A plan to give Yorkshire more devolved powers is backed by 18 of the region's 20 councils.

Police have issued a picture of a man they want to interview after three high powered cars and cash were stolen in Leeds:

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The theft happened last month on Kirkdale Crescent, when a house was broken into.

The burglar took the cash and an Audi RSQ3, Audi A3 S-line, which was later recovered in Bradford by police, and a Toyota HiLUX.

A bill, which is being discussed in the Commons today, would introduce paid parental bereavement leave of at least two weeks for parents grieving the loss of a child.

Kevin Hollinrake, the Conservative MP for Thirsk and Malton, has sponsored the Parental Bereavement Bill, which is due to have its third reading today:

Thieves drove a JCB into a wall in order to remove a cash machine.

It happened at the Co-op petrol station, on Worksop Road in Sheffield, just before 03:00.

The cash machine was loaded into a white Transit van and driven away, police said.

Councillors and dignitaries will receive a free meal at the Scarborough mayoral inauguration.

Police have issued pictures of men they want to speak to, after a group allegedly started shouting racist abuse on a train between Leeds and Sheffield.

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The men, who police believe to be Leeds United fans, were loudly chanting football songs.

Passengers later reported them to British Transport Police, external, claiming the group were also racially abusive.

Huddersfield's MPs have been reacting to the news that the health secretary says "further action" should be taken before plans to downgrade Huddersfield Royal Infirmary go ahead.

Jeremy Hunt said an independent review of the plans had found "a wide variety of failings", according to a letter sent to the Calderdale and Kirklees Joint Health Scrutiny Committee, external.

The review cast doubts over whether the plan was deliverable, whether cuts to hospital bed numbers were justified and whether the money was available to pay for the plans.

This is what two of the town's MPs have been saying:

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Trains on the Settle Carlisle rail line are being disrupted after a vehicle struck a bridge at Culgaith.

Traffic near Langwathby station is also being delayed.

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt urges a rethink of plans to downgrade Huddersfield Royal Infirmary.

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York hasn't done enough to get people out of hospital with the care they need, the social care boss of City of York Council has admitted, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.

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Martin Farran, director of adult social care, has told senior councillors the whole system hasn't been effective at getting people home from hospital - with a "catastrophic effect" on older people in particular.

It comes after senior councillors in the city agreed to put another £1.2m into social care work.

The money will be used to try and stop bed-blocking, which is when older people are stuck in hospital with nowhere else to go.

The leader of Leeds City Council has hit back at claims that a plan for a Yorkshire-wide devolution plan doesn't make economic sense.

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Judith Blake is trying to convince the government to back the "One Yorkshire idea", but former minister Lord Jim O'Neill has said the smaller Leeds City Region deal is a better option.

She doesn't think Lord O'Neill, who's now at the Northern Powerhouse Partnership, has damaged One Yorkshire.

In fact, she says it's more damaging for the Northern Powerhouse:

A suspected World War Two shell's been discovered in a river in Barnsley.

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Officers were called to the river next to Old Mill Lane at about 09:45 this morning after the discovery of the device.

Specialist officers are at the scene to examine the shell and Old Mill Lane currently remains closed in both directions.

Wakefield Road is also closed at the junction with Old Mill Lane.

Sheffield United release striker Clayton Donaldson and make seven players available for transfer.

Hundreds of people have been lining the streets of Northallerton as staff from RAF Leeming parade through the town.

It's part of a special event to celebrate the Freedom of the County Town and 100 years of the Royal Air Force.

There are also various stands displaying equipment used by the RAF and a flypast of Hawk aircraft from 100 Squadron, based at RAF Leeming, is also due to take place.

David Arthurton, the base's Station Commander, says the RAF has "a real affinity" for Northallerton.

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Transpennine Express and Northern Trains services are suspended between Doncaster and Scunthorpe and Doncaster and Goole due to a signalling problem:

The Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has called for a rethink of plans to downgrade Huddersfield Royal Infirmary.

In a letter, external, to Calderdale and Kirklees Joint Health Scrutiny Committee, he said the proposals aren't in the best interests of local people:

Image source, Cllr Adam Wilkinson

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Sheffield is the only place in the UK where the gold edition of their album is for sale.

The health secretary says "further action" should be taken before plans to downgrade Huddersfield Royal Infirmary go ahead.

Mr Hunt said an independent review of the plans had found "a wide variety of failings", according to a letter sent to the Calderdale and Kirklees Joint Health Scrutiny Committee, external.

The review cast doubts over whether the plan was deliverable, if cuts to hospital bed numbers were justified and if the money was available to pay for the plans.

Mr Hunt has asked for an update on the situation in three months.

Tommy Charlton is set to become the third member of his family to represent his country, when he plays for England's walking football team.

The 72-year-old, from Rotherham, is the younger brother of Sir Bobby , 80, and Jack, 83.

Now he will make his own England debut in the first walking football internationals, external on Sunday.

He was just 20 when he watched his two elder brothers help England beat West Germany in the 1966 World Cup final.

The grandfather-of-six was forced to retire from amateur football at 24 due to an injury.

He now plays for the Mature Millers walking football club, external and earned his own international call-up after impressing during a trial at Burnley in March.