A volunteer police officer has been dubbed a "hero" after saving a man's life in Sheffield.

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Matt Elliott is a special constable with South Yorkshire Police and fits his volunteer work around his full-time job.

He was off duty when he says he saw a man who had collapsed in the street last month.

Working with members of the public, Matt used a defibrillator and performed CPR before an ambulance arrived taking the 87-year-old to hospital.

The man's son has praised the special constable's actions, saying he was "an absolute hero".

A North Yorkshire MP has announced he's backing Boris Johnson in the Conservative Party leadership contest.

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Conservative MP for Richmond, Rishi Sunak, claims the former Foreign Secretary has an "exciting, inspiring and inclusive vision for the country".

He said: "He's trusted to deliver Brexit and he has a particular way of communicating which means he wins elections and then, when he's been in office, he delivers what he says.

"That's what he did when he was in London and I'm confident he would do that as Prime Minister."

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The winner of the contest - in which Conservative Party members will get the final say between two remaining candidates - will be announced in the week of 22 July.

A man has been found dead in Leeds, sparking a police investigation into the cause of his death.

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Officers were called at about 07:45 this morning to Compton Road.

He was pronounced dead at the scene by ambulance staff.

Compton Road has been closed and cordons are in place while police investigations continue.

Wreaths have been laid in Sheffield to remember those who lost their lives in the D-Day landings.

People gathered at Weston Park earlier to take part in the ceremony.

It marks 75 years since thousands of Allied troops descended on the Normandy beaches to begin the liberation of mainland Europe..

By the end of D-Day, the Allies had established a foothold in France and within 11 months Nazi Germany was defeated and the war was over.

A 90-year-old man from Hull, who is thought to be Britain's youngest D-Day veteran, has written a charity song called The Shores of Normandy which is currently topping an online chart.

Jim Radford, who was a galley boy in the Merchant Navy aged just 15, has released a single to raise money for a permanent memorial on the beaches to those who sacrificed their lives.

Since the war, he’s been a folk singer and peace campaigner and says the "lads who never came back need to be honoured".

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Valuable paintings from an East Yorkshire museum will be put back on display today after months of restoration work.

A number of paintings from Hull's Maritime Museum have been undergoing work, and 11 of them will be returned today after receiving an expert makeover.

The work has been carried out by specialist restorers as part of a £27.5m scheme to transform Hull's maritime attractions.

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Among the 30 pieces chosen were paintings reflecting the city's history, including a portrait of a Hull dockmaster's wife and canvas titled Hull Whaleship Diana Beset With Ice.

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The NHS will start picking up part of the bill to fund daytime activities for adults with learning difficulties in Doncaster.

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As part of a cost-cutting measure, Doncaster Council is handing over a chunk of the budget to the NHS Doncaster Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) for them to provide services at the Solar Centre in Balby.

The centre is run by Rotherham Doncaster & South Humberside NHS Foundation Trust, which is in turn commissioned by the council.

Councillors heard the number of people attending the centre has fallen dramatically, mainly due to them going elsewhere.

At present, the council foots all of the £605,000 budget but the CCG will now pay over half of the share from 1 July.

When Shakespeare wrote about the winter of our discontent being "made glorious summer by this sun of York", he wasn't worrying about the city's weather.

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But 300 "groundlings", who will watch plays in a pop-up, roofless replica Elizabethan theatre in the city this summer, will hope "this sun of York" shines on them.

Shakespeare's Rose, which opens on 25 June is inspired by the Rose Theatre of 1587 in London’s Bankside, which was built from timber, with a lath and plaster exterior and thatch roof,.

It can fit in an audience of 900 and uses over 30,000 cu m of scaffolding tubes, 1,400 sq m of metal cladding and 22,000 screws.

The theatre will stage four of Shakespeare's plays over the coming weeks; Hamlet, Twelfth Night, Henry V and The Tempest.

Multi-million pound plans to build new flood defences in Leeds are expected to be approved later.

Officials will decide on plans to fit flood barriers around the Kirstall and Armley Mills areas, which were both hit by flooding in 2015.

The project still needs an extra £20m in government funding.

Meanwhile in North Yorkshire a delayed scheme to protect hundreds of homes in Filey from flooding is expected to be approved after earlier plans had to be revised.

Scarborough Borough Council planners are due to meet this afternoon

The latest scheme proposes a series of embankments and bunds to divert flood water away from built-up areas. Dranage channels and water stoarge areas will be created.

Filey was badly flooded in 2002 and 2007. But despite plans for flood defences being approved in 2016 they had to be changed.

D-Day veterans are being joined in northern France by Theresa May, Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron to mark the 75th anniversary of the Normandy invasion 75-years ago.

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Events to mark the occasion are also taking place across Yorkshire.

Ken Smith, from York, was an 18-year-old infantryman signaller and took part in the operation. He's travelled out to France for today's anniversary,

He says he was terrified but that he and another soldier agreed to stick together moments before going ashore.

Mr Smith says: "It was like a hell on earth with the naval shells coming over and the screaming of the dive-bombers.

"But a little Cockney lad, all the swagger gone from him, put his hand on my shoulder and said 'I'm scared mate,' which made me feel better.

"Within minutes we were wading waist-deep in water and when we got ashore, out of the corner of my eye, I saw he went down.

"We're not allowed to stop in battle, so I carried on to the top.

"It was the first time as an 18-year-old I'd seen death."

Plans to open a BrewDog bar in Hull this year have been shelved though the brewer says it still intends to come to the city at some point.

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The Scottish firm says delays to its building being ready, believed to be King William House, mean it's decided to focus elsewhere.

It still has an ambition to open in Hull, but not this year and there's currently no date confirmed for 2020 either.

Thousands of people are expected to attend the start of the UK's largest documentary festival as it marks its 26th year.

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Sheffield Doc/Fest began in 1994 showing 42 films over two days to an audience of about 2,000.

It's since grown to a six-day event screening more than 200 films.

Doc/Fest has previously hosted premieres of films by directors including Martin Scorsese and Michael Moore.

This year's festival begins with the UK premiere of Asif Kapadia’s new film about Argentinian footballer Diego Maradona.

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One of the highlights of the festival is expected to be an interview with Stacey Dooley.

The documentary maker is appearing at the Crucible Theatre for the headline BBC interview, talking about life after Strictly Come Dancing.

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Weather Presenter, BBC Look North

Today there'll be a mix of sunshine and some heavy, but well scattered showers with top temperatures reaching 19C in places.

Those showers will drop away later though meaning it'll be much cooler overnight with temperatures down to 6C.

A D-Day veteran has spoken of the moment he joined thousands of men landing on the beaches of Normandy 75 years ago today.

D-Day was the start of the liberation of Nazi-occupied western Europe.

Frank Baugh, who lives in Doncaster, was on a landing craft that day along with 200 men.

"We were all amazed because we were seeing something people will never see again", he said.

"The sea full of craft, with dozens and dozens of aircraft going over the top of you.

"As we were landing, a shell came in blew up where the troops had just come out. Quite a few of the men didn't get out in time.

"And then we were in range of the machine guns and then we were just target practice for them."

BBC Business News

British insurer Aviva has announced that it is to cut 1,800 jobs worldwide over the next three years and split its business into two.

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Aviva has offices in 16 countries and a global workforce of 30,000 people, with 16,000 employees in the UK.

The firm's UK sites include London, Norwich, York, Dorking, Bristol, Perth, Sheffield, Eastleigh and Glasgow.

The insurer intends to split its life and general insurance businesses and manage them separately.

The move is part of plans to "simplify" the company to make it "more competitive".

A kitchen company says it plans to create up to 1,200 new jobs as part of a £120m expansion.

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Wren Kitchens is planning to build a new factory at its headquarters in Barton-upon-Humber, North Lincolnshire.

The firm currently employs 1,500 people at the site, with another 1,000 workers in nearby Hull, Howden and Scunthorpe.

Managing director Mark Pullan said the new factory would be "the largest single investment" in the company's history.

Full-back Jack Walker signs a five-year contract at Leeds Rhinos which expires at the end of the 2023 season.

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 so far.

However;

• The 08:27 service from York to Leeds is cancelled
• The 08:42 service from Doncaster to Manchester Airport is 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
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More than 5,000 businesses are calling on the government to invest in a high-speed railway link across the north of England.

The proposed £39bn project, dubbed the "Crossrail of the North," would see journey times halved between major northern cities.

A survey by the Northern Powerhouse Partnership (NPP) found companies believed the upgraded network would boost productivity and investment. The government is considering the plan.

The report's findings have been backed by former chancellor George Osborne, who is the chair of the NPP.

"The message coming loud and clear is that HS2 and Northern Powerhouse Rail (NPR) are critical for businesses to remain, grow and invest in the North," he said.

More than 70% of the companies said they would "commit to new investment if NPR was confirmed" and 85% believed that NPR would increase investment across the north.

BBC Weather

Today there will be spells of sunshine, with cloud building to bring a few scattered showers by the afternoon.

Any showers this evening will fade away, leaving some late sunshine followed by a dry clear night: