Whether it be a case of celebration or commiseration, police in South Yorkshire are urging football fans not to drive after taking alcohol or drugs.

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With many pubs and venues showing live matches, South Yorkshire Safer Roads Partnership is reminding road users not to mix drink or drugs with driving or riding.

As well as warning people about the physical consequences of collisions, they're also stressing the lasting impact that drink and drug driving has, both on the lives of victims and their families, and on the drivers themselves.

A leading police officer in South Yorkshire says the community at large is subsidising rich football clubs.

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Deputy Chief Constable Mark Roberts is also the National Police Chiefs' Council lead on football policing.

He says the cost of policing matches needs to be looked at because clubs aren't required by law to pay enough towards match-day crowd control and deploying officers on roads near grounds:

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Mr Roberts says football clubs make a great deal of money, whereas police resources are finite, meaning there are fewer officers to deal with non-footballing issues.

Plans to expand a holiday park in a village between York and Selby have been approved despite hundreds of objections, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.

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The Escrick Estate has been granted planning permission to convert six hectares of woodland into an extended Hollicarrs holiday park, with 67 new caravans or lodges.

Selby Councillors heard many of the 800 objections came through an online campaign by the Woodland Trust.

The planning committee voted unanimously to grant permission, and Councillor John Deans, whose Derwent ward covers the area, said: "The site will be well screened and not visible from the A19.

"The holiday development will be good for the area," he added.

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A pensioner who was killed in her own home last week ran a Sheffield massage parlour, the Barnsley Chronicle has learned, external.

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A new football league has started up in Rotherham, for men with bigger waistlines.

It's called MAN v FAT, external and it's for men who want to lose weight.

Rotherham United's community arm has set up the league, which is decided not just on points won, but also pounds lost:

Blaine Wakeman gave investigators fake invoices to cover up losses from his two sports companies.

It's been revealed 280 sheep were killed and 292 injured in dog attacks in the four years between 2013 and 2017.

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The figures come as a series of proposals to tackle the impact of livestock worrying in a national park has been unveiled.

The North York Moors National Park Authority, external is considering a number of measures including the use of social media.

Park authority officers say they believe the number of incidents "could be even higher" and a plan to encourage farmers to log incidents is also among the recommendations.

To further reinforce the campaign, the committee will also consider using positive messages, rather than shock images of dead livestock, as research has found dog owners do not associate those images with their family pet.

The Hillsborough Family Support Group is surprised that it was not consulted by the Labour Party ahead of it announcing support for 'safe standing' at the larger football stadiums in England.

Margaret Aspinall said that it was a "sensitive time" with ongoing legal action, but most families of the victims "don't want standing ever brought back".

Clubs in England's top two tiers have been required by law to be all-seater since the 1989 Hillsborough disaster:

A crowdfunding campaign is under way to help pay for a legal challenge against the licensing of strip clubs in Sheffield.

It's being backed by a number of equals rights' groups.

Campaigners claim Sheffield City Council didn't consider gender inequality in its new licensing policy, which sets no limit on the number of sexual entertainment venue licenses that could be granted.

It's being seen as a test case for other councils, too.

The campaign is supported by Sammy Woodhouse, an outspoken survivor of child sexual exploitation in Rotherham, who went on to work as a lap-dancer:

Controversy is surrounding a Christian retreat's plans to bulldoze buildings beside a Grade II listed chapel in the Yorkshire Dales, that's according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.

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The Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority's planning committee, external is set to consider an application by the Scargill Movement, a Christian community in Wharfedale, near Kettlewell.

It wants to transform its 35 person retreat and has applied to demolish several of the site's buildings and replace them with new ones, including one with "an overtly contemporary design".

The movement said the changes are "vital to the centre's viability".

But heritage bosses are investigating whether more buildings at the site should be listed.

The Twentieth Century Society, a British charity which campaigns for the preservation of architectural heritage, is concerned over the potential loss of heritage buildings there and the effect it would have on the grade II listed chapel.

A school which was facing closure and merger with another school has been allowed to join an academies trust instead.

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Leeds City Council had planned to shut Boston Spa Academy and merge it with nearby Wetherby High School.

The government has now granted an "academy order", allowing the Boston Spa school to join The Gorse Academies Trust (TGAT).

Principal Christopher Walsh said he was "thrilled" the plan had been endorsed.

North Yorkshire Police have issued an urgent appeal to find a missing 15-year-old boy.

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Taylor Hamil was last seen at about 06:30 this morning in the Selby area.

Officers say they are "extremely concerned" for his safety and are appealing to anyone who has seen him or knows where he is to contact them.

Taylor is described as white, 5ft 7in tall and has short brown hair.

He has a distinctive burn scar on the back of his left hand.

A crash in which a 21-year-old woman died in Rotherham may have been seen by a crucial witness, external, police say.

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A car and a van collided on Kingsforth Lane near Thurcroft last month, the car driver died.

Officers think a woman driving a black Ford Mondeo estate or a similar vehicle may be able to help in the investigation.

The crash happened at about 12:00 on Friday 25 May.

This stuck puss in Scarborough doesn't know the script - it's a tree firefighters rescue trapped cats from, not roofs!

Luckily it all seemed to end well and Hebar is said to be (wait for it) ... feline fine.

A main route in Leeds is set to be closed for a third day after a sink hole appeared causing a water leak.

The A660 Otley Road in closed in both directions because of the broken pipe and a large sinkhole, between the B6157 North Lane and Victoria Road.

Yorkshire Water has been working since yesterday morning to fix the problem and now says that it hopes to reopen the road sometime tomorrow.

Police got just the lucky break they needed when a wanted man accidentally pocket dialled 999:

The 27-year-old man was wanted on immigration offences.

He made the call from his mobile phone and police used specialist techniques to track him down.

Officers were then able to zero in on his location in Manningham in Bradford.

The suffragette links to post boxes, meeting halls and prisons are added to the heritage list.

A memorial to a policeman who was stabbed through the heart after stopping to help a teenage hitchhiker looks set to finally be erected, 41 years after his death.

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Plans have been submitted for a stone dedication with gold lettering to be placed in Richmond Market Square, to honour murdered DC Norman Garnham, the first North Yorkshire Police officer to be killed in the line of duty.

He died in March 1977, two weeks after becoming a detective, after completing his shift as he drove home.

Hitchhiker Colin Simpson, 18, had run away from his home in Richmond after attacking his sisters, and DC Garnham pulled over to give him a lift.

Simpson recognised DC Garnham and stabbed the 25-year-old police officer as he tried to detain him.

Speaking about the memorial, Richmond county councillor, Stuart Parsons, said: "It's time this was done, he's had no memorial in all these years.

"The memorial will remind people that tragedy can strike in a beautiful and tranquil place such as Richmond."

A Dewsbury woman who was the first woman home in the Channel swimming race of 1950 is celebrating her 90th birthday.

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Eileen Fenton was 22-year-old and just 5ft tall when she conquered the freezing waters of the Channel and became a national hero.

Her story attracted enormous coverage and more than 10,000 people welcomed her home at the end of the race.

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A man arrested after another man's death in Leeds has been released without charge.

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A 31-year-old man was found collapsed on Mexborough Avenue in Chapeltown on Wednesday.

An ambulance was called but he was pronounced dead a short time later.

Officers say a post mortem took place yesterday but proved inconclusive, they also say the death is not being treated as suspicious.