Summary

  • 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

Live Reporting

Andrew Barton

  1. Yorkshire farmers to quiz environment secretary

    The 159th Great Yorkshire Show gets underway today.

    The next three days is the biggest event in the local farming calendar and today sees farming leaders launch a campaign there, to promote the importance of agriculture as talks over Brexit get underway.

    The environment secretary, Michael Gove, is due to visit the show this week.

    Chris Timm, a sheep farmer from near York, says he'll be asking him for clarity over what Brexit will actually mean for farmers like him:

  2. Yorkshire's Tuesday weather: Cloudy and wet

    BBC Weather

    A rather cloudy start, with outbreaks of rain.

    These could turn persistent for a time during the morning, before breaking up to allow some drier and perhaps brighter spells to develop, but also some heavier showers.

    WX

    Tonight it'll be mostly dry, with any outbreaks of rain becoming confined to the far southeast, before clearing overnight.

  3. Leeds Halloween ride-out organiser encouraged 'mayhem'

    The organiser of a Halloween "ride-out" which brought Leeds city centre to a standstill was responsible for encouraging "mayhem", a court has heard.

    Biker@peopleofLeeds

    David Armitage did not take part, but filmed a live video on Facebook telling viewers "carnage, that's what we do".

    The incident saw a large number of motorcyclists tear through streets and pedestrian areas in the city.

    Armitage, of Headingley, was one of 13 defendants who appeared at Leeds Crown Court on Monday.

    All had admitted causing a public nuisance at a previous court hearing and were given bail until sentencing on Tuesday.

    Witnesses likened the scenes on 31 October to the Mel Gibson film Mad Max.

  4. Good morning: Join us for today's live coverage across Yorkshire

    Andrew Barton
    BBC Local Live, Yorkshire

    Hello and welcome to BBC Local Live in Yorkshire on Tuesday 11 July 2017.

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

    It looks like being a bit of a wet start for the first day of the Great Yorkshire Show, despite this cracking pic of a "red sky at nigh, shepherd's delight" over Sheffield, late yesterday evening suggesting fine weather ahead.

    red sky

    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.