Halifax coach Simon Grix knows his side face a tough task to beat St Helens in Saturday's Challenge Cup semi-final.

A £10m year-long project to create a new transport interchange at Bridlington railway station gets under way today.

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The work will see a new interchange created in front of the railway station with long and short-stay parking, as well as bus stops and a new taxi rank.

A new one-way road will also be created linking Hilderthorpe Road, the station and Quay Road.

Work on some roads has already taken place.

The aim of the project is to improve transport connectivity in Bridlington as well as giving a good first impression to visitors.

League One side Doncaster Rovers sign goalkeeper Seny Dieng on loan from QPR until 4 January.

Local Democracy Reporting Service

Doncaster Council and its partners are continuing to help get people off the streets, despite complaints not enough is being done about begging in the town centre, Mayor Ros Jones says.

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In a written public question to the mayor, a resident named CJ Nowak asked why the same people are continually begging around the town centre despite a Public Space Protection Order (PSPO) being in place.

The council, in agreement with South Yorkshire Police, issued the ban on begging, loitering around cash machines, openly taking drugs and drinking alcohol, urinating or defecating in public, setting up and sleeping in tents in the town centre or any behaviour which causes alarm and distress.

Those who continue to breach the PSPO and who do not want to access support offered face a fixed penalty fine of £100.

Ms Jones said a total of 25 known people were subject to enhanced enforcement under the PSPO.

This approach would help many people "break the cycle of begging, drug and alcohol issues", she added.

Sheffield Wednesday midfielder Kieran Lee signs a new one-year contract with the Championship club.

People planning to light fires, barbecues or sky lanterns in Calderdale are being told of the dangers they could pose to moorland in the district.

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Signs have been put up asking people to think before acting, adding that the act of lighting fires is banned.

It comes after moorland areas and other parts of the countryside were given a Public Space Protection Order (PSPO).

People who are seen to breach the PSPO are being warned they could be fined and face prosecution.

Two men in North Yorkshire who were found to have wild birds in their possession have been cautioned by police.

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The two caged goldfinches were seized by police and RSPCA officers and the birds were subsequently found to have recent damage to their plumage and were behaving in an agitated manner.

On expert advice, it became clear the birds' behaviour showed they had recently been captured from the wild, police say.

Two men subsequently admitted the illegal possession and control of wild birds.

Under the Wildlife and Countryside Act, it's an offence to be in possession or control of any wild bird, but police say they've seen several instances of goldfinches being trapped and sold.

PC Graham Bilton, North Yorkshire Police's rural and wildlife crime officer, said: “All wild birds, their eggs and nests are protected by law within the UK with very few exceptions.

"Despite this, a small number of individuals still deem it acceptable to kill, injure or take birds from the wild."

The two goldfinches have now been released back into the wild, police say.

Meet four of the characters from the Castleford and Leeds teams meeting in the 2019 Women's Challenge Cup final.

A cyclist is being treated in hospital after a hit-and-run in Hull involving a lorry.

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Emergency services were called to Anlaby Road, near the junctions of Ferensway and Midland Street, following reports of a crash yesterday evening.

The cyclist suffered serious injuries and was taken to hospital.

The driver of the HGV is thought to have left the scene, Humberside Police said.

A young couple were helped to safety by a mountain rescue team after being exhausted on the hottest day on record in Sheffield yesterday.

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Woodhead Mountain Rescue Team were called to Midhope Moors, Sheffield, at about 16:00 to reports of two walkers struggling to continue.

They were given fluids and cooled down before driving them to safety, the mountain rescue team said.

Boris Johnson is being urged to fulfill a Conservative promise to impose tougher sentences for dangerous driving following the death of a woman from Barnsley.

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Jacqueline Wileman, 58, was killed last year when a stolen lorry ploughed into the side of a house as she was walking nearby.

Four men were jailed for causing her death.

Speaking in the Commons, Labour's Stephanie Peacock has urged the Government to finally crack down on these kinds of crimes.

The body of a man found in the sea 25 miles off the Yorkshire coast has been confirmed as that of a missing fisherman.

Peter Mosley, 37, from Withernsea, East Yorkshire, was reported missing after he went into the sea from a boat near Tunstall on 5 July.

A boat crew found a body in the sea about 25 miles from Bridlington on Wednesday.

Humberside Police said the death was not being treated as suspicious.

The force said his family was being supported by officers and had asked for privacy.

BBC News Travel

If you're making a journey on the rails in Yorkshire this Friday morning, there are problems once again for people intending to travel further afield.

LNER and East Midlands trains are warning travellers to expect disruption, delays and cancellations on trains heading to and from London.

Visit the LNER, external and East Midlands, external websites for up-to-date information.

Meanwhile:

• The 08:17 Doncaster to Leeds service has been cancelled
• The 08:21 Leeds to Southport service has been cancelled
• The 08:38 Wakefield Westgate to Leeds service has been cancelled
• The 09:08 Doncaster to Hull via Selby service has been 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
• Bradford Forster Square, external

Rail passengers in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire are being warned to expect another day of delays and cancellations on the trains, with people intending to travel further afield being asked not to travel if they don't have to.

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Following damage to overhead wires on the route from Sheffield to London St Pancras, train operator East Midlands Trains is asking customers not to travel, external.

The train pictured above was stuck in a tunnel on the route yesterday leading to an evacuation.

Tickets are being accepted on "reasonable routes" for customers trying to get to London, East Midlands Trains said:

Meanwhile, train operator LNER is also warning of "severe disruption" again this morning, with many of its services to and from London Kings Cross cancelled, external.

That's due to faults on trains and overhead wire issues, the firm says.

It has been a whirlwind few days for England's Adil Rashid. BBC Sport caught up with him at his local mosque in Bradford.

England's Tom Curran takes a hat-trick for Surrey, while Lancashire beat Roses rivals Yorkshire in the T20 Blast.

Shahid Mohammed denies murdering eight family members in a Huddersfield house fire in 2002.

Jared O'Mara apologises to friends, family and constituents after being accused of "inexcusable contempt".

A coroner is to look into the death of a soldier who collapsed after an Army fitness test in Brecon.

The chief executive of the health trust which runs York and Scarborough's hospitals has announced he's retiring after more than 40 years in the NHS.

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Mike Proctor steps down next week following a career which started in Sheffield and saw him join York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in May last year.

He says it's time to hand over the reins to someone else.

New chief executive Simon Morritt, who's held various senior positions across Yorkshire, will join the trust in August.