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A prisoner who absconded from HMP Sudbury on 27 April 27 has now been found.
Jason McCormack was arrested in the Huddersfield area yesterday and has returned to prison custody.
Local Democracy Reporting Service
The Liberal Democrats and Green Party have announced plans to form a coalition to take control of City of York Council.
Talks have been taking place since the local elections almost two weeks ago when the Liberal Democrats won 21 seats, short of the 24 councillors needed for a majority.
The Green Party held their four seats and have now agreed to team up with the Lib Dems to form a coalition, with both parties saying they want to address climate change.
The Lib Dems previously led the council in partnership with the Conservatives before the local elections, which took place on May 3.
Police are appealing for help identifying this man after a Hull resident was threatened at knife-point in an early morning break-in.
Image source, Humberside PoliceOfficers want to identify the man in the picture after the robbery on Alexandra Street at about 04:00 on Wednesday 8 May.
Humberside Police say he is wanted after allegedly breaking into a house, threatening the occupier with a knife and demanding money.
A photographer has coped with his mother's death by capturing a series of images of waterfalls at night.
Image source, JOHN ARNISONLeeds-based John Arnison started the project in 2004 after his mother died from breast cancer.
The photographer said snapping the black and white images across Yorkshire had given him "time away" from everything that was happening.
"My father had been manic depressive all his life and when my mum was diagnosed he went into overdrive," Mr Arnison said.
"My wife had just given birth to my son two days after my mum died and I just needed some time to myself."
Image source, JOHN ARNISONMr Arnison said he believed it was unfair to leave his wife at home with their son during the day so hit upon the idea of taking photographs at night.
"I needed something that would give me a focus. I needed a project to get my teeth into," he said.
Mr Arnison uses torches to light the scenes he captures on film, but admitted he enjoys the "sense of excitement" he gets from not knowing how the images will appear when he develops them.
Local Democracy Reporting Service
The next Lord Mayor of Sheffield is preparing to don ceremonial robes and put on the gold chain as the current incumbent, Magid Magid, steps down as a councillor.
Image source, Sheffield City CouncilLabour’s Tony Downing, 74, will be inaugurated this week after a year as deputy.
He was born in Devon, moved to Sheffield aged 19 and has lived there ever since.
He said: “It’s my adopted home. It’s a wonderful city and I’ve loved Sheffield from the day I came here."
The former bus driver will be officially inaugurated on Wednesday from 11:30 in the Town Hall.
Police officers are growing "increasingly concerned" for a missing South Yorkshire mother and daughter who have not been seen for more than a month.
Image source, South Yorkshire PoliceSebjana Myzeqari and her two-year-old daughter, Enissa, were last seen on CCTV leaving a health centre in Doncaster on 2 April.
Det Insp Anna Sedgwick said they were first reported missing last week.
The last sighting was at the Flying Scotsman Health Centre on St Sepulchre Gate West.
Ms Myzeqari is described as 5ft 5ins (1.65m) tall with shoulder-length, mousy brown hair. Enissa is described as having distinctive large brown eyes and brown curly hair.
An appeal for mobile phone footage is being made by police investigating the death of a teenager who collapsed and died in North Yorkshire after apparently taking ecstasy.
Image source, North Yorkshire PoliceLeah Heyes, 15, died in hospital after collapsing in a car park in Northallerton on Saturday evening.
Officers have thanked people for coming forward, but say there are more people they need to speak to and are appealing for mobile phone footage taken on the night.
Det Insp Eamonn Clarke said: “We have had a good response to our recent appeal for information but we know there are still people out there who have yet to come forward.
“Inquiries also reveal there may be mobile phone video footage of the events of that evening.
"This footage will be extremely helpful to our investigation and we are appealing to anyone who has footage on their phone, has been shown footage or knows of anyone who has such footage, to come forward."
A boy aged 17 and a man aged 18 have been arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the supply of class A drugs and both have been released while under investigation.
Officers say they have not ruled out making more arrests.
The first Azuma trains are to run on the LNER service between London and Leeds from Wednesday.
Read MoreThe Lord Mayor of Sheffield says he hopes to "defeat" hate after regularly receiving "dozens of abusive and hateful letters".
Image source, @MagicMagidMagid Magid, who took up the role almost a year ago, says he's kept a "hate box" which he's filled with letters he received during his time as mayor.
He's shared the images on social media as a "harsh reminder" of hate and intolerance in communities.
One letter, which he says he received recently, makes reference to murdered West Yorkshire MP Jo Cox and uses racist remarks to describe Mr Magid.
He ended his post saying hate can cause real harm, but "by embracing courage, compassion and a vision of hope - we can defeat it".
New laws to stop developers using nets on hedges while building work takes place will not be introduced despite a campaign by a Hull woman, the government has confirmed.
Some builders use the nets to keep nesting birds away from construction sites, but the practice has been criticised by wildlife experts.
A petition started by Maggie Moran calling for the practice to be banned has been signed more than 350,000 times.
But housing minister Heather Wheeler said the government had made it clear in a letter to developers that using nets was "not acceptable" but that no new legislation was being planned.
These are the latest floral tributes to have been left in memory of a 15-year-old girl who collapsed and died in Northallerton at the weekend after apparently taking ecstasy:
Leah Heyes was found in Applegarth car park on Saturday night and died later in hospital.
The cause of her death hasn't been determined, but police believe she had taken the drug MDMA.
An 18-year-old man was arrested last night on suspicion of being concerned in the supply of class A drugs, according to police.
He was interviewed and has since been released while under investigation.
A 17-year-old boy who was arrested on Monday on suspicion of supplying class A drugs has also been released while under investigation.
Unemployment in Yorkshire has fallen again, according to the latest official statistics.
Figures show there was a drop of 12,000 people without jobs in the region between January and March, to 130,000.
The Office for National Statistics, external report shows the number of people out of work nationally now stands at 1.3 million people.
That's 119,000 fewer than a year earlier and 914,000 fewer than five years previously.
Councillors in Leeds are being urged not to renew the licences of two lap dancing clubs.
Image source, GoogleA West Yorkshire based rape crisis service claims such clubs make women unsafe and go against the council's commitment to equality.
The two clubs, Silks and Whiskey Down, both operating legally for several years, are hoping to have their licences renewed later today.
But Support After Rape and Sexual Violence Leeds, which supports women who have been sexually assaulted, wants to see the venues shut down.
They say the clubs make women more at risk of sexual assault and are concerned they're too close to residential areas.
Both clubs say they operate CCTV and have strict policies on the behaviour of visitors.
A judge wants the Metropolitan Police to investigate the conduct of Elsa Salam's father Tamer.
Read MoreA man and a woman have been injured in a crash on the M62 in East Yorkshire.
They are thought to have suffered minor injuries following the single-vehicle collision this morning on the slip road at Howden.
Fire crews were called to the scene at about 09:30, with a partial closure in place on the M62 at junction 37.
There's been travel disruption in the area, although Humberside Police say the road has since been reopened.
This video, taken by a BBC reporter, shows emergency vehicles and heavy traffic on the A614:
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Over 2,000 people have been fed in less than six months by a project using fresh food which would otherwise have been thrown away in North Yorkshire.
Image source, GoogleThe organisers of Ryedale Free Fridge say that between them and York's Planet Food, a pay-as-you-feel cafe and foodstore, more than six tonnes of food has been stopped from going to landfill.
The Free Fridge project, based at the Wesley Centre in Malton, says it's been visited by people from Filey, Scarborough and Humanby, who are now all looking to set up similar schemes.
Oli Constable
BBC Yorkshire Live
A van driver has been filmed blocking the path of a police car responding to an emergency call in West Yorkshire.
The police officer, PC Martin Willis, was trying to get to a car that had overturned on the M62.
But the driver of the white van was seemingly unaware of the emergency vehicle behind them and continued to sit in the outside lane of the motorway.
West Yorkshire Police say they're sending the owner of the van a notice of intended prosecution because of their driving:
Police in Bradford have released this picture of a major cannabis factory officers have discovered in the city:
Image source, West Yorkshire PoliceOne man was arrested at the scene in the west of the city this morning after a warrant was carried out which was "made possible by local intelligence", police say.
Inquiries are continuing, officers add.
Firefighters were called to a blaze involving gas cylinders at a workshop in Goole early this morning.
Image source, Science Photo LibraryEmergency services were called at about 02:30 to the fire at a distribution centre on Rawcliffe Road, involving one acetylene and one oxygen cylinder.
Humberside Fire and Rescue Service said crews extinguished the blaze and cooled the cylinders to a safe level.
Damage was caused to an area of flooring at the site.
A man's died following a collision between a VW Transporter van and a lorry on the M62 in West Yorkshire, police say.
Image source, West Yorkshire PoliceThe crash happened at about 07:40 yesterday on the westbound carriageway, between junctions 23 and 22.
The man, a passenger in the van who was in his 30s, died in hospital.
Anyone who saw the collision, or any debris on the carriageway before the incident, is being asked to contact the West Yorkshire force.