Wakefield centre Bill Tupou is ruled out for three months with a groin injury and will need surgery.

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Four people have been charged following a fracking protest in Nottinghamshire on Monday.

The demonstration was held near Misson where shale gas tests have been taking place.

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Stephanie Robinson, 28, of Dronfield, Michelle Maddock, 48, and Kathryn Wilson, 68, both of Sheffield, and Shaun Harrison, 50, of Durham, were arrested following the protest.

All four were charged with wilful obstruction of a highway and are due to appear at Mansfield Magistrates' Court.

Police have released CCTV footage of a man they want to identify after an arson attack outside a South Yorkshire police station.

The vehicles were set alight on Monday outside Goldthorpe's police station at about 02:10, with the blaze damaging the side of the brick building.

South Yorkshire Police said a van not belonging to the force was also damaged in the fire.

Det Insp Mick Allat, said: “This reckless and irresponsible act has taken two operational police cars off the roads which will cost around £26,000 to replace.

“Thankfully no-one was injured but this was still an incredibly serious incident and we are working hard to identify those responsible."

The force has now released the CCTV footage in the hope someone will recognise the man it shows.

Three men, aged 35, 18 and 33, arrested in connection with the incident have since been released on bail.

Daniel Heath, 35, appeared at York Magistrates' Court and has been granted unconditional bail.

An event will be held in Hull to mark the first annual Stephen Lawrence Day, which will take place on the anniversary of his murder.

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Last year, on the 25th anniversary of the 18-year-old's death in a racially aggravated attack, the Prime Minster announced a new national day of commemoration.

A "reflective service" will be held at the Amazing Grace Chapel, Beverley Road, Hull, at 18:30 on Tuesday 23 April.

Humberside Police say the event "will look back at Stephen’s life, the challenges his family and the wider community faced and the positive changes that have come about as a result of their determination".

In a statement, the force said his death in Eltham, south London, in 1993, also changed "the face of modern policing".

Local Democracy Reporting Service

A block of new council-housing proposed for a North Yorkshire city could be built with "escape paths" aimed at withstanding a sink hole up to 20 metres in diameter.

Ripon is one of the UK's most sinkhole-prone cities.

It sits above a layer of gypsum, a water soluble rock which leads to the formation of large underground caves.

Harrogate Borough Council says the "need for changes to the development on Allhallowgate and Finkle Street in Ripon, arose due to greater awareness" following further investigations into ground stability at the site.

The council says it's now found a "foundation solution which would accommodate the occurrence of a 20 metre sink hole beneath the new construction".

A report by engineering firm William Saunders, in 2018, proposed an "escape pathway" be included in the design to allow occupants to escape from the building if a sink hole formed beneath it.

The report states: "During the escape, the occupants and emergency services could utilize these external paths in order to move along the front of the properties and onto the stable ground at the side of the sink hole."

Twelve homes were evacuated after a 20 metre (66ft) by 10 metre (33ft) and 9 metre (30ft) deep hole appeared in the city in November 2016.

A supermarket was evacuated in the city in August 2018 after a sinkhole opened up behind it.

A foundation set up to support young musicians in Hull in memory of David Bowie's guitarist, has become a charity.

The Mick Ronson Foundation - named after the Spiders from Mars musician from Hull - offers five bursaries a year to talented youngsters.

Cockney Rebel frontman Steve Harley, who's playing a gig in Hull Minister on Friday night, is a trustee of the foundation.

He says you don't have to be studying music to apply for one of the bursaries.

Police are appealing for witnesses after a lorry collided with the front of a house in West Yorkshire.

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It happened just before 06:00 in Halifax on Thursday 28 March.

It's thought the HGV got up to 60mph as it hurtled down the hill towards Stump Cross, external.

Eye witnesses say that rather than ploughing into lines of stationary traffic, the driver managed to swerve away, collided with a crash barrier and then hit a house.

He was helped from his cab by passersby after they smashed a window.

Police say they want to trace anyone who witnessed the incident and particularly anyone in a vehicle travelling towards or behind the vehicle, immediately before the collision.

A charity in East Yorkshire is sending money rather than supplies to Mozambique, so aid organisations there can provide medicines to victims of a devastating cyclone.

Cyclone Idai struck in the middle of March leaving almost two million people homeless.

The cyclone, one of the biggest natural disasters to hit the continent in recent years, destroyed tens of thousands of homes in Mozambique.

At least 500 people have died and there's a serious cholera outbreak.

John Beynon, chief executive of the Beverley-based Jacob's Well charity, says: "At the moment we're just trying to raise money.

