Energy firm Ineos want to drill a test hole for shale gas at a site near Rotherham.

Police say concerns are growing for a 23-year-old man missing from Sheffield who has limited English and may be "struggling" to communicate with members of the public.

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South Yorkshire Police have issued a fresh appeal to try and find Minod Monger and are "reasserting the need for the public to help them".

Officers have confirmed that he was last seen yesterday afternoon at about 17:30 in the Ecclesfield area of the city.

Ch Insp Helen Lewis said: “We are growing increasingly concerned for Minod’s safety and so are his family, it is extremely important that we find him as soon as possible.

“We believe he’s on foot, so could have travelled anywhere in the city since last night. He also has limited English, so may be struggling to communicate with other members of the public."

Minod is described as Asian with dark black hair and was last seen wearing a white jacket, grey joggers and black Crocs.

South Yorkshire Police have asked members of the public not to approach him but instead to call 999 to report any sightings.

A fundraising campaign in North Yorkshire to raise £250,000 so a three-year-old boy can have cancer treatment in America has reached its target.

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Freddie Thompson, from the Thirsk area, has an aggressive form of cancer.

An update on the Freddie's Fight Facebook page says: "We are absolutely delighted to let everyone know we have surpassed our original target of £250,000.

"Starting the fundraising in February, we thought we had a mammoth task ahead of us to raise this amount by October.

"The support of our local community has been astounding and what once seemed an impossible task has seen us achieve our goal."

Freddie's parents said: “We will forever be grateful to all the wonderful people who have donated and given up their time to help us raise this amount for Freddie’s treatment.

"Never in a million years did we think we would reach this amount so quickly," they added.

Police have arrested two men and seized thousands of pounds of cash, suspected Class A drugs and a Rolex watch in Doncaster.

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Police carried out raids in Denaby and Mexborough, searching five properties and seizing suspected crack cocaine, cannabis, amphetamines and about £10,000 in cash as well as a quantity of expensive jewellery.

A 35-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of possessing and intending to supply drugs while a 28-year-old was arrested on the same charges as well as on suspicion of money laundering.

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South Yorkshire Police say both men are still in custody.

An East Yorkshire stately home has appealed for people to return bones from a whale skeleton, which inspired Moby Dick writer Herman Melville.

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The whale, which washed up on the Holderness coast and has been on display at Burton Constable Hall since the 1830s, is mentioned in the American writer's famous 1851 novel.

It has become neglected over the years with many bones taken for "souvenirs" but the hall is now preparing to mark the bicentenary of Melville's birth and hopes to restore the skeleton.

Melville came to England during his lifetime and is known to have visited York, but it is uncertain whether he went to Burton Constable Hall.

Much of his description of Burton Constable’s whale is believed to have been lifted from The Natural History of the Sperm Whale, published by Thomas Beale in 1839, 12 years before Moby Dick.

Police are looking for the owner of a pair of jackets thought to have been stolen before being dumped in a bin in Harrogate.

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North Yorkshire Police shared photographs of the clothing, which was recovered by officers from a bin in Harrogate.

The items are believed to have been stolen in a recent burglary and police want to get in touch with the owner.

John Cornes, one of six brothers infected by contaminated blood, said his family had been "ripped apart".

Dancers at a strip club in Sheffield and their supporters marched to the town hall in the rain earlier asking the council to keep the venue open.

Spearmint Rhino's licence is currently under review and there's been a campaign to shut it down with campaigners claiming private investigators saw dancers performing sex acts during undercover visits.

The council says officers are going through all the representations made to them and undertaking a separate investigation into the allegations made by campaigners.

Ella Smith works as a dancer and says she wishes the women campaigning for the club's closure would come and talk to them.

She said: "They don't know us, they don't know what kind of support we need, they just focus on people who have had a bad experience in the industry."

The protesters stopped traffic in Sheffield as they walked from Spearmint Rhino to the Town Hall.

Bomb disposal experts removed suspected ordnance from an East Yorkshire beach this morning.

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At about 18:10 last night, the coastguard received a report of possible ordnance on the beach south of Skipsea.

The coastguard and Humberside Police attended the scene but had to withdraw from the beach due to the incoming tide.

But an army explosive ordnance disposal team returned at about 06:00 today removing the items from the beach for safe disposal.

