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A former pub in Rotherham town centre was set on fire deliberately, according to South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue.
Image source, South Yorkshire Fire and RescueThe derelict Masons Arms on Wellgate was set alight at about 03:50 yesterday morning.
The fire service had four engines at the blaze.
It has confirmed today the fire is being treated as a case of arson.
More than 3,000 people have been hit by a power cut in West Yorkshire today.
Image source, PAIt's affecting the WF1, WF4, WF6, WF7 and WF8 postcodes in Wakefield, Pontefract and Normanton.
Northern Powergrid hope power will be back on by this afternoon.
Police are appealing for witnesses who may have seen a sexual attack on board a train from Sheffield to Leeds last month to contact them.
Image source, Geograph/Jonathan ClitheroeThe attack is believed to have happened between 16:35 and 16:52 on Tuesday 26 March.
A man is thought to have got on the train at Darton station and sat next to the victim putting his arm around her and then trying to kiss her.
The woman moved down the carriage and sat with two other women, one of them took a photo of the man.
The man police want to speak to is described as dark haired with olive skin, aged in his mid-30s, of slim build and 6ft tall.
He spoke in broken English, British Transport Police said.
He wore a black and white chequered hat, a brown and beige scarf and brown clothing.
A group of refugees in East Yorkshire who've escaped the Syrian civil war have been given reconditioned bicycles to help them get around and increase their chances of employment.
A total of 30 refugees have been given the bikes and safety gear at a cycle training day in Cottingham.
It's hoped the bikes will help the refugees integrate into the community and participants are to be given safe cycling lessons.
One of the refugees, Muhammed Al Karawit, said it was a "great project".
"It will help us to go to college and do shopping as well, we are really grateful for this," he said, through an interpreter.
Mr Al Karawit said his family had escaped from the Syrian city of Daraa via Lebanon to the UK.
The course will lead to a bike ride around Beverley in June.
As well as bicycle training and road safety, participants are also to be taught about getting a driving licence, insurance, MOTs and road tax.
The project was launched last year when 40 refugees were put through the course and has since won an award for sustainable travel.
The training took place at R-evolution, a Cottingham-based charity.
Several of the famous faked Cottingley Fairies photographs are due to be sold at auction later.
Image source, Dominic Winter AuctioneersThe pictures were staged in 1917 by 16-year-old Elsie Wright and her nine-year-old cousin, Frances Griffiths, in their garden in the village of Cottingley, near Bingley.
They only admitted they were faked in 1983.
The hoax fooled many people, including Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Auctioneers estimate the 13 lots could fetch about £65,000.
Image source, Dominic Winter AuctioneersChris Albury, auctioneer and photography specialist at Dominic Winter, said: "These photographs come to us so infrequently there are far fewer than one would have guessed."
Two of the photographs were sold at Dominic Winter for more than £20,000 in October last year.
A week-long operation will start today aimed at preventing illicit items from entering Doncaster's prisons.
Image source, PAOfficers from South Yorkshire Police and prison staff will be at HMP Doncaster, Lindholme and Moorland.
They'll be carrying out a search operation for prohibited items like alcohol, mobile phones or drugs.
They're looking at items which are either being brought into, or are already inside, the prison.
Maureen Newton, 67, from east Leeds, has been decorating a tree at the end of her garden for five years.
Read MoreThousands of people are expected to head to Hull's Real Ale and Cider Festival when it opens at the Minster this afternoon.
Image source, PAThe event is in its eighth year and has raised thousands of pounds for Hull Minster over the years.
The three-day event promises local real ales and ciders, live music and food.
People are being asked not to post "distressing content" or speculate on how a van was involved in a fatal crash on the M1 yesterday.
Image source, Highways England/Crown CopyrightA 61-year-old man who was driving the van died at the scene when his vehicle hit the central reservation and swerved across four lanes of traffic before overturning.
It happened at about 07:10 between junction 35 for Rotherham and 34 for Meadowhall on the M1 southbound.
There were major delays for several hours after the crash.
Image source, Roy TwiggSouth Yorkshire Police made the request not to speculate on the crash as officers appealed for witnesses to what happened.
A consultation into where the world famous Red Arrows will be based when they leave their current home in Lincolnshire has been held, with RAF Leeming in the running to be the team's new home.
Image source, PAIt was announced in July 2018 that RAF Scampton, the home of the air display team since 2000, will close in 2022.
Three sites are in the running to be the aerobatic team's new home: RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire, RAF Wittering in Cambridgeshire and RAF Leeming in North Yorkshire.
In November last year North Yorkshire MP Rishi Sunak said he had asked the Defence Secretary to consider RAF Leeming as the new base, saying it would be an "ideal fit".
Members of the public have already met RAF representatives at an event at Waddington, with another event due to take place at RAF Wittering today.
Since its formation, the Red Arrows have performed more than 4,500 displays in more than 50 countries.
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Sheffield is to host another snooker championship, this time one featuring legends of the game going head-to-head.
Image source, PAPlayers such as Stephen Hendry and Jimmy White (both pictured above) will come to Sheffield for the city's second major snooker event of the year.
The ROKiT World Seniors Snooker Championship will see 20 players from 16 countries battle it out.
Within their four-day stay, a session will be dedicated to showcase the talents of the World Women’s Snooker Tour and the World Disability Billiards and Snooker Tour.
The event will happen from 15 August at the Crucible Theatre, which has been home to the annual World Snooker Championship since 1977.
Plans to build a children's holiday home in Scarborough in memory of a young boy who spent one of his last family holidays in the town, are expected to be approved later.
Image source, PABradley Lowrey was diagnosed with neuroblastoma when he was 18-months-old and died aged six in July 2017.
A foundation was set up in his name to help families who are unable to get funding for child cancer treatments on the NHS.
Image source, Bradley Lowrey FoundationThe foundation says the home would be for families who have children with life-threatening medical conditions "so they can collectively have a luxury holiday in a state-of-the-art facility".
Planning permission is still required for a piece of land gifted by Scarborough Borough Council and a decision on that is due later.
There's been an increase in bicycle crime at Hull Paragon Station, according to British Transport Police.
A photo posted on Twitter shows a gold bike left outside the station to raise awareness:
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A Canadian coroner's inquest has brought "some closure" to the family of a Radiohead drum technician from South Yorkshire who was killed in a stage collapse.
Image source, Toronto Star via Getty InmagesScott Johnson, from Doncaster, died in 2012 at Toronto's Downsview Park when the stage roofing buckled and fell.
Seven years later, an Ontario inquest has wrapped up hearings into his death and the causes of the tragedy.
The inquest has now released series of recommendations aimed at preventing similar such incidents.
A West Yorkshire man accused of being in a neo-Nazi terror group told a court he owned a special edition of Mein Kampf as he had "feelings of admiration" for Hitler.
Image source, Getty ImagesMark Jones, 24, along with his partner, Alice Cutter, 22, are accused of being members of National Action after it was outlawed in December 2016.
Mr Jones told Birmingham Crown Court Adolf Hitler was a "prominent figure" in his ideology.
The special edition book was given to Nazi party members as a wedding gift.
Mr Jones and Ms Cutter, both of Mulhalls Mill, Sowerby Bridge, near Halifax, are standing trial alongside Garry Jack, 23, from Heathland Avenue, Birmingham, and 18-year-old Connor Scothern, of Bagnall Avenue, Nottingham, who deny the same charge.
Image source, West Midlands Police/PAThe jury was previously told Ms Cutter had entered a "Miss Hitler" beauty contest under the name "Buchenwald Princess" - a reference to a Nazi-era death camp at which tens of thousands of people were killed or starved.
An image of Mr Jones giving a Nazi salute in the camp's execution room was widely shared on social media, the court heard earlier.
The trial continues.
This morning will be dry with some sunshine and some areas of cloud.
This afternoon will stay dry with sunny spells.
Tonight will stay dry with patchy cloud and light winds:
Ambulance crews in Bradford and York are being fined for driving in bus lanes and banned from public transport lanes when not attending a 999 call, according to their union.
Image source, Getty ImagesUnison revealed that many ambulance drivers have received penalties in those two cities for using the lanes to avoid traffic and speed up journeys for patients needing vital care.
The union warned that patients could end up stuck in traffic congestion if the fines continue.
Richard Bentley, from Unison's Yorkshire Ambulance Service Branch, said paramedics can use bus lanes in Leeds but not in other cities.
He said: "If I leave Leeds and head to Bradford or York, I'm subject to a £60 fine.
"Several colleagues have fallen foul of this and there's nothing we can do."
Some councils have dropped fines following appeals, but drivers' time is wasted on paperwork, said Unison.
National ambulance officer Colm Porter said: "Crews need to get patients to hospital quickly, but not every call requires lights and sirens."
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One person has been taken to hospital after a "severe fire" at a house in Tollerton between York and Thirsk.
Image source, NYFSFire crews from York, Huntington, Easingwold and Acomb were called out at about 01:45 this morning to the property.
The fire is now out and the fire service says that, at this stage, they know of one person who's been treated for smoke inhalation.
Fire crews will remain at the scene until later this morning, it adds.
