Are you feeling the Christmas spirit yet?

If not, the illuminations at Brodsworth Hall in Doncaster set to music might just help:

A North Yorkshire MP and government minister says many children from poorer families aren't learning vital skills such as being able to use a knife and fork.

Children's Minister and Scarborough Conservative MP Robert Goodwill says many youngsters aren't being taught basic social skills:

A man is being treated in hospital in Halifax after an unknown substance was thrown in his face as he answered the door this morning.

Police say they were called to an address on Sandhall Green at about 05:45 following the attack.

The victim was treated by the emergency services and taken to hospital for what are thought to be non-life-threatening injuries.

Officers say at this early stage of enquiries it's not known what the substance thrown was:

A 54-year-old man has been given a 16-year prison sentence at Sheffield Crown Court after sexually abusing teenage girls across the country.

Image source, South Yorkshire Police

Craig Lewis, 54, from College Road, Cranwell, Lincolnshire, was found guilty of child grooming, sexual assault and causing a child to watch a sex act.

He abused three teenage girls aged between 13 and 14 from Rotherham, Grimsby and Oxford.

An investigation began a year ago after an anonymous referral made to the NSPCC was reported to police.

Officers then discovered Lewis had used online social media apps to meet one of the victims, encouraging her to share photos and videos of herself.

Searching his mobile phone activity, officers identified two more victims and, with assistance from both Lincolnshire and Oxfordshire Police, Lewis was charged with the remaining offences.

Det Con Elizabeth Portman, from South Yorkshire Police, said it took incredible courage for Lewis's victims to report the abuse:

Abbie Dewhurst
Weather Presenter, BBC Look North

We'll see wintry showers and sunny spells today, especially over hills.

Feeling chilly, but temperatures will be slightly higher near coasts.

Watch my forecast here:

Katie Galbraith
Reporter, BBC Radio Sheffield

The Sheffield-Rotherham tram-train is an example of how not to run a major transport project, according to the chair of a Parliamentary committee.

The Public Accounts Committee investigated the UK's first ever such scheme after costs on the two-year pilot project "spiralled" from £15m to £75m.

Caroline Flint, the Don Valley Labour MP, who's on the committee, says while the project "promised great benefits for passengers and for the local economy", the investigation exposes "how little we know about what the benefits will really be":

The freezing cold weather continues - and City of York Council has these ice-related warnings:

MPs have criticised the former boss of the organisation building the high-speed rail line between London and Yorkshire for agreeing unauthorised redundancy payments of £1.75m to staff.

Image source, HS2

HS2 paid compensation worth one month's salary per year of service when it moved headquarters from London to Birmingham - when it's more usually one week for each year.

The Public Accounts Committee accused HS2's former chief executive, Simon Kirby, of "a shocking waste of taxpayers' money."

MPs blamed "weak internal processes" at HS2 for overpayments to 94 people totalling £1.76m.

An HS2 spokesperson acknowledged "a serious error" had been made.

The company made the payments in 2016-17 after shedding 94 staff in a move from London to Birmingham.

Players and staff from Barnsley FC have paid a surprise Christmas visit to Barnsley Hospice.

They went to meet some lifelong fans of the club, much to the delight of some of the residents.

I'm issuing a warning with this one, though - tissues at the ready, this film is a proper choker:

A man has been left with a broken nose after being headbutted by a stranger in York city centre.

Image source, Google

The victim, who's in his 20s, was attacked by the unknown man in Duncombe Place at about 03:50 on Sunday morning.

The suspect is described as white, about 5ft 10ins tall, aged between 20 and 30 and wearing a red hat.

Anyone with information about the assault is being asked to contact police.

The government should create a national strategy to combat loneliness, according to a report by a commission set up by murdered West Yorkshire MP Jo Cox.

Image source, Getty Images

The commission, external, formed by the Batley and Spen Labour MP before she was killed in her constituency in 2016, calls for the appointment of a minister to lead action on the issue.

It says loneliness is as harmful to health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day and affects nine million UK people.

The government says new initiatives will be announced next year.

The report acknowledges that government action alone cannot solve the problem and calls for the Family Test, external, a measure of assessing the effect of government policies on stable families, to become a family and relationships test.

Moves towards a Yorkshire-wide devolution deal need to move forward, according to Keighley MP John Grogan.

At a debate on devolution hosted by BBC Radio Sheffield and local newspapers, the MP said all Yorkshire councils should get together to agree how to move things on.

While the leaders of Sheffield and Rotherham councils said they wanted to see concrete proposals first, Mr Grogan told the debate audience that a deal "could be done":

BBC Weather

Brisk northerly winds will bring showers and sunny spells, these showers will be wintry, especially on Pennine hills, but showers will become confined to coastal areas later.

Feeling chilly, but temperatures will be slightly higher near coasts with stronger winds.

Tonight a widespread, sharp frost will form, with occasional showers persisting.

It's pretty cold out there across Yorkshire again, in case you hadn't noticed.

And with those low temperatures comes the ice. Be careful out there...

Chronic underfunding of adult social care is one of the reasons why York's A&E continues to fail to meet the government's waiting time target, according to a senior consultant at the city's hospital.

More than half of Yorkshire NHS trusts failed to meet the target in the last 12 months, with the trust which runs York and Scarborough hospitals among the country's 20 worst performers.

Dr Rebecca Lightfoot, who was running the A&E in York last night, says if home care isn't in place it causes problems in discharging people from hospital - but she says home care isn't resourced properly:

BBC News Travel

If you're catching a train this morning, you'll be pleased to know everything seems to be running pretty much to time across Yorkshire at the moment.

You can click on the links below to keep up-to-date with the live departure boards for:

• Leeds Railway Station, external
• Wakefield Westgate, external
• Bradford Interchange, external
• Bradford Forster Square, external
• York Railway Station, external
• Sheffield Station, external
• Doncaster Station, external

The UK's first tram-train project has incurred "spiralling" costs with questionable benefit for similar schemes in the future, a scathing report by MPs has found.

The Sheffield-to-Rotherham scheme will enable trams to run on existing train tracks as well as on tram lines, but its costs have leapt to £75.1m - five times the original £15m budget.

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said "the high level of risk and uncertainty" had not been considered.

The two-year pilot was approved by the Department for Transport in 2012 and undertaken by Network Rail.

But the project has been plagued with "unacceptable cost increases and delays" the PAC found.

Andrew Barton
BBC Local Live, Yorkshire

Hello and welcome to BBC Local Live in Yorkshire on Friday 15 December 2017.

We'll be with you until 18:00 with all the latest news, travel, sport and weather updates from across Yorkshire.

I thought we'd start with a Yorkshire panorama today...

Our BBC Weather Watchers are getting very adventurous - this was taken by a drone!:

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Just send them to us by clicking here.