The placement in memory of Len Tingle is open to students at seven Yorkshire universities.

You may remember us reporting on a serious crash between a pedestrian and a car on the M1 J44 northbound slip road this morning.

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A white Volvo S80 was in collision with a 36-year-old man.

He was taken to hospital with serious injuries.

Police are keen to hear from anyone with dashcam footage or who witnessed the incident.

Police and family are extremely concerned for the welfare of an 81-year-old grandfather who has gone missing from Spofforth.

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James Douglas Thomas, known as Doug, was last seen at 10:00 on 27 February.

He is described as being about 6ft tall, wearing a fawn jumper and a light-blue jacket.

Searches continue with police dogs, drones and helicopter rescue teams in Harrogate and Spofforth.

Police are keen to hear from anyone with sightings or information.

One lane has reopened on the A59 at Halton East following a serious collision, where woman was trapped in her car after it overturned.

The blockage is between Skipton and Bolton Abbey.

There will be heavy traffic and delays in the area:

A Leeds charity has received almost £82,000 to celebrate stories of the first generation Carribean community who came to the city as part of the Windrush generation.

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Lottery money will be donated to fund an exhibition to commemorate those who moved to Leeds and have since passed away.

Reverend Dorothy Stewart of the Jamaica Society said: "Eulogy will help us to capture the individual stories of the city's first generation Jamaicans, who arrived as young people, some pre-Windrush, and often spent their last days here.

"They hold the memories, heritage and traditions they brought with them from Jamaica, which we should preserve for today and for future generations."

The charity is keen to hear from anyone who would like to share photographs, funeral programmes and other memoirs.

The A59 is currently blocked between Skipton and Bolton Abbey due to a serious collision, where a woman is currently trapped in her car.

The woman was driving near to the Halton East junction when her car overturned.

Emergency services are at the scene, where the road is blocked in both directions.

Drivers are being told to avoid the area.

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Drones are now being used by police in Wakefield in a bid to catch rogue off-road bikers.

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This will be the first use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) technology to support road bike policing in the county, according to the West Yorkshire force.

Drone flights in hot-spot areas are due to begin in the next fortnight.

Ch Insp Alan Rhees-Cooper said: "The UAVs provide us with a significant new ability to track suspects further, and more quickly direct our riders to trouble spots, really boosting our riders' "real time" intelligence of where suspects are heading as they approach areas where anti-social riders are operating."

People in Wakefield will see their council tax bill rise by just under 4% from April.

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The 3.99% rise follows the council passing a new budget for the coming financial year, which includes the introduction of Sunday parking charges and big changes to bin collections.

The Labour Party said rises were necessary to meet a "black hole" in its funding from central government as it faces a £22.2m budget shortfall.

Council leader Peter Box said: "Our robust and effective financial management has enabled us to deliver a balanced budget through years of austerity, but once again we are forced to make some tough decisions."

Have you seen Lewis Wigley? Police are trying to find him as he's been recalled to prison.

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He's also wanted in connection with harassment offences.

The 28-year-old is known to frequent the Barnsley area.

He's is described as being of slim build and having a tattoo of "Lewis" on his neck.

Police have advised people not to approach him but to get in touch with police.

Dean Dagless is accused of killing St John Lewis, who died after being attacked in Bramley, Leeds.

The M1 J44 northbound entry slip has been reopened, following a serious collision involving a pedestrian and a car.

Emergency services and an air ambulance were at the scene to treat the pedestrian, who suffered serious injuries.

Traffic is slow and police have advised drivers to be careful around the area.

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BBC Yorkshire has launched a paid placement in memory of its late Political Editor Len Tingle.

The placement is open to students at the seven Yorkshire universities that run a journalism degree.

Applicants should have an interest in regional politics and finding stories from across Yorkshire’s communities.

Len, from Cudworth near Barnsley, had been BBC Yorkshire’s Political Editor for 17 years before he died in 2018.

He was passionate about journalism, about Yorkshire and about giving opportunities to young people from diverse backgrounds.

Len lived in the Huddersfield area for many years and was also a regular voice on various BBC local radio stations including BBC Radio Leeds, BBC Radio Sheffield and BBC Radio York.

A school crossing patrol won't be reinstated after the council deemed the road safe without one.

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Parents have expressed fears that a child might be knocked down at a junction on the A163 in Holme on Spalding Moor.

But a risk assessment by East Riding of Yorkshire Council has found the road doesn't need a crossing patrol.

The council has said local people can raise the money to pay for a crossing patrol themselves.

Police officers have seized what they say is a Taser-style weapon in the guise of a torch.

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The weapon was found on Stanwell Avenue in Wincobank during a raid.

Unidentified pills, cannabis and the weapon were found by South Yorkshire Police in the search.

Sheffield city councillor Steve Wilson, who's also the husband of Penistone and Stocksbridge MP Angela Smith, has resigned from the Labour Party.

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Mr Wilson has said the decision "breaks my heart" but the party "no longer represents the views I hold dear".

The East Ecclesfield councillor has been a party member for more than 20 years.

He was due to re-stand in the local elections in May, but his selection process was being re-run by the Labour Party.

Mr Wilson says he's yet to decide whether he'll stand as an independent.

Independent business owners attending Hull's Street Food Nights have been told they can't sell alcohol.

Unhappy traders claim it's because a new sponsor for the event wants exclusive use selling alcohol from their own bar.

The evenings have proved to be one of the successes of City of Culture and it's returning in April.

One trader, Eve Clark, says independent traders are the reason the nights have been so popular.

"This Hull street food festival has been successful because of all the independent street food traders who come from Hull and the surrounding areas", she said.

"It's not because of the big names who have now all of a sudden taken domination of the event."

Organiser Hull Business Improvement District (BID) has said it's been done to stop the event "becoming a beer festival".

"We took the call to only have one bar in the area because there are a mass of bars around us that will also get the bite of the cherry", Kathrine Shillito from Hull BID told BBC Radio Humberside.

"There's also the indoor market that has a license so they sell alcohol and if we put more bars in that small square we would have had a beer festival."

The bridge on which the artwork appeared last year is "likely to collapse" within a decade.

A slip road on the M1 has been closed after a collision between a pedestrian and a car.

It's happened at junction 44 going onto the northbound carriageway near Leeds.

Police officers are on the scene and have closed the road.

The condition of the pedestrian is unknown.

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The extraordinary pictures show the damage caused to a parked van and house in Sunningdale, Allerton, after a car ploughed into them, external.

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The Leeds Community Clothing Exchange now has more than 2,500 members.