Yorkshire Wildlife Park have released pictures of some rare Visayan Warty Piglets that have just been born at the park near Doncaster.

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The births are an important step in the global conservation programme for the species, which is on the critically endangered list.

Debbie Porter from Yorkshire Wildlife Park said: "The piglets won’t be let out in to the main outdoor reserve for a while yet, as they’re still so small they would fit through the fence."

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We've all been there... Sometimes we can make a little mistake and it makes us look a little silly.

For example, if you'd never heard of Huddersfield, how would you spell it?

We agree with this tweeter: a great effort by the subtitler during a Jodie Whittaker interview on an American talk show:

Some of the country's top photographers are displaying their work in Hull over the next few weeks.

Image source, Hull International Photography Festival

Hull International photography Festival is in its fifth year.

It includes exhibitions, masterclasses, discussions and a photography trade-show.

Around 86,000 visitors attended the event last year.

Organisers say it's also a great opportunity for local artists to display their work.

The government should have raised the alarm earlier over the build-up of hundreds of tonnes of medical waste, including body parts, at several sites including one in West Yorkshire, an MP has said.

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The government confirmed the waste had not been properly disposed of by Healthcare Environmental Services.

A spokeswoman said there was no risk to the public, but the waste material had not been incinerated in a timely fashion.

One of the affected sites is in Normanton, near Wakefield, in the constituency of Labour MP Yvette Cooper.

Ms Cooper said: "If it's serious enough to have a criminal investigation, if it's also serious enough to go to a Cobra meeting, yet there was no statement to Parliament."

"There was no statement to the public, no statement to the local community. I just don't think that is fair."

The BBC has contacted Healthcare Environmental Services for comment.

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Visitors to Hull Fair have been warned by police to leave any valuables such as tablets, jewellery and credit cards at home.

Humberside Police have issued 10 "crime prevention tips" for the estimated 450,000 people expected to attend the fair between today and Saturday 13 October.

Members of the public have been encouraged to park in well-lit areas, not leave valuables in the car and wipe sat nav marks from their windscreens.

Alcohol on buses to the fair, which is held on Walton Street, is banned and anyone caught caught drinking will be asked to get off.

Ch Insp James Glansfield said: "Hull Fair is a family event and there's no place for anti-social behaviour.

"If anyone does commit crime or act in an anti-social way, they can expect to be dealt with firmly so that they don’t affect anyone else’s enjoyment."

More people need to be exposed to the reality of growing up in poor areas, according to the man behind a conference in Huddersfield focusing on how to stop young people getting involved knife crime.

Youth leaders are set to meet council workers and police in the town later to look at how they can stop people joining gangs.

Social media use and a lack of positive role models are also on the agenda at the conference at the University of Huddersfield, which is trying to bring together groups to tackle social issues.

Conference organiser Howard Belafonte, from outreach group Conflict Resolutions, says engaging with youngsters in their own environment gives a better picture of the issues they face:

Residents in part of Leeds are being told not to worry if they see officers searching a nearby building wearing special protective suits following a cannabis factory raid.

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Asbestos was discovered during a search of the premises at the junction of Dewsbury Road and Oakhurst Avenue in Beeston last week, police say.

A number of cannabis plants were removed for destruction before the asbestos was identified at the site and the scene was sealed off.

Officers wearing protective suits and using other protective equipment are due to carry out a "comprehensive" search of the building later.

Det Insp Phil Jackson says: "We want to make people aware of what is happening at these premises to avoid any unhelpful speculation or unnecessary concern in the community.

"The potential risk from asbestos is only within the building itself and there is no need for anyone in the area to be unduly concerned."

A man's been arrested after a motorbike rider died in a suspected "hit-and-run" crash in Bradford.

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The 30-year-old motorcyclist collided with a silver Ford Focus on Cottingley Road, Allerton, at about 19:45 on Wednesday.

The car driver failed to stop and then crashed into a red Volkswagen Polo, police said.

A 24-year-old man from Bradford is in custody on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.

Officers said the Ford Focus had turned right at the Stone Street junction when it crashed with the grey Yamaha motorcycle travelling in the opposite direction.

Police have appealed for witnesses and want to speak to anyone who has dashcam footage of the vehicles prior to the collision.

Hull Fair gets under way in the city this evening, with more than 450,000 people expected to visit over the next eight days.

Image source, Trevor Gibbons

The event is thought to be one of Europe's largest travelling funfairs.

Hull Fair dates back to 1293 and is one of the largest in the UK.

A cyclist has been seriously injured following a collision with a van in York.

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The 36-year-old was travelling on the A1036 when he was in collision with a red Ford Transit van on the junction with the A64 at Askham Bar.

He was taken to Leeds General Infirmary with "potentially life-threatening injuries".

North Yorkshire Police are asking for witnesses or members of the public with dashcam footage to get in touch.

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Weather Presenter, BBC Look North

Today will be mostly cloudy with some outbreaks of rain and cooler than of late.

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Illuminated artworks including fire-breathing dragons and suffragette heroines are being projected onto buildings in Leeds city centre as part of the annual Light Night festival.

The two-day free event, which features about 60 installations around the city centre, including the library and Civic Hall, started on Thursday.

Here's just a taster of what's been going on so far:

Seven men had to find their own way home from an isolated spot on the North York Moors after one man was arrested and two vehicles seized by police.

Image source, North Yorkshire Police

It happened after two vehicles were spotted being driven suspiciously in the Blakey Ridge area, north of Kirkbymoorside.

A silver Mitsubishi Shogun was seized for having no tax and a red Suzuki Vitara was seized and the driver, a 20-year-old man from Redcar, was arrested on suspicion of drug-driving, driving without a licence, driving without insurance and possession of cannabis.

Seven other men from both vehicles had to make their own way home.

The vehicles were spotted by police patrols in the area on the lookout for poaching offences.

A man accused of killing eight members of the same family in a house fire in Huddersfield is due to make his first Crown Court appearance later.

Image source, West Yorkshire Police

Shahid Mohammed, 36, was extradited from Pakistan 16 years after five children and three adults were killed when fuel was poured through their letterbox and a petrol-bomb thrown through a window at their home on Osborne Road, Birkby.

He faces eight counts of murder and one count of conspiracy to commit arson with intent to endanger life.

Formerly of Huddersfield, he is due before Leeds Crown Court later today.

Two of the famous faked Cottingley Fairies photographs have sold for more than £20,000 at auction.

Image source, Dominic Winter Auctioneers

The pictures were taken in 1917 by 16-year-old Elsie Wright and her nine-year-old cousin, Frances Griffiths, in the village of Cottingley, near Bingley.

The hoax fooled many people including Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

At auction, the "fairy" picture has sold for £15,000 and a "gnome" image fetched £5,400.

Both pictures were bought online after attracting international interest.

Dominic Winter Auctioneers, in Cirencester, said the images were originally expected to fetch about £2,000.

Dinner ladies at a school in South Yorkshire are now on strike indefinitely after talks between their union, Barnsley Council and the school broke down.

Ladywood Primary School, in Grimethorpe, has proposed that teaching assistants would supervise meals to save cash.

It wants to make all nine school meals supervisory assistant roles redundant, which has so far resulted in six days of strikes by Unison union members.

The school did not want to comment on the escalation of strike action.

But a Barnsley Council spokesperson said "no viable proposals" had been put forward by the unions at a meeting on Wednesday.

Head teacher Clare Grainger previously said it was "facing a significant budget shortfall for 2019-2020".

The school had to review its staffing and "this is a difficult time for those involved", she said.

A criminal investigation's been launched by the Environment Agency into the build-up of hundreds of tonnes of medical waste, including body parts, being held at several sites including one in West Yorkshire.

It emerged yesterday that a contractor working for NHS hospitals had been failing to dispose of the waste within the proper time-frames at five sites in England, including one in Normanton, near Wakefield.

A spokeswoman said there was no risk to the public, but the waste material had not been incinerated in a timely fashion.

The anatomical waste is stored on sites in secure and refrigerated containers.

The BBC has contacted Healthcare Environmental Services for comment.

The Health Service Journal, which first reported the story, is reporting the company is blaming a lack of "incineration capacity in the market" and desire to reduce use of landfill.

The statement given to the journal said all waste companies have been affected and the firm had been "consistently" highlighting these issues to regulators.

John Henry
BBC News, Yorkshire

Yorkshire-wide devolution could boost the region's economy by billions of pounds but have little effect on improving road, air and rail transport, according to a leaked economic report.

The document, commissioned on behalf of 18 Yorkshire councils, was tasked with looking at what benefits devolution could bring.

The Yorkshire economy could be boosted by up to £30bn in the coming years, it claims.

But it adds there's not an "all or nothing case" supporting devolution and some issues would be better dealt with at city region level while others would work better on a north-wide basis.

The paper, produced by consultancy firm Steer Economic Development, says: "There are potentially considerable advantages from devolution to the Yorkshire level.

"These are often higher-level economic functions such as innovation, exports and international business, high-level skills and public transport ticketing."

Image source, Associated British Ports

The 122-page report says Yorkshire-wide devolution would be good for the Humber ports such as the Port of Hull (pictured), but the Leeds-Bradford and Doncaster-Sheffield airports would not be a priority for a Yorkshire-wide devolution.

Any devolution would be unlikely to bring additional benefits to rail travel or offer major changes to road transport, it adds.

The government has refused to discuss the so-called One Yorkshire plan until a deal in South Yorkshire is completed - leading to calls for other parts of the county to do their own smaller deals.

A mostly cloudy and cooler day with outbreaks of rain, heavy at times, and a light breeze.

This evening and tonight it will stay generally cloudy with further spells of rain: