Elly Fiorentini
BBC Yorkshire Live

It's only a few days now until this year's BBC Children in Need campaign.

There are thousands of young people across the region who need help and support and the money raised helps many of them and their families.

I recently had the privilege of meeting a group of young adult carers.

They received a grant from Hambleton and Richmondshire Carers to support a worker who organises events for the teenagers who miss out on growing up.

The young people I met are all full time carers for a family member. Here’s three of their stories:

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Jon Charters-Reid, a Yorkshire surveyor, believes that homes in areas close to shale gas extraction sites could be devalued by between 15 and 20 per cent., external

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The body of a man was found this morning in woodland near Crossfield Lane in the Skellow area of Doncaster.

South Yorkshire Police say they are not treating the death as suspicious.

The identity of the man has not yet been released.

An inquest into the death of stabbed teacher Ann Maguire has begun in Wakefield this morning - with a senior detective saying that the 15-year-old pupil who killed her held "a deep seated grudge".

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Det Supt Nick Wallen said the 61-year-old "stood absolutely no chance whatsoever" when she was attacked in her classroom at Corpus Christi Catholic College in April 2014 by teenager Will Cornick.

He said she was stabbed seven times with a kitchen knife Cornick had brought from home, including one blow which cut her jugular vein.

He added Cornick told "at least 10 other pupils precisely what he was going to do - where he was going to do it and how he was going to do it"

But the detective said none of the children took him seriously.

The inquest is expected to last two weeks.

Here are some more great pics of two of the brightest planets in our solar system visible in the sky just before dawn this morning.

Image source, Matthew Griffin

The astronomical phenomenon is known as the Venus Jupiter conjunction.

The two planets appeared briefly to be orbiting the sun side by side, as they fit nicely between the two top power lines seen below:

Image source, Matthew Griffin

Mathew Griffin took these pics as the planets appeared above Thorpe in south Leeds.

He sent them by simply clicking here. And you can too.

Oli Constable
BBC Yorkshire Live

In case you need reminding - which I'm sure you don't - this Friday is Children in Need Day, external.

I've been lucky enough to get the chance to take a look at some of the charities around South Yorkshire which have been benefiting from your donations in previous years.

One of these is Project Buzz in Sheffield, which gives children hands-on after-school activities:

A man is in a critical condition after he was hit by a car in Bradford on Saturday night.

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It happened on Queens Road at about 22:15 when a silver Vauxhall Vectra hit the man, in his 30s, as he was walking.

Police say they spoke to the driver at the scene of the crash and are looking for any witnesses to come forward.

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West Yorkshire snowboarder Katie Ormerod won silver at the first Big Air World Cup of the season in Milan.

The 20-year-old, from Brighouse, had led going into the final run, but was beaten to gold by Austria's Anna Gasser.

Katie now has a busy few months ahead of her, taking part in seven competitions before February's Winter Olympics in South Korea.

Andrew Barton
BBC Local Live, Yorkshire

If you watch this video I hope everything about life - for a few minutes at least - will feel a bit better.

Wildlife artist Robert E Fuller, lives in Thixendale in North Yorkshire and for his paintings he uses nest cameras hidden in his garden to follow the secret lives of the creatures who live there.

Recently he recorded this film about a week in the life of a tree stump. It may not sound like much would go on there, but you'd be very wrong.

His film opens with a tawny owl which appears to have claimed the hollowed elm for a home, but then a kestrel is captured also inspecting the tree stump's nesting possibilities.

This visit is followed by that of a stoat, then a squirrel, climbing gracelessly into the chamber.

Meanwhile, a tree creeper and a blue tit pick off insects at the entrance to the hollow elm before the decaying stump is eventually laid claim to by a barn owl:

Do you know these men? Police want to speak to them after a man was seriously assaulted in Halifax on Saturday night.

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The 32-year-old man was attacked outside McFly's Bar on Commercial Street just before midnight and was left with serious injuries.

Police say two women intervened and gave the man first aid and they would like to find out who they were as they could help their investigation.

Anyone with information is being asked to contact police.

Four men from North Yorkshire are aiming to set a new record for rowing across the Atlantic.

