Andrew Barton
BBC Local Live, Yorkshire

Looking in our BBC Weather Watcher folder this morning is like looking at a box full of ping pong balls - rows and rows of wonderful pics of last night's lunar event.

The super blue blood moon clearly dazzled skywatchers in Yorkshire.

A lunar eclipse, supermoon and a blue moon all coincided for the first time since 31 March 1866.

From left to right along the top we have pics from North Yorkshire's Ampleforth, Kirby Misperton and York.

The big blue backed one at the bottom is of Ryhill, Wakefield.

There are so many cracking pics we'll probably put a few more up later.

The A1(M) southbound is closed in North Yorkshire this morning and there's queueing traffic for five miles due to recovery work after a broken down abnormal load at J51 / A6055 Leeming Lane.

Making things worse is a separate incident at J52 A1 / A6136 Catterick Road where there's been a multi-vehicle accident

Owain Wyn Evans
Weather presenter, BBC Look North

Dry and sunny today, but very windy!

Here's my full forecast:

A Yorkshire charity that helps boys and young men at risk of being sexually exploited says it's had its busiest year.

Image source, SPL

The Blast Project, run by Mesmac, saw 80 referrals from across West Yorkshire, of victims who had been abused or were at risk of it.

The number of reported offences for sexual grooming has almost trebled in the past ten years.

The new leader of the City of York council says the ruling coalition will survive the sacking of former leader David Carr.

Ian Gillies (pictured) was elected Tory group leader, after Councillor Carr was forced out earlier this week by his own party.

Councillor Gillies is due to be elected to lead the council when all 47 of its members meet later this month - he says, for now, it's business as usual:

BBC News Travel

If you're catching a train this morning, things appear to be running pretty much to time from stations across Yorkshire at the moment.

You can check the full details for your journey here:

• York station, external
• Leeds station, external
• Wakefield station, external
• Sheffield station, external
• Doncaster station, external
• Bradford Interchange, external
• Bradford Forster Square, external

Police are investigating a stabbing in Doncaster.

It happened yesterday afternoon, just before 14:00 in the Conisbrough area.

A 49-year-old man suffered wounds and was taken to hospital.

Police say they want more information on three men, who've been described as aged around 18-years-old and wearing hooded tops.

BBC Weather

After a frosty start it'll be generally dry with some good spells of sunshine, but feeling cold in strong northwesterly winds.

Tonight some clear spells are likely, but it'll be generally rather cloudy at times with scattered wintry showers, mainly near the coast.

Kamal Ahmed
Economics editor

The former chancellor, George Osborne, has urged the prime minister to focus on poor education attainment in the north to boost British growth.

Mr Osborne said that the project he launched while he was still at the Treasury - the Northern Powerhouse - was still vital for the economy.

Concerns arose in 2017 that the project had been sidelined by Theresa May.

His comments come as a new report says there is a major education divide between the north and the south.

The study by the Northern Powerhouse Partnership says pupils in the North of England are on average one GCSE grade behind comparable pupils in the south.

It also reveals that one quarter of secondary schools in the north are judged by Ofsted to be inadequate or in need of improvement.

The A1(M) southbound is closed due to recovery work and a broken down abnormal load, between J51 A6055 Leeming Lane / A684 (Leeming Bar) and J50 A61 (Baldersby).

Image source, Google

An abnormal load transportiing a bridge joint broke down around midnight.

The recovery work has been completed, but a specially built crane needs to be dismantled.

The northbound stretch has now re-opened but it's estimated southbound won't re-open until after the rush-hour.

An autonomous car project will attempt a complex journey across the UK, taking in country roads and high-speed roundabouts.

Image source, Catapult

The HumanDrive initiative will first simulate a range of conditions, before the car starts its 200-mile (320km) journey in December 2019. The UK wants to get driverless cars on the road by 2021.

Mark Westwood, chief technology officer of the Transport Systems Catapult, which is one partner involved in the project, said: "This project is about advancing the state of the art and trying to do something more demanding. The control system will learn to drive like a human."

To enable this, a group of competent human drivers will show off their skills in a simulator based at Leeds University and the data will be collated. Data is also being collected from roads around the UK.

This will be fed into the machine learning system and driverless cars will begin safety testing and trials on private tracks.

Andrew Barton
BBC Local Live, Yorkshire

Hello and welcome to BBC Local Live in Yorkshire on Thursday 1 February 2018.

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

February is usually considered to be the coldest month. With that in mind I'm starting us off with a cracking pic of one of yesterday's sleet showers:

You don't have to be a BBC Weather Watcher to have your pictures shared with the rest of Yorkshire.

You can send them in by simply clicking here.

Nottingham Forest sign Costel Pantilimon, Jack Colback, Adlene Guedioura, Ashkan Dejagah, Joe Lolley and Lee Tomlin.

Barnsley sign Christoph Knasmullner from Admira Wacker, along with Matt Mills and Swansea City striker Oli McBurnie.

Chesterfield sign Shrewsbury forward Louis Dodds plus Northampton's George Smith, adding a young Barnsley duo on loan.

Hull City sign Barnsley defender Angus MacDonald and Harry Wilson from Liverpool, who let Lazar Markovic join Anderlecht.

Rotherham United loan striker Jonson Clarke-Harris to Coventry City for the remainder of the season.

Colchester sign Aaron Barnes from Charlton and add Olamide Shodipo, Ben Stevenson and Liam Mandeville on loan.

Super League returns for 2018 on Thursday - BBC rugby league correspondent Dave Woods picks out six things to watch.

League Two promotion-chasers Mansfield sign attacking midfielder Matt Penney and striker Ricky Miller