Andrew Barton
BBC Local Live, Yorkshire

I was looking through the BBC Weather Watcher pics and came across this beautiful Yorkshire landscape.

For a moment I thought it was a painting.

Compare it to this Gainsborough landscape and you'll see what I mean - I hope.

Image source, www.thomas-gainsborough.org

You don't have to be a BBC Weather Watcher, or even an 18th Century landscape painter, to have your pictures shared with the rest of Yorkshire.

You can send them in by simply clicking here.

Here are the latest pictures from the scene of a large fire in Rotherham this morning.

Six appliances and an aerial platform are in use at the former Dalton Progressive Working Men's Club on Doncaster Road.

The building is thought to be derelict.

The fire service got the call at 02:10 this morning.

The A630 Doncaster Road is closed between the junctions with Dalton Lane and Magna Lane.

BBC Weather

It will be a cold, bright and breezy day with good spells of sunshine.

Scattered showers will affect eastern coastal areas and winds will ease throughout the day.

Tonight any remaining showers will soon die away to leave a cold, clear and frosty night.

Clouding over in the west later, with rain or hill snow arriving here by dawn.

Some cyclists in West Yorkshire say they still feel in danger when on the roads, despite a year-long police safety initiative.

Safe Pass was launched a year ago, after seven cyclists died in the county in 2016 - the highest number since 1990.

It was designed to educate drivers about how much space to leave when overtaking, but has now finished.

Cyclist Steve Watters says the roads don't feel any safer:

Around 30 firefighters are dealing with a large fire in Rotherham this morning.

It's at the former Dalton Progressive Working Men's Club on Doncaster Road.

The building is thought to be derelict. The Fire Service got the call at 02:10 this morning.

Doncaster Road, the A630 is closed between the junctions with Dalton Lane and Magna Lane.

Ryan Hall scores twice as champions Leeds Rhinos begin the defence of their Super League crown with victory at Warrington Wolves.

A Fetuli Talanoa hat-trick sees Hull FC come from behind to handsomely beat Huddersfield in their Super League opener.

The woman told Bradford Coroner's Court she was "ashamed" to tell her family she was pregnant.

A 72-year-old man missing from Elland in West Yorkshire has been found safe.

Alan Carrol, who was last seen shortly after 19:00 last night, has been found in Skegness in Lincolnshire.

The top stories from Yorkshire so far today include:

• "Period of uncertainty" over Morrisons job cuts
• Flood warnings and flood alerts for North Yorkshire
• Osborne urges PM to focus on north-south education divide
• Scarborough's seal pups return to the wild
• CCTV appeal over Poppleton burglary investigation

Updates on breaking news and travel will continue here through the night.

They say that everyone has a novel in them - but the question is how do you get it out? Maybe you can extract yours by getting along to Leeds Trinity University's writers' festival...

Image source, Getty Images

The event gives people the chance to develop their writing skills by working with professional writers from all genres, including poetry, fiction and non-fiction.

There are also specialist workshops in crime writing, blurring the lines between fact and fiction, finding your narrative voice and horror writing.

The festival is due to take place on 14 February and is now in its 14th year.

Detectives in Bradford investigating an assault which has left a man seriously ill in hospital have released CCTV pictures of five people they want to speak to about it.

Image source, West Yorkshire Police

Officers say a 35-year-old man stepped in to try and break up an argument near Bentley’s bar on Godwin Street last Sunday.

But he then became the target of an attack from the two groups of people he was trying to calm.

He is still in a critical but stable condition in hospital.

Oli Constable
Reporter, BBC Radio Sheffield

If you drove through Doncaster this morning, you might have spotted a convoy of vintage cars.

The legendary Monte Carlo rally has passed through South Yorkshire and North Nottinghamshire today.

Dozens of drivers set off from Barnby Moor and this collection of classics was quite a sight:

A teenager from Leeds has been left with scars on her face after she was hit with a glass on a night out.

Police want to speak to this man about the incident:

Image source, West Yorkshire Police

It happened on 10 December at Space on Hirsts Yard when a man approached two women in the VIP section of the nightclub.

An argument started and the man walked off, but he returned and hit an 18-year-old woman in the face with a glass before walking off again.

She suffered serious injuries and had to go to hospital. She has since recovered from her injuries, but has been left with some scarring on her face:

A North Yorkshire museum is looking for a volunteer to get its historic display clocks working again.

Image source, Ryedale Folk Museum

A Victorian chiming presentation clock is among the pieces that Ryedale Folk Museum in Hutton le Hole is hoping to restore to working order.

Helen Mason, collections team leader at the museum, said: "It was donated by Mr Rimer who was the school master in Rosedale and given to him by the school as a leaving gift in 1897."

Other clocks in the museum's collection include a pendulum clock, a grandfather clock, a chapel wall clock and a General Post Office electric wall clock.

Almost all the museum's clocks are in need of ongoing maintenance or restoration and staff are due to hold a volunteer recruitment day, external there on Wednesday 21 February.

Barry John Brattley, one of 17 people involved in the violent disorder, failed to appear in court.

Police in Leeds say they're trying to track down this man after he failed turn up at court to be sentenced over his part in a mass brawl at a boxing event in Leeds:

Image source, West Yorkshire Police

Last December, a total of 15 men and a woman were jailed after admitting their part in the brawl.

The fighting erupted at Elland Road stadium and "took over the whole venue", Leeds Crown Court heard.

However, Barry Brattley, 31, of Pontefract Street, East End Park, failed to go to the hearing and now police say they're trying to find him.

A man was left with minor injuries in a hit-and-run crash in a village in Wakefield this morning.

Image source, West Yorkshire Police

It happened on Leeds Road in Robin Hood just before 09:15 as the 58-year-old was crossing the road.

He was taken to hospital after the crash which happened near the Old Halfway House pub.

Police say they are looking for witnesses.

Police in York have issued CCTV footage in a bid to identify a man they want to speak to in connection with a burglary in Poppleton last year.

A "large quantity" of jewellery was taken during the burglary on 11 October 2017.

Police are asking anyone who may recognise him to get in touch, external:

A Leeds head teacher has criticised council plans to demolish his school and merge it with another nearby.

Image source, Boston Spa Academy

Christopher Walsh, principal at Boston Spa Academy, had applied for the school to join The Gorse Academies Trust.

Leeds City Council has objected to the application and wants the school to merge with nearby Wetherby High School.

Mr Walsh said the merger would be detrimental to the academy and claims the council is "not fit for purpose".

Leeds City Council has been approached for comment.