Oliver Gildart scores two tries as Wigan beat Castleford to keep up the pressure on Super League leaders St Helens.

Salford Red Devils score six second-half tries as they thrash Wakefield to move above them in the Super League table.

Yorkshire recover from a tricky first session to gain the upper hand against Nottinghamshire on day one at Headingley.

Yorkshire's top stories today include:

• Man who shot woman in sex game has sentence reduced
• Rotherham Council told to apologise to abuse whistleblower
• Man pleads not guilty to murdering wife in Halifax
• Orphaned badgers and fox best of pals
• BBC Radio Leeds presenter talks of 'utter hell'

A new centre called The Sanctuary opened today in Sheffield to help refugees get support following the controversial closure of the Northern Refugee centre two years ago.

MP Paul Blomfield and Charles Obiri who was born in Nigeria cut a ribbon at the site on Chapel Walk.

City of Sanctuary Sheffield took over the lease of the building following a public appeal that raised £70,000 to refurbish the premises and pay the first year’s rent and running costs.

Eleven years ago, Sheffield became the first place in the UK to be given the status of City of Sanctuary for refugees. There are currently around 800 people seeking asylum in the city.

Police have released this picture after a 62-year-old woman was robbed on the streets of Doncaster.

Image source, South Yorkshire police

It happened last month as the woman was walking along Beckett Road when a man grabbed her bag, she fell and suffered minor injuries.

The bag was found on Wheatley Hall Road with a small amount of cash missing.

Officers want to talk to the person in the image above, if you can help them call 101.

There are calls today for local councils in West Yorkshire to use renewable energy in their buildings.

Figures from a Freedom of Information request from Green energy firm, Bulb, claim councils in Yorkshire are spending £83m a year on gas and electricity and that all the money is going to the "big six" energy firms.

Kirklees and Wakefield are among the highest spending district councils in the country.

Kirklees says it questions the figures in the report, while Wakefield council says it will consider switching to green energy in the future, if it's good value for money.

Bradford Telegraph and Argus

A beggar from Baildon who harassed members of the public for money in Shipley has been given a Criminal Behaviour Order., external

Image source, Bradford Telegraph and Argus

Jayne Senior, who exposed the child sex abuse scandal, is being investigated by Rotherham council.

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Oh dear, this isn't good news at all:

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Looks like it's slow going around Leeds tonight:

Rotherham United midfielder Joe Newell signs a one-year contract extension with the League One side.

Police are appealing for witnesses after a man suffered serious injuries when his motorcycle collided with a lorry on a major route near Leeds.

It happened at 09:30 yesterday morning on the A61 at Harewood.

The rider, a 21-year-old man from Leeds, suffered serious head and chest injuries and was taken to the Leeds General Infirmary.

The 47-year-old driver of the lorry, also from Leeds, escaped injury but was left shocked.

Witnesses to the collision or anyone who remembers seeing either the blue and white motorcycle or the white HGV, prior to the incident, are urged to call North Yorkshire Police.

A superintendent with South Yorkshire Police says almost £50,000 pounds was spent in one month policing the tree protests in Sheffield, a similar amount as the cost for two football matches.

Officers have been meeting with members of the Sheffield Tree Action Group which has been attempting to run what it calls mediation talks with the police and Sheffield City Council while the tree felling programme is on hold.

The Council said they were unable to take part in politically sensitive discussions during the pre-election period. Deputy Chief Constable Mark Roberts spoke to us after the meeting:

A man who shot a woman in the vagina in a sex game gone wrong has had his 10-year jail sentence reduced.

Image source, Greater Manchester Police/Google

David Andrew Jeffers, 48, and the 46-year-old were engaged in sexual activity with a shotgun, which went off at a Stockport hotel in January 2017.

Jeffers fled home to Leeds, leaving the victim with "catastrophic" injuries.

He has had his sentence for possessing a gun with intent to endanger life reduced to eight years and six months by the Court of Appeal.

A trio of cubs have formed an unlikely bond which would not usually be seen in the wild.

A Sheffield engineering firm has told the BBC it could double its turnover within a year, if it were able to recruit enough skilled workers.

Image source, Straaltechniek

Straaltechniek UK says the shortage of engineers is so bad, it's having to turn work down or subcontract it to companies outside the region.

Other Yorkshire firms are warning of similar problems.

A man has told a court he used to have sex with his fiance on an area of land near to where a 16-year-old girl was raped in 1997.

Image source, PA

Anthony Mottram, 49, of Weeland Road, Sharlston Common, Wakefield, was found to be a match for DNA found at the scene of the attack in Bradford.

He said he and Paula Watson, who he later married, would sometimes take walks on the land in Fairweather Green.

Mr Mottram denies raping and indecently assaulting the 16-year-old.

The trial continues.

Anthony Mottram denies the attack on a teenager in Fairweather Green in 1997.

A mother from Leeds is running the London Marathon this weekend in memory of her son who died from brain cancer two years ago.

Image source, Teenage Cancer Trust

Carly Baraclough is running for her son Bradley (pictured together), who died two weeks before his 16th birthday from Glioblastoma, an aggressive form of cancer within the brain stem.

On what would have been his 18th birthday last year, Carly decided to do three challenges in his memory, starting with the Three Peaks Challenge.

She followed it up with the Great North Run and now the London Marathon. Training has been difficult but she says the memory of her son and the fact that she is doing this in his memory has kept her going through training.