CCTV images have been released of a man and a woman police want to speak to following an assault in York.

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It happened in the early hours of 29 November last year, when a 21-year-old man was assaulted in Club Salvation on George Hudson Street in the city centre.

The man sustained a facial injury which required stiches in the attack.

Officers are asking members of the public to get in touch if they recognise the people in the images.

Tunnels hiding waterways beneath Sheffield since the mid-19th Century are being opened for explorers.

Football fans will help shape policing in South Yorkshire after the county's force launched a new independent advisory group on football.

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South Yorkshire Police hope to hold monthly meetings with supporters and club officials.

The force said it could lead to a change in the way matches are policed.

The move was planned before last night's Steel City derby between Sheffield Wednesday and Sheffield United which saw six people arrested.

Police have come under fire on social media for their handling of disorder at the game.

Speaking in February, Chief Insp Phil Barraclough said the force want to get people together to help improve relationships and explain planning decisions before games.

"We recognise that we need to improve our communication to football supporters across the county.

"We'd like to hear the views of the supporters groups and the football clubs as well."

A decision to end the contract of an ambulance service providing patient transport in East Yorkshire comes as no surprise, a union representing ambulance workers has said.

Thames Ambulance Service provides non-emergency patient transport in East Yorkshire, but a recent report from the Care Quality Commission health watchdog says staff were untrained and the service had infection control issues.

But from next year, the company will no longer operate in Hull after the Hull Clinical Commissioning Group ended the contract.

Ray Gray, from Unison, says the quality of the service has fluctuated.

"We had various meetings with staff who were telling us things that were wrong in the depot, with the ambulances and with training", Mr Gray said.

"Then they would put that right, but then it would go wrong again, then they'd put it right and it'd go wrong again. You just can't run a service like that."

In a statement, Thames Ambulance Service Chief Executive Derek Laird said he was "disappointed" by the news and the firm would continue to work hard until the contract ends.

Halifax investigate fan who allegedly used racist language towards a player in their game with Havant & Waterlooville.

Businesses in some rural parts of North Yorkshire have told the BBC they're continuing to be held back by a lack of mobile phone reception.

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One community in Farndale, on the North York Moors, says another initiative to bring mobile phone, 3G and 4G coverage to their area has been hit by delays and rising costs.

Duncan Green, from Helperby Stores and Deli, says he sometimes doesn't get texts because of the poor signal and that affects his business.

"I've missed a text this morning that could potentially affect my business a little bit in terms of a delivery from our milk supplier", Mr Green said.

"They texted me last night but I've picked that message up after he would normally come and drop off."

The government says about 300 new masts are being built in the most remote and rural areas of Britain, which will improve commercial coverage in these areas.

A teenager from Dewsbury who has been missing from her home for a week has been found.

Neelam Rehman, 16, went missing last Tuesday.

Police have thanked "everyone who shared the appeal".

A national campaign's encouraging women to go for cervical cancer tests, as screening rates drop to a 20-year low.

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The campaign run by Public Health England has avoided the term "smear test" amid concerns it may be putting people off.

Officials said the term was outdated and hope the term cervical screening will "normalise" the procedure.

The tests are available to all women aged between 25 and 64, but on average each year more than 70 people in Yorkshire die from the disease.

Doctor Amir Khan is a GP in Bradford, where the uptake of tests is particularly low.

Doctor Khan says: "One in five people is missing their cervical screening appointments, so it's so important to make it more accessible to these patients, so if you get a letter, attend.

"It's all done within 20 to 30 seconds, it's super quick."

If you catch the bus in East Yorkshire, expect them to start looking a little different very soon.

Bus operator East Yorkshire Motor Services will roll out the new liveried fleet ,with £6m also being spent on the firm's vehicles over the next two years.

It follows the acquisition by the Go-Ahead group in June 2018.

Police officers say they are growing increasingly concerned for the welfare of a missing man from Sheffield.

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Ricardo Reid, 24, was last seen on CCTV in the Spital Hill area of Sheffield on Friday morning, according to South Yorkshire Police.

He is described as being 5ft 8ins tall, of a medium build with black short hair.

He was last seen wearing a grey hoodie, black trousers and trainers.

He was also carrying a plastic bag.

European Union (EU) citizens living in York are concerned about their futures after Britain leaves the EU, a senior city council official has said.

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Pauline Stuchfield was speaking after York was chosen as a test city for the EU Settlement Scheme.

It is the government plan to process applications of EU citizens currently living in the UK to allow them to remain after Brexit.

Ms Stuchfield says: "Some of those who are eligible have applied for British citizenship, but not everybody wants to do that."

Meanwhile, emergency plans are being drawn up in Bradford, to help hundreds of European workers secure their immigration status ahead of Britain's departure.

Officials are meeting later to get an update on the district's Brexit preparations, which include putting £50,000 into extra foreign language support, for people rushing to sort their visas before March 29, the day Britain is day due to leave the EU.

Two main roads in Sheffield will be subject to major delays and lane closures later this month as essential maintenance work is carried out.

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The A630 Sheffield Parkway and A57 Mosborough Parkway will see motorists affected by lane closures, but Sheffield City Council says the work will be carried out when roads are quieter.

The work, which happens twice a year, sees essential maintenance and inspections carried out.

Work will be carried out on:

• Sunday 10 March
• Sunday 17 March
• Wednesday 20 March
• Thursday 21 March
• Sunday 24 March
• Tuesday 26 March
• Wednesday 27 March
• Sunday 31 March
• Sunday 7 April.

A plan to spend tens of millions of pounds improving a West Yorkshire town will be discussed later.

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It's hoped work costing £50m will bring more trade to Knottingley town centre, cut crime and improve the look of the area.

As part of the scheme shops in the town centre would be given help and funding to build an online presence.

More would also be done to improve people's job prospects by providing training.

Two new police officers, increased CCTV and talks for school children to make them aware of the dangers of things like knife crime are also being proposed.

Parks and walls in the town will also be repaired, if councillors in Wakefield approve the scheme later.

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An inquiry examining some of the country's highest prisoner reoffending rates has heard inmates are being given tents on their release, because they have nowhere to live.

Members of a North Yorkshire County Council committee said they were stunned by the disclosure and by the revelation drug addict prisoners are routinely given additional amounts of drugs, before their release, in a process dubbed "retox".

The action to acclimatise addicts was launched, the meeting heard, followed the deaths of ex-inmates in the Leeds area, shortly after their release.

The committee's chairman, Councillor Derek Bastiman, said following an inquiry into release arrangements, including visits to prisons in North and West Yorkshire, he'd concluded the government needed to take urgent action to tackle reoffending rates.

Councillor Bastiman said: "We've learnt prisoners are being given tents to live in and were told people who were drug dependent were given higher doses before they were released. It's a complete nonsense."

The Humberside, Lincolnshire and North Yorkshire Community Rehabilitation Company, which has been criticised for the move, said: "We rigorously enforce community sentences while holding people to account for their actions and supporting their rehabilitation."

York's historic Bar Walls, which date from the 12th to the 14th century and surround the city centre, have been lit up in rainbow colours.

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It's to mark LGBT+ Adoption and Fostering Week, which provides advice and support to members of that community who want to raise a child.

Councillor Keith Myers said: “We need adoptive parents who can care for some of York’s most vulnerable children - we’re interested in whether they can offer a loving home, rather than their sexuality."

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Suzie Grove, Head of Agency, One Adoption North and Humber, said: “We welcome applications from people of any sexuality, race or religion."

Rail services between South Yorkshire and London are experiencing some delays after an incident on the line in the Midlands:

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

Local residents are being asked to share their views on plans for a new cycle route between Leeds and Wakefield.

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The next phase of the Castleford Greenway scheme will use the old Methley railway line.

It's part of a £60m fund from West Yorkshire Combined Authority designed to encourage people to travel by bike or on foot.

Yorkshire batsman Gary Ballance signs a new contract with the county until the end of the 2021 season.

A private ambulance service which transports patients to and from pre-planned appointments says it's "disappointed" it's been stripped of its contract in Hull and East Yorkshire.

Health bosses in the city have revealed they intend to stop using Thames Ambulance Service after the service was recently rated as inadequate by independent inspectors.

Thames will continue to provide hospital transport in Hull for the next 12 months before its contract ends.

Erica Daley from NHS Hull Clinical Commissioning Group says: "We'll continue to work with the provider to make sure patients aren't affected and want to reassure people that their services will continue."

A motion at a Hackney North meeting takes issue with MPs who say the party has an "institutional" problem.