There could be further strikes at Bridlington, York and Scarborough hospitals, with the Unite union planning a ballot on industrial action.

The hospitals are run by the York Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, which has transferred all of its porters, catering and maintenance staff to a separate company.

Unite staged a 48-hour strike last week, saying the staff involved would no longer be protected by NHS conditions of service.

The trust previously said "all proper procedures" had been followed.

Shahid Mohammed is charged with murdering eight members of the same family in a house blaze.

The host towns and cities for next year's Tour de Yorkshire have been announced at a special ceremony in Leeds this morning.

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There'll be starts and finishes in Bridlington, Selby, Bedale, Scarborough, Leeds, Halifax, Barnsley and Doncaster.

The event will take place between 2-5 May, the 2019 race has been upgraded to the highest category possible for a multi-day race outside of the UCI WorldTour.

Sir Gary Verity, from Welcome to Yorkshire, said: “It’s always exciting to unveil the host towns for the Tour de Yorkshire and this year is no exception."

Dinner ladies at a primary school in Barnsley are to step up their strike action after failing to reach an agreement with the school.

Ladywood Primary in Grimethorpe is proposing to make all the dinner supervisors redundant and use teaching assistants for lunchtime supervision instead.

The union Unison says it offered at a meeting yesterday to call off strike action if the school looked again at whether it could save money elsewhere and keep the dinner ladies in work.

However, according to the union, the school refused.

Dinner supervisors will take continual strike action from now on and teaching assistants will refuse to step in and cover lunchtimes, Unison says.

The school has currently declined to make any comment about the latest action.

Councillors are told this after agreeing £10m for installing systems in the city's 116 tower blocks.

A police pursuit of a lorry full of stolen TVs which spanned three counties ended in West Yorkshire last night, it's emerged.

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Three men were eventually arrested after the lorry didn't stop for officers in Derbyshire after they suspected it was involved in criminal activity.

The lorry then travelled through South Yorkshire where police began to follow it.

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When it reached West Yorkshire, police managed to stop the lorry and arrested the three men with help from the dog unit.

Officers opened the back of the lorry and discovered it was full of stolen TVs.

A 36-year-old man has appeared before Leeds Magistrates' Court charged in connection with a fatal house fire in Huddersfield in 2002.

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Shahid Mohammed, formerly of Huddersfield, faces eight counts of murder and one count of conspiracy to commit arson with intent to endanger life.

He spoke only to confirm his name and date of birth during the brief hearing.

Eight members of the Chishti family died in the house fire in Birkby in 2002.

Shahid Mohammed was extradited back to the UK from Pakistan.

He was remanded in custody to appear before Leeds Crown Court tomorrow.

A youth unemployment project in Hull is set to benefit from European Union investment of more than £5m.

The Humber Learning Consortium helps 16 to 29-year-olds with training and support to help them access work or training.

Deputy chief executive Paul Rands said: "We're delighted to be awarded this further investment of over £5m, which will enable us to help more young people.

"It will hopefully allow us to make a real impact," he added.

The money has come from the European Social Fund and will be spent in the city over the next four years.

A ceremony's due to take place today to mark 50 years since Leeds was twinned with Lille in France.

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The relationship came about to promote peace following World War Two - the idea being that if people were friends they were less likely to go to war again.

It was formed with two twinning ceremonies, one held in France in October 1968 and the other at Leeds Civic Hall the following April.

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Although the relationship started in 1968, the Leeds-Lille links go back to the immediate post-war years.

School links started with France through pupils writing to pen pals in Lille which gradually developed into a city relationship.

Today will see a tree planted in the gardens of Temple Newsam House (pictured) to mark the anniversary.

A 79-year-old woman pedestrian who was hit by a car in Sheffield earlier this week has died in hospital.

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The woman was struck by a silver Toyota Aygo as she was crossing Sheffield Road in Woodhouse at about 08:05 on Monday.

The collision happened outside Woodhouse Health Centre (pictured), close to the junction with Tannery Street.

The woman was taken to hospital in a critical condition but died last night.

Police say they want to hear from anyone who saw what happened.

Officers are particularly keen to speak to a man who was driving a blue Renault Scenic who stopped at the scene to help with traffic control and is believed to have had a dash cam.

