Multi-million pound plans to transform the centre of Huddersfield are due to be discussed later.

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Kirklees Council is working on a £3.5m masterplan which includes more trees and benches on New Street, pedestrianising Cross Church Street (pictured) and a "crackdown" on takeaways.

Officials also want essential maintenance plans for the town centre to be approved, which are aimed at paving the way for the major improvements to begin.

BBC Weather

It'll be mostly cloudy this morning and windy with spells of rain at first.

This afternoon will be mainly dry with spells of sunshine breaking through.

Overnight rain will clear to leave it mainly dry during the early hours.

A company waiting for final permission to drill for shale gas in North Yorkshire will carry out three months of water quality monitoring before it begins fracking.

Third Energy wants to use the technique at an existing well in Kirby Misperton, but is still waiting for formal approval from the government.

The company was given local planning permission in 2016 to begin drilling there.

But before that can start, the firm must under Environment Agency regulations complete water quality monitoring, which means fracking is now unlikely to begin at the site this year.

In a Third Energy statement, the firm says: "We will resume all monitoring in accordance with our permits and planning permissions prior to recommencement of the frack operations.

"At this stage we don't have dates as to when this will be because of uncertainty as to the availability of the frac spread to return to Kirby Misperton, in addition to achieving final consent.

"We will communicate with the local community when we can be more definite on timings," it adds.

Campaigners at the Kirby Misperton Protection Camp vowed to protest against fracking at the site until plans to drill there are abandoned.

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If you're making a journey on the rails in Yorkshire today, most services appear to be running to time at the moment.

However, the 07:01 Leeds to Selby service has been cancelled.

For all the latest live updates from Yorkshire's main railway stations, click on the links below:

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Knife crime's in the spotlight in Sheffield as part of a week of action taking place across the country to tackle the problem.

Workshops for teenagers are being held in the city in a bid to highlight the dangers as new Home Office figures show people in Sheffield are more likely to carry a knife than anywhere else in Yorkshire.

Det Supt Una Jennings, from South Yorkshire Police, recently heard first-hand accounts from family members of those killed through stabbings in Sheffield.

She said: "A knife crime doesn't simply affect the person stabbed. It ruins the lives of their family and friends and the life of the person carrying out the attack."

Just a reminder that a yellow warning of wind has been issued by the Met Office from tonight until tomorrow evening across Yorkshire., external

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The warning comes into effect from 21:00 tonight and lasts until 18:00 tomorrow for the entire region.

Forecasters are warning that damage to trees is possible, which could lead to large branches, or even whole trees, falling in some places.

A back street in Huddersfield has been cordoned off for most of the day after a serious sexual assault in the early hours of this morning.

A woman was attacked at 03:50 this morning, according to West Yorkshire Police.

A cordon has remained in place at Chancery Close all day as officers investigate the scene.

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Charles Blondin was a daring acrobat who rose to international fame for his mastery of the high-wire.

And more than 2,000 people gathered at Halifax’s historic Piece Hall as a stunt by the Victorian tightrope walker was recreated this weekend., external

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Have you seen this 16-year-old boy from Huddersfield - he's been missing for almost three weeks?

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Eli Jones, also known as Eli Child, was last seen in the Fixby area at 01:30 on Wednesday, 29 August.

West Yorkshire Police say extensive enquiries have been made since Eli was reported missing.

The force said so far there have been no further confirmed sightings of Eli.

There's been a big rise in the number of Chinese tourists visiting Yorkshire, according to the latest numbers.

New figures show there's been a 77% increase in visitor numbers since 2016.

York has proven particularly popular, although there's been interest in Leeds and Bradford too.

Recently, a North Yorkshire fish and chip shop translated their menu into Mandarin due to the large number of Chinese tourists visiting.

Two towns and a city in Yorkshire have been shortlisted for this year's Great British High Street Awards.

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Hull's Trinity Market and Hepworth’s Arcade, Burnley Road in Todmorden and the Original Richmond Market Town have all been nominated.

The awards recognise local achievements on the UK's high streets and highlight how they are reacting in a changing retail landscape.

The three are up against 35 others all over the country with the winner being announced on 15 November.

Jeffrey Long has begun a new charity trek which is based around RAF stations.

Earlier we told you about chemical creche for falcon fledglings on top of a tower near Hull.

The family nest is 100ft high amid the noise and smells of a chemical plant on the Humber Estuary at Saltend.

Here's some more close-up views of the young falcons, including a shot of one of them making its very first flight:

A teenager is in hospital after he was chased by masked men who then stabbed him in the back in Huddersfield.

It happened in the Sheepridge area yesterday evening.

Three men wearing balaclavas got out of a BMW as the 17-year-old was walking along Bradley Boulevard.

The men chased him for a short time and one of them stabbed him in the back.

The teenager was taken to hospital and is still in a serious but non life-threatening condition.

Police are investigating a shooting in Sheffield which put three men in hospital - it's the fourth gun-related incident in less than a week.

Police attended the Burngreave area in the early hours of Sunday having received a report three people had been taken to hospital with gunshot wounds to their upper bodies.

The men, one aged 19 and two aged 20, have since been discharged from hospital.

The shooting is believed to have been the last in a week that saw four gun-related incidents occur.

The first shooting led to a 20-year-old man receiving treatment for a gunshot injury incurred in Firshill on 10 September.

Just two days later, a man in his 30s suffered similar injuries on Wostenholm Road, Sharrow, in the early hours of the morning.

A 16-year-old boy was then the victim of what is believed to have been a targeted attack on Manor Oaks Place in Wybourne at about 22:10 on Thursday, which saw a gunman escape in a red car (pictured above).

None of the victims suffered life-threatening injuries, South Yorkshire Police said.

A tree in Leeds with a romantic past has been shortlisted for a nationwide competition to find England's Tree of the Year.

Image source, Rob Grange/WTML

The tree in question is actually three trees which were grafted together to form the letter N - it's known as Nellie's Tree.

The were joined almost 100 years ago by a man called Vic Stead, who would walk from his home in Garforth along the old colliery railway, to visit Nellie who lived in Aberford.

On one such journey he noticed three beech saplings and grafted one sapling between the other two to form the letter N, the tree has now become a symbol for the protection of the woods against development.

You can take part in the vote, run by the Woodland Trust by clicking here., external

Oh, and if you were wondering - Vic and Nellie went on to marry and have a family.

A shop's plan to sell booze from 06:00 just yards from a school has received objections from residents, according to the Local Democracy Reporting Service.

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Londis, on Mere Lane Armthorpe, has applied for an alcohol licence to sell booze between 06:00 and 23:00, seven-days a week.

In documents seen by licensing officers, applicant Sarlaben Jina said the store will carry out relevant ID checks and install CCTV.

However, the plans have been widely criticised by residents who live nearby including tenants in the flat above the shop.

Others have hit out at the plan due to the high number of places already selling booze within a one mile radius.

People have also objected because the site is across the road from a school.

Currently, the unit is empty but Londis has already confirmed its intention to move in later this year.

The application will be discussed by Doncaster Council on Monday.

Scarborough is to get a government grant of almost £900,000 to help people who live there into apprenticeships and jobs in construction.

The money's coming from the government's £6m Coastal Communities Fund .

The town's one of 16 areas across the country to be selected ahead of the main round of funding, which becomes available in April.

A multi-million pound development in Sheffield, that developers hope will be the Times Square of Sheffield, is now half-built.

Image source, New Era Developments

New Era Square is a mix of shops, restaurants and residential units at the junction of Bramall Lane and St Mary's Gate, including a 21-storey tower.

The man behind it, Jerry Cheung, says he calls it Sheffield's Chinatown as he wants to integrate Chinese people with the rest of the community.

A ribbon-cutting ceremony took place at the weekend to mark the developments half-way point.

A species of creature never recorded in Britain before has been discovered in the heart of York.

Image source, York Museums Trust

The tiny leaf miner, known as Phytomyza scotina, is normally found in Europe, from Germany to Russia.

However, during a survey looking for them in York Museum Gardens expert Barry Warrington collected a number of unusual samples.

He took a selection away for study and his research confirmed it was a British first.

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Stuart Ogilvy at York Museums Trust, said: “Leaf miners are best known for the patterns their larvae create when feeding in leaves.

“We have quite a few different species of them in York Museum Gardens, but it's fantastic Barry’s research has shown us this includes a species unique to Britain."

When Phytomyza scotina larvae leave the leaf to emerge as small flies they have a wing span no bigger than 2mm.