Peterborough agree loans for defenders Ben White and Daniel Lafferty from Brighton & Hove Albion and Sheffield United.

The RMT's claim that Northern received an extra £31m from the taxpayer is rejected by the government.

Preston North End sign Barnsley midfielder Brad Potts on a three-and-a-half year deal for an undisclosed fee.

League One side Doncaster Rovers sign Swansea City defender Aaron Lewis on loan until the end of the season.

Forget the New York Police Department Choir and meet the boys of the Hull City and East Riding Police Band.

Apparently its the oldest in the country:

Image source, Humberside Police

Humberside Police shared an old black and white picture of the historic band, which it says first formed in 1861, on Twitter.

The photograph shows officers from the oldest police band in the country posing with their instruments in 1900.

The band, made up of 30 civilians and officers, is still going strong after more than 150 years and "travel all over the country and abroad".

An East Yorkshire bus company, which is selling a pair of vintage buses, says it will be keeping hold of its other historic models.

Image source, EYMS

East Yorkshire Motor Services (EYMS) are selling the vehicles, which are more than 50 years old, and were acquired for a "vintage bus hire operation".

The company says it will keep the other buses in its heritage fleet, which can be hired for events such as weddings, a 1956 AEC Regent V and a 1963 Leyland Titan PD2/37.

Image source, EYMS

On Twitter, managing director Martijn Gilbert described them as "an important part of the company's long history".

The AEC Regent V is known for having a specially curved roof in order to safely make it underneath Beverley Bar.

BBC Breakfast's Dan Walker is trying to get the Red Arrows to perform a flypast over a memorial that's been looked after by one man since 1944.

Next month will mark the 75th anniversary of an American pilot crashing into a hill in Sheffield to avoid performing an emergency landing in Endcliffe Park.

He did so because children, including a young Tony Foulds, were playing there at the time:

As you can see Dan was quite touched by the story and it determined to help Tony with his goal of securing a flypast from the Red Arrows, who are based at RAF Scampton, for the 75th anniversary.

Dan says he's now in touch with the RAF and the American Embassy and "wheels are in motion".

We'll have to wait and see if that results in the famous aerobatic team making an appearance over Sheffield.

Tony's story is going to be featured on BBC Breakfast tomorrow morning.

Britain's first ever farm shop, which was destroyed in a fire eight years ago, is to be rebuilt in Huddersfield.

Hinchliffe's on Netherton Moor Road opened in 1929, but had to relocate when a fire destroyed the entire building in 2010.

A multi-million pound project will fund the restoration.

Charlie Hincliffe, 95, opened the shop in 1970 after his father had sold eggs and chickens in the 1920s.

"It is unbelievable, we've waited so long for this," he said.

Work has now begun and the farm shop is expected to reopen in July.

A former army officer from Hull who served in India and stayed on to become one of Pakistan's most famous educators after partition has died aged 101.

Major Geoffrey Douglas Langlands was posted to the Indian army during the Second World War.

After independence he volunteered to stay on to help train the new Pakistani military.

His brief posting turned into more than seven decades in Pakistan, during which he left the army to become one of the country's most revered teachers.

Former students include Imran Khan.

He was briefly kidnapped in the tribal areas, spent decades building a school, and taught future Pakistani presidents and prime ministers at the prestigious Aitchison College in Lahore:

A man has appeared in court after a car was damaged when a gun was fired at it in Rotherham.

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The stationary car was damaged on Ash Grove last week.

Nobody was injured.

Nathan Smedley, 27, of Ingshead Avenue, Rawmarsh, appeared before magistrates earlier charged with possession of a firearm with intent to cause fear of violence, criminal damage, using threatening or abusive words or behaviour and going equipped to steal.

Mr Smedley has been remanded into custody and is expected to appear again on Thursday 31 January at Sheffield Crown Court.

The preferred candidate to be North Yorkshire's new chief fire officer has been announced.

Image source, North Yorkshire Police, Fire & Crime Commissioner

Andrew Brodie has spent the last five years working at the Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service.

His appointment will have to be confirmed by the North Yorkshire Police, Fire and Crime Panel in the next few weeks.

It's the most famous quote from the film Jaws, well here's the 'bigger boat' they needed, a giant ship seen on the Humber with shark's teeth painted on the front.

The company which runs ports in Hull, Goole, Grimsby and Immingham, shared a photograph on Twitter of the boat called the Nordic Oasis:

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Doncaster Council has decided to get rid of bottle and paper banks at a number of sites after a surge in fly-tipping.

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Waste bosses say commercial outlets have abused the faciliities and fly-tipping has led to complaints.

The bottle and paper banks at 17 sites, which are mainly in supermarket car parks, will now be removed.

Bosses said the council will save £24,000 by closing the sites and a further £10,000 they spend on clearing waste which has been fly-tipped.

This police horse decided she wanted to ride in the front of a van on the way back from a patrol in Leeds.

Lola the horse had been out in Halton Moor when she was photographed sniffing around the passenger seat of a police vehicle.

West Yorkshire Police joked that she wanted to "ride upfront" and shared the picture on Twitter:

A magazine editor, who is taking part in 100 triathlons over 100 days, will be in North Yorkshire to mark the anniversary of the death of a police officer.

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Paul Lander, who is the editor of weekly journal Police Professional, is taking on the challenge to raise money for charity.

He's so far completed 64 triathlons.

He will be in North Yorkshire on Saturday, coinciding with the sixth anniversary of PC Andrew Bramma's death.

PC Bramma, 32, was killed when the van he was driving crashed into a tree near West Tanfield.

Giant turbine blades were transported around Hull earlier as work continues on a wind farm, described as the largest in the world, off the East Yorkshire coast.

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A "meticulous operation" took place to transport 37 of the fibreglass blades, which will be used in Hornsea Project One.

It took about 75 minutes to move each of the blades, which were being stored at Alexandra Dock.

The 75 metre, 30 tonne blades, manufactured in Hull by Siemens Gamesa, are being shifted to a new site on King George Dock.

Image source, ABP

They were guided on a remote-controlled loader, driven at 5mph, in the early hours to ensure the minimum amount of disruption.

Associated British Ports (ABP) say the operation was "another example of our expertise in handling such large and specialist components".

Staff shortages are behind the delays to Bradford's Interchange and Forster Square revamp plans.

A North Yorkshire couple's plan to raffle their £500,000 home near Whitby has had to be called off because it's in breach of gambling rules.

Image source, Robert and Avril Smith

Robert and Avril Smith say they've had to close the competition with "sincere regret and upset".

The Smiths announced last year they were hoping to sell 60,000 tickets for £10 each, giving people a chance to win their four-bedroom home in Grosmont on the North York Moors, which includes an outdoor heated swimming pool.

Image source, Robert and Avril Smith

The winner was due to be drawn today, but the Smiths say they've closed the competition after being told by the Gambling Commission it wasn't legal.

The couple have apologised and are offering a full refund to people who've bought tickets.

David Harrison
BBC Radio Humberside

There's still no sign of the promised Pret a Manger outlet in Hull city centre almost a year after the company first put in an application to open here.

In the summer, the sandwich and coffee chain said it was on track to open its shop before the end of 2018 but this unit still remains empty with no sign of work inside.

On Twitter, I asked Pret a Manger if there was any update.

I was told the firm was "still finalising our lease on the property", so the wait, it seems, will continue.

Two masked robbers have threatened staff with crowbars and made off with cash from a store in Hoyland, near Barnsley.

Image source, SOUTH YORKSHIRE POLICE

The suspects entered the Post Office inside the Co-Op on Hoyland Road at about 17:30 on Friday 28 December.

After threatening staff with weapons, they stole a substantial amount of cash and fled in different directions.

One man left through the main entrance, the other ran through a fire exit.

Police are keen for anyone with information on the robbery to get in touch and would like to hear from anyone who recognises the people pictured in these CCTV images.

Image source, SOUTH YORKSHIRE POLICE