Oli Constable
BBC Yorkshire Live

A street in Burngreave has been evacuated and cleared as part of police efforts to foil a suspected terror plot in the run up to Christmas.

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The doors of the Fatima Community Centre on Brunswick Road (pictured above) have been smashed as counter-terrorism officers gained entry to the property.

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Officers are now standing guard outside.

An army bomb disposal team is also at a house in Chesterfield.

Four men were arrested by counter terrorism officers in Sheffield and Chesterfield.

Police say these arrests were intelligence-led.

The suspects remain in custody in West Yorkshire.

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The work on the M62 near Manchester is now clear, but if you're expecting someone from the other side soon, they're going to be late!

An appeal has been launched to find this missing Kirklees teenager:

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Fourteen-year-old Katie Wickham from Birstall was reported missing yesterday night and didn't go to school this morning.

Police say she was wearing her school uniform - a Batley Girls School blue blazer, green coat, black jeans and black trainers.

If you can help call West Yorkshire Police on 101.

Andrew Barton
BBC Local Live, Yorkshire

A Nativity with a difference has been taking place in Cleckheaton.

Howard Park Community school has been using real animals as part of the school production this week, including sheep, goats and a donkey.

Isabel, Sophie and Jospeh can't wait to get involved in the play:

Kate Linderholm
BBC Local Live, Sheffield

People in parts of South Yorkshire and Derbyshire woke this morning to find police taking action against an alleged Islamist terror plot against the UK that could have come to fruition during the Christmas period.

Residents on Shirebrook Road at Meersbrook in Sheffield were awoken by a loud bang at around 05:30 this morning as counter-terrorism officers raided a house and arrested a 41-year old man.

Retired Joan Miller, 63, who lives opposite the house, said she looked out of her window to see many plain-clothed armed officers in the street

She said the officers shouted "very abruptly" for people to stay in their homes:

As part of the operation, the army's Bomb Disposal Unit was sent to an address in Chesterfield.

The immediate area around the property has been cordoned off and local properties evacuated as officers carry out searches.

A 31-year-old man has been arrested here.

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Two addresses in Burngreave were also raided early this morning. Two men aged 22 and 36 were arrested.

All the suspects have been taken to West Yorkshire for questioning.

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Another building in Stocksbridge has also been raided by counter-terrorism officers.

Police have sought to reassure local residents.

Una Jennings of South Yorkshire Police said:

The RSPCA has released these pictures of a desperately thin dog found staggering around in a field by a canal off Doncaster Road at Stainforth on Monday, 11 December.

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RSPCA inspector Jennie Ronksley attended to collect the brown lurcher and rushed him to the vet:

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The dog is being cared for and has put on 2.5kg in just a week.

The RSPCA is appealing for anyone who recognises the dog or who may have information about where he’s from to contact their appeal line on 0300 123 8018 and leave a message.

Elizabeth Fogarty had moved north to Sheffield following spate of terror attacks in London.

A man who swam from Spain to Gibraltar in a bid to escape justice after attempting to smuggle cocaine into North Yorkshire in a light aircraft, has been jailed.

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Jason Waterman, from Otterspool Lane, Watford, was wanted in connection with the recovery of seven kilos of the drug worth around £1.2m, at Bagby airfield near Thirsk, in October 2015.

The 33-year-old, whose nicknames include Jugs and Jumbo, had been on board an aircraft that had just flown into the airfield.

As Border Force officers arrived on the scene to carry out checks on the plane he ran off, leaving a drug-filled suitcase in a nearby hedgerow.

National Crime Agency investigators began to track him down and following a series of media appeals, he finally handed himself in to police in Gibraltar, dripping wet and carrying a bag of wet clothes in June 2017.

He later told officers he had been swum from Spain rather than come across the land border.

He was charged with conspiring to import a class A drug at Bradford Crown Court on Monday, 18 December.

He pleaded guilty and a judge sentenced him to seven years and two months in prison.

Dominic Casciani
Home Affairs Correspondent

Police have arrested four men in counter terrorism raids across South Yorkshire and Derbyshire this morning.

There are two types of terrorism raids in the UK.

Many occur very quietly as detectives knock on the door and take the suspect into custody under normal police powers.

