A West Yorkshire Labour MP has urged other party members to back a move to adopt in full an international definition of anti-Semitism following months of internal turmoil in the party:

Yvette Cooper, the member for Pontefract and Castleford, says she supports the move as the party's ruling body meets to discuss it today.

The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's definition was incorporated into Labour's code of conduct in July - but not all its examples were included.

Shadow chancellor John McDonnell said he hoped the party's National Executive Committee would adopt all the examples.

The so-called "Beast from the East" winter blast earlier this year led to Bradford Council overspending on its winter gritting by over £520,000 according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.

The intense snow seen in late February and early March saw the authority massively overspend its annual winter service budget of £840,700 - with the final amount spent reaching £1,360,858.

A report also detailed how the authority spread more than 13,000 tonnes of salt across the district's roads during the cold snap, just 6,900 tonnes of salt used the year before.

The report says this is "the highest level of precautionary treatment in West Yorkshire".

A fraud investigation's been launched in Rotherham following a series of incidents involving bogus police officers which left one victim scammed out of thousands of pounds.

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South Yorkshire Police officers are currently investigating 15 separate reports of fraud in Rotherham and Sheffield.

Police say that victims have reported receiving a phone call from someone claiming to be a detective from New Scotland Yard, the Metropolitan Police or another force outside South Yorkshire, investigating fraud in Rotherham.

The caller goes on to say a bank card has been used fraudulently and asks the victim to contact another number to provide their bank details.

Det Sgt Rob Cobley says: "Although it is easily done and I don't want to criticise people for being trustworthy, I can't stress enough how important it is not to give out personal details over the phone."

Det Sgt Cobley said of the 15 incidents, 13 had been reported in Rotherham and two in Sheffield - and on four occasions victims had gone to their banks to withdraw money.

In one instance, the victim was conned out of £12,000.

A woman has been left with a broken jaw after she was attacked by a man outside a fast food restaurant in Leeds.

Police say they want to speak to this man about the assault:

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It happened at about midnight on 16 August when the 25-year-old victim was on a night out with friends.

They were in McDonalds on Briggate when an argument broke out between the woman's friends and a man.

They left and he followed them with three of his friends until they reached the Five Guys restaurant on Duncan Street.

He punched the woman once leaving her with a broken jaw.

Anyone who can identify the man in the picture is asked to contact police.

A Hull rugby club is encouraging fans to take part in free creative writing classes, external to help them record and share their stories.

Hull KR has a new writer-in-residence who will be offering the free classes and encouraging people to record the history of the community around the club.

The project is part of the Heritage of Hull KR project which recently won a National Lottery grant of £186,200.

The stories will be published on a website and in print in a new twice-yearly publication.

Masked men who smashed the front of a West Yorkshire village's post office to rob a cash machine left with nothing, according to police.

The ram-raid happened at 01:30 this morning in Boston Spa when six men wearing balaclavas reversed a black VW Golf estate repeatedly into the front of the shop.

The men then tied straps around the cash machine and tried to pull it out of the shop, but the rope snapped and they then tried to break it open by driving into and it and kicking it.

The car they used to ram-raid the shop was stolen in the Crossgates area of Leeds yesterday and they used a white Seat Leon as a getaway vehicle.

The men didn't manage to get to the cash and left empty-handed.

Orange squash might not seem like an important part of cancer treatment, but staff at a hospital in East Yorkshire say it can help patients stay hydrated.

Staff at the radiotherapy department at Castle Hill Hospital in Cottingham are asking people to donate bottles of squash to encourage patients to drink plenty of water before their treatment.

They say some people having treatment for prostate cancer struggle to drink the 800ml of water needed to fill their bladder beforehand, and squash can help make it easier.

The future use of more than 200 PCSOs in South Yorkshire is under review as police try to work out the best way to use their resources, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.

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Police Community Support Officers have no powers of arrest, but since their introduction in 2002 they quickly proved their worth in dealing with low-level neighbourhood problems.

Increasingly tight budgets and reduced numbers of regular police officers have forced chief constables to re-assess the function PCSOs play within their forces, with some scrapping the service.

In South Yorkshire, a recruitment freeze has been introduced to allow time to assess what role the 225 PCSOs might hold within the force in future.

The county's Police and Crime Commissioner Doctor Alan Billings says the Chief Constable is looking at what PCSOs do.

"When PCSOs were first introduced, money was not quite so tight and there were more bodies on the ground," he says.

"What they do is spend more time on the ground, talking to people."

A memorial which was stolen from Scarborough Crematorium has been returned, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.

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The mushroom-shaped memorial was recently installed in the crematorium grounds and was stolen on 19 August.

CCTV images reveal an unidentified man show the mushroom to a female passenger before putting it in the car.

The theft sparked a public appeal, but neither the man nor the car was traced.

However, when crematorium staff turned up for work yesterday morning they found it had been returned.

People living in the Holbeck area of Leeds are calling for a controlled red light zone there to be scrapped.

Residents are holding a demonstration against the "managed area" this evening.

The zone was set up four years ago for sex workers to operate without fear of prosecution.

Jackie Scott, who lives a mile away from the zone, says she believes the experiment has been a failure and the situation there is deteriorating all the time.

"They leave the managed area and they're not supposed to be there in the day - but they are," she says.

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Traffic is about to be stopped on the M62 to recover a broken down car.

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The car came to a halt at J29 westbound, the exit for the M1, and has broken down in lane two of the slip road.

Traffic officers are attending the scene, but warn the motorway will have to close briefly while they recover the car.

Huddersfield Giants forward Ryan Hinchcliffe is to retire at the end of the Super League season and return to Australia.

Several shopping trolleys have been set on fire in the same location on an estate in Hull, say Humberside Police.

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Officers say the charred remains of the three trolleys were found on an area of grass between Stroud Crescent East and West in Bransholme in the early hours of this morning.

They want anyone with information to come forward.

A year after the start of a government free childcare scheme which was first trialled in York, nearly half of nursery providers say it's had a negative financial impact - with one West Yorkshire council having its funding cut.

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Bradford Council is the only authority in the Yorkshire region to have government funding reduced.

The cut will see the authority's funding drop by 24p per child per hour and childcare providers say parents will have to pay the extra.

According to the Department for Education, the parents of more than 340,000 three and four-year-olds have benefitted from the initiative since it started 12 months ago.

The government said it would "continue to monitor delivery costs".

If you were wondering what to do with that spare £250,000 burning a hole in your pocket, you could do worse than splashing out on a former station house in Sheffield...

The station, in Chapeltown, which is complete with platform and booking office, closed in 1954.

It's expected to go for more than £250,000 when it's auctioned off today.

The one-acre site off Station Road also includes a three-bedroom house and car parking.

But before you buy, here's a quick guided tour, including details of some restless souls:

This is the scene in Boston Spa this morning after a cash machine was ripped out of a post office wall by thieves:

It happened on the High Street just after 01:30 this morning.

The BBC understands that six men were seen on CCTV during the raid.

Revised plans for a long-awaited multiplex cinema in Scarborough have been likened to a "television in a room".

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Benchmark Leisure has delayed the opening of its five-screen complex in the town's North Bay for the third time, blaming the difficulties in securing restaurants to be part of the scheme.

The project is now not expected to be completed until 2020, the developer has confirmed.

The complex, on the site of the former Atlantis water park, which will also include more than 70 flats, was due to be open later this year,.

That was then pushed back until July 2019 before the announcement of the fresh delay.

Earlier this year, the developer announced it had dropped the number of cinema screens from seven to five or six - and the number of restaurants from eight to five.

Speaking about the new delays and plan changes, Labour councillor Carl Maw said: "If it keeps being changed at this rate, we will end up with a 42-inch television screen in a room."

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Bradford City have appointed a new head coach just hours after sacking Michael Collins, who was only in charge for six games.

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David Hopkin will start work today after agreeing to a two-year deal, before the Bantams head off to Blackpool on Saturday.

Hopkin departed Livingston in the summer after sealing back-to-back promotions, guiding the club from League One to the Scottish Premiership.

The 48-year-old is a former player for City as well as being a Scotland international and wearing Leeds, Chelsea and Crystal Palace shirts.

David Hopkin has been appointed as Bradford City's new head coach.

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