A Hull film maker says he's not happy with the age rating his new film has been given by the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC).

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A Northern Soul, by Sean McAllister (pictured), looks at last year's Hull City of Culture celebrations from the perspective of working families.

He says he was hoping young children would have been able to watch it, but it's been rated by the BBFC as only suitable for audiences over the age of 15.

The board says the film has about 20 uses of strong language and exceeds anything permitted for the 12A classification.

A man was left with broken ribs after he was mugged as he was out walking in Bradford in the early hours of the morning.

Police say they want to talk to these people about the attack, one of whom police think is in his late teens:

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It happened on Lower Kirkgate at about 02:00 on Saturday 30 June as the victim, who is in his 30s, walked through a hotel car park.

The man had his bank card, a cash and two silver chains stolen and was left with broken ribs, cuts and bruises in the attack.

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A car has become stranded on the central reservation of the M1 this morning after a crash.

The Highways Agency say police are on their way to the scene.

The car is stuck between junction 37 for Dodworth and junction 38 northbound.

A man is in hospital with life-threatening injuries after his car hit a tree in Rotherham.

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The 22-year-old was driving a grey Skoda Octavia along Herringthorpe Valley Road, when he crashed into the tree at about 00:40 on Sunday.

How many fire crews does it take to rescue a trapped cow?

Apparently it's four:

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Sheffield United are expected to complete the signing of Brighton midfielder Oliver Norwood later today.

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The 27-year-old Northern Ireland international will initially move to Bramall Lane on loan, before completing a permanent transfer in January.

Police have seized a handgun from a vehicle they stopped in Selby.

The driver also tested positive for cocaine, North Yorkshire police said:

An auction of gin worth about £50,000 closes in Scunthorpe today.

The bottles are being sold off after Gin Festival Limited, based in Keighley, West Yorkshire, went into administration in July.

Festivals due to take place, including ones in Lincoln, Wakefield, and Sheffield, were subsequently cancelled.

The bottles are being sold in an online auction which ends today.

The head of midwifery at Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals Trusts is urging pregnant women not to eat frozen vegetables, such as sweetcorn, after an outbreak of food poisoning.

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The advice from Public Health England is to only eat them if it's been cooked or heated properly.

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Yorkshire's opening batsman and former captain, Alex Lees, is leaving the club and has signed a three-year deal at Durham, external.

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The 25-year-old has struggled in the County Championship this season, but leaves having scored just under 5,000 runs in first class cricket since making his debut in 2010.

A major excavation of Sheffield Castle begins today.

It's the first significant archaeological dig in the area for over 20 years.

The castle's thought to have been built in the late 11th or early 12th Century and was demolished at the end of the Civil War in the 17th Century.

A team from Wessex Archaeology will excavate a number of trenches across the site to try to piece together its origins and history.

Mili Rajic is the project manager for the dig:

A woman has died after the car she was travelling in crashed into a lamp-post in the Monk Bretton area of Barnsley.

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The 50-year-old passenger was in a car travelling on Burton Road on 8 August when the car hit the lamp-post,

The 68-year-old driver suffered serious injuries and remains in hospital.

Police are appealing for witnesses.

Yorkshire's former limited overs captain Alex Lees moves to Durham on loan before starting a three-year contract in 2019.

Drugs worth about £1m have been found at a property in Hull over the weekend.

Officers found around 1,500 cannabis plants and bulbs at a property on Anlaby Road, after reports of suspicious activity.

Two men have been charged with drug offences and will appear before magistrates today.

Humberside Police said a large amount of the drugs would have ended up on the streets of Hull.

The number of extra days inmates in some West Yorkshire prisons are locked up for has more than doubled.

New Hall and Wakefield have seen the largest increases over the past year.

Prison reform campaigners say Leeds and Wetherby are also cause for concern.

The extra days are handed out as punishment for breaking prison rules, but Frances Crook of the Howard League for Penal Reform says it can be unfair:

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York City Knights fans might wake up this morning in a bit of a daze, after watching their side rack up yet another world record score at the weekend.

Those who made the long journey down to West Wales were certainly entertained - they saw their side rack up 144 unanswered points, as the battle for promotion with Bradford Bulls goes right down to the wire:

There's been a warning the region's rural economy could be hit by this year's extreme weather.

As the grouse shooting season gets underway, the Moorland Association says extreme weather has meant a number of planned shoots have been cancelled.

Many rural businesses, such as pubs and hotels, will be affected, the organisation warned.

Campaigners opposed to shooting have spent the weekend protesting across Yorkshire calling on landowners to refuse shoots permission to use their land.

Glynn Evans, from the British Association for Shooting and Conservation, says the industry is an important part of the rural economy:

Traders in Scarborough are calling for a quick solution to the disruption affecting train services.

Many travellers are continuing to suffer delays and cancellations on TransPennine Express services.

The company admits just 65% of its trains arrive on time.

They say three-quarters of the delays are because of factors out of their control.

John Senior, who chairs Scarborough's South Bay Traders Association, says the situation is unacceptable:

It's going to be a fairly cloudy day with showers, some of which could be heavy with a risk of thunder and locally torrential downpours, especially this afternoon.

The Met Office yellow warning, external of thunderstorms applies principally to eastern parts of the region and is in place between 11:00 and 22:00.

Tonight, any lingering heavy showers or thunderstorms will die away to leave it mostly dry.

Two men are been treated in hospital after being stabbed in Leeds.

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The pair, aged 29 and 31, suffered serious wounds early yesterday following an incident in Call Lane.

A 34-year-old man has been arrested, following what police said was a targeted attack.