The latest plans to reduce congestion on a York ring road roundabout are set to go ahead.

Work on the Wetherby Road roundabout has now been officially approved.

Image source, Google

Earlier in the year the City of York Council started pre-site work on the roundabout - now it's been announced the new upgrades will fully begin in summer.

It will see more lanes and space on the approaches and exits.

The upgrade to the Wetherby Road roundabout is one of seven roundabouts on the A1237 which will be altered over the next four years. The project has been awarded £38m of funding, with £3.6m going towards the Wetherby Road scheme.

More space will be created for cyclists and there will be an off-road cycle route between Rufforth and Acomb.

Organisers behind the Epilepsy Action Bradford 10k, which is due to take place on Sunday, say the race has been postponed.

Image source, Epilepsy Action

The date for the race has been put back until 29 April.

It has been postponed this weekend because of the snow forecast.

Carl Foster, from Epilepsy Action, said: “After monitoring the weather closely, we have made the decision to postpone this event due to the Met Office’s amber weather warnings of snow.

"We are very disappointed the run will not go ahead but the safety of our runners and spectators must be our first priority."

BBC News Travel

Road safety advice for the weekend directly from a policeman!

A councillor in Sheffield says money raised at an event supporting campaigners who are opposed to the felling of trees in the city should go towards the costs awarded to the local authority following court cases.

Image source, PA

Tonight Jarvis Cocker will DJ at a concert called 'Hands off our Tree' in his home city.

It's being staged to boost the funds of campaigners who are against the felling of trees along streets in the city.

The council says it's owed court costs after taking legal action against two campaigners who've been found guilty of breaching a High Court injunction over felling sites.

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.

The former Pulp front man is DJing at a gig to support anti-tree felling protesters.

Huddersfield Town agree an undisclosed fee with German side Mainz to sign goalkeeper Jonas Lossl on a permanent deal.

Three men were stabbed during a fight in Division Street, Sheffield, in 2017.

BBC Look North's Harry, Amy and Paul are in Bolton Percy, near Tadcaster, on their Big 50 Sofa Challenge for Sport Relief.

You can see exactly where they are by clicking here, external.

But it's not just the three of them pushing, pulling and dragging their famous red sofa along, there's a big crew around them too.

In 1821 a pit lift chain broke sending men and boys to their deaths , externalin Barnsley.

Image source, Geograph/Graham Hogg

There was just one survivor out of 11 men and boys who were in the lift as it was heading to the surface at Norcroft, between Cawthorne and Silkstone.

Six of the victims are buried in unmarked graves in Cawthorne churchyard.

There will be a public meeting tonight as part of efforts to raise money for a permanent memorial, external to those who died.

This would be placed in the churchyard.

As we've mentioned, it's day two of BBC Look North's Big 50 Sofa Challenge as Look North's Harry, Amy, and Paul make their way from Tadcaster to York.

It's been a little bit wet on their journey so far this morning, but it's not all bad.

People have been coming out to show their support, including dropping off some pies to keep them going on the way.

And if that's not enough, they've even had a llama out to cheer them on.

If you want to follow them on their way, too, you can have a look at this detailed map.

A man in Halifax has been charged with sexual assault, outraging public decency and indecent exposure after a string of incidents in the town.

Image source, Google

In total the man has been charged with 10 offences which are alleged to have taken place in the Pellon area between 12 February and 10 March.

The 27-year-old man is due to appear at Bradford Magistrates Court on 16 March.

He has been charged with two counts of sexual assault, four counts of outraging public decency and four counts of indecent exposure.

The new Conservative leader of the City of York Council says they made a "pig's ear" out of deciding who should lead the council.

The former Lord Mayor, Councillor Ian Gillies, was voted in as leader last week after a series of arguments about who should take up the role.

The in-fighting began after the former Conservative leader, David Carr, was voted out by his colleagues.

Councillor Ian Gillies says they'll be moving forward on issues that haven't previously been addressed:

Forget yellow snow, it's amber snow now.

Looks like most of West and South Yorkshire is in for a big dollop of the stuff tomorrow.

We'll keep you updated as the picture becomes clearer through the day.

A steam locomotive from the North Yorkshire Moors Railway has arrived in Shropshire after a longer than expected journey.

The Tornado was supposed to travel to the Severn Valley Railway by rail, but got stuck when a bin lorry damaged a bridge along its route at Castleton Moor on Monday.

Image source, Severn Valley Railway

It was transferred to a lorry and has arrived just in time for a steam event at the historic railway tomorrow.

Plans to cut Filey's fishing season by two months are unnecessary according to MP Kevin Hollinrake.

The Environment Agency (EA) says it is worried about the dwindling number of salmon and now wants to reduce the fishing season to help preserve stocks.

The fisherman, who are aiming to catch sea trout, also unintentionally catch some salmon.

But MP Kevin Hollinrake says that the number of salmon to come from the bay are miniscule:

Almost 10,000 people have now signed an online petition calling on the government to save Filey's remaining fisherman.

The petition says: "We believe the EA should work with the local fishermen to find a solution that is sustainable for the community, as well as the environment - and not put an end to generations of fishing heritage in local Yorkshire communities."

Two sixth form students from York have both achieved runner-up status in Engineer of the Year award at a national competition.

Beth Mottram and Sophie Search, from The Mount School's Sixth Form College, entered the Big Bang Competition at the NEC in Birmingham yesterday.

Image source, Mount School York

Sophie designed a wooden pony so children can get used to putting a bridle and saddle on before they try this on a live animal.

She decided to build the piece after learning about how children with autism benefit from interacting with animals.

Beth entered a fold-away dining chair into the Intermediate division after noticing that people had nowhere to sit on their train journey.

Breaking news, sport, travel and weather from across North, South and West Yorkshire.

Almost 692,000 people visited York Minster in 2017, according to the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions (ALVA).

That's an increase of 13% from 2016.

The annual poll placed York Minster at number 51 in the top 237 sites in the United Kingdom.

The Minster recognised that they needed to "take a more active role in York's thriving tourism economy" when they recieved just over 422,000 visitors in 2012.

After protests from relatives of the Hillsborough disaster victims, Top Man is no longer selling a shirt at the centre of the complaints.

The red shirt, bearing the number 96, coincidentally the number of Hillsborough victims, has been condemned as being in bad taste.

BBC News Travel

There are currently nine miles of queues on the M62 eastbound right now around Leeds.

It's slow in places westbound, but shouldn't cause you too much bother.

This is probably why: