017
It's a bit damp in Harrogate at the moment on the first day of this year's Great Yorkshire Show.
It hasn't dampened BBC Look North presenter Harry Gration's spirits though - he optimistically dressed for summer!
The husband and wife, killed while crossing the A64 in North Yorkshire on 23 June, have now been named.
Charles McLaughlin, 53, and wife Judith, who was 58, lived in the village of Welburn near Malton.
They were pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics.
The vehicle driver and his wife, travelling towards Scarborough, were uninjured.
A man has been seriously injured after being hit by an HGV in York.
The crash happened in the early hours of this morning on Lawrence Street, outside the BP garage at the junction with Nicholas Gardens.
Police say It involved a white DAF refrigerated lorry travelling towards York city centre and a 52-year-old local man.
The pedestrian sustained serious injuries and remains in a critical condition in hospital.
The driver of the lorry, a 58 year-old man, also from the York area was unhurt and has been assisting police with their enquiries.
Anyone with any information should call North Yorkshire Police.
Andrew Barton
BBC Local Live, Yorkshire
It could just be the shared browns and greys, but to me there seems to be a vague similarity between BBC Radio York's Jonathan Cowap and this donkey from a sancturary at Eccup near Leeds, having a day at the Great Yorkshire Show.
The donkeys are called DJ and Jack.
The smaller one, Jack, complained to Jonathan (pictured right) about DJ, saying "eeeaw, eeaw. eeaw - eealways calls me that!"
Claire Renwick
BBC Local Live, Sheffield
The University of Sheffield is hoping plans for a new social sciences building and sports centre will be approved by the council later today.
The social sciences hub in Broomhill would be built on a site opposite the Weston Park Hospital.
It would include a new swimming pool, gym and a bouldering room for climbers.
The gates have opened on the biggest event in the local farming calendar, the Great Yorkshire Show.
Here are a few fascinating facts:
Claire Renwick
BBC Local Live, Sheffield
Did you see the beautiful sunset last night? Well, Bonnie the dog did!
Here she is enjoying the view in Hartcliff near Penistone.
Thanks to owner @steeliebobs for the photograph.🐕
Image source, @steeliebobsStunt horses that feature in dramas such as Poldark and Peaky Blinders are taking part in the Great Yorkshire Show for the first time this year.
Andy Kershaw
BBC Radio Sheffield News
Now, how are your outdoor survival skills?
Can you start a fire without a match, build a shelter, or use a bush knife?
If not, then you can learn all the survival basics at a new training centre in High Woods near Grenoside...
Owain Wyn Evans
Weather presenter, BBC Look North
More than 130,000 people are expected at the Great Yorkshire Show this year and, apart from showcasing all that is great about Yorkshire, it can only mean one thing; queues.
So how do you get around them? Have a look at my handy guide on how to get there without a hair out of place:
Claire Renwick
BBC Local Live, Sheffield
Barnsley Central MP, Dan Jarvis, will lead a debate in Westminster later this week about organ donations.
He'll call for England to have the same opt out system as Wales.
Image source, PANew figures show nearly 1,000 people in South Yorkshire are still alive today because of organ donations.
Nationally, the figure has reached the 50 thousand mark.
NHS Blood and Transplant say it's partly down to more people coming forward as donors
Peg Alexander
Reporter, BBC Radio Leeds
There are 8,500 animals at this year's Great Yorkshire Show in Harrogate and the coiffuring has already started:
The back garden of a semi in Roundhay is the unlikely setting for a rain forest.
It took Nick Wilson 20 years to build the three different levels.
Go on, have a wander:
Visitors to the Great Yorkshire Show, which begins today in Harrogate, are being told there'll be greater security this year.
It follows the recent terror attacks in Manchester and London.
Improved security measures, aimed at reassuring the 130,000 visitors expected at the site over the next three days, will include patrols by armed police officers.
Nigel Morgan is the show's operations manager, he says people should be reassured by the measures taken:
A Leeds mum has spoken-out in support of the parents of terminally ill baby, Charlie Gard, as they prepare for another round in their fight to take their son to the US for treatment.
The High Court judge says he will now re-consider their arguments on Thursday, but added he'd only allow the therapy to take place if he heard dramatic new evidence.
Sonya Joseph's two-year-old daughter, Maraya, has the life-limiting genetic condition Edwards Syndrome, and needs a ventilator to be able to breath. She says it's a parents right to fight for their child's life:
Lisa Gallagher
Weather presenter, BBC Look North
A wet start this morning, but brighter this afternoon and overnight.
Here's my full forecast:
Sarah Wakefield
BBC Radio Leeds News
A 25-year-old woman's been charged with attempted murder following a stabbing in Dewsbury.
Shauna Littlewood will appear in court in Huddersfield later, accused of attacking a 24-year-old woman at a house early on Sunday.
She's still in hospital with serious injuries.
Almost a thousand people in South Yorkshire are alive because of organ transplants.
Figures revealed in the annual Transplant Activity Report show 945 lives have been saved.
Now NHS Blood and Transplant want more people to join the NHS Organ Donor Register.
Over 400,000 people in the county are now signed up to the register, an increase of 25% over the last five-years.
Gordon Crowe, from the Yorkshire Donation Team, says the importance of donating organs can't be overestimated:
BBC News Travel
If you're heading out to catch a train or waiting on the station platform, services across our region all seem to be running to time at the moment.
You can click on the links below to keep up-to-date with the live departure boards for:
A woman has been jailed for four and a half years for the manslaughter of her partner.
Lisa Thorpe, 33, stabbed 50-year-old John Poole in the calf during an argument at her home in November.
Sheffield Crown Court heard that Thorpe stabbed Mr Poole after he pointed a knife at her throat and threatened to kill her.
Image source, Andrew Frisby/North Yorkshire PoliceThorpe, of The Avenue in Bentley near Doncaster, denied murdering Mr Poole but pleaded guilty to manslaughter.
At a trial of issue at Sheffield Crown Court, Thorpe said she and Mr Poole had been drinking throughout the day.
She said that Mr Poole had accused her of seeing another man and became violent.
She told the court that she had stabbed Mr Poole "so he would get off me".
The court heard Thorpe initially told police she had found Mr Poole outside her house and did not know how he had come to be stabbed.
She admitted lying and said: "I was scared. I've never been locked up."
After sentencing, Det Chief Insp David Stopford, of South Yorkshire Police, said: "Her original account blaming an unknown third party was disproved by the investigation."