Four councillors will boycott the Tour de Yorkshire next month in protest at fracking firm Ineos taking over the sponsorship of Team Sky.

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Doncaster Labour councillors Dave Shaw, Nikki McDonald, Tosh McDonald and Lani-Mae Ball said they will not be supporting the race as it comes through the town on 3 May.

Ineos has licences to frack in Yorkshire, Cheshire and the Midlands.

Team Sky announced in March that it would become Team Ineos from 1 May.

Doncaster Council voted to ban fracking on council-owned land last year, but Ineos has a test site near the village of Misson just over the Doncaster boundary.

The sponsorship of the team by Ineos, owned by Britain's richest man Sir Jim Ratcliffe, has been met with some opposition from campaigners who say the use of fracking to extract shale gas is harmful to the environment.

A spokesman for the chemicals company said: "We operate to the highest safety and environmental standards and utterly refute the claims of a fringe, anti-progress minority."

Team Sky declined to comment.

Police are becoming "increasingly concerned" about a York man who went missing from his home last week.

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Lee Evennett, 48, who lives in the Walmgate area, was last spoken to on Monday 25 March and was reported missing on Friday 29 March.

Anyone who has seen him is asked to contact officers who are concerned about his safety and welfare "due to the passage of time".

About 90 children and young people attended a self-defence workshop in Sheffield to learn how to protect themselves if they are attacked.

Street Safe 4 All,which ran the session, also discussed knife crime and what can be done to stop it.

A cashier was threatened and a computer screen damaged by an aggressive customer at a bank in Hull today.

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Police are looking for a man who became aggressive at Lloyds Bank on Jameson Street this morning.

The man, who had a push bike with him, caused damaged as he left the premise at about 09:30.

Humberside Police is looking for a suspect described as white, 5ft 7in tall, of a slight build, with short black hair, wearing a dark-coloured tracksuit and riding a pale grey or white bike.

Four Labour councillors say they will not support the race as it comes through Doncaster.

Joe Atkinson pleads guilty to killing Poppy Devey Waterhouse, 24, in Leeds in December.

A masked man, armed with a knife, has robbed a petrol station in Harrogate.

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Police say it happened at the Skipton Road Esso garage at 03:45 this morning.

A man carrying a knife approached the cashier and demanded cash and cigarettes.

He left with a small amount of money and tobacco products and was last seen heading in the direction of Majestic Wine, opposite the petrol station.

Forensic tests have been carried out and police say they are currently investigating a number of leads, including CCTV footage from the area.

A tribute to David Bowie's Hull-born guitarist is being held in the city this weekend.

An event honouring Spiders from Mars guitarist Mick Ronson will take place at Old Town Market tomorrow.

The life of the musician, who died in 1993, will be celebrated with live music, artwork and attractions for children.

The event is called Turn and Face the Strange.

It is organised by the team behind a musical of the same name, which was first performed in 2017, and is due to return to Hull Truck Theatre later this year.

Two teenagers have been arrested after a knife-point attempted robbery at a North Yorkshire post office.

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Police say it happened at about 17:00 on Monday at Embsay, near Skipton, in the Yorkshire Dales.

Two people wearing balaclavas entered the shop armed with a knife.

Officers say they were told to get out, ran off empty-handed, and drove away.

In the early hours of Wednesday police arrested an 18-year-old man and a 16-year-old boy in the Keighley area, both on suspicion of attempted robbery.

An investigation has been launched after a severely underweight bull terrier was found in Bradford.

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The starved dog, weighing 21kg, was found in Newill Close on 28 March.

He's now recovering and according to the RSPCA his "tail hasn't stopped wagging".

The RSPCA said: “Stanley hasn’t got into this state overnight and I suspect he’s suffered neglect at the hands of his previous owners, so I’m keen to track them down and find out what’s happened to him."

Motorists have been asked to be patient as resurfacing work is carried out on a busy road in Hull.

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The "essential roadworks" are being carried out from Monday to Friday on a stretch of Bricknell Avenue, near the Tesco Express store.

Part of the road will be closed with a diversion in place via Hull Road, Cottingham Road and Fairfax Avenue, although residents and pedestrians will still have access.

Councillor Anita Harrison, portfolio holder for highways, said: "We apologise in advance for any disruption caused during the period of works and ask that motorists are patient whilst we carry out these essential repairs."

The number of electric and hybrid vehicles registered in York has been revealed - there were 342 electric or hybrid cars in the city at the end of 2018.

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The figures also show there are currently only 40 charging points across York, with the council's plans for two new fast charging hyper hubs set to boost the numbers.

Last week it was announced East Yorkshire will be among the first to get an electric car charging forecourt.

The one in Bilton will have 24 bays and allow drivers to charge up in less than half an hour.

A "patchy" network of charging points is discouraging UK drivers from embracing electric cars, analysis suggests.

Dr Stephen Hall has been researching electric vehicles at Leeds University.

He says: "The real issue is, if you're going to put a charge point in, you want to charge a big battery quickly, which means you have to spend quite a lot of money upgrading a local grid and the charge points are quite expensive.

"And because electricity is so cheap, it's really difficult to get your money back from putting a charge point in."

An 87-year-old woman was pushed into some bushes and had her shopping bag stolen in a robbery in Sheffield last month.

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The woman was walking along Jaunty Avenue in Gleadless at about 16:40 on Wednesday 6 March when she was attacked, police say.

She had just been at the Co-op store and was pushed from behind by a man.

The attacker, who is described as being in his mid 20s and about 5ft 8ins tall, then ran back along Jaunty Avenue heading towards Lister Avenue.

Yorkshire's trains are back to normal after disruption caused by a vehicle colliding with a bridge.

There were delays on Northern services after the collision between Goole and Doncaster.

But the rail operator says its services are no longer affected by the problem:

A sheep was killed along with her unborn lambs after being shot in Kirkby Malham.

The incident happened in a field near to an area known as Acraplatts between 22:00 on 1 April and 10:00 on 2 April.

The sheep was with the rest of its flock.

Police are keen to hear from anyone with information.

Traffic is now moving after a collision on the M1 northbound near Lofthouse caused delays this morning.

Emergency services attended the scene at 07:00 after a multiple vehicle collision.

A lane closure at J40 northbound, put in place after a van broke down, has also been removed

There's disruption on Yorkshire's trains today after a vehicle collided with a road bridge.

Northern says the 08:36 train from Beverley to Sheffield is at a standstill after the collision in the Thorne North area.

The rail operator says there are delays of up to 30 minutes in both directions between Goole and Doncaster:

Staff at banks and currency exchanges have been asked to be on the alert after 20,000 Indian rupees were stolen from a property in York.

Police want to hear from anyone who may have converted the stolen banknotes, which were taken during a break-in on Farrar Street.

The foreign currency, worth about £200, was stolen between 15:30 and 22:30 on Thursday 28 March.

A memorial fund is set up in Libby Squire's name to reward 'community friendly' students

Armed police flooded a street in Sheffield city centre earlier after reports of a man with a gun.

The officers were called to Fargate this morning and say a BB gun was seized.

A man has been arrested on suspicion of “a number of offences”, say South Yorkshire Police.