Mike Kemp
Reporter, BBC Radio York

Following yesterday's flash floods in Scarborough, Valley road in the town is closed in both directions between Grosvenor Road and Ramshill Road while roadworks are carried out.

I've been speaking to an engineer from North Yorkshire County Council who tells me it's due to small sections of the top layer of the road being lifted up by the force of the water.

At the moment, engineers are assessing the extent of the damage and it's not known how long repairs will take.

Watch this video to see how the flash floods in Scarborough turned some of the town's streets into fast-flowing rivers. Thanks to Miles Jackson for sending us the film:

The contract being used by Sheffield City Council to fell thousands of trees in the city states the authority is not liable for extra costs caused by people protesting against the programme, according to an examination by the Yorkshire Post, external.

Image source, Green Party

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

However, campaigners claim many of the trees classed as damaging or discriminatory are healthy specimens which should not be cut down.

Last week, Sheffield City Council won a High Court injunction to stop campaigners taking direct action to prevent the work.

Councillor Bryan Lodge, cabinet member for the environment, told BBC Radio Sheffield last week that the authority had "a responsibility to the taxpayers of Sheffield to do everything we can to avoid catastrophic financial consequences if the Streets Ahead work is not completed by the end of the year".

But an examination of the Streets Ahead contract by The Yorkshire Post, external shows the terms state any loss of income relating to protests should be borne by contractors Amey, who are carrying out the tree-felling work, and not the council.

The four North Yorkshire mums who set a world record by rowing across the Atlantic are to get honorary degrees from York St John University.

Image source, Yorkshire Rows

The Yorkshire Rows completed the 3,000-mile challenge by reaching Antigua on their 68th day at sea on 25 February last year.

Niki Doeg, 45, Helen Butters, 45, Frances Davies, 47, and Janette Benaddi, 51, left La Gomera in the Canary Islands on 20 December 2015.

The four will be made Doctors of Health Sciences at a ceremony in November.

Others being honoured include former children's TV presenter Dame Floella Benjamin and the actress Dame Penelope Wilton.

Owain Wyn Evans
Weather presenter, BBC Look North

We'll see plenty of dry and bright weather across Yorkshire today.

However, there'll be a few showers in the mix too.

Watch my full forecast here:

Thousands of teenagers across Yorkshire will receive their GCSE results today, amid changes to the exam grading system.

The main change compared to last year is in the grading structure for English and Maths, with a 1-9 system replacing the traditional A*- to-U grades.

Dave Ellis, the retiring headteacher of York High School, says it's been a tough year for some of his GCSE students:

Meanwhile, Luke Weston, the head of Bingley Grammar School, says it could take time to readjust to the new system:

These Emus were spotted yesterday near Marsden.

They were, er, exercising on Huddersfield Road just past Standedge Cutting.

Obviously just out for a nice stroll!

Four children, including two baby boys, needed hospital treatment after the car in which they were travelling crashed into a pub in South Yorkshire.

Image source, Google

The crash happened at about 12:25 yesterday morning, when a grey Dacia Logan travelling on the A629 Copster Lane from the direction of Thurgoland left the road.

The car crashed into the front wall of a pub as it approached the junction of Bower Hill and Coates Lane.

All four passengers - two girls aged seven and eight and two boys aged nine months and 21 months - are currently being treated in hospital.

The 29-year-old man driving the car was arrested at the scene on suspicion of dangerous driving and being unfit to drive through drink or drugs and was taken to hospital for treatment.

Anyone who may have seen the crash, or has information about what happened, is being asked to contact police.

Thousands of people are starting to arrive at Bramham Park, near Wetherby, for the Leeds Festival.

The festival, which properly gets under way on Friday, features acts such as Muse, Kasabian, Eminem, Liam Gallagher and Korn.

In previous years, the main road between Leeds and York has been made one-way on the Thursday before the event - but this year that's not happening.

Instead, there will be a one-way system on part of the A64 on Sunday night and Monday.

The clean-up's continuing in Scarborough this morning after flash flooding on Wednesday saw firefighters called to nearly 60 incidents in just two hours.

And in York, where heavy rain also caused flooding, the city's sewage system has come in for scrutiny.

Yorkshire Water says it was a rare instance and once the water has subsided they'll be out with "special cameras to see if there are any blockages or defects".

But Rachael Maskell, York's Labour MP, says someone needs to "take responsibility" for dealing with the issue:

A man's been taken to hospital after a house fire in West Yorkshire in the early hours of this morning.

Image source, Google

Fire crews were called at about 04:40 to the blaze at a bungalow on Viking Avenue in Emley (pictured).

Two crews from Huddersfield, one from Ossett and one from Wakefield were involved in tackling the fire.

The man was taken to hospital after being treated at the scene for the effects of breathing in smoke.

A teacher who became involved with a former student has been banned from teaching for a minimum of two years.

Image source, Google

James Waiters, 38, taught music at High Storrs School, Sheffield, between 2007 and 2015.

A misconduct hearing, external was told the relationship began shortly after her A-levels in 2015 and the couple are still together.

Mr Waiters, who has the right to appeal the ban, will be able to apply to have it set aside in 2019.

This photograph show just how close a call a pilot crash landing a plane in North Yorkshire yesterday came to ending up in a river:

Image source, North Yorkshire Police

It also shows the plane lost a wing in the incident, which happened at about 10:30 on Wednesday morning near the village of Tockwith, 10 miles west of York.

Astonishingly, the pilot escaped without injury, with North Yorkshire Police saying it's believed the aeroplane had suffered engine failure.

Sgt Andy Graham, who attended the crash, praised the "great piloting skills resulting in no injuries".

Variable cloud will bring a scattering of showers for Yorkshire today, these more frequent over Pennine hills.

Sunny periods are likely at times, especially in the more sheltered east where it will feel pleasantly warm by the afternoon.

Many places will be dry overnight with broken cloud, although with more persistent cloud and misty conditions over western hills.

The funeral of the man awarded the George Medal for trying to save the life of West Yorkshire MP Jo Cox will take place this afternoon.

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

During Mair's trial, Mr Kenny told the court he had been waiting for his wife by the library in Birstall when he saw right-wing extremist Mair going "berserk".

He said he thought he could jump on his back and "could take him down" but was then stabbed in the stomach.

After the attack, more than 80,000 people signed an online petition calling for Mr Kenny to be awarded the George Cross for his bravery.

Mr Kenny was 79 and had cancer.

His funeral is due to take place in Birstall at lunchtime.

BBC News Travel

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

Hello and welcome to BBC Local Live in Yorkshire on Thursday 24 August 2017.

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