Wigan Athletic sign striker Leon Clarke from Championship rivals Sheffield United on loan until the end of the season.

A woman who's gone missing from Rotherham spoke to a man in the street shortly before she disappeared, police believe.

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Aleena Grlakova was last seen on 26 December.

Police believe she left the Traveller's Inn pub at about 19:00 and walked onto Scrooby Street, where a man walked past her in the opposite direction.

The man is said to have wished her a merry Christmas before she turned to walk back the way she had come from.

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The man is described as being about 5ft 7ins tall, of stocky build and aged between 30 and 50.

He was wearing a dark coat and a hat.

Alena was wearing a thin black shirt, black tracksuit bottoms with a white stripe.

She didn't have a coat on and has distinctive hand tattoos of "Alena" and "Stella".

Police are keen to hear from anyone with information about her whereabouts.

A woman had to be carried to safety after a kitchen fire left her trapped in her Doncaster home.

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The woman, who the fire service described as being "elderly", was carried out of the bungalow via a window after not being able to find her keys to unlock the front door.

Firefighters were called to the house on Leslie Avenue in Conisbrough at about 18:30 on Tuesday after a chip pan fire broke out.

The woman was taken to hospital.

Fire crews left the house at about 19:30.

Portsmouth sign winger Lloyd Isgrove from League One rivals promotion rivals Barnsley on loan until the end of the season.

Primary school pupils in Leeds got the chance to kit up and tried their hands at a fire rescue exercise earlier.

Temple Newsam Halton Primary children climbed ladders and used water hoses, with the help of West Yorkshire Fire service:

This is the "chatty bus" which aims to tackle loneliness by encouraging passengers in East Yorkshire to have a conversation.

Volunteers have been riding on East Yorkshire Motor Services' buses, lending an ear to anyone who wants to talk.

Here's what it's like on board the bus, with the scheme starting to run in Hull and East Yorkshire yesterday:

A Scarborough police officer has been "overwhelmed by public support" after revealing how he was filmed at a supermarket by a member of the public who criticised him for buying something to eat when he "should be out working".

PC Liam Cromack wrote on Twitter that he was outside a Tesco store after a "non-stop day" when the man told him to get back to work "saying he pays my wages" before returning to the pub "to carry on drinking".

The North Yorkshire Police officer says he's received scores of "positive comments" after he revealed what had happened:

Alan Battye admitted a string of offences, including sexual activity with a child.

Police say there was "no sexual element" to an incident on a bus in Hull after speaking to a man about his behaviour.

The man was interviewed voluntarily today after Humberside Police issued an appeal over reports of a sexual assault on 14 December.

Det Insp Rich Osgerby said: "This has been investigated and I am satisfied that there is no sexual element to the incident that was first reported to us."

A CCTV image has been released of a man police officers want to speak to after two men were attacked in a pub in Leeds Station.

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Two people were injured in the attack which saw one man punched and another hit in the face with a chair.

The attack happened in the Wetherspoons pub on the station site at about 21:30 on Saturday 19 January.

Police have made an arrest following a disturbance in the grounds of a Harrogate church where a man was "aggressive" to passers-by.

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A man in his 30s has been arrested in connection with the incident at Christ Church on Harrogate Stray.

North Yorkshire Police want to hear from any witnesses or anyone who was approached in the grounds of the church between 12:00 and 14:30 on Friday.

Doncaster Rovers player Niall Mason has been given a six-month prison sentence, suspended for two years, for sexual assault.

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The 22-year-old defender, of Bawtry Road, Hatfield, has been placed on the sex offenders' register for seven years.

A judge at Sheffield Crown Court imposed the sentence following an attack on a woman during a night out last year.

Doncaster Rovers has said it won't comment.

Autistic filmmakers in Sheffield get Oscars-style treatment when their films are shown at a local cinema.

British Ceramic Tile Limited, which employs 380 people, lost a "key customer contract in recent days".

A Labour MP says cuts to bus services has left some constituents unable to get to shops and schools, as she calls for them to be brought back under public control.

A Hull theatre is live streaming a play into a hospital and care home this afternoon as part of a scheme to reach new audiences.

In a Twitter post, Hull Truck Theatre said residents and patients were "eagerly waiting" for the showing of Jack Lear:

Bradford-based supermarket chain Morrisons is to train 500 more apprentices over the next year in areas of "traditional" craft skills such as butchers, bakers and fishmongers.

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The company says it aims to preserve skills which might be lost from high streets.

Clare Grainger, from Morrisons, says: "Many customers want to buy a particular joint, or to vary the slices of meat from the deli, have fat trimmed, bones removed, or advice on how to cook and prepare food."

The firm says it currently employs 10,000 skilled foodmakers in its stores.

Heckmondwike Grammar School is today unveiling its new study centre named after former pupil and head girl Jo Cox.

Mrs Cox was the local MP for Batley and Spen when she was murdered by a far right extremist in 2016.

The centre, which features a restaurant and rooms for 6th form pupils to work in, has a mural of the murdered MP and a quote from her maiden speech.

Headteacher Peter Roberts said: "She was the role model that really set the standard.

"First generation to go to university, head girl at the school and that's what a lot of our students aspire to be".

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The UK's largest manufacturer of ceramic wall and floor tiles has gone into administration.

British Ceramic Tile Limited is based in Newton Abbot in Devon, and also has a site in Cleckheaton, Yorkshire.

It has ceased trading with immediate effect after losing a "key customer contract in recent days", resulting in 313 redundancies.

The remaining 67 employees will support the orderly winding down of the business.

It's back to the future for a Hull rail operator after it got a new train from the 1980s.

Hull Trains have borrowed the HST125.

The company hope it will help improve service after months of technical problems.

This video shows the moment the train first arrived at the city's railway station yesterday evening: