More Indian films are shooting in the UK - including one starring Bollywood superstar Akshay Kumar.

A man has walked away from a 200mph crash while attempting to break the UK land speed record at an airfield near York.

David Tremayne, 64, from Darlington, reached a top speed of 296mph at Elvington airfield before losing control when the parachute fired.

Mr Tremayne climbed out of the car with just a cut to his finger:

A youth worker from Rotherham is in the running for a national award.

Nicola Harding works at Myplace Performance Youth and Arts Centre and has been shortlisted for the title of young worker of the year in the Youth Matters Award 2017.

As part of her work, Nicola has set about changing the lives of disadvantaged young people in Rotherham - especially people from the Roma community.

Lisa Gallagher
Weather presenter, BBC Look North

Mostly cloudy and mist this morning with outbreaks of thundery rain spreading northeastwards.

The rain will ease and the cloud will break from the west later to allow sunny spells to develop.

Watch my full forecast here:

Batley Bulldogs' Mount Pleasant ground has been broken into and vandalised four times in just a month, the club's revealed.

Club boss and former Bulldogs player Paul Harrison (pictured) is now appealing to the local community to come forward with any information about the break-ins.

They club's now taken to social media to try and catch the culprits, posting this CCTV footage of the break in:

BBC News Travel

Drivers are being warned that five roads have been closed after an accident at Oxspring near Penistone.

The affected routes are:

• Four Lanes End
• Coates Lane
• Jockey road
• Copster Lane
• Bower Hill Junction

Image source, Google

Members of the public are being warned by police not to approach a man wanted for five breaches of a non-molestation order and a threat to kill.

Image source, North Yorkshire Police

Officers are appealing for information about the whereabouts of Matthew Alan Stanley, 27, from Selby, who is currently believed to be in South Yorkshire.

Anyone who sees Stanley is warned to call the police "immediately".

Tree campaigners have gathered for a "peaceful protest" outside the depot of Sheffield City Council contractors Amey to mark the start of a court order against direct action.

Image source, Natalie Bennett

The High Court injunction, which came into force at midnight and lasts until 25 July next year, means people can't stand within safety barriers when contractors from Amey are felling trees in the city and can't prevent the barriers from being put up.

Image source, Natalie Bennett

Peaceful protests outside safety zones are still allowed, so protesters who are upset about the number of roadside trees being felled in Sheffield as part of the council's programme have gathered outside the Olive Grove depot.

About 5,500 trees have been felled in Sheffield since the start of the £2.2bn 25-year programme of works, having been assessed as either dangerous, dead, diseased, dying, damaging or discriminatory. They are being replaced with saplings.

Business leaders and politicians from across northern England are due to meet in Leeds later to discuss transport across the north.

Image source, HS2

There are calls for the government to invest billions of pounds in projects to improve our railways and roads.

Yesterday, the Northern Powerhouse Minister, Jake Berry, said a high-speed rail line between Liverpool and Hull will happen.

And writing in the Yorkshire Post today, the transport secretary Chris Grayling says the north of England's leaders should "take control" of their own transport networks.

More than 100 people will be at the transport summit and will hear from speakers including the leader of Leeds City Council, Judith Blake.

Firefighters in South Yorkshire rescued a fox stuck down a 10ft-deep dry well last night.

The special animal rescue team from Tankersley was sent to Majuba Street in Sheffield to save the trapped fox.

After its rescue, the animal was handed over to the RSPCA:

Sightings of a giant lizard roaming the streets of Halifax have been reported to the police.

Officers in the town have been investigating suspected sightings of a monitor lizard similar to the one pictured above.

Monitor lizards have long necks, powerful tails and claws, with the adult's length ranging from 20cm (7.9 in) in some species to over 3m (10 ft).

They have forked tongues, which they use to detect scents in the air. Many of them are good swimmers and this family includes the largest lizard on Earth, the Komodo dragon.

So far the police in Halifax haven't found anything, but some people in the area suspect an illegal pet has got loose.

Cloudy and misty at first for Yorkshire with long periods of thundery rain.

The rain will slowly move northwards during the morning, allowing some drier, brighter weather to arrive by the afternoon.

Sunny spells developing from mid-afternoon. Mainly light winds.

This evening will see long clear spells at first, allowing some mist or fog patches to form:

York Minster has recruited a new band of volunteer bell-ringers after the entire previous ringing team was sacked last October over what the Minster described as safeguarding issues.

Several members of the former band are included in the new team which will get together for the first time next month.

The Minster's 12 bells were silent on Christmas Day for the first time in more than 600 years after the break-up of the bell-ringing team.

One group of campanologists from Leeds reportedly refused to help out, in solidarity with their sacked York colleagues.

The Chapter said it disbanded the team after ringers refused to accept a decision not to reinstate one member, who had been suspended following a police investigation into allegations of sex offending against children which did not lead to a prosecution.

A Minster spokeswoman said more than 40 applications were received from York and the wider region and the new band will be led by headteacher Angela Mitchell.

Alison Holt
Victoria Derbyshire Programme

The handling of an investigation into the woman who first revealed the child sexual abuse scandal in Rotherham is to be examined, the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme has learned.

Jayne Senior has been investigated by Rotherham Council for a year after a number of complaints.

It is understood the Local Government Ombudsman has now said it will look into her treatment.

Rotherham Council said it had a duty to ensure complaints were considered.

BBC News Travel

If you're heading out to catch a train this morning, you'll be happy 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

The north of England's leaders should "take control" of their own transport networks, Chris Grayling has said.

Writing in the Yorkshire Post, external, the transport secretary said: "The success of northern transport depends on the North itself."

The article comes ahead of a transport summit in the region to be attended by local leaders and businesses.

Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham said the event shows "the patience of people... has run out".

In the article, Mr Grayling said while one of his "biggest priorities" was to build transport links in the North, it was down to the region to design and manage them.

Hello and welcome to BBC Local Live in Yorkshire on Wednesday 23 August 2017.

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

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