Nick Wilmshurst
BBC Yorkshire Live

There's something special happening at the Marsden Jazz Festival this weekend, it involves a cellist and the Standedge canal tunnel near Huddersfield.

Image source, Canal and Rivers Trust

For the first time ever, cellist and composer Maja Bugge , externalwill be performing a special concert through the three-and-a-quarter mile tunnel.

The audience will be on a boat with her as she travels through the tunnel, which is the longest and deepest canal tunnel in the country.

About 25 venues will be hosting jazz around Marsden over the weekend, but this has to be the most unique of the lot of them!

This cow had a lucky escape yesterday morning, after it fell into a sinkhole near Halifax.

Image source, West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service

West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service was called in to help the stricken animal, after it fell into the hole just after 09:20.

Fire crews, with some help from the farmer,dug a hole around the cow in a bid to try to free it. They were eventually able to free its stuck back leg and lift it out using specialist gear.

The cow was unharmed but a bit distressed.

You might say it was a very moo-ving experience.

The centre of Leeds was lit by a sculpture of the Moon suspended over Leeds Dock.

Sheffield Star

Horrified residents say youths lobbing rocks and bottles at passing cars on Hartley Brook Road in Shiregreen has become a daily occurrence.

Mobile phone footage, external shows teenage louts hurling missiles at passing vehicles on a Sheffield estate.

Image source, Sheffield Star

Voice of Bradford

Don't forget that tomorrow BBC Radio Leeds is offering a very rare opportunity - to become part of the BBC team in West Yorkshire.

You do not need any presenting or reporting experience and they don't expect you to be a journalist.

The successful applicant will be someone who has the character and personality to find and tell the stories of Bradford.

Open auditions will take place on Saturday 7 October at The Studio, Bradford Alhambra, Morley St, Bradford BD7 1AJ.

You can find full details here.

This lunchtime Liz Dawn's funeral takes place, the Leeds born actress died aged 77 last month.

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She played Vera Duckworth in Coronation Street for more than 30 years, her turbulent relationship with husband Jack proved to be one of the Street's most enduring storylines.

Liz Dawn was born Sylvia Butterfield on 8 Nov 1939 in Leeds, where her father worked as an engineer but she went on to become one of the most recognisable faces in the country.

You can read more about Liz Dawn's life here.

Former Leeds captain Kevin Sinfield says he is disappointed that Castleford's Zak Hardaker will miss Saturday's Grand Final.

The company running a fracking site in Ryedale says protesters have had some impact on their work.

But Third Energy says it's moving forward and, subject to government approval, could start drilling in the next few weeks.

Opponents of the scheme say they'll continue to protest.

John Dewer is in charge or operations at the site and says the demonstrations have been a handicap but haven't stopped progress:

Police have released CCTV footage of a man they want to speak to after two bookies and a pub were robbed at knifepoint in three days in Bradford.

Image source, West Yorkshire Police

No one was hurt in the robberies which happened on Bingley Road, North Parade and Leeds Road between 30 September and 2 October.

A few hundred pounds was taken in the raids and police say they think all three are linked.

If you think you might know the man, call West Yorkshire Police on 101.

A shop in a village on the outskirts of York has been ram-raided.

The cash machine at the co-op in Bishopthorpe has been ripped out of the wall.

It happened in the early hours of this morning.

Main Street is still closed because the vehicle used in the raid has been abandoned in the road.

BBC Radio York's Julia Lewis lives in Bishopthorpe. She heard what happened:

Area nightclub on Burgess Street in Sheffield says it will have added security in place to allow it to re-open tonight.

Image source, Google

South Yorkshire Police served the club with a closure notice lasting until today following a stabbing in the early hours of Sunday in which two men were injured.

Ch Supt Shaun Morley from the force said they must be "absolutely satisfied" that the club's management had made significant changes to structures and processes around security and ID.

A spokesperson said: "Safety is of paramount importance to us at Area, in these uncertain times we want our customers to feel and be safe...customers can expect to see increased security measures, female door staff, ID scanning and body cameras linked to local authority."

Police will meet club representatives this afternoon to review the measures taken.

Last night the 13th Leeds Light Night got underway.

Tens of thousands came into the city to see some of the installations. If you didn't go, here's what you missed:

A huge moon over Leeds Dock:

Image source, Leeds City Council

Amazing projections on some of the city's most prominent buildings, like a circus tent on the Town Hall:

Image source, Leeds City Council

And this on the Queen's Hotel:

Image source, Leeds City Council

There was also an illuminated parade:

Image source, Leeds City Council

And finally Leeds' main shopping street Briggate had giant desk lamps along it:

Image source, Leeds City Council

Leeds Light Night takes place again this evening.

Mohamed Bubaker came to Sheffield from Yemen in the 1960s to work in the steel industry.

He always hoped that his family would be able to join him one day, but it's never been possible and he's lived alone for nearly 60 years.

A landscape painting by Yorkshire artist, David Hockney, has fetched more than £6m at auction.

Image source, PA

Under the hammer for the first time, the privately-owned Canvas Study of the Grand Canyon sold for £6,008,750 at Sotheby's Contemporary Art auction.

The painting was created in 1998 in preparation for A Bigger Grand Canyon, the seven and a half metre wide masterpiece currently hanging in Australia's National Gallery.

Last year, a new record for the Bradford-born artist was set at Sotheby's in New York, where his Yorkshirelandscape Woldgate Woods, sold for $11,712,500.

Castleford and Leeds are preparing for a true fairytale of a Super League Grand Final at Old Trafford on Saturday.

Great pictures of the harvest moon as seen from Doncaster by a couple of our Weatherwatchers.

Image source, Dotty

What is the Harvest moon?

The Harvest Moon is the name given to the first full moon that takes place closest to the Autumn equinox.

The Equinox is when the Earth's equator is almost directly in line with the centre of the sun.

This takes place twice a year, around late March (Spring equinox) and late September (Autumn equinox).

The name Harvest Moon comes from when farmers would need to start gathering in crops to prepare for the winter months.

They used the bright light to extend the working day. The full moon would light up the night sky and give them more light to work with - allowing them to gather in the crops in time for winter.

Image source, Mitch Clive

The Harvest Moon rose later than usual this year.

Usually it occurs before the equinox in September, but this year's Autumnal equinox came on September 22nd, making the full moon on October 5th the Harvest Moon, because it is the closest full moon in the calendar.

Traffic on the A57 between Crystal Peaks and Coisley Hill in Shirebrook is having to slow down to avoid a bird on the carriageway.

But callers to BBC Radio Sheffield couldn't agree on whether it was a goose or a swan.

It's claimed small and medium sized businesses in Leeds will contribute £7bn to the UK economy by 2025.

The research - by the Hampshire Trust Bank - suggests smaller firms in Leeds and Greater Manchester will grow more than those anywhere else in the country.

Dave Olejnik set up Layne's Espresso in Leeds and he thinks now is the time to start up a business in the city:

Tests are due to be carried out on the body of a woman which was found in a canal in Leeds.

Image source, Google

The body was discovered in the water near the city centre next to Globe Road, Holbeck yesterday afternoon.

Police are trying to find out about the movements of the woman in the hours before she died and are appealing for information.

A cash machine has been ripped out of the wall of a shop in village on the outskirts of York.

It happened in the early hours of this morning at the co-op in Bishopthorpe.

Main Street is closed as a result, because the farming vehicle used in the raid has been abandoned in the road.

Here's a film showing what the street looks like at the moment: