Kate Linderholm
BBC Local Live, Sheffield

How much room do you give to cyclists when you're overtaking?

Image source, West Midlands Police

Several cycling groups across the county have complained to South Yorkshire Police about dangerous overtaking.

The force has now agreed to set up a "safe pass" initiative.

It'll see see officers riding bikes in Sheffield and Doncaster wearing cameras to record offenders who overtake dangerously and give less than a 1.5m clearance.

It's the last day of the Special Olympics in Sheffield, external today.

The city's played host to the national games for athletes with learning disabilities over the last five days.

We've followed the games throughout the week and here are some of the faces we've met along the way:

Scientists in York have identified a new breed of bat.

Image source, University of York

It was found in a remote rainforest in Papua New Guinea and was nicknamed Yoda due to its resemblance to the Star Wars Jedi Master.

But now, biologists at the University of York have given it the official name of "the happy tube-nosed fruit bat" since its round jaw gives the impression it's constantly smiling.

Naturalists at the university examined literature and 3,000 specimens in 18 museums around the world before they could formally distinguish and register Happy as a new species.

A Huddersfield man has been charged in connection with a fatal house fire in the town last year in which two boys died.

Three-year-old Logan Taylor and his brother Jake Casey, aged two, died in the fire on Alder Street, Fartown, on Saturday 20 February 2016.

The 50-year-old man, from Birkby, is due to appear before Kirklees Magistrates' Court on Friday 18 August charged with two counts of gross negligence manslaughter.

Yorkshire Post

An estate agent has put together a bizarre map which it says highlights the best places to live in Yorkshire and the UK if you fear for the nation's impending doom, external.

This map apparently highlights the zones which would be wiped out by a nuclear strike on one of 20 major cities - and where you'd be safe.

Image source, Yorkshire Post

BBC Weather

A dry start, but cloud and outbreaks of rain will spread quickly southeast through the morning.

Rain will continue through the afternoon, but with some drier and perhaps brighter intervals in the east.

Remaining rather cloudy through the evening with further outbreaks of rain, the heaviest over western hills.

This will gradually ease overnight with clear spells continuing in the east.

Talks are due to be held today between the Unite union and the company which empties bins in Doncaster in a bid to try to avert a walkout planned for 23 August.

Unite members are in dispute with Suez over pay and jobs.

It's already led to industrial action in Birmingham, with rubbish left uncollected there.

The union said Suez made a 2% pay offer, conditional on the removal of guaranteed overtime. It said this would mean most workers not receiving an increase.

The company is also planning job cuts, Unite claims.

At the time of the strike announcement, Nick Browning, of Suez recycling and recovery UK, said Unite members on the Doncaster contract received a significant pay award last December, and the union's current demands were "unrealistic".

The pay award was "not conditional on employees sacrificing overtime payments", he added.

There are renewed calls to improve safety on a road where a couple from Leeds died on their wedding day.

Image source, Google

In just over a year, the A64 between York and Scarborough is said to have claimed 11 lives, including those of Paul and Susan Dockerty.

The couple had just got married and were travelling in a car with Derek and Joy Green, who were guests at the wedding in July last year when a head-on crash with a lorry on the A64 at Scampston Bridge, between Malton and Scarborough, killed all four.

Now, campaigners are calling for a bypass around the village of Rillington (pictured), near Malton.

Highways England says there are currently no major plans to build one.

BBC News Travel

If you're heading out to catch a train this morning, you'll be glad to know the services across our region seem to be generally running to time at the moment.

However, be aware that the the 07:01 York to King's Cross service has been cancelled and the 06:00 Leeds to Plymouth and 06:52 Sheffield to Plymouth services are currently running about an hour late.

You can 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

Four supermarkets, including Bradford-based Morrisons and Leeds-based Asda, have taken products off their shelves in the wake of the egg contamination scare.

Image source, Getty Images

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) said yesterday that the scale of the problem was higher than previously thought, with about 700,000 eggs having been sent to the UK from potentially contaminated Dutch farms - up from an early estimate of 21,000.

In response, Asda, Morrisons, Sainsbury's and Waitrose have withdrawn a total of 11 products - including sandwiches, sandwich fillers and salads - from sale.

The FSA said investigations suggested it was "very unlikely" that the eggs posed a risk to public health as it released a list of processed products withdrawn in the UK "to ensure that consumers are protected".

For the full list of affected products, click here, external.

Andrew Barton
BBC Local Live, Yorkshire

Hello and welcome to BBC Local Live in Yorkshire on Friday 11 August 2017.

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

As always, we welcome your input - like this BBC Weather Watcher scene of pastoral splendor at Wortley in Barnsley.

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