A North Yorkshire lottery winner is the driving force behind a series of charity singles which are motoring their way up the iTunes chart.

Image source, National Lottery

Susan Herdman who lives near Borougbridge is an autograss racing champion who has seen family members affected by cancer.

She's roped together racers from across the UK to form a band called Autograss Allstars.

So far they've raised almost £30,000 for Cancer Research UK, which is six-times higher than their original target.

More equipment, due to be used to drill for shale gas in North Yorkshire, will be moved away from a site this week.

Image source, PA

Third Energy wants to frack at an existing well in Kirby Misperton, but is still waiting for formal approval from the government.

A protest camp which was set up in 2016 after the company was granted planning permission to frack at the site was dismantled earlier this month.

Protesters claim that fracking is dangerous and say despite the camp's removal they will maintain a presence at the entrance to the site.

Third Energy said equipment will return to the site if and when final consent is received from the government to carry out the operation.

West Yorkshire Police seized a consignment of drugs hidden in brown cardboard boxes on the M1 in Leeds.

The vehicle was stolen from the West Midlands and officers were congratulated by senior officer Tim Kingsman for not damaging any police vehicles in the process!

If you're going steal a load of copper piping best not draw attention to yourself by driving without number plates:

Kylie has entered the world safely.

She's one of hundreds of lambs that have been born at Cannon Hall Farm, external in Barnsley recently.

The farm is a popular visitor attraction, praised recently by Welcome to Yorkshire for its appeal to tourists.

It's been carrying an online video stream of ewes giving birth.

Sheffield City Council is to call a temporary halt to its tree replacement work, the BBC understands.

Image source, PA

Campaigners say the council has cut down a number of healthy trees among the thousands felled since 2012.

The BBC's Dino Sofos told the Daily Politics show there would be "no felling for the next few weeks" while those involved discussed the issue.

The news comes after Environment Secretary Michael Gove said he would do "anything required" to stop the work.

Police say the death of a woman who was found in a house in Leeds is not being treated as suspicious.

Emergency crews were called out to Gipton in the early hours of yesterday morning.

The 28-year-old woman was pronounced dead at the scene and her death is being treated as an unexpected sudden death, despite speculation on social media.

Bradford City goalkeeper Colin Doyle explains how a fry-up helped him get through two games in less than 24 hours.

Huddersfield Examiner

Two suspected off-road bikers, neither wearing helmets, were injured after smashing into the back of a car, external on the busy Leeds Road in Huddersfield.

Image source, Huddersfield Examiner

Here's a look at the new stand at Yorkshire County Cricket Club which is now beginning to take shape.

The scheme includes the installation of floodlights and the rebuilding of the North/South Stand, adjoining the rugby ground, which will become the centrepiece of the project.

The capacity of the cricket ground will increase from 17,000 to 20,000 in the redevelopment.

And if you really want to make sure work is on schedule you can watch the webcam, external of the work live.

South Yorkshire is getting more than £1.3m from the government to help pay for pothole repairs.

Sheffield won't be getting any of the money as it has a separate project that's been going on for a number of years worth £1.2bn under a Private Finance Initiative.

The three other councils in South Yorkshire, Doncaster, Barnsley and Rotherham, will use the latest money to repair roads damaged by recent storms and cold weather.

The brother of a teenage girl who police believe was murdered by Peter Pickering 53 years ago says the so-called Beast Of Wombwell must have committed other serious offences, possibly including further killings.

Image source, Other

Pickering,who died on Saturday, had been locked up for more than 45 years following his killing of 14-year-old Shirley Boldy in the Barnsley area of South Yorkshire in 1972.

Announcing his death, West Yorkshire Police confirmed he was expected to be charged with the murder of another 14-year-old, Elsie Frost, whose body was found in Wakefield in 1965.

Image source, West Yorkshire Police

More roadworks began in York this morning.

City of York Council is replacing traffic signals on Hull Road.

