A charity says January 2018 was its busiest ever month as unsecured personal loan debts increased.

A West Yorkshire-based dance company has premiered one of its most ambitious projects to celebrate the 70th anniversary of immigrants from the Caribbean coming to Britain.

It was 1948 when the first group arrived from Jamaica aboard the ship Empire Windrush and now Phoenix Dance, in Leeds, has marked the milestone with Windrush: Movement of the People.

Phoenix artistic director Sharon Watson's mother came to Britain in the 1960s.

She says immigrants from the Caribbean had a huge positive impact on UK society:

Campaigners staged the sit-in after a meeting of the full council and stayed there for several hours.

Increased anti-terror measures around York Minster and the city's racecourse are due to be discussed at a meeting later,

The new measures include tougher traffic restrictions and while the council says they are not in response to a specific threat, they would help deter would-be attackers.

Last November, a barrier of 12 security blocks was placed in front of York Minster due to the national threat of terrorist attacks.

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Weather presenter, BBC Look North

It's going to be a fairly cloudy day for Yorkshire as a band of rain spreads from the north west.

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The future of Sheffield's Niche nightclub is expected to be decided today.

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The club has been closed since five men were hurt in a disturbance outside the building just before Christmas - four of whom suffered serious stab wounds

A hearing is due to place at Sheffield Council later.

A bridge in West Yorkshire which was badly damaged by the Boxing Day floods of 2015 has been nominated for an architecture award.

Image source, Canal and River Trust

Elland Bridge had to be rebuilt at a cost of £5m after it partially collapsed and it officially reopened exactly a year ago this week.

Now, the reconstructed version of the bridge has been shortlisted by the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) in its Yorkshire and Humber regional awards.

This is how it looked before the rebuilding effort:

Calderdale Council worked with the Canal and River Trust to rebuild it with money from the Department for Transport.

The bridge was Grade II-listed and dates from 1811 and was rebuilt using a large amount of the original stone.

The driver of this car in North Yorkshire seems to have had a lucky escape...

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Selby fire crews, who dealt with the incident in Drax on Wednesday, found a Volvo had skidded over onto its roof.

Thankfully, no one was seriously injured.

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A post-mortem examination is expected to be carried out later on human remains found in Barnsley.

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Children found the bones in a field off Mitchell Street in Swaithe on Sunday.

It's known the bones are those of a man and are thought to have been there for about 20 years.

Officers said they are treating the death as unexplained pending further forensic tests.

There is no indication the residents at the property next to where the discovery was made are linked or connected in any way, officers added.

New pictures of a fire in Leeds which forced people out of 20 homes and brought down the roof of a factory have been released by West Yorkshire Fire Service.

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At its height late on Tuesday night, about 70 firefighters dealt with the blaze at Moulds Patterns and Models on Kent Road in Pudsey.

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The firm makes bathroom suites and some hazardous materials were believed to have been inside the premises.

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Nobody was injured in the blaze and all the residents have since returned to their homes.

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An investigation into the cause of the fire is continuing.

A fairly cloudy day to come across Yorkshire as a band of rain spreads from the north west.

A few heavier bursts are likely this afternoon, especially on the Pennines and North York Moors.

Rain will turn heavier this evening for a time before clearing to the south east.

When most of us were tucked up in our beds with a hot water bottle earlier this week, members of the Edale Mountain Rescue Team were out practicing their skills near Sheffield.

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The team was out training at Stanage Edge where there is still snow on the ground.

Its members worked their way through a typical scenario at this time of year - a fallen climber who needed medical treatment and evacuating down to the road.

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Despite the conditions, it's good to know the volunteers are always ready for action whatever the weather.

A 3,500-mile Australian bike race has been cancelled after the death of a cyclist from Harrogate.

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Mike Hall (pictured), who was 35, died near the Australian capital, Canberra, after being hit by a car during the Indian Pacific Wheel Race last year.

Organisers have cancelled this year's race due to what they describe as "potential outcomes" of the forthcoming inquest into Mr Hall's death.

Mr Hall won the 2012 World Cycle Race and founded the annual Transcontinental Race, an ultra-endurance across Europe.

Race organisers said his death was a "great loss to the global cycling community".

BBC News Travel

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

However, the 07:23 Bradford Interchange-Leeds and the 07:41 Bradford Interchange-Manchester Oxford Road services have both been cancelled.

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

A film being shown at a cinema in West Yorkshire was interrupted to allow police to storm in and arrest three youths.

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The trio, aged 14, 16, and 17, were arrested at the Showcase Cinema in Birstall after they were spotted by an off duty officer.

West Yorkshire Police said the arrests related to an investigation into a conspiracy to commit burglary offences targeting high value vehicles.

The teenagers remain in custody.

Campaigners opposed to the felling of trees in Sheffield staged a sit-in protest in the city's council chamber last night and refused to leave for several hours.

About 20 people entered the council chamber at the end of a council meeting and demanded to see the £2.2bn private finance initiative deal between the authority and its contractor Amey.

The BBC understands the protest ended at about 01:30 this morning when contractors left the Town Hall.

The protest was part of the ongoing dispute about trees being felled in the city.

As part of Streets Ahead, an ongoing project to improve roads and footpaths in Sheffield, about 5,500 trees have been cut down since 2012.

The council, which is planting new trees after removing existing ones, insists the trees earmarked for felling are either "dangerous, dead, diseased, dying, damaging or discriminatory".

However, many of the trees classed by the council as "damaging" or "discriminatory" are healthy specimens which campaigners say should be saved.

Instead they say amendments should be made to surrounding pavements and roads.

An off duty officer recognised the three youths and alerted colleagues at West Yorkshire Police.

Thousands of litres of milk had to be transferred to another tanker following the crash.

Leeds United chairman Andrea Radrizzani apologises to supporters for appointing Thomas Christiansen as boss last summer.

The "decomposed" body of a man was found by a roundabout last year.