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Almost £40,000 worth of vouchers for free food were not claimed last year in York, according to a group of charities.

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The government’s Healthy Start voucher scheme entitles mums on low incomes to coupons that can be spent on healthy food.

Mums get the coupons by speaking to their midwife or health visitor and filling out an application form.

A coalition of 26 charities is now calling for the scheme to be better promoted so more mums and children can benefit from the food coupons.

An estimated £38,419 worth of vouchers were not claimed last year, the charities say.

The coupons can be worth up to £900 per child over their first four years.

Music from vintage video games, written by a composer from Hull, is to be performed by the city's philharmonic orchestra.

Rob Hubbard wrote songs for the soundtrack that accompanied games on early consoles such as the Commodore 64.

His original pieces, dating back to the 1980s, have now been transformed into an orchestral score which will be performed at Hull City Hall.

He said "I thought these little £1.99 games would last a couple of months then everything would be put in the bin but I guess I got that wrong.

"I never thought anything of that music back then would ever last 35 years."

Rob was talented musician from a young age, he learnt piano and joined a band before getting into computers.

He said: "I did a game and the few people who saw it thought the game was rubbish, they thought the graphics were OK but the best thing about it was the music.

"I thought maybe there was an opening."

He came up with the music for dozens of titles during a career which saw him move to California to work for video game giant EA.

Now, this Saturday his music will be performed by a 75-piece orchestra as part of the world premiere of a show called 8-Bit Symphony.

A man has been sentenced for making and possessing tens of thousands of indecent images of children.

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John William Marshall, 63, of Fairfax Avenue, Harrogate, was jailed for 15 months at York Crown Court.

During an unrelated investigation in January 2018, officers seized hard disks and other electronic devices from Marshall, which were forensically examined, police say.

More than 24,000 indecent images children were found, including 76 images and videos classed as category A - the most serious kind.

Marshall was charged with making more than 24,000 indecent photographs of a child, with possessing more than 1,000 prohibited images of a child and with possessing 13 extreme pornographic images.

He pleaded guilty at York Crown Court earlier this year, and was sentenced today to 15 months in prison.

Adam Harland, of North Yorkshire Police, said: "Through these offences, Marshall has been fuelling that abuse, wherever it has taken place."

Police from around the country are in North Yorkshire today for a special training day in a bid to crack down on bird of prey killings.

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Wildlife crime officers from England and Wales have gathered at the North Yorkshire Police HQ in Northallerton for a workshop aimed at tackling "raptor prosecution".

More than 100 officers are attending the event, which is believed to be the first of its kind in the country.

North Yorkshire has previously been named the worst area in the country for attacks on birds of prey, with 54 attacks reported in the county between 2012 and 2016.

Three Sheffield police officers hope to raise £25,000 for a children's hospital cancer ward.

Meet Councillor Steve Wilson, the first married gay man to be Lord Mayor of Hull and Admiral of the Humber.

His husband, Karl Hudder, is his consort and the pair say they want to prove that sexuality is no barrier when it comes to playing a role in public life.

We've been catching up with the couple a few weeks into their civic year, which began with a ceremony at the Guildhall on 23 May:

Patricia Robertshaw pretended to have the disease to claim sick pay from her charity employers.

The Duke of York is to visit the Great Yorkshire Show in a month's time, it's been announced.

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Prince Andrew will be at the Great Yorkshire Showground in Harrogate on 11 July, meeting officials, competitors and exhibitors at what's described as "England’s premier agricultural event".

Show director Charles Mills said: "We very much look forward to welcoming His Royal Highness and ensuring he has a fantastic experience as we did with The Princess Royal last year.”

A University of Hull student who got through to the finals of a prestigious science competition with his idea of using bamboo in high-performance sports cars will find out this week if he's won the top prize.

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Asa Green has already won a work placement with supercar manufacturer McLaren and is still in with a shot of getting his hands on £25,000 as the overall winner of The Telegraph STEM Awards 2019.

Asa says: “The best part about the competition is having the opportunity to spend time at McLaren. It’s such a prestigious company.

"Hopefully, this will set me up for life. Work experience is so valuable in this day and age and having the chance to prove myself to them is just amazing."

Jackie Tomkinson's husband David died of Aids after receiving infected blood products.