Image source, Google

Officials say the job, which will run until mid-April, has been timed to take place during the Easter holidays although no work will be carried out over the Easter Bank Holiday weekend.

It follows works on the inner ring road near York's railway station and at Crockey Hill on the A19.

The man in charge of ten schools in Leeds says the eyes of central government are not on the North.

Sir John Townsley's comments come after England's Children's Commissioner Anne Longfield said that children from poorer homes face an education gap that starts before school and widens over time.

Image source, Getty Images

Sir John, chief executive of The Gorse Academies Trust, said children from disadvantaged backgrounds needed high expectations of them, alongside a high quality education.

The commissioners' report - Growing Up North, Look North: A generation of children await the powerhouse promise - is based on 12 months of research and conversations with children, schools, businesses, councils, health professionals and charities.

It says that while many children growing up in the North are thriving, there are huge gaps between the poorest children in the North and the poorest in London.

A legal case over a boy excluded from scouting will improve the organisation, according to his family's lawyer.

Chris Fry is based in Sheffield and represented the 11-year-old boy's family in the case.

As a result £42,000 in compensation has reportedly been given for discrimination.

The case was brought after Ben Gleeson joined the 10th Harpenden Scout Group in January 2015 - but was told he could not attend camps or participate in certain activities without supervision.

The scout group disputed a number of the family's claims, but the Scout Association told the BBC the handling of the case was completely unacceptable.

West Yorkshire Police say they will be seeking justice for Elsie Frost from Wakefield who was murdered in 1965.

Image source, PA

Peter Pickering was "strongly suspected" as the man believed to be responsible for her death, but died at the weekend.

Dubbed the "Beast of Wombwell", Pickering was detained under a hospital order after admitting stabbing and strangling 14-year-old Shirley Boldy in Wombwell, near Barnsley, in 1972.

Last week he was convicted of raping a woman weeks before killing Shirley Boldy and was waiting to be sentenced.

Det Supt Nick Wallen, from West Yorkshire Police said they will be speaking to the coroner in a hope to get some closure for Elsie's family.

York and North Yorkshire are to get more than £3.5m to pay for emergency pothole repairs, the government has announced.

It's part of an additional £100m being announced by transport secretary Chris Grayling, following the "unusually prolonged spell of freezing weather" which has caused damage to roads.

The money will help to repair almost two million potholes and protect roads from further poor weather conditions.

Do you recognise these men? They're being sought by police after a bird of prey's nest was disturbed and shots were heard in part of North Yorkshire last year.

Image source, North Yorkshire Police

Image source, North Yorkshire Police

Disturbance to the adult goshawks was caused at the nesting site in Ryedale on a number of occasions in spring 2017, and shots were heard being fired on two occasions, police say.

It is not known if any birds were shot, but the nesting attempt failed and this may have been a result of the repeated disturbance at the site.

One suspect has been interviewed under caution in connection with the incident, but police say they'd like to speak to the two men in the pictures above as they may have important information.

Work done by the University of Sheffield has led to a "groundbreaking" method of producing titanium which opens up major military opportunities.

Image source, University of Sheffield

Titanium is as strong as steel but is only half the weight.

At present it costs ten times more than steel to make, but the new process - which reduces the manufacturing process from 10 stages to two - could cut productions costs in half.

Cutting the cost of manufacture could lead to titanium being used in submarines, improving resistance to corrosion. Another use could be in making armoured vehicles.

More work beyond the initial trials will now be done by scientists at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory in Porton Down.

A North Yorkshire man's warning people about the dangers of leaving drinks unattended after being drugged on a night out.

Ryan Edwards, from Harrogate, was in a club with friends when someone spiked his drink with Xanax, which is prescribed for treating anxiety.

He says he can't remember how he got home, but says he felt so bad the next day he got a friend to take him to hospital.

He's now urging drinkers on a night out to be aware: