Forest Green Rovers sign former Harrogate Town loan defender Liam Kitching from Leeds United on a three-year contract.

The caravan, fly-tipped on the side of a road in Leeds, was wrapped in film to keep the junk inside.

Sheffield City Council is putting up 600 more signs at secondary schools, taxi ranks and hospitals.

A North Yorkshire sausage company has spoken out about a campaign to boycott it after Boris Johnson visited its factory.

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The Conservative Party leadership hopeful was photographed at Heck, in Kirklington, near Bedale, holding a custom pack of "Boris Bangers".

A Twitter backlash soon followed with #BoycottHeck trending in parts of the UK, prompting the company to issue a response this afternoon, external saying "we do not specifically endorse any candidate".

In a statement, the company said: "We welcome anyone to look round our factory, whatever their views or political party."

Earlier this year, it was revealed that the family run business had put plans for an attraction - dubbed "Sausage World" on hold "after losing out on EU funding because of Brexit".

Today the company drew attention to the fact that 50% of its work force is from Eastern Europe and said "we want to know how Brexit will affect our business and team".

A man who has tended a memorial to 10 US airmen has been inducted in to Sheffield's "walk of fame".

Tony Foulds continues to look after the memorial to the crew of the B-17 Flying Fortress 'Mi Amigo' that crashed at Endcliffe Park in 1944.

A flypast honouring his efforts attracted thousands to the city earlier this year.

Sheffield Council said Mr Foulds had put Sheffield "on the world map".

Mr Foulds will join other famous sons and daughters of Sheffield honoured outside the town hall, including Joe Cocker, Sean Bean, Gordon Banks, Sir Michael Palin and Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill.

Cleckheaton fire crews had their hands full when a calf got trapped in a deep ditch at the weekend.

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The calf was rescued in Ilkley on Sunday by firefighters.

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As soon as he was freed he ran back to his mother for a feed.

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Rotherham's first council house is to get a plaque to mark its 100th birthday.

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The house, on First Avenue, in East Dene, was the first built in the borough after The Addison Act of 1919 paved the way for local authorities to begin building homes after World War One.

A plaque will be installed in a ceremony later this month, part of wider celebrations to mark the centenary of council housing in the borough.

The home is still owned by the council and the current tenant has raised her three children in it.

Working-mum Theresa Glenn, 44, said she opted for the house because a mortgage was a big risk on her own.

"I moved in here on my own with my kids. As soon as I had this house I knew I would have the security and stability I needed to be able to bring them up on my own", she said.

A man has pleaded guilty to causing the deaths of two teenage boys by dangerous driving.

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George Turner and Mason Pearson, both 17, died when the car they were travelling in crashed in North Yorkshire last year.

At Teesside Crown Court 24-year-old Luke Ridley, from Thirsk, who had been driving the car, pleaded guilty to two counts of causing death by dangerous driving and five counts of causing serious injury.

Ridley's VW Bora collided with a Ford Focus on the A61 between Busby Stoop and Carlton Miniott, near Thirsk, on 7 March 2018.

Two other passengers in the VW were also injured and the four occupants of the Ford, including a three-year-old girl and six-month-old boy, were injured.

William Corser, 18, also from Thirsk, who was driving a car in convoy with the Bora pleaded guilty to one count of causing serious injury by dangerous driving.

Both men are due to be sentenced on 30 July.

Teenagers George Turner and Mason Pearson died in a crash on the A61 at Busby Stoop in March.

Beavers that were brought to Yorkshire for a trial in natural flood management have become parents.

Two kits were born to the Eurasian beavers, which were moved in April to Cropton Forest in the North York Moors.

The five-year trial is monitoring the impact of the beavers' activity on artificial dams that were installed to slow water flow and reduce flooding.

Cath Bashforth from Forestry England said: "We are all very happy to see the arrival of two healthy kits."

She added: "With beavers being very social animals, the family unit will live together.

"It is fascinating to watch them explore their surroundings and they are quickly learning from their parents. I'm really looking forward to watching them grow and bond as a family."

The man rescued remains in a critical but stable condition in hospital, police say.

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Hundreds of 'no idling' signs are to be put up around Sheffield, despite only one motorist being fined since the scheme was introduced.

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Sheffield City Council introduced anti-idling areas in August 2018 outside 150 schools advising drivers they could be fined if they left their engines running.

Another 600 signs are going to be placed around secondary schools, taxi ranks and hospitals, meaning enforcement officers can hand out a £20 fixed penalty notice.

The Green Party says the scheme is “failing” because there’s no enforcement but Labour says it’s determined to tackle pollution around schools.

A 23-year-old woman and a man, 28, are arrested over the crash on the M61.

More than 18,000 plastic water bottles will be saved from going into the waste stream at the Great Yorkshire Show this year.

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Yorkshire Water say their water bar, which gives show-goers access to free tap water, will cut plastic use.

It comes after music festival Glastonbury banned single-use plastics on the site, saving over 1,000,000 plastic bottles.

The Great Yorkshire Show water bar, which was first introduced in 2017, will pour 6,000 liters of tap water, equivalent to almost 18,181 330ml water bottles, the company claims.

Police have praised two holidaymakers who helped rescue a man who fell into the sea at Scarborough this weekend.

Joe Brook, 28, and Dylan Foster, 18, from Leeds, came to the aid of the man who fell into the sea from the harbour car park pier at about 16:00 on Saturday.

Members of the RNLI on duty at the nearby lifeboat station were also called to the scene, and carried out first aid until an ambulance arrived.

The man, who's in his 40s, is receiving treatment at Scarborough Hospital, where he remains in a critical but stable condition.

PC Jonathan Dillon said: "Hospital staff and the man’s father are in no doubt that, had it not been for their quick thinking and selfless actions, along with further rescue assistance from the RNLI lifeboat station staff, his son would certainly not be present with the fighting chance he has today.”

Castleford Tigers will aim to avenge their 2018 loss when they face Leeds Rhinos again in this year's Women's Challenge Cup final.

The council is meeting with a train company today to discuss concerns over the closure of an entrance to the railway station in Hull.

The Anlaby Road entrance of Paragon Station has been during the day shut for the past fortnight as part of a three-month trial by TransPennine Express in cooperation with British Transport Police to help tackle anti-social behaviour.

But Darren Hale, deputy leader of Hull City Council, has said it shouldn't be closed and "the sooner they get it open the better".

Police officers searching for missing Barnsley man Dean Lynch say they have found a man's body in woodland.

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The body was found in Birdwell Woods near the A61 at about 20:00 last night.

Although formal identification is yet to take place, South Yorkshire Police say Mr Lynch's family have been informed.

The death is not being treated as suspicious.

Staff at Bradford hospitals have gone on strike over plans to set up a private company to run the facilities.

Bradford Teaching Hospital Trust wants to transfer workers such as porters and cleaners to a subsidiary company in a move described by Unison as "back-door privatisation".

The week-long walkout, which began at 06:00, involves about 300 members of staff.

The Trust say "patient safety and levels of care" will not be affected by the industrial action.

Speaking when the strike was announced it said all essential services, such as emergency surgery, would continue as normal and setting up a wholly-owned subsidiary was the only model "to protect our staff and patient care" and all staff would have their terms and conditions protected.

"The trust is not privatising services," it added.

Cycle routes and improved public transport are two things planned by Leeds City Council as they hope to upgrade the roads around St James's Hospital.

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The council claims key junctions act as bottlenecks (above) but say widening Beckett Street and Burmantofts Street to create cycle and bus lanes will help (below).

Upgraded traffic lights will be more efficient and help improve traffic flow, giving buses priority.

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People are being asked to share their thoughts on the plans through a council consultation, external.