A ceremony's taken place at Leeds-Bradford Airport to signal the start of work on a major extension to the main terminal building.

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Plans approved by Leeds City Council include the construction of an extension to the main airport terminal building, which will include larger immigration and baggage reclaim areas, more places to eat and drink, and improved departure gate facilities.

The work is expected to be completed by the summer of 2020.

Police are asking witnesses to a crash in Bradford which left a man in his 40s critically ill in hospital to contact them.

The man's BMW hit railings and traffic lights at the junction of Mayo Avenue and Chase Way in the city just before 02:00 this morning.

The road was closed for eight hours and meant traffic lights in the area stopped working.

The incident caused significant delays in this morning's rush hour.

Anyone with any information or anyone who witnessed the collision is being asked to contact the West Yorkshire force.

A couple from North Yorkshire are celebrating after winning the TV show Race across the World.

Tony and Elaine Teasdale, from York, won a race to try and become the first pair of travellers to reach the Far East without taking a flight.

They weren't allowed bank cards or a mobile phone.

After racing 12,000 miles over two continents, across 21 countries and several seas, Tony and Elaine, both retired PE teachers, were the first to reach Singapore and be crowned winners.

Popping a bottle of champagne to celebrate their £20,000 win, an incredulous Elaine said: “We’re the oldest team in the competition by far, and the pensioners.

"We are OAPs and we’ve beaten all of these youngsters - how's that happened?”

A hip-hop musical about the dangers of knife crime is being created in Hull.

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Campaigner Pastor Mo Timbo says there's already been interest in the musical - which will be performed in secondary schools - from London, Manchester and Birmingham.

He said he had "no doubt it would be a national thing" with a No More Knives campaign video also in the works.

A statue of an angel (pictured), made out of seized knives, was in Hull earlier this year as part of a national tour.

A cyclist is critically ill after hitting a parked car in York, police say.

It happened last night at 19:15 on Holgate Road.

Officers say the cyclist, a local man in his 50s, was treated at the scene for serious head injuries.

He was taken by ambulance to Leeds General Infirmary.

North Yorkshire Police say they'd like to hear from anyone who witnessed the collision, or saw the cyclist involved.

He was riding a yellow bicycle, and wearing a grey sports top, blue cargo trousers and a khaki baseball cap.

The Earl De Grey had a colourful reputation due to its seafaring past, including stories about a talking parrot.

A multi-million pound project to improve a roundabout on a major road in East Yorkshire begins today.

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The £3.9m work at the Shiptonthorpe roundabout, on the A1079, is expected to last until Christmas.

East Riding of Yorkshire Council says the improvements will reduce delays and allow for future traffic growth.

Plans to cut the number of firefighters from five to four on fire engines in South Yorkshire are to go to consultation.

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The consultation will start on 3 May and last 12 weeks.

The service needs to save about £4m a year, so union representatives and fire chiefs met earlier to discuss the planned cuts.

The fire service has said this is a better option than reducing the number of fire engines overall, and many engines already attend incidents with a crew of four.

However, the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has said the plans could put both staff and the public at risk.

Police have released CCTV photographs of a masked man who held up a Harrogate petrol station with a knife.

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A man approached the cashier at the Esso petrol station, on Skipton Road, demanding cash and cigarettes.

He left with "a small amount of money and tobacco products," according to officers.

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A 21-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the incident at 03:45 on Friday 5 April.

He has been released on bail as the investigation continues.

Wigan said they were "angered" by an abusive tweet sent to Nathan Byrne after a draw with Bristol City.

Skyla Giller was found unresponsive in Skelmanthorpe, near Huddersfield, in August 2017.

A Rotherham couple, whose epileptic son suffers up to 40 seizures a day, are hoping to raise money for a new wheelchair.

Paul and Michelle Ryder's seven-year-old son William suffered a stroke in the womb when his twin died, and he suffered another stroke last year.

His severe brain damage means that a specialist wheelchair, costing almost £1,700, is the only way he could have any independence.

"As he grows it's getting harder for me to push him", Michelle Ryder said.

"The specialist wheelchair would give him a chance to have some independence and be in charge of where he goes and when."

A scheme to document the history of Hull's former Co-Op and BHS building, famous for its Three Ships mosaic, will record people's memories today.

The Ships in the Sky project is holding a drop-in session at Western Library today with another one planned for later this month:

Two girls aged 16 and 15 have been arrested on suspicion of assault following the incident in Hull.

Police investigating aggressive behavior towards staff at Halifax station have released a photograph of a man they want to speak to.

British Transport Police shared an image on Twitter in order to try and identify the man:

Plans have been submitted for a 150-room hotel next to Hull's Bonus Arena.

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The proposals would also secure the future of the Grade II listed Earl De Grey pub and Castle Street Chambers, relocating them nearby.

Wykeland and Princes Quay Developments are behind the £20m project, which could create 120 full and part time jobs.

A man's been seriously injured after the vehicle he was driving hit traffic lights in Bradford, police say.

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The collision in the M606 area in the early hours of this morning led to the closure of part of the city's road network causing long delays.

Officers say the traffic lights the vehicle collided with were broken as a result of the impact of the crash.

Police expect roads in the area to be open again within the next hour.

Norwich City striker Teemu Pukki is named Championship Player of the Season at the EFL Awards.

Plans to cut the number of firefighters on fire engines in South Yorkshire from five to four are due to be discussed later.

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The service needs to save about £4m a year and says this is a better option than reducing the number of fire engines overall.

The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) says the plans are "unthinkable" and could put both staff and public at risk.

FBU regional secretary Neil Carbutt said public and firefighter safety was at risk as well as the loss of 83 jobs.

The fire service said many engines already attended incidents with a crew of four.

Union representatives and fire chiefs are expected to meet today to discuss the planned cuts.

Experts from across the country are due to meet in West Yorkshire later for a major national conference on tackling child sexual exploitation.

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The event, in Bradford, is headlined by Dr Ella Cockbain, the country’s leading academic and authority on sexual violence, sexual exploitation, trafficking and modern slavery.

The conference, organised by Muslim-led West Yorkshire based campaign group Together Against Grooming, features high profile names like Sara Rowbotham, the sexual health worker who exposed the Rochdale grooming gang scandal and Nazir Afzal, the main prosecutor in the case.

Khalida Ashrafi, chair of Together Against Grooming, says more public funding is needed for organisations working across communities to tackle child sexual exploitation.

A funding boost would mean people working at grass-roots level could "work with communities to raise awareness, keep children safe, to make communities, families and localities safer," she says.