A meeting held by Sheffield's tree campaigners today has announced it will be a seeking a new judicial review against Sheffield City Council.

The Sheffield Trees Action Group said it would be seeking the review on the grounds of what it says is Amey's non disclosure of previous health and safety breaches before the contract with Sheffield City Council was signed.

In response we've had this statement from Amey and the Council:

Some good news this afternoon, James Docherty who was reported missing yesterday from the Bradford area has been found safe and well.

West Yorkshire Police say they want to thank everyone who shared our appeal or called in with information.

A new fish ladder at Langsett Reservoir in Stocksbridge means that for the first time in over 100 years, trout will be able to swim upstream in the Little Don River to spawning grounds.

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The fish pass, near Stocksbridge in Barnsley, was funded by Yorkshire Water in partnership with the Environment Agency and will help improve biodiversity.

Planners proposing new housing developments in a string of villages across Barnsley from Cawthorne to Little Houghton have been questioned about why some previously dismissed as unsuitable are now included while a prime contender on an earlier assessment has now been ruled out.

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The apparent anomalies were raised at an examination hearing in front of a Government planning inspector, who will decide whether Barnsley Council's future plans for housing and employment can be adopted as formal policy said the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS).

Achitect Michael Clynch also launched an attack on the council's whole philosophy in assessing villages for potential development. He told the hearing:

A man who has been charged with the murder of his wife in Halifax last November has pleaded not guilty.

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Zbigniew Lasek was charged with the murder of 36-year-old mum-of-three Monika Lasek after she was found with stab wounds at a house on Solstice Way, Illingworth.

The 35-year-old formally entered his not guilty plea this morning at Bradford Crown Court.

Lasek was remanded back into custody, his trial is due to start on 14 May.

Monika Lasek, 36, was found dead by police who were called to Solstice Way in Halifax in November.

BBC Radio Leeds presenter Stephanie Hirst has told of the "utter hell" she went through before undergoing gender reassignment.

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Steph, 42, began hosting the mid-morning show on BBC Radio Leeds earlier this month and began hormone therapy in 2014.

Speaking on BBC Radio Sheffield's Naked Podcast series she said "I wouldn't want to get out of bed. Now I can't wait to get out of bed because I want to live my life,"

The former Capital FM breakfast show host said that she used to feel that "I was in utter hell".

"[I] went to my GP when I was 17 and said to him that I feel like I'm a girl. His words were, 'I strongly recommend you don't take this path in life, you won't have a successful life, you will lose friends and family and all sorts of stuff'."

Have you seen this man?

He's been missing from his home in Bradford since yesterday.

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James Docherty was last seen at about 16:00 on Bradford Road in Bailiff Bridge, walking towards Brighouse.

The 28-year-old is wearing a black jacket, black trousers and red shoes.

He also has links to the Manchester area.

Huddersfield Examiner

Some might say it’s a serious trip hazard but the sight of cables trailing along pavements to charge electric cars will soon be commonplace, it is claimed., external

The Examiner was sent these photos taken on a road in Slaithwaite which show a cable trailing on a path for several car lengths, possibly around 30ft.

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Andrew Barton
BBC Local Live, Yorkshire

How about this for an unlikely group of pals.

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These baby badgers and Phoebe the baby fox have become firm pals after all being rescued and then taken in by the Whitby Wildlife Sanctuary.

The orphans sleep in the same bed, eat from the same bowl and play together.

Alex Farner, founder of the Whitby Wildlife Centre, told me the badgers were found near Meltham in West Yorkshire wandering through a woodland aged just three weeks old.

The baby fox turned up in a box at a vets in Leeds.

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Alex said the people who spotted the badgers watched them for four hours, struggling on a steep bank without mum, who it's thought was killed after being hit by a car.

She says: "They were so young they didn't even have teeth."

"Foxes and badgers would never mix in the wild," she added. "But these three were wild animals without their mothers, all of a similar size and we thought we could place them together as long as we kept a close eye on them."

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Now at six weeks old the fox and badgers are happy and safe to be left playing at sleeping together, but Alex says "they'll be separated when they're older and released back to the wild."

Plans for what will become the largest campsite for tourists in Rotherham have been approved by councillors on a greenbelt site close to Rother Valley country park.

The approval was given even though council officials say the development is technically "inappopriate" said the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS).

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The site off Delves Lane near Wales village includes 129 pitches for caravans and 34 pitches for tents.

