The University of Huddersfield has fended of competition from around the world to become the first winner of the Global Teaching Excellence award.

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It beat 26 other finalists from countries including Australia, Switzerland, Canada, South Africa and The Netherlands.

This recent accolade follows the university's achievement of Gold-ranked status in the government-backed Teaching Excellence Award.

Vice-Chancellor, Professor Bob Cryan was full of praise for the university's recent success.

Today's the day that the BBC launches its annual search for local volunteers who help in grassroots activity and sports.

Now in its 15th year, Unsung Hero is spreading its net wider in 2017 to include not only sporting volunteers but those in other fitness activities.

Here's last year's winner on why you should nominate someone:

...and you read more about Marcellus's experience since winning the award here.

Find out all about the award and how you can nominate someone at bbc.co.uk/unsunghero.

Why not send in your nominations today, external?

Here's more on the lineside fire in Bradford which is causing problems on the Leeds-Bradford Interchange-Halifax route.

Services are currently suspended on the Calder Valley line:

BBC News Travel

Northern train services are currently suspended on the Halifax-Bradford Interchange-Leeds route due to a lineside fire just outside Bradford Interchange.

Northern advises commuters using the Calder Valey route that:

• Services between Halifax and Leeds will be diverted via Brighouse/Elland
• Customers wanting travel from Bradford to Leeds should go to Bradford Foster Square
• Replacement buses are being put in place for services on the Halifax, Low Moor, Bradford Interchange, New Pudsey, Bramley, Leeds route

Elly Fiorentini
BBC Local Live, Yorkshire

Look at this family of elephants...

Image source, Tony Bartholomew

They've been created by North Yorkshire sculptor Emma Stothard and this weekend you'll get the chance to see them as part of Staithes Festival of Arts and Heritage.

Emma, who's based in Whitby, created Tara and her two calves in woven willow.

Image source, Tony Bartholomew

The 2m-high mother and two babies were first seen at Highgrove House, the Gloucestershire family residence of the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall, as part of the house's first garden festival in the summer of 2015.

Huddersfield Giants prop Sam Rapira will join Championship side Toulouse at the end of the 2017 season.

Elly Fiorentini
BBC Local Live, Yorkshire

Did you spot them in the crowd? North Yorkshire Police did.

The man who designed Princess Diana's shoes is in Leeds today to attend a fundraiser in her name.

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The man who designed many of Princess Diana's shoes - Jimmy Choo - will attend a lunch in West Yorkshire this afternoon to help raise money for the Diana Award.

The event will take place at the Harvey Nichols store in Leeds city centre and is part of this month's commemorations of 20 years since her death.

The British Dental Association says there is an "emerging crisis" in dental care in England.

Clive Settle
Newsreader, BBC Radio Leeds

A terrorist attack has been recreated at a disused Yorkshire power station.

The exercise at Ferrybridge yesterday was to put emergency services through their paces

Five men charged with offences in connection with the Hillsborough disaster and its aftermath are due to make their first crown court appearance later.

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The men include former Merseyside and South Yorkshire chief constable Sir Norman Bettison, who was a chief inspector at South Yorkshire Police (SYP) at the time of the disaster in 1989.

Graham Mackrell, who was the company secretary at Sheffield Wednesday, will also appear alongside former Ch Supt Donald Denton, former Det Ch Insp Alan Foster and Peter Metcalf, who was a solicitor for SYP.

All five are due to appear at Preston Crown Court later.

Elly Fiorentini
BBC Local Live, Yorkshire

MCain Foods has been based at Eastfield in Scarborough for almost half a century and the firm employs hundreds of local people.

Work has just begun on revamping the factory.

Now £100m is being invested which the company says will secure its future.

Image source, McCain

Elly Fiorentini
BBC Local Live, Yorkshire

There is always scaffolding in place at York Minster but have you ever wondered why it is there?

You've got the chance to take a trip to the top of this historic Cathedral this Friday. The views will be magnificent. Here's what it looks like.

Elly Fiorentini
BBC Local Live, Yorkshire

The former chief constable of West Yorkshire Sir Norman Bettison is due to make his first crown court appearance this morning charged over the Hillsborough disaster.

He was working for the South Yorkshire force in 1989 when 96 people died in the stadium disaster in Sheffield.

He faces four misconduct charges and will appear at Preston Crown Court alongside four other men, who've also been charged over the tragedy.

Mike Kemp
Reporter, BBC Radio York

Around 50 police officers are likely to be needed each day when fracking starts in North Yorkshire, according to North Yorkshire Police.

The force says it's learned lessons from colleagues in Lancashire over how to deal with protests at fracking sites

Third Energy could start moving lorries on to the site in Ryedale as early as next week.

Listen to this from Supt Dave Hannon of North Yorkshire Police's Head of Specialist Operations:

Up to 80 police officers a day were needed at a fracking site near Preston, as campaigners staged protests.

Campaigners there accused the Lancashire force of being heavy-handed.

Elly Fiorentini
BBC Local Live, Yorkshire

If you go shopping at Meadowhall you'll want to see this video.

Next week Sheffield City Council is expected to give approval to multi-million pound expansion plans.

Take a look.

Yorkshire sign West Indies Test batsman Kraigg Brathwaite for the final two games of the County Championship season.

We'll find out today the results of a series of reports into how Rotherham Council handled historical child abuse.

The investigations began after criticism of the authority in the Casey and Jay reports into the town's abuse scandal.

BBC Radio Sheffield has this background to the story.

Elly Fiorentini
BBC Local Live, Yorkshire

North Yorkshire is the most difficult part of our region for adults to find an NHS dentist, according to an investigation by BBC Radio York.

Research shows just 10% of our dentists are taking on new adult patients, compared to 11% in West Yorkshire and 33%t in South Yorkshire.

NHS England says it's committed to giving everyone the chance to use a state-funded dentist.

These patients were queuing for an NHS dentist in Scarborough.

Lisa Gallagher
Weather presenter, BBC Look North

Here's Lisa Gallagher with the weather forecast: