Almost £15,000 in cash recovered during fraud and firearms investigations in Bradford has been forfeited to the courts, police have revealed.

Last week, magistrates ruled that £14,460 recovered by Bradford's Proceeds of Crime Team was probably intended for criminal purposes and ordered that the cash be forfeited.

Almost £10,000 was seized by police during an investigation into violent disorder in Great Horton in October last year, with the cash thought to be linked to the supply of drugs.

The remainder of the cash was recovered by officers investigating a fraud in Shipley in November 2015, for which three people were arrested and later released without charge.

After a decision was made to take no further action regarding the cash seized, it was re-seized by the Bradford District Proceeds of Crime Team.

Mark Burns-Williamson, West Yorkshire's Police and Crime Commissioner, says: "A good amount of this money will now be put into my Safer Communities Fund which provides grants to community projects across West Yorkshire working to keep people safe and feeling safe."

Eighteen workers at a steel firm in Sheffield are out on strike for a fortnight.

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Workers at Rom on Brightside Lane opposite Forgemasters say they haven't had a pay rise for seven years.

They are members of the Community trade union.

The company says it's "regrettable" that some members of its workforce have decided to take strike action and that "production at the Sheffield site will continue".

Holders Hull FC, Salford, Leeds and Wigan are all in the hunt for Wembley places in the Challenge Cup semi-finals.

A police officer who was in a South Yorkshire Police helicopter when a couple were caught on camera having sex in their garden has told a jury he didn't know his colleague was filming.

Matthew Lucas, 43, admitted he was in the front passenger seat but said he had little recognition of seeing the couple.

He said his colleague Adrian Pogmore must have taken the footage.

Mr Pogmore, 51, from Rotherham, has previously admitted four counts of misconduct in public office.

Mr Lucas is one of four men on trial. All deny misconduct in a public office.

Planning officers are due to decide shortly if they're happy with the route which it's proposed lorries will use to go to and from a fracking site in North Yorkshire.

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County council officers are considering a traffic plan from Third Energy, the company which is preparing to begin fracking at its site at Kirby Misperton, near Pickering.

Local resident and anti-fracking campaigner Jackie Cray says she and others have concerns:

"We're talking about routing very heavy goods vehicles, huge vehicles, along roads which aren't built for them, aren't suitable for them and which will rapidly disintegrate," says Ms Cray.

But Third Energy says it's the same route it used when it drilled the well four years ago - which it says worked without complaint.

Oli Woodcock
BBC Local Live, Yorkshire

Leeds-born playwright Alan Bennett is set to open the 2017 Ilkley Literature Festival, external.

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The playwright, screenwriter and actor will appear at a special afternoon event at the festival on Friday 29 September.

Bennett is expected to talk about his most recent collection of diaries and essays, Keeping on Keeping On.

The full festival programme will be announced on Thursday 17 August, with tickets going on general sale at the end of the month.

Sheffield community radio station Iman FM has been told by media watchdog Ofcom that it will not be going back on air.

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The station had its licence suspended earlier this month after broadcasting material by an alleged Al Queda leader, Anwar al-Awlaki (pictured), who was killed in a US drone strike in 2011.

The regulator has now announced it will be revoking Iman FM's licence completely, stating that it is in the public interest to do so.

An Ofcom spokesperson said: "We take robust action when broadcasters break the rules."

Iman FM previously told Ofcom it was not aware of Awlaki's background.

There's a campaign today to highlight the levels of NHS nursing pay.

The event is taking place at Weston Park in Sheffield.

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The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) say that pay freezes are leaving nurses out of pocket and leading to many quitting the NHS altogether.

A survey from the RCN in May showed that 9 in 10 would support industrial action if the pay cap was not scrapped.

A popular Leeds riverside cycle route that was damaged by the Boxing Day floods in 2015 has been given a new lease of life.

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The path, between the Royal Armouries and Liberty Dock student accommodation, has been improved with a wider surface by the charity Sustrans.

Peg Alexander
Reporter, BBC Radio Leeds

The man who took the official photographs of Salts Mill before it went through a dramatic transformation is returning to capture today's view of the site.

Old and new photographs by Ian Beesley will then form an exhibition in September.

The photographs that Beesley took of the mill in the 1980s and this year will be accompanied by new poems from the so-called Bard of Barnsley Ian McMillan.

Kate Linderholm
BBC Local Live, Sheffield

Three trials are anticipated for the six men facing charges relating to the Hillsborough disaster, the Crown Prosecution Service has said.

