A Sheffield music star has opened up about his fight with mental health issues in a new BBC podcast series.

Jon McClure, frontman from band Reverend and the Makers, was taking part in The Naked Podcast, where guests strip off and have brutally honest conversations.

In a series first involving men, Jon and BBC radio presenter Adam Oxley revealed all, talking about mental health, anorexia and growing up in the North.

"I suffered with mental health issues. A lot of that comes from self confidence and how you feel about yourself generally", Jon said in the podcast.

"Boys bottle it up. It's not the done thing to talk, especially among working class men, northern men particularly.

"I wanted to bust through all that and say sometimes I feel weird about my body and it's all right if you do too."

Series two of The Naked Podcast is available on your phone's podcast store or on the BBC Sounds app now.

Local Democracy Reporting Service
James Cain

An appeal has been launched by developers after a shortage of playing fields put a stop to a housing development in Middlesbrough being approved.

Plans to build more than 100 homes at Acklam Iron and Steelworks social club on Park Road South, Grove Hill, were refused last year because it would mean paving over playing fields.

Developers Peter Hall and Leon White had applied to demolish the club and move it, in order to build 96 houses and 28 flats on the parcel of land.

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But in June, Middlesbrough Council's planning committee followed officers' recommendation to refuse the plans after Sport England said that the loss of playing fields would be unacceptable.

Now, Mr Hall and Mr White have submitted a formal appealed with the UK Planning Inspectorate.

An inspector will now be appointed by the Secretary of State to review the appeal. If Mr Hall and Mr White are successful in overturning Middlesbrough Council's decision to refuse their original application, the local authority could also be left picking up the bill for the developers' legal costs.

A decision date for Mr Hall and Mr White's appeal has not yet been decided

Failing to resolve issues at York crematorium could have "catastrophic consequences", a report says.

These photographs show how a van carrying police dogs had to be recovered after its door fell off.

North Yorkshire Police's dog section joked "the wind caught it" and shared pictures on Twitter:

Cuts running into millions of pounds and a 3% rise in council tax are expected to be approved by councillors in Bradford later.

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The council says it's facing a funding gap of £28m and has had to shave costs from many key services.

However, there will be a large cash boost for children's services, which the council is under orders from the government to improve.

Police have issued a warning to people who walk their dogs in East Yorkshire following the death of a buzzard which had eaten poisoned food.

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The common buzzard was discovered between Millington and Huggate and toxicology tests found it had eaten food containing the highly toxic pesticide Aldicarb.

Humberside Police say the substance, which has been banned for more than 10 years, is sometimes added to a bait like a dead rabbit to kill scavengers such as crows and foxes.

Birds which eat carrion, such as red kites and buzzards, often become poisoned and there is also a risk to dogs and other wildlife, police say.

The buzzard, which was found in October last year, also had three shotgun pellets in its body, although this was an old injury, and more recent wounds to its head, possibly from having been confined in a cage trap.

Police say the circumstances of its death are unclear and have issued a renewed appeal for information about people "using these chemicals or involved in the persecution of birds".

A motorcyclist suffered serious injuries after leaving the road and colliding with metal bollards on a footpath in Hull earlier today.

Police are appealing for information after the serious collision at 01:30, involving a man riding a black Suzuki Bandit motorcycle.

There was a police cordon in place on Spring Bank, from Park Street to Ferensway, but it was lifted earlier this morning.

North Yorkshire County Council has been explaining why it is make cuts of £1.5m to pupil referral units, as critics of the decision consider a legal challenge.

Janet Sanderson, who is responsible for children services at the authority, says it is trying to do "the best thing for the children".

She said under the changes, children would remain in their local areas in order to "build strong bonds with children in their community".

She said that would "help them through life".

The authority believes many children would be better served staying in a mainstream school where possible.

Pupil referral units are a type of school for children who have been excluded or are unable to attend a mainstream school for other reasons.

A man is in hospital with life-threatening injuries after a crash in Sheffield city centre.

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It's reported the 26-year-old driver crashed into the central reservation on St Mary's Gate roundabout.

It happened at about 00:10 this morning.

No other cars are thought to have been involved.

Two passengers were taken to hospital with minor injuries.

A new pedestrian and cycle bridge at Scarborough Bridge in York is due to be lifted into place over the next two weekends as part of a £4m upgrade.

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The new 65-metre long bridge will be more than three times as wide as the previous bridge, which was lifted out of the way by crane.

The council says a new path on the top of the embankment will mean people can travel directly between York Station and the new bridge.

It says it will provide a traffic-free scenic route to the city centre.

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A rail crane will lift the bridge into position and the work is due to be completed in March.

Plans for an £8m expansion of a South Yorkshire waste recycling plant have been submitted for approval.

If given the go ahead by the Environment Agency, it will see the Attero plant in Rossington, near Doncaster, doubling the amount it recycles each year, alongside the creation of a new road off the Great Yorkshire Way.

It's hoped the project will create more than 40 jobs.

The ports of Goole, Hull, Grimsby and Immingham will all get a share of government money to help them prepare for Brexit.

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A total of £3.14 m is to be shared out to 19 local authorities including North East Lincolnshire, the East Riding and Hull.

It's been three weeks since Hull student Libby Squire went missing and Humberside Police says its investigation is very much "active and ongoing".

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21-year-old Libby was last seen after a night out in Hull.

The force says it's continuing with its search and recently released CCTV from the night showing four people who detectives say may be witnesses.

Bradford Council will today announce an extra £6.5m to help childrens' services in the city.

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It follows a damning Ofsted report last year, which meant an emergency plan had to be drawn up.

The one-off investment will see £1.2 million made available for immediate improvements, with the remainder being ring fenced for future use.

Part of the fund will be used to recruit new social workers.

BBC News Travel

A crash on Birley Moor Road in Frecheville is causing problems this morning.

The road is currently closed with public transport being diverted:

BBC Weather

This morning may see one or two light showers in places.

However, most areas will become dry and brighter by this afternoon with spells of sunshine.

It will become very mild as well.

BBC News Travel

If you're making a journey on the rails in Yorkshire this morning, services seem to be running pretty much to time at the moment.

For all the latest live updates from the county's main railway stations, click on the links below:

• York Station, external
• Leeds Station, external
• Sheffield Station, external
• Hull Station, external
• Doncaster Station, external
• Wakefield Westgate, external
• Bradford Interchange, external
• Bradford Forster Square, external

A Sheffield university has launched its own law firm in a bid to give students the chance to work on real-life cases while studying for a degree.

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Sheffield Hallam University is the first university to have set up a firm in a structure which allows non-lawyers to have a financial stake in a law firm.

It will mean students can deliver legal services to people in Sheffield with full-time lawyers working alongside undergraduates.

SHU Law was granted a licence earlier this year.

A North Yorkshire MP has called for a new type of road sign to show where life-saving defibrillators are located.

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Robert Goodwill, the Conservative MP for Scarborough and Whitby, used the example of a defibrillator in an old phone booth in Brompton which is "a stone's throw from away the main road but not directly visible from it".

Speaking at Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Goodwill called for a "nationally approved defibrillator road sign so these life-saving devices could be quickly accessed in the event of an emergency".

Prime Minister Theresa May said she would ask the the Department for Transport to look into the "very interesting point".

Part of a major road in Hull is closed this morning because of a police incident.

Spring Bank is closed between Park Street and Beverley Road: