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Paul Hudson
Weather presenter, BBC Look North
May was the sunniest on record since UK records began in 1929.
Image source, Tim GreenYorkshire also saw records broken:
Bradford's Lister Park saw the most sunshine since records began there in 1908.
Sheffield's Weston Park was also the warmest it's ever been, with records there dating back to 1882.
Oli Constable
BBC Yorkshire Live
Bowling or paint balling seem pretty tame if you compare them to this next activity.
Axe throwing could become the new way to spend your stag or hen do, with a new centre opening up at the Sheaf Business Park in the city.
Valhalla Sheffield, the operators, say it's perfectly safe:
A man charged with the murder of a 73-year-old woman who was stabbed to death at her home has been remanded in custody.
Image source, Family photoThe body of Jill Hibberd was found in the living room of a house in Roy Kilner Road, in Wombwell, near Barnsley, on Thursday.
Lee Trevor Fueloep, 40, of Willow Garth in Wombwell, appeared at Barnsley Magistrates' Court charged with murder, theft and burglary.
He was remanded in custody and is due at Sheffield Crown Court on Thursday.
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Lee Fueloep, 40, is accused of killing a 73-year-old woman at a house near Barnsley.
Read MoreA couple were threatened with a knife by three armed men at their home in Brighouse in the early hours of Sunday morning.
Image source, GoogleIt happened on a cul-de-sac in Bailiff Bridge at 04:40.
The man who lives there saw the men looking at cars on their drive, then one of them broke in through the front door, threatened the couple and told him to hand over car keys.
The masked men left with nothing after the couple told them they'd called the police.
Quote MessageThis was a serious offence in which the victims were threatened at knife point in their own home"
Det Insp Toby Facey, West Yorkshire Police
Leeds' double Olympic champion Alistair Brownlee has withdrawn from Sunday's World Triathlon Series in Leeds because of injury.
Image source, Getty ImagesThe 30-year-old from Bramhope would have been going for his third win in his hometown but said he has "had a few niggles".
"I won't be able to compete to the best of my ability," the two-time world champion said.
Brownlee was England's flagbearer at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, winning silver in the mixed team relay.
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A sports and social club in Selby has been damaged by vandals.
Image source, GooglePaper had been set on fire and then posted through the letter box and a traffic cone was thrown through a window.
It happened at Selby Railway Sports and Social Club on Station Road overnight between 31 May and 1 June.
Police are asking anyone with information to get in touch.
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The M18 link road leading to the M1 Northbound has re-opened following an accident earlier this morning.
The road was closed whilst police investigated the crash.
Highways England says delays have now cleared along the route:
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Damian Siwek was arrested on Saturday over the incident in Beeston on 26 April, said police.
Read MoreA Grade II listed building in Doncaster could face being demolished due to its "poor state of repair", according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.
Image source, GoogleDoncaster Council said it will conduct a structural investigation to determine the future of St James' Baths in Waterdale after the roof collapsed.
The investigation will help the council decide if the listed building can be refurbished or whether an application to de-list the building will be made.
Historic England said "detailed investigations are needed" to understand the level of corrosion to the steel frame over the pool hall, the pool tank and the subway tunnel.
The investigation and repair work is expected to cost the council £300,000.
The situation faced by passengers using Northern rail services is "totally unacceptable", Downing Street has said.
Image source, Stephen Nobel/Tom Bitcliffe/Keiran TraffordRail passengers are still facing cancellations despite changes to combat major disruption caused by new timetables introduced last month.
Northern has brought in a temporary timetable that removes 165 train services a day until 29 July.
However, more than 100 trains were still cancelled or severely delayed.
Labour councillors in York say they fear the city's heroin problem will only get worse because of financial cuts to the teams which help people with addictions.
It follows the revelation York has higher rates of death among heroin and morphine users than many larger cities.
The latest figures show it's almost double the national average in York.
Michael Pavlovic, a former probation officer, says he fears the cuts will have much wider implications:
A train operator is to use trains with no wheelchair access on a major route across northern England.
Read MoreA man has appeared in court after a four-year-old girl was picked up and carried away from her mum on a Leeds street.
Image source, GoogleIt happened in April on Lodge Lane in Beeston.
Damian Siwek, 35 of Harlech Avenue in Beeston, was arrested on Saturday and was charged with kidnap today.
He appeared at Leeds Magistrates' Court and was remanded in custody.
He is due to appear at Leeds Crown Court on 2 July for a further hearing.
Rotherham United boss Paul Warne signs a new three-year deal with the promoted League One side.
Read MoreA man is in a critical condition after his car crashed into a tree in North Yorkshire.
Image source, GoogleThe collision happened on Saturday in the Suffield area of Scarborough.
A silver BMW, driven by a local man in his 20s, hit the tree on Swang Road (pictured).
Police say no other vehicles were involved.
Emergency crews had to recover the man from the badly damaged car.
He was airlifted to Hull Royal Infirmary, where officers say he remains in a "critical but stable condition".
The newly-elected mayor of Sheffield City Region has called for a ban on bikes on trams to be overturned, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.
Image source, RAIBDan Jarvis said he did not understand why travel operator Stagecoach had the rule in place.
Currently only folding bikes can be taken on the Sheffield Supertram network.
Stagecoach said space and safety reasons prevented them accepting "unsecured traditional bikes".
Mr Jarvis said: "I will be raising my concerns and asking questions about why it is that in other parts of the country people can take their bike onto the tram, but you can't do that here.
"I'll be expecting a very good reason why you can't do that and if there isn't, I expect a change of policy."
A major scheme aiming to combat the threat of another devastating flood in York is due to be considered later.
Image source, City of York CouncilThe idea is to slow the flow of the River Foss after heavy rain by creating huge flood storage areas upstream.
It's hoped the scheme could help prevent a repeat of floods like those of December 2015.
About 850,000 cubic metres of water, the equivalent of 340 Olympic-sized swimming pools, could be slowed and held back by lagoons.
Andrew Waller, City of York Council's executive member for the environment, says the aim is to look at the way the whole of the Foss flows, rather than just focusing on the stretch through York.
The managing director of rail operator Northern says it could take months for train services to get back to normal.
Image source, NorthernThe company has introduced an emergency timetable today after hundreds of delays and cancellations over the last two weeks.
Managing director David Brown has also apologised for the "very poor start" admitting the company has been cancelling "far too many trains" and "inconveniencing far too many people".
Northern says it is now trying to stabilise things.:
Quote MessageThis is not a quick fix. We've put this interim timetable in for eight weeks. We hope to see and I'm sure we will see progressive improvement over that period of time."
David Brown, Managing Director, Northern