The pop singer Kylie Minogue makes her debut performance in North Yorkshire later.

Thousands of people are expected to be "spinning around" at the Open Air Theatre in Scarborough.

The pop princess has adopted many personas during her three-decade career,which includes performing on Glastonbury's Pyramid Stage last month.

Over the years, the Australian's gone from teenage soap star, to pop hit machine working with Stock, Aitken and Waterman, Indie Kylie with fellow Ozzie Nick cave and, complete with famous gold shorts, Disco Kylie.

In that time, she's amassed seven UK number one singles, six number one albums and 34 UK top 10 singles.

Gates open at 18:00 this evening for the sell-out event.

Hundreds of hospital porters, domestics and security and catering staff have launched a two-week strike in Bradford over plans to outsource their jobs.

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Members of Unison at the Bradford Teaching Hospitals Trust believe pay and pensions will suffer as part of a drive to cut costs if roles are transferred to a wholly-owned subsidiary company being set up by the trust.

Unison general secretary Dave Prentis said: "Staff are taking action to ensure the NHS keeps its highly committed workforce together, working for the people of Bradford, not for the directors of a private company.

"It doesn't reflect well on the trust that staff, who are proud to be part of the NHS, have to take to the streets to convince the trust patients and staff come before profits."

The trust 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".

It added all staff would have their terms and conditions protected, saying: "The trust is not privatising services."

The 79-year-old grandmother has received severe burns to her neck, body, face and back, her family say.

Free travel passes are going to be offered to people on a number of employment support schemes across South Yorkshire, it's been confirmed.

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A total of £330,000 is being made available to offer free passes to make it easier for people on schemes designed to help them get into work.

So far, schemes such as Working Win have supported about 7,000 people who are either out of work and struggling because of a physical or mental health condition.

The passes will be paid for by the Mayoral Combined Authority in South Yorkshire.

Huddersfield Town Supporters' Association has set out several sustainability goals for the club.

Do you know who owns this leather-bound book full of history notes?

Hull Trains has shared a photograph on Twitter of this unusual item which was left on a train on Friday:

More than 1,000 people have applied for the first 10 apprentice jobs at a new £4.2bn potash mine on the North York Moors near Whitby.

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Sirius Minerals says 15 people have now been chosen to work as apprentice engineers at the multi-billion pound project.

Following a series of skills tests and interviews, applicants were invited to Sirius’ head office in Scarborough for an assessment day last month.

The company says it was was so impressed by the high standard of applicants that it offered an additional five places to the 10 originally advertised.

Work has begun on building the mine, which will include a 23-mile (37km) tunnel to transport minerals from the mine to a processing plant on Teesside.

Sirius Minerals plans to transport up to 10 million tonnes of polyhalite a year from Whitby to Redcar.

The company claims the scheme will create more than 1,000 jobs, but opponents said it will damage the landscape and wildlife.

Soldiers are helping in the clean-up operation in the Yorkshire Dales after parts of the region were hit by torrential rain and flash floods on Tuesday evening:

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North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service said it received about 165 calls to flooding in Leyburn and Reeth as almost a month's rain fell in 24 hours.

The downpour destroyed bridges and washed parts of roads away.

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Many homes and businesses were flooded, including the Red Lion Inn in Langthwaite owned by Rowenna Hutchinson (pictured).

In the village of Grinton, cars were washed down the road and motorists were left stranded:

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In Bellerby, this garage demolished by flood water ended up in a neighbour's garden:

League One side Burton Albion sign Leeds United striker Oliver Sarkic on a one-year contract.

Family and friends pull together to make sure the reception goes ahead.

Police officers are appealing for information after a teenage girl is said to have attacked a man at Barnsley railway station.

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The girl, who allegedly grabbed a man's earphones and threw his phone on the floor, boarded a train to Leeds last Friday at about 18:20.

She has been identified, but witnesses are being asked to come forward to "establish the full circumstances behind the incident", British Transport Police said.

Dozens of guns have been handed in to police as part of an ongoing firearms amnesty in South Yorkshire.

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A mix of functional and imitation weapons were surrendered, with South Yorkshire Police encouraging people to give up guns which could fall into the wrong hands.

In the first week, 35 firearms were handed in along with six quantities of ammunition.

People handing in guns and ammunition will not face prosecution for the illegal possession, the force said, but if the weapon has been used in criminality it will be investigated.

A number of South Yorkshire police stations are accepting firearms as part of a national campaign.

The Grade I-listed Piece Hall was built in 1779 in the centre of Halifax and reopened two years ago.

A woman from York accused of laundering £1bn for a crime group has been included on a list of 11 fugitives still on the run.

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The National Crime Agency says 45-year-old Sarah Panitzke, from Fulford, left the country in 2013, before being sentenced to eight years in jail.

Panitzke is described as 5ft 5ins tall and speaks with a Yorkshire accent.

Eighteen members of her crime group have been caught and have received sentences totalling 135 years.

The National Crime Agency is urging the public to help them catch the last fugitives who've escaped justice.

Suspected murderers, sex offenders and drugs traffickers are among those still on the run.

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A new special needs school in Doncaster has been approved by councillors and construction could start within weeks.

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Members of the planning committee approved a Doncaster Council scheme to build the new SEND school on land north of Hungerhill Lane in Edenthorpe.

The school will provide provision for 100 pupils between the ages of five and 19, along with 50 members of staff.

Keighley is to get a central police station two years after the closure of a former base.

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Boris Johnson has been urged to honour a devolution agreement brokered between council leaders in South Yorkshire.

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The Mayor of the Sheffield City Region, Dan Jarvis, said those in support of wider devolution had written to the new Prime Minister calling on him to create "a pathway to a One Yorkshire devolution deal in 2022".

The Labour MP for Barnsley Central said: “The government must also make good on its commitment to further devolution of powers and resources.

“We are engaged with further and detailed discussions with senior officials in government to take forward the agreement of council leaders and myself earlier this year to unlock devolution in our region.

“I look forward to bringing the outcome of those discussions to a future meeting."

Sheffield and Rotherham back a South Yorkshire option, while Doncaster and Barnsley changed course in 2017 to call for a wider Yorkshire deal which currently isn’t available.

A teenager who was missing from Leeds has been found "safe and well":

A police appeal for information has been launched after a family were rammed by an uninsured driver as they travelled on the motorway in South Yorkshire.

Two adults and two children suffered minor injuries in the crash between junction 35 and 35a on Monday.

Video shows the uninsured and unregistered car ploughing into the back of the family car before then leaving the scene.

Anybody who recognises the car, with a number plate of LT55 UPE, is being asked to get in touch with police:

There are no longer any flood warnings for the Yorkshire Dales following torrential rain on Tuesday evening which saw bridges destroyed, roads washed away and homes and businesses flooded.

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The Environment Agency says it's removed the warning for Arkle Beck at Reeth and Low Fremington.

It says river levels have now fallen "below the flood risk threshold", but adds that standing water and debris may still remain.

With further showers possible today, the situation is being closely monitored.

People are being asked to stay away from fast-moving water and to plan driving routes to avoid low lying roads near rivers.