Summary

  • Tour de Yorkshire to be extended to four days in 2018

  • Former vicar jailed over historical sex abuse offences

  • Sheffield man accused of terror offences to face trial

  • Anti-fracking protester injured during demonstration

  • Man charged over attack on policeman in Doncaster

  • Boss of North Yorkshire-based power producer Drax to step down

  • Family calls for better safety measures after student's Sheffield canal death

  • E-fit appeal over knifepoint robbery in Leeds

  • Updates on Thursday 21 September 2017

  1. Lawro's predictions v Kingsman actor Mark Strongpublished at 21:57 British Summer Time 25 September 2017

    Mark Lawrenson takes on Kingsman actor & Arsenal fan Mark Strong in the next round of Premier League matches.

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  2. Castleford 16-48 Hull FCpublished at 22:12 British Summer Time 22 September 2017

    Jake Connor's hat-trick helps Hull beat weakened Castleford to book a Super League play-off semi-final at Leeds.

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  3. Huddersfield 12-36 Leedspublished at 21:55 British Summer Time 22 September 2017

    Leeds Rhinos finish their Super 8s campaign with six tries in a comfortable victory at Huddersfield Giants.

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  4. That's all from Thursday...published at 06:30

    Those are all our updates from across Yorkshire on Thursday 21 September 2017.

    Want to find out what's happening where you live on Friday? Just click here.

  5. Pair guilty of Domino's pizza shop sexpublished at 19:35 British Summer Time 21 September 2017

    Daniella Hirst and Craig Smith will be sentenced for outraging public decency on 17 October.

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  6. Bus company gets £21m overseas orderpublished at 18:54 British Summer Time 21 September 2017

    Optare has won the £21m contract to supply 114 buses for public transport in New Zealand.

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  7. Yorkshire three down chasing 175 to winpublished at 18:41 British Summer Time 21 September 2017

    Yorkshire lose three wickets after being set 175 to win by relegated Warwickshire at Headingley.

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  8. Former clergyman jailed for abusing girlspublished at 18:19 British Summer Time 21 September 2017

    John Bailey, 76, indecently assaulted three girls between 1955 and 1982.

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  9. Ex-footballer's fraud trial collapsespublished at 18:01 British Summer Time 21 September 2017

    Sam Sodje had been accused of helping launder cash in an £80,000 international fraud operation.

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  10. Our five top stories from todaypublished at 18:00 British Summer Time 21 September 2017

    That's all from us for today, we'll be back tomorrow from 06:30 with all the latest news, sport, weather and travel for Yorkshire.

    Updates on breaking news will continue throughout the night, but before we go, let's look back at some of our top stories from today:

    1. Sheffield man accused of terror offences to face trial
    2. Ryedale anti-fracking protester injured
    3. 'Bigger names, greater prestige' for extended Tour de Yorkshire
    4. Sex worker victim of attempted sexual assault
    5. He's back - Arnie spotted in Leeds

    See you tomorrow.

  11. Watch: What skeletons tell us about Yorkshire life in the Iron agepublished at 17:51 British Summer Time 21 September 2017

    Skeletons from all around Yorkshire - some of which were 2,000 years old are going on display at Leeds City Museum.

    The collection of Iron Age remains is being exhibited as part of the Our Buried Bones tour which is going all over the country.

    They'll be on display until January next year.

  12. Dogs, falcons and owl in car crashpublished at 17:45 British Summer Time 21 September 2017

    A woman was travelling with her five animals as she was returning to live in Italy.

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  13. Police inquiry into bats at fracking sitepublished at 17:40 British Summer Time 21 September 2017

    Police are investigating whether protected species of bats are at Kirby Misperton.

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  14. Wakefield man jailed for seven years after gunpoint robbery at bookmakerspublished at 17:32 British Summer Time 21 September 2017

    A man who held up a bookmakers at gunpoint in Horbury has been jailed for seven years.

