This weekend's planned closure of the M62 has been postponed due to the poor weather forecast.

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Repairs to the Ardsley Railway Bridge, located between J28 and 29 at Lofthouse, were supposed to take place from Friday evening until early Monday morning.

Highways England project manager Dan Edwards said: “It’s unfortunate the work can’t go ahead this weekend, but this project always required favourable weather conditions.

“The work will be rescheduled and we will once again work with the local authorities to select dates that cause minimum disruption.”

Hundreds of bus drivers in South Yorkshire are to strike for two days in a dispute over pay.

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Workers in Doncaster, Sheffield, Rotherham and part of the Derbyshire Dales, will walk out after rejecting an offer of a year's pay freeze.

A union has described the offer, made by First South Yorkshire, as "insulting".

Unite says buses will "grind to a halt" during the strike with about 900 drivers walking out on Saturday 29 June and Monday 1 July.

Phil Bown, regional officer at Unite, said "constructive" pay talks were needed "urgently" to avoid disruption for the travelling public.

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First South Yorkshire said it was "disappointed" drivers had voted for strike action.

Managing director Garry Birmingham said the company "pay significantly better" than other operators with drivers already receiving the "best offer available".

An East Yorkshire mum whose son was killed in Afghanistan is to be visited by a charity which creates "memory gardens" for the dead.

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Pte Gregg Stone, 22, from 3rd Battalion, The Yorkshire Regiment, was shot during a mission to rescue a kidnapped policeman in Helmand province in 2012.

His mother Angie Moore, from Atwick, near Hornsea, says she feels "humbled" by the help offered by Forces Support, who will landscape her back garden.

She now plans to do a parachute jump to raise money for the charity which helps grieving families by giving them a place where they can sit and remember the person they've lost.

A man who murdered his partner's three-year-old son has been jailed for a minimum of 20 years.

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Kyle Campbell hit Riley Siswick so hard he ruptured his bowel, causing peritonitis - a life-threatening infection.

The toddler was found dead two days later at their home in Huddersfield in February 2016.

Campbell, 27, was jailed for life, with a minimum term of 20 years, after he was found guilty of murder following a trial at Leeds Crown Court.

Riley's mother, Kayleigh Siswick, was also found guilty of causing or allowing the death of a child and was jailed for seven years.

The judge said Campbell's actions were an "appalling act of selfish cruelty".

Staff at Bradford hospitals have voted to take strike action over plans to set up a new company to run the facilities.

Bradford Teaching Hospital Trust wants to transfer workers such as porters and cleaners to a subsidiary company.

It said "patient safety and levels of care" would not be hit "by any industrial action".

Natalie Ratcliffe, of the Unison union, said: "Our members are very angry. We want them to scrap the plans."

Some 97% of votes cast by members were in favour of strike action at Bradford Royal Infirmary, St Luke's, and Shipley Hospitals, and three community hospitals at Eccleshill, West Wood Park and Westbourne Green.

A walkout involving more than 300 members, lasting up to seven days, could start in July, the union said.

A man has been found guilty of murdering a three-year-old boy by hitting him so hard he ruptured his bowel.

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Riley Siswick was found dead two days after he was seriously injured by 27-year-old Kyle Campbell at their home in Huddersfield, in February 2016.

Riley's mother, Kayleigh Siswick, also 27, was found guilty of causing or allowing the death of a child.

During their trial at Leeds Crown Court, prosecutors said neither Siswick nor Campbell raised the alarm about the toddler's acute and deteriorating condition which "would have been obvious" to anyone.

Both defendants are due to be sentenced later.

Kyle Campbell, 27, has been found guilty of murdering his partner's three year-old son Riley Siswick.

A Bradford charity is encouraging people to donate their used mobile phones to homeless people.

Hope Housing says the phones allow people on the streets to be contacted directly when they find emergency accommodation for them:

This video was created as part of We Are Bradford - a BBC project with the people of the city to tell the stories which matter to them.

A motorcyclist who died after crashing into a road sign in Sheffield has been named by police.

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Adam Featherstone was riding his red and white trial bike along Oldfield Road, towards Stannington, when he crashed.

The 22-year-old was taken to hospital after the collision, at about 23:45 on Saturday, but died of his injuries on Monday.

His family today said they were "devastated at the loss of our Adam" and appealed for anyone with information to come forward.

In a statement they said: "No words can describe how we are feeling, he truly was one in a million.

"We are trying and failing to come to terms with the fact he is no longer with us and we need to know the reason why."

If you were asked to conjure up an image of a taxidermist, you could be forgiven for visualising a moustachioed man in Victorian hunting attire.

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But now, more than a century after the practice reached a peak of popularity, a new wave of female taxidermists aims to change people's perceptions about their profession.

One of them is Emilie Woodford from York (pictured), who is on the committee of the Guild of UK Taxidermists.

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The 28-year old worked as a veterinary nurse before changing her career.

"Wildlife was brought in and it was such a waste when it died; everything was lost forever," she says.

Emilie hopes the industry can be better understood in the future.

"It's not all old men working in their sheds," she says, "films like 101 Dalmatians and Paddington don't help because they portray taxidermists as these evil people, but I really hope we can change the public's opinion."

An offer has been made for Hull’s former Marks and Spencer building - but we won't know who's made the offer for some time.

The council says it’s likely to be a company which is looking at taking on other former Marks and Spencer sites around the country as well.

It will be September before the identity of the company is confirmed, or there's news of any significant developments, according to Hull City Council.

In January, the retailer said it was considering closing its store on Whitefriargate after 88 years.

The store then shut its doors last month as part of a five-year reorganisation plan which will see more than 100 Marks and Spencer stores closed by 2022.

A man wanted in connection with a break-in at a woman's house in Barnsley is being helped to evade officers by members of the public, according to police.

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Officers want to speak to Jonathan Osbourne, known as Johnny, in connection with the incident which happened on 16 April.

The force said that since the break-in, the woman is reported to have continued being threatened and intimidated.

Det Ch Insp Paul Murphy said: “We have information that suggests that some people are helping Osbourne to evade the police.

"It is a criminal offence to assist and harbour an offender, and we will arrest any such individual found to be doing this.”

Police have been advised not to approach Mr Osbourne if they see him, but to call 999 and report it immediately.

Bradford City sign Zeli Ismail after the winger's release by League One club Walsall.

A pedestrian suffered serious head injuries when he was hit by a car while crossing a road in Hull.

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The man was walking on Beverley Road, near the junction with Washington Street, when he was struck by a red BMW.

He was taken to hospital following the crash, which happened at about 18:40 yesterday.

No arrests have been made and police say two people who were in the car, which was travelling north, were unhurt.

Humberside Police want to hear from anyone who saw the incident or has any dashcam footage.

Bradford City sign defender Jackson Longridge from Scottish Championship side Dunfermline Athletic on a two-year deal.

Staff at a North Yorkshire school which teaches permanently excluded children are going on strike over proposed funding cuts.

They're walking out today over council plans to cut financial support for the pupil referral unit at The Grove Academy in Harrogate.

North Yorkshire County Council says it recognises the decision is unpopular but says its "committed to reducing permanent exclusions".

Mark Harrison the regional organiser for Unison says: "The best guess is the facility will be closed by Christmas this year and that leaves some of the most vulnerable children in our community exposed.

"We've got a problem because we don't know what's going to happen to both staff and pupils."

The council says it remains committed to reducing the numbers of permanent exclusions across the county by ensuring mainstream schools can provide higher levels of support.

A missing 13-year-old boy from Hull has been found safe and well, say police.

Ellis Foster has been found in the last few hours and officers have been to see him.

Humberside Police have thanked members of the public for sharing an appeal after he failed to return home from school yesterday.

Like broccoli? Problems with your knees? If you answered yes to both these questions then you're exactly the person researchers in West Yorkshire are looking for.

Academics at Leeds University are carrying out medical trials to see if eating broccoli could help people with arthritis.

It's thought a compound, called sulforaphane, which is found in the vegetable can slow down osteoarthritis.

Having previously shown the benefits in mice, the team now hope to recruit people to take part in the first human trial.

They are looking for people over 50, who are suffering with knee osteoarthritis, and, of course, who are partial to a bit of broccoli.

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Comedian Freddie Starr is to be laid to rest on Merseyside later, a month after his death at the age of 76.

Fans have been invited to listen to the funeral service on speakers outside Prescot Parish Church, Prescot from 13:00.

Starr's coffin has the words "Liverpool legend" engraved on one side and "Return to sender" on the other.

Starr often performed as an Elvis Presley impersonator, and Return to Sender was one of the songs he covered on his 1981 album Spirit of Elvis.

There were fears the comedian and singer could have a pauper's funeral in Spain, where he lived at the end of his life, until a Sheffield funeral director stepped in.

Police have released a CCTV image of a man they want to speak to after items were stolen from a dead man's house in Hull.

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Officers are currently investigating a theft at an address on Beverley Road where a man was found deceased on 28 June.

Humberside Police say they are not treating the man's death as suspicious but they believe the man in the picture could help with their inquiries into the theft.

Police have called for the man, or anyone who recognises him, to get in touch.