Fraser Mowlem (pictured in red), Will Quarmby (right), Glyn Sadler (left) and Duncan Roy (middle) are raising money for the Royal British Legion through the challenge which they aim to start in just over a year's time.

They're hoping to break the current record of 34-and-a-half days and there's a chance to see them in training today in York's St Helen's Square.

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Engineers are working on constructing the new cycle superhighway in Leeds city centre:

The organisers of the World Cup in Qatar have said they want to help the world's first football club - Sheffield FC - move back to its original ground.

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Sheffield FC chairman Richard Tims gave Qatari delegates a tour of the former Olive Grove ground during a visit on Saturday and told them of the club's ambition to move back to the city they left in 2001.

The club currently play home games at Dronfield in Derbyshire.

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Mr Tims said it was "fitting" that the club could look "confidently" to relocation in its 160th year.

"Together we are protecting the heritage of football and are asking all our friends in the world of football to come together and join us. We are every club's great grandfather." he said.

As well as returning to Sheffield with a new stadium, the club wants to build a football history museum. Premier League Chelsea have already pledged almost £2,000.

A 20-year-old man from Barnsley is in hospital after sustaining a "life-threatening" head injury.

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Officers are now investigating how it happened.

The incident took place in the early hours of yesterday morning at about 02:30 on Peel Street, Barnsley.

The man is said to have left the Che Bar and was heading towards the town centre before being found near the Stereo Bar.

Police want to speak to these men after a woman who fell over in a shop in Keighley later discovered her bank card had been stolen after she'd been helped back to her feet by two men.

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The theft happened last Monday afternoon as the 29-year-old woman was leaving a shop on Worth Way.

As she was helped back to her feet, police believe her bank card was taken from her pocket.

The card was used in a number of shops just minutes after the theft.

Rob Rose
BBC Yorkshire Live

Ladies and gentleman, welcome to the love train...

After pretending he was going to the toilet during a train journey, Sheffield rail worker Chris Strickland instead appeared over the train's public address system to surprise his girlfriend Claire Hiley with a marriage proposal.

In the build-up to the big moment on Saturday's 10:29 service from Sheffield to London, Chris recited the "romantic" poem from Shane Meadows film A Room for Romeo Brass.

Take a listen to the moment:

The inquest jury will not hear evidence from pupils at the school where Ann Maguire was stabbed.

The number of high street shops closing down has fallen to its lowest level in seven years, with Yorkshire and the Humber actually showing a net gain in the number of shops, new research suggests.

The Local Data Company, which studied the top 500 British town centres, said 2,564 outlets closed in the first half of 2017, equivalent to 14 a day.

At the same time, there were 2,342 store openings, meaning that a net total of 222 high street shops disappeared.

Charity shops, women's clothes shops and shoe shops were worst hit, it said. However, general fashion stores, banks and cheque cashing shops saw their lowest number of net closures in three years.

The store closures were unevenly spread across the country. Scotland fared worst, with a net loss of 42 shops, while eastern England lost 34.

Yorshire and the Humber is one of only two out of 11 British regions showing net gains, adding 12 shops. The East Midlands now has eight more shops.

Rural parts of North Yorkshire are heading for decline, with pubs, schools and post offices continuing to close, it's being warned.

A report by the National Housing Federation also predicts almost half of households in rural areas will be aged 65 or over by 2039.

The cheapest homes in some areas are more than eight times the income of typical first time buyers and building just a few affordable homes for young families could stem the decline, the report adds.

These people in Easingwold, in North Yorkshire, say they agree with the new report's findings:

A bit to improve the quality of life for thousands of people in some of the most deprived areas of Leeds is being rolled out in several parts of the city.

The project, which gives more decision-making powers to council staff working in poorer areas, has already reduced anti-social behaviour and racism in West Leeds, according to Leeds City Council.

It's being targeted at the Beeston Hill, Holbeck, Lincoln Green, Burmantofts, Richmond Hill, Seacroft and New Wortley areas.

Tracy, who lives on an estate in one of those areas, says she hopes the project does work as currently she doesn't go out after dark: