Kirklees Council is asking people who use the A629 between Edgerton and the M62 to have their say on plans to alter the road.

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A variety of proposals, external including changing junctions and banning on-street parking on stretches of the route are being put forward.

The road, which runs between Huddersfield town centre and the Ainley Top roundabout, is used by thousands of commuters every day.

Jordan Burling's mother denies manslaughter and says her son "couldn't be told what to do" at 18.

Jenny Eells
Reporter, BBC Radio Sheffield

A colony of leafcutter ants which I've been to meet have "predicted" that England will beat Panama in their World Cup clash at the weekend.

The clairvoyant critters are based at Cannon Hall Farm, near Barnsley, and already seem to have good form.

After all staff at the farm say the ants "predicted" England would beat Tunisia last week.

So, clearly you can rely on them...

Goalkeeper Colin Doyle leaves Bradford City after failing to agree terms on a new contract.

North Yorkshire County Council say it hopes to re-open the A59 at Kex Gill to single-file traffic in "early July", just in time for the Great Yorkshire Show.

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The busy road is currently closed due to movement in the carriageway at the stretch between Harrogate and Skipton.

Engineers are currently working on the bank below the road to try and reinforce the wall.

A man has appeared in court in Barnsley charged with murder after another man was found dead in the town centre last week.

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Ricky Ramsden, 27, of Dodworth Road, is accused of killing Dawid Szubert (pictured above), a 38-year-old Polish national who died last weekend from a head injury.

A 43-year-old man arrested on suspicion of murder, and a 27-year-old man and 32-year-old woman arrested on suspicion of theft, all remain released under investigation as enquiries continue.

Mr Ramsden was remanded in custody and is due to appear before Sheffield Crown Court on Wednesday 27 June.

Michaela Rehova has not been seen since giving birth to a boy at Glan Clwyd Hospital on 6 June.

Leeds City Council is set to spend £145,000 replacing windows in Pudsey Town Hall, reports the Local Democracy Reporting Service.

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Campaigners say it's a show of commitment from the authority and will help Pudsey "keep its identity".

The council had agreed to replace the windows earlier this week before awarding a contract to carry out the work.

More than 140 new windows on three sides of the building are set to be fitted.

The work, which was awarded to Walter West Builders Ltd, is expected to start next month and last until September.

The theatre has been known as the West Yorkshire Playhouse since moving to Quarry Hill in 1990.

A 16-year-old moped rider who was rammed off the road by a van driver in a hit-and-run incident in South Yorkshire says he could have been killed.

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Joshua Sykes, from Thurnscoe, near Barnsley, was riding his moped on Middlecliff Lane at about 12:35 on Thursday 26 April when a black van tailgated him.

The van then swerved and knocked the teenager into the hedge, leaving him with injuries to his lower legs.

He's since recovered from his injuries and police are now appealing for information which can help them identify the driver of the van.

If you're planning on using the train tomorrow, it's worth a double check on whether your selected service is running.

RMT union members are expected to hold a strike day on Saturday as part of the long-running row over the role of guards on trains:

A Leeds city councillor has spoken out against a decision to build an industrial estate on a flood plain in Keighley, claiming people in Leeds could suffer, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.

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Bradford Council voted this week to approve the plans for an industrial park off Royd Ings Avenue, next to the River Aire, despite concerns from the Environment Agency it could create a higher risk of floods further down the river in Shipley and Bingley.

The decision to build on the flood plain was made just hours before Leeds City Council's development plan panel discussed plans for a £112m scheme to reduce the risk of flooding further down the River Aire.

Leeds Conservative councillor Barry Anderson, who sits on the panel, said he felt the decision was unfair on Leeds.

Mr Anderson (pictured) said: "We have a duty of cooperation. We should be working together and we should not be making decisions without communicating with each other.

"If people get it wrong in Bradford, it's likely to be Leeds people that suffer, so yes, I do have concerns.

"We should cooperate much more - at the moment it seems to be putting our fingers in our ears and seeing what happens."

Decision-makers in Bradford who voted to approve the plans, argued the benefits of a multi million pound investment and hundreds of new jobs in Keighley outweighed the risks created by building on a flood plain.

Police are appealing for the public's help in finding a man wanted over drug offences in North Yorkshire.

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Matthew Dean McCartan, 21, is wanted on warrant in connection with drugs possession.Officers say he has links to London but may in the Selby area.

A warrant was issued for his arrest at York Magistrates' Court in December 2017, in connection with charges relating to the possession of class B and class C drugs in the town.

Police say anyone who sees him should get in touch.

Five shisha bars in Sheffield have been fined nearly £15,000, in what's been described as one of city’s largest prosecutions for illegal smoking.

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Shisha bars, also known as hookah bars, are places where herbal tobacco can be smoked through a communal pipe.

Seven people who run Mint Paris, Wicked Lounge, Abu Dhabi, Samara lounge and Shisha Bar were found guilty in their absence at Sheffield Magistrates' Court this week and ordered to pay fines including costs, totalling £14,579.

The bar owners have been fined for allowing customers to smoke shisha pipes inside premises that should be smoke-free.

Proposals to build flats on the site of an historic former fire station are set to be considered by decision-makers in Leeds, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.

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An application to build 18 flats on the site of Stanks Fire Station in Swarcliffe has been recommended for approval by Leeds City Council officers.

This is despite another application to build houses on the site being rejected last year.

The new plans include one, two and three-bed flats across two separate two-storey blocks, as well as 28 car parking spaces.

A report set to go before councillors next month recommends a decision be delegated to the council's chief planning officer.

It states the application is likely to be accepted, subject to the council securing extra cash from the applicant to spend on improvements to local green space.

Stanks Fire station closed in 2015, having been operational since 1973.

Police in York say they're looking for a man jailed last year for malicious wounding, for recall to prison, after his release licence was revoked.

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Officers say Dale Brown, 32, was released in December, but has been recalled to prison by HM Prison & Probation Service, external, because he has allegedly committed a further offence and displayed poor behaviour.

Brown has links to York, and the force says it's carried out "numerous checks in the city to locate, arrest and return him to prison."

Anyone who sees Brown, or knows where he is, is asked to contact North Yorkshire Police.

Persimmon Homes is to pay £310,000 less than its original £2.7m contribution to a housing development.

Supermarket chain Asda has cut its fuel prices amid a fall in wholesale costs.

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The Leeds-based chain has reduced fuel prices by up to 2p per litre (ppl) for unleaded and 1ppl for diesel at its 318 filling stations.

It is the second price cut announced by Asda in the past fortnight, as it was one of three supermarkets to lower prices last week.

The price of a barrel of oil has fallen from 80 US dollars on May 23 to 73 US dollars this week.

On Monday, average UK forecourt prices stood at £1.28 per litre for unleaded and £1.32 for diesel.

This is a reduction of less than 1ppl on the previous week, when prices were at the highest level since September 2014.

A new phone system aimed at helping improve the time it takes to deal with non-emergency calls to South Yorkshire Police has suffered another setback.

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The software behind the new "Smart Contact" telephony and incident handling system is still not working well enough to be rolled out, say police.

It had already been postponed back in April, but now it's been delayed again.

It's intended that the new software will replace the outdated system currently used to deal with calls from the public, including the 101 non-emergency number.

A 33-year-old drug dealer has been sentenced to five years in prison for trying to sell £2,000 worth of cocaine and heroin in Sheffield.

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Rebez Saleh, formerly of Carwood Green, Sheffield, pleaded not guilty to three counts of possession with intent to supply class A drugs in the Spital Hill and Burngreave areas.

Police stopped Saleh last year and found a Kinder Egg containing 11 wraps of heroin and 14 wraps of crack cocaine, with a street value of around £200.

He was also found to have thrown about £1,800 of crack cocaine onto a roof while running away from police in Burngreave a month later.