Retired Chief Superintendent David Duckenfield, who was the match commander on the day, is accused of the gross negligent manslaughter of all but one of the 96 victims at Hillsborough.

Sir Norman Bettison, a Chief Inspector in South Yorkshire at the time, is accused of telling lies about his role in the aftermath of the disaster.

Former Sheffield Wednesday safety officer Graham Mackrell, retired South Yorkshire Police officers Donald Denton, Alan Foster and former force solicitor Peter Metcalf will also face a trial.

All six accused could now appear at Preston Crown Court in September.

A debut novel by a York bookshop worker has been long-listed for the Man Booker Prize.

Fiona Mozley works at The Little Apple Bookshop on High Petergate.

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Her book, Elmet, tells the story of a father and his two children who come into conflict with landowners after they build a home for themselves in a Yorkshire copse.

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Fiona (pictured) began writing Elmet on a train from York to London and says she was inspired by the landscape of North Yorkshire "whizzing past the window, with its farmhouses and fields and little hills and lines of tall trees."

If she wins the Man Booker Prize she'll receive a £50,000 prize

The Archbishop of York is due to take part in a memorial service in London for some of the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire today.

At least 80 people are believed to be dead as a result of the blaze on 14 June.

Doctor John Sentamu is expected to join other senior clergy and residents from the North Kensington community from all faiths at St Helen's Church this afternoon.

A collection will take place at the service in aid of Grenfell Tower survivors.

A sports coach from Hunters Bar in Sheffield who received a lifesaving stem cell transplant is competing as part of blood cancer charity Anthony Nolan's team at the British Transplant Games in Scotland.

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In 2010, Tom Scott was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma while he was working in Vietnam.

He returned to the UK and began treatment in Edinburgh. After two years of various unsuccessful treatments, he was told he'd need a stem cell transplant from an unrelated donor.

Due to Tom's mixed race background, it meant finding a perfect match would be more difficult.

However, on Christmas Eve 2012, Tom was told the Anthony Nolan charity had found him a match in America.

Now, he's taking part in the 1500m and 5K at this year’s British Transplant Games, and he’s aiming for a medal in both.

Teddies used to comfort children in distress, known as Trauma Teddies, are now being carried by North Yorkshire Police officers.

The Teddies were first used in Australia after an ambulance service superintendent saw one given to a child being treated by the ambulance service and was impressed by the calming effect the bear had on the child:

Acts of violence and drug use in Leeds Prison are unacceptably high, according to a new report.

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Conditions at Armley prison have been strongly criticised by the Independent Monitoring Board because of the level of drug use, violence and self-harming.

On one day last year ambulances were called to the prison 15 times to deal with prisoners who had overdosed or self-harmed.

Kat Cowan
Reporter, BBC Radio Sheffield

A brave bin man is being honoured after rescuing two people from a Sheffield canal in December last year.

Andy Sellars jumped into near freezing water to save the men after seeing their van crash and overturn on Lumley Street just outside the Veolia depot.

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Getting out of the crashed van the driver and passenger slipped down the canal bank and fell in.

The water was extremely cold and deep and they were soon struggling.

Andy, a trained life-saver, didn't hesitate.

He jumped in and pulled both men to the bank where his crew-mates helped to get them out.

Volunteers begin to clean up heritage railway carriages damaged by vandals on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway.

An abandoned Leeds viaduct could be transformed into a "high line" similar to walkways in New York and Paris.

The Holbeck Viaduct Project aims to reopen the mile-long structure that starts near Granary Wharf in the city centre and ends close to Elland Road.

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It is hoped the Victorian walkway, unused since 1988, would be used as a park, a pedestrian route and more.

Initial studies found £2m would need to be raised for the project to go ahead by 2023.

The team behind the idea said the launch of a pre-feasibility report, external was the culmination of a year's work and they were hopeful of talks with the landowners Network Rail and Leeds City Council.

Other possible uses for the walkway include allotments, public art spaces, children's play areas and a market space.

A woman from York who had a heart and lung transplant operation will celebrate the 30th anniversary of her surgery by being reunited with the doctor who transformed her life.

Carol Town, 63, was diagnosed with a rare condition that leads to irreversible lung damage at the age of five.

At the time of the operation she thought it would only give her four extra years of life, which she says "felt like a long time".

She says the treatment gave her a new lease of life and she quickly learned to run, swim, cycle and ride horses for the first time.

After recovering for the surgery Ms Town eventually climbed her first peak, Pen-y-Ghent in the Yorkshire Dales, then took part in the Transplant Games.

Mrs Town will meet the surgeon, Professor John Wallwork, who is now chairman of Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.