Settle in North Yorkshire has been named as one of the best countryside locations to live in the UK by a national newspaper.

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The town, in Craven, is in the top 10 of the list in the Sunday Times, the highest position for a Yorkshire town.

Richard Foster, leader of Craven District Council, says: "Craven and Skipton are often named as the best places to live in the UK and it’s great to see Settle getting its due recognition too."

Part of a key route in East Yorkshire is to be re-named to help honour the area's Roman history.

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The name "Petuaria Way" was chosen for the section of road between Clive Sullivan Way and the M62 after councils in the area were asked for their views.

Petuaria was originally a Roman fort situated where Brough is now located.

It's not yet clear when the section of road will be officially renamed.

At least 100,000 people came to Sheffield for this year's Tramlines music festival, according to the city council.

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The festival, which ran between 20 and 22 July, was in its 10th year and coincided with its move to Hillsborough Park.

Sheffield Council says this year's event was "Sheffield biggest party yet".

However, Tramlines attracted about 150,000 people in 2012.

The Fringe at Tramlines, a free event in the city centre, also attracted 70,000 people this year, new figures show.

A couple from Leeds who threatened to "chop up" their daughter if she didn't go through with a forced marriage to her cousin in Bangladesh have been jailed.

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The mother and father - who can't be named - were sentenced to three-and-a-half-years and four-and-a-half-years respectively.

In 2016, they told their daughter they were going to Bangladesh for a holiday, but once they arrived in a remote village the then-18-year-old was told she was to be married to her cousin.

She refused and was assaulted before her father threatened to slit her throat and to "chop her up" in 18 seconds - one for each year of her life - if she refused to comply.

What followed was a dramatic operation by the British High Commission involving armed police after the girl, now 20, called her boyfriend back in the UK.

Her mother and father were found guilty earlier this year of forced marriage and a count of using violence, threats or coercion to force their daughter into marriage.

The parents of a Leeds woman who was threatened with death if she didn't go ahead with a forced marriage have been jailed.

More to follow.

Hundreds of forgotten, secret and little-known memorials across England have been nominated for listed status by members of the public - including some in Yorkshire.

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"Heroic", "sad" and "inspirational" are just some of the descriptions given to the shrines commemorating those who have been loved, left, lost...and ultimately rediscovered.

One of those included is a memorial to George Hanson (pictured), in Staithes, near Scarborough, which takes the form of a clock and a barometer set into a stone frame.

Mr Hanson, a fisherman and head launcher of Runswick lifeboat, external, plunged into the sea from the shore fully dressed one evening, to save a schoolboy who was swimming in the harbour.

He returned to try and help the boy's teacher who was struggling in the water, but both men died.

The inscription reads: "He lost his life in a gallant attempt to rescue a drowning bather in a rough sea on Wednesday 28 August 1957".

An exhibition will showcase some of the memorials selected by Historic England, external, as part of its Immortalised project.

Part of the Leeds-Liverpool canal is being temporarily closed from today to save water following the recent hot weather.

The 55-mile section between Wigan in Greater Manchester and Gargrave in North Yorkshire is being shut to boats using the locks.

Boats can cruise between the locks and the towpath will stay open, a spokeswoman for the Canal and River Trust said.

The closure is expected to last until the end of August unless there is "significant rainfall" and water levels "will be reviewed daily", she added.

Mike Clarke from the Leeds and Liverpool Canal Society said it will have an impact in an area that "desperately needs tourism".

However, local canal cruise companies said they have prepared for the closure and had worked in consultation with Canal and River Trust.

Susan Stevens, director at Shire Cruises, said closures "can happen from time to time on canals... you have to work around it".

As Northern Rail reinstates most of the services it cancelled just eight weeks ago, a report claims that the disruption cost the north of England almost £38m in lost business.

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The report, by the Northern Powerhouse Partnership (NPP), says up to £1.3m was lost a day at the height of the disruption, with one million hours of lost time from commuting, work and leisure on Northern trains alone.

The leader of Leeds City Council, Judith Blake, said: "For the good of the northern economy, the government needs to give us the tools for the job so we can prevent these catastrophic events from being allowed to happen again."

Over the summer, thousands of passengers have applied for compensation from train operator Northern, which made the first pay-outs last week.

