Patricia Robertshaw faked an illness and pretended to have qualifications she didn't have to get jobs.

A woman who pretended to be ill has admitted defrauding a Yorkshire cancer charity out of more than £90,000.

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Patricia Robertshaw, 42, Gisburn Road in Barrowford, Lancashire worked as a partnership and events manager at Yorkshire Cancer Research in Harrogate.

She has pleaded guilty to four counts of fraud and one of forgery when she appeared at York Crown Court earlier.

She was warned she could be jailed when she is sentenced next month.

A woman who pretended to be ill in order to swindle a cancer charity out of more than £90,000 has admitted fraud.

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Patricia Robertshaw, of Barrowford, Lancashire, who worked as a partnership and events manager at Yorkshire Cancer Research in Harrogate has admitted four counts of fraud and one of forgery at York Crown Court.

Robertshaw was warned by Judge Andrew Stubbs QC she could be jailed when she is due to be sentenced on 15 February.

the 42-year-old admitted committing fraud by pretending to be ill in 2017. She also pretended to have certain qualifications in order to get jobs and made fake certificates that were used by others, who believed them to be genuine.

Hull Kingston Rovers centre Thomas Minns is placed on leave after failing a drugs test which he says 'could cost me my career'.

York councillor Keith Aspden will be returning to his role as Deputy Leader of City of York Council in March.

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It comes after the standards committee ruled he had not brought the council into disrepute and a number of other allegations against him were dismissed.

There were accusations he brought hard copies of job applications into a pub in York and had a close connection with a candidate.

The committee concluded forms were not taken to the pub and the councillor didn't improperly use his position.

There will be a handover period with Andrew Waller who has been in the role since Mr Aspden was first suspended.

Cllr Aspden will work alongside the Conservative leader Ian Gillies in joint administration until the elections in May.

Sheffield City Council is taking too long to carry out assessments for children with special educational needs in more than half of its cases, according to a new report.

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The education, health and care plans are supposed to be completed in 20 weeks.

But a freedom of information request has revealed that isn't the case for most people, with some families waiting two-and-a-half years.

"We have been working hard to improve this for some time," a statement from the council said.

"We have put in place additional staffing and improved systems to support this," it added.

Can you help get this historic war medal back to its rightful owner?

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Police have retrieved the award in Leeds and are trying to reunite it with its owners.

A man is in a life-threatening condition after he was hit by car in Notton, near Wakefield.

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The 81-year-old wheelchair user was seriously injured when he collided with a Volvo XC70 at about 12:30 on 6 January.

A 71-year-old woman who was with him suffered minor injuries.

Police are keen for anyone who witnessed the incident to get in touch.

A terminally ill mum from York, who was was left waiting months for crucial adaptation work to her home to be completed, has been joined by her local MP in calling for tougher regulations on building contractors.

In November 2018 Sarah Ibbotson was left in what she described as a "living hell" after a builder didn't finish the work on her home.

Sarah, who has Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, a rare inherited condition which affects connective tissue,, external says she's spent more than £50,000 on the work, some of which was a government grant through the council.

York Central MP Rachael Maskell says it's a "scandal" that government money is being given to builders that haven't been properly checked and much tighter regulation is needed.

A public consultation on the future of the Post Office in Beverley has opened today and a local MP is urging locals to make their "objections heard".

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The Conservative MP for Beverley and Holderness is urging people to "submit their views" over proposals to move services into a branch of WH Smith.

The Post Office has previously said the consultation will not include the proposal to move services, saying it is a "commercial decision".

Graham Stuart (pictured, centre) said: "We may be able to change enough minds and convince the Post Office that postal facilities are best left in the current premises."

Construction work on a new library and museum in the centre of Doncaster is due to be stepped up in the coming weeks.

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The latest photo shows the old girls' school site being cleared ahead of construction work.

The £14m build is set to be finished by the summer of 2020.

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Officers did a little more than your average 'naybourhood' policing this morning in Bradford, when they were alerted to a loose horse by the road:

There are 'significant' delays on numerous Scarborough bus routes due to temporary traffic lights.

Bus services running on Falsgrave Road are affected:

This isn't something people near Bradford get to tweet about everyday.

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Phillip Brooks was surprised to see a parrot sitting in a tree by Leeming Reservoir.

Mr Brooks, who has lived in the area for more than two decades, said despite a rich variety of wildlife at the reservoir, this was the first time a parrot had been spotted.

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Motorists are being warned of road closures and speed restrictions as improvement work is carried out on the Stocksbridge bypass in South Yorkshire.

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A new right-hand turn, pedestrian crossing and improved lighting are set to be installed at the Park Lane junction near Tankersley Park golf course.

Lane closures, speed restrictions and narrow lanes will all be in place as the work starts on Monday which is set to last about 10 weeks.

Some overnight road closures will be needed between Newton Chamber and Westwood roundabout between 20:00 and 06:00.

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Almost £300,000 is being spent on getting 17 "natural" flood protection schemes started in West Yorkshire this winter.

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Natural flood management uses processes to slow the rate of water run-off and increase the volume of water the landscape can hold.

The schemes in Calderdale include 15,775 sq m of storage pond space, 2,800 trees being planted, 142 "leaky dams" to be built, 105 metres of fascines to be created and 728 metres of hedges to be planted or restored.

More than 3,000 properties were flooded in the Calder Valley in December 2015.

Communities in Hebden Bridge, Mytholmroyd, Sowerby Bridge and other areas were badly hit by the floodwaters.

Calderdale Flood Recovery and Resilience Board, which discussed progress, heard these projects complement traditional hard engineering techniques to provide another, "natural, element" to flood defences.

Some people living near the former Futurist Theatre in Scarborough say questions still remain unanswered about claims cracks have appeared in their homes.

Work by contractors, Willmott Dixon, to clear the site has been ongoing since April last year.

Michael Rivers lives nearby and says he can feel vibrations "completely through the house."

He says the same can be said for the whole terraced row he lives on.

Scarborough Borough Council says “Willmott Dixon and the council have received a small number of reports of cracking in properties surrounding the site.

"The council’s appointed engineers have visited each property owner, viewed the alleged damage and in some cases, placed monitoring equipment in properties."

Scarborough Borough Council says it has "no concerns for the safety of those properties and their occupants."

A former police chief from York has criticised the reaction to rogue drones at Heathrow airport saying it's been "very slow."

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The military has been called in to help deal with the threat posed by drones after departures from the airport were halted for an hour last night after a drone was sighted.

It comes after flights were grounded last month at Gatwick airport after sightings of possible drones.

Allan Charlesworth. a former Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police, says: "These toys which have been turned into sinister snooping machines, we've known they've been around for years, we're very slow to react and we've got to do something about this technology.

"We can deal with it abroad in a military situation, so what's the difference?"

Doncaster Council's fostering service has been rated as outstanding, according to a government watchdog.

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Ofsted praised the council in a report.

It said the service's work "greatly enhances the life chances" of children and young people.

It has also given positive feedback to Doncaster Children's Services Trust and Doncaster Council for services they jointly deliver for children and young people with disabilities.

Thousands of properties in Hull will benefit from improved flood protection after the government signed off on a £42m scheme.

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About 113,000 homes and businesses are expected to be protected from tidal risk associated with the Humber.

The work is expected to include glass panels, to maintain a view of the waterfront, with art works also being displayed at certain points.

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The scheme went before the local council before being given the go ahead by the secretary of state for housing, communities and local government.

Work is expected to start later this year.

The Environment Agency say that in the past 65 years there have been three major tidal events in Hull, the last in December 2013 when 264 properties were flooded due to "overtopping" of existing defences.