Those are all our updates from across Yorkshire on Monday 11 December 2017.

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Wakefield Trinity hooker Kyle Wood extends his contract with the Super League club until the end of the 2020 season.

Benji Bowker's family need to raise £25,000 to pay for an assistance dog and stem cell treatment.

Father Christmas paid a visit to children at a West Yorkshire hospice.

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. Private hire drivers stage protest in Leeds
2. Man seriously hurt in Sheffield stabbing
3. New head of Sheffield City Region elected
4. In pictures: Snowy scenes across Yorkshire
5. Buddy the Raccoon dog rescued from icy water

See you tomorrow.

Father Christmas paid a visit to some some children at a West Yorkshire hospice

The organisers of the UK Snooker Championship which has been taking place over the past 12 days in York say it's been another huge success.

History was made at the Barbican last night as Ronnie O'Sullivan equalled Steve Davis' record of six UK Championship wins with a 10-5 victory over Shaun Murphy.

Ivan Hirschowitz is from World Snooker.

He says the tournamnet in York gets more popular every year:

Tourism body, Marketing Sheffield has been awarded £500,000 from VisitEngland to promote adrenaline-fuelled city breaks.

Image source, Marketing Sheffield

Visitors will be able to book packages including accommodation, food and drink, nightlife and adventure sports activities.

It's a pilot scheme targeted at young active explorers from Germany, the Netherlands and Nordic countries.

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It's not looking like a great commute home on the M1/M62 tonight.

There are more than eight miles of queues on the M1 after an accident at J40 southbound and now there been a two-car crash on the M62 eastbound:

A woman was pushed over and kicked several times before being sprayed in the face with a "substance" and robbed in Sheffield yesterday.

Image source, Google

The 44-year-old was walking away from Meadowhall and under the M1 at 12:50, when her attackers came up from behind and pushed her to the floor.

She was then kicked several times and two men tried to take her rucksack - she was also sprayed in the face with a substance before the men left.

They took a small amount of cash from her and she suffered cuts and bruises but wasn't seriously injured.

Forty-five ice sculptures, using more than 10 tonnes of ice, included a 2m-high Viking and Peter Rabbit.

Buddy the Raccoon dog had a lucky escape this afternoon after he fell into a North Yorkshire canal.

Image source, North Yorkshire fire and Rescue Service

Fire crews were called out after he was stranded on the ice on the Leeds Liverpool canal at Skipton and then fell through to the icy cold water below.

Firefighters used poles and "manpower" to get hold of Buddy and safely reunite him with his owner.

Be warned though if you fancy getting your own Buddy, the RSPCA issued a warning earlier this year highlighting that Raccoon dogs don't make good pets.

Championship side Leeds sign Japan midfielder Yosuke Ideguchi on a deal worth around £500,000 from Gamba Osaka.

This morning some private hire drivers in Leeds staged a go-slow drive around the centre of Leeds.

The drivers say they want the right to work in unmarked cars as they say their safety is at risk from people who throw bricks at minicabs.

The protest caused extensive delays for drivers heading into the city, especially on Kirkstall Road.

A man in his 20s has died after an accident on the A170 near Kirkbymoorside.

Image source, Google

The accident happened at 20:30 on Saturday when a blue VW Polo was travelling towards Pickering and left the road near the junction with Appleton-le-Moors.

North Yorkshire Police say it went down an embankment before stopping in a field.

The man, who officers say is thought to be from the Pickering area, died at the scene and police are looking for any witnesses.

More than 10,000 new mums were offered up to £200 in shopping vouchers as encouragement to breastfeed.

A Doncaster charity has been given nearly £250,000 to help older people in the area who are suffering loneliness.

Be Friend matches volunteer befrienders with isolated elderly neighbours.

They estimate around one in four older people in the Doncaster area are very lonely.

Police want to speak to this man after a couple in their 90s had personal items and £1,500 cash taken by bogus workmen.

Image source, West Yorkshire Police

The theft happened in the East Bowling area of Bradford on 20 November when two men called at their house and offered to work on the couple's guttering.

One man asked the couple to go to the rear of their house when a second man got in through the unlocked front door.

After the men had left the couple dicovered that a safe, which contained personal items and about £1,500 had gone missing.

One of the last surviving military bridges used to access RAF Sandtoft near Doncaster has been removed.

Image source, Highways England

The Inglis Bridge is believed to be the only surviving Mark 1 Version and was installed at the former World War II airfield sometime in 1943/44.

This bridge, which has not been used since the end of World War II, will be renovated by the Royal Engineers Association at the Army base in Nottingham.

A partial segment of the bridge will be sent to the Royal Engineers Museum in Gillingham, Kent when renovations are completed.

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Following the earlier protest by private hire drivers in Leeds it looks like it's not a happy day if you're using the buses: