An elderly lady has had cash taken from her home by a man claiming to be selling fish.

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The incident happened on Monday lunchtime in Kirkburton near Huddersfield when a man went to the woman's house telling her he had fish for sale.

The man got inside her house uninvited, took some of her money and - according to police - left "a small amount of food in the fridge" before he went.

The suspect is white, approximately 50-years-old, 5ft tall, dark hair which was thinning on top, spoke with a Yorkshire accent and wearing a white apron.

Anti-fracking protesters say they shut down the yard of a Whitby-based scaffolding company earlier today due to the company's involvement in fracking in Ryedale.

They arrived at the yard of Sky Scaffolding early this morning to hold a protest.

Image source, Kirby Misperton Protection Camp

For the last two-weeks, campaigners have been calling for the company to stand with the local community by stopping work at Third Energy's Kirby Misperton fracking site.

The Kirby Misperton Protection Group say at about 07:00, "during a slow walk protest, a large lorry was mounted, blocking the gateway to the yard".

They say an anti-fracking protester remained on the lorry until 11:45, "when the company took an angle grinder to their own fence in order to create an alternative route out of the yard.

"At this point the surfer dismounted by his own free will."

Police say they spoke to the 21-year-old man and when he climbed down he was arrested on "suspicion of using violence or intimidation on a person, family or property to compel abstention from lawful activity" and "aggravated trespass".

The man remains in custody at this time.

Nick Wilmshurst
BBC Yorkshire Live

Leeds could soon be home to a new city centre building which would be the tallest in Yorkshire.

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Plans for the CEG South Bank have been submitted to Leeds City Council and work on it could start as early as next summer.

CEG, who also built the Kirkstall Forge development, want to redevelop a site near Globe Road which could include a tower which is 40 storeys high.

Currently, Yorkshire's tallest building - also in Leeds - is Bridgewater Place, which stands at 32 storeys high.

A total of 17 people have been prosecuted in the last week after they failed to pay an £80 fixed penalty fine for littering, according to Sheffield City Council.

Sheffield Magistrates' Court imposed fines of £200 on each offender along with costs of £160, as well as a victim surcharge of £30.

Sheffield City Council’s environmental enforcement officers have issued 647 notices to litter louts across the city in the last 12 months, with the majority opting to pay the fixed penalty, the authority says.

Leigh Centurions sign centre Ben Crooks from Super League side Castleford Tigers on a two-year contract.

A musical marathon is being held across North Yorkshire today celebrating 10-years of BBC Introducing, which supports unsigned, undiscovered and under the radar music across the UK.

BBC Radio York Introducing presenter, Jericho Keys, is on a 12-hour road trip, that will take in 12 locations and 12 live music performances.

Billie Marten was discovered on the show.

She released her first EP at the age of 15 in 2014, and her second EP a year later.

At the end of 2015 she was nominated for the BBC Sound of 2016 award.

She's been playing live in Ripon this morning:

Yorkshire Air Ambulance will be able to carry stocks of blood on board for the first time, meaning they can give life-saving blood transfusions.

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The step comes after a donation of £16,000 from the Henry Surtees Foundation, which was founded by motor sport legend John Surtees CBE, following the death of his son Henry.

Henry died in 2009 during a F2 race at Brands Hatch aged 18, the grant has funded specially-designed temperature-controlled boxes so blood can be transported and stored.

The blood will only be available on one of the two helicopters to begin with.

Martin Wyatt's body was discovered at a house on Mixenden Road in Halifax.

A 74-year old woman has been attacked and robbed in broad daylight in Bradford on Monday.

Police have released a CCTV image and want to speak to anyone who saw a person dressed like this in the area.

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The victim's handbag was stolen during the robbery, which happened at lunchtime at the junction of Low Green Terrace and Southfield Lane.

Officers are questioning a 30-year-old man about the attack.

Police have recovered heroin and crack cocaine worth an estimated £50k when they raided a house in Burngreave, Sheffield.

An undisclosed amount of cash was also found at the address on Holtwood Road.

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A 21-year-old man has been charged with possession of Class A drugs with intent to supply.

He's also charged with possession of a bladed article following the seizure of a large combat knife earlier this year.

He's due to appear before magistrates today.

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A former air stewardess at Monarch Airlines from Bradford has expressed her sadness following the airline’s collapse. , external

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Twelve men aged between 33 and 38 are due to appear in court later this month charged with 44 child sexual abuse offences in South Yorkshire.

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They were arrested as part of the National Crime Agency’s Operation Stovewood which was launched in the wake of the Rotherham grooming scandal.

The charges include rape, indecent assault, supply of controlled drugs and false imprisonment.

The charges are related to the sexual abuse of eight girls under the age of 16, over a five-year period from 1998 to 2003.

All will appear at Sheffield Magistrates Court on the 24 October 2017.

Kat Cowan
Reporter, BBC Radio Sheffield

A steel firm in South Yorkshire has created 64 jobs by bringing a mothballed piece of equipment back into service.

Liberty Special Steels in Rotherham hopes to increase its production of high grade steel for automotive and engineering sectors.

The firm hopes there will be more vacancies in the new year when a second piece of equipment is due to be brought back into service.

The Met Office, external has issued a yellow warning for strong winds overnight for Yorkshire, with potential for some disruption to transport and power.

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Three men were left seriously injured after a car crash in Bradford yesterday evening and police are looking for another car that may have been involved.

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The accident happened at about 19:40 when a black VW Golf was driving along Thornton Road towards Thornton, when it collided with a silver Nissan Micra at the junction with Rosse Street.

The three men in their 20s from both cars were taken to hospital but their injures aren't life threatening.

Police say that they think the Golf may have been "travelling in convoy" with another car and they want to find the third vehicle.

A North Yorkshire woman's selling her wedding dress online declaring it's in a stunning condition, unlike, she says, her marriage.

Jane posted the dress online asking people to help her remove the £800 outfit from her life.

She says "all bad luck has been removed as post separation the dress was cleaned.

"I know this because after dry cleaning I became happier and more confident, realizing what it was like to be treated well in a relationship"

Jane insists whoever buys it needn't be getting married.

She says: "The dress would look great on many different occasions: while your washing the dishes or standing to catch a train, or even standing in line to do a name change."

A £50m flood defence project officially opens later in Leeds, with state-of-the-art moveable weirs.

More than 3000 homes and businesses were badly affected by floodwater in 2015, when the River Aire reached unprecedented levels.

The Leeds Central Labour MP, Hilary Benn says it's great to celebrate phase one, but "more work is needed to protect the city and surrounding areas."

Here's a bird's-eye view of the new system:

Last night's sunset over Yorkshire seems to have been pretty spectacular wherever you were.

Our BBC Weather Watchers were quick to capture the sunlight's scattered rays.

To generate an intensively red sky there has to be lots of water droplets in the air.

The sky in the west has to be clear with a lot of clouds in the east too.

York Labour MP, Rachael Maskell, is due to visit North Yorkshire's fracking site in Ryedale later.

She'll be joined in Kirby Misperton by members of Thirsk and Malton Labour Party, who say fracking will damage the local economy and environment.

The Scottish government announced a ban on fracking yesterday, saying the practice "cannot and will not take place in Scotland."

But Third Energy says fracking is safe and it will start test drilling for shale gas by the end of the year.

Rachael Maskell's visit follows a trip to Kirby Misperton by Jonathan Bartley, co-leader of the Green Party.

He says fracking is an unnecessary risk:

Penistone Grammar in Barnsley is defending its discipline policy.

Parents have complained that pupils are put into isolation for not tucking their shirt in or for forgetting a pen.

Some of them say it's breeding an atmosphere of fear.