Woman jailed for abusing children for money onlinepublished at 17:30 British Summer Time 28 August 2019
Jodie Little was living in Northern Cyprus when she committed the crimes but was prosecuted in the UK.
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Andrew Barton and Oli Constable
Jodie Little was living in Northern Cyprus when she committed the crimes but was prosecuted in the UK.
Read MoreParents in Hull and East Yorkshire will be able to get free school uniforms for their children from today.
It's after a community group and local MP Emma Hardy helped set up collection points across the region where people could drop off their unwanted clothes.
Trinity Methodist Church, in Hull, takes donated clothes and recycle them for parents who can't afford to buy new clothing.
These pictures show the job faced by those tasked with cleaning up the mess left by thousands of revellers at Leeds Festival.
Gina Parkin set up the group Leeds Festival 2019 Salvage Team after last year's event.
The team collect discarded tents for the Leeds charity, Pathway Kitchen.
Ms Parkin says: "Another year collecting tents and sleeping bags at Leeds festival so we can give them to the homeless.
"A lot of these tents and sleeping bags were in perfectly good condition and we can't collect them all, so a lot will go to landfill."
She added: "It's "another dirty year" and the site at Bramham Park is a sea of rubbish."
More details are emerging of an ongoing fire near Hillsborough, Sheffield at the moment.
Up to 30 firefighters are at the blaze in a furnace filled with stainless steel pellets.
A total of six fire appliances are at the scene on Beulah Road following a call this afternoon.
Up to 30 firefighters are currently attending a blaze near Hillsborough in Sheffield at the moment.
The fire service says six appliances have been sent to Beulah Road.
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Multi-million pound flood defence schemes to protect hundreds of homes in York have been delayed again because they haven't received planning permission.
Work was supposed to begin on flood alleviation projects in Clementhorpe, Clifton and Rawcliffe this summer according to a council report last March.
But the planning applications have still not been decided or even scheduled for discussion at a City of York Council planning meeting.
A spokesperson for the Environment Agency says it's now expected the Clementhorpe scheme will be decided at a meeting in September and the other two will be discussed in November.
Becky Eades, head of development services at the council, said: “We are working closely with the Environment Agency to get these complex applications to planning committee for consideration as soon as possible.”
Six men have been found guilty at Sheffield Crown Court of a string of sex offences relating to the sexual exploitation of teenage girls in Rotherham more than a decade ago.
Today's convictions are the latest to arise from the huge National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation into what happened in thetown between 1997 and 2013.
More than 200 NCA staff are working on Operation Stovewood and the agency has said it believes 1,510 teenagers were exploited in Rotherham during the period.
Almost 12,000 people in Sheffield have had their say about plans to charge some drivers in the city.
Sheffield City Council is proposing to to charge high polluting vehicles if they enter a Clean Air Zone.
Buses, coaches and HGVs would pay £50 a day, with a charge of £12.50 for taxis and minicabs, and £10 for vans and LGVs.
People's views on the proposals will help form the plans for the zone.
An independent company will now write the final report which will be published in the autumn, along with the data from the surveys, the council said.
A number of properties were evacuated and forensic tests are being carried out, police say.
Read MoreThey ran into the woodland to find a screaming woman lying on the ground being mauled by a dog.
Read MorePrescription drugs have been stolen during a raid on a mountain rescue team's headquarters.
Holme Valley Mountain Rescue, which is based in Marsden, had their premises broken into overnight between 26 and 27 August.
A laptop, computer screens and a large amount of prescription drugs, including morphine and diazepam, were taken.
Volunteers at the mountain rescue team help people who may get in to trouble while out on the West Yorkshire moors and are funded by donations.
Police are asking people to get in touch if they saw anything suspicious in the area.
A fraudster jailed for a waste recycling scam has had his prison sentence extended by more than nine years after failing to repay the £1.3m he pocketed.
Terry Dugbo, 48, falsely claimed his Leeds firm recycled more than 19,500 tonnes of household waste during 2011.
He was jailed for seven years and six months at Leeds Crown Court in July 2016 for three environmental offences.
Dugbo has now been ordered to serve an extra nine years and four months.
The additional sentence was handed down at a proceeds of crime hearing.
Have you seen this woman? Beverley Miller has gone missing from Hull and police say they're "concerned for her safety".
Beverley was last seen at about 09:00 yesterday in north Hull.
She is described as being about 4ft 10ins tall, with short blonde hair and glasses.
Officers believe that she may have travelled to Leeds and want anyone who sees her to get in touch.
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People in North Yorkshire are to be asked whether they want more police officers to carry electric stun guns.
The weapons, such as Tasers, incapacitate people with an electrical charge of up to 50,000 volts.
The national Police Federation has called on chief constables to allow more officers to carry them in response to a series of high-profile attacks on police.
Julia Mulligan, the North Yorkshire police, fire and crime commissioner, said the force will look at how many officers should have the guns and that a survey will be launched to look at public attitudes towards the use of them.
A 16-year-old girl, who had been missing from Hull, has been found "safe and well", police say.
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A murder investigation has been launched after a woman died in hospital after being found with serious head injuries in West Yorkshire.
The woman was found injured at a property on Smawthorne Grove, in Castleford, at about 05:30 on Monday, but later died in hospital.
West Yorkshire Police say a 32-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder in connection with the incident and remains in police custody.
Det Ch Insp Emma Winfield from West Yorkshire Police, said: “Officers are investigating the circumstances of how the victim came to be injured at the property and have now launched a murder inquiry."
A man has been injured by flying debris after lightning struck a house as thunderstorms rolled across East Yorkshire on Tuesday night.
Emergency services were called to Stone Creek Road, at Sunk Island, in East Yorkshire shortly before 20:30 BST.
Humberside Fire & Rescue said a house was struck by lightning causing flying debris to injure one adult male.
The crew gave oxygen therapy to the man who was suffering from shock and a cut to his arm.
Firefighters checked the house for signs of any fire, but it was clear.
Police say Tcherno Ly's family are "devastated at losing him in such sudden and violent circumstances".
Read MoreFormer footballer Dean Saunders has been jailed for 10 weeks for failing to provide a breath specimen after being arrested on suspicion of drink-driving.
The former Sheffield United and Bradford striker refused to give a roadside breath test and, when taken to a police station, again failed to provide a breath sample, the court heard.
The 55-year-old pleaded not guilty at a previous hearing but earlier today admitted a charge of failing to comply with a roadside breath test and failing to provide a breath sample for analysis in Boughton, Chester, in May.
Saunders, who managed Doncaster Rovers in 2011, was also banned from driving for 30 months and ordered to pay court costs of £620.
Police who arrested him said Saunders was slurring his speech and had to prop himself up against his Audi A8 car when he was asked to get out of the vehicle.
Passing sentence, District Judge Nicholas Sanders told him: "Throughout these proceedings you have shown yourself to be arrogant, thinking you are someone whose previous and current role in the public eye entitles you to be above the law."
A number of homes have been evacuated after chemicals, thought to be used in the production of drugs, were found in Halifax.
Police were called to Drill Hall on Union Street at about 21:15 last night to reports of a chemical smell coming from flats in the area.
A number of residents were asked to leave their homes as emergency crews arrived.
Chemicals were found "which are believed to be used in the production of drugs", police say.
People are still not allowed back to their flats, according to local residents.
Police say: "A scene remains in place to allow forensic examination to be carried out."