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  1. MP 'not going anywhere' despite no confidence votepublished at 09:53 Greenwich Mean Time 19 November 2018

    The Labour MP for Penistone and Stocksbridge Angela Smith has said she's not stepping down, despite a vote of no confidence from her own constituency party.

    Angela SmithImage source, Labour Party

    Members said the MP has been a persistent critic of the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and opposed the party's policy on taking water companies back into public ownership.

    The motion was voted on on Friday night and received 27 votes to 20.

    The former shadow deputy leader of the house said there was a lack of tolerance in the constituency party.

    "The reasons I think are entirely related to a lack of tolerance on behalf of some members in the constituency party", she said.

    "They don't like people having difference different to theirs and they don't think those different views should be articulated and I find that incredibly worrying."

  2. Barnsley dinner ladies back out on strikepublished at 09:38 Greenwich Mean Time 19 November 2018

    Dinner ladies and support staff at a school in Barnsley are back out on strike.

    Striking dinner ladies

    The walk out at Ladywood Primary School in Grimethorpe is over plans to replace dinner ladies with teaching assistants.

    The Unison union says it's put forward alternative proposals for saving funds to avoid redundancies, but those proposals have now been rejected by the management team.

    Unison says it was initially told the move was because teaching assistants were better equipped to monitor challenging children

    But the union said it was later told the change was to save money.

  3. 'Hidden disability' mum abused over disabled parking baypublished at 09:12 Greenwich Mean Time 19 November 2018

    A woman has said she was abused for "misusing" a blue badge to park because her daughter didn't look disabled.

    Rachael Hanley noteImage source, Rachael Hanley

    Rachael Hanley used her blue badge to park at Meadowhall, near Sheffield, with her two children, when she claims a man verbally abused her and then left a note on her car windscreen.

    The note said she had been reported for misusing her blue badge as her daughter "did not look or appear disabled" because she wasn't using a wheelchair.

    The mum of two posted on Facebook saying she was "absolutely fuming" at the note, with her daughter collapsing, fitting while vomiting, and needing oxygen in the car park.

    Government guidelines state parents of children, external under three years old can apply for the badge if they need to "be kept near a vehicle at all times", with bulky medical equipment needed to be used.

  4. Future of Yorkshire newspapers secured in buy outpublished at 08:51 Greenwich Mean Time 19 November 2018

    The future of Yorkshire newspapers, previously owned by Johnston Press, has been secured after they were acquired by JPIMedia, a spokesman said.

    Papers

    Johnston Press publishes 150 titles including the Yorkshire Post, the Scarborough News, Harrogate Advertiser and the Sheffield Star.

    Johnston Press was one of the largest local and regional newspaper organisations in the UK, but had debts of £220m which were due for repayment in June next year.

    Meanwhile, the National Union of Journalists has said it has "significant concerns" about the long-term intentions of the newspapers' new owners.

    The union is demanding "a commitment that this is not a transition leading to a carve-up of the group motivated by asset-stripping rather than a commitment to journalism and publishing".

    The NUJ is expected to meet Johnston Press management later today.

  5. Details of East Yorkshire 'super prison' revealedpublished at 08:36 Greenwich Mean Time 19 November 2018

    The government will this week reveal more details of a so-called super-prison it wants to build in East Yorkshire.

    Prison plansImage source, Ministry of Justice

    Hundreds of low-risk category C prisoners would be housed in the new facility at Full Sutton near York.

    Campaigners opposing plans for the jail said last year the site would leave them feeling "very vulnerable."

    in a statement, the Ministry of Justice said: "We fully understand the concerns of residents and are committed to mitigating any disruption that may arise from the development of the site."

    Plans for the new prison will be exhibited on Wednesday at Full Sutton Prison.

  6. Barnsley couple want answers after motorway car fireballpublished at 08:17 Greenwich Mean Time 19 November 2018

    A couple from Barnsley say they want answers after their car, a Ford C Max, burst into flames.

    Jowett car

    Keith and Margaret Jowett were travelling to Southampton in September when the incident happened.

    Keith says Ford have ignored his questions despite discovering the company had a clutch-related safety recall on his vehicle which he'd not been notified about.

    "I was travelling on a dual carriageway, and suddenly there was an almighty bang and immediately smoke and flames shot out from under the bonnet," he said.

    After the incident, the couple realised there was a safety recall on the car, which affects 122,000 vehicles, but Mr Jowett said he had not been notified.

    On 23 October, Mr Jowett was told by Ford to contact his insurers, three weeks after the chief executive said customers need not go through their insurance, but to contact the company directly.

