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A distraught mum has spoken of her heartbreak after she discovered the grave of her young daughter had been ‘desecrated’., external

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The publication of a report into a fatal police shooting on a motorway sliproad in West Yorkshire has been delayed.

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Yassar Yaqub, 28, from Huddersfield, was in a car when he was shot near junction 24 of the M62 in January 2017.

Driver Moshin Amin's trial on firearms charges, which was due in April, has now been moved until later this year.

The Independent Office for Police Conduct, which is investigating Mr Yaqub's death, will not publish its findings until after the trial.

A campaigner who lives near a site earmarked for fracking in North Yorkshire is asking the county's Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) to help heal the community.

Tori Winn-Atkinson, from Kirby Misperton, says her village, and others nearby, has been "under siege" from people opposed to Third Energy's fracking plans.

The firm is currently waiting for formal approval from the government before it can start fracking at the site.

Ms Winn-Atkinson says she's writing an open letter to PCC Julia Mulligan to step in - and she's now asking other villagers to sign it.

The PCC's office says it hasn't yet received the letter.

Two teenage sisters have gone missing from Doncaster.

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Cordelia McCarthy (pictured left), 13, and her older sister Erin McCarthy (pictured right), 16, are believed to have disappeared together.

Cordelia was last seen at about 09:30 on Tuesday at her school in Conisbrough. She was wearing her school uniform at the time, but may have changed her clothes.

She's described as being about 5ft tall, with long hair and is carrying a large Nike backpack.

Erin was last seen at about 08:45 on Monday in Bentley.

She's about 5ft 4ins tall, of a slim build, with red/brown hair which she normally wears in a bun and she was last seen wearing a blue duffel coat.

Police are urging anyone who many have seen them to get in touch by calling 101.

A toddler from Leeds has been reunited with the ambulance crew who saved his life after he choked on a grape and had a cardiac arrest.

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Two-year-old Ralph Bavill's mum, Katy, tried to to dislodge the food but he stopped breathing and she had to call an ambulance.

Luckily for Ralph, paramedics were quickly on the scene and resuscitated him, after which he was taken to hospital and spent two nights there recovering.

The toddler's now been reunited with the life-saving crew and they gave him a toy ambulance.

Mum Katy said: "I don’t think there will ever be a way to properly express my gratitude to them."

The planned pruning of an elm tree at the centre of a row in Sheffield is due to resume this week.

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Sheffield City Council was due to work on the tree on Chelsea Road in the Nether Edge area of the city last week, but aborted the plans after local activists were concerned about the tree's long-term future.

The city council says after a discussion with members of the Save Nether Edge Tree group, campaigners are now "supportive of work" to the tree.

Pruning is expected to continue this Friday after it was agreed that an independent tree surgeon would oversee the works.

A man has been convicted of stabbing a young father to death during a robbery at his home in Sheffield.

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Jordan Hill, 23, died in hospital following the attack at his flat in Southey Avenue on 23 March.

Bradley Onfroy, 32, was found guilty of murder and robbery following a trial at Sheffield Crown Court.

Josie Hollis, 24, pleaded guilty to manslaughter and robbery at a previous hearing.

The pair, of no fixed abode, will be sentenced at a later date.

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Nun Monkton Ferryboat, external in North Yorkshire is due to hit the water again soon and volunteers are needed to run it.

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The service, which has linked the villages of Nun Monkton and Beningbrough again for the first time since 1952, was launched last August.

It's a non-profit-making community venture and carried about 600 passengers over the 10 days it was open in 2017.

The team is planning to restart the ferry on Easter Sunday and it'll run on weekends and bank holidays through to October - weather permitting, of course.

This Bradford man hasn't been seen since last night after he made a phone call:

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Christopher Weldon is thought to have been in a pub in the city centre when he made the call and police say they're now concerned for his welfare.

Officers have been looking for the 41-year-old at several pubs and bars around the city.

