Paul Murphy
BBC Look North

Wine makers in East Yorkshire say they could be heading for a record-breaking harvest, thanks to the ongoing hot and dry weather.

Local vineyards say high temperatures have led to rapid growth in young grapes.

They'll be harvested in the autumn but there's already a few signs this could be a bumper crop.

Ian Sargent from Laurel Vines Vineyard hopes the good weather will continue.

The Tour De Yorkshire may have added millions to the county's economy but it's not helped potholes near Barnsley, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.

Local councillors in Penistone say they been told by the highways department that repair work at the start of the year was focused on the routes for the Tour de Yorkshire cycle races.

Work on one main road, Huddersfield Road in the Penistone area, is now scheduled for October.

Poor weather earlier this year also hampered repair efforts, it's been claimed.

A £7.6m plan to save crumbling piers in a Yorkshire seaside town will finally get under way in September.

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Scarborough Borough Council has entered into a contract with Balfour Beatty to repair Whitby's historic piers, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.

The saga over when the repairs would be carried out has played out over a decade after a report found "major" flaws in the structure of the North Sea defences.

If the piers were to fail hundreds of homes and businesses could be flooded, causing millions of pounds worth of damage.

Locals have been calling on the borough council to act before the flood defences fail, citing an engineering report in 2009, which referred to a number of major defects on the structures.

Built some two centuries ago, the piers have been featured in calendars and holiday brochures nationwide for years, are Grade II listed by English Heritage.

The repair work is due to start in September.

The teenage victim of a shooting in Leeds last night has been arrested on suspicion of firearms offences.

The 17-year-old is still in hospital being treated for shotgun pellet wounds on his chest, arm, face and hand, although his injuries aren't thought to be life threatening.

The shooting happened at about 18:00 on Pasture Road in Harehills, the scene is cordoned off while detectives collect evidence.

Officers say they think the shooting is linked to an earlier incident when a shotgun was fired at a house in Devon Close in Woodhouse, no one was injured.

Police say they're looking for three to five masked men who were in a blue Ford Ka, which was also involved in a third incident in Roundhay Grove where a masked man was seen with a shotgun.

Two people have been taken to hospital and three other people injured at the Saltend Chemical Park.

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It's not clear what happened, but a spokesperson at the site said following reports of a smell of chlorine, air tests were carried out and chlorine levels in the air are normal.

Maintenance work at the site next door stopped as a precaution.

The company says there's no risk to the wider public.

A man has been given "strong words of advice" by police after he was caught walking his dog along a busy stretch of motorway in Yorkshire.

The man escaped arrest and was "removed" from the motorway - J25 of the M62 westbound.

The arresting officer told the BBC "It's amazing the number of people that don't actually realise pedestrians aren't allowed on the motorway!"

A blue plaque has been unveiled on a secret 'love nest' frequented by Hull poet Philip Larkin and his companion Monica Jones.

The Larkin society have tweeted this picture of the Blue Plaque:

This is the moment a vehicle used by a fly-tipper was crushed by Leeds City Council.

The owner of this van pleaded guilty to illegally dumping a fridge freezer instead of disposing of it appropriately.

Leeds City Council then used their enforcement powers to destroy the vehicle in spectacular fashion.

They say it's part of their zero-tolerance approach towards fly tipping.

A Sheffield food bank has been awarded £1,000 from councilors in a bid to combat food poverty in one of the city's most deprived areas.

Councillors Ben Miskell, Jack Scott and Julie Dore, who represent Arbourthorne and Norfolk Park ward in the city, say they've awarded the cash to the S2 Food Bank, ahead of the launch of the government's Universal Credit programme in the city.

Last year the Food Bank distributed 46 tonnes of food and helped feed over 6,000 clients from its two centres on Cary Road and Duke Street.

Coun Miskell said: "We're very worried about how Universal Credit in Sheffield is likely to impact the most vulnerable in our community.

"Hearing the stories from areas where the rollout has happened already are heart-breaking.

"That's why we've prioritised supporting the S2 Food Bank, who continue to do amazing work.

A 17-tonne tunnel-boring machine has been officially named the ‘West Ella Worm’ by East Yorkshire schoolchildren to mark the start of the next phase of a £22m flood prevention scheme.

Image source, East Riding of Yorkshire Council

The machine is 22 feet long, with a 6 foot diameter cutting head.

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It will be used to excavate an underground flood water channel as part of the Anlaby and East Ella Flood Alleviation Scheme (AEEFAS).

The work started in July and is due to be completed by 2020.

The driver of this van had a lucky escape on the M62 today after a tyre blow-out left them facing on-coming traffic in the fast lane.

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Luckily a motorway patrol officer was just minutes away and Highways England managed to close the lane with their temporary signs.

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As PC Martin Willis says, external, it was a "scary place to end up".

People in Boston are being asked to keep an eye out for a man who has absconded from HMP North Sea Camp.

Lincolnshire Police say not to approach Stephen Spencer, but call 999.

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34-year-old Spencer absconded between 04:45-07:00 today.

Spencer is originally from Doncaster and has links to Sheffield and Rotherham.

Work on the £7.6m scheme to repair Whitby's piers is expected to start in September.

Pocklington canal has been recognised for its wildlife conservation work.

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The nine-and-a-half mile waterway has been given a green flag by the Tidy Britain Group, one of just twelve sites across the UK managed by the Canal and River Trust, to be recognised in this way.

The canal is in its 200th year and is home to an array of wildlife including voles and kingfishers.

England's all-time leading try-scorer Ryan Hall will leave Super League club Leeds Rhinos at the end of the season.

Essential road repairs were delayed by months because the council prioritised streets for the 2018 Tour de Yorkshire cycle race.

A Doncaster man who attacked a woman with a baseball bat, leaving her with a serious head injury, is now serving more than eight years behind bars.

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Jack Thompson, 25, of Haggs Wood, Stainforth, went into the home of a 32-year-old woman wearing a balaclava and carrying a baseball bat.

Thompson then went on to hit the woman leaving her with a serious head injury requiring hospital treatment and a number of staples to her head.

It happened on Friday 9 February at a house on Granville Crescent.

Entering a guilty plea of GBH, Thompson was sentenced to eight years and six months in prison at Sheffield Crown Court.

A plasterer from West Yorkshire has scooped £1m on the lottery, and says if it wasn't for the kindness of a woman in front of him in the queue to buy his ticket he may have missed out.

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Arron Walshaw from Ossett joined a queue to buy his winning ticket with just minutes to go before the draw closed, but a woman approached the cashier at the same time as him.

The 32-year-old said "She must have seen that I was in a rush because she insisted I went before her. What a stroke of luck that turned out to be!"

He and his fiancé, 23-year-old Ceri Hall, are getting married next year and plan to buy a new house and car.

Arron Walshaw almost missed the ticket deadline, but a fellow shopper allowed him to skip ahead.

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England are taking on India at Headingley today in the decisive third one-day international.

England won the toss and put India into bat.

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