A vulnerable man with dementia was found safe and well this morning after he went missing in freezing conditions in North Yorkshire.

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The 74-year-old man walked from his care home on Kearsley Road at about 02:45.

Police teams, a dog unit and a helicopter carried out an emergency search.

The man was found walking on a river bank on North Road at about 04:00 and is "safe and well", say police.

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An overturned lorry is causing travel disruption on a major Rotherham roundabout.

The lorry overturned at 07:00 on the Canklow Roundabout in the town at the junction with Centenary Way.

Police say the A630 Centenary Way is partially blocked and there's very slow traffic.

Traffic officers are on scene directing traffic and a recovery operation is underway.

This is the latest from the scene:

The M1 J47 northbound near Garforth remains closed due to a collision between a cyclist and a van.

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Emergency services are at the scene.

Police say there are suspected serious injuries.

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Disruption is expected on Northern rail services between Wakefield Westgate, Sheffield and Doncaster.

The delays are expected to go on until 14:00.

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The snow has began to fall near Huddersfield.

This picture is of Windy Hill, on the M62.

Highways England has warned drivers to be careful:

Police say they're becoming "increasingly concerned" about a man missing in Sheffield after sleeping rough.

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Ben Bailey was thought to have been in the Concord Park area at about 19:00 last night, but hasn't been seen or heard from since.

South Yorkshire Police want to hear from anyone who has seen the 25-year-old, who "may be looking fairly dishevelled".

Police will be accompanying an abnormal load as it is transported from Immingham to Withernwick today.

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Humberside Police say the load will move slowly along the M180, M18 and M62, before going on the A614, A1079 and A1035.

Drivers are being warned to expect delays.

The M1 J47 northbound near Garforth has been closed due to a vehicle collision.

Emergency services are at the scene.

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A £300,000 York firework display could be broadcast on Chinese state television.

The city of Changsha in China has offered to subsidise a display in the city and would put £200,000 towards the plans.

Councillor Nigel Ayre said as part of the deal, the event would be shown on Chinese television and that this could attract tourists and investors to the city.

He said: "It's a great opportunity. It's something that will be nationally and internationally significant.

He added the cost could go up or down, but the council will be expected to shoulder a third of the costs, possibly through taxpayers’ money or people paying to attend events.

It's thought the display could take place at the site of the former York Castle, where the River Ouse and River Foss meet.

A date for the event has not been decided yet.

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Labour MP for Batley and Spen Tracy Brabin is calling on the government to make hospitals smoke-free and to catch-up with legislation in Wales and Scotland, external.

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A woman from Hull who spent a year in an Egyptian jail after being caught with a banned drug in her bag made a "terrible mistake and paid the price for it", a Hull MP has said.

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The Labour MP for East Hull, Karl Turner, said Laura Plummer, who has now been released from prison, had gone through a "really terrible experience".

The MP also paid tribute to the "incredible job" Alistair Burt, the minister of state for the Middle East and North Africa, had done "behind the scenes" to help her.

An overspend of about £10m is being predicted by Sheffield City Council, which it says it will try and reduce as much as possible by the end of March.

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Officials say for the first time reserves are needed in order to balance the council's budget next year, rather than simply use them as a last resort.

The council says the gap will have to be filled from reserves.

The authority says demand in social care means it has had to increase spending in that area by £35m over two years.

Councillor Olivia Blake, cabinet member for finance, says the 3% rise in council tax planned to be to introduced, won't cover the shortfall.

The council says if funding doesn't change in the next four years, services for some of the city's most vulnerable people may have to be cut.

A North Yorkshire man has been jailed for more than five years after grooming a 12-year-old girl before starting a sexual relationship with her, police say.

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Mark Steven Johnson pleaded guilty to three counts of sexual assault of a child at Teesside Crown Court.

The 39-year-old from Crosby Gardens, Northallerton, was jailed for five years and three months and placed on the sex offenders register for life.

Police say they became aware of his offences when Johnson's estranged wife found messages on his phone.

His wife confronted him about the messages and told him she was contacting the police.

Officers say Johnson immediately wiped the handset and visited a local phone store, where he exchanged his device in an attempt to cover his tracks. Police were able to retrieve the messages, despite his attempts to destroy them.

Detective Constable Jason Roper of North Yorkshire Police, said: “Mark Johnson is an arrogant predator who tried to claim that a girl, whom he had groomed since she was 12, was lying and was obsessed with him."

Doncaster, Sheffield, Hull, Leeds, Huddersfield and York have been chosen to host games during the Rugby League World Cup in 2021, it's been announced.

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The six Yorkshire venues have been selected to host part of the tournament.

The venues are:

• Sheffield- Bramall Lane (32,702) & English Institute of Sport
• Doncaster- Keepmoat Stadium (15,231)
• Hull- KCOM Stadium (25,586)
• York- York Community Stadium (8,005)
• Huddersfield- John Smith's Stadium (24,500)
• Leeds- Elland Road (37,890) & Headingley Stadium (21,062)

The Rugby League World Cup takes place between October and November 2021 and will include both the men's and women’s competition and the wheelchair rugby world cup.

The event will travel the length and breadth of the country, but 80% of the games will be played in the north.

Newcastle's St James' Park will host the opening ceremony.

Organisers say they hope the tournament will be "the biggest and best world cup ever".

Four new mums talk about the struggles they faced while breastfeeding and how they coped.

A football league in Sheffield has started which hopes to help overweight men lose weight.

Man v Fat is a national initiative that's already worked in nearby Rotherham.

The teams gain league points by scoring goals and by losing weight:

Crack cocaine, heroin and cannabis worth nearly £60,000 has been seized during a week-long operation by Humberside Police.

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Last week, police officers conducted warrants to seize the drugs and stop what police call "county lines" dealing.

"County lines" is a term used when drug gangs from larger cities go to smaller cities to drive out local dealers, often using violence, police say.

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A total of 21 people were arrested during the operation for offences ranging from possessing drugs with intent to supply and having controlled substances.

College lecturers in Bradford have begun a second two-day strike in a row over pay.

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They staged a first protest in November last year.

The University and College Union says the strike is over a “failure of colleges to make a decent pay offer to staff who have seen their pay decline by 25% over the last decade”.

It claimed college teachers get paid £7,000 less than school teachers.

The college says it hopes to minimise any disruption to students' learning experience and all sites will remain open.

Residents in a village where a mystery woman was buried more than 10 years ago hope new leads in the case will finally provide a name to carve on her grave.

The unidentified body, thought by police to be that of a "Thai Bride", was found near Pen-y-ghent in 2004.

She became known as The Lady of the Hills - the title inscribed on her headstone in Horton-in-Ribblesdale.

After a Thai couple claimed to be her parents, locals expressed hope for "an end to a very sad mystery".

The couple, from Udon Thani in north-east Thailand, said their daughter married a British man in 1991, moved to north-west England and they had not heard from her since 2004.

Results of DNA samples taken from the Thai couple, whose daughter is Lamduan Seekanya, are due to be sent to the UK for comparison.

Three West Yorkshire Labour MPs will try to change the government's plan for Brexit later, as votes take place on amendments to Theresa May's latest proposals for negotiations with the EU.

Leeds Central MP Hilary Benn (centre) wants MPs to vote on all the different Brexit options.

Fellow Leeds MP, Rachel Reeves (pictured right) and Pontefract, Normanton and Castleford's Yvette Cooper, want to delay Brexit, if the government can't get a deal done by 26 February.

Conservatives have been told to back a proposal which says the strategy for the Irish border must be reworked or scrapped, but it is still unclear which amendments will be chosen, and which might pass.