Famous Manchester band James, who had huge success with their single Sit Down, will play Scarborough Open Air Theatre this summer, it's been announced.

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The band, led by singer Tim Booth (pictured), who have sold more than 25 million records worldwide, will play Europe's largest open-air theatre on 18 August.Formed in 1982, James took almost a decade to achieve fame. At one point, the band submitted themselves for medical experiments just to stay afloat.

Their breakthrough came with the student disco anthem Sit Down in 1991, and the band were swept along with the Madchester scene that also produced Happy Mondays and The Stone Roses.

The news follows announcements of Britney Spears, Lionel Richie and Noel Gallagher playing the venue this summer.

Justice has been "snatched away" from the family of a murdered Wakefield schoolgirl after the man believed to be responsible for her death died at the weekend, police have said.

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Peter Pickering (pictured), 80, was "strongly suspected" of murdering Wakefield schoolgirl Elsie Frost in 1965, police say.

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 it's "almost like at the eleventh hour justice has been snatched away" from Elsie Frost's family.

Elsie's brother and sister, who have worked with police over the last two years, experienced a day of "disbelief and anger" when Pickering's death was announced, said Det Supt Wallen.

He added the level of evidence police found led to "very strong belief" Peter Pickering was responsible for the murder of Elsie.

He says police were "very hopeful" that within the next few weeks the Crown Prosecution Service was going to announce Pickering was to be charged with her murder.

Mick Lunney
BBC Local Live, Sheffield

Doing up a house can cost a heck of a lot: The heating system, the kitchen, new flooring and so on.

However, the bill of about £200m to restore South Yorkshire's Grade I-listed Wentworth Woodhouse takes that to new heights.

The scale of the work to be done on the listed building is enormous, with 365 rooms together with a facade wider than that of Buckingham Palace.

Parts of the house are in an extremely bad state, as I found out when I had a look round the place last year when the estimated bill was already £100m:

The plan for the site now is fluid: there'll almost certainly be a visitor experience, definitely an event location and probably some of it will be converted into homes.

A Leeds support service which helps men and women who hurt members of their own family is facing the threat of closure.

The STOP service, which stands for Start Treating Others Positively, could shut as early as next week because it's lost its premises.

Crystal, who uses the service, says closure would be a disaster for her and others like her.

She says she attends the group because she beat her own children:

A car has crashed into an estate agent's window in Sheffield.

Hunters Bar roundabout is currently closed in both directions after the vehicle crashed into Hunters Estate Agents on Ecclesall Road.

Police are advising drivers to avoid the area.

Too many children growing up in the north of England are facing the double disadvantage of entrenched deprivation and poor schools, a report warns.

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England's Children's Commissioner Anne Longfield says children from poorer homes face an education gap that starts before school and widens over time.

She calls for greater investment for struggling families and a scheme to boost teacher recruitment in the North.

The government says it has committed £70m to improve schools in the region.

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.

Investigations are continuing after 246 piglets and sows died in a barn blaze in North Yorkshire at the weekend.

Fire crews were called to a farm in Normanby, near Pickering, at about 12:30 on Saturday.

Crews managed to save 20 piglets and two sows.

About 20 firefighters tackled the blaze, which is believed to have started due to an electrical fault, North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service said.

Crews from Kirkbymoorside, Pickering, Helmsley and Malton were sent to the scene and it took nearly six hours to control the flames.

The building was completely destroyed.

Doncaster Sheffield Airport has announced its first ever long-haul flight.

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A direct route to Orlando in Florida will be added to the airport's timetable from next summer, as part of their latest plans for growth.

There'll also be four other new routes: to Turkey, Greece, Croatia and Egypt.

The announcement comes just days after plans were revealed for a new railway station at the airport.

A man has been charged in connection with a child sexual grooming investigation in North Yorkshire after being reported by self-styled paedophile hunters.

The 53-year-old man was arrested near Scarborough railway station at about 11:45 on Saturday after members of the so-called "paedophile hunter group" confronted him.

A 14-year-old girl the man was allegedly trying to meet did not exist, according to North Yorkshire Police.

The man has been charged with attempting to meet and have sexual activity with a girl following online grooming and is due to appear before magistrates in York later.

Strike action is affecting rail services across Yorkshire today.

Members of the RMT union at rail operator Northern are walking out for 24 hours in a long-running dispute over the role of guards on trains.

Around half of Northern services are expected to run.

You can check below to see if your train is running on time from our main stations:

• York Station, external
• Leeds Station, external
• Sheffield Station, external
• Doncaster Station, external
• Wakefield Westgate, external
• Bradford Forster Square, external
• Bradford Interchange, external

It will be mainly dry and fine today with spells of sunshine, turning hazy through the afternoon.

Tonight, it'll stay dry with spells of rain pushing in from the west:

A convicted child rapist who was being investigated over the murder of a Wakefield schoolgirl in 1965 has died in jail.

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Peter Pickering, known as the "Beast of Wombwell", stabbed and strangled 14-year-old Shirley Boldy in Wombwell, near Barnsley, in 1972 and was suspected of murdering Wakefield schoolgirl Elsie Frost in 1965.

The 80-year-old died on Saturday night after falling ill in secure accommodation in Berkshire and his death is not being treated as suspicious.

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