A bridge crossing the River Ouse in York is due to re-open to the public later after major work on it was carried out.

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It's been closed since January while more than £4m was spent widening it for pedestrians and cyclists and making it accessible when the river is in flood.

The previous bridge carried more than 3,000 pedestrians every day, City of York Council said.

The re-opening had previously been delayed due to poor weather.

Hull Minster's bells are to toll this evening in solidarity with France, following the fire which ripped through the Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris on Monday.

The Archbishop of York, John Sentamu, has asked all cathedrals and churches across England to toll their bells for seven minutes at 19:00.

Bells from a Roman Catholic cathedral in Sheffield rang yesterday with the hope Notre-Dame's bells "will one day ring out over Paris and a fully restored cathedral".

Five men have been arrested after suspected Class A drugs and £150,000 in cash were seized in a police raid in Sheffield.

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The search was carried out in two properties on Sharrow Lane on Tuesday.

Three men in their twenties were arrested on suspicion of possessing Class A drugs.

Tests are being done to establish what the drugs are.

Two men, aged 29 and 34, were arrested on suspicion of money laundering.

Sgt Ross Greenwood said: "We want to be clear, to our communities and to those involved in organised crime, that our efforts are going to be relentless in disrupting criminal activity."

Holiday rental company Airbnb says it's seen a 300% increase in bookings for Scarborough this year compared to last Easter.

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Airbnb allows homeowners to rent out their properties to willing holidaymakers.

It's the biggest jump of anywhere in the UK, with Sheffield sixth on the list.

Airbnb says it thinks the rise is down to a later than usual bank holiday weekend and some better weather.

The A646 in Luddenden Foot will be closed for most of this morning following a collision.

Police are currently at the junction of Burnley Road and Warley Wood Avenue:

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Fleetwood Town manager Joey Barton says he "emphatically denies" allegations that he assaulted Barnsley boss Daniel Stendel at Oakwell.

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Police are investigating an alleged altercation which took place when the two sides met on Saturday.

A man has been arrested on suspicion of a racially aggravated public order offence and racially aggravated assault and released on bail.

Two men have been charged with attempted murder after a man was seriously injured when a firearm was discharged in Bradford.

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The incident happened on 14 April at Grayswood Cresent.

Nicholas Beck, 30, of Dawnay Road, is also charged with possession of an offensive weapon.

Meanwhile, John Wilkinson, 28, of Grange Terrace, Allerton, is also charged with possession of a shotgun.

Both men are due to appear before Bradford Magistrates' Court later.

The first round draw for the World Snooker Championship in Sheffield takes place this morning.

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James Cahill has become the first amateur to qualify for the Crucible stages.

The championship has been played in Sheffield since 1977.

You can watch the draw live on the BBC.

Up to 60 jobs are to go at one of the country's biggest newspaper publishers which runs titles such as the Yorkshire Post, the Sheffield Star and the Wakefield Express.

JPIMedia says it's looking to make the losses through voluntary redundancies of full-time editorial roles across all of its titles.

The firm, which owns about 170 titles across the country, says "immediate revenue challenges" have prompted the redundancy programme.

A 10-year-old North Yorkshire boy who wants to be an astronaut has had his own "mission patch" made by one of Nasa's designers.

Image source, BBC/Tim Gagnon

It comes after the youngster from Northallerton, known on social media as Space Boy Eddie, met his hero Tim Peake.

This Twitter post by the British astronaut led to an American artist who's worked with Nasa, reaching out to Eddie:

Tim Gagnon, who describes himself as an "artronaut" and has designed emblems for space missions, said he'd "love to design Eddie his own patch".

Eddie now has his own bespoke badge, but he's not planning on getting it sown onto his blue astronaut's flight suit just yet.

His mum Heather is going to get the original badge framed before saving up £200 to get 50 copies printed to give as gifts to teachers who have supported him.

As for Eddie, who's passionate about astrophysics, space and computer coding, his next adventure will be going to secondary school in September.

A man is being treated in hospital for leg injuries after a shooting in a Sheffield suburb last night.

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The 18-year-old man suffered non-life threatening injuries after the shooting in Upperthorpe, South Yorkshire Police said.

Police officers were called to Oxford Street at about 23:00 last night, where a cordon remains this morning.

Abbie Dewhurst
Weather Presenter, BBC Look North

It'll be dry with warm sunshine today once low cloud and mist clears.

Watch my full forecast here:

Teachers at a school in Sheffield have called off any further industrial action against the proposed closure of a school's sixth form.

They originally went on strike after Bradfield School in Worrall announced it would be closing its sixth form, meaning fewer teachers would be required.

The school said the move was because recruitment had been low for several years, putting seven teachers' jobs under threat.

The school's sixth form is still set to close, but the threatened staff will now be accommodated through voluntary redundancy and reallocation within the school, the National Education Union has said.

Two beavers have been released into a North Yorkshire forest to build dams which it's hoped could help slow the flow of flood water in the area.

The Eurasian beavers are slowly being reintroduced in England after becoming extinct 400 years ago.

The five-year Forestry England project will check if the creatures maintain dams and boost biodiversity.

It's hoped the pair will breed on a wetland site in Pickering and become an effective way of protecting towns and villages from flood water.

Forestry England's Alan Eves said: "We are looking forward to seeing the beavers settle into their new home and are very interested to watch how they impact on the water flow and surrounding ecology."

A man arrested by police investigating an alleged racial attack at the end of Barnsley's game with Fleetwood Town on Saturday has been released on bail.

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An attack is said to have happened in the tunnel area of the ground at about 17:00.

Yesterday, a man was arrested on suspicion of a racially aggravated public order offence and racially aggravated assault.

He has been bailed until next month, South Yorkshire Police said.

The force is appealing for people who may have filmed the alleged incident to come forward to police.

Teenagers are learning how to drive before they turn 17 as part of a project in Driffield aimed at cutting the number of serious accidents involving young motorists.

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The week-long course is taking place away from public roads on the site of the former Driffield airfield and is designed to get youngsters into safe habits before they ditch the "L" plates.

The programme began in the south of England but has now come to East Yorkshire, with parents providing the cars and children driving around cones.

Course leader Ian Goring said: "Getting students to understand what safe driving's all about and giving them a chance to practice before they're 17 means they can concentrate more on the road rather than the mechanics inside the car."

BBC Weather

Any early low cloud and mist will disperse this morning.

That will leave fine and dry long sunny periods, albeit hazy at times.

Feeling warm with highs of about 18C (64F).

A fine end to the day with some late sunshine:

People in the path of the proposed HS2 rail link say they've had to sell their homes under market value, as new figures from the BBC show 900 residential properties have been bought for a total of about £600m.

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Campaigners opposed to HS2 said some homeowners had been treated badly, claiming homes were routinely undervalued.

Tracy Stone, from Mexborough, lives on the Shimmer Estate (pictured), which made headlines when the route was announced because it was so newly-built residents had only just moved in when they learned their homes were at risk of demolition to make way for HS2.

She recently sold her house to HS2 at £5,000 below what she thought was market value after being told the proposed route would go directly through the estate.

"They've been offering ridiculously low prices and the whole process just feels very unfair", she said.

"We were promised by the government and HS2 that they would look after people on this estate, but that hasn't happened. We've been let down and lied to."

A spokeswoman for HS2 said: "We are committed to supporting homeowners on the Shimmer Estate, and have reached agreement on values for over 75% of cases where the homeowner has applied to sell their property through our property support schemes.

"Every home is unique and there will often be different opinions about the value of a property. We have a responsibility to establish a price that is fair both for homeowners and the taxpayer."

BBC News Travel

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

However:

• The 06:43 York to Newcastle is delayed
• The 06:46 York to Middlesbrough is delayed
• The 06:49 Leeds to Manchester Airport is delayed
• The 07:12 Leeds to Bradford Forster Square has been cancelled

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

A British Nigerian man who was "hounded to his death" by police in Leeds is being remembered in a series of events to mark 50 years since he died.

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David Oluwale was last seen fleeing two police officers on 18 April 1969 and later found drowned in the River Aire.

His death led to the first prosecution of British police for involvement in the death of a black person.

Max Farrar, from the David Oluwale Memorial Association, said his tragic story had helped change the city.

Among the events, external is a gathering on Thursday at Killingbeck Cemetery, where Mr Oluwale is buried alongside nine other people in a pauper's grave.

An exhibition by artist Rasheed Araeen is being held at The Tetley gallery in Leeds, while other events through April include poetry readings, music performances and a walk round Leeds of places associated with Mr Oluwale's life.