Emergency staff at Hull Royal Infirmary will be appearing in an NHS promotional video encouraging members of the public to use alternative services to accident and emergency this winter.

Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust say it only wants people to come to A&E in cases of genuine emergency.

The video is due to be released in December and the NHS hopes it will help reduce winter pressures on the health service.

The trust has received £2m from the government to help staff cope with the expected surge in admissions this winter.

Police are increasingly concerned for the welfare of a missing woman from Doncaster.

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Hayley Dunkley, 28, has been missing from the Balby area of Doncaster since Friday.

She was last seen wearing a white fleece jacket, grey Nike trainers, and she has long dark brown hair.

Great British Bake Off finalist, Kim-Joy Hewlett, has switched on Christmas lights in Leeds during a festive celebration at the weekend.

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Thousands of people saw the 27-year-old Leeds baker, who was one of the last three finalists in the TV show, press the button that turned on the lights of a 60ft, 25,000-bulb Christmas tree at Trinity Leeds shopping centre.

Dan Wharton, Marketing Manager at Trinity Leeds, said: “We’ve never had such a huge crowd for our Christmas lights switch on and we’re delighted Kim-Joy was the icing on the cake to our event.”

A walk has been held in North Yorkshire to mark the 100th anniversary of the death of World War One poet Wilfred Owen.

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He died on 4 November 1918 leading an attack near the Sambre-Oise canal in northern France.

The 25-year-old had lived in Ripon for a number of months while recovering from shell shock.

The walk, led by the Rev Caitlin Carmichael-Davies curate of Ripon Cathedral, visited locations connected with Owen.

Sites visited include a cottage in Borrage Lane where Owen lived and wrote a number of poems.

The Rev Carmichael-Davies laid a wreath on the cottage's gate and Owen's poem Arms and the Boy was read out.

The walk was followed by a special service where a bust of Owen was presented to the city's cathedral.

The A628 Woodhead Pass remains closed after a lorry caught fire earlier.

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The lorry, carrying wood chippings, caught fire earlier this morning, closing the road in both directions.

As debris is cleared away, it will give Highways England the chance to see if the blaze has damaged the carriageway.

A Belgian WW1 soldier never met a daughter he fathered in Yorkshire but his grandson has traced and met relatives.

There are plans to convert the historic Lord Line building in Hull into a restaurant and bar.

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Manor Property Group, which owns the building, is behind the idea which was previously rejected by the city council.

The plans will go before councillors for the second time later this week.

The Lord Line building, built in 1949, has stood empty on St Andrews Dock for a number of years and is on the council's list of architecturally or historically significant buildings.

Love letters sent from a Belgian soldier to the mother of his illegitimate child have helped unlock the secrets of a wartime romance.

When Cyrille Desager was injured in World War One, he was sent to recuperate at a stately home in Yorkshire, where he fell in love.

Between 1915 and 1917, Temple Newsham in Leeds was used as a convalescent hospital and it was while there Mr Desager met Beeston girl, Lizzie Wark.

There was talk of an engagement between the couple, and by 1918 Lizzie was pregnant with their daughter Margaret.

The pregnancy was kept a secret from her immediate family to save casting shame on them, and Miss Wark was sent to Ireland to give birth.

Mr Desager returned to Belgium and never saw the mother of his child again nor had the chance to meet his little girl.

You can see the full story on BBC Inside Out Yorkshire and Lincolnshire at 19:30 on BBC One tonight.

A school in Sheffield where dozens of police and dog handlers were sent to deal with a fight has a new headteacher from today.

More than 15 police vehicles and a helicopter were sent to Fir Vale School last month.

Two people were hurt and the school in Owler Lane was temporarily closed.

The head, Simon Hawkins, left by mutual consent and has been replaced by Rachel Smith.

She'll meet staff today and welcome pupils tomorrow.

A wreath laid in tribute to a police sergeant murdered 34 years ago has been apparently damaged by vandals.

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Sgt John Speed was shot dead in Leeds city centre in 1984 after going to the aid of a colleague who was checking on two men acting suspiciously.

Ch Supt Steve Cotter, who attended last week's wreath laying ceremony, said: "Sergeant John Speed was murdered in the line of duty and each year we continue the important tradition of remembering our fallen colleague.

"We are looking into what has happened and if someone has done that as a deliberate act of vandalism and disrespect then I and my colleagues in West Yorkshire Police and the wider policing family are truly appalled."

In 2010, the memorial stone was defaced after vandals painted it with a swastika.

A multi-million pound scheme to improve a main road in Hull is set to begin today.

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After years of delays, a new £11.5m footbridge will be built on the A63 to link the marina with the southern end of Princes Dock.

Work was due to start on the Princes Quay footbridge in time for Hull City of Culture 2017, but the project was delayed by an "engineering problem."

Work at Roger Millward Way, which includes building two new lanes, also begins today.

A lorry, carrying wood chippings, caught fire prompting the closure of a road in South Yorkshire.

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Police say the A628 Woodhead Pass is closed in both directions from the A616 (Flouch Roundabout, Langsett) to Windle Edge (Dunford Bridge Turn Off).

The road's been shut since 03:30.

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Officers say the lorry is still smouldering and may have damaged the carriageway.

Highways England say the carriageway will be inspected and is expected to be closed for some time.

BBC News Travel

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

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

• York Station, external
• Leeds Station, external
• Sheffield Station, external
• Hull Station, external
• Doncaster Station, external
• Wakefield Westgate, external
• Bradford Interchange, external
• Bradford Forster Square, external

BBC Weather

A cloudy start with some mist in places, but for most areas this morning it looks like staying dry.

This afternoon there'll be a chance of some bright or sunny spells.

Tonight it will turn misty in places and a south-easterly breeze is expected to freshen.

The mayor of a market town in North Yorkshire is heading to the High Court in London today for the first step in a legal challenge over fracking.

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Paul Andrews, who is the mayor of Malton, will outline his arguments for a judicial review over government proposals to change the planning rules around fracking applications.

Business Secretary Greg Clark announced measures in May to help speed up decisions on planning proposals connected to hydraulic fracturing.

Mr Andrews (pictured) said the move would deprive local councils of control.

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The process of fracking involves drilling down and directing water and chemicals under high-pressure into rock to release trapped gas.

Long delayed plans to drill for shale gas near Pickering, which is eight miles from Malton, are still waiting for final government approval.

If Mr Andrews is successful there'll be a full hearing at a later date.

Police in West Yorkshire have stopped a lorry for using a fizzy drinks bottle as an indicator light.

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Traffic officers tweeted they had spotted the HGV on the M62 motorway near Bradford on Saturday afternoon.

As well as the Lucozade bottle indicator the vehicle was over its weight limit, had a brake light not working and a smashed wing mirror.

Police say: "The driver was fined and prohibited from moving until the weight issue was sorted".

The flowers were placed at a memorial to Sgt John Speed, shot dead in Leeds in 1984.