About 17 cyclists and motorcyclists are killed or seriously injured on roads in Yorkshire every week, new figures show.

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The statistics have been published at the start of Road Safety Week by Yorkshire-based charity Brake, external to encourage more drivers to be aware of fellow road users.

Last year, almost 900 cyclists and motorcyclists were killed or seriously injured on Yorkshire’s roads.

Brake is calling for drivers to be "bike smart" by slowing down and looking properly at junctions.

The charity also suggests drivers do the so-called "Dutch reach", which means opening the car door using the hand furthest from the handle, which forces drivers to turn and look behind them.

Steve Pettit, who runs a bike shop in Hull, says he isn't at all surprised by the charity's statistics.

He says: "The amount of people who come in that have been knocked off - it's not always their fault, but sometimes it is, if they haven't made themselves visible or they take short cuts."

And it's a lot cheaper than one of his paintings.

Two teenagers were threatened with a hammer and violently robbed inside a cinema near Sheffield.

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It happened at about 17:25 in screen eight at Cineworld, Centertainment last night.

It's thought a man demanded the phones from a group of teenagers and punched one of them in the head.

He is then said to have grabbed another boy before leaving.

Police officers are appealing for information into what happened.

A 15-year-old girl has been assaulted on a suburban street in Harrogate, police say.

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The girl sustained an injury to her face during the attack on Swarcliffe Road in the town at about 09:00 on 14 November.

Officers say the suspect is a man aged between 30 and 40-years-old, approximately 5ft 9ins tall with scruffy blonde hair.

He was wearing a black puffa jacket, grey track bottoms and blue trainers.

Anyone with information that could help the investigation is being asked to contact North Yorkshire Police.

Specialist scanning equipment has revealed the remains of a Roman forum and theatre hidden under a playing field in Brough.

The East Yorkshire town was originally the site of a Roman fort nearly 2,000 years ago.

Archaeologists believed that the original buildings had been destroyed as the town developed over the centuries.

This video shows the ground penetrating radar, which has been used to reveal the remains of ditches, roads and wall:

Ram-raiders reversed a stolen car into a Leeds toy store before threatening one member of staff with a hammer.

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Police are appealing for information after the raid at 19:22 yesterday at the Smyths Toys store in the Kirkstall Bridge Shopping Park, Bridge Road, near Leeds.

The gang reversed a silver/grey Ford Focus through the glass front doors.

The store was closed at the time.

Four masked men entered the store, one threatened a member of staff with a hammer, and stole a number of game consoles.

They loaded the items into the Ford Focus and a silver Kia, which had been parked outside.

The Focus was carrying the false registration YT04EBK.

Both cars were later found in the Hyde Park and Gipton areas.

Ex-Barnsley and Peterborough boss Jim Iley, who played for Newcastle, Tottenham and Nottingham Forest has died, aged 82.

Police have arrested three men and a woman for violent disorder following a disturbance in Hull this weekend.

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Police say that on Saturday a group of men and women were involved in a disturbance on Kings Bench Street (pictured).

Officers are now appealing for information following the incident, which resulted in damage to a property.

A woman, 25, and two men, 23 and 22, have been arrested on suspicion of being involved in violent disorder.

A fourth person, a 22-year-old man, has been arrested on suspicion of violent disorder, common assault and criminal damage.

A man who was jailed for murdering a woman in West Yorkshire and who absconded from an open prison has been spotted at a church in Hampshire, police have said.

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Jeremy Brabrooke, 56, went missing from HMP Ford, near Littlehampton, West Sussex, on 14 November.

He was last seen on CCTV at St Faith's Church in Havant on 16 November and police have released the images to help trace him.

Brabrooke was given a life sentence in 1988 for murdering a 59-year-old woman in Bingley.

Former England football star Paul Gascoigne has been charged with the sexual assault of a woman on a train from York to Durham.

The incident is said to have taken place on a CrossCountry train on 20 August.

Mr Gascoigne, 51, has been charged with one count of sexual assault by touching.

He's due to appear at Newton Aycliffe Magistrates' Court on 11 December.

Train operator Northern has warned that "excess leaves on the line" mean its trains will be shorter and more crowded.

Adverse Autumn conditions mean rails are more slippery and cause "flat spots" on train carriage wheels as the carriages skid when the brakes are applied, wearing down part of the wheel, the firm says.

These carriages then have to be taken out of service so the wheels can be put on a metal lathe and the flat spots removed for safety.

Particularly bad weather conditions last week mean 20 carriages are now being repaired, leading to fewer carriages in service, a Northern spokesman said.

The firm uses jet sprays attached to the front of its trains to put sand on to the tracks to remove the leaf mulch, he added.

Here's Northern's video to explain more:

FC Halifax Town sign striker Dayle Southwell from Guiseley, while Shrewsbury goalkeeper Shaun Rowley also agrees to join.

A note was left on her windscreen saying her sick daughter "did not appear disabled".

A 36-year-old man is in hospital with fractures to his jaw, cheek, eye socket and nose after being attacked in Scarborough.

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He was injured during what police are calling an "altercation" involving a group of men and women outside The Waterhouse pub in the early hours of Sunday morning.

The victim, from Middlesbrough, is currently being treated at York District Hospital for serious facial injuries.

North Yorkshire Police, who were alerted to the incident by CCTV operators, are now appealing for information.

A 27-year-old woman and two men, aged 30 and 37, have been arrested and released under investigation while enquiries continue.

A 17-year-old girl is in a critical but stable condition after a car she was in hit a tree near Dewsbury.

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Police are appealing for witnesses following the crash in Staincliffe in the early hours of yesterday morning.

The accident happened at about 05:05 when a silver VW Jetta hit the tree on Halifax Road at the junction with West Park Street.

The 17-year-old girl was taken to hospital along with the driver, a 20-year-old man, who was seriously injured.

Two other passengers, a 16-year-old girl and a 19-year-old man, were also taken to hospital for treatment for non-serious injuries.

Police say there have been no arrests.

Rod Stewart's dulcet tones are to echo around Sheffield's Bramall Lane stadium as part of his UK tour next year.

The legendary singer will play Sheffield on Saturday 15 June - one of a number of football stadiums and arenas he'll perform at during his 2019 tour.

This show marks the first time there's been a concert at the football club since Bruce Springsteen played two nights at the venue back in 1988, according to Sheffield United.

Actress and singer Sheridan Smith will perform in Hull next year.

She will appear at the city's Bonus Arena in March, as part of a tour in support of her second album A Northern Soul.

The Funny Girl star was born in Epworth, North Lincolnshire.

Firefighters will continue to assess the damage to a building in Bridlington after a fire over the weekend.

A 70-metre high building went up in flames at Muntons maltings on Saturday night.

No-one was injured, and the plant is working as normal.

The car manufacturer claimed to investigate all fires in its vehicles thoroughly.

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Sheffield's Danny Willett has won the season-ending DP World Tour Championship in Dubai - his first title since the 2016 Masters.

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He carded a four-under final round of 68 to finish on 18 under par, two shots ahead of fellow Englishman Matt Wallace and Patrick Reed of the United States.

The 31-year-old nearly hit his tee shot into a stream on the 18th hole before recovering to make par.

Willett won his first major at Augusta two years ago but slipped from a career-high of ninth in the rankings to outside the top 450 earlier this year because of injury and a loss of form.