Welshman Ryan Day believes a lack of "fear" among snooker's lower-ranking players has led to 14 of the 16 top seeds being knocked out in York.

While you pass stunning scenery driving across the Stake Pass between Greater Manchester and Sheffield, it is not the most pleasant of drives as soon as the mercury plummets.

Here's one hardy soul's account...

Volunteer vets helping homeless people's dogs in Leeds

Nineteen families were due to fly on a specially commissioned Santa flight next week.

Here are the latest images of relieved passengers finally leaving a train that was stuck near Peterborough after hitting an object on the track at about 10:30.

Image source, Terry-Harris.com

The Hull Trains service from London King's Cross came to a halt at Helpston after sustaining what the company described as "catastrophic engine failure".

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Passengers were stuck on board for more than four hours, many complaining of no water or working toilets, while the fuel leak was cleared and a rescue train organised.

They have now been moved from the stricken train, but passengers using services between London and the north east are still being warned about delays.

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Ray Tindall and Nick Dunn arrive back in the UK after four years in jail in India.

Yorkshire re-sign New Zealand international batsman Kane Williamson for a fourth spell with the county.

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. Conservative dinner at Coal Mining Museum cancelled
2. Uber licence suspended in Sheffield
3. Jo Cox assistant receives MBE from Prince of Wales
4. Two bailed over Maltby man's death
5. Lord Mayor snapped taking up four parking spaces

See you tomorrow.

A woman in her 70s was robbed after she let a bogus workman into her house in Leeds.

Police have released an e-fit of a man they would like to speak to:

Image source, West Yorkshire Police

It happened on Monday afternoon on Henconner Lane in Bramley when the man knocked on the back door of the house.

He spoke to the owner about work that might need doing on her water pipes and came inside. When he left she found money had been taken from her purse.

Sheffield City Council has indicated that it would cost them half a million pounds to retain 41 memorial trees in Crookes, that are set to be cut down.

The Council says it would have a knock-on effect on spending on core services, such as adult social care.

The trees were planted on 4 April 1919 to mark the part former pupils of a local school played in World War One.

The felling would be part of the £2bn Sheffield-wide maintenance project Streets Ahead to upgrade roads, pavements and bridges.

Sheffield City Council insists trees earmarked for felling are "dangerous, dead, diseased, or dying".

Campaigners say many of the trees are healthy and should not be cut down.

The council says its Streets Ahead programme allows it to "sustainably manage, increase and maintain the city’s diverse street tree stock over a 25 year period."

It adds: "the programme affects less than 1% of the city’s four million trees and each tree removed will be replaced on a one for one basis."

Cabinet members will decide the fate of the trees next week.

Rail passengers using services between London and the north east are being told they could face disruption to their journeys until this evening.

Some lines have reopened after a train hit an obstruction on the track near Peterborough this morning and sprung a fuel leak - however, National Rail says the knock-on effect of that could last several more hours.

A number of trains have been cancelled and others are running up to an hour late.

Services affected, external are:

• East Midlands Trains between Liverpool Lime Street and Norwich
• Grand Central between London Kings Cross and Bradford Interchange / Sunderland
• Hull Trains between London Kings Cross and Hull
• Virgin Trains East Coast between London Kings Cross and Leeds / York / Newcastle / Glasgow Central / Edinburgh

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The BBC’s Local News Partnerships have created a pool of reporters to cover council and public meetings across the UK.

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York's rugby league and football clubs believe the new community stadium will give each of them a boost in the future.

Work has started on the long delayed £36m development at Monk's Cross.

The stadium, which will be home to both clubs was first proposed 15 years ago.

Neil Gulliver, the rugby league club's foundation manager, says being able to see the work finally begin, will help recruit new players:

If you're handed a Scottish £20 in Leeds, then make sure you check it out - police say that they've had a "number of reports" of fake ones being used in the city.

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West Yorkshire police say they've had several calls about fake Scottish £20 notes being used in shops and businesses over the last few weeks.

The force says they have been used to buy second-hand cars, in restaurants and shop keepers have been asked to exchange them for English ones.

Sgt Fiona Van Kampen from West Yorkshire Police said: "They should check more than one of the relevant security features".

How to spot a fake Scottish £20:

• Serial Numbers – Genuine notes have unique serial numbers which you can check
• Paper – Genuine banknote paper should be reasonably crisp and not limp, waxy or shiny
• Watermark – They should be hardly apparent until the note is held up to the light
• Security Thread – Notes have a metallic thread, hold it up to the light - can you see the line?
• Printing - Lines and print should be sharp and well defined

A gap on the central reservation of a North Yorkshire road is to be closed after a fight by campaigners.

Sonia Rose was killed when a van drifted through the gap on the A19 near Northallerton and smashed into her car last year.

Since then her daughter Katy has been campaigning to have all the gaps closed, a fight which has been backed by Richmond MP Rishi Sunak and Thirsk and Malton MP Kevin Hollinrake.

It's proposed the gap at Stoney Lane will be shut off by March next year.

Girls as young as seven are being taught to how defend themselves against Islamophobic and hate crime attacks.

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Kick Off, in Dewsbury, are training women to deal with attacks on their hijabs as well as knife attacks.

West Yorkshire Police figures show 5,155 hate crime offences were committed in 2016/17, including 280 religiously motivated incidents.

Najam Sheikh, from Kick Off, said he hoped participants would feel "confident and empowered" as a result.

Uber's licence to operate in Sheffield has been suspended by the city council.

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The company's existing licence is in the name of a former employee.

Sheffield Council says the name on a licence cannot be transferred to another person and after asking questions about the management of Uber has suspended its licence.

The ride-hailing app firm has until 18 December to appeal but it has also submitted a new application to run taxis in Sheffield.

If it doesn't appeal or the new licence application isn't heard in time it faces not being able to operate over Christmas.

NHS figures show hospitals in Leeds were operating at almost full capacity last week.

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The data provides the first look at how hospitals are coping as we enter the winter period.

The Labour MP for Huddersfield Barry Sheerman highlighted the issue in the commons, claiming that A&Es "are struggling to cope".

The Lord Mayor of Leeds has come in for criticism after apparently parking over four spaces at the White Rose shopping centre today:

Image source, Abigail Redmond

Cllr Jane Dowson's Jaguar was snapped in the centre of four empty spaces at the shopping centre in Morley this lunchtime.

We have called Leeds City Council for a comment - some quipped on social media that she should get a ticket.

Cllr Dowson is the 124th person to hold the post and has been a local Ward Councillor for Chapel Allerton since 2004.

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