Hull Royal Infirmary’s main entrance has been re-opened to staff and visitors after one of the building's glass panels cracked earlier.

One of the 7,000 glass panels on the 13-storey tower block was damaged by high winds on Sunday.

Although no-one was injured, Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust took the precaution of cordoning-off the main entrance and cash machine, directing staff and visitors to the back entrance until safety checks were carried out.

Rotherham United captain Richard Wood agrees a deal to keep him with the Championship club until the summer of 2020.

A Yorkshire brewery owner and his pub company have been fined for failing to provide pension scheme information on time, following an investigation by the Pensions Regulator.

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The North Yorkshire-based pub chain, Samuel Smith Old Brewery and its chairman Humphrey Smith, were fined £18,750 and £8,000 respectively at Brighton Magistrates' Court today.

Criminal proceedings were brought against the Tadcaster company after it failed to meet a 26 January deadline this year to provide the relevant information, the regulator said.

Smith was charged because the offence by the company was "committed with his consent, connivance or neglect".

Smith and the company were also ordered to pay a total between them of £1,240 in costs and victim surcharges.

Samuel Smith Old Brewery, more commonly known as Sam Smith's, is said to be Yorkshire's oldest brewery and operates about 200 pubs across the UK.

An investigation's been launched after several public figures in East Yorkshire received malicious emails and the pride flag was taken down from a police station.

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The flag was flying over a number of police stations to show support for the LGBT community.

A group calling themselves Men of Bridlington claimed to have done it.

Humberside Police say they have now found the stolen flag and are treating this, along with the malicious emails, as a hate crime.

The people behind a skate park in Sheffield say they've had an amazing success rate at getting vulnerable young people back into education or into employment.

Onboard Skatepark, on Little London Road in Heeley, deliver educational programmes for young people who are on the cusp of dropping out of school.

They have recently had a revamp thanks to funding from Sport England.

Amy Cooper is the founder and says one young woman, who was referred to the centre on the sexual exploitation list, is now "thriving".

"She came to us not even wanting to ride a bike, but she did a lot of artwork with us.

"She then went on to complete her maths and English GCSEs with us and gone off to college now and is thriving."

Colin Cadamartriea, 64, stabbed Jarrad Marsh to death after a disagreement in a hostel in Hull.

Schools and businesses in Scarborough are being urged to not use their cars.

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North Yorkshire County Council wants people to walk or cycle to school or work, or use public transport.

It's part of a £1m project called Open North Yorkshire.

In Scarborough, sustainable travel officers are working with schools and colleges looking at the issues they face.

Officers say they will help with projects: "Such as park and stride schemes, cycle training, car sharing and producing maps showing walking zones around the schools."

Similar approaches, as well as walking challenges and journey planning with rail operators and bus companies, are being offered to businesses interested in increasing sustainable travel among staff.

After Scarborough, the authority says it intends to do something similar in Harrogate and Skipton.

Brewer Samuel Smith and its chairman are sentenced after failing to give details to regulators.

A woman and two teenagers from the Huddersfield area have been taken to hospital after coming into contact with "a potential illegal substance," police have said.

Emergency services were called to a house on Cumberworth Road in Skelmanthorpe at about 07:10 yesterday, after the 40-year-old woman, and two teenage boys, aged 14 and 16, were taken ill.

When paramedics arrived they were found unresponsive.

West Yorkshire Police say the three "may have unknowingly come into contact with a potential illegal substance."

Officers did stress they can confirm that the substance isn't a nerve agent of any description, and they aren't looking for anyone in connection with the incident.

Derelict homes in Hull have been sprayed with graffiti in a bid to stop them being targeted by vandals.

Artists from across the country descended on Preston Road to give the boarded-up properties a makeover.

The council gave up 10 homes to organisers at the Bankside Gallery.

It's Emily Bronte's 200th birthday and Wuthering Heights is still having an impact on our culture.

A major road in Sheffield has been closed as engineers deal with a burst water pipe.

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Dramatic video we posted earlier from Woodseats Road shows water being sprayed 30ft in the air earlier this morning.

Police now say the road has been closed as Yorkshire Water engineers deal with the issue.

They were called out to Woodseats Road yesterday to deal with a burst pipe, but the same pipe has burst again, according to the firm.

In a statement, Yorkshire Water says its team is back on site and engineers are trying to get the pipe fixed as soon as they can.