    Ford said it would not discuss individual cases publicly due to confidentiality, but that it has written to insurers to emphasise its willingness to conduct joint forensic investigations.

    It added that a number of factors can cause vehicle fires, and it must not be assumed it is a manufacturing defect.

  7. Hull digital clock inventor missed out on millionspublished at 08:00 Greenwich Mean Time 19 November 2018

    One of the world's first digital clocks, which was made by a man in his shed in Hull, has been sold at auction.

    Digital clock

    Thomas Bromley, an engineer and amateur inventor, created his Digitron Electric Clock in 1961.

    He held the patent to the design for three years but chose not to renew it - potentially costing him millions of pounds.

    The prototype was sold for £460 to a UK buyer when it went under the hammer in Beverley, East Yorkshire.

    Thomas BromleyImage source, The Bromley Family

    Auctioneer John Hawley said Bromley had received an award at the Salon des Inventors in Brussels in 1964 for his prototype and would have been a multimillionaire had he renewed his patent.

    A year after the patent ran out, the Japanese started manufacturing "virtually an identical clock and sold it in many thousands", he said.

    Bromley, who died in 1990, also invented curtains that automatically closed when the sun went down.

  8. Police 'committed' to finding man missing for three yearspublished at 07:47 Greenwich Mean Time 19 November 2018

    North Yorkshire Police say it's still "fully committed" to tracing a man who vanished three years ago after a night out in York.

    Rory HatfieldImage source, North Yorkshire Police

    Rory Johnson-Hatfield was last seen on a care home balcony in Skeldergate after a night in the city centre with friends.

    Footage from inside the care home shows him on a balcony overlooking the river.

    A witness saw Mr Johnson-Hatfield running towards the home as if being chased - he stopped at the entrance and dashed across the car park to scale six-foot high gates before climbing on to the balcony.

    Police feared the 29-year-old, from Skipton, had fallen into the River Ouse, but despite extensive searches of the river his body has not been found.

    Rory's parents say not knowing their son's whereabouts is "unbearable."

    A North Yorkshire Police spokesperson said: "We never stop looking for a missing person and Rory continues to be a missing person until he is found."

  9. Yorkshire's weatherpublished at 07:27 Greenwich Mean Time 19 November 2018

    BBC Weather

    There'll be a lot of cloud around today and showers pushing in from the east, especially during this afternoon.

    It'll also be breezy and feeling colder.

    This evening and tonight will remain breezy with a lot of cloud around and showers continuing to push in from the east.

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  10. Check your Yorkshire train journeypublished at 07:15 Greenwich Mean Time 19 November 2018

    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:

  11. Meeting 'The Rock' at a Doncaster gympublished at 06:59 Greenwich Mean Time 19 November 2018

    Here's one you might have missed over the weekend.

    Hollywood star Dwayne Johnson gave gym-goers in Doncaster a bit of a surprise when he dropped in for a workout.

    The ex-wrestler-turned-actor posed for photos with the owners of a Doncaster gym where he dropped in for a workoutImage source, CRAIE CARRERA

    The ex-wrestler, known as The Rock, has been filming in Yorkshire for Fast and Furious spin-off Hobbs and Shaw.

    After hitting the weights at Global Fitness Gym, the actor posed for photos and with its owners.

    Boss Craie Carrera said he was tipped off to the A-list arrival when someone came to assess his gym on behalf of "someone famous".

    "I said as long as he puts his weights away, then it doesn't matter who it is."

    Mr Carrera, who owns the gym with wife Alicia, praised the down-to-earth actor.

    "He was very talkative, a nice guy, really genuine, just like an everyday person," he said.

    The star has been filming alongside Idris Elba at Eggborough, near Selby, for the Fast and Furious franchise spin-off.

  12. Plastics making their way into Yorkshire riverspublished at 06:45 Greenwich Mean Time 19 November 2018

    Research by scientists in Yorkshire has found microplastics are making their way into the county's rivers.

    Plastic in laboratory

    Experts at Leeds University say more work is needed to look at the impact of the plastics and if they are reaching the food chain.

    Water treatment plants remove 99% of plastics, but scientists say some are being missed and end-up in the sludge used by farmers as a fertilizer.

  13. Boy, 17, due in court over teen stab deathpublished at 06:30 Greenwich Mean Time 19 November 2018

    A 17-year-old boy is due before magistrates today charged with the murder of a teenager who was stabbed to death in Halifax.

    Jamie BrownImage source, West Yorkshire Police

    Jamie Brown, also 17, was fatally stabbed on East Park Road, in the Ovenden area of the town, on 27 October.

    Five other people arrested in connection with the incident remain on bail, West Yorkshire Police said.