The man who was awarded the George Medal for trying to stop the murder of MP Jo Cox has died, his family says.

Bernard Kenny was stabbed as he intervened when Thomas Mair attacked Mrs Cox in Birstall, West Yorkshire in 2016.

Mr Kenny's son said the 79-year-old, who was honoured in June, had died on Monday morning.

Mair stabbed Mrs Cox, the MP for Batley and Spen, 15 times and shot her three times.

Mr Kenny was seriously injured in the attack, but the cause of his death is not believed to be related to the incident.

A major search was launched last night on the North Yorkshire coast last night after four young girls went missing.

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Two girls aged 12, and two just five, had failed to return home after playing on the beach at Staithes.

The search involved lifeboat crews, the coastguard and the police.

It was called off when the girls were discovered having walked to Port Mulgrave.

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.

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

Andrew Barton
BBC Local Live, Yorkshire

Hello and welcome to BBC Local Live in Yorkshire on Tuesday 15 August 2017.

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

In an attempt to prove summer is actually happening somewhere in Yorkshire, I thought we'd start with this BBC Weather Watcher pic of Filey.

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