"If we were to ship a container of medical aid it would be three of four months before it arrived and that would be too late.

"With money we can send it today and it's there tomorrow."

A woman's been rescued from a crashed car last night in West Yorkshire.

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Fire crews from Knaresborough and Harrogate used hydraulic cutting equipment to cut her from the car, after it was involved in a collision with another vehicle.

It happened on the A168 between Kirk Deighton and Walshford near Wetherby.

The road was closed for three hours while the incident was cleared.

Philip Longbottom is given a second life sentence after he admitted sexually abusing six boys.

Hull Kingston Rovers fans are being asked to bring non-perishable food to tonight's home game against Leeds that they can donate to food banks - things like pasta, tinned meat and washing up liquid.

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It's part of a project supported by both rugby league cubs in the city as well as health bosses and the council.

Hull Food Bank is running low on supplies after seeing demand rise every year since it began in 2011.

The food bank says it gave out more than 5,000 parcels last year.

Supporters can drop off the non-perishables at collection points at the two fan hubs inside Craven Park.

A petition signed by more than 96,000 people will be handed in to the government this morning, calling for plans for a new gas-fired power station at Drax in North Yorkshire to be rejected.

Drax says it needs to build the plant to make the UK's electricity supply more resilient and more flexible.

Environmental campaigners claim it will produce too much carbon dioxide - the gas that contributes to global warming and climate change.

Yorkshire County Cricket club's season gets under way on Friday, with their first game away to Nottinghamshire.

The test will take place at Trent Bridge, and will see two England players go face to face.

England captain and Yorkshireman, Joe Root, will take on international team-mate Stuart Broad in the four-day game.

A North Yorkshire railway station is to get a share of millions of pounds from the government to make it more accessible for people with disabilities.

Selby station, on the Hull to London line, is among more than 70 railway stations which will share £300m of government funding.

Urgent action to improve access at the station was called for by members of a rail users group in 2017.

The group said wheelchair users arriving at Selby from Hull after 20:00 have to stay on the train to Leeds, then travel back again to be on the right platform to get out of the station.

Campaigners said they wanted to see the installation of lifts.

Transpennine Express, which runs the station, said in August 2017: "Increased accessibility at the station is a key priority", but the installation of lifts will be "dependent on funding becoming available".

Now with a share of the government funding the Grade II listed station could see footbridges and lifts introduced over the next five years. There'll also be improvements at Northallerton.

It was an issue raised in the Commons yesterday by the Selby Conservative MP Nigel Adams, on the day he resigned as a government minister over Brexit.

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We Are Bradford

Two Bradford men have started organising concerts in historic, older buildings in the city.

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Nick and Les Hall organised various local artists to perform at the Delius Arts and Cultural Centre, a Grade II listed building which is still a functioning church, last month.

Nick Hall said: “We both got talking about the amount of beautiful buildings that are sadly underused in Bradford which could become excellent and quirky venues for live music or similar events.

“We also discussed that, while the Bradford music scene was healthy, we felt that there weren’t enough pay-on-the-door concert venues in Bradford for visiting musicians.”

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The second concert they’ve arranged will be on Saturday 20 April at Oastler Shopping Centre, which is a traditional British market.

This article was created as part of We Are Bradford - a BBC project to tell the stories that matter to the people of the city.

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Customers of York's main post office will find it in a new location from today.

It closed after 135 years on Lendal in the city yesterday.

It is reopening nearby in WHSmith on Coney Street.

More than 3,000 people signed a petition to stop the post office moving, including York Central's Labour MP Rachael Maskell.

The Post Office, which owns the building, says no decision has been made as to what will happen to it yet.

A missing dog had been beaten to death and then set on fire, according to the RSPCA.

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The 10-year-old bitch was found by firefighters who had been called to reports of a burning pile of rubbish on Cliff Hollins Lane, Bradford, on Monday 25 March.

The lurcher had gone missing eight-weeks ago and the RSPCA said it had "suffered a broken jaw, both back legs snapped and a large wound to the abdomen with the intestines protruding."

The RSCPA say the tan and brown dog was "set on fire at the same time as the pile of rubbish she had been dumped on".

Insp Sarah Bagley said: "The veterinary evidence suggests that this poor dog was alive when these hideous injuries were inflicted and this is extremely worrying.

"We're concerned that this dog may have suffered severely before she died."

BBC Weather

Today will be a mix of sunshine and showers with a brisk south-easterly wind.

Tonight, any showers will soon fade away to leave it dry through the rest of the night with clear periods and patchy cloud.

BBC News Travel

If you're making a journey on the rails in Yorkshire this morning, most services appear to be running to time.

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
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