They say he was wearing a dark grey duffle coat, a light coloured t-shirt and jeans and that he is also known to go to Leeds city centre and Ilkley.

The police watchdog says it will not publish report findings until after a delayed trial.

Disappointing news for Arctic Monkeys fans...

A licensing application which sparked speculation the band could be performing in their home city has been withdrawn.

The band's fans became excited after an application was submitted earlier this week by SJM Concerts for four gig dates at Hillsborough Park in September:

Rumours began to flow that it was the Arctic Monkeys, who originally burst on to the scene with their Mercury Music Prize-winning debut album Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not, who were planning a "homecoming gig".

However, Sheffield City Council's licensing team has now confirmed the application has been withdrawn.

Staff at the University of Sheffield have joined more than 60 universities across the country taking strike action today over a pensions row.

The union representing the university says lecturers could be £10,000 worse off in retirement after Universities UK announced the pension scheme has a £6bn deficit.

Universities minister Sam Gyimah has called for more negotiations and said students "deserve to receive the education that they are paying for. For many, this is a vital time in their studies".

Sam Moorcroft, from the University and College Union in Sheffield, explains his concerns from the lecturers' point of view:

This baby otter is lucky to be alive after someone spotted her crossing the busy A64 near Malton in North Yorkshire:

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According to the RSPCA, a man was looking out of his window last Friday afternoon when he spotted the tiny creature tumbling across the road.

He rushed outside and managed to rescue her before calling the animal charity after spotting that the tiny otter was dragging her back leg and thought it might have been clipped by a car.

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The RSPCA says she's no more than eight-weeks-old and its staff were surprised to see how young she was. They suspect she was separated from her mother and got lost.

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The otter, who was found to have suffered no broken bones, has been named by staff at the charity as Flow and is now being looked after at Ryedale Rehabilitation.

She's due to be moved to a specialist centre on the south coast very soon.

A student studying in Leeds who was caught up in the Manchester Arena bomb attack is to run a half marathon to raise money for the victims.

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Bridie O’Hare was in the arena on the night of the attack on 22 May last year - 22 people died and 116 were injured after the suicide bombing.

The 19-year-old from Cleethorpes studies history at Leeds Beckett University and will run the Sheffield Half Marathon in April.

A cannabis factory has been found by police who raided a house in Sheffield.

A 47-year-old man has been arrested after the discovery.

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Officers raided the property on Mansel Road in the Parson Cross area of the city yesterday morning.

A quantity of drugs and other articles were seized by officers.

University lecturers have marched in Leeds this lunchtime on a day of industrial action over pensions.

The staff set off from the steps of the University of Leeds' Parkinson building to make their way to the city's Town Hall.

Leeds is one of 64 universities across the UK where lecturers are walking out over changes to their pensions.

But the employers' group Universities UK says the scheme has a deficit of more than £6bn which it cannot ignore.

Hundreds of people turned out for BBC Radio York's latest Cake and Cuppa event which is aimed at tackling loneliness.

The event was at Gracious Street Methodist Chapel in Knaresborough.

Listeners travelled from across the county to meet new people and make new friends.

This is the sixth event the radio station has held.

They've visited Pickering, Filey, Helmsley, York and Selby.

A coach load of people from Sussex who were visiting the town heard the town crier announcing the event and popped in for cake and a cuppa.

The next venue will be announced soon.

Matthew Cohen, 29, told an inmate at HMP Doncaster he was responsible for the killing, a jury hears.

Leeds United have delayed the launch of a new club crest until their centenary year in 2019-20

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They unveiled a new badge in January (pictured) to start being worn next season, but the design was mocked as "awful", "shocking" and "horrendous" by fans.

Over 77,000 people signed a petition asking owner Andrea Radrizzani to stop the launch of the original design.

BBC Radio Leeds reports the Championship club has since received more than 1,200 ideas from supporters.

Leeds United delay the introduction of a new club crest until the club's centenary year in the 2019-20 season.