An app which aims to help reduce food waste by providing people with unsold products from supermarkets is now being used in Hull.

Cara Bilson (pictured) volunteers her time to collect food which supermarkets can no longer sell.

She then takes the food home and uploads details and images of it onto the app, called Olio.

Users can then arrange to collect it from her and other volunteers in the city, rather than it going to waste.

Ms Bilson says: "Not only does it help prevent food waste, but it also helps people who maybe need food but wouldn't always get it.

"Instead of food going into the landfill, it's actually going into hungry mouths," she adds.

The famous faked Cottingley Fairies photographs are to be sold at auction today.

Image source, Dominic Winter Auctioneers

Pictures of dancing pixies were mocked up in 1917 by 16-year-old Elsie Wright and her nine-year-old cousin Frances Griffiths in the village of Cottingley, near Bingley.

The girls borrowed Elsie's father's camera, and used coloured paper cut-outs and hat pins to stage their scenes near the stream at the end of Elsie's garden.

The pictures found their way to keen spiritualist Conan Doyle, of Sherlock Holmes fame, who was writing a magazine story on fairy life.

Following the publication of his article a great public controversy raged, with leading scientists and writers voicing their opinions in support of and against the truthfulness of the photographs.

Elsie and Frances only confessed the photographs had been faked in 1983.

Dominic Winter Auctioneers expects the two images to fetch over £2,000.

Campaigners in Withernsea claim the seaside town's minor injuries unit has been replaced by a "second rate service".

The town's former unit, which used to be visited by about 10 people a day, closed six months ago to make way for a new eight-to-eight centre.

Now, fewer than one person a day gets seen there, and local resident have said they're growing concerned they could end up losing it all together.

Roger Read, chair of Withernsea and District Health forum, said: "Second-rate service, simple as that. It's quite difficult to get a referral here and that means the service is being under-utilised."

Health managers say the priority in Withernsea is for planned care so there are more clinics for treatments such as physiotherapy and podiatry.

Jane Hawkard, chief officer of East Riding Clinical Commissioning Group, said: "We think we've done a good job, it's very difficult to provide services across our geography.

"Equally, we've got to balance the needs for the population of Withernsea and actually their needs are not in urgent treatment."

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The A684 between Sedbergh and the Yorkshire border is closed at Garsdale for repairs to a retaining wall by the river.

Diversions are lengthy, especially for heavy vehicles.

The 14th annual Light Night festival gets under way in Leeds later.

Thousands are expected to visit the light installations dotted around the city during the two-day event.

Highlights include a fire-breathing dragon in City Square near the railway station.

The annual free arts and light festival will also include an illuminated artwork celebrating two suffragettes (pictured below).

Image source, Leeds City Council

Leonora Cohen and Mary Gawthorpe both played a part in the suffrage struggle and came from Leeds.

A large artwork called A Certain Amount of Courage featuring the two women will be projected onto the exterior of Leeds City Library.

David Burns
Hull City Reporter, BBC Radio Humberside

Last night it emerged that a consortium which could include former chairman Paul Duffen may be close to a takeover of Hull City.

Duffen is the name that won't go away in the pursuit of Hull City, I've been saying that for a while now, and I'm told he's backed by mainly Saudi Arabian money.

It appears to me, having had quite a lot of conversations with various people, that somebody is doing due diligence on the club and there is a possibility that a deal might be close.

But you never know with these deals. We've seen it before when we've thought we've got close on deals and they've not happened...

The eight towns and cities which will host the start and finish lines of next year's Tour de Yorkshire are due to be announced later this morning.

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The four-day bike race will take place in the spring.

This year's event, which ended on the Headrow in Leeds, was watched by more than two million people.

The 2019 event will be the fifth time the race has been held.

An extra 15,000 containers are set to come through the Port of Hull this year after a new cargo service between Belgium and East Yorkshire was secured.

Image source, Associated British Ports

From next week, logistics firm Samskip will start making make two weekly sailings between Antwerp and Hull.

Samskip's UK director Richard Beales said: "With the current Brexit uncertainty, we believe that our spread of dedicated short sea services can offer robust options for companies wanting to de-risk their supply chain."

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This afternoon will be dry with patchy cloud, sunny spells and a gentle breeze.

Tonight, it'll be dry and clear.