A drug user repeatedly stabbed a 73-year-old woman in her home, before stealing her car for cash.

Michael Goddard, 51, was jailed for a minimum of 24 years for killing Glen Boardman in June.

Miles of roadworks are due to be lifted in time for the festive getaway, according to Highways England.

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Major works on some motorways and A-roads will stop to help journeys "flow more smoothly" for commuters and delivery drivers alike.

They include the M62 works between junctions 33 and 34 and between junctions 22 and 24, the A1 near Doncaster, Windle Edge near Barnsley and the A64 near Tadcaster and Malton.

An art exhibition set up by multi-million selling Yorkshire band Kaiser Chiefs opens to the public today.

It includes a silent gig, projections of light and lyrics, and a setlist of songs linked to York Art Gallery's collections.

The band, famous for their song I Predict A Riot, said: "We've chosen to use this opportunity to explore sound as a medium and to explore the edges between music and art, creation and performance."

When All Is Quiet: Kaiser Chiefs in Conversation With York Art Gallery runs until March next year.

Two women from Scarborough have been jailed after defrauding a "vulnerable" Whitby businesswoman out of thousands of pounds.

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Elizabeth Johnson, 67, targeted Fiona Rhodes, who managed a caravan site.

Johnson offered to help reduce the business’s utility bills "for free", York Crown Court heard.

Two years later, she brought in Machele Caroline Farrar, 60, to help with the accounts.

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Johnson stole £150,062 and was jailed for four years.

Farrar stole £51,548, and laundered an amount of £84,131.

She was jailed for three years and six months.

The 54-year-old victim died a short time after the investigation began.

The magnificent entrance to Hull's first park has been removed for restoration after more than 150 years.

The archway on Pearson Avenue has survived, even if the original gates have gone, but it has now been dismantled and taken away.

The land for the park was given to the city corporation by Zachariah Charles Pearson, hence its name.

A former British soldier who was convicted in Turkey of being a member of a terrorist organisation has skipped bail and returned to the UK, the BBC understands.

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Joe Robinson, from Leeds, was facing a seven-and-a half-year jail term.

In 2015, he spent time with Kurdish armed groups in Syria, including the YPG, which Turkey regards as a terrorist group.

Robinson, 25, was on bail pending an appeal against his conviction.

He told the BBC he believed the Turkish authorities had "no legitimate reason" to convict him of terror offences, and he wanted to be left alone to spend time with friends and family in the UK.

A former PE teacher at a Doncaster school has been banned from teaching for two years for behaving inappropriately with a pupil.

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Michael Hague, 55, resigned in December 2016 after a 28 year career at Hill House School.

He admitted hugging a pupil, kissing her on the forehead and sending her text messages signed off with kisses.

Mr Hague said the hugs were to offer reassurance and the messages were to check on her welfare as she had some personal difficulties.

A professional conduct panel found he'd blatantly and repeatedly breached the boundaries of a teacher pupil relationship.

Christopher Lewis, 24, was shot in Chapeltown on 1 August and died later in hospital.

Students with special needs have been selling their handmade Christmas gifts in a pop-up shop in Leeds.

The shop, in Leeds' Kirkgate Market, is part of an enterprise project at the Specialist Inclusive Learning Centres (SILC).

The Lighthouse School, West SILC, Broomfield SILC, East SILC and North West SILC are all involved.

The pupils have been selling gifts they have made at school, all for under £5 each.

Ryan Jowle, 19, was stabbed to death in a fight hours after celebrating his mother's birthday.

Ryan Steadman met many of his victims after approaching them on social media, a court hears.

Jobs building trains for London's underground in a new factory in East Yorkshire will go to local people, according to firm Siemens.

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The company is set to manufacture 94 trains for the Piccadilly line in a factory which is yet to be built in Goole.

The new train factory is planned to be built on a 67-acre site close to the M62.

There were thought to be employment opportunities for 700 people at the site.

A 63-year-old man has been jailed for nine-and-a-half years for sexually abusing two teenage students at a West Yorkshire dance school.

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Paul Marsden was found guilty of three indecent assaults that happened more than 30 years ago.

Following his conviction last month, a crowdfunding page was set up to pay his £3,000 legal fees.

It had raised around £300 before the site was closed down following a complaint.

Bradford Crown Court heard that Marsden of Daisy Hill Back Lane, Bradford subjected one of the girls, aged 14 at the time, to abuse over a number of months.

Judge Burn also imposed an indefinite sexual harm prevention order and he will also have to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life.

Police officers are warning against people advertising their homes to criminals after a note was left on door saying "we're out".

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The note, taped to the postbox, read "please leave parcels in blue bin (we're out) xxx".

South Yorkshire Police's central policing team posted the picture asking homeowners not to advertise their empty homes to burglars.

Paul Marsden's offences dated back the the 1980s and involved a girl aged 14.

Three Yorkshire MPs are currently debating Brexit on BBC Radio Leeds and live on BBC Yorkshire's Facebook.

• Alex Sobel, Labour MP for Leeds North West, who wants to have a second referendum.
• Hilary Benn, Labour MP for Leeds Central and Chair of the Brexit Select Committee, who wants to stay in the EU’s single market and customs union.
• Alec Shelbrooke, Conservative MP for Elmet & Rothwell and Vice-Chair of the Conservative Party, who backs Theresa May and her deal.

Asked if they wanted to "actually leave the EU", Alec Shelbrooke said: "I voted Remain but we have to implement the referendum result."

Alex Sobel said: "The best deal is the one we already have (remaining in the EU."

Whereas Hilary Benn said: "I've been trying honestly to give effect to the referendum but it's complicated and difficult."

Did you accidentally leave a bag of Christmas presents behind in Rotherham? If so, a Good Samaritan found them and wants to give them back.

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A woman got in touch with South Yorkshire Police last night having found the bag of presents on Bradgate Lane.

Now, there's an appeal to find the person who might have lost the presents so "Christmas comes to those who the presents are meant for", the force says.

If the owner calls South Yorkshire Police's non-emergency number 101 with a description of the presents, they can be reunited.

Rolandas Poskus was found dead in grassland in Hull with a "multitude of injuries".

A renowned physicist from Hull, who was a close friend of Albert Einstein, has been honoured with a plaque at the city's university.

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Edward Arthur Milne was a leading expert on the theory of relativity and the University of Hull's centre for astrophysics is already named after him.

He was recognised as part of the Lord Mayor's Centenary Plaque project, celebrating 100 historic figures with links to Hull.

Professor Brad Gibson, the university's head of physics and maths, said: "Often overshadowed by his close friend, Albert Einstein, it is important to celebrate the pioneering contributions made by the professor, one of the truly great astrophysicists and mathematicians of the 20th century."