Millions of pounds is to be spent supporting children at risk of abuse and exploitation across Yorkshire.

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The funding from the government will support communities in Rotherham, York, Bradford and North Yorkshire.

It's hoped the money will help social workers, police and nurses, better protect young people who might be vulnerable to exploitation from criminal gangs.

Home Office funding of £13m across the UK has been awarded to projects, which support vulnerable children by ensuring they have positive adult role models in their lives.

The money's coming from the government's Trusted Relationships Fund, a scheme which attempts to intervene early if a child is at risk of abusive predators or being drawn into criminality.

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A World War Two Spitfire has stopped over at Leeds Bradford Airport after its journey was interrupted by poor weather.

Image source, Andrew Easby

The aircraft, which was built in 1944, left yesterday after spending the night at the Multiflight flying school, which is based at the airport.

Photographer Andrew Easby was given exclusive access to capture the plane on camera.

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A newly-delivered wallaby missing from a North Yorkshire animal park could have been stolen, according to the park's owners.

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The marsupial disappeared from Filey's Bird Garden and Animal Park only hours after arriving there on Monday.

In a statement on their Facebook page, they said: "We have many messages suggesting it may have been stolen.

"As it went missing in the night we can't totally rule it out."

However, they said they have had two potential sightings - one near Gristhorpe Roundabout and one at the top of Folkton Brow.

A woman's been sexually assaulted just outside York city centre.

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She was walking along an alleyway between Nicholas Street and Milton Street, when a man she didn't know inappropriately touched her.

Police say it happened between 23:00 and 23:30 on 13 August.

The man spoke with a local accent and is described as white, 6ft tall with a grey beard.

Anyone with information about the incident is being asked to contact police.

Division One strugglers Worcestershire wrap up an innings victory over Yorkshire at Scarborough.

A store in Castleford has been targeted by ram-raiders in the early of hours of this morning.

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A blue and silver Mitsubishi is believed to have rammed the shutters and front window of a Wilko store on Carlton Street, however the suspects left empty handed.

The car is believed to have been stolen earlier.

A care home in Doncaster has been branded "inadequate" following an inspection by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).

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Government inspectors have placed Ernelesthorp Manor and Lodge in Armthorpe into special measures, after scoring the lowest available marks on safety and management.

Officials from the CQC said there'd been "insufficient improvements" since the last inspection.

The independent home's management and owners are working with the CQC and Doncaster Council to make necessary improvements, the council says.

A man has been left seriously injured after a "targeted attack" in the car park of a Huddersfield hospital, according to police.

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The victim is being treated for non-life-threatening injuries to his hand after the assault at BMI Huddersfield Hospital yesterday.

Officers were called to Birkby Hall Road just after midnight, police say.

The hospital is temporarily closed today while police investigate the incident.

The disappearance of a newly delivered wallaby from an animal park on the North Yorkshire coast remains "a mystery", say staff there.

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The marsupial disappeared from Filey's Bird Garden and Animal Park only hours after arriving there on Monday.

A special 6ft-high enclosure had been built to house the 2ft-tall wallaby.

On the park's Facebook site, a statement says: "The fence was built 2m high at great expense, specifically to keep the wallabies in.

"This was researched online months in advance and checked by several independent experts and everyone was happy there was no way they could escape.

"There are no holes or obvious ways out so the whole situation is a mystery."

This is the scene on Merchantgate in York city centre this morning following the death of a man who'd earlier been found injured in the street:

The man was found by members of the public outside Tesco in Piccadilly at about 04:30 and was pronounced dead at the scene a short time later, police say.

An investigation's now under way to determine how the man came to be injured, meanwhile the area remains cordoned off as officers carry out an examination of the scene:

A cat killer is being sought by police in South Yorkshire after a feline was fatally shot in the spine with an air gun.

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Sid the cat's owner says it took him 12 hours to crawl back to his home in Stocksbridge but he died shortly after surgery.

His owner, Joanne Richardson, says more than £300 has been raised by the community for any information that leads to a conviction.

Ms Richardson says she had only lived in Stocksbridge for three months before the attack.

She says: "The local community has been absolutely brilliant. We've had flowers, sympathy and everyone's been round. We've met all the neighbours now."

A man has suffered serious injuries in an assault near a hospital in Huddersfield.

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West Yorkshire Police said officers were called to Birkby Hall Road, near BMI Huddersfield Hospital, just after midnight on Tuesday.

The hospital is temporarily closed today while police investigate the incident.

In a statement, the hospital says: "We hope to reopen again tomorrow and have been in touch with patients who were due to attend."

Three players with the same name were on the pitch during Barnsley's 4-0 win against Rochdale last night:

Rochdale player Jordan Williams started the match, who was then joined by his namesake and team mate:

Finally, Barnsley's Jordan Williams replaced Dimitri Cavare, meaning there were three players on the pitch playing with the same name.

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A man who was found injured in a street in York in the early hours of this morning has died, police have confirmed.

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The man was found by members of the public outside Tesco in Piccadilly at about 04:30.

Police say that despite the efforts of the public and medical staff, the man was pronounced dead at the scene a short time later.

An investigation's now under way to determine how the man came to be injured.

The area remains cordoned off while officers carry out an examination of the scene.

A hospital in Huddersfield has been temporarily closed while police investigate an "incident".

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Staff at the BMI Huddersfield Hospital, on Birkby Hall Road, say the incident happened outside the site on Tuesday.

In a statement, the hospital says: "We hope to reopen again tomorrow and have been in touch with patients who were due to attend."

A man has died in York after being found injured in a city centre street this morning, police say.

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People living in parts of York will soon be able to get an appointment with a doctor in the evening, at the weekend and on bank holidays.

Nimbuscare, a group of GP practices in the city, has been given a contract to deliver extended primary care service hours in areas of central York and Pocklington starting in October.

Dr Russell Saxby, from the My Health Practice in York, welcomed the move, saying: "We know people currently find it difficult to get a face-to-face or telephone appointment at their GP practice, at a time to suit them.

"This new service will give people a better choice of appointment times and more options to speak to a clinician, or even, eventually, have a virtual consultation on their mobile device or computer."

In the first trial of its kind in the UK, dogs are being used as part of a research project at hospitals in East Yorkshire to see whether they can detect if someone has cancer.

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The three-year study uses 2,000 patients to help train dogs to diagnose bowel cancer by sniffing urine samples.

Doctor Claire Guest, from Medical Detection Dogs, said: "If our trial shows dogs can detect colorectal cancer in urine samples, the potential is there for a quick, non-invasive test, which could encourage far higher rates of testing and therefore early diagnosis.

Dogs have previously been used to detect changes in blood glucose levels in Type 1 diabetes patients.

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The trial has won the backing of the Secretary of State for Health Jeremy Hunt.

Mr Hunt said: "I think ideas like this sometimes don’t get looked at as quickly as they should, because they sometimes get put in the 'quackery' box.

"One of our jobs as MPs is to question orthodoxies and look at different ways of doing things that possibly the establishment has swept under the carpet."