    Christopher MosbyImage source, West Yorkshire Police

    Christopher Mosby, 28 of Lindsay Avenue in Lupset near Wakefield, threatened staff with a gun at Betfred on Horbury Road on 14 March.

    He jumped over the counter and demanded money, pointing the gun directly at a female cashier - he left with £175 and was arrested by police the next day.

    He pleaded guilty to robbery and was sentenced at Leeds Crown Court today to five-and-a-half years for robbery plus a further one-and-a-half years for pleading guilty to an affray and other offences.

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    Mosby put the staff at the bookmakers through a frightening ordeal. (He) now has seven years in total in prison to consider his actions.”

    Acting Det Sgt Steve Wright, West Yorkshire Police

  15. Prisoner gets increased sentence for chasing inmate with weaponpublished at 17:12 British Summer Time 21 September 2017

    Peter McNerney
    BBC Radio Sheffield

    After chasing another inmate with an improvised weapon, Neil Friar has been given almost two years extra on his sentence.

    Neil FriarImage source, Police

    The 35 year-old admitted to Sheffield Crown Court that he had the weapon in HMP Lindholme.

    Friar is from North Yorkshire and is currently serving a drugs sentence.

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    Thankfully prison officers were able to intervene and stop Friar before anyone was injured but his possession of an improvised weapon was clearly intended to cause someone harm."

    Alex Dorlin, Acting Det Sgnt

  16. Emergency calls almost double in North Yorkshirepublished at 17:04 British Summer Time 21 September 2017

    Allan Watkiss
    BBC Radio York, News

    Police logoImage source, North Yorkshire Police

    More staff are being taken on to work in North Yorkshire Police's control room after emergency calls almost doubled in the last nine months.

    They're also changing the way some calls are handled.

    The force says they realise they haven't been answering calls quick enough and improvements are being made.

  17. Former vicar jailed over historical sex abuse offencespublished at 16:51 British Summer Time 21 September 2017

    A former vicar from Leeds has been jailed for six years for historical sex offences in Lincolnshire.

    John BaileyImage source, Lincolnshire Police

    John Bailey, 76, from Kippax, admitted 25 charges of indecent assault on girls under the age of 14. The three victims were abused between 1955 and 1982.

    Lincoln Crown Court heard that Bailey had recently been diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease and vascular dementia.

    He was first arrested as part of Lincolnshire Police's Operation Redstone, which is investigating alleged abuse within the Diocese of Lincoln.

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    He was clearly in a position of trust and he abused that trust"

    Det Supt Rick Hatton, Lincolnshire Police

  18. Walk-in sculpture arrives in Barnsleypublished at 16:37 British Summer Time 21 September 2017

    Mick Lunney
    BBC Local Live, Sheffield

    It's big, it's inflatable and it's certainly eye-catching.

    Architects of AirImage source, Architects of Air

    The Luminarium, now in place at the Market Gate car park, external in Barnsley town centre, is said to offer 'A dazzling maze of winding paths and soaring domes where Islamic architecture, Archimedean solids and Gothic cathedrals meld into an inspiring monument.'

    Inside viewImage source, Architects of Air
  19. Man jailed over Barnsley crashpublished at 16:23 British Summer Time 21 September 2017

    Mick Lunney
    BBC Local Live, Sheffield

    David GreenImage source, South Yorkshire Police

    A man whose dangerous driving led to three teenage boys being injured has been sentenced to two and half years in prison.

    Sheffield Crown Court heard that 21-year-old David Green from Havercroft in Wakefield was under the influence of cannabis when his car failed to negotiate a bend on Sandybridge Lane at Shafton in Barnsley last January. It then went down an embankment.

    He left the scene leaving behind the injured passengers.

    The court was also told he had no licence or insurance.

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    Rather than remaining at the scene and helping his friends, he decided to show off to his friends on a freezing night rather than driving in a sensible manner appropriate to the conditions. One of the teens, a 17-year-old boy, suffered life-threatening injuries."

    Andy Brown, Police Constable