North Yorkshire County Council provides children and families with outstanding support across the board, according to government inspectors.

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The authority is the first and only one across the country to have received an "outstanding" grade from Ofsted in every category under a new social care inspection system.

The report said families in North Yorkshire received a "consistent and high-quality service," adding that the leadership team was "ambitious and forward thinking".

Six houses have been damaged after a vehicle fire in a Leeds street this morning.

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It happened on Cowper Mount in Harehills at 04:53.

The damage caused was extensive, the fire service said.

Telephone lines, gas and electric lines and bins were also badly damaged in the blaze.

Two fire engines were sent to the scene.

Punctuality for London-Scotland trains on the East Coast Main Line reached a seven-year low after services were returned to public control, figures show.

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According to Network Rail data, 62.6% of London North Eastern Railway's (LNER) Anglo-Scottish services arrived within 10 minutes of the scheduled time between June 24 and July 21.

The Press Association who analysed the figures found this was lower than in any four-week period under its predecessor Virgin Trains East Coast.

LNER said hot weather, infrastructure problems and the introduction of new timetables caused disruption at key locations such as London King's Cross and Leeds.

A man, who jumped into a river to escape police, has been arrested on suspicion of possession of Class B drugs with intent to supply.

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The 34-year-old jumped into the River Don, near Wharfe Road in Doncaster, prompting a search operation on Friday.

However, he was found on banking beside the river an hour later.

A prominent Labour figure in East Yorkshire has been suspended from the party over an alleged anti-semitic Facebook post.

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George McManus is a member of Labour's National Policy Forum and the Beverley and Holderness Labour Party.

Mr McManus said deputy leader Tom Watson (pictured) had received "£50,000+ from Jewish donors," adding: "At least Judas only got 30 pieces of silver".

Labour has launched an investigation after Labour MP Luciana Berger submitted a formal complaint about his "anti-Semitic" comments.

Mr McManus has apologised to Mr Watson and deleted the Facebook post.

There's been a rise in the number of fatalities from the opioid painkiller, fentanyl, which was linked to at least 50 deaths across Yorkshire last year.

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Forms of the drug, used to treat cancer pain, are often imported illegally from Chinese laboratories and sold to users via the dark web.

Deaths from psychoactive substances like spice or mephedrone halved.

Drug policy campaigners called on the government to fund drug treatment and stop criminalising users.

"The UK government has nowhere left to hide. They are responsible for vulnerable people dying in droves," Martin Powell from Transform Drug Policy Foundation said.

Last year heroin and morphine related deaths decreased for the first time since 2012, while cocaine deaths rose

Firefighters are currently tackling a blaze in a field near Pontefract.

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Eleven fire engines have been sent to the scene, which covers 600 square metres.

The blaze began just after 13:00 today.

So far crews have prevented the flames from reaching a nearby farm.

A combine harvester has also been used to create a fire break.

Earlier we told you about some new Yorkshire residents making their home near Doncaster.

Four brown bears, rescued from a Japanese museum, have been settling in over the weekend.

This is the moment they touched the grass at Yorkshire Wildlife Park captured by BBC Breakfast:

A large fire has been spotted by people living in the Ackworth, Fitzwilliam and Hemsworth areas, near Wakefield.

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The blaze seems to be coming from fields which are in between the three places.

We'll bring you more as we get it:

A Lincolnshire council has spent £5.5 million on two new properties in Sheffield to bring in revenue for the county.

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West Lindsey spent £2.5 million on a property occupied by Better Gym in Penistone Road.

The authority will make £164,000 in annual rent.

The second building, leased by Panache Lingerie, cost £3m and will bring in £275,000 a year in rent.

Opposition groups have criticised investments outside the council's area.

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Hull City head coach Nigel Adkins thinks tonight's opening game of the season against Aston Villa is about as tough as they could have got.

Villa, under former Hull manager Steve Bruce, are among the bookies' favourites for promotion, and deservedly so according to Adkins, despite some off-the-field issues.

There will be full commentary of the match on BBC Radio Humberside with the build-up starting on Sportstalk from the ground at 18:00.

A transplant patient who has received a kidney from both of his parents has just competed in the British Transplant Games in Birmingham.

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Akash Suryavansi, 20, from Leeds, got a kidney from his father in 2015 after the one donated by his mother, when he was six, failed after 11 years.

He competed in table tennis, archery, ball throwing and shot putt at the 2018 games.

He said his father's donated kidney had given him a "new lease of life".

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He has had about 50 operations and also had a stroke, but Aky Suryavansi, Akash's father, said: "He's got a future now".

Before finding fame as a duo, The Chuckle Brothers started as a four-piece with two older brothers.

Fans of Lego will be able to explore the world's major landmarks in Sheffield this week, re-imagined using the world famous plastic bricks.

The Sheffield Bricktropolis trail features 21 global landmark models made from Lego bricks and will run until Friday 17 August.

Here's just a taster of what to expect:

An inquest into the death of a six-year-old boy after he was shot with a pellet gun at a house in East Yorkshire has been opened and adjourned.

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Hull Coroners' Court heard how Stanley Metcalfe died from an airgun projectile wound to his stomach.

He was injured at a house in Sproatley, to the east of Hull, on the afternoon of Thursday 26 July.

Paramedics discovered a small hole in the side of his abdomen and despite their best efforts he died later in hospital, the hearing was told.

The inquest has been adjourned while a police investigation continues.

How do you loose a set of false teeth?

The question is prompted by the fact two different sets of false teeth were found in West Yorkshire over the weekend.

The first pair turned up in Liversedge yesterday morning:

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The person who found them says so far no-one has come forward to claim them.

The second set was found in Crossgates in Leeds this morning:

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At this stage, there are many more questions than answers to why the mysterious teeth are appearing.

Perhaps you know someone who appears to have forgotten to put their teeth in this morning?

Farmers in East Yorkshire and northern Lincolnshire say they are digging trenches and building walls to keep out thieves because rural crime is on the up.

David Airey (pictured below) is a sheep farmer in Yorkshire and claims it's never been as bad.

A report by insurance company NFU Mutual estimates the cost of rural crime in the UK rose to more than £44m last year.

It says some farmers are using medieval methods to protect their property.

Humberside Police say they take rural crime seriously.

Officers say they are encouraging farmers to ensure their farms and property are safe by putting extra security measures in place.

It looks like someone's breakfast of tea and toast happened in a slightly unorthodox way today:

Thousands of people have turned out for the annual Pride parade and celebrations in Leeds.

Up to 120 floats took part in the procession through the city centre, organisers said.

Here's a flavour of what went on yesterday:

A rail union has criticised "outrageous" claims by Northern for blaming cancellations on staff.

The company cancelled around 80 services across its network on Sunday, claiming some staff had "made themselves unavailable for work".

The explanation drew an angry response from the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT).

Chaos on the Northern network, caused by a new timetable's introduction in May, has been the subject of much passenger misery this summer.

Services resumed last week after the operator ended up cancelling 165 daily train services until the end of July.