Then there are the full-on raids where doors or windows have to be knocked in, cordons set up and the bomb squad called.

Such operations are only ever mounted because secret intelligence - perhaps from an intercepted communication and often only fragmentary - suggests there is something at a property they need to get to the bottom of.

None of which is proof that any of those who have been arrested have committed an offence - but officers now have up to 14 days, subject to court oversight, to build a case.

One of their priorities is likely to be forensically examining phones. All recent major terrorism investigations have turned on not just what officers found during searches, but what they uncovered from online lives.

Amanda White
BBC East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire

MPs are calling for a "comprehensive strategy" to boost the steel sector ahead of Brexit.

They want ministers to cut energy costs, prevent imports of cheap steel and promote the use of UK steel for major projects.

British Steel in Scunthorpe used to be owned by Tata Steel who had their main research and development centre in Rotherham.

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The Labour MP for Rotherham, Sarah Champion, told a special debate in Parliament that the government was "asleep at the wheel" putting jobs at risk:

A man's been shot in the leg at a petrol station in Sheffield.

Emergency services were called to the Jet garage in Woodhouse Mill just after 09:00 this morning.

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A 39-year-old man was found with a shotgun wound. He's in a serious condition in hospital.

Police say that extensive enquiries are underway. The garage has now reopened.

A consortium led by Chinese businessman Chien Lee completes a takeover of Championship club Barnsley.

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Know someone about to set off from Manchester?

There are queues of nearly eight miles leading up to this:

The bodies of a woman and a man have been found inside a house in Brighouse.

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West Yorkshire Police say they were called to the house on Smith Crescent at 18:00 last night.

Officers say they were alerted to what is being described as a "concern for safety" incident.

A police cordon is still in place outside the house and a force spokesperson said the deaths are being treated as unexplained.

Gavin Bevis
BBC News

A bomb disposal unit has been called in and a police cordon is in place at the scene of an anti-terror raid in Chesterfield.

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A 31-year-old man from the town and three men from Sheffield were arrested earlier on suspicion of preparing terror acts following raids at four properties.

A 70-year-old man has died after a house fire in Baildon near Bradford in the early hours of this morning.

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It happened on Central Avenue just before 02:30.

West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service (WYFRS) say that a neighbour called them after their own fire alarm was set off.

A small fire had taken hold in the man's kitchen and fire crews managed to extinguish it and gave emergency first aid to the man, but he later died.

Fire investigation teams will be at the house today, but WYFRS say they don't believe the fire was suspicious.

Yesterday we found out police in Yorkshire are using some new technology.

Officers say it means they can now check fingerprints in minutes rather than days.

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The pilot allows forensic officers to send fingerprints or boot prints digitally to be checked against their database.

Officers say that by using the new kit, they will be able to bring suspects to justice much more quickly.

It will now be used across Yorkshire and the Humber by the region's four forces.

Officers from Counter Terrorism Policing North East arrested four men from South Yorkshire and North Derbyshire this morning on suspicion of plotting terror attacks,

A 22 year-old-man was arrested in Burngreave, a 36-year-old man was arrested in Burngreave, a 41-year-old man was arrested in Meersbrook and a 31-year-old man was arrested in Chesterfield.

The men have been taken to a police station in West Yorkshire for questioning.

An additional address is now being searched in Stocksbridge, Sheffield in connection with these arrests.

The Army Bomb Disposal Unit is currently attending the address in Chesterfield.

As what is being described as a precautionary measure and in the interest of public safety, the immediate area has been cordoned off and local residents evacuated while a thorough search is carried out.

Police in South Yorkshire are continuing to search four houses in Sheffield after early morning raids in the city and in Chesterfield.

Counter terrorism police say that people may have heard "loud bangs" as officers entered the suspects' houses.

Elizabeth Fogarty who lives nearby one of the houses that were raided described how she thought "someone had crashed outside the house."

The colder temperatures have been responsible for a plethora of pretty pics of Yorkshire over the last few days:

These three crackers are just a few of the hundreds of glorious BBC Weather Watcher shots we've received.

You don't have to be an official weather watcher to have your pictures posted though.

If you've taken any you'd like to share with the rest of Yorkshire, send them to us by clicking here.