Councillors concluded the scheme would have such a positive impact on tourism and the local economy that it constituted "very special circumstances" allowing the green belt rule to be overridden.

A Bristol sculpture firm unveils a two-tonne war horse model, destined for West Yorkshire.

Rotherham council has been criticised by the government Ombudsman over the way it investigated complaints into the charity Swinton Lock which supports CSE survivors, and the woman behind it, Jayne Senior.

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It's after Jayne Senior complained that council officials raided her charity without proper explanation.

She had blown the whistle on how the council, police and social services had failed to deal with the abuse of at least 1,400 children.

The ombudsman found the council delayed investigating the issues, was slow to provide evidence of the complaints and didn't keep the charity regularly informed of progress.

Rotherham Council has now been told it should apologise to both Jayne Senior and the Swinton Lock charitable organisation.

A man who accidentally shot a woman in the vagina during a sex game has had his sentence reduced by appeal judges.

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David Jeffers of Berkley Terrace in Leeds was originally jailed for 10 years last August, he will now serve eight-and-a-half years.

The 48-year-old went on the run after the antique weapon - an antique rat-eliminating shotgun - went off in a hotel bedroom in Stockport.

The woman suffered "catastrophic" internal injuries.

He was traced back to Yorkshire and sent to jail. But the judge at the court of appeal said there were a number of reasons that the original sentence was excessive and the woman was "party to the dangerous act".

Abbie Dewhurst
Weather Presenter, BBC Look North

How did you spend the warmest day of the year so far?

It was hotter than Honolulu in Yorkshire yesterday. Is that going to continue today?

Here's my forecast:

A man from Halifax who was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, meaning he can't eat normal food, is preparing to run the London Marathon this weekend.

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Gary Taylor is planning to run the 26.2 mile race with his feeding tube to show people you can live "a relatively normal life" despite medical challenges.

The 46-year-old electrical engineer was diagnosed with a rare parapharyngeal schwannoma tumour in his neck in 2016.

It turned out to be benign, but the invasive surgery he needed to deal with it meant that Mr Taylor will probably never eat a normal meal again.

There's a warning not to jump into North Yorkshire's rivers during this spell of warm weather.

North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue says it wants to remind people the water will be much colder than expected.

Gary Taylor says he wants to show others they too can live "a relatively normal life".

Actress Dominique Moore visits forests, moors and parkland around Doncaster to find out how young people here are using the countryside.

Rural landscapes in this area tend to be sandwiched between motorways, airports and industrial parks, but there are places to escape for a breath of fresh air, if you look carefully. And in Bawtry Forest, you won't just find trees. You might also bump into a couple of tanks or a helicopter from a film set, at the home of the largest paintballing centre in Europe. Owner Karl Broadbent says that young people think about the outdoor spaces through the prism of the computer games they play at home.

Being tied to a screen can adversely affect your mental health, according to young graduates Megan Humphries and Helen Earnshaw, who are part of the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust's 'Tomorrow's Natural Leaders' scheme. They are setting up an eco-therapy project to enable people to improve their mental well-being in the outdoors at the Trust's Potteric Carr Reserve.

Dominique also meets 19 year old Suzanne Lines, an apprentice with Flying Futures, at Hatfield Moor. Learning survival skills on the National Citizen's Service course helped her discover a passion for the outdoors which she had never suspected. Now she leads groups of young people in alternative provision education, building fires and searching for adders on the Moor.

The last visit is to meet the lions at Yorkshire Wildlife Park, which hosts 'ranger' training for young people on week-long courses in animal husbandry. The large carnivores are always popular with teenagers, according to Rachel Ford. But it's a shock for Dominique to go behind the scenes and visit the Meat Store. Hand-feeding the wallabies, on the other hand, is hard to resist.

The reigning Olympic Champion Greg Van Avermaet is the latest star rider to confirm he'll take part in this year's Tour de Yorkshire next month.

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One of cycling's biggest names, Mark Cavendish, will also make his return to the sport from injury at the race which starts in Beverley.

Cavendish has won 30 stages of the Tour de France.

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Reigning Tour de Yorkshire champion Serge Pauwels will be back to defend his title this year.

The Belgian has just completed the Tour of the Basque Country, and says the winning the race here is one of the highlights of his career.

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Retired 2016 victor Thomas Voeckler will also be present in an ambassadorial role.

The race starts in Beverley on May 3, 2018.