Children suffered worse injuries at trampoline parks than when using home equipment, a hospital finds.

The former chairman of the Co-operative Bank has been banned from the financial services industry by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).

Paul Flowers, who also used to be a Methodist minister and was a superintendent methodist minister in Bridlington for a decade has been told he's demonstrated a "lack of fitness and propriety".

He was also a councillor in Bradford.

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Mr Flowers was chairman of the bank at the time of its near collapse in 2013 when it was revealed there was a £1.5bn black hole in the accounts.

The FCA found he had used his work email for sexually explicit messages and to discuss illegal drugs.

He left amid concerns about expenses and in 2014 admitted drug possession.

Plans for new apartments to be built above a carpet shop on Chesterfield Road in Sheffield have been approved despite complaints from residents and some local councillors.

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Developers have been given permission to transform the first and second floors of Pyramid Carpets into 14 flats.

Residents raised concerns about congestion on the road, a lack of off street parking and that the flats would overlook neighbouring homes.

Planning officers disagreed and said the development would make a "small but welcome contribution" to housing in the city and wouldn't impact on any neighbouring residents.

Police have reissued an appeal after a 17-year-old boy was stabbed in the neck during an unprovoked attack in Scarborough.

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Officers say at about 11:00 on Monday 19 February, the boy was walking along Stepney Road, towards Scarborough Sixth Form College when the attack happened.

They now have a more detailed description of the suspect.

The attacker's described as a white male, aged between 17 or 18 years of age, with short straight dark brown hair, around 5’9” to 5’10” tall with a chubby build and spoke with a local accent.

He was wearing a black waist-length jacket, blue jeans and trainers. He also carried a red rucksack on his back.

Latest updates as travel disruption is expected after days of heavy snowfall.

Flooding has closed one lane on the A1(M) in both directions north of Catterick at J52.

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The northbound entry slip road at the junction is also closed.

There's queuing traffic in the area as a result.

More police officers will be deployed today while council contractor Amey continues the tree felling programme.

South Yorkshire Police says there will be a higher number of officers to "provide support should they be required."

Tuesday's game between Guiseley and Barrow is postponed because of a waterlogged pitch at Nethermoor.

Two knives and a small bag of cannabis have been found on a road in Sheffield.

Officers in the city centre have just tweeted this image of the items:

The University of Sheffield has been given £600,000 by Prostate Cancer UK to work on ways to prevent and stop the disease.

The money will allow professors at the university to begin modifying white blood cells in prostate tumours to see if it prevents the disease from returning.

They will also research whether certain exercises can help stop the cancer from spreading.

Professor Claire Lewis, from the University of Sheffield, said: "We hope that by reprogramming a type of immune cell in prostate cancer tumours we can alter its behaviour from one that helps the cancer to grow back to one that will fight the cancer regrowth."

Ed Sheeran may be wistfully imagining he's on a tractor in Suffolk gazing at a pylon connected to Sizewell, wishing he was able to make the trip to Sheffield this evening to watch the Town.

But he's on the Australian leg of his world tour, external. He's in Adelaide tomorrow night and has a free night tonight, so he may be trying to find live coverage somewhere...

Unfortunately, BBC Radio Suffolk's live match commentary is only available on your FM and DAB radios, not streamed on the internet, but there is live text coverage available via the BBC's Sheffield Wednesday v Ipswich Town match preview.

A man's been filmed using a fake Bank of Ireland £50 note to buy a toy in the gift shop at York Minster.

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Police have released CCTV pictures of the man, after discovering he also purchased items with the notes at shops at Monks Cross Shopping Park in the city on the same day last month.

Officers say he bought low value goods at the shopping park with the money and used a counterfeit £50 note in the York Minster Gift Shop to purchase a low value toy.

The genuine notes are used in Northern Ireland.

More than 600 coats and other items of clothing have been donated to a homeless shelter in Leeds - just five days after an appeal on BBC Look North.

St George's Crypt made an appeal last week when snow hit the city.

A union representing staff at a college with bases in East and North Yorkshire will meet today to discuss what action it will take following news of possible redundancies.

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More than 200 jobs could go as the Hull College Group looks at restructuring.

It says the five year plan will secure the future of sites in Hull, Goole and Harrogate.

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You might look around at the reappearance of grass and footpaths and think the snow's long gone, but that's not the case for some parts of Yorkshire.

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This was the Newby Head Pass, a hill road on the top section of the B6255 between Hawes and Ingleton, in North Yorkshire, at 05:30 this morning.

It's the view from the cab of snow plough driver, Thomas Beresford, who says there was three inches of snow overnight.

Thomas says it's raining there now.

A murder investigation continues in a North Yorkshire village today, after police found a woman's body at a house in Cawood, near Selby, yesterday morning.

A 49-year-old man was arrested in Hawkshead, Cumbria, on suspicion of murder.

He remains in police custody.

North Yorkshire Police say officers are remaining in the village to provide reassurance to residents.

Ambulance crews were called out to Yorkshire trampoline parks more than twice a week last year, BBC research has found.

Doctors at Sheffield Children's Hospital say they're so concerned about the increase and severity of injuries that they've carried out an internal audit.

There were 126 call-outs in Yorkshire in 2017 - the fourth-highest in the country.

The hospital said its audit found children hurt at parks required "more treatment" than those injured on home equipment.

An industry body said it would "not be averse" to regulation of the sector.

There are no safety regulations specifically aimed at trampoline parks, but a voluntary standard was published in 2017.

Two of the Wakefield district's five towns could be in line for a facelift.

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Councillors are being asked to approve revamp plans for Pontefract and Knottingley after people and businesses in the two towns were asked about their concerns.

In Pontefract, questions were raised about anti-social behaviour, litter, traffic congestion and more facilities for young people.

In Knottingley, which lost its leisure centre a year ago, ideas for a new library, gym and rail service are being considered, as well as support for TJX Europe, the parent company of TK Maxx, which could create 700 jobs in the next five years.

A man was arrested yesterday after police were called to a protest against tree felling in Sheffield on Abbeydale Park Rise.

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Police say they made one arrest and reported numerous people for summons.

Officers say the 38-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of assault and remains in police custody for questioning.

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.

Look North's Lisa Gallagher has today's weather forecast: